Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 773 Analysis
"But these are just your guesses." After listening to Liang En's series of analysis of the current situation, Joan held her chin in thought for a while, and then said.

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

"Very well, learning to doubt is often the beginning of some new discoveries." Looking at the questions raised by Joan of Arc, Liang En nodded in satisfaction. He felt very happy about Joan of Arc'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 opponent's activity track in China. After all, the heavy artillery known as the Jinzao 150mm artillery has only produced two according to records, so it is difficult to judge 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 that she had thought carefully before, except for the fact that she stumbled a bit due to nervousness at the beginning, she continued to talk more and more. Shun.

"You know, if it's just one or two guns, it can be produced in a purely handcrafted way similar to the current top vehicles, but it's impossible to tell whether the opponent is organized or simply operates according to the drawings."

"But once there are several types of artillery of the same type, it means that the opponent must be an organized design group, because it is impossible to continuously design new artillery with stragglers alone."

The reason why Joan of Arc said this is because there were a large number of engineers from abroad in China back then.Not a small part of these people have official backgrounds, but there are still adventurers who come to China alone.

However, considering the complex design and production process of the artillery, a single designer can at best imitate the original weapon, and it is basically impossible to make large-scale changes.

So as long as you can find something similar to this 150mm howitzer from the artillery in Jin Province at that time, then it can indeed prove that the Swiss design team was in charge of the design at the Jinyang Arsenal at that time.

However, Liang En and the others would definitely not be able to complete this work. They had to get support from Huaxia. Fortunately, Liang En's previous connections in Huaxia made it not difficult for him to complete this work.

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

So after Liang En put forward his opinion 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 getting these materials, Liang En quickly analyzed them. Because these materials were very detailed, Liang En quickly found what he needed.

According to the data, before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, during the first phase of strategic defense, and during the second phase of strategic stalemate, although Yan Laoxi, the warlord of Jin Province, said he was dancing on three eggs, in reality he had been doing it for a long time. Li and the Japanese invaders secretly colluded.

Therefore, the military industry in Jin Province is also influenced or even controlled by Japan. For example, the rifles equipped by the Jin army are Jin-made six-five rifles that imitate the Japanese [-] cover.

In terms of artillery, before the Anti-Japanese War, Jinyang Arsenal manufactured the most artillery. The 75th and 75th [-]mm mountain guns were imitations of the Japanese Taisho [-]th and [-]st [-]mm mountain guns.

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

One of these two artillery pieces is a Jin-made 105mm heavy-duty mountain artillery piece, while the other is an 88mm field artillery piece. Although the design and production materials of these two artillery pieces have been basically lost in China due to the long-term war.

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

Fortunately, although the design and manufacturing materials are lost, these artillery have left a lot of real 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 105mm heavy mountain artillery of the Jin [-]th type adopts a horizontal wedge breech breech, a casing self-tightening barrel technology, a single-leg girder, and a partially foldable gun shield. wait.

As for the 88mm field gun, except that the design style is similar to the Jin 105-style [-]mm heavy mountain gun, and some parts of the two are common, the field gun itself of this caliber is completely European 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 launched intermediate-caliber field artillery with a caliber of 80mm or more and 100mm or less to meet this demand.

But in the end, it was discovered that these artillery were obviously overweight, and the difficulty of maneuvering was not much easier than that of those above 100mm artillery, but their power was greatly insufficient.

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

Therefore, the Jinzao 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 can reflect the background of these artillery is that these artillery are claimed to be able to be drawn by six horses in the data, but it was impossible to do so with the level of Chinese horses at that time, so the design was based on the design of European heavy-drawn horses of.

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

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

It must be said that the designer's design was very successful. Compared with Baldy's army at that time, it had almost no consideration in this aspect, so even in the plains, almost all the sHF-18 heavy howitzers were discarded.

However, the more embarrassing Jinsui Army, which was defeated in comparison, kept their 150mm howitzers and 105mm heavy mountain artillery in the ravine-ridden Jin Province.

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

Even Mazheng achieved modernization very early, and the automobile industry began to take shape.At the same time, the Japanese devils, who are also professionally designed according to the situation in China, have to often replace horses and pawns, that is, use people instead of animals, and let the Japanese army or puppet soldiers carry them.

At that time, the Jinsui Army was in a mess, whether it was horse administration or vehicles. In addition, Huaxia's oil production was very low at that time, and it was impossible for the entire North China region to have enough fuel supply. In this case, the only driving force was manpower.

Liang En sighed lightly after seeing this in the information, from this we can also see that China was not easy back then.

(End of this chapter)