Historically, military reform of this scale basically had to be coordinated by new weapons and tactics, as well as the updating of strategic objectives.

The same is naturally true of Xu Shiyang's military reform.

Strategically, the goal of Xu Shiyang's military reform naturally shifted from the original defensive counterattack to a more aggressive purpose such as active offensive and offensive defense.

In terms of arms replacement, the main reason for the military reform is that two new weapons have begun to be put into active service.

One of them, naturally, was a fire cap firing rifled gun (Migne).

This was a major innovation in the history of infantry weapons, and this new weapon seriously weakened the meaning of the existence of cold weapons.

If in the era of flintlock pistols, you can still play "bullets are bad seeds, bayonets are good men" (in fact, Suvorov originally did not mean this), then in the face of opponents armed with Migne guns, they dare to play like this, it can only be to find death.

The range and accuracy of the Minegun can kill and wound enemies before the infantry array enters the impact range.

Speaking of accuracy, Xu Shiyang plans to install a ruler for Qi Jun's new rifle.

In the past, flintlock muskets and other open flame weapons could not be aimed and shot, because the gunpowder in the primer pool would burst out a large number of sparks when firing, and if the shooter always aimed at the butt of the rifle, the sparks could make him face confused, so the shooter needed to tilt his head to the side when the flintlock pistol was fired.

Therefore, the ruler, the front sight and the like have little meaning for flintlock pistols and arquebuses, as the so-called firing pistols may not have a gauge, but the least that has a gauge must be a firing pistol.

This is also one of the epoch-making advances of the firing pistol over the flintlock pistol, but ordinary people rarely notice it.

In layman's terms, infantry armed with Migne guns could even rely on accuracy and range to suppress early artillery!

Another weapon that is enough to cause a tactical change is the recent new casting of several cannons in the naval arsenal.

There were two types of artillery, a light gun (equivalent to a six-pounder gun) that fired a five-pound shell, and a medium field cannon that fired a ten-pound shell (about 13 pounds).

Both guns were cast in bronze, the former weighing 750 pounds, barely reaching the upper limit of the weight required for flying artillery; The latter gun weighs 1,100 pounds, which is considered a relatively light among the medium-sized field guns.

In terms of firing range, due to the use of bronze casting, the barrel strength redundancy is higher, and the new gun can withstand higher chamber pressure, and the Qi gunners can load the new gun with more propellant to pursue greater range and lethality.

Therefore, the firing range of the new five-pound cannon can reach 1400 meters, and the firing range of the ten-catty cannon can reach 1900 meters, especially the latter, the effective range is 1400 meters, and there is enough kinetic energy to kill any living creature that dares to stand in front of the shell.

The range, power, reliability, and firepower of both types of artillery are far greater than those previously equipped by the Qi army.

In fact, in terms of performance and type, these two new guns of the Qi army are very close to the M1851 and M1857 Napoleon guns in the history of another plane.

It just so happens that the M1851 is a six-pounder gun, and the M1857 is a twelve-pounder gun, which is very close to the gun weight, bullet weight, and range of the new Qi army's artillery.

The Napoleon cannon can be said to be the pinnacle of front-loading smoothbore guns, so in terms of artillery equipment in the next stage of military reform, Xu Shiyang intends to replace the mixed use of various field artillery in the past with a more streamlined artillery system.

To put it simply, in conjunction with the construction of the new military system, the artillery and flying cavalry artillery of the field corps will uniformly use the new five-pound gun in the future; Divisional artillery used a new type of ten-pound gun.

Then, the battalion artillery used a new type of magic gun, also cast in bronze.

Since the problem of air tightness has not been solved, the range power of the Shen Ji Gun is still insufficient, and even the range is not as good as the Mine rifle, but the Qi army does not have machine guns or mortars and other weapons to strengthen the battalion units for the time being, so it can only use the Shen Ji Gun for the time being.

The only advantage of the new god cannon is that the bronze cast cannon body has a faster heat dissipation speed and much higher strength than the previous wrought iron cannon, and can fire at a faster rate of fire, instead of having to stop dissipating heat after three rounds.

In terms of army-level artillery, the Qi army continued to use the old twenty-pound (26-pound) heavy cannon.

As new guns gradually replace old weapons, there is also a question of what to do with the obsolete weapons.

Xu Shiyang made a statistic that by October of the sixth year of Longdao, the arsenals of Qi had produced a total of 85,000 10-mm foreign trade shotguns; 65,000 15-mm standard Type 1 arquebuses; 110,000 15mm standard Type 2 flintlock pistols.

Among them, about 30,000 standard Type 1 flintlock pistols have been transformed into standard Type 2 flintlock pistols, so the total output of Qi Guo flintlock pistol is 140,000 pieces.

Excluding the damage, loss, capture, accident losses, and sales to civilians during the war, there are currently about 100,000 flintlock muskets in the army's equipment and inventory, in addition to 20,000 standard Type 1 arquebuses in stock.

If necessary, these muskets can be converted into rifled guns fired by fire caps, but the 15 mm caliber musket is a bit large for Migne, and it cannot fully exert the power of firing rifled guns.

Therefore, the Navy Arsenal proposed to phase out the existing 15 mm rifle system and design and produce a new rifle with a caliber of about 10 mm.

In this way, while producing new guns, while renovating old guns for emergencies, it is likely that the old flintlock pistols only need to be modified in half, and the number is about 60,000 units, which can meet the needs of the regular army.

What to do with the remaining 60,000 flintlock pistols and arquebuses requires Xu Shiyang to make the final decision.

In fact, the situation with flintlock pistols is a little better, after all, there are such huge digestive channels as the reserve and the militia.

After the large-scale rollout of the new bronze field artillery, how to deal with the various field guns from 4 to 10 catties that have been eliminated?

In addition to mothballing a part as a reserve, the rest of the hundreds of artillery can't also be given to the militia, right?

Xu Shiyang's idea was to open up the arms market and sell some backward arms to the outside world.

Taking muskets as an example, when Qi was armed with flintlock pistols, the main arms used in foreign trade were small-caliber (relatively speaking) caliber shotguns, which were sold to some of the daimyo of Fusang, the Great Zhou in Jiangnan (many of which were captured during the Great Zhou's active attack), the Li family in Shuangyu Port, and Goryeo.

At that time, these friendly forces were allowed to sell these weapons, partly because they were very profitable, and partly because they would not cause trouble for the Qi army—the shotguns were far from the standard Type 1 arquebuses of the Qi Army, let alone the standard Type 2 flintlock pistols.

Then, now that the new generation of Minne guns has begun to be installed, even if the first generation of weapons is retained, Qi can sell flintlock pistols to semi-friendly forces.

The same is true for artillery, bronze artillery can be recycled and remelted, and copper is a strategic material for Qi countries, so it can at least recover the cost of remelting.

The material value of the remelting of iron artillery is too unworthy.

Then it is better to sell the iron artillery as much as possible in exchange for sufficient economic benefits.

The only problem is that the relationship between the Qi and Zhou officials is tense at present, and if they don't sell weapons to Da Zhou, other forces are estimated to not be able to digest so many firearms.