Although Xiao Xuan said this, he has also focused his training on bows and arrows, melee combat, and even throwing in the past few months. However, the battle with the elite of Jianzhou also made Xiao Xuan understand that if the entire Guards faced the enemy again in the near future, the main strength would probably still rely on firearms, not even under the modern training system and the investment of no cost, it would take at least two or three years to match the elite archers of Houjin.

Therefore, in order to enhance the confidence of the officers and soldiers after returning from the war, Xiao Xuan also counted how the entire team has improved in terms of weapons and equipment compared with before in the nearly four months since the establishment of the army.

In the past two months since the team went out on patrol and returned, although the armament of the entire Guards is far from being reborn in Xiao Xuan's opinion, at least according to the standards of the Ming army in this era, it can be regarded as fully armed.

The team of about 10,000 people, in addition to the left and right, only got 3,000 sets of barely decent armor at the cost of Jizhen's almost loss of combat effectiveness, and only about one-third of the armor made people a little dissatisfied. The scale of the chariots and horses relied on to save was not a small expense, and it was also considered to be enough.

In terms of firearms and ammunition, the 50 squadron groups of the two battalions of the Guards Battalion and the Yongwei Battalion are basically equipped with at least one general cannon of about 400 pounds per squadron. And I have also done random tests during this time. Each squadron is also equipped with at least 10 cannons, and the whole army has a total of more than 500 cannon guns of 34 catties and about 20 kilograms of three or two bullets in the first year of Chongzhen, and more than 50 cannons of about 400 catties of general guns. Although it was far less than expected, the barely decent gunpowder and projectiles also added more than 20,000 catties. In addition, a lot of oil was purchased to make a lot of tools for night combat lighting in a short period of time. The number of firearms used for the core guards has also increased from 60 rows of 300 tubes to 150 rows of 750 tubes.

In addition to the five thousand or so core firearms craftsmen, including bows and arrows and ordinary training equipment, there were many other craftsmen, and it was almost through the continuous work of craftsmen close to the number of craftsmen in the two battalions for several months that this considerable result was achieved. As for turtledoves, it is obvious that even the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty in the capital at this time are significantly more technically difficult, not to mention other common bayonets, flintlock pistols or plate armor that are common in the air. Xiao Xuan felt that although some of these things were about to be eliminated in Europe in this era, it was still unknown whether they could be obtained through even import or customization.

For the time being, taking these two firearms as the core was, of course, a trade-off was made a few months ago. Nowadays, even if the craftsmen of the capital of the Ming Dynasty have greatly increased their enthusiasm, if they want to effectively threaten the protection of the vast majority of individual armor, they must make the weight of firearms reach about 20 kilograms, similar to the level of large guns or cannons. Fires a projectile of about three coins at close to the speed of sound, so that it can hopefully kill many heavy targets with a blunt blow from a few simple shields. At the same time, firearms of this specification are also relatively easy to operate and aim by a single person. As for the possible car shield that threatens the possibility, the iron-core copper cannon of about 400 catties is also the smallest possible standard. No matter how heavy it is, it will put a lot of demands on the operation and aiming, casting and smelting. The efficiency of firearms manufacturing will be greatly reduced, and it is not necessarily certain. This is of course unacceptable to Xiao Xuan, who may face the risk of conflict at any time. At the same time, three sets of cars that are relatively easy to control plus light horses of this era, and the cannon of 400 catties of upper and lower body barrels is also an upper limit in a sense.

At the camp party, which took turns in the New Year, the left and right teams took turns at the camp party, and some of the teenagers who were not too complicated in their minds also bluntly raised some worries.

"With the strength of our current Guards Battalion, if the vehicles and artillery are well-prepared, I'm afraid that tens of thousands of rebels may not necessarily be our opponents. But if we meet 10,000 slaves, we still have some bottomless hearts in our hearts. . . ”

"Yes, although now if it is fully loaded and the vehicles and cannons are well-equipped, I will definitely not be afraid of the original 100 or so Jianzhou elites, but if such an opponent encounters more than 1,000 people...

Xiao Xuan also had a plan in his heart, and said to many officers and backbones at the meeting: "You can actually roughly estimate that if you don't count the final apportionment last time, more than half of the elites who killed and injured more than 100 Jiannu mainly relied on firearms. For the time being, poisoned arrows may only be more effective against the opponent's auxiliaries. When we went out on patrol, the main guns we carried were only more than 20 second-general guns, and more than 100 guns were carried to carry guns, and the total weight of the barrels of the converted firearms was only 4,500 kilograms. Today, the total size of firearms has increased by five times the total size of the firearms of the two battalions of the Guards Battalion and the Brave Guard Battalion. Not counting the bottom of the box around me, at least I can achieve five times the results in the attack of those strong enemies, which means that I am at least sure to kill and injure two or three hundred people of the kind of fierce enemy that I have never seen before in defense. I asked many generals, including Sun Gelao, who had experience in border passes, if they wanted to be able to effectively use a strong bow with more than one stone and two buckets, and there was an average of one military attache for every five people, and the combat effectiveness was at least ten times that of the average number of Manchu armour. In other words: if our army again encounters the main force of the Manchurian army with all its vehicles and artillery, the firearms of each battalion alone can kill and wound at least 2,000 people in a single battle. Of course, if the main forces of more than 10,000 Eight Banners are all holding the attitude of killing like those infiltrated dead soldiers. Our army is not guaranteed to win 10,000 madmen. However, I believe that the Jiannu outside the gate can choose more than 100 dead soldiers, but they will never be able to choose more than 10,000 dead soldiers. The strength of more than 10,000 people in our army is not inferior to the more than 5,000 troops of the Manchu army. Of course, in the confrontation, you should still be as cautious as possible in the face of equal opponents. However, I believe that in just a few months there will be such a team, and in a few years, when you are also the backbone of the army, the team will be further expanded. There will be a day when the world will be invincible... ”

Of course, Xiao Xuan understands that there are not only Ming and Jianzhou in this world, and the powerful countries outside the region are no longer known, but at this time, in order to boost the morale of the officers and soldiers after the war, he can only say so.

The singing in the camp gradually subsided, and Xiao Xuan also thought that he couldn't just stay in the barracks when he was about to go back to the old camp, and he couldn't help but have a headache when he thought that he couldn't just stay in the barracks, and he was afraid that he would have to deal with people such as the Ministry of Rites and Shangshu who came to Zongdao. However, I also recalled some things when I opened the notepad on government affairs.

"Are Xu Guangqi and Tang Ruowang here?" Xiao Xuan finally asked Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun, who had been assisting in handling political affairs, and others

(End of chapter)