"Don't worry! Your Highness, these new armies were built to kill the charging knights within range, so their use of leather armor is completely sufficient."

Xia Lin nodded and said, in his opinion, such a configuration was enough to deal with the knight.

After all, facing the knights with muskets, the chance of victory lies in forming a dense barrage of bullets within the range to quickly clear out the enemy, if the knights are allowed to cross this distance, facing the high-speed impact of medieval tanks, the soldiers of the new army will not increase their chances of survival even if they wear plate armor.

Moreover, wearing plate armor requires too high the quality of soldiers, which does not conform to the design concept of a simple and easy-to-use weapon such as a musket.

Although the cost of the Type 1391 rifle is not cheap, the soldiers of the musketeers are obviously much cheaper than the knights who have been exercising in all directions since childhood, taking various potions to stimulate the body to break through the limits of the human body, until they have obtained various magical powers and obtained various extraordinary powers.

Knights can only be cultivated slowly even if they have money, and musketeers can explode thousands of people in a short period of time as long as they have money, compared to knights who are naturally more inclined to conservatives, musketeers are the most suitable choice for business alliances.

After completing the demonstration of two rifles, the next step was to demonstrate the power of the 80-caliber breech gun.

Since there is no need to consider the factor of primer, the machining accuracy of the outer circle of the gun body and the gun tail can also meet the requirements.

When firing, the bolt needs to be turned open, then a piece of wedge iron is removed, a fixed paper-shell shell shell is placed from the bolt, and then the wedge iron and the bolt are closed.

The gunner hits a yellow structure above the tail of the cannon with a small wooden hammer, causing the magic stone inside to come into contact with the Flame Rune Disc to produce flames, and the flame enters the cannon chamber through a tunnel with a one-way valve, igniting the cannonball and firing.

It can be said that the whole firing process is quite modern, but because the current boring machine is not accurate for such a deep inner circle structure, there are still some problems with the sealing between the barrel and the shell, which affects a lot of range and power, and also makes the weight of the gun body have to be greatly increased.

After the commander gave the order, the 80 breech gun was driven by strong recoil and then retreated, and a full 3-kilogram shell pierced the 1.5 gun body at an elevation angle of 5 degrees, flying into the distance at a high speed visible to the naked eye.

Eventually, it landed at a position of about 1500 with a diameter of 50 circles drawn in lime, and finally stopped after destroying a series of obstacles in the circle to demonstrate its power in three flicks.

It is conceivable how much damage such a heavy projectile can inflict on a dense phalanx on the battlefield.

"God above, the power of this cannon is amazing! And the range is actually comparable to a bow and arrow equipped with magic equipment! No wonder Sir Charling called Cannon the King of War!"

Count Karen was so amazed by this terrible power that he began to pray to the gods, a full 1500 range, and when he reached the farthest range, he could destroy a series of steel plates, wood and other obstacles, this power was too terrifying.

"Sir Charlin, how much does such a cannon cost?"

After watching the scene of the cannon firing, the princess Dorothea turned back to Xia Lin with a solemn expression and asked. If she is only satisfied with the rifle, then she attaches great importance to the artillery.

"Such an 80-caliber breech gun costs 130 pounds of steel, and the cost is about 25 gold lundes."

Charin knew that the Dorothea princess had seen the value of the cannon on the battlefield and explained it to her.

"Shhh How is this cannon so cheap? Wouldn't 25 rifles be exchanged for a cannon?"

Earl Stewart gasped when he heard this offer, and immediately asked in confusion.

"This is because the cost of the rifle is mainly focused on the Flame Rune Disk, which is used as a triggering device, and one such rune disk costs 80 silver mar.

The cost of the artillery is mainly in the steel that makes up its barrel, the cost of a heavy steel in our steel mill is close to 12 silver mar, and an 80 caliber breech gun needs 130 heavy steel, which is almost 16 gold lund.

In addition, add labor

The cost, the cost of the rune disk, and the cost of subsequent processing, this has reached 25 gold lund.

If we can reduce the price of rune disks, the cost of our rifles can be quite low.

I even have an arquebus with an arquebus, which costs only 12 silver mars each.

Although similar in power to the two rifles I showed earlier, this arquebus cannot be loaded with paper shells, it is very cumbersome to load, the rate of fire is extremely low, and it is completely unusable in rainy weather."

Xia Lin carefully explained the reason why the slender rifle was not much different from the cost of the huge artillery.

"I see, wouldn't it be a great advantage for the knights if all the soldiers were armed with that kind of arquebus?"

The princess Dorothea nodded knowingly, and then asked quickly, obviously faking the low cost of the arquebus.

"I don't think it's possible, because they can't aim accurately, arquebuses are not very accurate, and they need a salvo to damage the high-speed knights, but they don't have a fast rate of fire, and it's hard to form a barrage.

It may be that the combined firepower of ten soldiers is not as good as that of one soldier with a Type 1391 Type 2 rifle, and I am afraid that it will not have an advantage over the knight on the battlefield.

Without other classes, such as pikemen, the knights would easily break up hundreds of arquebus-wielding soldiers with a single loose charge, and then a massacre.

And arquebuses can't be used on rainy days, which is too restrictive.

It's okay to have arquebusiers in the army on a small scale, but our business alliance can only train 1,000 new army soldiers in the name of the northern military at most, and can only take the elite route, which has nothing to do with us."

Xia Lin shook his head and vetoed:

"In my vision, due to the constraints of establishment, the Forces nouvelles should adopt an improved version of the Type 1391 Type 2 with bayonets and a medium- and close-range delivery grenade, paired with an 80-caliber breech gun.

Because the Type 2 rifle has a fast rate of fire and sufficient firepower, I am also prepared to reform the formation of the new army so that they can form an army more suitable for this kind of firepower."

"Reform? How to reform?"

Earl Stewart asked curiously.

"In all respects, first of all, the military system needs to be reformed, and the pikemen that are usually tightly arranged need a large formation of dozens of people.

Our new army soldiers only need a group of 3, a squad of 12 people, equipped with a deputy squad leader and squad leader, that is, a squad of 14 people.

Such a squad uses Type 1391 Type 2 rifles, and the firepower is enough to block a cavalry squad of twenty or thirty people.

Three squads of 44 men for a platoon, three platoons of 134 men for a company, three companies of 404 men for a battalion, two battalions with an artillery company of 134 men, plus a 58-man logistics platoon responsible for managing supplies, transportation, cooking, and medical care, this is the organizational structure of the new army that I have planned."

"Sounds interesting, but why are they all threes?"

Count Cullen asked as he touched his chin and asked a little strangely.

"This is because we all have two arms, and the most suitable thing on the battlefield is for one person to command two people, so that the three-three system is the most suitable system for management."

"Another very interesting statement, but Sir Charlene, I think you can do what you want.

After all, there aren't many people in our alliance who can have an opinion about your new weapons and new army, and I think only Viscount Hart can help you."

Dorothea said after a moment of silence.