1890 King of Southeast Asia

At the end of February, the Tsar lost all the corridor areas. The front line of the Japanese army was only 50 kilometers away from Vladivostok. However, the Tsarist army built complete fortifications after reacting, and the Japanese army's attempt to capture Vladivostok failed.

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At the same time, because the battle line was too long, the Japanese supply line once exceeded 500 kilometers, the offensive strength slowed down, and it was temporarily unable to launch a new round of offensive.

"Intelligence shows that within a month, Japan has sent more than four divisions to the peninsula area, and the front line has arrived in the south of Longjiang." Xie Hui laid out the situation of Japan and Russia.

"The Japanese army adopted the tactic of heavy troops to encircle and encircle. There are still six fortresses inside that have not been broken through. After the beginning of spring, the land is muddy, transportation is inconvenient, and artillery transportation is extremely inconvenient. The Japanese army's rear road is unstable and there are great hidden dangers." Yang Tao pointed to the scattered double-headed eagle flags in the Japanese army.

"The Tsarist army has poor combat effectiveness. I really don't understand why Europeans are so afraid of him." Wang Xu sat aside, not caring.

"4.8 million standing troops, it sounds scary. Europeans don't realize the role of machine guns yet, so of course they are afraid of this kind of fearless mass charge." Wang Yang refuted Wang Xu.

"We have demonstrated it several times. Do they think they are blind?" Wang Xu refuted.

"Okay, we have finished talking about their business. Now let's talk about ours." Liu Yiming interrupted the two.

"We?" Several people looked at each other, full of doubts.

"But, our country has almost no winter..." Xie Hui has always been the most straightforward.

"It's not winter, but the impact of muddy roads on logistics and firepower delivery." Liu Yiming said.

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"How heavy are our current army artillery?" Liu Yiming asked the question.

"76mm caliber mountain cannon, 890 kg, can be disassembled into four parts for transportation.

76mm caliber field cannon, 1260 kg, can also be disassembled into four parts for transportation. There is no problem in transporting it in the field with a tractor or a special sports car." Xie Hui gave the answer immediately.

"The 152mm caliber howitzer weighs 3,200 kilograms and needs to be towed by a vehicle, which requires the most basic roads.

The 152mm caliber field gun, 35 times the caliber, has a barrel weight of 7 tons and a total weight of 4 tons. It needs to be towed by a heavy truck or heavy tractor, and has certain requirements for road conditions.

But we have two battalions of self-propelled howitzers, and the army is preparing to add two more battalions of self-propelled howitzers, which can make up for it to a certain extent." Yang Tao knew what Liu Yiming wanted to say.

"I remember we have 120mm cannons?" Liu Yiming asked.

"In fact, this plan has been aborted. The weight of the 120mm 30 cannon has reached 5 tons, and most of what the 120 cannon can do, the 152 howitzer can do. It is better to leave the anti-artillery work to the 152mm field gun." Xie Hui spoke bluntly as always.

"In terms of attacking fortresses, there is still a big difference between cannons and howitzers, especially the price of 152mm howitzers, which is twice as expensive as 120mm shells! Is the army's funding so sufficient?" Liu Yiming asked.

"Your Majesty! I know what you mean, but the army needs to be patient. The existing army artillery can still be used and has sufficient performance. Xie Hui means that in non-wartime, there is no need to spend a lot of military funds to replace it." Yang Tao said quickly.

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"Design a cannon weighing about three tons, which can be disassembled and transported, with a caliber of more than 100 mm. As a brigade-level artillery, the 152 mm caliber is destined to be difficult to transport. It is still necessary to attack fortifications." Liu Yiming said.

At this time, the barrel of the howitzer is very short and the range is generally not long. The howitzer of Nanhua is also the same. The maximum range of the 76 mm field gun exceeds the 152 mm howitzer, and anti-artillery operations even have to suffer...

"The army has no combat missions, and we don't even have enemies...hiss~" Xie Hui supported his hands on the table, his face flushed.

Under the table, Wang Yang's feet were silently raised.

"Your Majesty, in fact, the army has already had a plan, and the design bureau has also come up with a corresponding design. The caliber is 105 mm, 30 times the caliber, and the maximum range is 12 kilometers. It can fire heavy shells weighing 5 kilograms. The ammunition truck is only 2 tons. It was cancelled because of budget cuts." Wang Yang stood up with a smile on his face.

"2 tons? Is it easy to transport?" Liu Yiming glanced at Xie Hui, then turned his head.

"Ammunition trucks, gun mounts, if it doesn't work, you can also use tractors to transport the gun barrels and assemble them at the local location. Muddy weather can't stop it. The initial velocity of the gun tower exceeds 500 meters, and most fortifications can be destroyed."

Wang Yang glanced at Borneo. There were still two colors on it, but soon, the new capital and palace of Nanhua would appear on this island.

"There are also corresponding howitzers, but there are two types of howitzers, one with a 12-caliber, a total marching weight of 2,200 kilograms, a range of 7,000, and a 22-caliber, a total weight of 2,630 kilograms, and a range of 11 kilometers."

"Which one do you want?" Liu Yiming pondered.

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"I want both. The long-barreled howitzer can be used in artillery units, and the short-barreled howitzer can accompany infantry attacks." Xie Hui said while enduring the pain.

"After preparation, the army has twelve divisions, three garrison divisions in Arabia and Hawaii, and two artillery brigades..." Liu Yiming calculated silently in his mind.

"Division-level units, each with an additional firepower supplement battalion, equipped with six field guns and six howitzers, and the artillery brigade with an additional regiment-level unit, normally 36 guns per regiment." Liu Yiming thought about it.

"Ah? Your Majesty, give me some more...hiss~" Xie Hui realized that something was wrong when he blurted it out, but before he could pull his foot away, he was stepped on again. qqxδnew

"Your Majesty, this is not a small amount of money, 252 artillery pieces, the associated transport vehicles, personnel, spare parts..." Yang Tao was calculating enthusiastically.

"I'll allocate 5 million, is it too much?" Liu Yiming allocated 20,000 per artillery piece and rounded it up to make it even.

"This..." Xie Hui didn't have time to speak.

"Chief of Staff, Luzon is short of a deputy director of the Special Zone, are you interested?" Wang Xu said lightly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Your Majesty is indeed on the side of the army." Wang Yang smiled happily, and Zhao Jiaxing, who had been sitting and not speaking, twitched his mouth.

"Your Majesty, I heard that the Banchen Ocean University is being planned?" Seeing that the army's affairs were over and everyone started to discuss the situation between Japan and Russia, Zhao Jiaxing hurriedly said.

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"It is initially estimated that only one college will be established. What's wrong?" Liu Yiming frowned. Could it be that Zhao Jiaxing also wanted to speculate?

"Your Majesty, can some majors be added to the Ocean College? Driving, maintenance, geology, surveying, ocean utilization, hydrological research..." Zhao Jiaxing said more than a dozen majors in one breath.

"Why mention this?" Liu Yiming didn't react for a while.

"We are still developing the ocean too little. Except for oil extraction in Brunei, even the address survey is only done by the navy.

And... the Ocean Development Bureau comes to poach people every day. The navy finally got a few college students and taught them skills. The Ocean Development Bureau can use any despicable means. On behalf of the Navy General Staff, I protest against the behavior of the Ocean Development Bureau!" Zhao Jiaxing became more and more angry.

The matter can be traced back to the Naval Intelligence Bureau. Several students who were responsible for ocean current surveys, geological surveys, and marine topography research were trained by the Navy for four years, with financial and labor support and teachers.

During the New Year, the director of the Ocean Development Bureau secretly took people on blind dates, and after the New Year, all submitted transfer applications...

"I will scold the Ocean Development Bureau for this matter. You can't use this method to snatch people." Liu Yiming didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He knew about this, but it was difficult to manage! Going to the Ocean Development Bureau is also doing the same work.

"Just make it a comprehensive marine university. I neglected it before. Further development of the ocean is the key to maintaining a strong maritime country. Let's start from here, gather professionals and build a comprehensive marine university." Liu Yiming thought about it.

"Okay...but the funds..." Zhao Jiaxing hesitated a little.

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"The Navy doesn't have to be responsible. There is a surplus of education funds. We will issue some bonds. Tsarist Russia borrowed 12 million with an interest rate of 7%. We will issue 12 million education bonds with an interest rate of 5%." Liu Yiming thought about it.

"Okay! The navy will buy 6 million. We don't have a dock anymore, so we might as well buy bonds." Zhao Jiaxing said.

The funds for the South China Navy and Army were allocated in two installments, and were allocated to the account of the General Staff. Among them, the salary was also paid directly to the soldiers' personal accounts, and generally would not be used up at one time.

Establishing a university is also a costly project, especially for engineering. For example, the Brunei Petroleum Institute has its own oil wells, the School of Materials of the University of South China has a complete set of steelmaking equipment, and the Coconut City Shipbuilding Institute has an advanced small shipyard.

The most outrageous is the School of Power Engineering of Surabaya University. The annual experimental funds are equivalent to 80 tons of gold. No one has ever spent money on experiments like this.

Rutherford was extremely happy during this period. He was the highest-end, with 300,000 experimental funds per year. If it was not enough, he could apply for it. He didn't know where to spend it.

Like liberal arts universities, such as South China Normal University, the overall allocation of 2 million, built ten beautiful teaching buildings and libraries, dozens of dormitory buildings (5 floors), and more than 200,000 left after purchasing teaching aids.

Of course, this only calculated the cost of materials and equipment, labor? Just a few meals of rice.

………

"Old Buddha, the Russians are here again. They are in the Prime Minister's Office, chasing Li Zhongtang and asking for an alliance." Eunuch Li lay on the ground.

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"These Russians are a little bit ungrateful. They are now fighting with the Japanese, and they want to drag us into the water?" The old witch drank a sip of tea that was unknown how expensive it was.

"You said that these Russians are also like that. They fought with us at the beginning! So energetic, the surname Zuo had to fight all his family's wealth, tens of millions of taels of silver, and barely tied in the northwest. Now they are like weak shrimps when fighting the Japanese pirates?" The old witch said sarcastically.

"Old Buddha, this Li Zhongtang asked how to deal with it." Ronglu happened to come in, and when he saw the eunuch, he knew that the old witch had already known.

"What else can we do? The Japanese pirates are fierce in land warfare, the Russians are too close to us, no one is easy to mess with, the Green Camp is useless, the Eight Banners...

The new army has only a few tens of thousands of people, and it is not enough to defend the capital. Let them fight and don't get involved." The old witch sat there, looking like a bodhisattva, but made of clay.

"Hey!" Ronglu said goodbye.

"By the way, the Dongshan boxers..." Ronglu said as he was about to leave.

"I already know about this matter, let them go!" The old witch's expression did not change.

Because the old witch was working on reforms, the boxers had been rising for a while. The initial slogan of this group of people was to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, but after the reforms began, they gave up this slogan and became supporters of the old witch.

So although it is still chaotic and disorderly, no one cares about them.