Sweep the World

The cost of firearms for a rifle brigade is more than the total cost of two standing infantry troops. At the same time, the logistics of firearms is more troublesome.

The same is to raise an army, not counting the weapons of the firearms unit, just to ensure the logistics, the cost will be the cost of the six standing armies.

The riflemen's usual training costs at least ten five baht for each shot, and the barrel wear and tear needs to be replaced with a barrel for five hundred five baht.

Every time a shot is fired, the barrel will naturally wear out. Another point is that the barrel is not steel, it is a barrel mixed with iron and other materials. After about 220 shots, there is no accuracy. After four hundred and fifty launches, not only the caliber becomes larger, but also small irregularities bend.

The current cost of a flintlock gun, including labor costs and material value, has reached a high price of 3,300 five baht. The same five baht is enough to build six war swords or swords, if it is changed to a long spear, it will be fifteen shots. The price of three flintlocks can make a sophisticated set of metal armor.

If a corps of firearms is really formed, it is unlikely that all the riflemen will be assigned to the artillery corps.

At present, even the cheapest bronze gun, including labor and materials, is 50,000 five baht.

How can a firearms army be assigned to a brigade of artillery units, with one squad as the basis for one cannon, that is, at least two hundred and forty cannons.

It is impossible for an artillery brigade to have all guns of the same caliber. There will be a melee support small caliber gun and a long-range suppressed large caliber gun.

At present, the largest caliber cannon reaches 320 millimeters, and the cost of one gun is 130,000 five baht. A brigade artillery unit will have at least one battalion of heavy artillery, and seventy-five guns are 9.75 million. The five baht money is gone.

Those weapons are still calculated by cost. Since they are built by a small government, the supply to the military has no profit. Otherwise, it is like the price of the smallest caliber gun sold to armed privateers. A smallest caliber gun is 180,000 five baht. .

Such a high price is of course the difference between land use and ship base, but it is considered a conscience price if it is not tripled.

In addition, don't be too expensive. If you want to buy, you have to go through various political trials. If you are not a noble person or have no guarantee of a noble person, you are not eligible to buy it.

It is a historical trend for firearms troops to eliminate cold weapons troops, and Liu Yan has repeatedly emphasized this point long ago.

However, Liu Yan kept emphasizing that before the test of war, even though everyone could see the fierceness of the firearms troops, they would more or less subconsciously be suspicious, and it became inevitable that the firearms troops would be brought to the battlefield for actual combat.

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

With the current strength of the Han Empire, no matter what type of arm it is, it has enough animal power to travel. It is simply riding on horseback, and more important is riding in a carriage.

The army had to go through the national highway leading directly to Yanmen County, and from the military camp on the edge of the Qinling Mountains to the north, it had to pass through the suburbs of Chang'an.

The movement of the troops marching is not small. The people near the city wall noticed that there is a large-scale troop deployment. They first watched with curiosity and found that this troop is completely different from what they have seen before. Seeing that there is no martial law, it is indispensable to call friends and call friends.

Most of the soldiers in the Rifle Brigade sat in a carriage, a frame with a long carriage, with a veritable name called a carriage.

Some of the riflemen rode on horseback. They were mistaken for the musketeers who appeared in the last military parade, but they were actually a group of riflemen on horseback.

"Where are you going?"

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

"Are you finally going to teach those people who don't open their eyes?"

"Several barbarian tribes have established an alliance, and it is time to destroy their homes and annihilate their country!"

The officials of the Han Empire will selectively post some news in the form of notices, and the people can get some news that the officials want them to know from the notices. To be more transparent is to guide the public opinion, usually to report the good but not the worry.

The reason why it is the form of announcement rather than the creation of a newspaper, except that Liu Yan has no such skill for the time being, the current situation is not that suitable.

Julian and Xias rushed to see a tail. When they arrived, they happened to see the last part of the van carrying the riflemen.

"Looking at the queue, there will be no less than 7,000 people. It should be the legendary unit?" Xias used the word'legend', mainly because he heard a lot of remarks. The only thing he really saw was the military parade. At the time of the formula: "The Han Empire really wanted to attack the north before going to fight the Hunnites first."

They came a little later, and they didn't see the artillery battalion, let alone the squadron. The riflemen marching on horseback were in the rear. To be able to guess how many people there are in the army, first look at the length of the queue, and then count the number of people carried by a van.

"You said..." Julian asked uncertainly: "If you request to go to watch the battle, will Emperor Han agree to it?"

They have seen firearms in the Asan battlefield, but they have the impression that they can't be erased just once, and they are eager to learn more.

"The last time we only saw shelling, this time the troops of the Han Empire had what they called riflemen." Of course, Xias wanted to watch the battle, but he could guess: "Since the Han Empire didn't publicize it with much fanfare, I'm afraid Would not agree to let us go to watch the battle."

Yulian thought about it for a moment, and the truth was the same, sighed and looked at the faintly distant Han army.

Regarding the acquisition of firearms, Roma and Sassan have tried more than once. At the beginning, it was an official negotiation. The original guest agency that they contacted did not even reject it altogether.

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

There is no way to obtain formal channels. It is the Persians who started informal channels first. Naturally, it is not that the Persians will steal and steal. They let non-Persians do things that are sneaky or openly robbed.

Given the importance of the Han Empire on firearms, it is not easy to obtain firearms or gunpowder through informal channels. Those people instructed by Sassan did not do it. If they did it, they were hit before they saw the firearm or gunpowder. Almost two years have passed since they were killed or captured. Many people sent by Sassan died (disappeared), but they had no results at all.

Later, Rome also started their own actions. Of course, they didn't let the Romans do it. They also sent non-Romans, and there was no progress.

Until the gunpowder-making workshop of the Shaofu was attacked by more than a hundred foreigners, those foreigners were naturally wiped out, but Liu Yan was also angered.

You must know that Liu Yan can use the map in his mind to distinguish such a bug between the enemy and the enemy. He has "scanned" before, but the "red dots" are scattered, and they are not in any important area. I really can't before anything major happens. Too much fighting.

A major incident of a foreign race's assault on the gunpowder workshop took place. Liu Yan had another cleanup after twelve years, and personally directed the guards to arrest and kill.

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

After Liu Yan spent a lot of energy thinking and observing, he found that it was not the system that was broken, but the high-level people with crooked nuts who wanted to become allies of the Han Empire in their hearts. He also determined the law of systematically identifying friend and foe. It turned out not to be distinguished by action, but a kind of idealism.

There was a lot of movement during the "big cleanup". Not only crooked nuts were arrested and killed, but there were also more than 300 people in the country. They were sanctioned for whatever reason they were hostile to Liu Yan or the country.

Crooked nuts are hostile, no matter what their status, they have no chance of complaining when they are sanctioned. Some crooked nuts actually didn't do anything. They just attacked the Han Empire from the bottom of their hearts, but it was right that they were sanctioned for being hostile to the Han Empire.

Liu Yan is more pleased that there are no officials and nobles among the sanctioned persons.

In fact, it can be said that Liu Yan has already been discerned once when he was an official and a knight, and then they have become vested interests. Those who are hostile have either been discerned long ago, or they are satisfied with their current lives after becoming vested interests.

The hostile people in Chang'an were cleaned out, and the heavy-handed officials who knew a little were greatly shocked. They were very fortunate that they were loyal to Liu Yan, and at the same time, their fear of Liu Yan was deepened.

There is no way to obtain firearms from informal channels, and the attempts to obtain from informal channels have repeatedly failed, and even evolved to the fact that the transferred personnel were arrested or killed within a few days after entering Chang'an, although the probability of obtaining through formal channels is infinitely small. Rome and Sassan still did not give up.

"Let's go." Xiasi looked at the unit that was so far away that only a dark shadow could be seen: "You should try it anyway, maybe the Emperor Han will agree."

In recent years, Roma and Sassan have been trying to ease their relationship with each other. The high-level communication has strengthened. The border between the two countries no longer has a large number of soldiers. Even the eight-hundred-year-old hatred is too great. If the overall situation is to become friendly, the military can also be restrained, but the civilians of the two countries are not so restrained, and there are still frictions among the people.

Yulian and Xiasi who stayed in Chang'an, only they know what they are inside, but on the surface they have become extremely good friends. Most of the time they are even inseparable, making some people guess whether they have something. Passionate feelings happened.

Of course, the two of them couldn't and couldn't see Liu Yan as soon as they wanted to. They first went back to the post house to discuss with their respective people, then met at the meeting place, and went to the office of the Ministry of Ritual outside Miyagi together.

The main offices of the three provinces and six departments are within Miyagi, and outside Miyagi are some low-level offices.

The offices of the important ministers of the past dynasties were all in Miyagi, mainly for reporting to the emperor, and there was no need to be summoned to enter the palace if anything happened.

There will be a public office outside Miyagi, because not everyone is eligible to enter Miyagi. Even if they are eligible, there are usually procedures like this.

The royal families of the two powerful nations arrived, and Wang Xizhi, who was sitting in class (from the sixth rank), was interviewed.

Wang Xizhi is now not only the official system of the Ministry of Etiquette, but also a PhD in writing. The former is a formal official position, and the latter is a category of "Qing". To put it plainly, the doctor in charge is to write something for Liu Yan that does not involve government decrees and edicts.

"Dr. Wang!"

"Two, Wang Mou is now in office hours, please call the official position of the Ministry of Etiquette."

"Uh, I have seen Wang Dianzhi."

"The two come together, don't know what's the matter?"

After meeting each other, it was Julian who explained his intentions and said that it was an extremely honor to be able to go to the battlefield to watch the Han army want to show off.

It’s modern...No, even if it’s the Song Dynasty, who dares to use "Yao Wu Yang Meng" is tantamount to swearing at the face.

Fortunately, "Yao Wu Yang Wei" is still an idiom used to praise, because not everyone has the strength to show Wu Wu, and whoever is said that is a thing to be proud of.

"The Persians and the Han people have been friendly for generations, and have a long-standing friendship." Seeing Wang Xizhi's face hesitated, Xias said with hopeful eyes: "We can witness the bravery of the Han army. Makes us more aware of the importance of friendship."

Wang Xizhi’s hesitation is not what he can think of. He will hesitate because he knows that there is a concubine in the palace today. As Liu Yan always shows, unless there is a major event, Liu Yan will definitely let go of trivial matters, even if he doesn’t come in person. Waiting outside the delivery room will not be easily distracted. He must consider whether it is appropriate to use such a small matter to disturb him now.

"Wang Dianzhi." Julian said some flattering words very sincerely, begging: "It's just to convey, please help."

There is a concubine who wants to produce such a thing, Wang Xizhi will not suffocate everywhere, thinking clearly that today is indeed not a good time to disturb Liu Yan~www.wuxiaspot.com~ hesitated and said: "The official can play early in the morning."

Although it may not be possible, Julian and Xias showed gratitude and continued to thank them.

At the same time, they are very happy that Wang Xizhi's office is on duty today. If you want to change to someone else, you won't be so efficient. There will be no reply for ten and a half months without tossing.

Wang Xizhi didn't realize that he had made any mistakes here. According to the truth, he should have responded to his superiors, layer after layer before reaching Liu Yan's desk. But because he was able to meet Liu Yan in person, he promised to meet the two people's request Cheng Bing.

Waiting for Julian and Xias to leave, Chen Fei, a group of Dian Xiangsi (eighth rank) who witnessed the whole process, opened his mouth several times. In view of the duties of a subordinate official, he still said: "Dianzhi, Xiaguan Do you want to record and leave it to the servant?"

Wang Xizhi didn't seem to understand Chen Fei's implication, and shook his head improperly. In his opinion, if he can personally give Cheng Bing to the emperor, then he can speak for himself, completely unaware that he is challenging the rules of officialdom.

Chen Fei was dumbfounded, wondering whether he was too tactful or Wang Xizhi was too pure.