In mid-July, Lin Ziran was stimulated by the production capacity of the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory and the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau under Shao Bing's control.

Shao Bing sits on such two large arsenals, and there will be plenty of guns and ammunition, so that he can calmly expand his armaments and war, and finally accumulate a huge military strength.

At that time, Lin Ziran is afraid that he will not take the initiative to go south, I am afraid that he will have to worry about Shao Bing's army going north.

Now this period of time is quite good, because of the wave of rear-loading rifles, the smoothbore guns used in the past towns have all become obsolete overnight, and Shao Bing's side is no exception.

However, as the first large-scale rear-loading rifle in addition to the Nanhai New Army, the Luo'an garrison completed the rearloading of rifles more quickly than other feudal towns.

And this will be Lin Ziran's advantage.

However, this advantage window will not be too long, as short as two or three months, and at most it will be eliminated in only half a year.

Because everyone is not idle, the major feudal towns, especially Shao Bing, have already asked their subordinate arsenals to rush to work day and night, striving to fully replace the breech-loading rifles as soon as possible.

For this reason, Lin Ziran has decided to take advantage of this short window of advantage to lay a strategic advantage as soon as possible.

For this reason, in mid-July, Lin Ziran once again gathered the major generals under his command to discuss the possibility of sending troops to Luohai County in a short period of time.

When many generals heard Lin Ziran say that they would send troops to Luohai County in a short time, they all couldn't believe what they heard.

Wu Guanlin said with doubts: "My lord, if you are in such a hurry to go south, is there something wrong?" ”

Lin Ziran nodded slightly, then pointed to a document on the table and said, "This is the production capacity report of the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory and the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau from the south, you can take a look first!" ”

Everyone still had some doubts about Lin Ziran's words, and soon they were circulated one by one.

And after reading it, everyone's expressions are not very good.

The people here are the core generals of the Luo'an garrison, and they still have the vision they should have, and when they see the production capacity reports of these two arsenals, they can immediately think of the possible consequences.

Zhou Ancheng, the director of the Ordnance Department, frowned and said: "The rifle and ammunition production capacity of the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory is almost more than three times that of our two factories combined, and for every rear-loading rifle we produce, they can produce three rear-loading rifles, and the same is true for rifle bullets!" ”

"The artillery is quite good, our artillery production capacity has now been fully converted to the production of steel breech-loading guns, and their Nanzhou Machinery Bureau still produces front-loading guns-based, although they also trial produced a batch of front-loading rifled guns, but in the short term they should not be able to produce rear-loading guns, but their front-loading rifled guns are not bad, and the number is enough to erase the performance advantages of our army's breech-loading guns."

At this time, Lin Ziran directly interjected: "There is no impermeable wall under this sky, and now we can keep the technical details of the rear-loading artillery secret, but we can't hide it for long!" ”

This is true, the biggest secret of the rear-loading rifled guns now produced by the Roan Arsenal is not the barrel itself, but the wedge bolt and the cylindrical shell with a collision fuse.

However, strictly speaking, the bolt does not have any technical uniqueness, but in terms of simple structural design, any technician can imitate similar bolts and similar shells even if he only looks at it.

As for whether it can be built after the design is made, it depends on who the other party is, if it is other small and medium-sized arsenals in Nanhai Prefecture, they will not be able to build the design drawings if they are given.

But the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau is different, and the technology of the people is even stronger than that of the Luoan Arsenal.

To exaggerate, once they know the secret of the bolt of the rear-loading artillery, it won't take three or five days to get a sample cannon for you.

However, the collision fuze technology of artillery shells is more complicated, but with so many technical talents from the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, it will not take long if they really want to do it.

Combined with these points, Lin Ziran did not think that he would be able to maintain the advantage of rear-loading artillery for long.

Maybe it's a few months, maybe a year and a half, but it can't be any longer.

If it is longer, Lin Ziran will wonder if Shao Bing is stupid.

Because it is a normal feudal town, after knowing that Lin Ziran is equipped with rear-loading artillery, he will send spies to find out the relevant technical secrets.

Whether it is the performance advantage of the rear-loading rifle or the rear-loading artillery, Lin Ziran doesn't think it can be maintained for long, so he said: "There is not much time left for us, once they complete the comprehensive reloading of the rear-loading rifle, and even let them know the technical details of the rear-loading artillery, and then large-scale installation of the rear-loading artillery, then our situation will be very unoptimistic!" ”

Regarding Lin Ziran's words, the other generals were even more silent when they heard it.

Some time ago, everyone was still full of confidence, believing that they could rely on Luo'an County to reorganize their armaments and fight with peace of mind, strive to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, and wait for the right time to send troops to expand

But now it seems that the more this is the advantage, the smaller it is.

At this time, Wang Dao was the first to speak: "My lord, since this is the case, then we don't have to wait any longer, now most of our troops have completed the reloading of rifles, and there is also a small regiment of rear-loading artillery, now go south and hit him Shao Bing by surprise!" ”

Xu Zhongshu on the side also said: "Yes, taking advantage of the fact that we still have the equipment advantage of rear-loading guns, and taking advantage of the fact that the enemy army has not yet completed the installation of large-scale rear-loading weapons, let's strike first and directly wave the army south to seize Luohai City." ”

Zhou Ancheng spoke again at this time: "If we can seize Luohai City and the surrounding areas, then the essence of the entire Nanhai Prefecture, especially the industrial area, will all fall under our control!" ”

"In particular, we can control the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau and several other large factories, which is enough to increase our ordnance production capacity several times and completely lay the foundation for the unification of the South China Sea!"

"Luohai County is the essence of my Nanhai Prefecture, with a large number of factories of various types, rich in various resources such as coal and iron, and convenient transportation, while the arable land area is huge, and the population is large."

"And our Luo'an County is the largest county in Nanhai Prefecture after Luohai County, once the two are combined, we can directly control more than 90 percent of the industrial scale, more than 50 percent of the population, more than 70 percent of the grain output, and 80 percent of the coal and steel resources in the entire Nanhai Prefecture."

"The most important thing is that when the time comes, we will be able to directly control the estuary of the Luo River, not only the lower reaches of the Luo River, but also more strategic resources through the sea route!"

At this time, Ding Quankun said: "Once we can seize the mouth of the Luo River, then our kerosene can be transported by sea and sold to the surrounding coastal states, and even to other countries." ”

These words instantly attracted the attention of others, because everyone knew that kerosene was the largest source of revenue for the Luo'an garrison, especially after Lin Ziran implemented the tax restriction order, the benefits brought by the oil-related industry were valued by a group of generals.

Because this represents fiscal revenue, and fiscal revenue represents military spending, military expenditure represents the expansion of the army, and the expansion of the army represents promotion!

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