Chapter 80: Firearms

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When making a training plan, the physical training in the first week was three times a week, and the second day was queue training, Yang Rui saw Xu Zulie standing in the queue early in the morning, his face was still not good, but his spirit was much better than yesterday. In the morning, when I listened to Hull's introduction to the student's training yesterday, I knew that he vomited blood yesterday, and it seemed that he was indeed in poor physical fitness.

The first week of training was over quickly, and Leo was satisfied with the students' performances, except, of course, physical fitness. In the last physical training of the week, eleven people failed, and this was the minimum requirement, half of what was required of the German soldiers. Yang Rui is among the qualified this time, after all, the physique created by nutrition in later generations will recover very quickly. He is less worried about the physical condition of his students, which is a matter of nutrition and long-term training, as long as he keeps it on for a long time.

After his physical fitness eased up, he began to point fingers at Leo's training, after all, he came from later generations and saw it if he hadn't learned it. The queue and physical fitness are nothing, but the basic tactical training is very disagreeable. At present, the military powers are in dense formations, and although the skirmishers of the Boer War are valued by all countries, they have not yet developed feasible tactics, and there is no corresponding training. Leo had experienced the Boer War throughout the whole process, and he also disapproved of the queue war, which was how the British soldiers were hunted like rabbits by the Boers, and there was no such content in the training. But even so, the training of the skirmishers is not very thorough, only the single and double poles for exercise, the low wall for climbing, etc., and there is no connection of these obstacles to let the soldiers pass through as seen in later TV dramas.

"Are you sure you want to?" Leo asked, he recognized Yang Rui's training very much, but he had a very good opinion of the crawling inside, thinking that it was a very undignified thing, and Yang Rui also told the kitchen to hang some internal organs on the top of the creeping net, "I feel that this is too ......"

"Disgusting, isn't it?" Yang Rui said the words he didn't say, and Leo nodded. "What's disgusting or not disgusting on the battlefield, just save your life. Now the war has changed, the line of fire has been eliminated, the stragglers are the mainstream, only the earth is the best barrier, isn't it? ”

In the second week, everyone embarks on this flesh-and-blood journey, and for the sake of realism, the students start training with empty rifles, all armed with them. The students were very excited to be able to touch the gun so quickly, but a rifle weighs about eight pounds, and it was still very difficult to carry, so they were all in pain and happy.

Most of the ordnance used in the military academy is German goods, these are all pulled back by Christian after the peace talks, after the war, these heavy weapons are not wanted, in addition to rifles, there are three Makqin heavy machine guns, two 1898 seven-born Krupp mountain guns, and other military supplies are more, originally he was ready to sell for money, but there was no demand at the end of the war, and he waited for Yang Rui's gang, and in the end these things were requisitioned by Leo, and none of them were paid, so angry that Christian screamed, In the end, it was Yang Rui's promise that he would pay at the right time to calm down. This is a lot of money, two guns cost 30,000 yuan, counting three Maxim machine guns also cost nearly 8,000 yuan, and adding up to 10,000 ** for a discount, which can only be paid at the appropriate time later. Christian smiled when he heard this, and also pulled Yang Rui mysteriously, "Yang, if you need a large number of rifles, I can help you solve it, and the price will definitely give you a discount, I promise." ”

Yang Rui really had a headache for the large-scale purchase of arms, and after Gengzi, in order to punish the Qing court, the great powers actually announced a two-year arms embargo. "Rifles? Massive rifles? You're not going to fool me with some garbage, are you? Yang Rui knew that foreigners often sold expired arms to third world countries, and he was afraid of being deceived, so he asked this question.

"No, no," Christian said with a shake of his beard, his head shaking like a wave drum, and his voice was raised: "It's not junk goods, it's completely German goods, German goods, Type 96 Mauser rifles, produced by the Royal German Arsenal, double-row magazines, 5 loads, 7mm caliber." Wei Wei was still a little weak-hearted, and whispered: "Of course, this was bought before the war, and many of them were used, but most of them were in good condition." ”

Yang Rui felt that this gun should be good when he heard Mauser, and immediately became interested, and estimated that this batch of guns and those Makqin and cannons are the same remnants of last year's war, and now that the war is over, there must be a surplus of guns and ammunition, and if you want to buy it, it is also cheap, so he suppressed some excitement and asked word by word, "How many are there?" Is there a sample gun? ”

Seeing that Yang Rui was a little interested, Christian was very happy, "Sample guns, of course, of course." The number is also very large, with tens of thousands. In order to increase the persuasiveness, he clapped his hands, and his fat body flexibly rushed out, leaving a sentence, "Wait a minute, I'll go get a sample gun." ”

Soon, Christian came back with a rifle, gasped and said, "Look, this is the sample gun." After saying that, he pulled the bolt open, sat down and took aim and shoot, and then pointed to the sign on the grab plane and said, "Look, here, the Royal Arsenal of Berlin Spandou, the best gun factory in Germany." "Throw the rifle to Yang Rui.

Yang Rui actually has no concept of this old-fashioned manual rifle, only heard that he knows the Soviet Union's What Mona and Gan and Japan's 38 guns, of course, Mauser's name is also often heard - the students in the military academy practice with captured British rifles, Leo means that novices are easy to break things, and this kind of garbage is not distressed when it is broken - this is the first time Yang Rui has seen the Mauser rifle, it is not good to say that he doesn't understand, and he also learned from his appearance to grab the machine or something, pretending to know how to take a look, The only thing that is certain is that the gun is heavier than the British rifle, and the crown logo and the letters spandau on the bolt.

"Type 96 is too backward, is there a Type 98?" The model of the Fuhe gun of Bai Junwen marked the age, and Yang Rui began to pick on the incomprehensible rifle.

Christian doesn't know how Yang Rui knows the Type 98, because according to his understanding, Yang Rui is purely a gun blind, although he has some good ideas in training, but he doesn't know guns at all, and in the Far East, it is said that the popular Jewish rifle - Type 88 Committee rifle, because it is too unreliable, it is considered to be a black-hearted rifle made by Jewish businessmen in order to make money and disregard human life, so it is called a Jewish rifle. "I know the Type 98, but why do we use it, now even the army of His Majesty the Kaiser is not equipped, and the price is too expensive, it is estimated that it will cost a hundred marks to transport here, and the Type 96 is completely sufficient, you know, the British are trying to escape for their lives under this gun......"

Christian was trying his best to tout the merits of the Type 96 rifle, and Yang Rui waited for his tirade to finish and asked: "Okay, since you said that the Type 98 rifle is too expensive, how much is this outdated model of the new gun, and it doesn't cost fifty marks to buy a new one now, right?" And how many marks, twenty marks, ten marks do you need for such a used second-hand rifle? "Because I have inquired about the price of guns before, the general new guns are between 3o yuan, but they must be mainstream goods and not obsolete goods like 88 commission rifles, and the exchange rate of silver dollars to marks can be simply multiplied by 2.

"Ten marks can only buy arquebuses, Jan." Seeing that he was saying that the price was so low, Christian said jokingly. "Yang, if you really want, I can take you to the smoker, he was the quartermaster of the army during the war, and the guns of the army after the war were hidden by him. No one wants it now, and if you want to buy it, it must be very cheap, thirty marks. How much do you want? I think there will be a discount for large quantities. ”

It seems that Christian is also one of the cargo owners, and of course there are both good and bad sides to this relationship. "A new gun is only forty or fifty marks, and this outdated second-hand gun costs thirty marks?! Are you kidding? The second-hand is half price, and I think it is worth only twenty marks at most. Yang Rui stared at Christian after the quotation, only to see his Adam's apple move, although his face was incredible, but Yang Rui knew that this kind of Adam's apple shaking was generally nervous and relaxed, so he still felt that he should be fooled, and immediately attached conditions, "Also, I only need this model of German goods, and I must fully inspect the goods when I deliver them, and I don't want too old guns." ”

Sure enough, this additional condition hit the nail on the head. After hearing this, Christian quickly shook his head, "This is impossible! Yang, this can't be, the price is too low. In fact, in his opinion, the price of twenty marks is satisfactory, if not for the latter conditions. Because in order to facilitate the deal, he took out the best guns, in fact, there are not many Type 96 in this batch of goods, and the others are completely outdated garbage goods except for some Mauser Type 95 and Type 94, and his original abacus wanted to package and sell those obsolete goods to Yang Rui at the price of a good gun, and he made money from obsolete goods, such as those British rifles and some Type 88 commission rifles that were originally available before the war, and a large part of this kind of goods that no one wanted at all for twenty marks.

Yang Rui saw that he began to shake his head not after hearing the price, but after hearing the additional conditions, and suddenly understood that what he was dissatisfied with was not the price but the conditions, and his heart suddenly bottomed out, and he felt that he had brought back the weakness when he looked at the gun just now, and said with a smile: "Dear Christian, is the price still very low?" Well, I'll add two marks now, twenty-two marks. Of course. If there are other guns, I need them too, but for a lower price. Hehe, but if you want to give me a sample gun, it's better to tell me the number. Yang Rui smiled very lewdly, and he decisively increased the price of first-class goods. The fruit business made him understand that the result of the price increase of the first-class goods often makes the prices of the second-class goods and the third-level goods explode, and the overall calculation is much more favorable than the purchase at a uniform price.

Poor Christian didn't know that he had made a mistake there, and that the sales package could not go ahead. He had to obediently go upstairs to get other guns, Yang Rui saw that his movements upstairs were much slower than before, and he was happy. Christian returned with several rifles, including the Type 95 and Type 94 Mauser and Jewish rifles, as well as a captured British magazine rifle. Type 95 and Type 94 are the most numerous, about 4,600, followed by Jewish rifles with 3,300, Type 96 is no more than only about 2,000, as for British rifles, there is no statistics at all, probably less than 1,000. Type 96, Type 95 and Type 94 are all Mauser's, and the caliber is the same, the Jewish rifle is actually made in Hanyang, Germany, but Yang Rui only knows the name of Hanyang, and he doesn't recognize the gun, because this rifle is also from the Royal German Arsenal, and it also has a crown and spandau letter logo, and the quality of workmanship should not be too bad, as for the British rifle, although the magazine capacity is larger than eight, but this thing still feels very unreliable.

After several tosses, the price of the guns was set, and all guns had to be inspected before they could be received, and the accessories included bayonets, straps, maintenance tools, and so on. Because some of Mauser's rifles were cavalry carbines and did not have bayonets, it was agreed that all those without bayonets would be reduced by two marks. Type 96 twenty-two marks, Type 95 and Type 94 eighteen marks, Jewish rifles are also 88 committee rifles fifteen marks, as for those British guns, ten marks are sold - Yang Rui does not mind making a cameo appearance as an arms dealer. There are three calibers of bullets, Mauser rifles are all 7mm, 88 Commission rifles are 7.92mm caliber, and those British guns are 7.7mm caliber, Yang Rui wanted to buy but was told that there were only 30,000, it seems that the bullets can only be purchased through other channels.

Yang Rui estimated that the total business was about 180,000 marks, that is, 90,000 silver dollars, which could still be relatively easy to raise, so Yang Rui agreed to Christian's request to pay a small deposit, and gave him 5,000 marks as a deposit. He will take the train to Pretoria tomorrow to negotiate the deal with the others. He didn't have a share of these guns, and he only took some big ones to make it easier to carry them, but if the business was done, he would still be able to get some money, and he was sure that there was no way for those guys to sell these war relics.