In the past, Wang Yue deliberately avoided people when he traveled through time, but as the number of time travels increased, he discovered a hidden function of the system, that is, he could not travel without avoiding other people's sight. He understood this as a self-protection mechanism of the system. Just like this time, when he jumped into the woods, the time-travel mechanism was activated. In a daze, he returned to the base, but then, he hit the ground with a bang. On a pile of boxes, alas, this was neglected.
Standing in the somewhat empty warehouse, Wang Yue was a little embarrassed. The weapons and equipment of ten divisions. He was really careless this time. How many weapons and equipment does one division have? In China, it is normal for a division to have three to four thousand people. Operation, but there are only 30,000 people in a division. Even if you fight it by yourself, you will still need a lot of weapons and equipment. With the remaining old goods in your hand, you can only count the rifles. Bar?
Suddenly, Wang Yue remembered the materials in the warehouse that he had never paid much attention to before, that is, the equipment captured by the Noodle Country, especially the equipment captured during the North African war. After several years of fighting, the two groups often owned hundreds of thousands of people. In the decisive battle, the Noodle Country could still ride along, and it would be no problem to seize the equipment of more than a dozen divisions. Thinking of the mountain of wooden boxes that he had ignored before, Wang Yue felt that he had really committed a crime. Youying Qiqi If so, what are you doing with the Carcano M1891?
But soon, Wang Yue was disappointed. These guys from the Noodle Country really did not disappoint the readers. All of them were confiscated supplies, including canned corned beef, stewed vegetable soup, canned cheese, candies, jams, and more. There are boxes of biscuits, black tea, small bottles of rum and brandy, all in a warehouse, probably tens of thousands of tons, all of which are food, not even a bullet. By the way, we really don’t need to add any more seizures. Weapons? Isn’t the use of captured weapons a tradition in Noodle Country?
Finally, after looking at the warehouse storage records, Wang Yue had to admit that the Noodle Country was just hoarding seized food here, because the frontline troops were obviously more lacking in military food than weapons and ammunition. Fortunately, it seems that no corned beef cans from the 16th century were found here, otherwise, he would really just cry.
In desperation, Wang Yue went to another warehouse, the same warehouse where he had seen gilded carriages, gilded spears and luxurious ceremonial guards at the door. He did not go in at the time, but through those ceremonial guards, he judged that it was the Noodle Country's seizure of Ethiopia. The equipment was the legendary country that used broadswords and spears to fight against the planes and tanks of the Noodle Country. Because he had no hope, he never looked at the warehouse from beginning to end. What if there were hundreds of thousands of spears? Do you really want to bring a bunch of spears to Li Yunlong?
As a result, Wang Yue really cried this time, not out of anger, but out of joy, because there were unexpected discoveries in this warehouse that he had always avoided, except for the pile of royal guards of honor at the door. Outside, it was actually full of weapons and equipment. According to the documents left in the warehouse, these were captured materials shipped in 1936 and should have been used to form the Libyan army. I don’t know why they have been kept there. There is no record of leaving the warehouse. It is estimated that even Noodle Country itself has forgotten it.
The first is 50,000 Enfield M1917 rifles. The prototype of this gun is the P-14 rifle produced by the United States for the United Kingdom. The P-14 rifle was developed by Enfield Arsenal after testing Mauser rifles and M1903 Springfield rifles. A new rifle with aperture sights and a front-end locking bolt, imitating the Mauser bolt, with a barrel length of 660 mm and a magazine with a capacity of 5 bullets.
When the First World War broke out, facing a serious shortage of rifles, the British Army War Department decided to look for a production contractor in the United States. Finally, it contacted the Winchester Company. Later, the United States entered the war and found that its own Springfield rifles were also satisfactory. Unable to meet demand, the P-14 rifle was changed to .30 caliber, which resulted in the Enfield M1917 rifle. At the beginning of the war, 70% of the US Army's troops were equipped with this rifle. Although the 50,000 rifles stored here are all sealed rifles, they are very badly worn. They were obviously specially selected. It is not known whether they were purchased by Ethiopia or aided by the United States.
The second weapon is a thousand Hotchkiss heavy machine guns, also of .30 caliber. There is no way, the US military also did not have enough heavy machine guns when it entered the war, so it purchased a large number of such machine guns. Of course, the It's really good. Otherwise, the US military wouldn't have insisted on air-cooled machine guns. They are also very worn. It seems that the US military is really clearing out its inventory. It's better for you to eat elephants. You know, even if they are military aid supplies , Congress will also allocate funds for compensation.
The third weapon, 3312 Shaosha light M1915 machine guns, .30 caliber, is not the iconic 20-round semi-circular magazine, but uses a 16-round magazine. How much the US military hates this weapon, they have ordered a total of 19,000 of these guns were sold, and 40% of them were judged to be unqualified before they even left the factory. In addition to the later losses, some of them may have helped others, and the rest are probably all here. Fortunately, these guns are all complete. Yes, maintenance tools and spare parts are also there, otherwise it would be really a trap.
In fact, the various malfunctions of the Chauchat M1915 light machine gun were mainly caused by the unreasonably designed 8mm bullets of the French army. After replacing them with the US military's standard .30-caliber bullets, the performance should have been greatly improved. The problem is this The machining precision of the gadget is very high, and it requires careful maintenance every time it is used. However, American soldiers are not willing to do maintenance at all. If it works well, something is wrong. In the trenches of World War I, using an unreliable machine gun was simply... It's a disaster.
The fourth weapon is from the US military, 20,000 6mm Lee M1895 naval rifles. Wang Yue pondered for several minutes before remembering this thing. It is said that the Marine Corps was equipped with this thing at the time of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, and its performance was quite good, but The U.S. Navy didn’t order 20,000 in total? After careful identification, there are more than 2,000 civilian models, but it doesn't matter, the gun number is just different. There is not much difference between the civilian model and the military model of this rifle. It even has a bayonet holder, needless to say. , or clear inventory.
The fifth weapon is the U.S. Navy’s weird 6mm weapon, two hundred m1895 heavy machine guns. Of course, if this thing can be considered a heavy machine gun, but according to the Americans’ own data, this weapon was used in the Gengzi Year and The Gatling shooting performance of the Armed Guards is still very good, yes, even against Gatling. If this thing is really easy to use, the US military will not have to order the Hotchkiss heavy machine gun.
But then Wang Yue discovered a weapon that should never appear here - rifles made in Hanyang, with a total of 30,000. After a casual check, they were all high-quality firearms from the Hubei Bureau, and none of them were from the Shanghai Bureau. Products of Ningju, and the butts are engraved with the words "Made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs" in large gold letters. Hanyang is made in Hanyang. What does it have to do with the Ministry of Internal Affairs? Besides, I have never heard of Hanyang-made products being exported to Africa on a large scale. It seems to be a thing of the Qing Dynasty. But I have to say that the quality of this gun is really good. It is much better than the Hanyang-made guns in the hands of the Eighth Route Army. It is probably used. It should be made of imported steel. When I pulled the trigger, it was very smooth. It seems that the manufacturing standards of this gun are also very high.
The sixth type is still made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It uses 7.92mm round-nose rifle bullets. There are two hundred Maxims made by Ning. The quality is also very good. It is much better than the Civilian 24 heavy machine guns of the Eighth Route Army. In fact, this is normal. One is for fine workmanship, and the other is for all-out war. It is normal for the quality to differ.
The seventh type, the Madsen light machine gun manufactured by the Guangdong Bureau, also fires 7.92mm round-nose rifle ammunition. The cost of this thing is very high, each one costs more than 500 taels of silver, so that the Qing army does not have large-scale equipment. , but there are actually a thousand of them here, which is really a big deal. In the second year of Xuantong, I don’t know if I can find the relevant information, but if there is such information, those old scholars will not stop publicizing it. Ah, this is something that can be promoted, right?
The eighth type, this one is probably really made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, because there is no bureau number on it, and there is a Panlong logo under the words "Made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs", a total of 300 imitation Mauser pistols, eight-shot single It's the bridge-fed type, not a magazine, and it's all carved with silver. Even the gun handle is made of ivory, which is very exquisite. The holster is not a wooden box, but a cowhide one with carvings on it. Yes, the craftsmanship is estimated to be higher than the value of the gun itself. Wang Yue really wants to sell this thing in 2023. With this craftsmanship, you can’t even think about it costing less than 100,000 US dollars. But when you think about your worries, The fire in my heart was extinguished. I didn't even sell a Beretta submachine gun worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, so let's not talk about it.
The big wooden box that appeared next was even more shocking. It contained artillery, a hundred Menning 75mm mountain cannons. These were all in pieces, but they were well preserved, just like new ones from the factory. The most important thing is that this kind of artillery is light, weighing about 400 kilograms, which is not very suitable for China's national conditions. Moreover, the boxes on these artillery pieces actually had seals and announcements from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It turned out that these were birthday gifts from Empress Dowager Longyu to the then Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II, and they were probably related to some deeper conflicts between the two countries. Cooperation, but the Qing government fell quickly, and Menelik II also died in 1913. Otherwise, would there really be a cross-continental alliance of feudal countries? The communication between the Qing Empire and Ethiopia is unknown, but its desire to form an alliance with the Ottomans is not a secret. Fragments of it can be seen in many historical materials.
Walking to the innermost part of the warehouse, Wang Yue made a new discovery. Tanks, large tanks, and a total of forty Schnader assault tanks. Wang Yue no longer wanted to explore why the Ethiopian army, which was said to only be equipped with Fiat 3000, would equip it. This thing, but this seemingly powerful tank really may not be comparable to the cv-33. The exaggerated speed of 5 kilometers per hour destined this thing to be outdated in the first world war. It seems that not only Americans like to clear their inventories, Even the French are the same. Let's have some Renault. At least it's a mainstream tank, but it doesn't matter. Judging from the French paint on the tank, this thing has really never been on the battlefield, so it can't be considered a scam. people.
At the end, Wang Yue actually found the plane he had been waiting for for a long time, a bulk plane. But looking at the Eritrean customs seizure mark on the plane, Wang Yue was also drunk. He was really drunk. You are going to war with Italy. Weapons transportation actually has to go through other people's colonies. What are you doing without arrest? Besides, in a country where all pilots are mercenaries, why are you buying so many planes? Of course, the greater possibility is military aid. After careful inspection, it is similar to what he estimated. They are all French and American goods, 40 French-made Botai-25 light bombers, 20 American-made P-1 fighter jets, damn, It's 1935, and doing this is an insult to the intelligence of the man in Rome.
What are 40 Botai-25s doing? Are they using that rear-firing machine gun as a target for others? The U.S. military's P-1 fighter jets were indeed in active service at the time, but they were really incomparable to the new fighter jets from the Noodle Country. It is absolutely no problem to say that they were one generation behind. Just the bi-wing fighter from the Noodle Country and the monoplane fighter from the United States at the same time. Even during World War II, without the help of the United Kingdom, American aircraft were still rubbish. Not only the airplane, but without the help of British scientists, they couldn't even make a little boy, just a rich man from the countryside.
After calming down for a while, I checked the ammunition in the warehouse. The 30mm rifle cartridge is a big one, with 10 million rounds in it. However, the production date is generally early, and some are actually from the inventory of the 19th century. God knows why there was no ammunition during the First World War. Use these things? One million rounds of 7.92mm round-nose Mauser rifle ammunition and 30,000 rounds of 7.63mm pistol ammunition, which looks like a lot, but compared with those weapons, these bullets are far from enough. It is estimated that the Qing government also wanted to do follow-up ammunition business at that time Well, there are 5 million rounds of 6mm Lee rifle ammunition, which is probably the entire inventory of the US military.
Wang Yue searched the warehouse several times again and determined that there were no new discoveries. He seemed to be a little unwilling to be happy, so he used the system to scan the entire base again and carefully inspected every corner. It turned out that there were really no bulk weapons, but he discovered that the huge fuel storage tank in the generator room was only half full. It seemed that he really needed to replenish the fuel in time.
