1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 3223
Countries are so active in purchasing Haihan arms, naturally not all out of military considerations.Expressing their position through arms purchase contracts, choosing a camp, and seeking long-term asylum are also the main reasons why many small countries gritted their teeth and squeezed out funds to purchase arms from Haihan.

After buying Haihan's weapons, of course you have to learn the corresponding tactics.Asking Haihan to send instructors to the country to guide military training, or to send military officers to study abroad in Haihan's military academies, are the next logical steps.

Over time, these countries have not only installed Haihan weapons, but also gradually followed the Haihan model in daily training, tactics, and troop formation.The vassal states like Annan and North Korea have even copied the command system so that they can seamlessly connect with the Haihan Army during wartime.

Of course, Haihan weapons are not available to anyone who wants to buy them. According to the situation in each region, Haihan will have different plans to exert influence on the region.

Western buyers such as Portugal and the Netherlands will be subject to more restrictions in the arms trade to prevent their military power from being too much higher than that of neighboring countries.As for the countries surrounding its colonies, Haihan will support them intentionally or unintentionally, in a disguised form to limit the colonial expansion of Western countries.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Ben was also one of the buyers of Haihan's arms. Haihan had sold him a lot of weapons to help him fight against the Qing army in the north.

However, in actual operation, Daming did not deploy all the equipment purchased with a lot of money to the northern border, but used a considerable part of it to kill the peasant army in the country, but the combat effect was not ideal.

The reason is that after Da Ming bought the things back, he still used his own inherent tactics and failed to give full play to the power of these weapons.

But after Haihan and Daming broke up, the process of sending weapons to Daming was terminated.With Ming's military manufacturing technology, even if Haihan's weapons could be imitated to a certain extent, mass production could not be realized due to the lack of industrial foundation, and the military strength stagnated.

During the staggering of wine and wine, several arms sales transactions have already reached preliminary intentions.North Korea and Kofi Annan impatiently finalized the arrangements for a new batch of military students studying abroad to go to Sanya this year.

Of course, there are actually more than one group of military officers and students sent by North Korea, but a group of people selected by the North and the South. This has become a common practice in North Korea.

The new trend this year is that Japan is also trying to send military officers to study in Sanya.It's just that the fragmented situation in Japan is more complicated, and the shogunate does not want each vassal state to stand on its own, and it is inevitable that they will have to fight among themselves to reach a compromise.

Of course, Haihan is happy to see the success of this, and he hopes that the infighting in Japan will become more severe.The more fierce the fight, the more these feudal states depend on Hai Han, and the more bargaining chips Hai Han can use to bargain with the shogunate.

After the lunch break, the military exercise continued outside Yuhang County.

Compared with the bombardment in the morning, the content of the military exercise in the afternoon was much more refined. It mainly showed that the troops were suddenly attacked by the enemy while marching, the rapid transition from the marching state to the combat state, and the soil work of building field positions.

Although these operations are not as exciting as the firing of guns, they are the basic skills that an army must possess.The training level of the Haihan Army in this area is also ahead of its counterparts in other countries.

When encountering an enemy attack during the march, use the pack horses and the supply caravan traveling with the army as cover to find the enemy and counterattack.The range of the Haihan army's rifles is far better than that of bows and arrows. As long as they avoid the first round of attacks, they can suppress the enemy's offensive with firepower.

Haihan also has corresponding powerful weapons for the impact that the enemy may launch by relying on its superiority in strength.The flames spit out by the two water-cooled heavy machine guns are completely life harvesters on the battlefield.

Seeing that the bullets fired by this thing smashed the wooden dummy hundreds of meters away into pieces, all the guests watching the battle gasped.The Haihan Rifle's lethality is already very powerful, and it also creates a monster that can fire in bursts. If it goes to the battlefield, how many lives will it cost?

Jin Shangjiu, the North Korean envoy, also ignored the follow-up link of building a field position, and asked Yan Chujie tremblingly: "Master Yan, this sharp weapon...has it been equipped in the Haihan Army?"

Yan Chujie nodded, "We expect that each battalion will be equipped with eight to ten of these weapons in the future to make up for the lack of firepower."

Jin Shangjiu was speechless for a while, your Haihan army is still complaining about the lack of firepower, so what level is the army of other countries?
Jin Shangjiu had a fairly good understanding of the Haihan military system, so he immediately calculated that there were ten battalions of the Seventh Army Division under the jurisdiction of the East China Sea Region, so why should they be equipped with eighty to one hundred such weapons?

With the firepower of this thing, even if it faces thousands of troops, it should not be defeated.

The second thought that immediately came to his mind was that Daming was suffering.With such a sharp weapon in the Haihan army, even if Da Ming gathered a large army, it would be difficult to win him over on the frontal battlefield.

As for whether he could spend money to buy this thing, Jin Shangjiu did not dare to expect extravagantly.He knew that Haihan's new weapons were only used for display, but they would not be included in the arms sales list.This thing is so powerful that it will not be sold outside for at least ten years.

However, the display time for this new type of weapon was very short. Before everyone could enjoy watching it, the Haihan Army had already put away the treasure, dismantled it into several large pieces, wrapped it in a tarpaulin, and carried it to the carriage.

What they didn't know was that the imitation of this type of Maxim heavy machine gun was not actually mass-produced, let alone installed in the army, and only two samples were used for display in the military exercise, and they had to be returned to Tian Du's arsenal after the exercise was over.

The lethality of the heavy machine gun is powerful, but with Haihan's current level of military engineering, the cost of manufacturing this thing is still quite high.

And because the rate of fire of the heavy machine gun is too fast, up to [-] rounds per minute, almost a hundred times that of ordinary rifles, this will greatly shorten the life of the gun body parts, and the related problems have not been solved so far.It looks cool, but in fact some parts may be scrapped after two boxes of bullets are fired.

Another problem that cannot be ignored is the ammunition consumption of heavy machine guns. The basic amount of ammunition for a heavy machine gun is equivalent to that of an infantry company, and the ammunition used must be manufactured on a separate production line.

Yan Chujie's claim that a battalion is equipped with eight to ten heavy machine guns is just an exaggeration to scare people. If it is really equipped with so many heavy machine guns, the military expenditure of the entire Haihan Army is estimated to increase by [-]%.

But for the guests watching the military exercise, the short appearance of this thing has already caused a great impact on them. No one will think about the combat performance and cost of use. Everyone has the same thought in their minds—is there any way to make their own troops resist such weapons?
(End of this chapter)