Unlike Kaki, Ma Keqin, an American companion who came with him, was officially received. He came to China through China’s ambassador to the United States. After he learned the news of China’s war with France, he realized that this was an opportunity to fight with France. China people must need weapons. He showed his machine gun to the ambassador to the United States. The military attache was very interested in the new machine gun and promised to help introduce him to China and recommend his production to the military.
In Vietnam, the news of heavy casualties of machine guns in France stimulated the experts of the Ministry of War to find a solution recently. They needed a Gatling machine gun that could suppress the other machine guns. Obviously, they couldn’t afford this. So what about the Maxim machine gun that this American brought? They can’t guarantee it either, but the test proves that the Maxim machine gun has a higher firing rate and is more convenient to use than the gatling machine gun.
The Ministry of Industry agreed to purchase it very quickly, but Ma Keqin could not produce it immediately because his machine gun was designed only two years ago and then sold around the world with a sample gun. However, it has not been said that a national army was equipped with its history. It was not until 1991 that Britain equipped the first Maxim machine gun, and then other countries installed it one after another.
He didn’t receive the order, so naturally he didn’t run a factory.
The Ministry of Military Affairs is very anxious and can’t wait for Ma Keqin to return to China to build a factory, and then to carry out production requirements. Ma Keqin is doing mass production on the spot. They are helping the Ma Keqin General Assembly Arsenal to carry out trial production with the technical support of Ma Keqin people.
The first prototype gun was successfully produced one month later. After the test, the performance was good. Ma Keqin also negotiated the distribution of benefits with the arsenal, and then awarded the arsenal to carry out large-scale production. Ma Keqin can get a patent license of 10 dollars for each machine gun produced, but the maximum limit is 100,000 dollars. After that, the arsenal will get a permanent license instead of paying the patent.
Ma Keqin is very satisfied with this business. On the one hand, on the other hand, a national army should be equipped with his weapons, and then if it works well, his orders will keep coming.
If the French had personally experienced the power of this machine gun, France would have purchased France, Germany would have purchased Germany, Russia would have purchased Germany, then Britain, and finally the whole European country in the United States? Forget it, the American army is not an ambitious army.
Kaki finally reached an agreement with Tang Tingshu. Kaki’s engineers have preliminarily seen the hydrological conditions in Hankou and thought that it is feasible to build a bridge here. They reduced it to 3 million US dollars, and then accepted a lot of conditions from China and got the business.
Kaki hopes that after this business is completed, he can also borrow other businesses, such as the Nanjing Railway Bridge. Although the railway was built by the British, Kaki feels that his company is more experienced than a British company because he has built three bridges on the Mississippi River, and the British have not yet had a similar bridge.
Or he can build a bridge in the Pearl River, so that the big railway can cross the river and send their military supplies directly to the southern battlefield.
Kaki, however, read in the newspaper that it seems that Da attacked again in Vietnam.
Section seven hundred and two Hue Campaign (1)
The army and navy are searching for the French navy, and the French navy is also searching for the army and navy. This is not a knight’s battle, so it is impossible to really wait for each other to find each other before they think about it, and then occupy a favorable position in the front row. This is important for naval battles. The history of the British navy has defeated the French navy many times, and it is not always because the British navy is stronger. Many times, this favorable factor has led to fewer victories, and many cases are not uncommon.
The search scope of both sides is in Da Nang and Haiphong, because the French army knows that the army is sure of the Haiphong base, while the army knows that the French army is sure of being in Da Nang, and both sides will not stay away from the base until they seize the other side’s main force.
Although the vast sea waves are likely to pass by, they may not be able to find each other, so this kind of mutual search and temptation is tense.
The big navy is under great pressure. Once they are defeated, it means that the great Wan Li coast will be exposed to the French army. In fact, the French navy may be even more nervous. They crossed the ocean of Wan Li and went to the Eastern War. Once the naval battle is defeated, hundreds of thousands of French troops will be alone and cut off from the Turkish Union.
The big navy is just a shield to defend the sea and the French navy is a colony. When the shield is lost and the sword is broken, it loses its foundation.
Both sides are very cautious. During the patrol period, a small number of cruisers are sent back and forth to seize each other’s weakness and give a fatal blow to completely control the sea. At present, neither side dares to easily keep the main fleet away from the base. Cruisers have repeatedly found that the other side’s small fleet has exchanged fire several times, either intercepting the French solitary ship or besieging the large solitary ship by the French army. So far, both sides have not sunk records and let the other side’s small formation or solitary ship escape.
However, this situation can’t last forever. It is clear to everyone that once the mainland army approaches Da Nang, the navy can’t stand still and cooperate with the army or use the firepower of the army. It will certainly attack Da Nang together, and then the French navy can passively fight.
During the historical Russo-Japanese War, the situation was generally that the Japanese navy was stronger than the Russian Pacific fleet in attacking Russia with the cooperation of land and sea. The Japanese navy always avoided the war, and then it joined forces with the army to capture Lushun. It can be said that the main reason was that the army destroyed the Russian fleet and the navy blocked the Russian fleet in the harbor.
The difference is that the big navy does not have an advantage over the French navy, and it is still at a disadvantage. Therefore, it is impossible to block the French navy like the Japanese navy, and it depends on the army
The navy may not think so, but the general trend is that they can carefully look for opportunities to eat each other’s small fleet, but the other side has never given them the opportunity to be ambitious, but the Ministry of War also asked the navy not to take risks and asked them not to wait for the decisive battle of the French navy for the time being.
However, during this period, the army has been resting, and it is already reluctant to storm the coastal defense in June and July, because November to April is the rainy season in Vietnam, and most of them are rainy days. This weather war is a last resort.
In this situation, the battle is difficult, not to mention the disease is even more deadly, so the army asked to rest and wait for the dry season to come.
The navy has different opinions. They think that since the army can’t adapt to the rainy season in Vietnam, the French army will definitely not adapt to the attack at this time. They say that if the traffic situation is equal, it is true, but the French army has great railway support, but it can rely on Vietnamese civilian workers to carry arms. In the rainy season, the army is in an absolute disadvantage. Unless the navy can seize the sea and transport supplies by sea, civilian workers can’t fight the railway.
Obviously, the two sides disagree and are suspected of shirking each other.
Civil servants of the Ministry of War advocate postponing the attack. They have the same attitude as the army, especially the Ministry of War Shang Meiqi. According to the tradition, he is a strategist who is familiar with the soldiers, but he can also be a strategist. Because he can read the general ideas and concepts from the soldiers, he can’t master the actual combat experience, but what he said is unreasonable.
Before the rain in coastal defense, I wanted the French to fight a decisive battle. Mei Qi confessed that it was because the northern part of Vietnam was near and deep into Vietnam’s borders. In Sun Yat-sen’s art of war, nine places and one "light place" could not be underestimated for long, because the soldiers were too close to the country to go home easily, and their hearts were not solid.
Therefore, at that time, during the coastal defense campaign, the Ministry of War advocated a quick decision, while the army officers had other ideas. The simplest idea was that just declaring war on France and needing to win a battle was an eager mentality.
After the campaign of coastal defense, the whole north-central Vietnam until Hue was controlled by the army and the Vietnamese court, and it had already penetrated into the Vietnamese territory. Mei Qi recognized that this was an important place. Sun said, "When you enter an important place, you should pay attention to plundering food, so that you can go on a protracted war.
However, after the completion of the guarantee of the court institutions in central and northern Vietnam, both France in the past and now can rely on the Vietnamese government to raise food and grass, so that they can fight for a long time without looting.
Sun Bingfa believes that the deeper our army goes into the hinterland of the enemy country, the stronger our army’s morale will be, and it will be difficult for the enemy to defeat us. When we plunder food and grass in the rich areas of the enemy country, we will have a guarantee. We should pay attention to resting the troops and not make them too tired to keep rustic and recharge their batteries.
The problem of grain and grass is guaranteed, but the situation is guaranteed by the arms supply law. The Ministry of War believes that it should wait for favorable opportunities and not rush to fight.
Therefore, after the campaign of coastal defense, the army has been resting for more than three months until November, but at this time it was only the North Vietnamese army, while the South Korean army still confronted the French army in Hue and did not attack, because the rainy season in southern Vietnam continued for two months, and November and December were still rainy.
The best time to fight in the South is after December.
Even if you rest, you can’t idle hundreds of thousands of troops. Once you are idle, you are prone to problems. People still have to move. Once you don’t move, you are prone to illness regardless of your mental state, such as your body.
During the rest period, in addition to simple routine training, the Great Emperor instructed the army to cooperate with the Vietnamese government to stabilize the local area. We should actively cooperate with the French army to enter the central part of Vietnam to suppress the gentry uprising. Although we can’t say that there is no grass left, it also killed many people, which greatly disturbed the local order. Once they withdrew, there were bandits and refugees everywhere. If they could not suppress these refugees and bandits as soon as possible, it would be impossible to stabilize the unstable army and have a stable strategic rear.
He also asked the army to help the Vietnamese people do some farm work as far as possible to alleviate their hard work, and said that the army should rely on the Vietnamese people to help the Vietnamese people do farm work, which is also to ensure the army’s rations.
In this guiding ideology, the big army rotates to help the Vietnamese in the stationed area, showing the Vietnamese what is the real Julian Waghann or the style of younger soldiers.
Obviously, this is Zhu Jinglun’s attempt to do a good job in military and civilian means, and the effect is not bad. The big army is a regular army, and the military discipline has always been good. China people have always been more disciplined, and the military law has never been corrupted. The habit of bandits who rely on seeking to maintain the army generally does not appear
From this point of view, the eastern army can actually do better than the western army. The best military discipline for the allied forces to enter Beixun City is the Japanese army.
Of course, this is not because the Japanese are friendly to the Japanese, otherwise the Lushun massacre would not have happened a few years ago, but because the Japanese want to show a special image in front of the great powers.
But other troops are also proud, and they will restrain themselves by law. Even in the 21st century, the US military will flirt with female students from time to time in Japanese and American military bases. It is not the US military that has no strict military law system, but the cowboys in our nature.
The big army intends to show its image in front of the Vietnamese soldiers and civilians. That’s true. It’s a matter of grabbing water for widows. It’s a matter of scrambling to transplant rice seedlings and harvest for local people. Most of these workers are farmers’ younger brothers. It’s not a problem to finish.
Junnan Hue was in March and April, which happened to be a harvest season. However, at that time, it was possible to help the French army when it didn’t hurry to help transplant rice. At that time, they were still in the status of Julian Waghann, Vietnam, and by the time this waterway was harvested, they had become an army.
With the local harvest of two crops in Vietnam, the situation of military food has been greatly improved, and the military has also promoted the duck farming model in rice fields in Vietnam, and also harvested a batch of meat-eating troops, which not only improved themselves, but also made the local people feel better about the military.
After the harvest of grain, southern Vietnam has also entered a dry season. Although the sunny day is very hot, it is the coolest season in Vietnam, which is equivalent to the winter in Vietnam. It is the autumn high and the horse is fat, which is just the right season to prepare horses and sharpen weapons. After the coastal defense campaign, southern reinforcements also arrived in Hue from northern Vietnam, and the military strength reached 300,000
Everything is ready, and the battle of Hue has started at the emperor’s command.
Section seven hundred and three Hue Campaign (2)
The battle didn’t go well. The big army didn’t have many means, either artillery stormed the infantry or geotechnical excavation. I don’t know how many old tricks peaked at 23s. The update was the fastest.
After the Franco-Prussian War, the French army had already had experience in bombarding dense artillery, and it would not be able to surrender when bombarded by Krupp artillery as it was at the beginning. Besides, after the Franco-Prussian War, their artillery was not bad, and they could not gain absolute advantage in the artillery battle, so they returned to leave a corpse after repeated attacks.
However, the French counterattack has no effect, because their counterattack methods are equally poor, and the walls are lined up neatly like the matchlock era. quick march can end up dying in machine guns