Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 560 Great Ming Armor
Qingdao Prefecture, Lu Province, Ming Dynasty. This very young city has developed rapidly in the past 20 years and has become an important commercial port in the north. It is also an important port for the Ming Dynasty military.

A large amount of heavy equipment transported by the railway will be successively loaded in Qingdao.The Ming Army has entered the era of mechanization more than ten years ago. However, due to the lack of an obvious enemy, and the main energy of the Legislative Council is on developing industry and investing in education, the overall mechanization speed of the Ming Army is not fast. , Changed to the present, all 52 full-scale divisions (including cavalry divisions and mountain divisions) of the Ming Army, only two divisions have completed a comprehensive mechanized transformation, all infantry can be transported by infantry fighting vehicles, and the number of tanks is also large , the remaining infantry divisions are at best motorized infantry divisions with a certain degree of mechanization.

These two fully mechanized divisions are the ace troops of the Ming Army, and they are also the meritorious troops commanded by Bai Mingxiu back then. They are the Fourth Division of the Ming Army and the Second Cavalry Division of the Daming Army.The Second Cavalry Division is also a cavalry in the current Ming Army. It is called cavalry, but it does not actually ride a horse.The Second Cavalry Division is equipped with a large number of infantry fighting vehicles, and is a division-level force with a strong impact.In the future, the Ming Dynasty may abolish the cavalry system one after another, but as a meritorious organization, the Second Cavalry Division and Li Dingguo's First Cavalry Division must be retained.

A typical Daming infantry division is generally composed of two infantry brigades, and each brigade has three motorized infantry regiments, one mechanized infantry regiment and one armored regiment, so it has a certain ability to mechanize breakthroughs. Relying on military trucks for transportation also naturally requires roads.However, Daming's military card level is good, as long as it is a certain level of ground, he can move forward relatively smoothly.

The 12th Group Army of the Ming Dynasty consisted of three infantry divisions, an artillery brigade, an armored brigade, an army aviation and air defense regiment, and a logistics support regiment, with a total of more than 8 personnel.The Ming army basically deploys one group army in one military region, and some have additional ones, so the number of group armies is not large.Some were temporarily formed before, and some of the designations were suspended. The actual situation is that the organizational system of some group armies is vacant. If necessary, they will be activated and filled with soldiers.The currently active group armies are the first, second, third, fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, tenth, No.12, and No.14, a total of 10 group armies.

The new Ming tanks unloaded from the military ranks, if they came from later generations, they would naturally be able to tell at a glance that these thick-looking tanks were clearly modified Soviet T-34-85 tanks.

Even though Da Ming didn't have any clear armored enemies on land, and Bai Mingxiu didn't even pay special attention to these, the Da Ming army was unwilling to make do with itself.Since the Ming Army selected this tank named Type 19 as their main battle tank four years ago, it has started to mass-produce this tank, which is easy to manufacture, reliable in performance, easy to maintain, and has better fire protection and mobility. Balanced tank.

There are dozens of military factories in the Ming Dynasty that can manufacture this thing, and the technical difficulty is not high at all. The Ming Dynasty actually has higher technology, but from the perspective of reliability and practicality, the Army chose the Type 19 pseudo T-34 as its own king of the land.

Armored Captain Xie Aman signed the delivery form for the military column, took off his military cap and fanned the wind.

"I don't know what is the use of pulling these big guys to India. We have been conducting exercises for three years, basically targeting the tartar bear in the north. We are thinking about how to fight against the large-scale armored forces. This time it is good. We How to fight in India? As a fulcrum that infantry can rely on?" Xie Aman complained a little.

In the whole world, Daming has the largest armored force, followed by Xiqing. What's amazing is that Xiqing's tanks are not much less than Daming's in terms of quantity.Of course, Xiqing's tanks are slightly more primitive, and are ridiculed by many people in the military industry of the Ming Dynasty and fellow armored soldiers as iron water tanks.A few years ago, Xiqing deployed a tank group on the European battlefield and defeated the Austrian army almost in a single encounter, which made the Europeans extremely panic.

The Europeans not only tried their best to develop their own tanks, but also frantically purchased them from Ming Dynasty.In line with the principle of checks and balances, Ming still produced some obsolete old tanks and handed them over to the armies of Austria and other European countries. After the Austrian army obtained about forty old Ming tanks, it immediately regained face on the battlefield.

Therefore, there is now a strong worship of tanks in the European military field. It is believed that tanks, a weapon with three important elements of mobility, protection and firepower, are completely the masters of war.This trend has actually affected Feiyanggu. The Western Qing Dynasty has also been continuously manufacturing new tanks in recent years. However, due to technology limitations, their tanks are still not as good as the Ming Dynasty's Type 34 pseudo-T-[-]. use.

Xie Aman's comrade-in-arms instructor Zhou Cungang touched the thick barrel of the Type [-] main battle tank and said: "We can no longer let our soldiers follow the cavalry. After all, we are not in that era anymore, haha ​​and our military's transport capacity It is enough, and this time we can transport all the heavy equipment of our group army in one go without breaking a sweat."

Xie Aman said with emotion: "I just learned that our Ming Dynasty has a transport capacity of 100 million tons that can be deployed by the army. At the beginning, the Ministry of War had special military expenditures, which were specially provided to those shipping companies, requiring them to follow our military's specifications. The cargo ships they manufacture can be used for shipping in normal times, and can be temporarily requisitioned to serve us during wartime. I don’t know who came up with such a genius idea at the beginning, which avoided investing a lot of money in building specialized military cargo ships. , and also avoids underutilization.”

Zhou Cungang smiled and said, "Old Xie, shouldn't you think about how to fight in India next time?"

Xie Aman said: "What are you thinking about, I closed my eyes and drove the tank over, that's enough, we won this battle."

Both of them were laughing. This time the war in India was generally believed by the military to be overwhelming, and the really complicated thing was how to receive India after the war and integrate it into the Ming Dynasty's imperial system.As for the military strength of the Mughal Empire, it is really not worth mentioning.Although the Mughal Empire obtained a lot of weapons and equipment from Europe, including rifles, machine guns, and cannons, the Mughal Empire was already very old in terms of organization and military thinking.

(End of this chapter)