The most obvious example of what is better to build than to buy is the main subsystem of the battleship: the steam engine!

Due to the low output of a single model, and because of the need to catch up with the first technology of the great powers, Linde Machinery Company has continuously invested in imitation and research and development, and the scale of the Imperial Navy is not like that of the British, which can build many warships.

As a result, there will be such a situation, and a certain type of marine steam engine developed by Linde Machinery Company with a huge amount of money can only be installed in the end, such as the steam engine on the Yandi-class ironclad ship, a total of three sets.

This research and development is frequent, and it costs a lot, and the military can't purchase a few sets, so the average purchase price of a single set is quite high.

This will eventually be reflected in the cost of Chinese warships, the British built a 10,000-ton ironclad ship, which is only about 500,000 pounds, but the Imperial Navy has already started the construction of the Chiyou ironclad ship, and its estimated cost is also nearly 500,000 pounds.

You know, the wages of the British workers are much higher than the wages of the Imperial workers!

Obviously, the labor cost of their own house is relatively low, but for the sake of the total cost, will it still be the same as the cost of the British warship? It's because those high-tech products have greatly raised the price.

The cost of some domestic civilian products has been controlled quite well, and the same is the steam engine, which is different from the high-power ship-based steam engine built by the navy and the small and medium-power industrial steam engine for civilian use, one is extremely expensive, and the civilian one is because of the large output, and the technology is also mature and reliable, so it can greatly control the cost.

The civil steam engine of Linde Machinery Company in those years. In particular, the steam engines used by enterprises to drive various types of machines may be slightly inferior in performance to imported goods. But the victory is cheap, Linde Machinery Company relied on the price war to snatch half of the domestic market.

Through this very cost-effective telescope in your hand. Li Binglong saw that there was already a riot on the port, and there were people running everywhere, and this scene made Li Binglong smile.

Immediately, he turned around slightly, and then said to a middle-aged man next to him who was wearing an army autumn and winter dress, with the epaulettes of an army major general hanging on his shoulders, and his expression was still a little tired: "Brother Chen, we have arrived in this Bide City, and with the bravery of the imperial soldiers, we should be able to plant Your Majesty's banner on the head of the city in a few days!" ”

Bred City. In fact, it is Petropavlovsk, because the transliteration of its original Russian name is really awkward and difficult to remember, and most of the officials of the empire have a superior psychology of **** Shangguo, so they naturally will not agree with these messy names of Russians, so they often change the names of places given by foreigners. This Bide City originated from Petropavlovsk's transliteration of the first two words 'Peter', but the word Peter has a strong foreign flavor, which does not meet the preferences of Chinese people for place names at all, so after changing the two homophones, Peter was replaced by Bide.

The same is true of the Sea of Okhotsk. This is also the name of the Russians and the international community, but China directly calls it Beihai.

Later, it is estimated that Alaska will also change its name!

The army major general surnamed Chen was greatly relieved when he saw the land in the distance. As a standard landlubber, I had never been a boat before, and I didn't know that I would get seasick. So much so that in the first few days of going to sea, I was seasick and vomited every day, and then I got used to vomiting and spitting!

Now I see the land. Even if he knew that there were thousands of Russians in front of him, he still couldn't stop his yearning for land. If he stayed on the ship, he would probably become the first army general to die of seasickness.

"Well, we'll land in the afternoon!" In his words, he was already eager to leave the ship and set foot on land.

"Brother Chen, you prepare first, I'll go and sweep their forts first, so as not to let them sabotage your landing!"

Rear Admiral Chen nodded and agreed, although this battle is expected to be based on infantry battles of the army, but in fact, just like last year's Hawaii campaign, the navy is still the protagonist, and their army is just cooperating.

This time the attack on Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka, the commander-in-chief was Li Binglong, commander of the North Pacific Task Force of the Imperial Navy, and although he Chen Yuechuan was also a major general and was responsible for commanding the mixed brigade in land battles, he was still the deputy commander in the whole campaign.

Since both of them had the rank of major general, in order to avoid the problem of poor command, the Supreme Command appointed Li Binglong as the supreme commander of the Kamchatka Campaign, and Chen Yuechuan as the deputy commander.

In other words, this operation is mainly based on Li Binglong, supplemented by Chen Yuechuan.

After the two discussed the landing operation for a while, Chen Yuechuan got on a traffic boat, and then transferred to a transport ship, he Chen Yuechuan was preparing to take his troops to land and fight, so he naturally had to stay with his troops, and as for Li Binglong, he would take a number of warships in the task force, namely the Pangu, Taiyuan, and other battleships, to go out and shell the forts, ships in the harbor, and even enemy forces on land, so as to cover the landing operation of the 1st Mixed Brigade.

The 1st Mixed Brigade is a unit formed specifically to conquer Port Bed and Alaska!

The unit to which the mixed brigade belongs is the core of the 51st Army Corps, and is also attached to an artillery battalion of the Army, an infantry battalion of the Marine Corps, and an artillery company.

Together with a baggage company, an engineering company, and a small military band, the 1st Mixed Brigade was formed.

In fact, the army formally abolished the establishment of the mixed brigade as early as when it carried out the establishment reform, and the infantry divisions of all army units did not have a formal establishment of mixed brigades.

However, in actual combat, the divisional size of the army is very suitable for participating in large-scale battles, but for some small-scale battles, especially for overseas landing operations, it is often not necessary to use a division, or even a brigade at all.

In addition, the Army will often fight with the Marines of the Navy, which has led to the fact that whether it is in Japan, Hawaii or now Port Bird, the Army is unable to send too many troops, and often one infantry regiment is the limit.

For the convenience of command, the Supreme Command also picked up the previous names of mixed brigades and mixed regiments, and then there were some messy names, such as so-and-so garrison regiment, so-and-so detachment, and so on.

This time, there were more troops landing in Port Bide, and it was not suitable to use mixed regiments, garrison regiments, etc., so they simply used the name of the mixed brigade and called it the first mixed brigade.

It is worth noting here that this 1st Mixed Brigade does not have the prefix 'Royal Army', and other army units, such as the 1st Division, although everyone calls it the 1st Division in daily words, the official document is called '1st Infantry Division of the Royal Army'.

The 1st Mixed Brigade does not have the prefix of the Royal Army, because this unit not only has an army, but also a Marine Corps, and may even have sailors in the future, and the composition is quite complicated.

Therefore, this 'First Mixed Brigade' does not mean some kind of fixed formation, but only a temporary establishment in wartime, which is generally similar to the 'XX Front Army' and 'XX Task Force', and can also be called the 'Bid Mixed Brigade' or 'Alaska Mixed Brigade' and the like.

Chen Yuechuan returned to the time when the transport ship was preparing for landing.

Li Binglong returned to his command room, and then began to convey orders to his subordinates!

"Order the first platoon to follow this flagship forward to attack the enemy battery!"

Thinking of the scene of waiting for the Russians to flee in a hurry under their own fire, the smile on Li Binglong's face became even stronger! (To be continued.) )