"It's okay."
Hua Huang smiled indifferently."
No, it's definitely a first-class firearm, and I admire the engineers of Huaguo."
Grand Duke Carol I of the Kingdom of Romania laughed, "Still, we tend to buy gun production lines from Germany. ”Hua Huang nodded, "Of course this is possible, but Mr.
Grand Duke, you must know that the products produced by directly purchasing production lines from other countries are not necessarily the same."
Technology is not so easy to buy.The most important problem of the army is that it has no concept of modern warfare" In fact, the emperor suddenly said this from Carol I, and his heart was no longer happy, knowing that this guy was not hinting at price reduction, but was already rejecting the hint of the alliance he proposed yesterday.In the First Sino-Japanese Land Battle, the Japanese army only consumed 8 rounds of ammunition per capita, which defeated the Qing Dynasty army.Before the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing army had 1,733 cannons and machine guns; The Japanese army had 294 artillery pieces.The Qing army was armed with 230,000 foreign guns, 40,000 old-style bird guns, and 85 of the 120,000 participating troops were equipped with guns; The rate of firearms and equipment of the Japanese army reached 100.Overall, there is not much difference in the equipment of the Chinese and Japanese armies.If purely in terms of weapons, it can even be said that the Qing army still has a slight advantage.As Michio Fujimura put it, "The Beiyang Army was armed with Mauser guns and Krupp guns, which were superior to the Japanese army, which used Murata-style rifles and bronze mountain guns." ”The real gap lies in the uniformity of weapons.The weapons and equipment of the Qing Dynasty army mainly relied on purchases from foreign countries.The number of them is quite large.For example, Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, reported in 1894 that he bought 9,250 guns, 30 artillery, 7 million bullets, and 1.44 million shells; By 1894, Liu Kun, the governor of Liangjiang, had purchased 150,000 guns and 2.8 million bullets.Also in this year, Li Hongzhang, who served as the governor of Zhili, played and ordered more than 280,000 fast guns, 56 fast guns, and a total of more than 15 million shells and bullets from various countries.In addition, other localities have also procured large quantities of guns on their own.After the arrival of these guns, most of them were equipped by the Qing army in time.For example, in the First Sino-Japanese War, the governors of various places purchased more than 10,000 Mauser guns and more than 10,000 Martini guns from Germany, which were successively equipped with various armies.In October and November 1894, Liu Kunyi assisted 140,000 breech-loading foreign guns in various provinces, and Guangdong allocated more than 180,000 foreign guns and 3.6 million bullets from various places.However, due to the lack of unified planning by the imperial court, the guns and artillery purchased by the local governments came from the United States, Germany, Britain and other countries, and the models were different.The Huai Army alone was armed with several kinds of guns, such as the American Henry Martini rear door gun, the German Mauser gun, and the 30-round fast gun.In other Qing troops, there were also Haqikais, Shide guns, and even domestic native guns, bird guns, arquebuses, etc.There were as many as 14 kinds of rifles used by the Qing army.At the beginning of the development of Japan's military industry, it also encountered the same problem because of its heavy dependence on imports.However, with the development of Japan's military industry, the Meiji 13th and 18th year rifles, field artillery, mountain artillery, and large-caliber mortar guns were soon invented, and mass production and equipment were carried out for the whole army, realizing the unification of weapons.The unification of weapons made the Japanese army far superior to the Qing army in many aspects, such as the unified training of troops and the unified manufacturing and deployment of ammunition supply.However, the First Sino-Japanese War was the first time that the Japanese Army went to sea to fight after the modernization and reform, and it also had many shortcomings in terms of health and prevention.In the end, it was able to defeat the Qing Dynasty army with an overwhelming advantage, and the key factor was not in the unification of weapons, but in the modernization of the combat concept and training mode of its troops.In a nutshell: first of all, the Qing generals still stuck to the "experience" of suppressing the Taiping army, and had no concept of modern warfare.For example, most of the Qing troops did not know how to deploy infantry and artillery, and often arranged artillery positions "in or between the first-line infantry positions", making "artillery a conspicuous target, which was repeatedly destroyed by Japanese artillery in the early stages of the battle." ”Half of the 18 Japanese officers at or above the brigade and regimental level who participated in the First Sino-Japanese War had studied or inspected Europe and the United States, and knew very well how to use artillery to deal a fatal blow to the Qing army.Second, the Qing soldiers were generally undertrained, and most of the time, they were only required to "perform various formations, the pace was very neat, and the sound of the guns and cannons was released in a coherent manner."
Recruits recruited improvised after the outbreak of the war had little to no training, just learning to "raise their spears and rush forward in unison, shouting to kill." ”On the other hand, the Japanese army not only had well-trained infantry, but also had independent engineers and baggage troops.And the Qing army did not know what the latter was.In this way, although the weapons purchased from abroad were advanced, in the hands of the Qing officers and men, it was difficult for them to exert their due effectiveness.For example, when the Qing army attacked, "there was no neat order", and "the formation that was commonly used was to wave a large flag in a scattered group and open fire, and the fire was random shooting."
The bullets fired by the Qing army "mostly passed over the heads of the Japanese soldiers and reached a long distance."
They do not consider the use of terrain and features, and they never shoot from their knees or lying down, but always shoot from standing."
Before the Qing soldiers opened fire, they had to wave the flag, which happened to become the target of the Japanese army's shooting.In addition, the Qing army did not know how to maintain weapons, which was also a very fatal problem.When Liu Kunyi was stationed in Shanhaiguan, he found that "40 machine cannons were transported from Tianjin to Shanhaiguan, with 100,000 ammunition, which were transported to Shanhaiguan by train, piled up in the sand, and read for dozens of days, but no one took care of them."
After a teacher in Germany went to check, the predicate medicine was damp and unbearable."
For this reason, in the Battle of Pyongyang, it is not surprising that the Qing army lost more than 2,000 people and killed only 180 Japanese soldiers when the number of Japanese troops was basically equal to 120,000, and the ammunition supply was far superior to that of the Japanese army, which consumed an average of three or four hundred rounds of ammunition per infantry.In short, the First Sino-Japanese Land War was a confrontation between the modern Japanese army and the Qing army in the Middle Ages.Emperor Hua suddenly felt that it was difficult to communicate with this Carol I.In the past, Carol I showed enthusiasm for the visit of the Emperor, which made the Emperor have illusions, but now this fantasy seems unrealistic.Princess Katrina Kaaf glanced at Lady Elizabeth, and Lady Elizabeth's face turned red, and Elizabeth also knew that her husband's attitude was not good this time.Hua Huang thinks that the most difficult job in the world is a salesman, and it is difficult to convince others to tell others that Hua Guo will be strong in the future, and hurry up to be friends with us."
We have our own difficulties, mainly because of the proximity of Germany, and even if the quality of the guns on both sides is almost the same, we are still more inclined to buy from Germany."
Carol I laughed."
It's not close, does it have anything to do with us, and I didn't say that I would sell arms to the Kingdom of Romania."
President Meng said lukewarmly."
I said goodbye straight to the point, Your Majesty wants to form an alliance with my Kingdom of Romania, this point, I have carefully considered it, at most it can only be trade, you can sign a trade clause, and there is no way to do anything else, after all, if you get too close to Huaguo, the Tsarist Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire next to our Kingdom of Romania, as well as the German Empire not far away, will be unhappy, please Your Majesty should be considerate of the difficulties of our small country, I really have no choice."
Carol I had a bitter gourd face.This time, the impression of Emperor Hua on this person is much worse, a person with no foresight, he estimates that not only does he come to the Kingdom of Romania, maybe no matter who comes to visit the Kingdom of Romania, this guy will be warm and thoughtful, he thought too much before."
It's okay, but if there's no way, I can figure it out for you."
Hua Huang smiled."
Oh, Your Majesty is a genius, I already knew this, say it and listen to it, so that I can also increase my knowledge."
Carol I leaned forward, with a deferential posture.Princess Katrina Kaaf and Elizabeth, the wife of the Grand Duke of Carol I, were also curious, and did not know what the Emperor would say, "Let me first talk about the thoughts of Huaguo, and make a reference for Mr.
Grand Duke." ”Emperor Hua smiled indifferently, and did not take Carol I's attitude to heart, originally the Kingdom of Romania was a small country for China, since the other party's attitude was cold, it was useless to talk more, but it lowered its value."
Your Majesty, please speak."
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