"Isn't it really okay?" Yan Guang said with some disappointment as he rubbed the stubble on his chin with his hand.

Just now he sent a telegram to Riddle of the German Foreign Company, wanting to buy 30,000 1888 Commission rifles from him, and at the same time sent a telegram to Charles of Jardine Matheson, wanting to buy 1,000 Browning M1900 pistols, of course, it would be better if he could get Maxim and Madsen or something.

It's just that although this is also a big business, Charlie and Riddle had to regretfully reply to Yan Guang after receiving the telegram, it is impossible...

Although the 1888 Committee, the Browning 1900 and even Maxim are now in stock except for Madsen, the entire Yangtze River basin is in chaos because of the Xinhai Revolution, and of course these are not the main points.

The point is...

How can these weapons be transported from Chongqing to Chengdu?

Today's Yucheng is still the territory of the Qing political axe, and so many arms and weapons have been transported to Chengdu, although Riddle and Charlie are both foreign businessmen, but they do not have such energy.

So if you want to send all these weapons to Chengdu, there is only one way, that is, to occupy Yucheng as soon as possible, but now the second and third divisions and the twelfth brigade are being reorganized, and they can't move for the time being, so Yan Guang can only look at the message and sigh.

"Forget it, it's all expected anyway, I just want to give this telegram a try..."After speaking, Yan Guang turned his head to look at Wang Er. How many guns are in stock in Chengdu now? Is it enough to equip a division? ”

"If it's just guns, the inventory in Chengdu is enough to equip two divisions now, but..." Wang Er hesitated, he also learned a lot of information these days, there are indeed a lot of guns in Chengdu, but there is a problem. The composition of those guns is too mixed, there are all kinds of models, such as Martini guns and Lin Dengming guns, the best ones are Mauser 1871/84 and fast guns, but there are not many of them, and these rifles are at least one or two generations different from those made in Hanyang..."

Since Sunil's gang of moral ** officials came, Wang Er has learned a lot from them, so now it is no longer comparable to the leader of the water bandits.

Yan Guang turned back and forth twice in front of Wang Er, and finally gritted his teeth and said. "No matter, let's train people first, I'd rather wait for people and wait for equipment than equipment for people!"

Moreover, in Yan Guang's view, the combat effectiveness and equipment of a unit are a very important part, but the quality of soldiers, the quality of officers and the ability of generals are also very important, and of course, there are also issues such as (-_-) morale, logistics and organization.

This was the case with Germany's Barbarossa operation during World War II, compared with the Soviet Union, Germany did not have an advantage in terms of technology and equipment, especially tanks, but it relied on extremely sophisticated training and combat experience, and the Soviet Union was a scum (-_-) in terms of organization after a major purge, and the new high-level generals, including Stalin, were also all kinds of two, and the result was that the extremely large Soviet Union was destroyed and collapsed.

Of course, the later Germany was a failure, but at least the early Barbarossa operation was successful.

At present, Yan Guang's main enemy is not the well-trained Beiyang Army, but the rabble entrenched in Rong County (I don't know about the transfer of Yucheng yet), and almost all of the Baolu Army are big swords and spears, not to mention the new rifles, even the ** earth cannons are scarce (before the uprising, Qin Zaigeng recruited craftsmen to make guns, you can imagine what guns and what cannons... ）。

In other words, even if it is only equipped with Mauser 1871/84, fast guns, and even guns like Martini and Lin Dengming, Yan Guang has absolutely no problem fighting 30,000 or 20,000 Baolu troops in one division, not to mention that there are 100 Madsen that can be reequipped into the newly formed troops.

The firepower of a hundred Madsen is more than enough compared to three or four thousand Hanyang made by Hanyang, not to mention that Yan Guang can now blatantly make grenades, although there are also some home-made bombs in the Baolu Army, but compared with black powder bombs and ammonium nitrate grenades, which is more convenient and powerful, as long as you have long eyes, you can see it, not to mention that Yan Guang can already use other explosives...

"Let's go, let's go to the machine bureau!" After putting on his coat, Yan Guang said to Wang Erdao.

"Boss, it's now called Sichuan Arsenal..."Wang Er reminded on the side.

"Yes, yes." Yan Guang waved his hand.

Since becoming the governor of Sichuan, other people don't mention it for the time being, old people like Wang Er and Song Dinghan call themselves governors or handsome, Yan Guang always feels a little weird, so he asked them to change their names to their bosses a few days ago, and other people still call themselves governors.

Fortunately, Yan Guang, the governor, has only been in office for a few days, so it is quite easy for Wang Er and them to change their words, so it is not a problem to arrive.

As for the machine bureau they are talking about, the original name is the Sichuan Machinery Bureau, which was created in 1877 by Ding Baozhen, the then governor of Sichuan, and in 1908, a new factory was established, with a base site of 261 acres.

Not to mention the old machine bureau, which was made in 1877, this old factory only invested a total of 3.3 million taels from 1877 to 1908, and what about the new factory?

There were 294 gun-making machines, 66 bomb-making machines, 25 repair machines, and 29 blacksmith machines, among many others.

In 1913, that is, during the Republic of China, according to the statistical table of the Republic of China Army, the Sichuan Arsenal produced 15,000 Type 68 rifles, 7,500,000 68 guns, 45,000 pounds of smokeless gunpowder, and 21,000 pounds of black powder every year, with a cost of 2,487,218 yuan. (The 68 rifle here is the Mauser 1904 rifle, named because of the caliber of 6.8mm mm, which was exported to Chile by the Mauser company, because Qing Dynasty officials felt that this gun had a small caliber and less recoil, suitable for Chinese use, so it was introduced and named Guangxu 33 years, after the Republic of China, the Republic of China political axe required the provincial arsenals to produce this gun, but the Hanyang Arsenal chose to give up because of financial problems.) ）

After the establishment of the military and political axe, Yan Guang naturally cherished this only arsenal in Sichuan, and after solving some things, he renamed the Sichuan Machinery Bureau as the Sichuan Arsenal, and now the foreign bank is unreliable, and Yan Guang can only rely on this arsenal.

The annual output of 15,000 rifles is a little less, but it is enough to equip one division in a year.

What's more, the structure of the Mauser rifle is relatively complex, and there are no molds and drawings for the Mauser rifle at the moment.

And in addition to guns, this arsenal can also produce some other items, such as grenades and so on...

Now that Yan Guang is going to the arsenal, he wants to know if they can produce steel helmets and mortars in addition to guns and grenades!

(In the second year of the Republic of China, machine guns and Kruber mountain guns and Benshan guns were imitated.) ）

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