Chapter 398 Artillery Call Tactics

Chapter 398 Artillery Call Tactics

Chapter 398 Artillery Call Tactics
"return!"

Shao Quanzhong was stunned. How dare Xiu'er yell at him?

Wenxiu's voice suddenly became gentle, "Brother Shao, you got up and haven't eaten yet, drink this bowl of fish soup noodles first."

Shao Quanzhong stopped suddenly.

He knew that Wen Xiu managed billions of dollars of wealth for him and had countless subordinates. Every day, he had to deal with numerous business affairs, issue various orders, and have the final say in the Wen Group. After being a big boss for a long time, he certainly couldn't always speak softly.

But when I talk to myself, I always speak in a gentle and humble manner. Today, I was in a hurry and my work state came out. I really care about my health.

In order to take care of myself today, I haven't gone to work yet at noon. I don't know how many documents I have to approve. I have to give my wife face when she invites me to have a meal.

Wenxiu brought in a bowl of noodles from the outer room. The noodles were narrow and the soup was wide. The soup was milky white with green garlic flowers floating on top. It was freshly made in the small kitchen in the outer room.

Qiao Garden was much bigger than the small house of the Shao family. Everyone lived in more spacious places, but they were also farther away from each other. So since the Shao family moved into Qiao Garden, the rules of dining had changed.

The design of Qiao Garden is actually east-west. Shao Shucai and his wife lived in Shanxiang Thatched Cottage in the eastern half of Qiao Garden, while Liu Niang, Ping'er and Maria lived in the back house further east. A Russian-style building in the middle of the lake was specially built for Maria in the back house, and there were also Spanish-style and French-style buildings for Isabel and Rong Hui.

Isabel and Rong Huiren do not live here, but they also have a separate residence where their personal belongings are stored and there are special people to take care of and clean.

Shao Quanzhong and Wenxiu lived in Laiqing Pavilion, the highest building in the west of Qiao Garden, overlooking the entire Qiao Garden. The original study, Shanxiangcaotang, was occupied by the two elders, so Shao Quanzhong used the "Erfen Bamboo House" as his study and office.

Acquaintances entered the garden from the west gate, and Shao Quanzhong lived in Laiqing Pavilion for easy reception. Distinguished guests went through the south gate, and family members generally entered and exited from the north gate.

Everyone lived so far away that they all had small kitchens in their own areas. Every three or five days, they would gather in Caiqing Hall for a collective family dinner and gather around the two elders for a meal.

"This noodle is freshly made, but the soup has been simmering all night. You came home drunk last night and vomited all over yourself, then fell asleep right away. I don't know when you sobered up, but the soup has been simmering all the time..."

Well, it's impossible to ask a daughter of a Jinshi family and a billionaire boss to cook for her personally. Besides, Wenxiu's cooking skills - ahem, you'll be touched when she serves the soup to you personally.

Fish soup noodles are a specialty of Hailing. When Shao Quanzhong was a child, he couldn't eat authentic fish soup in Jiangyan. He thought the best fish soup was made by his sister-in-law, Song Laoer's wife.

Hailing is a land of fish and rice, with a unique location and has rarely experienced war.

People in Hailing have lived a wealthy and stable life since ancient times, and they are very particular about morning tea. Among the "one tea, three snacks and one noodle", "one noodle" refers to fish soup noodles.

The smell of fireworks is what soothes people's hearts the most. Fish soup noodles are the mainstay of Taizhou morning tea.

The most authentic Hailing fish noodle soup is made with wild crucian carp and eel bones from the Lixiahe River, pork leg bones, and a variety of other ingredients. It is cooked over a slow fire and the production process is quite complicated.

Lin Lanchi, a talented scholar from Taizhou during the Jiaqing period, wrote a poem: "It is as soft as cotton without any silk, and the soup is fishy and fresh. Don't be surprised when you taste the huge bowl, the seven-character poem should be inferior to this one."

After Shao Quanzhong finished a bowl of fragrant and soft fish soup noodles, his stomach, which was still uncomfortable from a hangover, felt warm, and his body, which had been damaged by the revenge of the "Previous Emperor's Women's Revenge Group" in the capital, also felt particularly nourished.

As the saying goes, "It tastes thick when you put it in your mouth, and moisturizes your stomach and intestines when you eat it." A few drops of fish soup accidentally splashed onto the table, condensing into beads that rolled back and forth. This is what people in Taizhou call "dragon rolling beads."

Wang Gen, a great scholar in Taizhou, was a student of Wang Yangming. He founded the "Taizhou School" and focused on "Daily life of the people is the way". Wang Yangming was furious because he was too particular about enjoying life and wanted to call him to his side to "punish him severely".

As a result, Wang Yangming could not control this student who loved to enjoy life. The people of Taizhou put Wang Gen's knowledge into practice and enjoyed themselves to the end.

After drinking the fish noodle soup, Shao Quanzhong was not in a hurry to leave when he saw that his wife did not pursue his great feat of challenging the two empress dowagers and fighting against the four concubines in the harem.

I ate another plate of hot dried bean curd and sipped a cup of black tea. This Taizhou morning tea is the best way to make your life better, right?
After a hangover, Shao Quanzhong accompanied his wife to enjoy the slow life in Hailing, which was the greatest happiness in the world.

When Marco Polo visited Taizhou, he wrote in his travel notes, "This city is not big, but it has a lot of worldly happiness."

By the time Wenxiu went to the consortium's office building to get busy, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon when Shao Quanzhong met Grant and Emery at the old place of Shaojiawei.

In fact, Shao Quanzhong was not late. Grant arrived early. Emery was even drunker than Shao Quanzhong and had just arrived.

"Old Ge, Xiao Ai, I participated in the Franco-Prussian War this time and discovered a problem. If this problem is not solved, it will be difficult to implement our artillery tactics in the future."

The two Americans had not been to France, and did not know what problem could make the artillery tactics ineffective, so they looked at Shao Quanzhong in surprise.

"During the siege of Paris, Gambetta, a senior interior official of the pseudo-republican government, escaped from Paris in a hot air balloon and went to Tours to form the Loire Army."

“This caused great trouble to the Prussians, and it also allowed me to fight a decent battle even though I arrived late.”

"Others in the siege of Paris followed suit, and more than a hundred people escaped in hot air balloons and formed guerrilla groups everywhere, causing great trouble to the Prussians."

"For this reason, the Prussians specially designed a 37mm anti-aircraft gun, which they called the 'balloon gun'. It would shoot down any hot air balloons it caught, and finally stopped the trend of Parisians escaping in hot air balloons." "The Prussians designed the anti-aircraft gun for the special situation in Paris. But once the anti-aircraft gun was introduced, it would be dangerous for artillerymen to observe hot air balloons in the future."

"When we attack, the enemy will most likely not be able to hit the hot air balloons behind us, so it doesn't matter. But if we encounter a strong enemy and need to defend, once the hot air balloons are shot down by the enemy, our artillery will become blind..."

Shao Quanzhong couldn't figure out what to do next, so he went to ask two of his former chiefs of staff for advice.

The two chiefs of staff pondered for a long time but couldn't come up with any good ideas. Emery suddenly asked, "Marshal, can't you always calculate the future with your fingers? Is there no way to deal with this kind of thing in the future?"

Shao Quanzhong shook his head. "There is a way. We had radios at that time. If there was a need for artillery support on the battlefield, the soldiers would call with radios and report the coordinates, and artillery support would arrive."

Shao Quanzhong frowned, "Maxwell's Cavendish Laboratory has been under construction for a year and a half, with an investment of seven million silver coins, and no progress has been made. Radio is obviously not easy to develop, so we can't just sit there and wait."

Emery blinked his eyes. "Instead of radio, we now have landline phones. I have an idea!"

The Jiangsu New Army, which had been expanded to a town, immediately had its engineering battalion transferred over to carry out emergency civil engineering work overnight.

The next morning, a simulated battlefield had been set up at the military camp, with a series of defensive trenches, and two heavy artillery pieces were deployed overnight to carry out tactical simulations.

This time, no hot air balloon was launched, and the artillerymen were given a battlefield map.

The map is divided into dozens of numbered grids with white lines, corresponding to the actual battlefield.

On the simulated battlefield, a sturdy bunker was built in each grid, with only observation holes exposed.

Telephone lines were buried underground and connected to artillery positions through bunkers.

An operator was urgently dispatched to the artillery position to take care of dozens of telephones at the same time.

Soon the phone rang, "Position No. 19 needs artillery support!"

The artillery immediately adjusted the parameters, "Boom! Boom!"

The shell landed accurately in box number 19.

"Okay, Xiao Ai, what's wrong with your brain? This is fine. The enemy has little chance of discovering the bunker when they attack. We can use the hot air balloon and the bunker together as a double insurance."

"Now each position can call for artillery support at any time and carry out precise strikes on the attacking enemy forces. Our artillery advantage can be maximized."

Shao Quanzhong turned around and told Zhou Shengchuan, the commander of the Jiangsu New Army who was watching nearby, "In the future, the heavy artillery division will be equipped with a communications company to spread this tactic to the new armies in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Anhui. The artillery battalion of the infantry division will be equipped with a communications platoon. Start practicing the 'artillery call' tactic now."

Shao Quanzhong was in a good mood because he had developed a counter-tactic against anti-aircraft guns attacking hot air balloons.

I gave myself a day off in the afternoon and decided to go see what my wife Xiuer was doing, visit her at work, and express my care for her.

Um, Wenxiu is working on-site at the Hailing Patent Office. She is not researching any patents, but selecting new products that can be used by Wen's Industrial Group.

Ever since Shao Quanzhong had the brains to spend one million silver coins to buy Meucci's telephone patent, his reputation of "attaching importance to innovation and invention" became famous all over the world.

Every day, inventors from all over the world come to Hailing with their inventions to seek adoption. If they are lucky, their inventions may make, let alone a million, at least 100,000 or 80,000 silver coins, which means they will never have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of their lives and become very wealthy.

Of course, there were not so many important inventions, and most of them were of little use. Shao Quanzhong also did not have the time to always receive inventors, so this task fell on Wenxiu.

Wenxiu comes to the Hailing Patent Office once a week to work on site, focusing on examining various strange inventions. Every now and then, she can find one that can be used and make money, allowing the Wen family to produce and profit.

Although there was no more big deals worth one million silver coins, every time a lucky inventor was taken away by Wenxiu, he would receive the envy of everyone. This "Hailing Invention Audition" became an event that inventors from all over the world flocked to.

Shao Quanzhong mingled nearby in casual clothes, watching his wife carefully examining the various bizarre inventions one by one with great interest.

"Whoa!"

A middle-aged man in his thirties jumped up excitedly, turned around and hugged his younger brother who was following him tightly.

The "locomotive headlight" and "automatic mousetrap" he invented were both adopted by Wen Xiu and were planned to be produced in the Wen's Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works' Affiliated Parts Factory and the Wen's Daily Necessities Industrial Group, making a small profit.

Wen Xiu, the attendant beside them, guided the two brothers, "Come here, register here, tell us your name, and sign this contract."

The middle-aged man was still excited. "I'm from the Federation, my name is Hiram Stevens Maxim..."

(End of this chapter)