The old five-pound artillery often shelled at a distance of more than six or seven hundred meters, and the hit rate would drop sharply, and it basically could not be used for accurate shooting, but could only be used for covering shooting.

However, with accurate fire at this distance, it is difficult to take out the enemy's artillery, because the enemy's artillery is not so close.

It is better to count on the artillery to kill the enemy's artillery, than to count on the infantry, after all, the effective range of the rifled guns of the infantry is 400 meters, and it is easy to kill in front of the artillery position when rushing up.

But if it is a new type of nine-pound artillery, I dare not say that it is far away, but at a distance of 1,500 meters, it can still shoot accurately, even if your own artillery is worse than you, and the hit rate is a little worse, but if you put it close to 12300 meters, then the chances are greater.

Thinking about it like this, Lin Ziran said: "This idea is a bit interesting, you go back and discuss it with the artillerymen to see how to do it!" ”

But as soon as he finished speaking, Lin Ziran had a more worried question: "If our enemy is also equipped with this new type of artillery on a large scale, how big is the threat to us?" ”

Wu Guanlin obviously didn't expect Lin Ziran to suddenly say this, and was immediately slightly stunned.

After pondering for a few seconds, he said: "It depends on the situation, if we continue to line up in line when facing artillery bombardment, we will definitely suffer certain casualties." ”

Lin Ziran nodded: "It's hard for artillery to hit a person, but it's much easier to hit a company's queue, and that's what I'm worried about." ”

His infantry had rifled guns and had a range advantage, but this range advantage was no match for artillery, let alone the current new artillery.

When your infantry team encounters enemy artillery, it is estimated that you will have to withstand artillery fire from more than 1,000 meters away, even if it is a rifled gun, but you don't know if there is a chance to rush to within 400 meters of the enemy!

Wu Guanlin said: "The threat of artillery to the infantry is definitely there, and it has always been very large, in the face of this situation, depending on the situation, the skirmish formation of light infantry can be adopted, of course, in the early stage, it will not be attacked by the enemy's cavalry, or far away from the enemy's line infantry.

If the enemy has cavalry on the side, or if the enemy's line infantry is relatively close, then we can only take a column into the battlefield and fight in a horizontal column within 400 meters! ”

"If you enter in a column, you can effectively reduce casualties!"

However, at this time, Wu Guanlin said: "But my lord, the current situation is that we are equipped with these new artillery, and we can get more in the future, I think, our enemies should be more worried about this problem!" ”

Hearing this, Lin Ziran laughed: "That's right!" ”

"When the time comes, I would like to see how the enemy's infantry will be killed by our artillery more than a thousand meters away!"

Generally speaking, when an infantry company of 100 people fights in two rows, the width of the entire queue is only about 20 meters, and the width is large, the firepower is not dense enough, and the ability of the formation to resist impact will also decrease.

And the width of twenty meters is enough for this new nine-pound field gun to accurately hit such a queue with solid shells at a distance of about 1,500 meters.

If the enemy enters a distance of about a thousand meters, it can also attack with a new grenade, which is more lethal.

In the face of such a big target, even if the artillerymen of the 3rd Artillery Company have poor artillery skills and a lower hit rate, as long as they get a little closer, they will be able to hit the enemy with a high probability.

It is also not necessary to hit many shells, only a few shells need to be hit at random, and one enemy infantry company that spreads out in formation can be incapacitated.

After the live-fire exercise of the Third Artillery Company ended, Lin Ziran directly found Zhou Li, and without saying a word, directly placed an order for 36 new nine-pound artillery pieces.

Zhou Li was incomprehensible: "My lord, your supplementary brigade has a total of more than 2,000 people, right?" Can you use so many artillery? ”

It's a good thing to have business coming to the door, he didn't refuse the order, he was just just curious.

Lin Ziran said: "This cannon is good, I am going to replace the twelve five-pound guns, and then Sanyang Town and the oil field area also need artillery garrisons, and it is almost enough to leave a few as storage charges!" ”

Zhou Li suddenly said secretly: It is reasonable to replace, but dozens of artillery pieces are needed to garrison the oil field area and Sanyang Town, and this is a field artillery, not a fortress artillery. If you want to expand the army, you can expand the army, and I, Zhou Li, am not a person who has never seen the world, so it is difficult to be frightened by dozens of cannons in this area. Besides, our Hongxiang firm has no objection, and will even support your expansion of the army.

But as a qualified arms dealer and part-time banker, Zhou Li naturally has a good psychological quality, and immediately said: "My lord is arrogant, thirty-six artillery pieces are right, there is no problem at all." If you can't open your mouth at any time, we Hongxiang Commercial Bank has nothing else, but there are many guns! ”

What he said made Lin Ziran feel that Zhou Li was the one who was more curious.

There are few people who can say much else these days, just a lot of guns.

Lin Ziran nodded: "That's good, I'm worried that you won't be able to get it!" ”

Lin Ziran was really worried before, after all, this cannon was a newly finalized artillery from the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, and its output could not even meet the needs of the Luo Navy, and the quantity supplied to the outside world was estimated not to be too much.

He didn't know how Hongxiang Trading House got his hands on the weapon, so he was worried.

At this time, Zhou Li said: "Don't worry, my lord, the channels of our Hongxiang Commercial Bank are very perfect, although the number of your guns is a little more, but it will also take some time, if it can be calculated according to the price of the last time, then we can deliver at least six within a month, and the rest, it should not be a problem to deliver six doors month by month!" ”

Lin Ziran said: "There is no problem with the price, and the delivery time is okay, but can the ammunition be cheaper?" ”

The price of their Hongxiang Commercial Bank's new grenade is too expensive, and Lin Ziran, an oil tyrant, feels struggling.

If each of the 36 new-type artillery pieces is equipped with 250 new-type grenades and grenades according to the standard ammunition base, it will be 9,000 rounds, and according to the price that Hongxiang Commercial Bank sold to them last time, it would be 35 Hengyuan per round.

Just before these shells, it cost 315,000 Heng Yuan.

Much more expensive than the artillery itself!

Zhou Li was embarrassed when he heard this: "In fact, we didn't make much money at this price, the ex-factory price of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau is expensive, if the adults are not satisfied with the price, I can apply for a part of the price reduction, but it is estimated that it will not be too much!" ”