Throne of Vientiane Civilization

When Peter's letter was delivered, the large group of immigrants had just set out. At this point in time, they were probably still halfway there.

Considering the mobility efficiency of large forces, it should be late summer by the time they arrive.

Peter was not surprised at all. He waited until the spring farming work was completed before arranging another group of immigrants to come, with the main goal of using them up and then discarding them.

However, this batch of immigrants was quite large in number, numbering over ten thousand, so Zhou Xu didn't say anything.

After all, he plans to have long-term cooperation with Peter in the area of ​​immigration.

If there is any advantage between the Smith Party and the Rakshasa Republican Party, it would be the population.

The fundamental reason is that during the "Smith Kingdom" period, slave owners basically treated slaves as livestock.

This refers not only to labor, but also to childbirth.

In order to ensure that there are enough slaves for their use, they will let the slaves give birth continuously.

As for pregnancy, childbirth, and even the risk of child death after birth, they don't consider it at all.

If you can survive, live; if you can’t, give birth again.

In their opinion, there were plenty of slaves anyway.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The Guards' musketeers were divided into three rows, and each time they launched an attack with three bursts.

Accompanied by the beating of drums, they sometimes opened fire and sometimes advanced, and the whole set of tactical drills became more and more proficient.

The key here lies in the drummer who advances with the troops.

To be precise, he should be the signalman of this unit, and his status is equivalent to that of the messenger before.

He used special drum beats to signal the musketeers when to fire and when to advance.

For musketeers, volley fire is very important, and they need to ensure lethality and strike area through large-scale volley fire.

But on the battlefield, the environment is too noisy, and coupled with the loud gunfire, it is difficult to ensure that orders can be conveyed accurately.

For this purpose, a drummer was specially assigned to take on this task.

At this moment, outside the training ground, Zhou Xu's eyes flashed with satisfaction as he watched the guards' skillful tactical drills.

Originally, he was thinking of equipping all the musketeers with bayonets in accordance with the ideas of modern troops. In this way, the musketeers could be developed into a long-range and short-range combined force.

But after initial attempts, the results were not ideal.

Equipped with a bayonet, the musket is essentially used as a spear after switching to close combat, in order to form a spear formation to resist the sudden attack of enemy cavalry.

But as we all know, the spear formation requires dense positioning to show its power.

Since the matchlock musket needs to be ignited, it would be dangerous if the soldiers stood too close together. For safety reasons, each musketeer had to keep a suitable distance.

In this situation, once the enemy cavalry suddenly appeared, they had no way to quickly form a formation to fight against the cavalry.

At the same time, due to its design, the bayonet basically only has the ability to stabbing, but not much chopping ability. If there is no one around the soldiers to form a formation and cover the flanks, it will be very dangerous.

In this way, during the actual testing process, after summarizing various reasons, it is better to equip the musketeers with a sword around their waist, which can be used for stabbing, slashing, parrying and blocking, and is more flexible and comprehensive to use.

Therefore, it is useless to just think about the research and development of equipment. No matter how beautiful and reasonable your idea is, you will not be able to discover many problems unless you deploy it on a large scale and let the soldiers use it.

As of now, the research, development, and manufacturing of matchlock guns, as well as related tactical drills within the Great Zhou have become relatively mature. The only thing missing is that they have not undergone the test of the battlefield.

However, judging from the current international trends, there will probably be no war in the next few years.

Now that they in the Great Zhou Dynasty are developing and manufacturing matchlock rifles, it is purely to lay the foundation for the further development of flintlock rifles and even the later M1891.

Anyway, by the time matchlock guns are eliminated on a large scale, there will be two buyers ready to take over.

Even at that time, if the Saint Laurent Empire is also interested in matchlock guns, their business in this area can be even bigger, and they can directly become the largest arms leader on the coalition side.

Of course, this is all later.

There were two things he needed to worry about right now. One was who to sell the next batch of individual crossbows that were eliminated in the spring to? The other, of course, was the United Nations conference that Saint Laurent I had been tossing around.

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As for the United Nations, we will probably have to wait until autumn to confirm the list and location.

He is now busy looking for someone to take over.

I quickly wrote another letter to Fisher, saying that Peter had raised the price.

In order to improve the efficiency of communication between the two sides, Zhou Xu dispatched a team of Giant Eagle Knights to be responsible for this business.

Considering the profits from this business, it is totally worth it.

With the Giant Eagle Knight transmitting the message, the overall communication efficiency would naturally be greatly improved.

Zhou Xu had originally thought that this matter might not be able to be concluded this summer.

Unexpectedly, I actually caught up with it.

During this period, the immigrants arranged by Peter also successfully arrived at the northeastern fortress of their Great Zhou.

The first time is new, the second time is familiar. The second time dealing with this large-scale immigration issue, the Northeast Fortress was undoubtedly much more at ease than the previous time.

They first counted the number of immigrants before confirming the panel and conducting a detailed population register.

Because he had to bid with Fisher, Peter made up his mind this time and transferred 20,000 people at once.

Taking into account some situations that may occur on the road, some people may be lost, so the actual number is closer to 21,000.

Now Peter's idea is very simple. With Zhou Xu, he is just like a member who has opened a membership card.

This batch of immigrants is equivalent to the money he puts into the card. Even if he fails in the bidding this time, the money can remain in the card and wait for the next bidding.

He can even recharge the account until the next auction.

Just like Gilt said before, even if the transaction price is ridiculously high, they will definitely buy one or two batches.

Otherwise, the gap in military strength between the two sides is too big. Once Fisher overturns the table, they will be killed directly. They cannot afford this risk!