My Italian Chapter 341

Nippon and Qing, who were calculated by Britain and Italy, still fought **** battles for their respective forces in the Far East.

A month after the war in Shandong subsided, a new war broke out in Liaodong.

Located in Haicheng near Liaoyang, this is the front line of the Japanese army in Liaodong. It is also the place where the First Division of the Imperial Guards started the first battle in Liaodong.

Now the 1st Guards Division is different from that in Shandong. It currently has three infantry regiments. (The 4th regiment was required to guard the task force at Weihaiwei, and Lieutenant General Alvaro was uneasy about the capabilities of the Qing army.)

Unlike Shandong, the artillery size of the 1st Guard Division continued to increase. At present, in addition to the 72 small and medium-caliber artillery pieces belonging to the division, there are also 55 large-caliber artillery pieces, ranging from 120mm to 240mm (two 240mm siege mortars), cannons, howitzers and other types of artillery. have been seen.

I feel that the First Guards Division is about to become the First Guards Artillery Division, full of all kinds of artillery.

In fact, this is also understandable. On the premise that the people of the Qing Dynasty pay the bill, all kinds of artillery that the Army has and are developing with prototypes all need to be tested. There is no more realistic scene than the battlefield, so this also led to more and more artillery in the 1st Guards Division.

Of course, many artillerymen are very handy for the next battle. The fortifications carefully designed by the Japanese army were all reduced to ashes under the shadow of these artillery.

In front of the inhumane Guards Artillery Division, the Japanese army's own firearms were not enough to look at. Not to mention that in the Japanese army, there are more bronze guns that are behind the times. This is an imitation of the Italian 70mm caliber mountain cannon, with only a maximum range of 3,000 and 5,000 meters.

In the final analysis, the Japanese stubbornly chose to build their own, because they could not make their own gun steel, so they could only make do with bronze guns first.

The Qing army was defeated by the Japanese army whose weapons were inferior to their own, and became the captain of a transportation team.

However, when encountering the Italian army, the Japanese army's possessions are not enough. Although the Japanese army also has a small number of long-range artillery, compared with Italy's huge long-range firepower, it is a younger brother.

After several confrontations, the long-range artillery of the Japanese army died down, and in the face of the extravagant shelling that seemed to cost no money, even the Japanese defenders knelt down.

Intensive shells filled with TNT explosives devastated the Japanese positions. Then, under the cover of the Italian army, the Qing officers and soldiers roared and rushed to the enemy positions where there were not many enemies.

Not to mention, after several such battles in a row, the morale of the Qing army also rose. From the beginning, you can only fight the residual enemy, and you can launch an attack on the enemy's position.

Of course, this was carried out with the support of hundreds of artillery pieces of the 1st Guards Division.

Once they left these precise artillery pieces, the Qing officers and soldiers were still the same, feeling like they were suffering from artillery dependence.

However, regardless of whether the Qing army suffered from artillery dependence, the battle in Liaodong was proceeding in an orderly manner. The Italian-Qing coalition is driving the Japanese out of Liaodong step by step. Although the time may be a little long, the situation is beyond doubt.

I didn't see that every week there were ammunition carriers from Italy arriving in Tianjin. This was the guarantee of its victory. Although the Italian ammunition has increased the price by 20% due to the urgent need, the ammunition delivered on time is indeed the guarantee of this war.

Well, one more thing to say here, half of the weekly ammunition carriers are naval ammunition.

Now the recovered task force consumes a lot of ammunition every week, and they need to routinely patrol the Tsushima Strait. Ships passing through the Tsushima Strait are often seen shelling ports on both sides of the strait, and basically every time they come back The ammunition on the ship was exhausted.

To this end, the Navy also asked the transport ship to bring the spare gun barrels, ready to replace the 356mm main gun barrel that is approaching the limit of use at any time.

Thanks to Italy's efforts, the 50 million taels of silver borrowed by Li Zhongtang were being consumed at a much faster rate than before.

"Dongweng, the battle can't be fought like this anymore."

Zhou Fu, who had rushed back to Tianjin from Liaodong, could not help complaining as soon as he entered the governor's yamen.

"The daily consumption of the military is thousands of shells alone, and even tens of thousands in the event of a major war. Just transporting these shells requires more than 10,000 civilians and men. Not to mention other materials, the civilian power outside the customs has been exhausted. , if it goes on like this, the money won't be enough."

Well, Lord Zhou's last sentence is the key, thinking about how many grievances Li Zhongtang had to bear in order to borrow these 50 million taels of foreign debt, and how many people secretly accused him.

So the money was spent too fast, which made Lord Zhou so impatient.

However, compared to Zhou Fu's impatience, Li Zhongtang, the party involved, was much slower.

"How many silver taels do you consume each month now?"

"The monthly consumption of personnel, food, and ammunition in Liaodong costs nearly four million taels of silver."

Li Zhongtang nodded when he heard this, "In addition to the nearly three million taels that Shandong needs, this month is almost seven million taels. The money in hand can be managed for more than half a year, that's it!"

Seeing that the benefactor is not in a hurry at all, this is not to worry Master Zhou.

"Sir, Yiren is so extravagant and wasteful, it must be stopped."

"Then what do you think should be done?"

"Writing, asking Yiren to save ammunition, we are almost unable to supply."

"What if I don't care?"

"If you ignore it, uh..."

Only at this time did Zhou Fu realize that they could not be helped by someone who didn't want to.

"You know why I didn't ask. Now I, Li Eryin, have invited Yiren to help the fist, and let the court take a high look. If you turn your face with Yiren because of this, you will fall into trouble in an instant."

Hearing this, Zhou Fu couldn't help but said. "It's such a big event in the country that the Italians have taken the lead. We can't stop and can't do without them. It's really a good plan!"

"It's not wrong to say calculations. This is just a process of mutual calculation. I'm not good enough, but the other side has nothing to say. Now I can only hope that this battle will not be too ugly."

Obviously, Li Zhongtang is more sober~www.mtlnovel.com~ knows that he can't solve this matter at all. Everything depends on the faces of the Italians, but at that time only the Italians could save him, and he had to drink even the poison.

But beyond that, he also saw hope. I saw Li Zhongtang took out a book and spread it out. "This Yuan Weiting is not bad. He has a quick mind and knows to read and listen more. This does not give me the idea of ​​​​using a Western-style military training method to train a new-style army."

Of course, Lord Zhou knew about Yuan Xiangcheng. As a person whom Weng Zhu was optimistic about, how could he forget it. Besides, the two also worked together once in Shandong.

"What is Wei Ting thinking?"

"I don't know, but I heard him say that he has won over a general of the Italian army in Weihaiwei, and he is willing to teach the law of training the Italian banned army."

"This is not bad, there is such a chance!"

"So I thought, let him follow the Western-style army formation first, train a group of troops first, and let me wait and see the results."

"Master is wise!"

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