"Come on a glass of water" Zhang Shaozeng smacked his thirsty lips, studied the manual of the 90 field artillery without raising his head, and pushed the empty tea cup to the corner of the table, Wu Chenxuan was also watching the weapon yearbook printed by Du Niang on the side, and he didn't think much when he heard the voice, so he picked up the iron pot on the stove next to him and refilled the water for this distracting guy. He Laoba, who came to inspect the cannon together, was bored fiddling with the cannon mirror, and he was only stunned to see this scene.

"Krupp Type 1898 105mm howitzer: 16 times the diameter, projectile weight: 15.8 kg, ammunition muzzle velocity: 302m/sec, total weight: 1225 kg, maximum range: 6300 meters, rate of fire can reach 3 rounds per minute." Speaking of this, Zhang Shaozeng smacked his lips and continued to chant, "Krupp Type 1888 90mm field gun: high and low firing boundary: -15 degrees ~ +18 degrees, projectile weight 7.5 kg, ammunition muzzle velocity: 442m/sec, total weight 1308 kg, maximum range: 6500 meters." ”

"It's all good stuff, boss, do we really want to equip these two cannons? Oh," he picked up the teacup, and finally found that he had just asked the adult to pour water for the tea.

"Well, in three or five years, I'm afraid we can only make do with this main battle equipment for the artillery battalion. As for the 77 field artillery and the 70 mountain artillery are all infantry target support artillery fire, you have to train a group of skilled hands for me, otherwise even if the officer doesn't speak, the guys of the other infantry targets will have to settle accounts with the two of you. Don't be too small, when you are proficient in playing, let's change to a big guy. ”

"......" He Laoba and Zhang Shaozeng looked at each other, this Shangguan's tone was boundless, looking at the main forces of Britain, France, Germany and the United States, it was only 75 guns, and a few backward powers still used Napoleonic guns. This even the 105 howitzer was regarded as a transitional product, which really made the two of them a little dumbfounded.

Leaving the two artillery chiefs who had gone crazy, Wu Chenxuan handed over the formation plan of the artillery training base and the military salary approval for the past few months to Li Du and Mu Shaocheng, the two leading officers of the artillery battalion. It looks like the two guys who are still caressing the barrel over and over again are bubbling with satisfaction, and this is probably not a problem. Oh, spit out first.

There are infantry, artillery, and a little cavalry, it can be announced that the Wuyi New Army Zuo Association is a veritable mixed association, since ancient times, there are many people who can ride horses, and it is not uncommon to know how to shoot guns, but Wu Chenxuan, who can be familiar with modern cavalry tactics, really can't think of having this capable person in his hands. In line with the principle of handing over problems to his subordinates to solve, he released Lan Jihao, who was originally a staff officer by his side, and like Zhang Shaozeng, he asked for money for money, people for people, and land for land, and the matter of cavalry formation was completely left to Lan Jihao and several military students from the cavalry department. Rebudan Jiaren, the Mongolian bearded man, was also very righteous, received Wu Chenxuan sent ten carts of sea salt and a small box of gold and silverware, and happily sent eight hundred Hequ horses and more than two thousand Mongolian horses, and also sent more than seventy tribal manu, although there are old and young, the old ones can't gnaw pancakes, and the small ones can't catch up with the height of the saddle, so that Lan Jihao, who is responsible for receiving the horses and people, jumped to greet the many female elders of the Rebu family, but I still warmly went to a letter to thank the Mongolian prince for his gift.

The bearded Mongolian uncle was not ambiguous, and received his reply a month later, to the effect that although he was thousands of miles away, he missed the days of rescuing together, especially the little girl who could put over two or three Mongolian men with one hand, although the face plate is not as big as the pot helmet, and the butt is smaller than the foot basin, but the body is indeed hard, brother, you are afraid that the body of the literati is dealing with difficulties, and the prince may be able to give it a try. The sea salt sent by my brother is very fine, as white and soft as snow, but the seam of the prince's fingers is too thick, and there is too much leakage when he sprinkles salt on the sheep, and it hurts to look at it. If there is any brick tea, fine salt, fine iron, and cloth in Shandong, although he wants Horqin to send it, he has sent a post to various tribes, and he will never let the brothers in Shandong suffer, and the Mongolian man said that it must be done. At the end, after thanking Changshengtian, he added a sentence that could be pulled by dozens of horses, if only there was a generator that could be pulled by dozens of horses, the slaves had little hands, and when the hand-cranked generator was replaced, the gramophone stopped, and it was terrible to hear half of the block. If he could give a generator to the Tai horse, he was willing to personally send a generous gift of a thousand horses with a river meander, and the Mongolian girl who promised to send it was doubled, and he would also give me a big horse made of wolf skin. I don't know if this prince will add, subtract, multiply and divide, if the sea salt and gold and silver sent last time are to be handed over by Boss Meng, it is possible to change more horses for thirty or fifty percent, no matter whether this transaction is a loss or a profit, anyway, this letter is a bold mess. As for the little girl mentioned by Prince Rebudan Jiaren, it is estimated that he will not think about it in this life, is Du Niang worthy of ordinary people? In fact, no one is worthy of her, after all, no mortal has the ability to reproduce offspring with metal products.

After working hard for more than half a year, I finally put up a shelf in a town of the Wuyi New Army, and I was able to gather about 14,000 people in a few new barracks, and set up 4 infantry standards, 1 artillery standard, 1 baggage standard, 1 battalion directly under the army, and 1 special service team. The standard of the first standard is Xiao Mingfeng, the standard of the second standard is Wu Ziyu, the standard of the third standard is naturally Du Zicheng's children's shoes, the standard of the fourth standard is Wu Luzhen, the standard of the artillery standard He Laoba, and the old fifth battalion stationed in Jinan Mansion was reorganized into a baggage standard, and it was still handed over to Yang Shihai as the standard. After He Dazhuang was selected to the teaching team, he was promoted to half a grid and became a battalion officer of the battalion directly under him. The special service team is an expansion of the original teaching team, with about 120 people in four posts, and it is temporarily handed over to Du Niang and Qi Xiaofu to carry. The four recruit training bases in Lashan, Huamawan, Gaotang and Jinxiang have been successfully completed, with complete instructors and abundant materials, and the annual training of recruits can reach 15,000 and 15*00 sergeants. However, the 10 prefectures in Shandong have a good year this year, and the chamber of commerce has made outstanding achievements in the development of industry and commerce, so for the first time, there has been a situation of insufficient recruitment. Fortunately, this year's Huanghuai spring drought and summer flood, hunger and disaster, Wu Chenxuan's construction company from Lu Jianyi Company to Lu Jianshi Company, each company's manpower is calculated in tens of thousands, the construction company's employees are collective accommodation, in many places to form a new village, a group of villagers fleeing the famine in addition to militarized management there is not much way to bring them together to work, these construction teams have gone through the preliminary queue training, with a certain degree of organizational discipline, Moreover, the adequate diet and the exercise of heavy physical labor have restored the original half-dead hungry people to their strong figures, as long as they are given guns and ammunition, and practice for ten days and a half months, I am afraid that the same number of governors and towns in other provinces can compete. Another important source of soldiers is the rapid expansion of coal and iron mining areas, the same militarized management of young and strong, harsh working environment and stricter discipline, miners are naturally a hotbed for training elite soldiers.

There is no need to worry about weapons, except for some cannon steels that have to be imported from Krupp or Manchester City, the rest can be produced in-house within the standard mechanical system. Ordinary rifles and small-caliber guns have already produced energy, and the level of machining is not inferior to the level of Britain and France, and may be slightly inferior in efficiency compared to Krupp, but the assembly line and scientifically optimized production process make up for this. Although most of the machines and old technicians of the Shandong Machinery Repair Institute were given to Yuan Datou, in fact, Lao Yuan just picked up a batch of scrapped chicken ribs that were unfortunately used and used inconveniently, but for the six towns of Beiyang, it was a fluke to have a Baoding Arsenal. The new Shandong Repair Institute can actually be called Shandong Arsenal, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Standard Machinery, the rifle production line is newly optimized and designed by the base, although there is no help from CNC machine tools and robotic arms, but the average monthly output of 1200 short * barrel 7.6mm caliber version of the imitation Mauser 98 rifle, 80 imitation Madsen light machine guns of the same caliber, 24 "Saidian" water-cooled Makqin heavy machine guns The output is still able to complete the Hanyang of the Zhang Zhidong classmates.

Now there are more things in secret reserves, the standard chemical industry is nominally a factory, in fact, it already has three branches, and a standard raw material factory has been established after Lang Maoshan outside the standard pharmaceutical factory and the standard daily chemical plant, this factory is not only to provide chemical raw materials for other standard enterprises, but also responsible for the development and production of military chemicals, the little devil's Shimose explosives are a good thing, but the toxicity leakage in the production process is prohibitive, so Wu Chenxuan continues to play his true colors as a technical dictionary, Across the nitrocellulose such a single base gunpowder, directly on the double base gunpowder, take nitrocellulose and polyol nitrate nitrate nitrate * glycerin, nitrodiethylene glycol, nitroethylene glycol gelatinization into smokeless gunpowder, Kodak type of double base gunpowder although the ablation is heavier, but it is also difficult to defeat the technology thief, the use of double base ball flat powder, completely changed the fate of double base gunpowder, as for the more advanced three base gunpowder, such as nitro arc gunpowder, Taigen gunpowder, etc., are only technical reserves, for the time being, there is no need for these advanced things. As for the explosives such as TNT and Heisuo*Jin, it is even more difficult for Wu Chenxuan. Taking advantage of the stable situation, Wu Chenxuan and Du Niang went to the gun workshop of the No. 2 Standard Machine Tool Factory to begin arranging the production of mortars and grenadiers, plus the production of Colt's Type 1896 sergeant's revolver and imitation American-made pineapple hand grenades. Although the secretly produced Type 01 homemade 70 infantry gun is inconspicuous, this infringing product imitating the Japanese-made 92 infantry gun is indeed unattainable for many heavy artillery in the future, and it can be said that it is a cannon in the hands of the infantry.

As for the funds, this is where Wu Chenxuan's confidence lies, seeing Wu Chenxuan and Lord Wu so defeated, many newcomers in the new army are very worried about the money bags of adults, but the old people of the insurance group who have participated in the rescue of the five King Kongs in the capital will not worry about this, just the real money in the treasure convoy that pretended to be a small Japanese robbery is as much as 4.5 million taels, and counting the harvest of several lootings, hehe, tens of millions are not a problem, so there is such a mountain of gold and silver as a backer, so Wu Chenxuan is extraordinarily enchanting when he started this defeat.