Chapter 987

Qi Guangyi's eyes immediately focused on Xiao Ming's lance.

With Xiao Ming's permission, he took the lance and looked at it carefully. The more he looked at it, the more excited he was. The lance in his hand was indeed very similar to the Han style rifle, but the difference was that the lance was relatively short and light.

Now he has some knowledge of guns. This kind of design is very suitable for shooting on horses, but relatively, the range will be a little closer.

However, even so, it's far longer than the range of the barbarians' bows and arrows, and they always suffer from long-range weapons in their battles with the barbarians on the grassland these years.

Now that they have the javelin, they can completely reverse this disadvantage.

"Emperor, how many of these horseguns are there?" Qi Guangyi asked excitedly.

"Not much. The military factory has produced 8000 horse guns, which should be enough for this war. With these horse guns, you can set up an elite gun cavalry to deal with the barbarians."

Xiao Ming and Qi Guangyi came to the map. The area north of the great wall and west of Raozhou was still controlled by the Golden Horde.

"Eight thousand, quite a few indeed." Qi Guangyi asked expectantly, "emperor, is this the same metal bullet as the Chinese rifle?"

Hearing the speech, Xiao Ming showed a wry smile and said, "don't think about it. It's extremely difficult to produce metal bullets. The caliber of the rifle is 6.5mm, and the caliber of the bullets is different. This means that the military factory using metal bullets needs to build a new production line, which takes a long time, so you can use paper shell bullets for the time being. It's enough 。 "

Qi Guangyi was a little disappointed, but when he thought about it, it was better than going home empty handed. Moreover, the use of paper shell bullets is only a stopgap measure now, and it may not be long before metal bullets can be used.

Thinking of this, he said: "the end will be a little greedy, this kind of lance is really suitable for immediate shooting, more than enough to deal with the barbarian cavalry. "

Xiao Ming nodded. In order to make it convenient for the cavalry to carry it, the lance also has a strap on which the cavalry can carry it on their back.

In this way, cavalry can switch between close combat and long-range shooting at any time.

After showing the lance, Xiao Ming continued: "the lance is one thing, the will to fight is another. Now the weapon only theory in the army is very dangerous, which will make our soldiers rely too much on weapons and forget that they are the root of victory in the war."

Over the past decade, they have basically defeated the enemy with superior weapons in all previous wars, which has created the illusion that weapons determine war for both soldiers and generals.

But he was very clear that weapons were only a factor in the war, and his country's modern superiority of weapons over theirs was an example.

Qi Guangyi looked serious when he heard the speech. He said, "the last general will always remember the lesson that the brave will win when they meet in narrow roads."

"Well, that's right." Xiao Ming patted Qi Guangyi on the shoulder. "This northern expedition is mainly led by two old generals Niu Zhen and Luo Quan. Your cavalry should actively cooperate. I'm waiting for your good news. Now the army has assembled. You can set out after five days at home."

"Yes, Emperor." Qi Guangyi bowed himself to the Tao.

April 9.

After several months of preparation, the army of Jinzhang Khanate gathered at Qingzhou station. With the powerful transportation capacity of steam engines and locomotives, 80000 soldiers went straight from Qingzhou to Raozhou.

With these soldiers arrived Raozhou also a large number of weapons and ammunition and canned food.

"General, these tins are very plentiful. "

after a day and night's trekking, the first batch of soldiers and supplies arrived in Raozhou. Niu Zhen, Luo Quan and Qi Guangyi arrived by the first steam locomotive.

Qi Guangyi was also an eye opener when he inspected the canned food.

This military can was no stranger to him. During the civil war, it was a powerful tool for soldiers to supply.

However, since then, he has never seen military canned food, because the food for garrison in Raozhou is ordinary and there is no need for canned food.

So the military cans he sent this time were an eye opener.

"Since the first cannery made a lot of money in the civil war, there are many canneries in Qingzhou. In order to attract orders from the military aircraft department, these canneries also racked their brains to produce all kinds of cans. Now there are so many military cans. "

while talking, Niu Zhen pointed to different cans and said," this is canned pork, this is canned potato, this is canned fruit, this is canned biscuit "

Niu Zhen is talking, while Luo Quan is laughing. He said to Qi Guangyi," the food of the army is getting better and better now. In the past, when we were fighting, there was no such condition. "

Qi Guangyi is stunned. He has seen it today.

After checking some food, the three waited for the first group of soldiers to gather before they went to the city.

When he arrived at Raozhou camp, Niu Zhen said: "the logistics of this war is not a problem. The fighting conditions are much better than before. If we are defeated, we will have no face to go back to see the emperor."After a pause, he asked Qi Guangyi, "now you can tell us more about the barbarians."

As a result, Qi Guangyi went to the map of the grassland and pondered for a while. He said, "since the barbarians were driven back to the grassland by us, the barbarians have suffered a great loss. However, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse. Although the barbarians are declining, they are still strong, and the number of cavalry is about 260000."

”Although the barbarians lost Kanto, the cavalry did not lose much. What they lost most were slaves. "Luo Quan said:" these 260000 people are not a small number, almost twice as many as ours. "

Niu Zhen nodded slightly.

Qi Guangyi continued: "these 260000 cavalry are not concentrated together, but distributed in the vast grassland. In order to avoid our attack, the golden tent of the golden tent Khanate has been moved to this place, far away from us."

”This is Ili. It's really far away. " Niu Zhen's eyes narrowed. Qi Guangyi's map had marked the distribution of the barbarians in the grassland.

In the vast grassland, the barbarian tribes occupy different grasslands, and the strength of each tribe is different. These tribes seem to be scattered, but he knows very well that once the war comes, these tribes will unite and become their enemies.

Through Qi Guangyi's introduction, their current distribution of the barbarians gradually became clear. Luo Quan then said: "our infantry are equipped with Han style rifles and use close guard artillery. As long as they use the hollow square array, the barbarians will have no fighting power. Therefore, there is no need to worry about too much. As soldiers, they will attack the grassland soon and kill the barbarian tribes completely! “

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