The three lightning guns were finally formed into the 23rd-year-old lightning gun of the Guangxu period, or the m97 lightning gun, light 51mm lightning gun and medium 82mm lightning gun. Both can be carried and moved by individual soldiers, and the heavy 107mm lightning gun was first taken by a carriage.

According to Wang Chenhao's requirements, Beiyang Ordnance Heavy Industry plans to complete 1,400 51mm light mortars, 1,400 82mm medium mortars, and 400 107mm heavy mortars within three years. The plan is...

Assembled to twenty reorganizers.

Wang Chenhao had already made up his mind that he would have to expand his troops in the future when fighting against Russia. Although Wang Chenhao had no excuse to expand his army, it was necessary to hoard equipment first.

As the infantry's own artillery, the lightning cannon will play an irreplaceable role in combat at the battalion and company level, which is of great significance to the future operations of the Beiyang Army.

In addition to the development of lightning cannons, the weapons and equipment designed by Beiyang Weapon Heavy Industry for the Beiyang Army's individual combat also include grenade weapons.

Grenades have a long history, first invented by the Chinese. In the 15th century, grenades loaded with black gunpowder appeared in Europe, which was mainly used for fortress defense and prisons. In the mid-17th century, some European countries equipped field grenades in elite troops, and called soldiers who had been specially trained to use this ammunition grenades. By the 19th century, with the development of guns and guns and the decrease in the offensive and defensive battles of castles, grenades were once coldly received. Until the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, grenades played a role in the battlefield.

During World War I, grenades were widely used due to the rise of trenches.

Wang Chenhao knew that when the two armies were fighting, there was a tactic called local firepower advantage, that is, when the forces invested by the two sides in battle were equal, which side had a stronger local firepower and which side would have a greater chance of winning.

After Wang Chenhao equipped the Beiyang Army Corps and above with lightning cannons, the battalion company level equipped with lightning cannons, he once again equipped with grenade weapons at the squad and platoon level, so that any infantry can also have large-scale killing weapons without relying on artillery.

Beiyang Army's cannons can attack enemy lightning cannons at long distances as a supplement to cannons, making up for the medium and short distance firepower needs. However, the shortest strike distance of several lightning cannons designed by Beiyang Weapon Heavy Industry is fifty meters. What should the enemy within fifty meters do? In addition to attacking with machine guns and rifles, this is the time when grenades can come in handy.

Grenades can only be thrown by soldiers' arms, usually between 30 and 70 meters. Ordinary soldiers are required to throw them 40 to 50 meters. Because the explosion of the grenade and the range is about 25 meters, throwing them close may hurt themselves.

Before the 50th century, the world's mainstream grenades were German potato Martha-style wooden handle grenades and British pineapple-type Mills-style grenades.

Both types of grenades have their own advantages. Wood-handled grenades have stronger centrifugal power and are thrown farther: In addition, when fighting on slopes, it is not easy to roll down. Its production process is simple, low cost, but the combination of man and machine is poor, it is not easy to throw accurately, and has explosion blind spots. Pineapple-type grenades are accurately thrown, and have extremely strong rebound lethality in street fighting. They are easy to carry explosion without blind spots. They have strong lethality but complex technology, and require advanced production equipment.

Both production lines of Beiyang Ordnance Heavy Industry were introduced. After comparison, the production line of British pineapple-type Mills-style grenades was finally expanded and improved. This is thanks to Beiyang Ordnance Heavy Industry's advanced equipment, which has grenades with more complex production processes.

The grenade produced by Beiyang Weapon Heavy Industry after the improvement was established as the 23rd year-old Guangxu grenade. Because the grenade's body was changed to a pea egg shape, it added unevenness on the shell of the bullet body for easy handling. The black coating looks like a hornet's nest. In addition, steel balls are added to the bullet body. When the explosion occurs, the steel balls attack the enemy, which looks like a hornet biting situation, so it is also called a honeycomb or a hornet's nest.

The material of the honeycomb grenade is a steel bullet body, with a total length of 9.5 meters, a width of 5 cm and a weight of 445.

The charge amount is 50-60 grams t-n-j, the detonation time is about 5 to 7 seconds, the radius of bo and 27 meters, and the effective killing radius is 7 to 10 meters.

Since Wang Chenhao had ordered Beiyang Ordnance Heavy Industry to start developing the arc-scale industrial production of the Black Sorkin explosives, only the initially filled with TNT explosives, and then all of them were changed to Black Sorkin charges, making its effective killing radius reach 10-15 meters.

There are many types of grenades and are widely used. Each grenade has different xing energy and can allow soldiers to complete designated tasks in many ways. Generally speaking, grenades are roughly divided into inscriptions: killer grenades, lighting grenades, chemical grenades (including combustion, smoke, anti-riot, stun, etc.) and coach grenades.

According to different combat requirements, the honeycomb grenades produced by Beiyang Ordnance Heavy Industry are also divided into many types. However, they are mainly killer grenades. Killer grenades mainly rely on high-speed scattering of broken shells and fuse components to kill people, and can also be used to destroy or paralyze equipment.

However, the honeycomb grenade is powerful, and it scatters a large number of debris. The steel balls will still have lethality at a distance from the explosion point. Therefore, it is an ideal melee weapon that can cause casualties to groups of advancing enemy troops. However, this killing mechanism requires that the soldiers who drop bombs not only take cover measures themselves, but also pay special attention to the location of other personnel on their side. If you are not careful, you will be bored and yourself.

It is worth mentioning that the honeycomb grenade has another way to adjust the power of the explosion to be used for different combat purposes, that is, Beiyang Weapon Heavy Industry has prepared various vests for the honeycomb grenade under the prompt of Wang Chenhao.

The so-called vest is to put a metal jacket on the shell of a honeycomb grenade according to different killing requirements. The metal cover can be "broken and wired" steel, which increases the power of the explosion and increases the lethality to the enemy.

In addition to mainly producing anti-kill grenades, honeycomb grenades have several production lines that produce lighting grenades, chemical grenades and combustion grenades.

Wang Chenhao has watched a lot of American blockbusters and knows that all the tactics of his era are inseparable from grenades of various drug-filled uses.

Among them, lighting grenades are used to display the terrain during night combat, and can emit a strong light of an average of 50,000-60,000 standard candlelight in a few seconds. They can also be used as burning grenades to ignite hay, leaves or shrubs. In today's absence of night vision equipment, lighting grenades are very useful as a night battle weapon because they can suddenly blind or rush the enemy's position, making it convenient for our army to attack.

Chemical grenades are filled with various charges in honeycomb grenades, which can be used for combustion.

For purposes such as obscuring, signaling, and counter-riot. The anti-riot grenades are usually filled with tear gas (chloroacetylbenzene), which is a tear gas that can pierce the eyes and can temporarily partially or completely blind. It is used in non-military (such as police) operations.

The purpose of burning grenades is very simple. The purpose is to set fire, which can also be used to destroy, paralyze or destroy vehicles, weapon systems, bunkers or ammunition. Burning grenades can burn at high temperatures~

A 60-second mixed charge (usually with magnesium aluminum thermal agent or its derivatives as its main component). A part of the charge becomes molten iron, which flows out of the grenade, ignites or melts anything touched. This charge can burn through steel plates about 50 mm thick and can weld steel or iron parts together. It also includes smoke grenades, which have 2 different types. Grenades with colored smoke screens are mainly used to identify or mark positions, and can also be used to mark areas for ground or air combat operations: grenades with white smoke screens are mainly used to conceal attack or retreat operations or to create smoke screens for these operations.

Of course, in addition to the first type of grenade that can be equipped for large-scale use for army soldiers, the following types of grenades are not suitable for large-scale production because of their high cost. However, Wang Chenhao still opened relevant production lines, and his real purpose was to equip his guards. Wang Chenhao's guards were all elites carefully selected from various combat units of the Beiyang Army. He had excellent combat qualities and Wang Chenhao usually trained them strictly from time to time and instilled knowledge of modern special operations in them.

Know. Wang Chenhao's guards are actually developing towards the direction of special forces, but because the escorts have not very high cultural knowledge, they are actively learning relevant knowledge at this time. It will not take long to have the knowledge level that special forces soldiers should have. At that time, Wang Chenhao will select elite troops from them who have always been elite to form special forces. The weapons of special forces naturally need to be developed and produced in advance, and once the time is ripe, they can be armed at any time.

Wang Chenhao inspected Beiyang Weapon Heavy Industry for two days. On the third day, Wang Shizhen reported to him that the first and second towns of the Beiyang Army had been rested and had been opened back to the Tianjin Military Horse Farm Station.

That night, Wang Chenhao held a banquet in the mansion to entertain the main officers and generals of the first town. After more than a year of separation, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, Jiang Guite, Lianghuadian, Wu Changchun, Xu Bangjie, Yang Rongtai and other generals naturally had to celebrate their general Wang Chenhao.

That night, Wang Chenhao and the generals drank happily, and everyone would not return without getting drunk.

The next day, Wang Chenhao and his generals made new arrangements for their own advantages and shortcomings in the Qing-Russian War. Since the Russian reorganized division had a force of more than 16,000, while the Beiyang Army had only 12,500 troops in a town. Although this did not affect the combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Army, as the Russian Army learned from its mistakes, there would be no such good luck next time.

Considering that the Russian Army will definitely strengthen its firepower equipment, and Wang Chenhao intends to use the new weapons and equipment produced and developed by Beiyang Weapon Heavy Industry for the Beiyang Army, among these new weapons, such as adding the firepower configuration of heavy machine guns and lightning guns, infantry will be cyclized, and logistics support personnel will also be increased, which forces Wang Chenhao to reform the existing organization of the Beiyang Army.

The Beiyang Army's No. 1 town was the first to be reorganized.

The basic organization is as follows: the division's direct troops: 1 artillery regiment includes 6 light artillery companies (36 80mm Krupp infantry guns), 3 heavy howitzers (18 150mm Krupp heavy howitzers), 3 heavy lightning gun companies (18 107mm lightning guns), 1 engineer battalion, 1 communication battalion includes (2 wired communication companies, 1 wireless communication platoon (under construction)), 1 plug-in battalion, 1 special service battalion (formerly police adjustment reconnaissance battalion), 1 teaching team (responsible for comprehensively teaching the military officers and soldiers to subdue Wang Chenhao's personal will and strengthen Wang Chenhao's control over the army), 1 health team (used to be a division hospital in normal times and a field hospital in wartime).

The division has two infantry brigades, and the brigade has two infantry regiments. The regiment's direct troops include a medium-sized lightning gun company (12 82mm lightning guns), a light lightning gun company (12 51mm lightning guns), 1

One communication company, one spy company.

The regiment has 3 infantry battalions, and the direct troops of the infantry battalion include 1 machine cannon company (3ting Maxim heavy machine guns, 4 82mm lightning guns, 4 51mm lightning guns).

The battalion has 3 infantry companies, the company has 3 infantry platoons, and the platoon has 3 squads (each 3 ting Browning heavy machine gun, 30 rifles).

The division has two supplementary regiments: the old-style equipment eliminated when changing equipment is used for daily training as a reserve team, and the consumption of the main regiment is supplemented during wartime.

The total strength of the entire division increased from 125,007 people to 15,000 people. In fact, Wang Chenhao was also showing his strength in disguise. Wang Chenhao handed over the reorganization of the eight towns of the Beiyang Army to Wang Shizhen and Ruan Zhongshu with full authority, and instructed Duan Qirui, Liang Huadian and other Beiyang Army generals to actively cooperate with the reform. For the generals, Wang Chenhao gave them more troops and weapons and equipment, so they were naturally willing, so they actively cooperated with the reform.

The first and second towns of the Beiyang Army were successively reformed, followed by the other six towns of the Beiyang Army. The expanded Beiyang Eight Towns increased from the original 100,000 troops to 120,000. Although Wang Chenhao did not receive the approval of the imperial court's military expansion, he began to recruit soldiers under the banner of adapting the Huai Army, and planned to complete the training of 180,000 reserve soldiers within three years. In this way, the eight towns of the Beiyang Army would actually reach 20 towns in three years.

The original Huai Army was reorganized into Zhili patrol police, military police, local police and other troops. This move was to make full use of the remaining strength of the Jiuhua Army to make some contributions to the stability of the Zhili region, and to achieve Wang Chenhao's complete dismissal of the Huai Army system and build a New Beiyang Group that was completely loyal to him.

Because the Eight Towns of Beiyang Army are Wang Chenhao's direct troops, they have sufficient military expenditure and weapons and equipment, and they reform at the same time, and it goes very smoothly.

But for the new army in the 28 towns in other provinces, not only did they not be able to reform with Wang Chenhao, but their own construction has not yet declined!

The court originally planned to complete the remaining 28 new army training plan within six years. Now a Guangxu imperial edict ordered all provinces to start practicing new army at the same time. The military expenses and equipment purchase fees of the new army reached more than 70 million taels of silver, which was not based on the standards of the Beiyang Army. The costs of each province to build a new army were intercepted and taxed by each province. The governors and governors of each province had to form a new army according to the financial resources of each province. Even in wealthy provinces, the equipment, training and expenses of the new army were far less than the standards of the Beiyang Army, let alone poor provinces with no money. Many were just bare commanders who were charitable. Moreover, some provinces had serious embezzlement, and they were directly transformed into new army by the green camp, and directly asked the court to get double military pay, bullying the superiors and concealing subordinates.

The only ones who could make a move were the Soviet army of Liu Kunyi in Liangjiang and the E army of Zhang Zhidong in Huguang. Although they both tried their best to build a new army and tried to surpass the Beiyang Army, no matter how they handled military affairs, the gap with the Beiyang Army was getting bigger and bigger. It wasn't that they were retreating. They were indeed making progress, but the progress was slow, which was far worse than the Beiyang Army.

In the navy, Wang Chenhao continued to intervene with the Guangdong Navy and Fujian Navy under the title of the Deputy Minister of the Navy. Although the equipment of the Guangdong Navy and Fujian Navy was too weak, there were only some old warships and gunboats, and Wang Chenhao looked down on it. However, among the Fujian Navy and Guangdong Navy, there were a large number of outstanding officers and soldiers with future national naval power. Wang Chenhao was eager to seek talents.

As the Dengyun-class battleship is about to be completed in the UK, Wang Chenhao needs to transfer a group of outstanding naval officers and soldiers from the country to the UK to receive the warships. Since Wang Chenhao does not want the gap between the North and South Oceans to become deeper and deeper, the officers and soldiers of the new ship, Wang Chenhao, plans to occupy half of the North and South Oceans each, and no longer allow the exclusion of the North and South regions within the navy. He wants to integrate all the personnel of the North and South Navy together, and eliminate the boundaries between the North and South Oceans in the navy from then on, which is conducive to the convergence of the national will.

The Nanyang Navy officers and soldiers had no ships available. Many naval generals who graduated from the Navy Academy could only command small gunboats and torpedo boats. They dreamed that they would enter the Beiyang Navy and serve on the Beiyang Navy's large ships. However, the Beiyang Navy, which was under the management of Li Hongzhang, had a strong prejudice in the area of ​​the Nanyang Navy. It was difficult for the Navy officers and soldiers of the Nanyang faction to stay in the Beiyang Navy, and even those who were left behind were not welcomed.

However, after Wang Chenhao took charge of the Beiyang Navy and the Pacific Fleet and then integrated into the Royal Navy, a large number of Nanyang Navy generals, including Lin Jianzhang and Du Xigui, who had commanded the Pacific Fleet to make great contributions to Wang Chenhao, entered the senior management of the Royal Navy. In addition, Wang Chenhao did not have a prejudice against the Nanyang Navy generals, the Nanyang Navy officers and soldiers finally gained a foothold.

As British mercenaries left the Royal Navy ships one after another, half of the new Royal Navy personnel were the original Beiyang faction and the other half were the original Nanyang faction. The two sides reached an unprecedented balance from senior officers to grassroots personnel. These were all painstaking arrangements by Wang Chenhao. He strictly ordered everyone not to mention sensitive words such as "Are you from the Nanyang or I from the Beiyang," and so on. The purpose is to start from now on and gradually eliminate the barriers between the Nanyang naval factions.

Of course, Wang Chenhao knew that the discord between them could not be completely eliminated in a short period of time. But Wang Chenhao believed that both the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang faction and the officers and soldiers of the Nanyang faction were all strong heroes. After one or two bloody wars, after the officers and soldiers of the Nanyang North and South North and South will work together to deal with foreign enemies, they will form respect and tolerance for each other, thus integrating together and no longer distinguishing the concept of Nanyang North and South.

Secondly, Wang Chenhao used his power to abandon the Mawei Shipyard and Huangpu Shipyard on the grounds that the Fuzhou Shipyard and Guangdong Shipyard had not made any achievements for many years, resulting in wasting equipment and lack of coastal defense capabilities, and the Mawei Shipyard and Huangpu Shipyard were directly under the jurisdiction of the Royal Navy Shipyard. In fact, it was a disguised annexation of these two largest Nanyang Navy shipyards.
Chapter completed!