The West Sea on the shores of the Caspian Coast.

"I think we're changing the Russian army."

One morning, when Pan Chang was running around the city with the troops as usual, he saw that not far away, a Russian unit was also running over with a trumpet, and the officer at the head greeted them in a friendly manner—such a situation has become more and more common. Therefore, the officers of the guard battalion around Pan Chang all exclaimed like this.

Pan Chang is now a serious brigade commander, and there are only 6,000 people left in the Wehrmacht in Xihai, and the other 2,000 people have either died in battle or have been pulled back to the rear to recuperate because of injuries, and the remaining 6,000 people have been organized into a brigade with discontent.

"If these people are dispersed by the Russian army and return to their respective stations and troops, presumably a lot of our training content will immediately spread among the Russian army......

Pan Chang listened and didn't care:

"The premise is that their military discipline and military rules can always be so strict. Their food and nutrition can also keep up. ”

"In my opinion, the physical fitness of this old man is indeed not bad, but their logistics are too poor. This aspect cannot be changed, no matter how big it is, it is empty. It's not about the way the training is done, it's about the logistics, it's about having money or not. ”

Pan Chang's cognition is more direct to the core.

The training intensity of the Wehrmacht is very high, but this is based on the logistical supply of Wehrmacht officers and soldiers, in fact, if it were not in the sensitive place of the West Sea, the only troops in the entire empire who could always maintain such an intensity of training would be the Praetorian Guard in Nanjing.

This is the 'A' plan with the largest amount of movement in the Wehrmacht's training program, while the training program adopted by the general main force is only the word B.

There's a nutritional problem.

If the nutrition of the officers and soldiers cannot keep up, and the army still maintains such a strong training degree, it will finish the training of the team.

I don't know if the Russians have realized this question. In his opinion, Russia's own military training methods cannot be said to be very bad, and the current European armies emphasize military orders, and in this respect they still retain a strong style of the era of platoon shooting; as the head of the army, he has had more contact with the Russians these days, and he knows more about the real situation in Russia than before. However, the Russians did a really poor job of supplying soldiers, that is, replenishing some meat during the battle. In peacetime, British soldiers could get rice, meat, peas and cheese in addition to bread, while Russian soldiers only had flour and beans, and Russian soldiers could only smell meat and vodka during festivals or wars. In addition, Russian soldiers may sometimes be given not cropped uniforms and boots, but clothing and leather, which must be made by them. The same was true of ammunition, gunpowder, lead and paper were distributed to the regiments for the soldiers to make themselves. From all of this we can see even more how easy it is to feed the sons of these Russian mothers.

The Russian army, according to the tradition of annual conscription, made the Russian army the largest and cheapest army in Europe, while not imposing an unbearable burden on the people, this system makes the Russian army very good in the overall competition. But don't pin too much hope on the quality of individual soldiers.

If the Russians really learn the Wehrmacht's training methods in an all-round way, they will suffer in the end. Unless St. Petersburg is willing to change the status and costs of the 'grey livestock'.

"I think they're more interested in the way we fight – including Baku Khan – than the way we train. Yesterday the eunuch of Saeed Muhammad Khatami came to me again, and it took me a long time to understand what he meant: he wanted to exchange some arms with us in private. It is better to use artillery and rockets. I also want to hire a few instructors from our team. ”

"Say that as long as I do this, I will be the most honored friend of the Baku Khanate." Pan Chang said with a smile to the guard battalion officer. Baku Khan regarded the Wehrmacht as the army of the heavenly world, and thought that the commander was the supreme master of the army.

But in fact, not to mention that Pan Chang privately traded arms with the Baku people, even if he dared to do the trivial thing of sending a few instructors to Baku, the brigade instructors would dare to join forces with the gendarmerie to arrest him, and the guard battalion would no longer guard him at that time.

Pan Chang continued as he ran:

"The Russians also came to me and wanted to exchange gold for muskets and cannons, and the price was very high......"

The Wehrmacht in the West Sea has defeated the Russian offensive several times, and there must be a lot of Russian equipment in their hands, and the Russians are willing to pay for it.

And these days, whether it is the Baku, the Ottomans, the Persians, or the Russians, the secret of the fire cap has been discovered. Listen to the reports of the people below, there are people who are in direct contact with the Wehrmacht soldiers, saying that if they are willing to sell guns and fire caps privately: one rifle [with attached fire caps] is one hundred pounds, and ten fire caps are sold for one pound each. And if the soldiers are willing to defect to the Russian army, then in the past, they were treated as colonel-level officers, and they were also given beautiful women in good fields......

"It's a very troublesome harassment......

The Wehrmacht's control over officers and soldiers was really unimaginable to Europeans in this era. Therefore, the Russians' wooing leaked early on. Taking Xihai as an example, although it is not certain that there is no one who sells fire hats privately, absolutely no one dares to sell fire hat guns and defectors. Unless that person has no worries in the country, and he is an unsuccessful person.

But this is a troublesome thing after all, in case someone in the army 'can't think about it', isn't it still Pan Chang who is ashamed? There are 6,000 people, and there will be any birdmen, right?

The war was over, and peace was restored between China and Russia, and the trouble naturally became big when they got closer to Russia. The Russian side has always coveted the weapons superiority of the Wehrmacht, although there are no rainforests and tropical areas in the territory of the Russians, but the strong winds and heavy snow in the north are also troublesome, and the flintlock pistol is not as convenient and safe as the fire cap gun after all.

Of course, China refused, the role of the fire cap is far less powerful than the Mini rifle, but its 'research and development' is much more difficult than the Mini rifle. However, although all the demands of the Europeans in this regard were sternly rejected by Chen Han, the Russians and other European countries would not give up.

With the recent gradual relaxation of relations between the two sides, the Russian side cannot help but use all kinds of soft means to achieve its goals, and its temptation is not only for Pan Chang and other high-ranking military officials, but also for middle- and lower-level officers and ordinary soldiers.

The loyalty of the Wehrmacht is not in doubt. But when people have a lot of thoughts, they will be complicated, and when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and it is inevitable that some people will be confused for a while. It is also necessary to prevent others from stealing or kidnapping while they are alone, because although the war is over, the Wehrmacht still sets up the area except the barracks as a combat zone, and all soldiers who leave the barracks must act in squads at least in pairs - just to prevent the Russians or other countries from doing things in the shadows.

However, as the saying goes, 'If you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves who will be worried', and it is not a way to be vigilant all the time. Individual weapons such as the musket gun are different from the coarse rockets and artillery, once it is unveiled publicly, it is impossible to say that there is absolutely no outflow - from the army to the present, there are dozens of musket guns that have been lost one after another, but no matter how many of these things are obtained by foreign countries, they are not too many, before completely cracking the secret of the fire cap.

Even the Military Intelligence Agency can be sure that four or five of the rifles on the missing list must have fallen into the hands of the Tokugawa shogunate or local daimyos, and they must be organizing forces to crack the technology and try to imitate it. But this path is not so easy to follow - for Chen Ming, the issue of technology diffusion has long been deeply considered.

The fire hat can be said to be the most difficult thing to crack and imitate among the technologies mastered by Chen Ming, because the modern chemistry of this era has just emerged, and many inventions are not studied in accordance with a certain scientific context, but are obtained by experiments again and again, and even unintentional experimental mistakes.

That's how the fire cap came about. Therefore, although he unveiled these weapons in front of the world, he was sure that these weapons could not escape the concerns of outsiders and other countries. But as long as they don't take the initiative to teach these techniques, with the scientific level of this era, even if others get a full set of physical objects, they may not be able to easily imitate them.

For example, the fire cap is more scattered outside than the rifle, but the key item is mine mercury, and I can't guess what it is without enough chemical knowledge. And even if you guess it, how to make it, and how to passivate it after manufacturing, it takes a lot of experiments and a lot of time.

Chen Ming didn't think that the fire hat could lead the world for many years. But at least until the Napoleonic Wars, right?

As for the harm caused by advanced weapons, a small number of advanced weapons have fallen into the hands of others through abnormal means, and it is in vain that they cannot be formed on a large scale. It's just that the group of officers stationed abroad represented by Pan Chang is a headache for the Europeans who have not yet realized this. Based on their own traditional experience, they felt that as long as they got a few sample guns from the Wehrmacht, they would be able to imitate the same thing if they went back and dismantled them, and then they would be able to obtain the same combat effectiveness as the Wehrmacht, at least the gap in individual weapons could catch up.

It is such an unrealistic and beautiful fantasy that makes them act by unscrupulous means and at any cost - and it is not a country and a family that thinks like this, the first ones have 'given up', and the latecomers are still working hard. On the contrary, it has kept domestic and foreign intelligence departments such as the National Security and Military Intelligence Bureau busy!

Under such a great temptation, even the solid ideological work of the Wehrmacht could not prevent some people from making mistakes. The dozens of guns that were lost before, as well as the fire caps that were scattered, were a good front. After all, there are 100,000 people, and there will be any strange ideas.

What Pan Chang is most afraid of now is that someone in the army will run away with a gun, and the entire army stationed in Xihai will bear the blame for him.

And what made Pan Chang secretly even more depressed was that this new, more advanced rifle would soon be dispersed from his station.

If Pan Chang hadn't received the emperor's personal warrant, he would definitely not be willing to carry this black cauldron.

This incident plus some things that happened in the nearby West Sea, although the latter things are not big, but the mess adds up to quite annoying. Until he returned to the barracks, Pan Chang was still worried about it.

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By mid-July. When the two flying shear ships, named 'West Sea' and 'East Sea', anchored at the edge of the West Sea Pier, Selim disembarked from one of them with a tired face, but he looked around in disbelief.

Using the flying scissors bow boat to pass through the Caspian Sea, following the sea breeze and currents here, the speed is really fast to break through the sky.

Selim was still in a daze, and on the dock, a group of Ottoman civil and military officials had hurried over, and when they met, they were greeted by a cold greeting - Iselim was hot at the moment, and all the local Ottoman officials rushed to greet them as long as they got the news.

This is a great hero of the Ottoman Empire.

And Selim is naturally very long-sleeved and good at dancing, and he is a diplomat, so he came over one by one. In the meantime, I can't help but ask about his new experience in China. As soon as he mentioned this, the special envoy was embarrassed, and said that he didn't expect China to develop so quickly.

Needless to say, there is no need to talk about land and water transportation, and there is no need to talk about railways.

In the Second Sino-Russian War, Chinese railways also became famous. On the two narrow railroad tracks, horses galloped back and forth, supporting the military supplies between the northwest and the Chinese mainland.

Although a large number of military supplies were transported from Ili, it seemed that horse-drawn carriages were still used, taking the steppe route.

But the real kung fu is not on the surface, but in the connection between the great northwest and the inland.

That railroad is more useful than a million horses.

Not only is the volume of transportation huge, but the speed is also extraordinarily fast.

Although the train seems to be extremely troublesome to dispatch, there are also a large number of maintenance workers, and there is a transfer station fifty miles apart along the way, and the maintenance workers and road guards are also stationed in these transfer stations.

But the effect was also significant, and this railway played a huge and unimaginable role in the war. Whether it is the transfer of troops or the active transportation of materials, it is by no means comparable to a horse-drawn carriage in the traditional sense.

The European world has long had the concept of a rail-mounted carriage, but at most they are playing with rail-mounted public carriages in big cities, such as Chen Han's incredible long paved frame for thousands of miles or tens of thousands of miles, which is unimaginable.

However, after the end of the Second Sino-Russian War, the great name of the railway became famous in Europe. Perhaps it won't be long before Europeans build the first long-distance track in the West.

In this day and age, no one could have imagined that it would not be long before a train would appear, and then it would not be long before a train could be put into operation and walk on the land.

The two railways that Chen Han is building now cannot pass trains, but their construction has laid a solid foundation for the construction of railways in the true sense.

When the construction of the railways began a few decades later, along with Mongolia and Xinjiang, all they did was to widen and strengthen the existing two railway lines. It is not the same as when these two railways were built, "hollowing out" the northern frontier and "hollowing out" the northwest.

In the construction of such long-distance and long-distance transportation routes, the place where the greatest energy is spent is never 'money', but the exploration of the line.