I want to be emperor

Chapter 825 How many crops of leeks can be cut

The 34th year of Chengshun can be called the year when the breech-loading rifled weapons of the Great Chu Empire broke out.

Although in the 20s, the Great Chu Empire had already developed a breech-loading rifle, at that time there was already a Type [-] breech-loading rifle.

However, the Model [-] breech-loading rifles back then were far from mature, with serious air leakage, and the barrel processing technology was not up to standard, and no mature paper-wrapped bullets were produced back then.

Therefore, the Type [-] rear-loading rifle was a very purely experimental product, and the equipment was shelved after hundreds of units were produced for testing.

Well, during the test that year, the air leak was very serious, and many soldiers were burned by the high-temperature gas after the propellant was ignited during the test.

This is also an important reason why the Type [-] rear-loading rifle was abandoned.

Because no one wants a rifle that burns the eyes of their own soldiers at every turn, and it is still an expensive rifle.

A few years later, the early model of the Type [-] rifle was successfully developed. Compared with the Type [-] rifle, it has been greatly improved, especially in terms of air leakage.

The rubber gasket was adopted, and the paper-wrapped bomb was improved at the same time, and the primer was changed from the middle part of the paper-wrapped bomb to the bottom.

This is the original model of the Type [-] rifle that Luo Zhixue saw in Tianjin when he was on the northern tour.

However, this original model for firing paper-wrapped bullets has not been formally served, and only a small amount is produced for experimental equipment... The reasons are, on the one hand, it is too expensive, and on the other hand, the military is waiting for metal bullets.

In the 30 years since Chengshun, the Great Chu Empire has made a decisive breakthrough in the research and development of copper-cased fixed bullets. The Type [-] rifle has become the first rifle to adapt to new bullets, and has been improved to adapt to metal bullets.

The rubber gasket was cancelled, and the Type 32 rifle with an improved bolt mechanism, after a series of rigorous tests, was finally officially finalized in the [-]nd year of Chengshun, and then began to enter service in the Guards in batches, and the Army also began to be small. Scale procurement use.

Therefore, this rifle is fully loaded and counted. In fact, it has only been in service for more than a year. The number of equipment in the early stage is not much, and the output is not large. After all, the construction of the production line also takes time.

Now that Chengshun has entered the 34th year, the output of this type of rifle has gradually increased. Now the output of Hebei Weapons Company has climbed to an annual output of about [-].

It is estimated that by next year, the annual output of Hebei Weapons Company's 20-type rifles will reach 30, and the year after that will reach 30, and will remain at [-] for many years until it meets the requirements of the Army and the near Until the full facelift of the guards.

Of course, during this process, the Type [-] rifle will continue to be improved to improve performance as much as possible while reducing production costs... Hebei Weapons Company will not always produce for you at a loss.

Losing money in the early stage and reducing costs to make money in the later stage is the overall strategy of Hebei Weapons Company.

And this rifle, including the final output of subsequent improved models, is very likely to reach more than 200 million pieces, becoming the second standard rifle in the Great Chu Empire with an output exceeding 200 million pieces.

As for the first one?
That was a 13-year-old flintlock gun many years ago!

Although this thing has already withdrawn from the army's active service, the output of that year was quite huge... There are more than a dozen types of its basic model and subsequent improved models, and it is equipped with the four major armed forces and ordinary domestic patrol law enforcement forces. At the same time, it is also the standard weapon of the militia and is still sold among the people.

There is no clear data on the specific output, but it is conservatively estimated that more than 300 million pieces have been produced...

This does not include the export model that was improved from this flintlock gun... There are also several types of flintlock guns exported by the Great Chu Empire, some of which were improved from the old antique two-year-style flintlock gun, and the firing rate At about 70.00% of the low-end models, there have also been mid-to-high-end models improved from the 13-year-style flintlock guns in recent years, and the 13-year-style flintlock guns of these export versions are still produced in small batches, only It is the second firearms factory of Liangguang Arms Company that produces thousands of rifles of this type every year for export.

If the improved export models are also counted, at least 13 million of the 400-year series of rifles have been produced, and this number is still increasing.

After all, the export scale of the Great Chu Empire's flintlock guns is quite large. In the past ten years, the Ottoman Empire alone has purchased about 20 flintlock guns of various types from the Great Chu Empire.

Spain and England are also big fans of the imperial flintlock. The Spaniards purchased 31 15-year-style flintlock guns at one time in the 13st year of Chengshun.

The English have also purchased nearly [-] sticks in the past four or five years.

Not to mention these countries, even the Dutch and Portuguese who had been at war with the people of Chu State, actually purchased a large number of flintlock guns from the State of Chu...

When Chu State expands overseas, it often encounters indigenous people holding Chu State weapons... But neither the military nor the domestic high-level officials have any opinion on this.

After all, wars belong to wars, and business belongs to business...

Of course, the most important thing is that only the flintlock guns are exported, and even the percussion guns are not exported at present. The weapons and equipment of the domestic army and even the militia are several generations ahead of the exported weapons in terms of performance.

To put it bluntly, the export of weapons does not pose any real threat to Chu State itself. In this case, it still has to be earned if it can make money.

Moreover, during the war, some flintlock guns or matchlock guns sold by Chu State were often seized. Once these spoils were changed hands by the military, they would be sold to the natives through the channel of the arms trading company... The customers who bought these spoils, Perhaps they were still the natives who had just been defeated by the Chu army.

After all, local sales save transportation costs!

As the Chu State officially equips breech-loading rifles on a large scale, it is also because the aborigines have gradually popularized matchlock guns, and the European region has begun to popularize flintlock guns.

In the future, the 13-year-style flintlock will also replace the low-end flintlock and arquebus, becoming Chu's main export weapon.

Of course, low-end flintlock guns and even matchlock guns will continue to be sold.

It's hard to say about other places, but in America and Africa.Matchlock guns in India are very easy to sell.

After all, not all indigenous areas will barely enter the civilization period like the European area, and begin to use flintlock guns on a large scale.

The aborigines in many places were still in the era of cold weapons. For them, the arquebus of the Chu people was already an epoch-making product.

The arms trading company of the Great Chu Empire has always cut as many crops of leeks as possible. If they can sell cold weapons, they will never sell matchlock guns, and if they can sell matchlock guns, they will definitely not sell flintlock guns... Generally speaking Only local weapons and equipment have been upgraded to a certain level.

Well, this level of weaponry refers specifically to the ability of the local indigenous people to make their own weapons!

Europeans were able to make their own flintlock guns. Although the flintlock guns they made were not very good, the Chu people still exported and dumped flintlock guns to Europeans on a large scale.

Indians, some Nanyang aborigines, etc., can make their own matchlock guns, so the state of Chu will export and dump matchlock guns to them.

Some other more backward aborigines can't even make matchlock guns...the Chu people sold them swords and spears, and let these aborigines have swords and swords...

Therefore, the arms export of the Great Chu Empire is relatively complicated, and the types of weapons mainly sold by arms trading companies in different regions are also different.

But there is one thing in common, that is, they are all very profitable.

The money you can earn from buying a broadsword and spear is no less than buying a flintlock gun.

This has also led to the five major weapon companies in the Great Chu Empire, which basically produce all kinds of weapons, from low-end primitive swords, spears, bows and arrows, to matchlock guns, flintlock guns, and antique smoothbore guns with high performance. Bronze smoothbore guns with better performance, iron smoothbore guns, etc., and even in order to meet the needs of users in some specific areas, there are all kinds of messy cold weapons.

For example, the scimitar that the West Asians like to use, the cross sword that the Europeans like to use, basically as long as you are famous and have cold weapons that users need, you can basically find them in the product catalogs of the five major weapon companies.

However, these exported weapons and equipment are several generations behind. The Chu army is active or even retired, but the weapons and equipment that can pose a threat to the Chu army, the Chu army still does not sell them.

This is true of percussion guns, and even more so of breech-loading rifles.

It may take decades or even longer for breech-loading rifled guns to be exported, depending on how the strength of the indigenous countries improves.

If those indigenous countries had always been like this, the Great Chu Empire would never have exported breech-loading rifled weapons.

No matter what the future holds, at least for now, the breech-loading rifled guns of the Great Chu Empire have only their own market for the time being, especially the military and police market.

And these markets are also limited. Even for an epoch-making weapon such as the Type 200 rifle, it is estimated that the final output will only be [-] million pieces, and it is unlikely that there will be more.

As for the other breech-loading rifles, production is expected to be even less.

For example, the Qiming rifle produced by Songjiang Firearms Factory is currently only used by armed tax police, and the final output is estimated to be only tens of thousands.

But in any case, the Great Chu Empire served three types of breech-loading rifles at the same time, and there were also multiple types of breech-loading rifles by the way. Variety.

And these changes have a greater impact on the battlefield.

In the winter and November of the 34th year of Chengshun, in Jinshan Prefecture, North America, hundreds of army soldiers carrying 34-type cavalry guns and a 75mm mountain cannon of the [-]th year pulled a lot of horsepower and crossed the Jinshan Mountains into the Inland areas of central North America.

They didn't come to visit the mountains and rivers, but to encircle and suppress a local indigenous tribe.

Half a month ago, a nearby settlement of the Chu State was attacked by nearly a thousand natives, causing considerable casualties and looting a large amount of food and livestock. Inaction expresses strong protest!

This incident made the No. 20 Sixth Army executives stationed in Jinshan Mansion very passive!
After all, the headquarters of No.20 Sixth Army is in Jinshan City. At the same time, No.20 Sixth Army, as the only regular army of the Army in America, shoulders the strategic task of guarding the entire North America.

And deployed more than 1 troops in Jinshanfu, a key development area in North America, including most of the No. 16 Division, the first-class division.

In Jinshan Mansion, it can be said that the regular army has a lot of troops, coupled with the strength of the local militia, the defense capability is quite strong.

In the end, those natives came in and attacked an immigrant settlement!

It would be fine if the aborigines infiltrated on a small scale, but there was still an aboriginal force of nearly a thousand people. It was the army's dereliction of duty that they failed to detect and intercept them in advance.

On the governor's office in North America, it doesn't count if you directly spray the military, and you are planning to write a report and return to China to impeach the military.

The No. 20 Sixth Army's top brass lost face, and they may even be reprimanded by the country. Naturally, it's impossible to just let it go.

The top leaders of the No.20 Sixth Army, who became angry from embarrassment, directly mobilized the elite troops of the No.20 Sixth Army to attack, intending to catch the indigenous tribes who had the guts to attack the immigrant settlements of Chu State on a large scale, and then smash them to ashes!
The first battalion under the No. 16 Third Regiment of the No. 60 Division accepted this task.

The battalion is the No.16 Division, and it is also the first unit in the entire North American region to be replaced with a rear-loading rifle, that is, the Type [-] rifle.

The unit has not only changed its equipment, but even its organization has been changed according to the new rifles. It has been downsized from six infantry posts in the past to four infantry companies.

This is also the first time that the state of Chu adopted the titles of company, platoon, and squad, and abandoned the previous titles such as sentry, team, and squad.

There are three platoons in a row, and three squads in a row. Each squad has 14 people. In an infantry squad, in addition to the squad leader, there will also be a deputy squad leader and a senior non-commissioned officer.

When performing some complex battles, the squad leader, deputy squad leader, and senior non-commissioned officer can lead four soldiers respectively to form three relatively independent five-man combat teams.

The reason why there are three battle teams is not for any kind of three-three system tactics, but for the convenience of command. After all, it is difficult for the squad leader to directly command [-] people, and he must have a deputy to assist him.

At the same time, it is also to implement roundabout offensive tactics. During the Burmese battlefield, the small-scale troops of the Chu army often fought in this way: four or five people formed a combat team from the front, and used bunkers to shoot the front to contain and suppress the enemy.

Two combat groups, also composed of four or five people, made a two-wing detour... and finally formed a state of three-sided attack on the enemy.

After pondering and researching it, the high-level military leaders felt that this basic detour tactic was very reliable...so they confirmed the tactic adopted spontaneously by the grassroots soldiers on the front line.

Other establishments are basically clarified in actual combat, such as reducing the infantry post from six to four infantry companies.

It is because it was found in actual combat that because of the use of breech-loading rifles, after the combat interval between soldiers was increased, the expansion of an infantry battalion was enlarged, which also made it difficult for the battalion officer to command the six infantry posts that were too wide open.

After actual combat and simulations, the senior military finally believed that it is the best choice for a battalion officer to directly command four directly subordinate combat units, with moderate distance and efficient information processing.

And when it came to the company, because of the same problem, it became a more suitable choice for the company commander to directly command the three platoons.

The reason for setting up three classes directly in the platoon is the same.

The new generation of skirmish tactics in the Great Chu Empire Army was finally finalized based on the many characteristics of breech-loading rifles and skirmish tactics!

This kind of organization is actually not for strengthening firepower or other things, it is purely for the convenience of commanding.

In addition to the four infantry companies, this new battalion had a logistics platoon.

As for the artillery, of course there is no... After all, this is only an infantry battalion with a few hundred people, and artillery is generally only allocated to regiment-level troops, and it is only temporarily sent to the infantry battalion for cooperative operations during battles.

It's just that the infantry artillery used at the regiment level has not yet been developed. The artillery support of the new infantry combat now requires division-level 75mm mountain artillery.

Such a battalion, combat infantry plus logistics personnel, messengers and other auxiliary personnel, can reach a scale of more than 600 people, and it is equipped with a large number of mules and horses.

There are fewer personnel than in the previous line era, but the combat effectiveness has doubled.

The first battalion under the No.16 Third Regiment of the No.60 Division belonged to such a battalion. In addition to this battalion, the marching Chu army also had a cavalry post, an artillery platoon, and a supply company.

The new troops are also all equipped with breech-loading rifled guns.

These three troops formed a temporary mixed battalion with a total strength of about a thousand people.

In order to deal with those daring local aborigines, the local high-ranking Chu army directly dispatched their only new-style mixed battalion.

(End of this chapter)