Chapter 892 - Strategic Equipment (3)
Since the food can ensure the Luo family's current large-scale expansion of the army and the requirements of military equipment. Then next, it is the rest of the Luo family's current war readiness materials.
In terms of weapons, the main weapons workshops of the Luo family are mainly concentrated in Notakayama, Matsuura County, Hizen Province, where the Luo family started. At present, this workshop has gathered more than 300 craftsmen of iron and wood, mainly responsible for forging and repairing the Luo family's standard spears, bows and arrows, arrows, knives, black eagle daggers, horse guns, shields, feet, armor, cloth shoes and other weapons.
According to the materials submitted by the Internal Affairs Cabinet, the Intelligence Cabinet, and the Military Cabinet respectively (although the materials of the Luo family are counted and managed by the Internal Affairs Cabinet, they are jointly supervised by the Internal Affairs Cabinet, the Intelligence Cabinet, and the Military Cabinet for a long time), at present, there are more than 2,000 Luo's standard spears, more than 1,000 bows and arrows, more than 3,000 knives, and a certain number of Black Eagle daggers, horse guns, shields, feet, armor, and cloth shoes.
After the expansion of the Luo family's army this time, the total number of standing pikemen of the Luo family was 5,530, including 3,500 standing pikemen on the seven lands, 1,600 pikemen on the standing pikemen of the four naval armies, 200 spear warriors on the samurai captain, and 50 on cloaks. In addition to the nearly seventy percent of the spears that were in the standing team that did not need to be replaced, more than 1,000 spears were needed, and the 2,000 reserves in the current warehouse of the Luo family were enough.
In terms of Luo's family's standard bows and arrows, after the expansion of the Luo family's army, there are a total of 4,250 standing archers, including 2,450 standing archers on land (700 Luo's archers and 1,750 archers), 1,600 standing archers of the four naval armies (800 Luo's archers and bow-tire archers), and 200 warriors of the samurai team (100 Luo's archers and 100 bowers). Except for the original nearly sixty percent of the bows and arrows in the standing team, there is no need to replace the equipment. More than a thousand longbows and arrows are also needed. With the 1,000 sheets in the current warehouse of the Luo family, it is just enough to meet the needs.
In terms of standard tools. The Luo family's standing teams had 5,850 standing swordsmen, of which seven land units had 2,800 standing swords (2,450 archers and 350 iron artillerymen needed a katana), four naval armies had 1,800 standing swords (1,600 archers and 200 iron artillerymen needed a katana), 800 iron artillery teams, 400 samurai soldiers (200 archers and 200 iron artillerymen needed a katana), and 50 cloaks. In addition to the nearly sixty percent of the original knives in the standing team that do not need to be replaced, more than 1,000 knives are needed, and the 3,000 knives in the current warehouse of the Roche family are enough.
The rest of the reserves, such as Black Eagle daggers (mainly equipped for Black Hawk ninjas and retainers), arrows, horse guns, shields, feet, armor, cloth shoes, etc., can barely meet the overall needs of the Luo family's military strength after the expansion of the Luo family. In addition to the above-mentioned Luo family's standard weapons, the various weapons collected from various forces in the Luo family's warehouse at this time can barely meet the needs of more than 20,000 standing reserves and temporary peasant soldiers.
At the same time, because of the wild high mountains, this place is not only the starting place of the Luo family. And there are also the main weapons workshop of the Luo family, the commercial workshop, the hero cemetery, the temple (that is, the Zhongxiao Temple, every time before the Luo family goes out, Masara and others will come here to worship, please Hachiman Bodhisattva protection) and other important places, so this place is also closely protected by the Luo family's military force, in addition to the continuous patrol of the Luo family's navy along the coast, there is also the Luo family's recruit training camp has been stationed since here (as a daily training camp for the Luo family to train recruits, even if it still maintains the flow of recruits for a long time, still maintains a minimum of 500 recruits).
Of course, the workshop here in Notayama is mainly responsible for the forging and maintenance of the Roche family's general weapons such as spears and knives. Weapons workshops such as iron cannons, gunpowder, large cylinders, and siege tools were built in the mountains and valleys near Kishigatakeyama Castle in Matsuura-gun, Hizen Province. The defense of this place is mainly the responsibility of the Black Hawk Ninja Village, which is also located in the same area.
After this expansion, the Luo family's iron cannon standing has increased to 1,550 people. Among them, there are 350 iron cannons in seven land units, 50 iron cannons in four naval units, 800 iron cannons in two iron artillery units, and 200 iron artillery samurai in samurai teams. In addition to the nearly forty percent of the original standing cannons in the standing team, there is still a need for more than 1,000 iron cannons of the Luo family, and with the reserve of more than 700 iron cannons in the current warehouse of the Luo family, it is obvious that the iron cannon workshop needs to continue to work overtime to forge them.
The fundamental reason for the lack of iron cannon reserves is the lack of raw materials. As we all know, in the territory of the Luo family, although a lot of copper ore, coal ore and other resources have been discovered, and these resources not only meet the needs of the Luo family for forging weapons, but also improve the efficiency of smelting ore (mainly the use of coal to increase the temperature of smelting), but as a large consumer of weapons iron ore (especially the consumption caused by the forging of knives and iron cannons, and the forging of the Luo family's sufficiency and Luo armor also consumes iron ore raw materials), it is lacking in the Luo family's territory. At present, the associated iron ore in the Luo family's territory is only barely able to meet the needs of the Luo family's workshop, and more iron ore is actually imported from all over the country and even smuggled from Korea and Ming.
In addition to iron ore, which is a large consumption of raw materials for the Roche family, saltpeter, as a raw material for gunpowder, is also a large consumer. So far, the Luo family has not found a large saltpeter mine in the local Wa country, so the current saltpeter of the Luo family is smuggled from Korea and the Ming Kingdom, which limits the amount of gunpowder reserves of the Luo family, thereby reducing the attack power of the Luo family's army.
Originally, it was thought that the casting of large cylinders would be a large consumer of raw materials such as iron ore and copper ore of the Luo family, but in fact, in the current situation, it is not as bad as the consumption caused by forging knives and iron cannons. At present, the Luo family has a total of nine large cylinders, four of which are placed on the four forts in the southeast, northwest and northwest directions of the Luo family city as the city's defense weapons in the academy city, and the other four are the main weapons of the upcoming large barrel team, and the last one is the weapon on the main warship of Li Huamei himself. (To be continued......)