Zhao Dagui asked Stark in detail about the battle with the pirates, and then fell into deep thought.

There is such a thing as a divine beast in this world, or a kind of divine beast that I am very familiar with, which is really strange.

Speaking of which, cultivating blood nerves by oneself will never let go of such things as divine beasts, but it doesn't seem appropriate to send troops with the British on this matter.

"You want the security team to join forces with the British Navy to fight against the pirates on Peach Blossom Island, right?" asked Zhao Dagui.

"Of course. ”

"Well, you're understandably anxious for revenge. However, it's okay for our security team to exterminate the pirates on Peach Blossom Island, but we can only send troops alone, and we can't attack with you. ”

"Why?" Stark asked strangely, not quite understanding what Zhao Dagui said.

"You must know that you Britain and I just fought a war a few years ago, and in this case, I myself led troops to exterminate pirates, and everyone would applaud;

But if I go out with you, it will be regarded as some kind of traitorous act, and I don't know how to be arranged.

Therefore, I can go out on my own to fight the pirates, but I must not join you. Zhao Dagui said as a matter of course.

Stark looked at Zhao Dagui incomprehensibly, thinking that the whole Qing Dynasty knew that you Zhao Dagui was my first comprador in the UK, and now it seems too late to draw a line with us.

Besides, the British Navy, which has always been omnipotent, has suffered a little loss on Peach Blossom Island, Zhao Dagui doesn't want to take the opportunity to hug the thighs of the British, but insists on sending troops alone, do you really think that the strength of the security regiment that has just been established for a few months can be comparable to that of the British Navy.

Stark intended to persuade Zhao Dagui, but Zhao Dagui still insisted on his opinion, that is, it was okay to send troops to fight the pirates, but either the British sent troops alone, or the security group attacked independently, and they couldn't do this thing together anyway.

"Well, since you're so insistent, let's try it on your own. Anyway, we just want to exterminate the pirates, and if we don't need to do it ourselves, then we don't have to worry about it. In the end, Stark could only say yes.

"That's for the best. However, this time we will help you send troops, and you will have to solve the problems of artillery, shells, and gunpowder. Zhao Dagui finally remembered one thing and instructed again.

"Didn't I sell you a lot of arms before, I'll just continue to sell them to you. Stark said nonchalantly.

"That's what I'm talking about. Speaking of the previous arms business, Zhao Dagui is a belly of firearms: "Fifteen yuan for a cannonball, fifty yuan for a barrel of gunpowder, this is to slaughter me as a fat sheep."

In a word, I don't expect you to supply at the ex-factory price of the munitions factory, but the current price is too high, at least half a discount on the current basis. Zhao Dagui said angrily.

"Haha, you're so rich, you don't care about that little money. Stark snorted, but considering that he really had to rely on Zhao Dagui this time, he agreed to reduce the price of the arms significantly.

Zhao Dagui also has the ability to produce guns and artillery, but because of technical limitations, it is not possible to achieve self-sufficiency in all weapons, and more importantly, even if some weapons can be produced by themselves, the output and speed cannot keep up with the requirements, so a large part of the weapons and munitions need to be purchased from the British.

The Stark family is also an old military industrial family in Europe, with a significant reputation, and it is no problem to sell some weapons to Zhao Dagui in case of emergency, but the price is much more outrageous than in Europe.

Taking thirty-pound shells as an example, the British army ordered from Stark Military Industry, and it was impossible to pay about one pound sterling and one shilling, that is, five silver dollars, but when it was sold to Zhao Dagui, it immediately reached the level of fifteen dollars per round;

In addition, gunpowder in Luzon and other places was only about 15 yuan per 100 catties, and when it was sold to Zhao Dagui, it immediately rose to more than 100 catties and 50 yuan.

In order to make the security regiment quickly form combat effectiveness, Zhao Dagui had no other way to buy weapons, so he could only grit his teeth and buy weapons first, and then find a way to imitate some, but now that there is an opportunity, he naturally wants to buy some arms cheaply.

Briefly talk about Zhao Dagui's weapon processing capacity here:

Zhao Dagui now has the ability to produce iron and copper cannons, but the number of skilled craftsmen is still somewhat insufficient, and the machine tools are not enough, so it is difficult to say that he is self-sufficient;

The spherical shells used in artillery are all made of iron, which is quite troublesome to process, and Zhao Dagui can produce them here, but he can't do large-scale production;

It was not technically difficult to produce advanced gunpowder, but because of the lack of large-scale purchase channels for sulfur and saltpeter, it could only be bought from the British at a high price;

Like muskets, compared with artillery, it belongs to the light industry in the military industry, with the current manpower and machinery, it can barely achieve self-sufficiency, and it is a rear-loading rifle with a lot of water, which is even better than the average equipment level of the British army.

The Minne bullets used in the rifle are not inconspicuous, but they require high precision, so they can only be produced by hand, and then some are introduced.

Historically, the Minne bullet began to prevail in the fifties, but not all European powers have the ability to produce machines, taking Russia as an example, it is easy to produce hundreds of thousands of Minne bullets, but it is difficult to produce tens or even hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition, and it is difficult to equip hundreds of thousands of infantry with everything, and it is not until after the sixties that the ability to mass-produce bullets was mastered.

Zhao Dagui set up a small military factory in Dinghai, but compared with Russia alone, it is not half a star.

By the way, I will complain about the artillery production technology of this era, when it comes to iron cannons, many people will agitate and say that the iron mold casting method is used to produce quickly, but the material of the artillery produced by this method can only be white cast iron, which has poor heat dissipation capacity and seriously affects the rate of fire;

In the Opium War, the artillery produced by the sand casting method used by the British army had a rate of fire of 1.5 to two rounds per minute, close to or more than 100 rounds per hour, while the Qing army's artillery rate of fire was only 8 to 11 rounds per hour.

The main battle weapon of this era is artillery, the actual role of muskets in the war is actually not much, I know that I can also introduce the artillery technology of this era in detail, from the firing range, rate of fire and hit rate and other aspects of the detailed comparison of the artillery parameters of the British army and the Qing army, but there have always been book friends who accuse the number of words with various information, here is just a brief introduction, really interested book friends can check some information by themselves.

In general, the performance of artillery parameters of the British and Qing armies differed greatly:

In terms of firing range, the maximum firing range of British artillery reached 1,900 meters, and the effective firing range reached 1,200 meters, while the firing range of Qing artillery could hardly exceed 500 meters.

In terms of rate of fire, the rate of fire of British artillery was 90 to 120 rounds per hour, and rocket artillery could even reach six rounds per minute, while the Qing artillery was only 10 rounds per hour, a difference of more than ten times, which basically belonged to the gap between Maxine machine guns and ordinary rifles;

In terms of penetration or cutting force, haha, the two are also very different, the British artillery can even sink a Qing warship with one shot, but the Qing army's artillery often has dozens or hundreds of rounds on the British warship, and it cannot cause any substantial damage.

(Note: At the beginning of the Opium War, the armies of the two countries fought the first naval battle in the Kowloon area, and the British army broke the Qing warship in two with a single rocket shell, which also frightened itself.) ）