Chapter 2544
Chapter 2544
Chapter 2544
Although Ha Jianyi still had doubts about Dai Chengrong retaining former Ming military officers, it should not affect the other inspection tasks of this trip, and Dai Chengrong did not want to make any further explanations on this.So the two sides accepted Wang Anguo's proposal in a tacit understanding, skipped this topic first, and went to the arsenal in the base to check the military supplies and weapons in stock.
According to the deployment standards of the Haihan Army, in addition to the basic musket infantry, the troops at the army regiment level will also be equipped with combat and logistical arms such as cavalry, artillery, engineers, signal soldiers, medical soldiers, and cooking soldiers. The equipment and materials of the army are of various varieties and quantities, and a special warehouse must be built in the station for storage and storage.For example, in the base where Dai Chengrong's Second Regiment of the Seventh Division is stationed, there are three large warehouses for storing materials.
"The warehouse originally used by the Ming army was too small and in disrepair for a long time. It leaked badly when it rained, and it couldn't meet our requirements. The warehouses you two see today are all after we arrived here last year. It’s just newly built and has just been put into use.” Dai Chengrong led the way while introducing the situation of the warehouse to Ha and Wang.
The bases of these warehouses are all built with bluestone, and the walls are built with gray bricks. On the top is a herringbone ceiling covered with tiles.The roof is about two feet two feet high, and the width of the bay is almost two feet, but the span is more than ten feet.Each warehouse is equipped with access channels at both ends to facilitate the handling of materials.
Dai Chengrong ordered the soldiers guarding the warehouse to open the gate, prepare relevant inventory records and lighting tools, and let them enter for inspection.
The first thing to be inspected is of course weapons and ammunition. According to the establishment and combat requirements of the Haihan Army, the weapons stored here include not only muskets and artillery, but also special weapons such as landmines, grenades, and smoke bombs.Ha Jianyi carefully checked the registration information and the special code on the packing box, and opened the box for inspection after confirming that they were consistent.
"Captain Dai, the Second Regiment is currently mainly equipped with Type [-] rifles?" Ha Jianyi asked Dai Chengrong while checking.
Dai Chengrong replied: "Individual weapons are actually more than Type [-] rifles. Due to various objective reasons, new weapons need to be replaced in batches. At present, about half of the soldiers are still using Type [-] rifles. When will the update be completed? This is not something we can decide, and we have to follow the unified arrangement of the Ministry of National Defense."
Due to the black technology brought to this time and space by the traversers, Haihan's weapon research and development work is far ahead of the contemporary weapon industry level, but it is not enough to design new weapons, it must be mass-produced and listed on a large scale. There is still a huge gap between deploying troops and putting them into actual combat use.
One is the level of industrial technology.Although there are blueprints and designs of various advanced weapons in the large database of Fort Victory, it seems that they only need to copy them.However, Haihan's current industrial development level is still far behind the needs of ordnance manufacturing. Whether it is materials or processing technology, it is still at the primary industrial stage, and it is not enough to mass-produce advanced weapons with precise structures.
The second is the issue of production capacity.From the mining of metal ores to the manufacture of specific parts, the entire production chain has been facing the problem of insufficient capacity.For example, the copper mined from the Fushan Copper Mine in Shandong Province every year has a wide range of uses, and the part that can be allocated to the military industry department for the manufacture of weapons and ammunition is extremely limited. Even if more workers are invested in the downstream, it is just a situation where a smart woman can’t cook without rice. .
To solve these problems, the industrial sector has to start by increasing the scale of mining, which in turn involves a series of measures such as investing more mining machinery, recruiting more miners, increasing mine capacity, and improving smelting technology. Every measure has to face a bunch of new problems, and it is difficult to achieve effective improvement in a short period of time.
The third is the most fundamental problem - funding.It will take a lot of money to solve the first two problems, and then it will be possible to update the army's equipment, but this is not easy.If Haihan uses the limited budget to improve the level of the weapons industry, then the military budget for the Haihan Army can only be compressed.
Although the combat performance of new weapons has been improved, their cost, maintenance, and combat costs will also rise accordingly.At present, the Haihan Army has almost no opponents of comparable strength in East Asia—at least in the area covered by the Haihan Army's logistics.Moreover, the two major opponents of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty also surrendered one after another, and the combat missions of the Haihan Army were much reduced compared with previous years. This also led to the executive committee's willingness to continuously upgrade weapons and equipment not particularly strong.
On the premise that the weapons and equipment of the Haihan Army still have great technical advantages, the Executive Committee hopes to maintain the existing equipment first, and gradually complete the replacement of the troops according to the actual production capacity of new weapons and the combat needs of the troops.
Of course, this process will be relatively long. Haihan Ordnance Industry is still manufacturing weapons developed in the 30s.Even if the Second Regiment of the Seventh Division commanded by Dai Chengrong is considered one of the elite troops in the East China Sea region, it is inevitable that they still use weapons that were finalized and produced more than [-] years ago.You must know that Ha Jianyi was only three years old when the Type [-] rifles were first deployed in the Haihan Army.
Although the Type [-] rifle has better combat performance, the cost of use alone is much higher than that of the Type [-] because of the use of metal shell fixed ammunition. A rifle developed years ago.If Shi Diwen hadn't promoted the plan to move the capital and increased the importance of the Hangzhou area, Dai Chengrong's progress in equipping new rifles might have been much slower than it is now.
Of course, it was difficult for Ha Jianyi to understand the difficulties of the troops stationed overseas in this regard.After all, the garrison troops in the Sanya area are naturally well-equipped, and they have always been the first troops to install new weapons. Now, in order to facilitate rapid maneuvering in the urban area of Sanya, they are even equipped with several troop trucks powered by diesel engines. This is an unattainable treatment for overseas troops.
So when Ha Jianyi heard Dai Chengrong say that half of the troops in the Second Regiment were still using Type [-] rifles, he felt a little bit in his heart. He secretly thought that the Donghai Region had even built a glorious warship. Yes, why does Dai Chengrong's army still have so many old-fashioned weapons?
Dai Chengrong guessed it by looking at his expression, and immediately laughed at himself: "Master Ha, our [-]th Army Division can't compare to the treatment of the East China Sea Fleet, and there is not so much military budget to use to update equipment!"
Ha Jianyi said: "It seems that Master Shi is still partial!"
Dai Chengrong shook his head and said: "You can't say that, Mr. Shi also has his difficulties!"
(End of this chapter)
Although Ha Jianyi still had doubts about Dai Chengrong retaining former Ming military officers, it should not affect the other inspection tasks of this trip, and Dai Chengrong did not want to make any further explanations on this.So the two sides accepted Wang Anguo's proposal in a tacit understanding, skipped this topic first, and went to the arsenal in the base to check the military supplies and weapons in stock.
According to the deployment standards of the Haihan Army, in addition to the basic musket infantry, the troops at the army regiment level will also be equipped with combat and logistical arms such as cavalry, artillery, engineers, signal soldiers, medical soldiers, and cooking soldiers. The equipment and materials of the army are of various varieties and quantities, and a special warehouse must be built in the station for storage and storage.For example, in the base where Dai Chengrong's Second Regiment of the Seventh Division is stationed, there are three large warehouses for storing materials.
"The warehouse originally used by the Ming army was too small and in disrepair for a long time. It leaked badly when it rained, and it couldn't meet our requirements. The warehouses you two see today are all after we arrived here last year. It’s just newly built and has just been put into use.” Dai Chengrong led the way while introducing the situation of the warehouse to Ha and Wang.
The bases of these warehouses are all built with bluestone, and the walls are built with gray bricks. On the top is a herringbone ceiling covered with tiles.The roof is about two feet two feet high, and the width of the bay is almost two feet, but the span is more than ten feet.Each warehouse is equipped with access channels at both ends to facilitate the handling of materials.
Dai Chengrong ordered the soldiers guarding the warehouse to open the gate, prepare relevant inventory records and lighting tools, and let them enter for inspection.
The first thing to be inspected is of course weapons and ammunition. According to the establishment and combat requirements of the Haihan Army, the weapons stored here include not only muskets and artillery, but also special weapons such as landmines, grenades, and smoke bombs.Ha Jianyi carefully checked the registration information and the special code on the packing box, and opened the box for inspection after confirming that they were consistent.
"Captain Dai, the Second Regiment is currently mainly equipped with Type [-] rifles?" Ha Jianyi asked Dai Chengrong while checking.
Dai Chengrong replied: "Individual weapons are actually more than Type [-] rifles. Due to various objective reasons, new weapons need to be replaced in batches. At present, about half of the soldiers are still using Type [-] rifles. When will the update be completed? This is not something we can decide, and we have to follow the unified arrangement of the Ministry of National Defense."
Due to the black technology brought to this time and space by the traversers, Haihan's weapon research and development work is far ahead of the contemporary weapon industry level, but it is not enough to design new weapons, it must be mass-produced and listed on a large scale. There is still a huge gap between deploying troops and putting them into actual combat use.
One is the level of industrial technology.Although there are blueprints and designs of various advanced weapons in the large database of Fort Victory, it seems that they only need to copy them.However, Haihan's current industrial development level is still far behind the needs of ordnance manufacturing. Whether it is materials or processing technology, it is still at the primary industrial stage, and it is not enough to mass-produce advanced weapons with precise structures.
The second is the issue of production capacity.From the mining of metal ores to the manufacture of specific parts, the entire production chain has been facing the problem of insufficient capacity.For example, the copper mined from the Fushan Copper Mine in Shandong Province every year has a wide range of uses, and the part that can be allocated to the military industry department for the manufacture of weapons and ammunition is extremely limited. Even if more workers are invested in the downstream, it is just a situation where a smart woman can’t cook without rice. .
To solve these problems, the industrial sector has to start by increasing the scale of mining, which in turn involves a series of measures such as investing more mining machinery, recruiting more miners, increasing mine capacity, and improving smelting technology. Every measure has to face a bunch of new problems, and it is difficult to achieve effective improvement in a short period of time.
The third is the most fundamental problem - funding.It will take a lot of money to solve the first two problems, and then it will be possible to update the army's equipment, but this is not easy.If Haihan uses the limited budget to improve the level of the weapons industry, then the military budget for the Haihan Army can only be compressed.
Although the combat performance of new weapons has been improved, their cost, maintenance, and combat costs will also rise accordingly.At present, the Haihan Army has almost no opponents of comparable strength in East Asia—at least in the area covered by the Haihan Army's logistics.Moreover, the two major opponents of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty also surrendered one after another, and the combat missions of the Haihan Army were much reduced compared with previous years. This also led to the executive committee's willingness to continuously upgrade weapons and equipment not particularly strong.
On the premise that the weapons and equipment of the Haihan Army still have great technical advantages, the Executive Committee hopes to maintain the existing equipment first, and gradually complete the replacement of the troops according to the actual production capacity of new weapons and the combat needs of the troops.
Of course, this process will be relatively long. Haihan Ordnance Industry is still manufacturing weapons developed in the 30s.Even if the Second Regiment of the Seventh Division commanded by Dai Chengrong is considered one of the elite troops in the East China Sea region, it is inevitable that they still use weapons that were finalized and produced more than [-] years ago.You must know that Ha Jianyi was only three years old when the Type [-] rifles were first deployed in the Haihan Army.
Although the Type [-] rifle has better combat performance, the cost of use alone is much higher than that of the Type [-] because of the use of metal shell fixed ammunition. A rifle developed years ago.If Shi Diwen hadn't promoted the plan to move the capital and increased the importance of the Hangzhou area, Dai Chengrong's progress in equipping new rifles might have been much slower than it is now.
Of course, it was difficult for Ha Jianyi to understand the difficulties of the troops stationed overseas in this regard.After all, the garrison troops in the Sanya area are naturally well-equipped, and they have always been the first troops to install new weapons. Now, in order to facilitate rapid maneuvering in the urban area of Sanya, they are even equipped with several troop trucks powered by diesel engines. This is an unattainable treatment for overseas troops.
So when Ha Jianyi heard Dai Chengrong say that half of the troops in the Second Regiment were still using Type [-] rifles, he felt a little bit in his heart. He secretly thought that the Donghai Region had even built a glorious warship. Yes, why does Dai Chengrong's army still have so many old-fashioned weapons?
Dai Chengrong guessed it by looking at his expression, and immediately laughed at himself: "Master Ha, our [-]th Army Division can't compare to the treatment of the East China Sea Fleet, and there is not so much military budget to use to update equipment!"
Ha Jianyi said: "It seems that Master Shi is still partial!"
Dai Chengrong shook his head and said: "You can't say that, Mr. Shi also has his difficulties!"
(End of this chapter)