Mao Fushou left, to be precise, he ran away. He was afraid that he would impulsively sign his name on that terrible piece of paper, and then there would be a battalion of 400,000 taels of military expenditure, which was too terrifying.

What's even more terrifying is that a casual battle is tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the more you think about it, the more terrifying it becomes.

The white crane only sighed.

"Do you want to take the elite route?"

"No, Lord Yu. In fact, I hope that the entire army of the Ming Dynasty will be equipped with top-level equipment. Of course, there will definitely be no more money at that time, and more should be spent on training. A good archer needs to be trained for at least five years, and a good musketeer can be able to go to battle in three months. ”

Bai Minghe and Mao Fushou are calculated according to the battalions in the field, the first battalion is 4,000 soldiers, 1,000 auxiliary soldiers, and miscellaneous soldiers are not counted as soldiers, which is regarded as a category of service.

Yu Qian used another way of calculating:

"White Crane, in the Yongle Year, when the number of registered sergeants in our Ming Dynasty was the largest, there were 2.8 million people. Although the number of registered soldiers in these years was much smaller, there were more than 2 million soldiers. At present, there are 17 capital divisions of the Ming Dynasty, 329 foreign military guards, and 65 imperial guards. There are four overseas health centers and seven thousand households. Based on the calculation of 400,000 taels of one guard, the ordnance alone is more than 100 million taels of silver. And that's not even counting the cost of maintenance. ”

"I don't care. The equipment of the battalion of 400,000 taels of silver is as long as it is well-trained and the ammunition is sufficient. Lord Yu thinks that the enemy who can fight several times more in the plains? ”

Bai Minghe's question made Yu Qian a little moved.

The idea that promoted the development of muskets was that Yu Qian believed that musketeers were easier to train, and if they were well-trained, they were not weak in lethality, and they could at least triple the enemy without being defeated.

So how many enemies can a well-trained battalion of men and horses created by the super gorgeous ordnance of the white crane deal with?

To be honest, Yu Qian is looking forward to it.

Bai Minghe finally threw out a cruel sentence: "Lord Yu." Really well-trained and well-armed. Even if there were millions of troops, they could only pile up a circle of corpse walls around this battalion of men and horses within a circle of 300 paces. Unless an army of millions can all be thrown into battle. ”

Why can't an army of millions be thrown into battle?

For ordinary civil officials, Bai Minghe needs to be explained, but for Qian, he doesn't need it.

A million horses can occupy an area of several square kilometers, and a battalion is enough to have a space as large as a football field.

Even if it is surrounded and fighting on all sides, it is only a defense line of several hundred meters. There is a limit to the number of troops that can be invested in these hundreds of meters of defense, and for firearms warfare, the more you invest, the faster you can kill here.

Shotguns, incendiary bombs, grenades, etc., are not weapons that can exert a wide range of damage.

"I'm going to give it a try and see if it's possible to get anyone to try out the top-of-the-line equipment. The worst is more than 100,000 taels! ”

Yu Qian said that, he looked back at the ordnance samples in the warehouse, clenched his fists very hard, raised his legs and walked out. Even people like Mao Fushou were not tempted, so the other generals were either overly conservative or too cautious.

After Yu Qian left, Fan Liang came to Bai Minghe's side: "I'll get on!" "Fan Liang's men did not reach a battalion, but their familiarity with firearms was very high, and they had been testing guns and guns for too long.

"No way!"

Bai Minghe refused, but also gave Fan Liang a reason: "This is the first attempt of the Ming Dynasty to reform the military system, and it is necessary to let those generals who believe in the flow of steel know." How Vulcan Stream is played. You won't lose if you fight, but they won't believe it. It's likely that I thought it was just a show. ”

"After they have seen the Ghost Fire Soul Chase Bomb, they know what is terrifying!" At that time, Fan Liang also proposed to use some pigs and sheep as live targets, but Bai Minghe refused. But the intention was that a little spark stuck to a rabbit in the field, just a little spark, and the tragic situation of the rabbit burning to the bones made Fan Liang and others name the cannonball, the ghost fire soul chasing bomb.

White phosphorus bombs are poisonous. It's not just about not being able to put out a fire.

In later international conventions, phosphorus incendiary bombs were taboo and could only be used as flares and not for anti-personnel munitions.

The phosphorus of the white crane is refined by Taoist priests, not to mention whether the purity is high or not. Anyway, the toxicity is definitely stronger than that of later generations.

It is taboo in modern times, but for the Ming soldiers who applied arsenic to their weapons in the past, they have nothing to dislike about this kind of weapon, and what can kill the enemy is a good thing.

All the white phosphorus bombs are soaked in buckets, and they are constantly being supervised by special people, and they are constantly adding water to the buckets to maintain the water level of the buckets. At least for now, I can't find a better way to store it, because it's so scary that when it's a little hot, the air starts to burn.

Even in winter, this forbidden weapon had to be kept in a bucket, and of course most of them had been carried out of the house and frozen into ice, which would still be soaked in water, and the soldiers felt at ease.

Accompanying Bai Minghe out of the warehouse, Fan Liang said: "I have always thought that Liaoxi Wei has been guarding the bitter cold land for many years and is a real strong army, but they just asked for inferior equipment. ”

"No, it's not that they're not strong enough, it's that they're not used to firearms yet. Let's just say that the Japanese people are still used to fighting with swords when they get close to the ship, and they don't know what a giant ship cannon is. Besides, the previous arquebus was too bad, and it may not be able to shoot out with three or four arrows, and the power is small. ”

Liaoxi has chosen the top equipment in their minds.

It really organized an ironclad heavy cavalry army, with full-body plate armor, horse armor, Tang-style horse lance, Song-style spear, cavalry crossbow, combined long and short battle knives, melee short knives, etc. In the era of cold weapons, this is already the pinnacle equipment. Go back a few hundred years, and equip the Song Dynasty with an army of 100,000, as long as there are no people like Qin Hui, to ensure that the logistics can easily destroy all the Great Khans of Mongolia.

And, of course, that Temujin.

The white crane is discussing these generals, and the generals are also discussing the white crane.

The governor of Liaodong Town, the military attache of the second grade, personally stood on the school field and watched his sons and daughters perform martial arts. The power of 10,000 iron-armored heavy cavalry with a fish-scale array assault is enough to face 100,000 grassland cavalry, and this stainless steel full-body armor can face the rain of arrows even in the face of 100,000 arrow rain and step on the enemy army.

"General, twelve thousand is too many. We don't have enough horses at the moment, and even the heavy horses can't hold out two charges, and the number of good horses thinks eight thousand heavy horses are suitable. ”

Heavy riding is too demanding for horses, even if the equipment is carried by other horses in peacetime, but it is only prepared in wartime.

But it also has to be able to support more than three group charges, otherwise the hoplites will be meaningless.

The governor of Liaodong didn't speak, just looked at the cavalry army silently.

Very powerful hoplites, strong, very strong, so powerful that they were beyond his imagination. This kind of equipment was something they couldn't have imagined before, the defense of the whole body of stainless steel plate armor was amazing, and the ordinary knife cut it and left only a trace, and the bow and arrow bounced directly away.

All over the body, there is no place for people to start, who can defeat such a force.

Thinking of this, the governor of Liaodong Town asked his subordinates beside him:

"You say, 'Who can defeat such a heavy cavalry army?' This is only a battalion of equipment of 37,000 taels of silver, if no one can defeat it, then what is the point of no matter how expensive the ordnance is? ”

"General, when the Fujian Navy Division was fighting against the Japanese Navy, there was a new cannon called Shenwei General Cannon, with a range of six miles. With a single shot, a 500-gauge ship was smashed into wooden planks. The subordinates thought that if there were 100 guns weighing three stones and 4 feet 7 inches long and with a range of 600 paces on the catalog, it would be difficult for our heavy cavalry to get close! ”

The meaning of this subordinate is obvious, there is no need for top-notch artillery at all, and ordinary artillery clusters can deal with heavy cavalry.

Whoever rules must use heavy riding to duel.

"General, the paperwork of this plate armor test has been read by subordinates. Bows and arrows are no problem, and muskets can be guarded against, but armor will be damaged. But he couldn't protect himself from grenades and shotguns, so his subordinates asked to try a fast light cavalry, as well as a heavy artillery cluster. ”

These generals were also somewhat interested in musket artillery, after all, the lethality was amazing.

But they still haven't gotten rid of their old thinking, and are still thinking about how to use these heavy weapons to assist their hoplites, or hoplites to fight.

However, this is already an improvement.

"You continue to train, and the officer will talk to the other governors. This IOU has already been beaten, and there is no head without a few thousand watts of spurs, and it is estimated that we will only have to eat pickles next year. In the big clear that the silver of the crane is definitely not good to owe, remember this. "The governor of Liaodong thinks it is time to hear what the other generals think.

There is no case to check why the silver of the white crane is not good to owe.

But all of them felt that the white crane's silver was not worth owing, so over time, this rumor was born.

As for why it is not easy to owe, no one can say clearly, but one thing is certain, this time I am afraid it will be more difficult to owe, because the IOU is left in the military department, and the Ming Emperor is determined to avenge the revenge of Tumubao, so this time for the army to change clothes, it is necessary to repay the meritorious service.

The governor of Liaodong Town entered the city and came to a restaurant in the east of the city. This restaurant is a steward property in the White Crane Mansion.

Because it is close to the Dongchang Yamen, it is also close to the maritime merchants of Bai Minghe, and it is not far from Baifu. Recently, it has become a favorite meeting place for dignitaries and dignitaries, and you can also owe debts, of course, there are countless ways to repay the loan. For example, you can sell calligraphy and paintings.

There are already a few governors here who are discussing.

Someone said: "This musket is very good, and after a day of training, the bullets alone are five hundred taels of silver." ”

"Your training is not hard enough, each soldier on my side has to shoot thirty rounds a day, and ten thousand is one thousand fifteen hundred taels of silver. In the past, when training archers, it was also calculated. But the bow and arrow can be picked up and can continue to be used, and the bullet will be gone, so you can only continue to buy it again! (To be continued......)