Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"But these are just your guesses." After listening to Liang En's series of analysis of the current situation, Joan held her chin and thought for a while, and then said.

"Although your guess is very reasonable. But you told me before that historians must learn to doubt everything in this regard. From this point of view, I feel that the current evidence is not enough."

"Very good. Learning to doubt is often the beginning of some new discoveries." Looking at the questions raised by Joan, Liang En nodded with satisfaction. He felt very happy with Joan's current progress.

"Since you feel that the current evidence does not directly point to the truth of the matter, can you now tell me what evidence you think is needed to prove the analysis I just mentioned without direct evidence?"

"I think the key evidence now is the trajectory of the opponent's activities in China. After all, the heavy artillery called the Jin-made 150mm artillery was only produced in two pieces according to records, so it is difficult to determine the specific situation of the designer. "

After being asked by Liang En, Joan of Arc thought seriously for a while, then raised her head and looked into his eyes and said, maybe because of the reason she had thought about it seriously before, apart from being a little stumbled due to nervousness at the beginning, she became more and more confident as she spoke. Shun.

"You know, if there are only one or two cannons, they can be produced by hand-made methods similar to today's top vehicles, but it is impossible to judge whether the other party is organized or simply operates according to the drawings."

"But once several types of artillery appear, it means that the opponent must be an organized design group, because stragglers alone cannot design new artillery continuously."

The reason why Joan of Arc said this was because China had a large number of engineers from abroad back then. A large number of these people have official backgrounds, but there are still adventurers who come to China alone.

However, if you take into account the complex design and production process of the artillery, the designer working alone can only imitate the original weapon at most, and it is basically impossible to make large-scale changes.

Therefore, as long as we can find something similar to this 150mm howitzer from the artillery in Jin Province at that time, it can indeed prove that the Swiss design team was responsible for the design at the Jinyang Arsenal at that time.

But if they want to complete this work, they definitely can't rely on Liang En. They must get support from China. Fortunately, Liang En's previous connections in China make it not difficult for him to complete this work.

Especially after expressing his doubts, the Chinese museum director responded very positively. After all, as a director, he felt a little regretful that the origins of some of the exhibits in the museum were unclear.

So after Liang En put forward his opinions in this regard, he immediately sent all the information he collected to Liang En through the Internet to help Liang En solve the problem he was facing now.

After obtaining the information, Liang En quickly analyzed the information. Because the information was very detailed, Liang En quickly found what he needed.

According to the information, before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, during the first stage of strategic defense, and during the second stage of strategic stalemate, Yan Laoxi, the warlord of Shanxi Province, said that he was dancing on three eggs, but in fact he was dancing on three eggs for a long time. There were many secret collusions between Li and the Japanese invaders.

Therefore, the military industry in Jin Province is also influenced and even controlled by Japan. For example, the rifles equipped by the Jin army are Jin-made 65 rifles that imitate the Japanese 38-type rifles.

In terms of artillery, the most numerous artillery pieces produced by Jinyang Arsenal before the Anti-Japanese War were the Jin 13-type and Jin 17-type 75mm mountain cannons, which were imitations of the Japanese Taisho 6-type and 41-type 75mm mountain cannons.

But there are exceptions to the rule. Judging from the data, in addition to these imitation Japanese artillery, during the period before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Jinyang Arsenal had a pair of very European-style artillery models.

One of these two artillery pieces is a Jin-made 105mm heavy mountain cannon, and the other is an 88mm field cannon. Although the Chinese design and production data for these two artillery pieces have been basically lost due to the long-term war.

However, unlike the previous 150mm howitzer, these two artillery pieces at least have their own numbers - the Jin 16-type 105mm heavy mountain gun and the Jin 18-type 88mm field gun.

Fortunately, although the design and manufacturing data are lost, these artillery pieces have left a large amount of physical objects, so many things can be analyzed through the artillery itself.

For example, these two artillery pieces have a strong European style. For example, the Jin 16-type 105mm heavy mountain gun adopts a horizontal wedge breech block, self-tightening barrel technology, a single-leg girder, and a partially foldable artillery gun. Shield etc.

As for the 88mm field gun, in addition to having a similar design style to the Jin 16-type 105mm heavy mountain gun and having some common parts between the two, the field gun itself of this caliber is completely European in style.

This is because after the end of World War I, many European countries believed that the original 75~76mm artillery was not powerful enough, and the artillery above 100mm was too heavy and difficult to maneuver.

Under the guidance of this idea, many European countries have introduced intermediate-caliber field artillery with a caliber of more than 80mm and less than 100mm to meet this demand.

However, when they were finally built, it was discovered that these artillery pieces were obviously overweight, and the difficulty of maneuvering was not much easier than those of artillery pieces above 100mm, but their power was greatly insufficient.

Um. Therefore, in history, except for the British 25-pounder gun and the Soviet D44 and 85mm cannon, most of them were produced in small batches. Most of these two artillery pieces produced in large quantities were used as anti-tank artillery rather than field guns.

Therefore, the Jin-made 88mm artillery is obviously a product of that special period, and it also reflects the strong European background of that design group.

In addition, another thing that reflects the background of these artillery is that these artillery are claimed to be drawn by six horses in the data, but it was impossible to do it with the level of Chinese horses at that time, so the design was based on the European heavy draft horse design. of.

This will naturally cause some problems in the use of artillery. After all, once the number of horses exceeds six, it is impossible to increase the traction force by superimposing the number of horses.

Fortunately, designers also noticed these things, so many of these artillery pieces can be disassembled and transported, bringing sufficient mobility to the precious firepower.

It must be said that the designer's design was very successful. In comparison, the Bald Army at that time had almost no consideration in this regard, so almost all sHF-18 heavy howitzers were discarded even in plain areas.

However, in contrast, the more embarrassed Jinsui Army, which was defeated, retained their 150mm howitzers and 105mm heavy mountain guns in the ravine-ridden Jin Province.

Compared with Western Europe, which has flat terrain and perfect foundations, the infrastructure in old China is infinitely close to zero, especially in Jin Province, which has rugged terrain. The biggest problem for artillery is transporting artillery to the firing position rather than the battle itself.

Even Ma Zheng achieved modernization very early and the automobile industry began to take shape. At the same time, the Japanese soldiers, who were professionally designed for China's situation, often had to replace horses and soldiers, that is, use people instead of animals to be transported by Japanese or puppet troops.

At that time, the Jinsui Army was in a mess both in terms of horse administration and vehicles. In addition, China's oil production was very low at the time, and it was impossible for the entire North China region to have sufficient fuel supply. In this case, the only power was manpower.

Liang En sighed softly after seeing the information here. From this, we can also see how difficult it was for China back then.