Alexey just laughed at Li Xiao's rant, because although Li Xiao was right about this matter, not everyone can be as foreseeable as him. After all, the weapons produced before were already very
That’s right, it’s certainly unreasonable to continue to invest repeatedly in it!
Even Alexei knew that even after the new rifle and new ammunition showed unparalleled superiority, not everyone felt that the investment was necessary. For example, Vishnyak thought that the cost of new ammunition was too high.
It's too high and can't be used at all.
As for Leonid, who refused to invest from the beginning, he even believed that newer rifles and ammunition were a complete waste and a meaningless luxury.
The saint brother believed that paper shell ammunition and hinged breech guns without rifling were good enough. He believed that if we continued to use some "flashy" weapons, it would affect the fighting spirit of soldiers.
He always believed that the most important thing for a soldier was courage, and believed that a group of brave and fearless soldiers armed with knives and forks could defeat a group of cowards armed with the latest rifles but without any fighting spirit.
Whenever it came time to discuss the effectiveness of new rifles, Leonid would quote Suvorov's words from the book "The Science of Victory" that he most admired: "The bayonet is a hero, the bullet is a fool."
Obviously Leonid is actually quite conservative in a sense. His understanding of war has always been constrained by the aristocratic rules and regulations. Even though he can see the power of new tactics and new weapons, he can't help but
I still want to maintain the tradition.
And whenever he quoted Suvorov's words, Li Xiao would immediately retort, telling him that Suvorov's original intention was not literal, but to warn the commander not to allow soldiers to shoot indiscriminately and blindly. People actually attach great importance to shooting.
In terms of tactics, he is not just a reckless man who only knows how to fight with bayonets.
At this time, the two people will quarrel and eventually break up.
Anyway, Alexei was not interested in discussing the military significance of new rifles and new ammunition with these two people. This would only add fuel to the fire and make the already tense relationship between Li Xiao and Leonid worse.
Of course, overall Alexei still sides with Li Xiao. Even though he and Leonid grew up together, he still feels that Li Xiao is more reliable when it comes to scientific issues.
Especially after he received a report from the National Army some time ago, describing the process of a bandit suppression campaign, he completely recognized the effectiveness of the new weapon.
In that battle, Turkish "horse bandits" who crossed the border from Bulgaria prepared to sack a National Army post. Hundreds of horse bandits relied on their strength to surround the post and launched one round of attacks after another.
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More than 20 National Army soldiers in the post used new rifles on trial and relied on the fortifications to repel seven rounds of their attacks and killed hundreds of bandits. In the end, they only paid a slight cost of five casualties until reinforcements arrived.
This battle example fully illustrates the effectiveness of the new rifle. If it is an old-fashioned rifle, especially those slow muzzle-loading rifles, not to mention twenty people, even two hundred people may not be able to stop the impact of the cavalry.
Alexei believes that if new rifles and new ammunition can be popularized as soon as possible, and relying on stronger fortifications in future wars, the Wallachian National Army’s defenses should be able to withstand the impact of Turkey and other Western forces, and anyway block Turkey
The problem of people is not big.
Of course, how to popularize them is a big problem. The prices of new rifles and new ammunition are indeed not people-friendly and user-friendly enough. In the past half year, the Wallachian National Army only purchased more than 4,000 of them for trial use.
Not only is the price a problem, production capacity is also a big problem. With the production capacity of their arsenal, they can produce about 30 to 50 new rifles every day. In other words, if they start production 356 days a year without rest, they can produce 10,000 to 20,000 rifles a year.
The size of the rifle.
This amount, let alone popularization, cannot even meet the needs of the Wallachian National Army!
In addition, the production capacity of bullets is also a big problem. In the past six months, they have produced a total of one million rounds of ammunition. It seems like a lot? But if you do the math, you will know that the National Army and the Black Sea Fleet now have a total of about 5,000 new rifles.
According to training requirements, Russian recruits should consume no less than 180 rounds of ammunition every year. Five thousand times ninety, this will use up almost 500,000 rounds of ammunition. Then what? If the remaining points are divided equally among the five
Thousands of rifles, how many can be divided into each gun?
What's more, you can't leave a little reserve, right?
Calculated in this way, this little ammunition is not enough to fight a decent battle. It is simply pitiful.
How to expand production capacity has become a key issue. Alexei has also raised this issue with Boris and Vishnyak before, but these two are not very interested. To put it bluntly, they don't want to continue spending money.
This is actually understandable. Although their brothers have made a lot of money in Wallachia over the years, most of the money is actually transferred from left hand to right hand, and they are invested again as soon as they get it back. It really falls to their brothers.
There is not much in one pocket.
Even the big dogs like Li Xiao and Alexey, who took the lead, not only failed to make any money, but had to pay out of their own money to lose money.
That is to say, Li Xiao can still hold on even after taking back his cheap father's property. Alexei feels tight and can only live a miserable life.
"You still have to invest when you need to!" Li Xiao sighed, "I'll take another 200,000 rubles, and you can see how much more we can get. Let's buy another batch of equipment! In addition, we must also strengthen the improvement of technology and worker skills, and dig more
Look at the potential!”
Alexey also smiled bitterly, but he was still a little touched. After all, if he is still willing to invest money in Wallachia under such circumstances, it is definitely true love. Look at Leonid's uncle and old father,
He has long since turned into an iron rooster who never sheds a hair!
"I hope the war breaks out later!" Alexei lamented, "I hope the bureaucrats in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can be more effective!"
The corners of Li Xiao's mouth twitched, but he didn't say anything, because now he could only pray. After a while, he suddenly asked: "By the way, what are Boris and Vishniak doing recently? They haven't seen each other for a long time.
See them!"
Alexey curled his lips and said: "I am busy preparing for the wedding, and I may have to take leave to go back to Moscow in the near future. As for Vishnyak, it seems that I haven't seen him for a while. Anyway, he is mysterious, maybe
Are you hooking up with some young lady or madam again?"
"Yeah?"
Li Xiao nodded, feeling that the possibility of picking up a girl was indeed very high, because that person was indeed an out-and-out lower-body animal...