Chapter 954

The cost of firearm troops of a rifle brigade is more than the total cost of two standing infantry troops, and the logistics of firearm troops is more troublesome.

The same is to support an army, not counting the weapons of the firearm army. Just ensuring logistics will cost six standing armies.

Riflemen usually train at least ten five baht per shot. If the barrel is worn out and needs to be replaced, one barrel is 500 five baht.

Each shot will naturally wear the barrel. Another point is that the barrel is not steel. It is a barrel mixed with iron and other materials. There is no accuracy after about 220 shots. After 450 shots, not only the caliber becomes larger, but also irregular small bending occurs.

At present, the cost of a flint gun, including labor cost and material value, reaches a high price of 3300 pieces of five baht. The same five baht is enough to make six swords or swords. If it is changed to a long gun, it is 15 strokes. A set of excellent metal armor can be made at the price of three flint guns.

If we really set up a firearm army, it can't be all riflemen. It must be attached to the Artillery Force.

At present, even the cheapest bronze gun, including labor and materials, is 50000 pieces of five baht.

A firearm army should be attached to a brigade Artillery Force, based on a class of one gun, that is, at least 240 guns.

An artillery brigade can't have all guns of the same caliber. It will have close combat support small caliber guns and long-range suppression large caliber guns.

At present, the largest caliber gun has reached 320 mm, and the cost of one gun is 130000 five baht. A brigade's Artillery Force will have at least one battalion's heavy artillery establishment, and 75 guns are 9.75 million five baht. The money is gone.

Those weapons are still calculated by the cost. Because they are made by the Shaofu and supplied to the military, there is no profit. Otherwise, it is like the price of selling the minimum caliber gun to the armed privateer. A minimum caliber gun is 180000 five baht.

Such a high price certainly has the difference between land and marine bases, but it is a conscience price without tripling it.

In addition, don't be too expensive. If you want to buy, you have to pass all kinds of political 1 trials. You are not a high lord or you don't have a high Lord guarantee. If you want to buy, you are not qualified.

It is a historical trend for firearm troops to eliminate cold weapon troops. Liu Yan has repeatedly stressed and repeated this point a long time ago.

However, Liu Yan constantly stressed that before going through the test of war, although everyone can see that the firearm forces are fierce, they will more or less subconsciously doubt, and it is inevitable that the firearm forces will be pulled to the battlefield for actual combat.

On September 27, the 13th year of Yuanshuo, there was no farewell ceremony. The rifle brigade trained for one year and seven months was matched with two artillery battalions.

With the current strength of the Han Empire, no matter what kind of arms they are, they have enough animal power to walk. They simply ride a horse and pay attention to riding a carriage.

The army has to take the national road leading to Yanmen county. It needs to pass through the suburbs of Chang'an from the military camp on the edge of Qinling Mountains to the north.

The movement of the Army March will not be small. The people close to the city wall found that there were large-scale troops. First, they watched curiously and found that this army was completely different from what they had seen in the past. Without martial law, it was necessary to call friends.

Most of the soldiers of the riflemen brigade sit in a carriage, which is a carriage with a long carriage, with a real name called a carriage.

Some Riflemen are riding on horseback. They are mistaken for the Musketeers who appeared in the last parade. In fact, they are a group of riding riflemen.

"Where are you going?"

"It looks like I'm going to northern Xinjiang."

"Are you finally going to teach those blind guys a lesson?"

"Several barbarian tribes have established an alliance. It's time to break their homes and destroy their countries!"

The officials of the Han Empire will selectively post some news in the form of notices. People can get some information that the officials want them to know from the notices. To be more thorough is to guide public opinion, usually reporting good news rather than bad news.

The reason why it is in the form of a notice rather than a newspaper is that the current situation is not so appropriate except that Liu Yan doesn't have that Kung Fu for the time being.

Julian and keshias came quickly to see a tail. When they arrived, they happened to see the last car carrying riflemen.

"Look, the queue will not be less than 7000 people. It should be the legendary army?" Kexiyas used the word "legend" mainly because he heard a lot of comments. What he really saw with his own eyes was the military parade: "the Han Empire really had to fight the hunites in the north."

They came later. They didn't see the artillery camp, let alone the baggage team. The riflemen marching on horseback were the rear team. To guess how many troops there are, we first look at the length of the queue, and then calculate the carrying personnel of a van.

"You said..." Julian asked uncertainly, "if you ask to go to watch the war, will the emperor of Han agree?"

They saw too much fire in the a'san battlefield. Only once, they had an indelible impression and were eager to know more.

"The last time we saw shelling, this time the troops of the Han Empire had what they called riflemen." Keshias certainly wanted to watch the war, but he could guess: "since the Han Empire did not publicize it, I'm afraid he would not agree with us to watch the war."

Julian thought a little about the same truth, sighed and looked vaguely at the drifting Han army.

As for the acquisition of firearms, Rome and sassanne have made more than one attempt. At the beginning, it was an official consultation, and the original Dianke Department contacted with them did not even refuse.

There was no way to buy firearms, and they tried to negotiate to buy gunpowder, but they were still refused cleanly.

There is no way to obtain formal channels, or Persians start informal channels first. Naturally, Persians do not steal and rob openly. They let non Persians do things secretly or openly.

According to the importance of the Han Empire on firearms, it is not easy to obtain firearms or gunpowder through informal channels. The people instructed by sashan did not do it. They were killed or captured before they saw the firearms or gunpowder. Nearly two years later, many people sent by sashan died (disappeared), but there was no result at all.

Later, Rome also began its own actions. Of course, they did not let the Romans do it, but also sent non Romans. There was no progress.

Until one time, the Shaofu's powder making workshop was attacked by more than 100 foreigners. Naturally, all the foreigners were destroyed, but they also angered Liu Yan.

You know, Liu Yan can use the map in his mind to distinguish such a bug between ourselves and the enemy. He has "scanned" before, but the "red dots" are scattered. He is not in any important area. He really can't fight too much before something big happens.

After 12 years, Liu Yan came to clean up and personally commanded the guards to arrest and kill.

What I don't know how to evaluate is that those high-level foreign people who were the indicators showed blue when Liu Yan "scanned", not neutral white or hostile red, which once made Liu Yan suspect that the system was broken.

Liu Yan used a lot of energy to think and observe, and found that it was not the system that broke down, but those crooked nuts who wanted to become allies of the Han Empire from the heart. He also determined that the law of systematically identifying the enemy and ourselves was not discriminated by action, but an idealism.

The "clean-up" was very noisy. Not only crooked nuts were arrested and killed, but also more than 300 people in the country. No matter why they were hostile to Liu Yan or the country, they were punished.

Crooked nuts are hostile. No matter what their identity, they are sanctioned and have no chance to complain. Some crooked nuts actually did nothing. They were just hostile to the Han Empire from the heart, but they were only hostile to the Han Empire. It was right to be punished.

Liu Yan is more gratified that there are no officials or dignitaries among the sanctioned personnel.

In fact, it can be said that when he was an official and a baron, Liu Yan had screened and identified once, and then they had become vested interests. Those who were hostile were either screened and identified long ago, or satisfied with their current life after becoming vested interests.

The hostile people in Chang'an were cleared away, which greatly deterred a handful of important officials who knew a little. They were very glad that they were loyal to Liu Yan, and their fear of Liu Yan was deeper at the same time.

There is no way to obtain firearms from informal channels. Trying to obtain firearms from informal channels has repeatedly failed, and even evolved into the fact that the transferred personnel have just entered Chang'an and were immediately arrested or killed within a few days. Although the probability of obtaining firearms through formal channels is infinitely small, Rome and sassanne still did not give up.

"Let's go." Keshias looked at the troops who were so far away that he could only see a dark shadow: "we should try it anyway. Maybe the Emperor Han will agree."

Rome and sassanne have been trying to ease their relations in recent years, and the high-level communication has been strengthened. There are no more soldiers on the border between the two countries, that is, the hatred for thousands of years is really too big. The high-level can start from the overall situation and want to become friendly. The army can also be restrained. The civilians of the two countries are not so well restrained, and there are still frictions among the people.

Julian and keshias, who stayed in Chang'an, only knew what they were like inside. On the surface, they became very good friends. Most of the time, they were even inseparable, which made some people guess whether they had any passionate feelings.

Of course, they couldn't and couldn't see Liu Yan. They first returned to the post house to discuss with their own people, then met at the meeting place, and went to the office of the Ministry of rites outside the palace city.

The main offices of the three provinces and six ministries are in Miyagi, and there are some low-level offices outside Miyagi.

The important officials of all dynasties worked in the palace city, mainly to report to the emperor. There was no need to be summoned to go all the way to the palace.

There is an office outside the palace city because not everyone is qualified to enter the palace city. Even if they are qualified to enter the palace, there are usually such procedures.

When the royal families of the two powerful countries arrived, Wang Xizhi, who was on duty (from the sixth grade), received them.

Wang Xizhi is now both the code system of the Ministry of rites and the doctor who writes. The former is a formal official position, followed by a category of "Qing". The writing doctor said frankly that he was writing something for Liu Yan that did not involve government decrees and imperial edicts.

"Dr. Wang!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, Wang is now in office hours. Please call him the official position of the etiquette department."

"Well, I've seen the king's code system."

"The two came together. I don't know what happened?"

After meeting each other, Julian explained his intention and said that it was a great honor to go to the battlefield to watch the Han army show off.

In modern times... No, even in the two Song Dynasties, anyone who dares to use "show off" is tantamount to pointing to his face and scolding.

Fortunately, "flaunting one's might" is still an idiom for commendation, because not everyone has the strength to flaunt one's might, and it is a matter of pride for anyone to be said so.

"Persians and Han people have been friendly for generations and have a long-standing friendship." Kexiyas saw some hesitation on Wang Xizhi's face and was surprised. He seemed to have the opportunity to be promised. With hopeful eyes, he said, "witnessing the bravery of the Han army can make us know the importance of friendship more."

Wang Xizhi's hesitation is not what he can make up his mind. He will hesitate because he knows that there are concubines in the palace today. As Liu Yan always shows, unless there is a big event, Liu Yan will put down the trivial things. Even if he doesn't wait outside the delivery room in person, he won't easily distract himself. He must consider whether it is appropriate to disturb such a small matter.

"Wang Dian system." Julian said some flattering words with great sincerity and begged: "just convey, please help."

Wang Xizhi wouldn't complain about such a thing if his concubine wanted to produce it. He thought it was really not a good time to disturb Liu Yan today. He hesitated and said, "I can play it early tomorrow morning."

Although they may not be able to do it, Julian and keshias showed their gratitude and thanked them constantly.

At the same time, they are very happy that Wang Xizhi is on duty today. If someone else wants to change, it will not be so efficient. There will be no reply without tossing for ten days and a half months.

Wang Xizhi didn't realize what mistake he had made here. According to the truth, he should react to his superiors, one layer after another, and finally present it to Liu Yan's desk. But because he could see Liu Yan in person, he promised to Cheng Bing their request.

Waiting for Julian and keshias to leave, Chen Fei, a group of Dianxiang division (eighth grade) who witnessed the whole process, opened his mouth several times. In view of the duty of an official, he still said: "the code system, the lower official should record it and hand it over to the waiter?"

Wang Xizhi didn't seem to understand Chen Fei's implied meaning, so he shook his head a little improperly. In his opinion, if he can give Cheng Bing to the emperor in person, he should say it himself. He doesn't realize that he is challenging the rules of officialdom.

Chen Fei was directly stupid, wondering whether he said it too tactfully or Wang Xizhi was too pure.