1753, went to inspect the Luanshitan Army Racecourse 2
It takes more than 20 kilometers to go east from Xincheng to Rock Beach.
At first, Yang Fan's residence was located on the south side of the Luan River. Later, Lin Yueru found some connections to exchange the land. It was moved to the north of the Luan River. The land there was high and would not be flooded, and there was no saline-alkali land.
But that side is also a wasteland. Because it doesn’t rain, the river bank is too high, and the Luanhe River cannot flow. Yang Fan also built a dozen large Lanzhou waterwheels on Hebian specifically to provide water for hundreds of households, racecourses, and cavalry training regiment camps.
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Not far from the Baihu Station on the rocky beach is the military horse farm. The main task of this Baihu Station has also become to protect the safety of the military horse farm.
Yang Fan's cavalry teaching regiment is one of the three cavalry regiments directly under the Yang Mansion. Their station is right next to the military horse farm.
The Jia Ding Regiment is stationed in the military camp north of the Yang Mansion in the new city and is the main defense force of the Yang Mansion. The Xinghe Regiment is stationed in an earthen building in the north of Zunhua City. They mainly guard the Zunhua Industrial Zone.
After Yang Fan finished his meal, he took his wife in a four-wheeled carriage, and under the protection of a battalion of servants and cavalry, walked on the cement road toward the military horse farm.
Now there are more than a dozen bridges built on the Luanhe River. The transportation is very convenient. After crossing the Rock Beach Bridge, you will reach the military horse farm not far opposite.
Because all of Yang Fan's territory has wired telephones, using the oldest hand-cranked telephones. Li Jinquan, the general manager of the military horse farm, is already waiting at the gate with the stewards.
Accompanied by them, Yang Fan went directly to the racecourse. Yang Fan and his wife took their seats in the stands. Then the review and display of various horses began.
Li Jinquan personally introduced the situation to the master and his wife.
"Look, sir, this is the new hybrid Tibetan horse that you are most concerned about." Li Jinquan said. "The Tibetan horses on the plateau are too small. The height at the shoulder is less than 1.2 meters, which is about the same as a donkey. It can only carry two horses.
The bag of highland barley noodles weighs less than 200 kilograms in total. If you are riding alone, you can't carry much equipment. You can only wear chain armor, otherwise you won't be able to carry it."
Tu Shanyue looked at the skinny Kurama and sighed. These broken horses looked like bean sprouts that had not grown. They were also hairy. They looked messy and ugly. They looked ugly and not cute at all.
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At this time, a newly bred cross between horses from the Qinghai Huang Valley and Tibetan horses arrived. Yang Fan named them Us Tibetan horses. The height of these horses at the withers is less than 1.4 meters.
"Sir, look at these cross-bred Uzbek horses.
Average body size of stallions (cm):
The average shoulder height is 134.07, body length is 142.03, chest circumference is 163.81, and tube circumference is 18.63.
Average body size of mare (cm):
The average shoulder height is 138.07, body length is 137.02, chest circumference is 158.38, and tube circumference is 17.48.”
"It is much improved compared to the original Tibetan horses, and its carrying capacity exceeds 500 kilograms. It can basically satisfy the cavalry troops' use in snowy areas. These Us Tibetan horses can adapt to the plateau climate just like the Tibetan horses. After all, Qinghai horses are also plateau horses.
It’s just a little taller. The limit can be activities below 5,000 altitudes.”
Yang looked at the food, armor and other supplies hauled by these horses and nodded with satisfaction.
A naked Inner Mongolian horse can carry a load of 200 to 500 kilograms. An Inner Mongolian horse is 130 to 140 centimeters tall and weighs more than 500 kilograms. It can carry a load of 200 to 500 kilograms without a saddle or due to the influence of pack gear and other equipment.
The improved Uszang horses are used on the plateau. It is not easy to reach the low standard of Mongolian horses. Yang Fan is very satisfied. These Uszang horses have particularly strong legs and are very durable at first glance.
"Currently, how many Uzbeg horses we have can be put into the market for use." Yang Fan asked the question that concerned him the most.
"Sir, this kind of horse was only hybridized last year and has not yet entered the genetic stable period. It needs to be bred for at least five or six generations before it can be truly stable. Therefore, currently, only 500 horses can be selected for use by the troops. From now on, they will be provided every year.
One thousand horses. After five years, we can provide three thousand war horses every year." Li Jinquan thought for a while and said.
Yang Fan nodded, this amount is not bad.
The snowy area does not require many war horses. There are eight cavalry battalions with a total of 4,000 people. Of course, there are also many needs for logistics troops and local carts, pack horses, etc. This scale is enough. It is useless to have too many. After all, it is the roof of the world.
There's only that one place.
Xiao Niangpi and the others quickly ran to find the sweaty horse. Yang Fan and Li Jinquan sat in the stands drinking tea and chatting. By the way, they watched the ladies riding horses below. Even Mei Xiang and Chen Xi found docile mare and rode on them.
The female members of the Yang family can all make firecrackers and ride horses.
After all, the Yang family is a general, and the female regiment is also a cavalry, and they are all equipped with horses.
It is easy for the ladies to learn to ride horses. The maids at home have all been sent to participate in recruit training by Yang Fan. Yang Fan is not at home all the year round, so if there is any situation, they have the ability to protect themselves.
They may not be good at archery, but they can still skillfully use revolvers and old-style carbines with shortened barrels while riding horses.
Now there is a big gap in the equipment of Yang Fan's troops. The 100,000-strong army in the northwest, the cavalry army and the infantry army, still use smoothbore flintlock rifles. They don't even have rifling.
Because in order to suppress the Mongols in the northwest, they have built a city in the Komodo area and have been stationed there for a year.
Coupled with transportation difficulties, it was impossible to equip them with new rifles.
They experienced a complete grassland all year round and fought hundreds of melees with the surrounding Mongols.
They used battalions as units, cavalry and mounted infantry, and attacked in all directions, as far away as Aksu, Dihua, Tangnu Ulianghai, Uliasutai and other places. They confused the Mongolians in the desert.
As for the single-shot all-metal bullet rifle, as the first generation of breech rifled gun, more than 200,000 were produced. It has been kept in the warehouse. In the early days, it was equipped with three regiments of regiment training, servants, and cavalry training regiment, as well as the Marine Corps.
, factory security team, etc.
But not long after, the magazine technology matured, and the old sleeves with five-round magazines were installed. The production of single-shot rifled guns was stopped and the old sleeves were produced instead.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! This gun has a double-row magazine and uses a five-round bridge clip to press down and feed ammunition.
However, only 50,000 of the old slides were produced, and the imitation British Lee-Enfield rifle was a success.
The reason why Yang Fan wants to imitate this gun is mainly because this gun has two major advantages. One is that the rate of fire is the highest among manual bolt-action rifles. The second is that it is reliable and durable. Yang Fan's soldiers have a low cultural level and cannot repair if it breaks.
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The only drawback of this gun is that the design of the bayonet latch is a bit problematic, and the bayonet can easily fall off during stabbing.
However, Lee Enfield uses 7.7mm bullets. The old sleeve is for Hans' 7.92mm bullets. The bullets are not universal, and later rifles mostly use 7.62X54mm full-power bullets.
This brings trouble to logistics, and the investment in the bullet production line is huge. Yang Fan is not willing to install another Yingqi Qiqi bullet production line.
Moreover, Yang Fan's current Gatling gun uses 79 bullets, which are compatible with the old sleeve.
Considering that although the current bullets have primers, they still use maroon black powder propellant. The 79 bullet is large and has a large charge, so Yang Fan's Ying 77 rifle uses the 79 caliber. It is unified into the German 7.92
mm can save a lot of trouble.
The main reason why Yang Fan loves the Ying 77 rifle is because at this stage, neither the light machine gun nor the Maxim have been approved. The biggest threat to infantry has always been cavalry. And the best weapon against cavalry is machine guns.
It was machine guns that drove cavalry off the battlefield, not artillery.
The biggest feature of this rifle is its fast bullet loading speed, easy bolt pull, double row 10-round detachable magazine, and fierce firepower.
A qualified soldier can easily fire a Lee-Enfield rifle at a rate of 30 rounds per minute, and one soldier even used it to set a shooting record of 38 rounds per minute.