Chapter 104: 1907 (Part 2)

Compared with the Citizen Knight series, the Bucks series has stronger horsepower and better off-road performance. It also adopts a pickup design in response to the needs of American farmers. It has both the front and cab of the car, and the open truck compartment, which has better shock absorption performance, more durable, and relatively high price, reaching 1,200 US dollars.

These two national sedans are targeted at the American citizen class and farmers. They are cheap and practical. They can provide automobile consumer credit services through multiple banks, and even hire celebrities from various countries to serve as image spokespersons. In fact, the price is very simple: free cars are given away.

The European and American markets, which have long been impacted by Chinese products, can provide considerate credit support for such affordable and affordable mass commodities, and the hidden terrifying purchasing power was immediately detonated.

From later generations, these two cars greatly changed the social development history of various countries, changed the face of national and family life, and subtly influenced the design ideas of many later car models.

This is a later story.

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This year, the UK officially reached an agreement with China, and China took back the leased land in Hong Kong and Shanghai for 1 million pounds, and it was officially implemented on New Year's Day 1908.

The United States and France have also announced their withdrawal of their leased land in Shanghai.

This year, the Russian civil war finally ended.

On New Year's Day in 197, Russia and the north and south announced a ceasefire and began negotiations.

On March 1, 197, negotiations between the North and South sides were on the verge of breaking down, and a war broke out between the two sides on the line of contact.

On April 1, 1907, the two sides reached a preliminary agreement. The Soviet side recognized the Tsarist government as the legal government of Russia. The Tsarist government recognized the "leniency" of the events that occurred during the Soviet rule, and announced the pardon of a large number of Mensheviks, Social Revolutionaries and moderates in the Bolsheviks.

On April 3, 1907, the Bolsheviks sent leaders Lenin, Bronstein, Kamenev, Maximov and others to take refuge in Denmark. A fire broke out in the middle of the journey, and the ship was split into pieces in the terrifying explosion, none of which survived. After a joint investigation by the Russian side, the celluloid film used as "revolutionary materials" in the cabin was spontaneously ignited, detonating military supplies.

On April 6, 1907, he arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark on another ship. The terrified Zinoviev, Jugashvili, Bukharin and others accused the Tsarist government of "betrayal and murdering the Bolshevik leader", and the Tsarist government immediately refuted it.

Maximov's will was made public, with a total estate of 350,000 pounds. All of them were donated to establish the "Maximov Charity Fund" to help the poor Jews in Russia, including supporting them to settle in the State of Israel.

On July 15, 1907, a wealthy Eastern European immigrant came near the farm of the Royal Family of the Chinese Empire in Lake Baikal, bought a large area of ​​land, lived the life of a manor owner, and soon married a Han woman from the south. Every winter, Mr. Khamilov would travel with several regular friends and not return until May.

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This year, trade between China and Germany, China and the United States, and even China-British and China-French all hit new highs.

In Germany, the economy, which was hit hard by the economic crisis, received sufficient nutrients. Tides of orders poured into Germany from the German army and navy and Chinese procurement delegations. Various scarce raw materials were transported by freight ships from China and Germany to the docks in Hamburg and Bremen, and then transported to all parts of Germany via spider-web-like railway lines. Countless factories were running full power, and workers worked overtime to join the craze with fanatic spirit.

This year, mineral exploration news in Shanxi, Henan and Guizhou, China has been frequently reported. Exploration teams composed of China, Germany, China, the United States, China and Britain have discovered a large number of bauxite, coal mines, copper and gold mines, etc.

This year, according to Emperor Zheng Yu's proposal that "the alloys of aluminum and magnesium may reach higher strength", China's Royal Linhan Metal Laboratory found that mixing copper, aluminum, magnesium and manganese in a certain proportion can achieve better strength and oxidation resistance than previous aluminum-copper alloys, and began to apply them to engines and aircraft frames and skins.

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In this year, a model of the aircraft made by Henry Konda, a Romanian who studied at the Royal Higher Aviation School in Guangzhou, China, powered by a solid-fuel rocket engine (another time and space was first produced from 1905 to 1906 and was tested in 1910), was successfully tested with the school's funding, and then was interviewed by officials of the Imperial Army Department Aviation Division who rushed to watch. In the face of high salaries and preferential treatment, Konda happily accepted the invitation and joined the Skyhawk Power Laboratory with a military background, and entered a top-secret research group called "One O One", focusing on the theoretical design and fluid mechanics of jet aircraft.

In this year, a watercraft carrier of the Chinese Navy underwent a special transformation and installed a horizontal top deck. A "Haiyan" i-type biplane reconnaissance aircraft completed its first take-off and landing on board.

This year, China's Tianying Power Laboratory improved the wind tunnel design and realized the uniform ultrasonic flow field experiment for the first time, which was once again ahead of Germany and France in technology;

This year, the Chinese Army summarized the experience of the Asian War and believed that the original trench gun - shotgun - was too close to the range and was seriously limited in use. The new M13 bidding decision was to refer to the automatic pistol and designed a new portable automatic firearm specifically for trench combat: a submachine gun, which required that this type of firearm be conveniently carried, with fierce firepower and continuous firing, meeting the combat needs within 200 meters.

Several major ordnance companies have come up with their own designs:

Royal Browning Laboratory and Southern Ordnance Group brought out the m131a, which was lightweight and portable from the Huaxia seven-year light machine gun, using the Chinese army standard rifle bullets. Many parts can be used with the Huaxia seven-year light machine gun. But the problem is also obvious: it is still bulky, huge, with great recoil, and must shoot with both hands.

The design of Wuhan's Central China Military Industry Group is refreshing: the newly designed reduced bullet, 7.7*40 mm, greatly reduces the recoil, thereby reducing the strength of the gun, and the weight of the gun is reduced, with a fire rate of up to 600 rounds per minute.

Since the power of the gun is still very strong, this design does not use a free bolt. Designer Lin Wei creatively increased the weight of the bolt and added a copper h-shaped delayed rear seat block to the bolt. At the moment of launch, it delayed the rear seat of the bolt by different angles, forming a unique semi-free bolt structure. This design can be supplied with one hundred round drums or thirty round magazines and fifty round magazines. The main parts are cast, and the weight is still as high as five kilograms when not loaded.

The upstart guns that have become famous for designing pistols in the north have submitted a brand new design: a free bolt, a rifled design, and a porous barrel to help dissipate heat. The structure is extremely simple. It also uses the company's 9*19 pistol bullets, with a rate of firing of 400 rounds per minute. It was fired in the previous method, with fifty rounds of magazines weighing 5 kg.

After repeated comparisons, the Army Department finally decided to choose the third plan, but made a series of improvements: strengthening the bolt, increasing the rate of fire, and using stamping parts to improve production efficiency, further reducing weight, and increasing the loading of one hundred rounds of drums.

The disappointed Central China Group found the Navy and Marine Corps again.

After the test, the Admiralty became interested in its bullets.

According to its combat practice, the Marine Corps believes that its infantry hand-held weapons are mainly fired within 500 meters, and landing warfare requires high firepower. The beaches and forging terrain are complex, and they also need to be able to adapt to close-range fierce shooting or as equipment for medium-range weapons. However, the Marine Corps' combat method determines that its ammunition should be carried as much as possible and that it can operate for a long time when supply is insufficient.

Putting aside the guns, at least this power-reducing bullet is in line with the needs of the Marine Corps.

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During this year, a new type of combat vehicle was rigorously tested in several military restricted areas.

As an early product, the fighting dog light chariot that once shined in the Asian War was not an ideal armored weapon in the minds of the Chinese Army.

As early as the top secret plan formulated in 1900, the military proposed to develop two combat vehicles at the same time: the No. 3 plan, that is, the six and a half tons of turretless light combat vehicles; the No. 4 plan, the ten-ton rotating turret light combat vehicles. At the same time, a combat vehicle, that is, the 20-ton main combat vehicle.

Plan No. 3 later developed a fighting dog.

This chariot is light and fast, and can effectively defend against firepower and fragmentation of the pneumatic machine gun. It has a simple structure, reliable and durable structure, and is also sufficient to deal with ordinary infantry night battle positions, especially at raids and encirclement.

However, in the Army's evaluation, this small tank similar to the later Soviet S76 assault gun was not a suitable offensive weapon, but is more suitable for reconnaissance and infantry defense tasks.

Since there is no rotating turret installed, the fighting dog cannot effectively fight against threats from all directions after breaking into complex building, the vehicle body is fragile, and the off-road performance can only be considered unsatisfactory. Especially when the impact of armor gradually declines, the armies of various countries have developed infantry combat firepower in a targeted manner and developed similar and more powerful armored combat vehicles, the fighting dog is destined to be eliminated by the times.

When the Germans generously placed orders and were preparing to form their own motorcycle corps on the basis of fighting dogs, the Royal China Weixiang Defense Group, which won the bid for the 10-ton tank plan in 1904, had submitted the first batch of ten qzc-4 "prairie wolf" to conduct inspections in the ice fields, tropical and desert areas respectively.

The qzc-4 Grassland Wolf Light Warrior chariot has a total combat weight of ten tons. Each track is four large-diameter load-bearing wheels and two guide wheels. The track is extremely wide to improve off-road capabilities in muddy areas and snow. The front armor of this type of warrior body is 20 mm, and the front thickness of the turret is 15 mm. In order to defend against air strikes, the armor on the top of the turret also reaches 10 mm.

This type of combat vehicle is relatively convenient to operate. Its gearbox uses four forward gears and one reverse gear, and uses a pull rod to control the steering. The maximum road speed is 24 kilometers and the road trip is 320 kilometers. The main combat weapon is a 45-mm war defense gun, carrying 160 rounds of ammunition, a coaxial 7.7-mm Browning heavy machine gun, and 2,500 rounds of ammunition.

Weixiang Defense Group's ambitions are far more than a ten-and-a-half-ton light combat vehicle.

With the help of the chassis of the Grassland Wolf Light Warriors, Weixiang Defense Group also launched a new zxp-1 75mm self-propelled howitzer for the Army Department's "One O Five Millimeter Armored Self-propelled Artillery".

The chassis of this type of self-propelled cargo pallet is exactly the same as that of the Grassland Wolf, but there is no turret installed. It should be a compartment cut at the top of the vehicle body, and a 75mm howitzer with a diameter of 30 times, and 60 rounds of ammunition are installed to provide synchronous surface killing fire support for armored and motorized troops, and can also be used for anti-chariot combat. The chariot also installed a "Snake 2h" air-cooled 12.7mm heavy barrel heavy machine gun on the top to attack infantry and air targets.

In fact, Royal Weixiang Defense Group, which has implemented someone's spirit of "synthetic armored strike force", launched not two types of tracked armored vehicles in one go, but five types.

The zxg-1 type 20 mm dual self-propelled anti-aircraft gun has the same territory as the Grassland Wolf. It is equipped with a dual-mounted 20 mm high-level dual-purpose machine gun, which is mainly used for air defense operations between armored forces, provides low-altitude defensive firepower, and can effectively attack enemy infantry clusters and light armored targets.

The zxw-1 type maintenance tank uses a prairie wolf chassis and only has a 7.7mm self-defense machine gun installed, which can accompany the armored corps and provide maintenance operations for armored vehicles.

The zxb-1 infantry fighting vehicle also uses the chassis of the prairie wolf. It is equipped with a "Virer 1h" heavy machine gun, which can carry six infantrymen, armor can withstand light weapons shooting, has strong off-road capabilities, and can provide accompanying infantry support for armored troops.

All these armored vehicles will undergo extremely harsh continuous driving tests in various different environments, and will conduct imitation combat power detection in realistic battlefield environments.

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In this year, the Fifth Institute of the Imperial China United Chemical Corporation secretly conducted a series of mustard gas killing tests.

As early as 1822, Desprez discovered mustard gas. In 1886, when German chemist Victor Meyer was guiding his student, Russian Schellinsky to study a derivative of a thiophene compound, he discovered this brown-yellow liquid called dichlorodiethane sulfide and emitted the mustard smell. Schellinsky became the first victim of this toxic gas and almost lost his life. Subsequently, Meyer's master and apprentice used rabbits to conduct experiments and discovered the same symptoms. Meyer realized that this gas might be extremely harmful, so he stopped the experiment, but included the manufacturing method of mustard gas in the chemical manual published not long afterwards.

After the Asian War, Zheng Yu, who had a breath of breath, began to sort out the clues in his memory.

Although as a party to the Hague Land War Convention, the Chinese Empire promised not to load toxic gases in shells and bombs, in fact, its chemical weapons development has been around for more than a decade.

Anyone with basic chemistry knowledge knows that carbon monoxide and chlorine are almost the simplest poison gas. A thought naturally emerged: what if the two were synthesized together? As early as 1900, the Fifth Institute of Imperial Union Chemistry obtained phosgene by combining carbon monoxide and chlorine at a high temperature of 200 degrees Celsius. After a series of experiments, the research team finally determined that this gas could cause severe pulmonary edema, which could lead to death. Due to the simplicity of production, the chemical factory under the United Chemistry and the Imperial Guards secretly produced up to 1,800 tons of phosgene, which were secretly stored and prepared for combat at critical moments.

This is one of the last trump cards in the heart of Emperor Zheng Ying.

The Asian War was progressing basically smoothly, and Phosphaten had no chance to work.

After the war, when Zheng Yu began to sort out the clues in his mind and watched a secret phosgene shell shooting demonstration himself, he remembered the king of poison gas in his previous life. The mustard gas that made the whole of Europe famous during World War I, that is, dichlorodiethylsulfide. Although Zheng Yu had the mustard gas.

In addition to the three words "mustard gas" themselves, they are limited to "decay" and "death", but he also has his own methods.

With the order, the huge intelligence network of the imperial family of the Chinese Empire began to investigate various information related to "toxic gases" in the world's chemical industry, and finally found the experiments of Meyer's apprentice from the German chemistry manual.

Referring to Meyer's synthesis path, the mustard gas industrial production device developed in China reached production in 1907, and immediately produced a large number of mustard gas for testing and analysis.

After a series of secret experiments, mustard gas's powerful lethality shocked all the military representatives who were observing.

This is a poisonous gas that acts on the skin and even all tissues and cells, with extremely lethality and is difficult to defend against. It is already perfect in this era.

Through animal experiments, the research team has mastered the mechanism of mustard gas: entering the human body through the skin and respiratory tract, which can directly react with calculations and hydrocarbonization, causing dysfunction of cells, resulting in degeneration, inflammation and necrosis. After skin poisoning, there is usually a few hours of incubation period. Patients do not have obvious subjective feelings and symptoms, and often ignore treatment and monitoring. After the incubation period, erythema appears on the skin of the infected area, blisters appear 12 to 24 hours after the poisoning. After the blisters rupture, ulcers and necrosis will form, and the disease course is long and easy to be infected. All fragile parts of the human body, including the armpits, vagina, eyes, respiratory tract, and digestive tract, will be painful, ulcerated and collapsed, and severely poisoned people will die in pain in various unbearable tortures.

A detailed report was presented to the imperial emperor's desk.

Soon, an order was passed to several major research institutes: immediately analyze the possibility of using poison gas, including mustard gas, in the future European war, and propose corresponding countermeasures.

The industrial production facilities of mustard gas have begun secret planning.

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In this year, according to the tips of "Emperor's afternoon tea", the royal aviation industry, which focused on the development of "helicopters", conducted a flight test. Iger Sikorsky, a young engineer who was obsessed with aircraft and left the Kiev Industrial Academy in the Russian Civil War to develop his career as an aviation powerhouse, experimented with his extremely simple prototype.

The result is no surprise: a complete failure.

Sikorsky was not ridiculed or sarcastic for this. Project leader Chen Jialiang encouraged the young Russian and partially fulfilled his promise: two bottles of Moutai.

As early as when I first drank this wine, Sikorsky was hopelessly obsessed with this mellow taste of wine.

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