On 18 July, Lin Ziran led a group of middle- and high-ranking generals to inspect the First Division, the First Cavalry Brigade, and the Experimental Artillery Regiment stationed on the outskirts of the county.

The scope of this inspection was not very large, but first and foremost it was to see how well the integration of the units was being carried out.

In the past month or so, all units of the Luoan Garrison have been reorganized, mainly retired unqualified soldiers and middle- and low-ranking officers, and supplemented with trained qualified soldiers and officers.

In order to completely change the mixed situation of various units in the past.

After this inspection, Lin Ziran still expressed his approval of the spiritual outlook of the first division.

The drills conducted during the inspection were also decent, and the queues and tactical movements were still relatively in place, but Lin Ziran also knew that this was the first division, and except for the first division, the situation of the other units was estimated to be worse.

Because the First Division, as the main force stationed in the county town, was given priority in all aspects, and the quality of both soldiers and officers was the strongest in the whole army.

Even the weapons and equipment were collectively reequipped with South China Sea rifles.

More precisely, it is the South China Sea rifle improved by the Luoan Arsenal, which is called the Luoan III rifle internally in the army, although this thing is the same as the South China Sea rifle in appearance, most of the structure is also the same, but the firing pin part has been modified.

It's just that this small change can't be seen in the appearance, plus it's a matter of habit, so many people will still be used to calling it a South China Sea rifle.

The 1st Cavalry Brigade and the Experimental Artillery Regiment were also engaged in the exercise together with the 1st Division.

The cavalry unit has nothing to say, except for the replacement of the rear-loading rifle, other changes are not much, and now the generals of the cavalry unit are considering how to make more effective use of the rate of fire and firing range of the rear-loading rifle.

But the experimental artillery regiment is more interesting!

After continuous emergency production, the Luo'an Arsenal has successively produced more than 20 rear-loading artillery equipment test artillery units.

For this reason, the experimental artillery battalions have been upgraded to experimental artillery regiments.

At present, the experimental artillery regiment has a total of four field artillery companies, with a total of 22 75-mm field guns, of which the fourth company is a company that is not in the same order, and it still needs to be continuously replenished with artillery.

In addition, the experimental artillery regiment also has a heavy howitzer company under its jurisdiction, which has five 150-mm short-barreled howitzers.

The above-mentioned 27 rear-loading guns are the results of the efforts of the arsenal under Lin Ziran's command in the past two or three months.

Of course, in fact, the number of artillery guns they produced was even higher, but the few 75mm test guns that were in service in the early days were withdrawn for various extreme tests, and then successfully played by those researchers into scrap metal, which made many artillery officers in the army feel extremely painful.

But this is also a helpless thing, many tests have not been done before, as soon as the rear-loading artillery is produced, it is directly pulled to the battlefield to fight, and there is no explosion in this process, it is all God's favor.

Now while the fighting has stopped for a while, these tests still have to be done, otherwise, these guns will not be used smoothly in the future, because you don't know where the limits are and where the defects are.

It's easy to blow up in a daze.

When the artillery of the experimental artillery regiment was conducting a firing drill, the forest was pleasing to the eye.

The shells fell on the opposite hill and exploded across four thousand meters, and more than 20 artillery pieces were fired together, which was enough to make Lin Ziran no longer feel sorry for spending so much money on these rear-loading guns.

After the inspection, Lin Ziran said to Xu Zhongshu and others: "This unit has trained well, but we still have to continue to work hard and strive to train a strong army in the world!" ”

Xu Zhongshu and the others naturally said that they would continue to work hard.

Then he said to the officers of the Ordnance Department: "The actual combat effect of advanced equipment has been reflected before, and we now need more rear-loading guns, your task is not light!" ”

Zhou Ancheng, director of the Ordnance Department, said: "Your Excellency, you can rest assured, now the production line expansion of the Luo'an Arsenal has been carried out one after another, and the production line of bullets and shells has also been expanded at the Qingshan Machinery Factory, and our output is rising steadily and orderly!" ”

"Last month, we worked overtime to produce a total of 20 75-mm rear-loading guns and three 150-mm short-barreled howitzers, all of which were equipped with the experimental artillery regiment!"

"At the same time, we also produced 3,200 improved Luo'an III rifles, that is, the South China Sea rifles, which were assigned to the First Cavalry Brigade except for a part of the First Division and the Garrison Regiment!"

"In addition, we have also modified 93,000 Qingshan Type 2 rifles, and have all been distributed to the Fifth Division, and completed the refitting work of the Fifth Division, and our subsequent refitting work will focus on the Third Division and the Fourth Division!"

"It's just that there are only more than 20,000 Fuyuan muskets left that can be modified, and we have inspected all the Fuyuan muskets in the whole army, at most more than 20,000 Fuyuan muskets can be modified, and in the next words, we are afraid that there will be no guns to change!"

Lin Ziran listened to these figures, and after a little calculation, he said: "After completing the more than 20,000 pieces of modified equipment, you should focus on the production of the Luo'an Type 3 rifle, this Fuyuan musket will not be easy to get for a while!" ”

Anyway, after the modification of more than 20,000 Fuyuan muskets, his current five divisions and a mixed brigade are also equipped with breech-loading rifles, and even if the army is expanded in the future, it is necessary to supplement the losses of the troops, but it is estimated that the Luo'an III rifle can also be topped.

There's no way around it.

Now the Fuyuan musket is not easy to get.

In the past, when Nanzhou Bank was still around, as long as you had money, you could buy anything, and Nanhai Bank even dared to sell you thousands of tons of ironclad ships.

But now, the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory has been completely controlled by Shao Bing, and its output Shao Bing will definitely give priority to satisfying his troops, and the rest will be sold, and even if it is sold, it will only be sold to allies.

Could Lin Ziran be Shao Bing's ally?

Definitely not!

What's more, the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory has completely stopped producing Fuyuan muskets, but switched to the production of rear-loading rifles in the South China Sea, and even learned from Lin Ziran to convert Fuyuan muskets into rear-loading rifles.

So, even if Shao Bing wants to sell it now, there is no new Fuyuan musket.

As for the new Fuyuan musket on the eighth or ninth floor, they will not sell it to them.

Not to mention them, other feudal towns will not be sold to Lin Ziran.

Why?

Because they themselves are lacking!

They themselves want to use these new Fuyuan muskets with eight or nine layers to convert them into breech-loading rifles.

I have to say that those people at the Nanzhou Bank came up with the South China Sea rifle again, and after they came up with the paper shell fixed ammunition, they suddenly opened the run-in of Pandora.

The feudal towns of all sides opened their eyes wide, and Damn, it turns out that the breech-loading rifle can still be played like this.

Directly make a new rear-loading rifle, even if it is an imitation of the Nanhai rifle, they basically don't expect it, there are only two arsenals in the entire Nanhai Prefecture that have this technical strength, one is the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, and the other is the Luoan Arsenal.

Nothing else, including Lin Ziran's own Qingshan Machinery Factory.

If you can't build a new one, then use the old gun to modify it!

At that time, in fact, Lin Ziran's use of the Fuyuan musket to modify the rear-loading rifle had not yet spread on a large scale.

But at that time, these feudal towns had already begun to toss around the renovation plan.

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