Lord of Industrialization

In recent years, the vehicle industry of the Duchy of Wessen has developed rapidly under Frederick's high attention. Now there are several automobile factories. The emerging factories have taken the route of digging deep into a certain field, which has brought great pressure to Benz's automobile factory.

At present, Benz's automobile factory is still the most technically powerful automobile factory, so the headquarters gave them the order for military vehicles, but stated that it would adopt the form of open bidding to purchase vehicles starting next year.

In the early days of the establishment of the Wessen Army, there was a practice of moving double pea guns onto carriages. Now that there are cars, this tradition will naturally continue.

It's just that the roads of this era are too bad, and it is easy to get stuck in the mud during the rainy season. When a sufficient four-wheel drive system is developed, military vehicles are officially put on the agenda.

Previously, because Eugene accidentally raised the price of lace cloth and increased the income of the principality, the headquarters gave his division three more artillery companies.

But Eugene returned the three artillery companies and exchanged them for better things.

According to the current organization of the Wesson Army, Eugene's division is the 3rd Division. Outside the division headquarters, there are three main regiments, 31, 32, and 33, as well as the division's guard battalion, artillery battalion, engineering battalion, transport regiment, and logistics battalion composed of medical soldiers and cooks, with more than 10,000 people.

On the fourth day after the powered delta wing was pulled away, Eugene summoned the commanders and chiefs of staff of the three main regiments to the division training ground for a field meeting.

The army is not out of touch with society. All the service soldiers behind the leaders help the leaders hold a thermos cup. The words engraved on it are either meritorious service or the first battle they participated in. Only Eugene's is the first in the military academy.

Most of the chiefs of staff, regiment commanders, and battalion commanders in the division are from the Black Forest mercenaries. They followed Frederick to play the whole game. They have qualifications and military merits. It is not easy for Eugene to suppress them.

Eugene's approach is very simple. Let everyone know that as long as you follow him, you can eat meat.

So he recently retreated three artillery companies, and then robbed equipment and offended the brother troops. Today is the time to divide the meat.

The open space of the training ground was full of various vehicles, and the engineers of Springfield Arsenal explained the performance of these vehicles to Eugene and others.

Due to technical reasons, all vehicles use the same chassis, but the freight model is a little longer. In theory, a good part can be removed from each car to assemble a new car, which is a bit of a blessing in disguise.

The standard model of this car is 4 meters long, 1.8 meters wide, and 1.88 meters high including the roof. It has a newly developed 50-horsepower implosion engine, front and rear leaf spring non-independent suspension, a load capacity of 800 kilograms, a chassis height of 30 centimeters, and tires that are much larger and wider than ordinary vehicles.

The freight model has a longer body and a load capacity of 1.5 tons. Two rows of seats can be placed in the car body, cramming a class of 12 people, and a lot of supplies.

Comfort is not considered much, just having a car to sit in is good.

The bodies of these cars are made of thin steel plates with reinforcing ribs, and the appearance is like a wooden box without a lid, so they are called box cars.

The Springfield Arsenal installed a lot of weapons on the box car platform, mainly the Big Pea I type double-mounted 15mm caliber heavy pea gun, which used a jet tank originally used for mortars and could tilt bullets at the enemy one kilometer away at a rate of fire of 500×2 rounds per minute.

Traditional magazines cannot provide enough firepower duration at high rates of fire, so the ammunition belt appeared.

The ammunition belt of this machine gun is made of canvas, and an elastic unclosed metal buckle is nailed at a certain distance, and the bullet is fixed in the buckle.

When shooting, the jet tank drives the lever to move the buckle on the other side of the canvas belt to feed the bullet during the retreat process. When the jet tank is reset, the bullet is pushed from the buckle into the gun chamber and then fired.

Some people wanted to use this feeding method on howitzers, but were later killed by Frederick and the logistics department. There was not so much money.

The caliber of the Cherry II grenade launcher used by individual soldiers in the Wesson Army has been reduced from 50mm to 30mm, and the grenade charge has been changed from granular black powder to angina medicine. The fuse has abandoned the more expensive magic fuse and used a relatively cheaper passivated fulminate of mercury impact fuse, so the power has not decreased but increased, the cost has been reduced, and the reliability, range and ammunition carrying capacity have also been improved.

This cherry cannon is naturally installed on the car, because the car can be used to pull ammunition, all 30 rounds of large drums are used, and the firepower sustainability has been greatly improved.

Now the mortar cannot be loaded on the car, and the artillery can only take the mortar and ammunition to the place to get off and shoot.

The same is true for rockets. Personnel, launchers and ammunition are loaded on freight box cars and get off when they are used.

The standard box car is equipped with a small rocket and rocket nest, with only 8 rockets, used against fixed targets.

In addition, there are patrol cars equipped with searchlights, communication cars equipped with communicators, and cooking cars and other auxiliary vehicles.

During the free tour, Eugene was a little dazed. What he had seen and heard in the Wesson Army in the past few years made him feel like he was in a different world.

War is no longer a face-to-face fight, but starts from a few hundred or even thousands of meters away. The influence of individual bravery gradually weakens, and it is more about overall cooperation.

After the tour, everyone held a meeting in the carriage of a troop carrier.

Eugene said to William, the commander of the 31st Regiment: "William, I have got all the equipment I promised you, and it's up to you next."

William, who had the same name as the late King of the Rhine League, once commanded a company of twin peashooter carriages. He had his own views on the future battle model and believed that future armies would all fight on wheels.

However, his status in the army was low and he was not taken seriously. Few people were willing to listen to his voice, so Eugene approached him to realize his dream.

William had already seen the equipment yesterday and was very excited.

He stood up and replied: "I will definitely live up to your expectations!"

Eugene said to him: "This matter is not my fault, it is because I made too much trouble in the headquarters. Someone from above gave the headquarters a note left by the principal, and then the headquarters agreed to allocate all the equipment to us."

"Now that we have the equipment and your regiment is formed according to your requirements, it's up to you to see how it performs next year."

William immediately expressed his position: "I will definitely not let down the trust of the principal and teachers!"

Eugene had previously discussed his ideas for building an army with Erwin, the commander of the 32nd Regiment, and Walter, the commander of the 33rd Regiment. The two also expected that the biggest piece of meat would be eaten by William, and now they were waiting for their share of it. One serving.

Eugene said to Erwin and Walter: "There are still a number of freight box trucks, and the automobile factory can provide us with many cars next year. I think these cars should be used intensively."

Erwin and Walter immediately became serious. If the cars were enough, they would definitely not emphasize centralized use. If each group was divided into points, they would not emphasize so much. It seemed that they were going to rob them.

Eugene winked at division chief of staff Erich, who said: "The military skills assessment of the 32nd Regiment and the 33rd Regiment will begin today. The official order was issued half an hour ago. You can go directly to the exercise ground. No need to go back to the group.”

The 3rd Division is stationed in the south of the Principality of Wesson, and further south is the Principality of Bain. The large comprehensive training ground of the Wesson Army is in the Putz State to the east, which is more than 200 kilometers away.

It is not an easy task for all members of a regiment to move 200 kilometers, especially when the regiment leader is detained and cannot return to command, relying entirely on the remaining officers. This will test the regiment leader's usual work performance.