The traditional black powder Qingshan Machinery Factory can also be mass-produced, after all, the technology of this thing is very simple, not to mention the mechanized production of large factories, and a small workshop can also be made out of a bunch of them.

Therefore, whether it is the propellant of the Mini rifle or the propellant of the artillery or even the black explosive of the shell, the Aoyama Machinery Factory can produce it in batches, but the output is not very high.

However, maroon gunpowder is more difficult to do, although this thing still belongs to the category of black powder, but the requirements for processing are higher, so now Qingshan Machinery Factory can only produce a little on a small scale, but it is difficult to mass produce.

It's similar to a fire cap, a little bit of it can be done in small batches as an experiment, and it can be used for research, but it is very difficult to mass-produce to supplement the troops.

Because of the lack of a large number of corresponding machinery and equipment, there is not even a production line, so how can we talk about large-scale production.

However, the reason why the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau produced a new type of artillery that was launched at the end of last year was not simply because of the artillery, but because of the combination of artillery and new shells and maroon gunpowder.

Whichever of the three is missing, it will not be able to obtain an effective range of more than 1,500 meters.

This also made Lin Ziran very helpless.

Because if you want these new nine-pound field guns to show their combat effectiveness, you have to match them with expensive ammunition.

However, the ammunition used in the Mini rifle is relatively simple, except for the fire cap, which needs to be purchased on a large scale, paper shells, granular black powder and lead bullets can be produced on a large scale.

The Nanzhou Bank is very dark, and they sell these new weapons and ammunition, as long as they give money, they sell them, but they sell them expensively.

If it weren't for the fact that the purchased ammunition was so expensive, Lin Ziran would not have spent a lot of money to let the Qingshan Machinery Factory introduce equipment and prepare to produce all kinds of weapons and ammunition by itself.

You must know that in the entire Luo'an County now, there is actually no one who has spent a huge amount of money to prepare a full set of military industrial system by himself like Lin Ziran.

Not even on the county side.

In fact, there is an official arsenal in the county town, which is now in the hands of Jian Minggang, but although this arsenal seems to be able to make guns, cannons, and ammunition, and the production capacity is not bad.

However, the technical level was limited, and Lin Ziran's technicians also tried to convert the Fuyuan musket imitated by the Luoan Arsenal into a Mini rifle.

But the results were not ideal!

It's not that it can't be changed, but the life of the barrel after modification is really not good.

Although the two look the same, but the quality of the barrel is very different, this kind of barrel in the era of smoothbore guns can not see any obvious performance gap, nothing more than a shorter service life, but in the era of rifled guns can not be.

Otherwise, why does Jian Minggang obviously control an arsenal under his hands, and he has to purchase guns and ammunition on a large scale.

It's not because of the quality of home-made.

This is true for muskets, not to mention artillery.

Since the beginning of this year, the nine-kilogram new field artillery produced by the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau has shone on the battlefield of Luo'an County, and the field artillery with an effective firing range of more than 1,500 meters is too big compared with the nine-kilogram field artillery with an effective firing range of only about 1,200 meters in the past, or even only 1,000 meters.

It was so big that both Jian Minggang and Feng Haozhong began to purchase these new field guns on a large scale.

As for investing heavily in upgrading the arsenal, some people do this kind of thing, but not everyone dares to be like Lin Ziran and directly smash millions into it.

With these millions, it is enough for them to expand the army by at least one division to grab more territory, and as for the arsenal or something, it is not too late to build it when they grab more land.

Or simply go south to conquer Luohai County, and so on to occupy Luohai City, there is everything, not to mention the gun factory, and even the shipyard that can build 10,000 tons of ironclad ships.

Why do you have to invest a lot of money to build your own arsenal......

At this point, Lin Ziran and others think differently.

Others may think of taking advantage of all kinds of things, directly killing the opponent to grab more territory, and then killing Luo Hai directly into the arsenal of the people's house.

It is a typical build is better than grabbing!

As for Lin Ziran, he felt that with such a behemoth as Nanzhou Bank, it was not so easy to unify Nanhai Prefecture and even Luo'an County.

At the very least, it's easy to get stuck in the neck when it comes to ammunition replenishment.

Because the Bank of Nanzhou will never see a unified Luo'an County, let alone a unified Nanhai Prefecture.

Once Nanhai Prefecture is unified, Nanzhou Bank is not far from being completely finished!

Even if Nanzhou Bank will continue to exist, there is a high probability that it will be co-opted, and those core backbones such as board members are estimated to be counted as one, and all of them will have to be exterminated.

Who let them toss all the time and obstruct the reunification of Nanhai Prefecture.

But as long as you have the ability to make blood, you don't have to worry about getting stuck in your neck in the future.

And there is also an advantage, that is, it is cheap to produce your own ammunition!

The technicians at the Qingshan Machinery Factory have repeatedly demonstrated that if they produce new types of artillery, maroon cakes, and grenades on a large scale, in terms of cost, a nine-kilogram artillery cannon will cost at most four or five hundred constant yuan, and a nine-kilogram grenade will cost at most 12 or 3 yuan per shot, and the cost of maroon medicine cakes will be at least twice as cheap as that of outsourcing.

Of course, this price only calculates the pure production cost and does not include the upfront investment of the equipment.

But even then, it's too much cheaper.

Now the reserve of these ammunition has cost Lin Ziran hundreds of thousands, and if these ammunition starts a war, it is estimated that it can only last a few large-scale battles, and in the event of a tough battle, the reserve ammunition of 500 rounds per field gun can be fired out in a few days......

This means that the consumption of ammunition in the future is huge, and if it can be produced by itself, even if the upfront investment is huge, the cost will be relatively lower.

It's just that it takes money to build an arsenal on your own, not to mention that it will take time.

And time is exactly what Lin Ziran lacks the most.

It's not just him Lin Ziran who lacks this time, but in fact, Jian Minggang and Feng Haozhong also lack this time.

The surrounding feudal towns are all eyeing each other, and if you invest a huge amount of money of one or two million in the construction of the arsenal, it means that there is less ammunition reserves, less troops, and you will have to suffer when you fight with the surrounding feudal towns.

Everyone is not stupid, they can see through a lot of things, it's just that everyone's choices are different.

The same is true of the counteroffensive in Guang'an.

Everyone has ghosts in their hearts, even Lin Ziran is no exception, I can't wait for Feng Haozhong and the Guang'an people to fight to the death, and finally see if there is a chance to take Lingchang County.

No matter how bad it is, it is necessary to take down the territory of Lingchang County on the east bank of the Luo River.

As for Nan'an County in the south of Chongguang City, this place seems to be fertile, but it is a strategic place, if he recklessly occupies it directly, it is estimated that the people of Guang'an will be able to fight him to the end.

As a standard feudal town, he naturally wouldn't do such a thing.

However, he still promised Feng Haozhong, saying that he would send troops north to intercept the reinforcements of the Guang'an people, of course, it was just lip service, whether it was really going north to intercept the reinforcements of the Guang'an people, Lin Ziran still had time to study and study it specifically!

As for whether Feng Hao is faithful or not, whether he should take it seriously or not, that is his own business.

If Feng Haozhong didn't believe it and didn't go north to fight the Guang'an people, in fact, Lin Ziran would have nothing to lose, and he could just delay a few months for him to train the troops.

It is better to wait until the expansion of the arsenal is completed, and then wait until the breech-loading rifles are also made, and even the breech-loading artillery is also made.

Wait for Lao Tzu to get the rear-loading guns out, and see who kills whom!

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