The road to national restoration that began at the end of the century - #291 - Chapter 292: Throwing the Balloon
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Zelen: “Throwing a missile?”
Qin: “Recently, the Holy Church wants to sell this thing to us arsenals, saying that our country’s army will definitely need it in the future.
Zelen: “It’s troublesome. Moreover, they are most likely doing this to create an atmosphere of public opinion and pressure me, His Majesty the Emperor, to nod in agreement, right? Don’t even think about it. Impossible.”
In the office of Lymington Arms Company, while listening to Qin’s report, Zelen couldn’t help but despise the Holy Church.
The 50mm caliber artillery series of the Holy Church is rubbish to him, especially since the caliber is not large enough, and the power of the cannon ball is really unbearable to him.
Moreover, the Krurod Empire has been using 60mm caliber light mortars as an essential weapon for ordinary infantry companies for a long time. It is a surface-kill long-range fire suppression weapon specially used to suppress enemy infantry groups.
Especially after the battle with the pig-headed men, the grassroots troops also specially asked the logistics to prepare a super-caliber barrier-breaking missile for firing 60 mm caliber mortars, specially designed to replace the old-fashioned blasting barrel.
Not only can this thing be used to blow up pig-headed men, kobolds or even sheep-headed men, even small vehicles blocking the road can be directly blown into two halves. The place where the ground is laid out cannot withstand the powerful explosion of the barrier-breaking missile. The power caused a large-scale ground explosion.
So leave the 50mm caliber artillery of the Holy Church aside and see if the Orchid Republic wants to talk about it. After all, Orchid’s army also uses 50mm cannons, but the 50mm cannon of the Orchid Republic is not a mortar in the traditional sense, but a missile launcher that is fired through a trigger system.
Although in the eyes of some military strategists at home and abroad, the missile launcher is also a type of mortar, Zelen is not optimistic about it at all.
Even though the Orchid Republic’s missile launcher can launch infantry grenades, as its dedicated artillery missile is temporarily insufficient as a substitute, Zelen still doesn’t think there is anything worthy of praise.
The lack of range and power means that the 50mm caliber artillery will not be the choice of the Krurod Empire army at all.
However, even if a country like the Krorod Empire, which has its own complete industrial system, has the confidence to refuse, and a country like the Takagi Kingdom, where the ruling class sells out its country for glory and does not hesitate to kneel at the feet of aliens and beg for protection, there is no way it can really To refuse?
Do they, the black-haired kobolds, have the right to say no?
If it were not for the vast territory of the Negan Empire and its sparse population, which has long been obsessed with the development and management of its own territory, the Takagi Kingdom would have been destroyed by the Negan Empire hundreds of years ago.
And to this day, the technological level of the Negan Empire has long been ahead of the Takagi Kingdom. Just the towed 160 mm caliber heavy mortar retired by the Negan Empire Army is not a ferocious cannon that the Takagi Kingdom can imitate and put into the battlefield.
You must know that a 160 mm caliber mortar blast destroyed a castle and destroyed a road in an instant. The actual combat record is an achievement that even Zelen finds terrifying.
If it weren’t for the fact that the Krorod Empire was a maritime country that mainly developed its navy and air force, Zelen himself actually hoped that his country would also have larger and thicker mortars.
But there is no way.
Economic conditions and practical conditions are limited, and not all of his ideas can be realized.
But then again, the Holy Church sold this 50mm mortar to the Takagi Kingdom…
Really?
Qin: “Excuse me, what are you thinking about?”
Zelen: “Qin, can you carry a mortar, just this, a 50mm caliber light mortar, plus how many rounds of gun missiles can you carry around?”
Qin: “Me? Well, I can fire about… about 20 rounds myself.”
Zelen: “I didn’t realize you were so capable.”
Qin: “Am I that weak?”
It is true that Qin is a beautiful woman who looks like a vase. Compared to Natalie and Nathalie, she is more dedicated to serving men. Her figure is very convex and backward, and her ability to give birth to offspring must be great. But there is a premise here, that is, Qin is a female Rimai, and her physical fitness is definitely much better than that of a kobold who is shorter and smaller, and at most, taller and stronger than a goblin.
So Zelen deliberately listed Qin as a reference object, and then compared it with the black-haired kobold.
If Qin could be 40 centimeters shorter…how could that be possible?
Calculated in this way, a black-haired kobold carries a 50-meter cannon on his back, plus 10 cannon missiles.
Pure guerrilla warfare is definitely enough.
The key is that a few of these guys, who are almost all illiterate, can easily handle mortars…
wrong.
If we really want to say it, the black-haired kobold actually has a way to get started quickly. At the very least, this mortar should be less difficult to operate than a missile launcher?
Due to insufficient information in his hands and the fact that he had never seen what a missile thrower looked like, Zelen himself could not easily draw conclusions.
Maybe it’s not good, but the production difficulty of missile launchers is actually lower than that of mortars.
But no matter what, Zelen can be sure of one thing. The more weapons and equipment are used for multiple purposes, they will only face one result.
A multipurpose thing becomes sparse in everything, and nothing can be accomplished.
Just like the Krorod Empire’s fully automatic grenade launcher, Bourne’s original idea was actually to hope that it could replace the 60mm caliber mortar.
However, practice has proved that the 40×46 mm caseless grenade fired by the fully automatic grenade launcher cannot replace the 60 mm caliber mortar shell at all. On the contrary, with the “help” of the pig-headed men and black-haired kobolds, the 60 mm caliber mortar cannon has not yet entered the eliminated team.
Only the fully automatic grenade launcher began to be disliked by the soldiers, who did not want to continue using it in combat.
no way.
The missile was not powerful enough, so the soldiers naturally disliked it.
What’s more, the mortar missile has a wonderful effect. It directly knocks the primer against the ground and then throws it at the enemy as a grenade.
This is absolutely impossible for 40mm caseless grenades.
Therefore, fully automatic grenade launchers are now also used by militiamen or police officers for their own use as an important support weapon that can quickly suppress criminals.
Even Zelen himself felt that using this for domestic security would be a bit exaggerated.
But when he thought about it seriously, all citizens of the Crurod Empire were legally allowed to hold guns. If one day a big thief or a desperado appears…
Sometimes, some of the more powerful weapons are quite useful.
Obviously, Zelen knows the negative consequences of having everyone armed with guns, and he also knows that people in the future may not be able to control their hands. But there is no way. There are some traditions and practical problems that he cannot just apply across the board, let alone impose a complete ban on them with a piece of regulations.
The environment of the island country is not as stable as that of the mainland, and the Krurod Empire is a big spice country. For the sake of spices, thieves outside did not hesitate to risk death, and even openly killed people to rob. Therefore, the issue of legal gun ownership by all people is probably not allowed to change, at least not at all for the next hundred years.
Especially now, no one knows how many pig-headed men, black-haired kobolds, or even sheep-headed men and humans from the southern Mania continent are lurking in the Crurod Empire.
These guys have not been wiped out in a day. Who can guarantee that they will not secretly establish a stronghold of resistance and establish a country within the country within the Krurod Empire.
This is the biggest geographical disadvantage of the archipelago country. This is also one of the most taboo things for the emperors of the Klurod Empire in the past. It has also been the importance of centralization and the unification of national power that the Klurod Empire has long promoted. reason.
After thinking about it, Zelen himself had a big confusion.
The Holy Church was not willing to be squeezed by the Crurod Empire in various ways, and directly looked for the Takagi Kingdom as a scapegoat. Then is it really necessary for me to continue to carry out the next round of attacks on the Takagi Kingdom?
After all, it was useless for the Takagi Kingdom to fight. Its powerful neighbor in the south, the Negan Empire, would never allow the Klurod Empire to interfere with the Neoland continent, nor would the Klurod Empire establish a former colony in its north. In addition, compared to the Takagi Kingdom, there is always only one most important goal – the Akitsu Empire.
It’s just that the Akitsu Empire is now acting like a coward, pretending that nothing happened…