Time soon entered late July. Ding Guofeng took three battalions of veterans and two new battalions to India. After a week of adaptation period for the newly arrived troops on the front line, Zhao Xin's command had arrived. The various units of the Northern Navy that arrived at the Serang front launched a general offensive against the VOC army.
In order to end this war quickly, Zhao Xin not only deployed 20 mortars and 20 75mm cannons this time, but also used two "M1910/30" heavy machine guns brought by Ding Guofeng that were copied from another time and space. . As heavy firepower entered the battlefield, it soon caused heavy casualties to the VOC troops; whether they were hiding behind the wooden fortification walls or trying to fight back, they all shed rivers of blood.
Speaking of the two machine guns copied by the heavy weapons workshop of the Beihai Town Arsenal, they have actually been manufactured for two years. However, due to various problems with parts tolerances, they have been constantly going back and forth between the shooting range and the workshop. Zhao Liang regretted his original impulse.
The military-industrial complex in Beihai Town has developed to this day. In addition to producing a large number of imitation guns from the 19th century, the technological tree of modern weapons is still climbing. After all these years, Zhao Liang finally understood that it was easy to make a rifle that could shoot, but to produce dozens, hundreds or even thousands of standard rifles was as difficult as climbing Mount Everest.
Regardless of the fact that Beihai Town produced a large number of "1789-style" revolvers, the early one thousand were all piled up manually. All of the guns differed in the same components, making the weapon parts non-interchangeable, and each gun's parts needed to be individually marked and numbered for identification. This situation did not change until workers became proficient in using machine tools to manufacture large quantities of the same parts, and the same problem occurred with rifled rifles.
The regular force of the Northern Navy has only grown to twenty-five regiments today, and has never been able to rapidly expand its establishment. The most important reason is weapons. The production of semi-automatic rifles is still being explored. This forced Zhao Xin to be exploited by arms dealers again and again, giving away large amounts of gold.
Many time travelers who don't understand weapons think that Beihai Town has modern machine tools and blueprints, and can easily create modern weapons including various parts. In fact, this is a big mistake!
Nowadays, Zhao Liang sneers at those guys in the travel community who always use Batie's private workshop as an example, and even bothers to explain to them.
He made a special trip to Pakistan Railway while returning home during the Spring Festival a few years ago. Through communicating with local people who were familiar with the situation, he finally figured out what was going on. In addition to the fact that pistols can be made by oneself, these workshop owners are more suitable to say that they are assembling rather than "manufacturing" them. Due to years of war there, they usually recycle usable parts from scrapped firearms, then make some simpler parts themselves and piece them together. You can get a few or dozens of the same model of this thing, but don’t dream about large quantities.
It is too difficult to imitate modern weapons in batches through the assembly line, even the SKS, which is already considered obsolete, and even the Mosin Nagant. Zhao Xin traveled to countries in Europe that could produce SKS, and through connections he collected a complete set of machine tools, cutting tools and fixtures, but there was one problem he couldn't solve, which was the technical information package. It's not a matter of how much it costs, but that they simply won't sell it.
In the end, he had no choice but to tell weapons dealer Andrew that he could get a copy of the Mosin-Nagant's technical information package. Unexpectedly, the other party laughed and said that thing was gone long ago. Zhao Xinyi was right. A Mosin Nagant with good appearance and performance on the market now costs at least US$800, and the cheaper ones cost US$300 to US$500.
It’s not like the arsenal has never tried to imitate SKS rifles. In order to become proficient in operating the only multi-axis CNC machine tool in Beihai Town, Zhao Liang spent more than half a year going back to take a training course. Although the use of CNC makes the cutting of various parts of weapons more efficient and faster, this does not fundamentally change the fact that only one piece can be processed at a time, and the accuracy must be just right, otherwise the assembled firearms will still not be mass-produced, even the model The normal use of the gun is problematic.
For example, after several test firings of the first SKS rifle he processed using a CNC machine tool, he found that the surface of the loading ramp was too sharp, causing some copper shavings to be scraped off the bullet after each shot. In the end, the bullet could not be loaded. . At first he didn't know what was wrong, so he had to check every part; until a worker accidentally found copper shavings in the locking lugs in the groove of the bottom plate of the gun, and after cleaning them, it returned to normal.
Not getting the SKS technical information package means that the arsenal must accurately calculate the three-dimensional dimensions and tolerances of each part, and what will happen when the tolerance approaches the edge. Different approach values will cause different changes in the weapon. . For example, the tolerance information of a certain part is 0.95~1.05, but in the actual manufacturing process, the tolerance range may only be 1~1.05, and anything lower than 1 will not work.
Added to this are ammunition tolerances, with even early modern rifles being tighter than muskets. Any looser and the rifle won't work; any tighter and the bullet will get stuck, with disastrous consequences.
For example, many people consider the FG42 paratrooper rifle from another time and space to be a work of art. In order to imitate this weapon, it took an enthusiast ten years to restore a complete set of technical information packages.
The deeper Zhao Liang has delved into weapons production over the years, the more he feels that the manufacturing of "guns" is really a mysterious process. Many things that are taken for granted are not that simple. It is far from having drawings and equipment. According to the Something that can be produced with just a button.
When it comes to heavy industrial products, especially military products, the so-called advantages of being cheap and suitable for mass production have always been established for large factories with mature technologies. For small, medium or even start-up models, just start by buying parts and assembling them. Even if someone teaches you step by step, it won’t take 5 to 10 years to mass-produce the product. Of course, unless you can tolerate the extremely high scrap rate, this is what the Germans did when they produced Stg44. It was a typical behavior of jumping over the wall in a hurry.
The recruits on the front line of Xilang City were all stunned when they saw the power of the two heavy machine guns. Since the servant army was equipped with no other heavy weapons except the 12-pound cannon, the soldiers at the bottom had never seen such a big killer. In comparison, the rifle in their hands was simply a fire stick. Seeing the enemy's position turned into a hell of blood and fire, with severed bodies and limbs flying in the sky, the recruits on the front line all vomited.
The Dutch defenders only resisted for half a day before they couldn't stand it anymore. The arrival of two heavy machine guns made them feel that the end of the world was coming. In just one morning, the coalition forces of the VOC and the Banten Sultanate lost more than 4,000 people, which also made many officers and soldiers of the coalition refuse to fight. In their view, this was no longer a back-and-forth battle, but an outright massacre.
In addition, due to Zheng Wenxian's fleet imposing a blockade on Banten Port for several days, and Erlu's men attacking the VOC's gunpowder depot in northern Silang, the army's gunpowder stock was running low and it was unable to obtain external material support.
Faced with such a situation, VOC Governor Overstraten, who was trapped in Chou City, had no choice but to send representatives in the afternoon to request a ceasefire, and under the pressure of He Xiwen, he began negotiations for unconditional surrender.
The attitude of the Northern Navy is simple and clear. The VOC will lay down its weapons and surrender in all armed strongholds in the Malacca economic circle. It will not open any colonial strongholds in Southeast Asia in the future and will all return to Ceylon. Economically, Beihai Town will regard Malacca City as the center of the spice trade in the future. All Dutch merchant ships going to Guangzhou and Nagasaki for trade must register at the Malacca City Customs and obtain a license document, otherwise it will be regarded as smuggling.
"You mean that you want to control all the European merchant ships coming to East Asia in the future? Your appetite is too big!"
"Humph, considering your past history of selling opium from India to East Asia for hundreds of years, it is very necessary to do this."
"I protest that the East India Company's trade in Nagasaki is a normal trade between countries and is approved by the Tokugawa Shogunate!"
"I'm sorry, the protest is invalid. To tell you the truth, Japan is already our vassal state. If the Tokugawa shogunate dares to disobey, we can always replace others as generals."
"What?! When did this happen?" The Dutch representative was shocked when he heard this. He didn't understand the situation at all. Since the outbreak of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, the number of merchant ships heading to Nagasaki has dropped from five per year to three every two years. As the domino effect caused by the loss of Bacheng two years ago grew bigger and bigger, VOC was no longer able to send more merchant ships to Nagasaki, and there was none this year. As a result, the situation in Japan was unclear.
"Haha, the treaty was just signed last month."
Well, Beihai Town’s negotiator really wasn’t lying. In view of the VOC's war on Beihai Town, under constant pressure from Cao Peng, Nobuaki Matsudaira, a veteran of the Tokugawa shogunate, was forced to sign special terms on Dutch trade with Japan on June 17, 1793, on behalf of the Tokugawa shogunate. . The two parties agreed that no Dutch merchant ships would be allowed to enter the port for trade without a license issued by Beihai Town. In exchange, Beihai Town will provide the Tokugawa Shogunate with an interest-free loan of five hundred thousand taels for ten years.
Nowadays, there are turmoils within the Tokugawa Shogunate. Matsudaira Sadanobu, the first Lao-Chinese general, and Tokugawa Ienashi, the 11th generation general, have been irreconcilable because of the honorific title given to their biological father.
The "lenient reforms" carried out by the shogunate in recent years are aimed at achieving sound finances through austerity measures. However, over the past few years, it has not been able to revitalize Japan's rural economy, and has also caused dissatisfaction among businessmen due to the policy of suppressing business. The sea dog Gonggong, who likes luxurious life, is even more fed up with this.
Now Sea Dog Lord is 20 years old, and he feels that his arms have become thicker and his legs have become stronger. He becomes more and more disgusted with Matsudaira Sadanobu, so he makes up his mind to remove him. The family members of the Shirakawa Domain wanted to get out, and the candidate to succeed the leader of the Lao Chu clan fell on Nobuaki Matsudaira, the feudal lord of the Mikawa Yoshida Domain.
In order to ensure the continuation of the lenient reform and obtain the support of the general, the 30-year-old Matsudaira Nobuaki could only agree to Cao Peng's conditions and sent half of the 500,000 tael loan to the private treasury of the Sea Dog Government to satisfy the other party's unsatisfactory needs. Stop the expenses of taking a concubine.
The VOC negotiators were stunned at this time. They actually knew that Beihai Town had been supporting the Sendai clan in opposing the shogunate over the years, but they did not expect that the other party had such a great influence on the Tokugawa shogunate.
On July 28, 1793, VOC Governor Overstrat signed his name on the surrender document with a face ashen as death. He knew that the era of the once all-powerful "sea coachmen" was over, and with the collapse and decline of the Java War, the Dutch would definitely become the object of contempt by European countries.
Attending the Dutch surrender ceremony in Beihai Town was He Xiwen, who served as the frontline commander. Zhao Xin was really not interested in this, so he authorized it directly in the name of the Northern Navy Command.
When the former pirate leader signed his name on the surrender letter with a trembling brush, he couldn't help but feel filled with emotion. From then on, he became even more devoted to Zhao Xin. He Xiwen knew that because of this incident, he would be remembered in history, and even be famous for generations to come. He was finally worthy of his ancestors!
Experiencing the battle in West Java from beginning to end gave He Xiwen a deep understanding of the system of the North Navy, and he gradually adapted from being unaccustomed to it. The personal soldiers and private camp leaders he imagined in the past did not exist at all. At most, there was a personal guard.
After talking to his staff these days, he learned that almost all officers above the company level of the North Navy had participated in Zhao Xin's officer training courses and were extremely loyal. As long as the Ministry of Military Affairs issues a transfer order, no matter how familiar you are with the officers below, it will be in vain. Whichever chief officer dares to disobey orders, his deputy can directly obtain the command power according to the system, and the chief officer will be directly imprisoned, and what awaits him will be the judgment of military law.
He Xiwen hasn't seen his pirate brothers for a while. Thinking of the time when he drank heavily and ate large pieces of meat on Kunlun Island, he often lamented that things have changed. However, he also understood that if he went to Jiading, Guangnan in his current capacity, Ruan Fuying would probably have to leave the bed.
At the same time as the war on Java Island ended, Deng Fei, who had been stationed in Ningguta, also received Zhao Xin's authorization. He ordered his three regiments and the two regiments that arrived at Daxiu La from Alchuka to attack the enemy entrenched in Ningguta. The Qing army in Wula, Jilin launched a general offensive.
The goal of this battle is to advance the southern defense line of the Northern Navy to the Hun River before winter, to the line of Weiyuan Fort and Ying'emen with wicker walls; in the west, it is to cross the border wall to Yitong Gate and Helsumen. , occupying Changchun Town, which in this era still belongs to the front banner of Guo'erluosi.
Now the new political power in Beihai Town is gradually taking hold in Qiqihar, Alchuka, Hulunbuyur and other places. After summer, a large number of civil affairs cadres were put in place and began to clear land and carry out land reform work in various places. Therefore, in addition to the fact that Jiang Fan, who is both a people and an army, needs to lead his troops to continue to garrison Hulunbuer, Li Rui's two regiments are freed up.
Facing the rapid offensive in Beihai Town, the Qing troops in Jilin either fled for their lives in panic or surrendered directly. You must know that it has been four months since the "Spring Offensive" was launched in Beihai Town. The Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion and the Eight Banners soldiers stationed in Jilin have been completely flattened after being ravaged by the North Navy's artillery, looking like they will die early. A transcendent posture. I can't beat him anyway, isn't that all?
When the news of the "invasion" of the Northern Navy reached the capital again, in contrast to the busy response in the court, the inner concern of the clan was Du Erjia's death.
The Northern Navy hanged Duerjia in public trial, which was the first time that Ming Dynasty canonized the execution of the Aisin Gioro clan. Although this person is said to be a descendant of Tabai, he is still a direct descendant of Nurhaci. Zhao Xin dared to do this, which was no more than a naked slap in the face of the Aixinjueluo family, which made the whole sect feel panic and restless.
Take the familiar AK as an example. A barrel sleeve can kill all imitators who have not purchased the technical information package, so it cannot be produced by just any country. Even in the modern era of another time and space, a large number of small and medium-sized firearms companies in the United States that produce the AK series are still helpless with this barrel sleeve. Even if they have CNC machine tools, it will not help. The only way is to buy them from those large companies in Eastern Europe that specialize in producing AKs. Factory imported. Of course, some people think that the "Sten submachine gun" with its poor reliability, poor hit rate and range, and easy misfire can be considered a qualified modern standard weapon. Just look at my mouth shape, haha~~
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