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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 146 The First Batch of U.S. Aid Arms List

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    Update time: 2012-08-07

    "Twenty thousand M1903 Springfield rifles, 15,000 M1917 Browning squad machine guns, 30,000 M1 Garand semi-automatic rifles, 5,000 M1917A1 water-cooled heavy machine guns" Reinsch murmured  The list of arms in his hand, and then he couldn't help shouting again,

    "Gun, you are really crazy. Although a division of the US military has more than 27,000 people, it only has less than 300 light and heavy machine guns combined. What kind of organization do you have? Ten divisions need to be equipped with 5,000 heavy machine guns? You need only one division.  Equipped with five hundred heavy machine guns? How is this possible?¡±

    "Is this impossible? The U.S. military's heavy machine guns are equipped to the company, but you have more than 250 people in a company, so a division of 27,000 people only has less than 300. My participating troops have to be equipped with heavy machine guns in the platoons. This is ridiculous.  I use the Ronning m1917a1 heavy machine gun as a platoon machine gun!

    This Browning m1917a1 heavy machine gun can be formed by at least three people to form a machine gun squad. One division of my participating army has nine infantry regiments consisting of three mixed brigades. Each regiment has 3 battalions, each battalion has 4 companies, and each company has 3 platoons.  This requires 324 heavy machine guns. In addition to the regiment-affiliated machine gun companies with 9 guns per company and the brigade-affiliated machine gun battalions with 36 guns per battalion, a division is equipped with 530 heavy machine guns, which is not too much!  "Wang Geng counted quickly with his fingers!

    "Gun, you must be crazy. There is no army division equipped with so many machine guns in the world! Don't forget that you also have countless squad machine guns!" Ruienshi is not the minister to China who knows nothing about military affairs.  While thinking about the story of being laughed at by the military attaches in the embassy last night!  My mind is dizzy because of Wang Geng¡¯s calculations!

    "Why can't I count it? There are 9 infantry regiments with 324 platoons and 972 squads. The infantry squads alone have 972 machine guns. Do my artillery regiment engineer battalions, motorized battalions and supply battalions not need to be equipped with light machine guns? One division  Equipped with at least 1,500 squad light machine guns! Don¡¯t forget that I have 27,000-28,000 troops!¡± Wang Geng said confidently while playing with the cigar in his hand!

    Rui Enshi frowned when he heard this. The military production capacity of the United States is far insufficient at this time. For example, the m1917a1 Browning water-cooled heavy machine gun was submitted to the war by the Browning Company at the end of February together with the m1917 squad machine gun Wang Geng mentioned.  The Ministry of War's weapons bidding team tested it, and the Ministry of War selected the heavy machine gun first!  As an automatic rifle, the m1917 has been ignored.

    With the United States officially entering the war, the War Department had just placed an order for 10,000 barrels from the Browning Company. How could Wang Geng rob half of it in the blink of an eye?  How could the US military itself go to Europe to participate in the war?  This time is different from the beginning of the European War. Everyone knows that the heavy machine gun is one of the most powerful weapons in trench warfare and the only magic weapon for defense!

    "There are 1,080 legal 75mm field guns, 1,080 legal 75mm mountain guns, and 540 legal 155mm howitzers. Gun, you are completely crazy. An infantry division in the US military is only equipped with two 75mm field artillery regiments and one 155mm howitzer regiment. Each artillery regiment  There are only 24 cannons, and a division only has 72 cannons! Do you need to equip a brigade with 72 cannons?¡±

    Rui Enshi blushed and shouted again. After getting the arms list back yesterday, he didn't lose face in front of several military attach¨¦s in the embassy!

    "Be at ease, my dear Paul! A fully reorganized division of my model army has three mixed brigades, not to mention a divisional heavy artillery regiment! And each of my brigades  They all have an establishment of more than 9,000 people. Artillery is the god of war. You also know that my sources of troops are all from farmers. Without enough artillery support, the melee combat capabilities of the recruits who have rushed into battle are not as good as those of the German and Austrian veterans. I suggest that the US military have a division!  It is also equipped with at least 108 cannons, 72 is really too few!¡±

    Wang Geng was unmoved, almost yelling in his heart, "Hey, we bought this arms with a loan and we didn't ask for it for nothing. Do you care how many cannons I equip a master with?"  !

    The American Minister Rui Enshi is secretly complaining, do you need such overbearing artillery support to deal with the local warlords in your country? It's just killing a chicken with a sledgehammer. Don't think we can't see that the Duan Cabinet and the Chinese government are planning this war.  The army is real, but only God knows how many troops can be sent to Europe to participate in the war when there is no unified military and political orders in the country!

    Wang Geng narrowed his eyes and seemed to see the dissatisfaction in Rui Enshi's heart. The guy secretly thought, Damn, if I had a team armed with all beautiful weapons and French artillery, even the country warlords who had never seen a few cannons in the country would be able to do it.  If we can't unify China, then why are my troops going to Europe to embarrass themselves and be conspicuous?  Haven't you heard that "before you fight against the outside world, you must first make peace with the inside"?

    After Wang Geng submitted it to the U.S. Minister, and finally after many rounds of bargaining between the two parties, the arms purchase list was determined as follows:

    Item 1: Light weapons

    1. Two hundred thousand m1903 Springfield manual rifles (including 1,000 rounds of 30.06 rifle ammunition) purchase unit price: US$40/unit, total price: US$8 million

    2. Purchase unit price of fifteen thousand m1917bar Browning squad machine guns (including 1,000 rounds of 30.06 rifle ammunition): US$300/gun, total price: US$4.5 million

      3. Purchase unit price of five thousand m1917a1 water-cooled Browning heavy machine guns (including 1,000 rounds of 30.06 rifle ammunition): US$450/gun, total price: US$2.25 million

    4. Purchase unit price of 30,000 m1 Garand semi-automatic rifles (including 1,000 rounds of 30.06 rifle ammunition): US$130/unit, total price: US$3.9 million

    5. The purchase price of 50,000 Colt caliber automatic pistols (including 100 rounds of ammunition): US$12/piece.  Total price: $600,000

    The total of the above is US$19.25 million

    Item 2: Artillery

    5. Purchase unit price of 1,080 French-made 75mm field guns (each containing one hundred rounds of shells): US$10,000, total price: US$10.8 million

    6. The purchase price of 1,080 legal 75mm mountain guns (each containing one hundred rounds of shells): US$8,500, total price: US$9.18 million

    7. Purchase unit price of 540 French-made 155mm howitzers (each containing 100 rounds of shells): US$30,000, total price: US$16.2 million

    The total of the above is US$36.18 million

    The third item: car

    1. American-made Dodge 1-ton semi-military truck (wide tires and all-steel wheels): 1,000 units, purchase price: US$1,200, total price: US$1.2 million

    2. American-made Ford TT 1-ton utility vehicle (wide tires and all-steel wheels): 2,000 units Purchase unit price: US$900 Total price: US$1.8 million

    3. American-made Ford Model T (wide tires and all-steel wheels): 2,000 units purchased at a unit price of US$350: Total price: US$700,000

    The total of the above is US$3.7 million

    Item 4: Airplane

    1. 72 British-made SE5 fighter jets, purchase unit price: 11,000 US dollars, total price 790,000 US dollars

    2. The purchase price of 72 British-made de Havilland dh.4 reconnaissance bombers: US$11,250, with a total price of US$810,000.

    3. 72 British-made Handley Petty O/400 heavy bombers, purchase unit price: 19,800 US dollars, total price 1.42 million US dollars

    The total of the above is US$3.02 million

    Item 5:

    1. A Ford/Dodge automobile production and repair plant, discount price: US$5 million

    2. Discount price of a British aircraft repair factory: US$5 million

    3. Three refinery equipment: discount of US$9 million

    4. Two sets of oil exploration and drilling equipment: discount of US$1 million

    5. The arsenal¡¯s small arms production line equipment with an annual output of 100,000 m1903 Springfield rifles and 1 billion grains of 30.06 ammunition, as well as a complete set of authorized production drawings for the m1903 Springfield rifle, discounted price: US$10 million

    The total amount of the above is US$30 million,

    The first batch of loans from the Ministry of Finance of the Chinese government to the United States were all used to purchase the above arms and production equipment. The total value of arms equipment reached: US$98.85 million.
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