The production and quality of flintlock pistols have come up, and Lu Hanqiang is ready to be blackmailed by others, close to 20 taels of silver a shot of fire, and not first equipped in his four infantry columns, the reason is that the original training of his own guns is all spearmen, which is the most mature.
In later novels, there are many people who combine the fire and pikemen together, which is actually wrong, just like a group of mules and horses in the transport team, they have to mix a lot of car soldiers, they can't coordinate, the end result is that the mule and horse soldiers are disrupted by the car soldiers, and the car soldiers are restricted by the mule and horse soldiers, and finally become a nondescript thing.
As a result, Lu Hanqiang decided that the fire commander would give priority to equipping Zhou Chujun's marines.
The Zhou Chujun Marine Corps that he has just formed, unlike the army he now controls, he is completely a kind of raid and offensive troops, in them, the pikemen are simply a constraint, because the pikemen need a complete formation, absolute discipline, and steady progress, once the speed of advance is too fast, the entire formation will be dragged down, and there will be countless loopholes, which has been reflected in the last rescue of Chen Liang, this problem can not be made again, and there is when the two sides start a broadside battle at sea, Sticking a gun is simply useless.
There is another sharp weapon that cannot be used in the Marine Corps, and that is the Lu's longbow.
In fact, this thing is good, but the limitations are also very large, in the dry north, it is definitely a weapon to kill the enemy, but to the humid weather in the south, it exposes its simple workmanship, low cost shortcomings and fear of moisture.
This weapon is even more useless for the Marines, in the damp and salty sea breeze, a longbow has just been taken out and exposed to the air, and almost immediately loses its elasticity, and the longbowmen can only use it as a stick.
At the beginning, Lu Hanqiang's idea was to organize the entire Marine Corps into an offensive team, and attack the enemy with a flexible sword and shield formation and a straggler line charge, of course, this is also a way to do it.
But this time, it's okay, at this time, I have trained the steel, and with the support of Master Sun Yuanhua, I can create a fire system, which is the most conducive to attacking in the advance, and it is also the direction of the subsequent army development.
However, the cost is indeed high, even if Sun Yuanhua's blackmail against himself is removed, each fire system will cost ten taels of silver, 10,000 marines, 10,000 fully equipped, and at least 10,000 spare, 20,000 firearms, at least 200,000 taels of silver, which can already build 400,000 guns, which is still secondary, the most important thing is that it consumes a huge amount, whether it is gunpowder or lead, it needs money, that is to say, Zhou Chujun is fully equipped with firearms of 10,000 marines, The military expenses they need are at least equal to the cost of 500,000 spearmen, and when Xu Jie calculated this money, the entire Fuliao army was resolutely opposed.
This includes Zhou Chujun and Wu Sangui, because in their eyes, the lives of soldiers do not need much money.
In the end, it was Lu Hanqiang who withstood all the pressure, and finally made a statement, resolutely equipping Zhou Chujun and Wu Sangui's marines with high-quality fireworks, and directly transferred 2,000 captured minions to Shandong, and set up the most tightly controlled gunpowder workshop in the camp of the marines, so as to directly supply a large amount of gunpowder for the training of the marines.
At this time, Zhou Chujun and Wu Sangui also saw that Lu Hanqiang attached great importance to his own troops, and they did their best to strive for excellence in training and in any other aspect, so as not to embarrass Lu Hanqiang.
Thus, in the Ming Dynasty, the first army with completely sophisticated firearms appeared, and will go to the most dazzling stage of war in the future.
And Lu Hanqiang's gift to Zhang Dakou, the sailor of Denglai, made Zhang Dake extremely excited, because it was a huge steel arm crossbow.
After testing, the firing distance of these steel-armed crossbows was twice that of the original bow and crossbow, reaching an incredible 1,000 paces, and in terms of the frequency of use, it was also doubled from less than 50 times in the sea breeze, and the power of the explosives bags he could carry was also unprecedented.
It is conceivable that if his own sailor is equipped with such a natural artifact, in this era, he will be invincible in all corners of the world within at least ten years.
When Sun Yuanhua, a science fan, received the steel gift from Lu Hanqiang, he immediately trembled with excitement, because his first thought was that the artillery of the Ming Dynasty would completely undergo a revolutionary change.
The use of steel to forge artillery, coupled with the iron mold casting method that he had just invented, has more than doubled the output, and the gun body will be lighter, the service life will be longer, and the firing range will be longer, especially the steel casting Franc cannon, the shooting will be faster With these prerequisites, Sun Yuanhua confidently gave an index to Lu Hanqiang, this year, first receive a deposit of 300 artillery pieces from the southern maritime merchants, and then use this deposit to give you 500 Fran machine guns to equip the Shandong Naval Division, of course, you have to give me 50,000 stone of steel, but I am a reasonable person, and the material is yours, so on the top, I only charge you labor fees, that is, 2,000 taels of silver for each Franco machine, Lu Hanqiang gladly accepted this number, but Lu Hanqiang later found out that he had been fooled, because Sun Yuanhua was talking about equipping Shandong Denglai Sailors, which is your Shandong Sailors, not mine, how can I pay for it.
Thinking about this joint, Lu Hanqiang, who was angry at the time, directly kicked over a cute Tiger Zun cannon in front of him, the reason is that there is no need for this thing to exist anymore, and at the same time, let himself really make fire, his own materials, but let people earn two thousand taels of silver per cannon in vain, and the materials he took out turned out to be three times the materials of each cannon, and your Sun Yuanhua is too dark Complaining is complaining, but also helpless, who let themselves have no professional talents, the value of talent is much higher than the value of artillery, at this point Lu Hanqiang is absolutely open, although he showed gritted teeth to everyone, but in his heart has blossomed, the original more than 10,000 taels of silver and a cannon, now cheap to this extent, Lu Hanqiang began to fantasize, in the near future, the front line of his entire Fuliao army, 10,000 artillery roared, what kind of spectacular scene is that, of course, the bed crossbow can not give up, Although this thing is closer than the range of artillery, its power is greater than that of artillery, and everything is slowly changing t1706231537: