Seeing the performance of this French captain, Bagration smiled slightly, and from the reaction of this captain, he had already gotten the answer. Generally speaking, if the French can immediately open their mouths to this somewhat out-of-the-ordinary question, it only means that they have been prepared for a long time, and such an answer is probably unreliable; If the Frenchman thinks for a while, it means that he is making up the answer, and such an answer is naturally unreliable; And if he refuses to answer, it means that he doesn't know how to cover up the truth, and your guess is probably right.

Moreover, in Bagration's opinion, compared to the revolver, the shotgun was of moderate length, and the range and accuracy of the hit far exceeded that of the revolver, so there was no reason why the French cavalry should not use this thing as their main equipment. Bagration knew that any weapons that the French demonstrated during this exercise could be put on the shelf, or in the future. For example, the breech-loading guns of the French may not be immediately available for sale now, because the French still have front-loading rifled guns for sale. But in the future, most of them will be able to buy it.

And this kind of firearm, which can be shown to him in public, and even let him shoot it himself, can certainly be seen immediately on the quotation of the Bonaparte Arsenal. Bagration thought that when he went back, he must let His Majesty the Tsar come up with as much money as possible to equip his cavalry with a batch of such things, otherwise, once his cavalry met a foreign cavalry equipped with such weapons, the battle would simply be impossible to fight.

Of course, it would be better if this firearm could be imitated, but Bagration knew that it would probably not work. To this day, the mass production of steel is still one of the core trade secrets of France. Although the countries – whether on the side of France or pretending to be on the side of France – have tried to steal this secret as much as possible, so far they have a fairly limited understanding. However, it is said that the British are already conducting some experiments, but even if everything goes well, it will take a lot of time.

As for Russia, although Bagration is very patriotic, he also has to admit that in terms of science and technology, Russia is completely incomparable with advanced countries such as France and Britain, and even compared with countries like Prussia that were hung up and beaten by the French, Russia is also a younger brother. Although Bagration felt that Russia could eventually repel the enemy with great strategic depth and perseverance if the French invaded Russia, steelmaking technology was not conjured up by these means.

"Russia really has to come on, or ......" Bagration remembered again the encounter he had with Marshal Suvorov against Napoleon in Italy. Although the battle ended in peace, Marshal Suvorov did not shy away from saying that militarily, the Russian army was defeated. It was only because of the unfavorable strategic situation that the French were forced to take the initiative to sue for peace. If it weren't for the containment of the north, the Russian-Prussian coalition army alone would really not be able to defeat Napoleon's French army in Italy.

However, although the French army at that time was already very strong, it was not strong enough to the extent that the French army in the military exercises yesterday had been, and if they had faced a French army with an average level in Italy at that time, then it is estimated that Napoleon would not have considered what to negotiate with them at all, but directly defeated them in one go. And Bagration thought about it himself, and felt that if he was facing such a French army at that time, it would be really difficult to hold out for a day, or even half a day.

Looking at the situation of the Russian army alone, Bagration felt that since the battle with the French in Italy, the Russian army had made considerable progress, but after watching the exercises of the French army, Bagration had to admit that the progress of the French army was greater and more obvious.

Of course, Bagration still discovered a weakness of the French army, that is, their style of play, which was too costly. This is not just about spending a lot of money, but also about the huge amount of supplies consumed by the French army. Therefore, if the French invaded Russia, given the poor road traffic conditions in Russia, the French would simply not be able to send enough supplies to the troops on the front line. Unless they stop every time they hit a section and wait for the road to be repaired. In this respect, Russia's backwardness has become his armor.

"Good thing we don't have a border with France. But we'll have to equip ourselves with more new weapons than the Ottomans! Bagration couldn't help but think.

If Bagration could comfort himself with the fact that we did not have a border with France, then Jack Obery, the representative of the British Navy, was really thinking of dying at this time. Because he was watching the French Navy's drills to intercept smuggling ships on the "Free Trade" at this time.

The background of the exercise was designed in such a way that an armed group tried in vain to carry out smuggling activities by means of armed escorts. The French battleship "Free Trade" was ordered to intercept and destroy this smuggling fleet.

"Hell yes! What kind of armed gang can do the thing of armed smuggling with a fleet? It is...... It's just that the French played smuggling back then, and they didn't use the fleet to escort it. Where is the anti-smuggling in this Temo, this is obviously a practice of how to carry out a naval blockade! When Lieutenant Colonel Jack Obery saw the background of this exercise, he immediately understood that the so-called "armed group" was probably the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, right?

Playing the role of the armed gang's fleet, there are three old French second-class battleships, although they have great firepower, but they are completely different from the "Free Trade" in terms of speed and agility, and the "Free Trade" easily bypasses the interception of those battleships in a game of "eagle catches chicken", and then beats the merchant ships one by one.

Considering that the United Kingdom had many battleships and a larger merchant fleet, it was in fact impossible for the United Kingdom to have an escort force of as many as three battleships per merchant fleet. Therefore, most of the merchant fleet, as long as they are unlucky and encounter the "free trade", it will definitely be doomed.

"Shit's 'free trade', I'm afraid this ship was built to destroy free trade, right?" Lieutenant Colonel Jack Obery couldn't help but think.

But if Joseph had known what he was thinking, he would have retorted, ", our 'free trade' is here to allow us to trade freely with you." If you still want to trade freely somebody, well, I've got a quote here, you can take a look. ”

France has already put the "Free Trade" class cruisers on the trade slip, and as long as there is money, they can buy this thing directly from France. However, fools know how much money the French make when selling such things. I'm afraid that if the British buy one, the French will be able to use the money given by the British to build two more for themselves.

But, even so, buy still to buy. At the very least, it's good to buy it back and study other people's propellers. Besides, the technical level of the UK is not bad, with samples, you can really face the copycat, although the steel keel or something is estimated to be unavailable, so the quality level of the copycat will probably not be as good as the original, but it can also be used.

It's just that the French are really a little hateful, and they actually refuse to sell breech-loading guns, so the ships they bought back, as well as the ships that come out of the cottage in the future, can only use front-loading rifled guns first. It also meant that they needed several boats to beat a French boat, which was really ...... In addition, the breakthrough in steelmaking technology is still far away, so even the front-loading rifled guns must be purchased from France.

"Damn, when you go back, you must convince Congress to let them cut the military spending of those damn armies as much as possible!" After thinking about it, in the end, Lieutenant Colonel Jack Obery only came up with such a good solution.

Of course, the guys in the army will definitely oppose it, but isn't it common sense in the United Kingdom which is more important, the navy or the army? If the navy can't stand it, who thinks that the United Kingdom's army can protect them? So, Lieutenant Colonel Jack Obery felt that his proposal should eventually be supported by the Parliament.

So, after two exercises, various orders began to fly constantly towards the Bonaparte Arsenal.