Mao Fushou left, to be precise, he ran away. He was afraid that he would sign the terrifying piece of paper with impulse, and then the military expenditure of the first battalion was 400,000 taels, which was too terrifying.
What’s even more terrifying is that a random battle costs tens of thousands of taels of silver. The more you think about it, the more terrifying it becomes.
The white-famous crane can only sigh.
"Do you want to take the elite route?"
"No, Lord Yu. In fact, I hope that the entire Ming army will be equipped with top-level equipment. Of course, it will definitely not be so silver anymore. The more you spend, it should be the cost of training. An excellent archer needs to be trained for at least five years, and an excellent musketeer can go to the battlefield in three months."
Bai Minghe and Mao Fushou are calculated based on the battalion in the field. One battalion has 4,000 soldiers and 1,000 auxiliary soldiers. Miscellaneous soldiers are not included in the soldiers and are considered as a kind of service.
Yu Qian used another calculation method:
"White-name He, when the number of registered soldiers in the Ming Dynasty was the largest in Yongle year, there were 2.8 million. Although the number of registered soldiers in recent years was much smaller, there were more than 2 million. At present, the 17th Ministry of the Ming Dynasty, 329 external guards, 65 guards, 4 overseas guards, and 7 thousand households. Based on the calculation of 400,000 taels of one guard, the military weapons alone is over 100 million taels of silver. This is not considered the maintenance cost."
"I don't care. As long as the equipment of the 400,000 taels of silver battalion is well-trained and ammunition is sufficient. Master Yu believes that how many times the enemy can be fought in the plains?"
The question of Bai Minghe made Yu Qian feel a little moved.
The idea of ​​promoting the development of muskets is that Yu Qian believes that musket soldiers are easier to train, and they are not weak in destructive power when well-trained. They can at least face three times the enemy without losing.
So how many enemies can Bai Minghe, a well-trained battalion of troops created by this super gorgeous weapon?
To be honest, Yu Qian is looking forward to it.
Bai Minghe finally threw a harsh sentence: "Mr. Yu is really well-trained and ammunition. Even if there are a million troops, they can only pile up a circle of corpses and city walls around this battalion within a three hundred steps. Unless the million troops can all be put into battle."
Why can't all millions of troops be put into battle?
It is necessary to explain to ordinary civil servant Baiminghe, but not to humble one.
A camp of one million people can occupy a range of several square kilometers. It is enough for a camp to have such a large football field.
Even if you are surrounded and fight on all sides, it is just a few hundred meters of defense. The upper limit of the troops that can be invested in these hundreds of meters of defense. For firearm wars, the more you invest, the faster you kill here.
Shotball cannons, incendiary bullets, grenades, etc. are not weapons that can exert large-scale killing power.
"I'll try it out and see if there is any possibility for anyone to try the top equipment. The worst thing is to exceed 100,000 taels!"
After saying that, Yu Qian looked back at the ordnance samples in the warehouse, clenched his fists very hard, and walked out. Even people like Mao Fushou were not tempted. Then the other generals were either overly conservative or overly cautious.
After Yu Qian left, Fan Liang came to Bai Minghe and said, "I'll go!" Fan Liang's number of men was less than the first battalion, but he was very familiar with firearms. They had been testing guns and gun testers for too long.
"no!"
Bai Minghe refused, but also gave Fan Liang a reason: "This is the first attempt to reform the military system in the Ming Dynasty. It is necessary for those generals who believe in Steel Flow to know how the Fire God Flow plays. You will definitely not lose if you fight, but they may not believe it, and they may think it is just a show."
"After they saw the ghost fire soul-chasing bullet, they knew what was terrible!" Fan Liang also suggested using some pigs and sheep as living targets at that time, but the white-named crane refused. But the intention was that a little Mars stuck to a rabbit in the field, just a little Mars. The tragic situation of the rabbit burning and seeing bones asked Fan Liang and others to name the shell, the ghost fire soul-chasing bullet.
White phosphorus bombs are poisonous. But it is not just as simple as fire can't be extinguished.
In later international conventions, phosphorus incendiary bombs are taboo items and are only used as flares and may not be used as lethal ammunition.
The phosphorus of the white-famous crane was extracted by Taoists. Not to mention whether the purity is high, anyway, the toxicity is definitely stronger than that of later generations.
It is a taboo in modern times, but for the Ming soldiers who used to apply arsenic to weapons, they had no objection to this weapon. What can kill the enemy is good things.
All the white phosphorus bombs are soaked in the bucket, with dedicated people in mind, and they are constantly adding water to the bucket to maintain the water level of the bucket. At least at present, there is no better way to store it, just because this thing is so scary. When the weather is a little hot, the air can start to burn.
Even in winter, this kind of taboo weapon must be kept in a bucket. Of course, most of them have been carried outside the house and frozen into ice. This ice cube will still be soaked in the water, and the soldiers feel relieved.
Following Bai Minghe out of the warehouse, Fan Liang said: "I have always believed that the Liaoxi Wei guards have been guarding the bitter and cold land for many years and are truly strong men, but they just asked for inferior equipment."
"No, it's not that they are not strong enough, but that they are not used to firearms. Just tell me closer that the Japanese are still used to fighting with ships and fighting swords. They don't know what giant ship guns are. Besides, the previous mesh guns were too bad, and they may not be able to shoot three or four arrows, and they are also small."
The ones selected by Liaoxi are already the top equipment in their minds.
A heavy cavalry with iron armor was truly organized, with full armor, horses wearing armor, Tang-style horse lances, Song-style rifles, cavalry crossbows, combined long and short war knives, melee short swords, etc. In the era of cold weapons, this was already the peak equipment. Retreat for hundreds of years and equip the Song Dynasty with an army of 100,000. As long as there are no people like Qin Hui, the logistics can be easily destroyed by logistics.
Of course, that Temujin is also included.
The white-known crane was discussing these generals, and the generals were also discussing the white-known crane.
The Grand Governor of Liaodong Town, a second-rank military officer, stood on the school ground and watched his subordinates perform martial arts. The power of the 10,000 iron armored heavy cavalry with a fish scale formation is enough to face the 100,000 grassland cavalry. This steel full-body armor can face the 100,000 arrow rain and flatten the enemy.
"General, there are too many 12,000 people. We don't have enough high-quality horses at present. The heavy and medium-quality horses cannot hold on to the charge twice. The number of high-quality horses is considered to be suitable for eight thousand heavy horses."
The demand for heavy riding is too high, even if the equipment is usually carried by other horses, it is just wartime equipment.
But you must be able to support more than three group charges, otherwise the meaning of heavy cavalry will be gone.
The Liaodong Governor didn't say anything, just looked at the cavalry silently.
The very powerful heavy-armed cavalry was strong, very strong, so powerful that it exceeded his imagination. Such equipment was something they had never dared to imagine before. The stainless steel plate armor was incredible defense. The ordinary knife cut it and only left a trace, and the bow and arrow flew directly.
There is no place for people to attack all over the body, who can defeat such a force?
Thinking of this, the Governor of Liaodong Town asked his subordinates:
"You said, who can defeat such a heavy cavalry? This is just a 37,000 taels of silver in the first battalion. If no one can defeat it, what is the meaning of any expensive armament?"
"General, when the Fujian Navy fought against the Japanese Sea, there was a new cannon called the Shenwei General Cannon, with a range of six miles. One shot turned a Japanese sea ship into a broken wooden board. The subordinates thought that the cannon in the catalog weighed three stones and four feet and seven inches and had a range of six hundred steps. If one hundred cannons were placed in the platoon, our heavy cavalry would probably be difficult to get close to!"
The meaning of this subordinate is very obvious. He doesn't use top artillery at all. Ordinary artillery clusters can deal with heavy cavalry.
Whoever rules must use heavy riding to show off?
"General, I have read the document for the plate armor test. Of course, the bow and arrow are not a problem. Muskets can also be prevented, but the armor will be damaged. It cannot prevent grenades and shotguns, so I requested to try the fast light cavalry and heavy artillery clusters."
These generals were somewhat interested in muskets and cannons, after all, they had amazing lethality.
But they still did not get rid of the old ideas and were still thinking about how to use these heavy weapons to assist their heavy cavalry or heavy infantry combat.
However, this is already an improvement.
"You will continue to train, and I will talk to the other governors. This IOU has been beaten, and there are no thorns with a size of several kilowatts. I guess we will only eat pickles next year. It is clear that Minghe silver is definitely not good, remember this." The Governor of Liaodong thought it was necessary to listen to the thoughts of other generals.
Why is it hard to owe the money of Baiminghe? There are no cases to check.
But I felt that Bai Minghe’s money was not easy to owe, so this rumor emerged over time.
As for why it is not easy to owe, no one can explain it clearly, but one thing is certain. This time it is probably even harder to owe it, because the IOU was left in the Ministry of War, and the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was determined to avenge the Tumu Fort, so this time, the dressing of each army must be repaid with merits.
The governor of Liaodong Town entered the city and came to a restaurant in the east of the city. This restaurant was a business in charge of Baiminghe Mansion.
Because it is close to the Dongchang Yamen, and several streets of Baiminghe's maritime shopping malls, and not far from the Bai Mansion. Recently, it has become a favorite gathering place for dignitaries and nobles, and they can also owe debts. Of course, there are countless ways to repay, such as selling calligraphy and paintings.
Several governors are already discussing here.
Someone said: "This musket is very good. After training, the photobullets were fired for 500 taels of silver."
Chapter completed!