Chapter 1743 Everyone has his own purpose

Haihan's secret deal with Champa was originally intended to attack the Dutch so that their intelligence agency could continue to control the direction of the grain market in Batavia. However, this gave Portugal a sap and allowed it to use the 33A rifle.

He was unexpectedly eliminated from the bidding. If Thomas knew the truth, he would probably be furious to death.

Fortunately, the Champa Kingdom is not as lavish as Fujian and Annan. It only ordered 500 new rifles as a supplement to its existing military strength. Therefore, Portugal will still have the opportunity to make mistakes later, but it will not be able to purchase in large quantities.

Just enter.

For the Fujian Xu family and An Nanguo, the purpose of purchasing weapons from Haihan is not only to arm themselves, but also to actively tie their own interests to Haihan, so as to obtain Haihan's long-term support and asylum in the military.

Champa does not have enough military strength to complete its external expansion. Their purpose is to ensure that the country's armed level is not much worse than that of Annan, its strong neighbor to the north. Moreover, the army still has many rifles purchased in recent years.

, so the need to replace new weapons is not so urgent.

Portugal's situation is different from these countries. Since the colony has not actually expanded in recent years, they have always maintained about 1,500 to 2,000 armed personnel in the South Haiti east of the Strait of Malacca.

, and the conflict with the Netherlands has not been as intense as before in recent years, so there is actually not much demand for weapons and equipment.

However, the Portuguese are extremely smart. As long as they have the opportunity to buy Haihan weapons, they will still try their best to mobilize funds to buy more. The weapons made by Haihan are better than those made by themselves, so they will buy these weapons and send them back to Europe.

, it will also be of great use, and at the worst, it can be resold to other countries and make a fortune.

Haihan was not unaware of Portugal's role as a middleman in the arms trade. On the contrary, he intentionally or unintentionally encouraged Portugal to do so. The current war intensity in Europe is far more intense than in the Far East, and there is a huge demand for high-performance weapons.

As for the price, it is no longer that important in the intercontinental melee that frequently aims at destroying countries and genocide. As long as the thing is useful, there are many people who are willing to pay for it.

Haihan is also relatively clear about the historical process of Europe, and even knows the trend of the war better than the Portuguese, so it has always been interested in exporting weapons and equipment to Europe through Portugal. On the one hand, the arms trade is very profitable, and this European guy has no money to make.

On the other hand, Haihan also has the intention to make the European war more intense. It would be best to weaken all the old colonialist countries, so that the external pressure Haihan faces in the Far East will also be reduced.

Can be reduced some.

As for whether these weapons will be imitated by local skilled craftsmen after arriving in Europe, Haihan does not have too many worries. The light and heavy weapons currently manufactured by Haihan are imitations of relatively successful weapons in history, and these weapons

Its origin is almost all in Europe, but Haihan created it a century or two ahead of schedule through the information he had.

Even without the existence of Haihan, Europeans would have made these weapons sooner or later. Now they have just advanced the time by a few years, but the imitations will still have obvious performance gaps compared to those made by Haihan. This is because Haihan

Han has technology beyond this era in terms of materials and processes. Even if others can imitate the structure of the weapon, it is impossible to copy the performance of Hai Han. What's more, if they can imitate, it is only a reduced-performance version specially used for foreign trade exports.

The models equipped by the Haihan Army are even more incomparable.

Although Fei Cexian looked disdainful, he was actually quite interested in this new weapon. If all these thousands of rifles could be sold to the Ming Dynasty, whether it was to quell the rebellion of the peasant army in the Central Plains or to resist the Jin people's attack on the pass,

, it must be much easier. But this situation exists in his imagination. He knows that Haihan intends to control the types and quantities of weapons exported to the Ming Dynasty. Except for Fujian, there is probably no local government that can have access.

A large amount of arms was purchased from the Haihan people.

Is it possible for the Fujian army to hand over the purchased weapons to the imperial court, or to let them purchase Haihan arms on behalf of the imperial court? The answer is obviously no. The imperial court had already made this attempt a few years ago, regardless of whether it was Haihan arms.

Neither Han nor Xu Xinsu refused to cooperate, so in the end they had no choice but to let it go.

Therefore, currently in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army with the best equipment in Fujian is under the command of Xu Xinsu, and its training is handled by Haihan. Fei Cexian has no doubt that the combat effectiveness of the Fujian Ming army has long been second to none in the Ming Dynasty.

.It is a pity that the imperial court cannot mobilize Xu Xinsu's troops at all, and the various decrees issued cannot be implemented after they arrive in Fujian. Even if Emperor Chongzhen really wants to use these troops to quell internal and external enemies, Xu Xinsu is unwilling to accept the move.

The imperial court was still at a loss to do anything. Now it could only maintain the status quo, and it did not dare to use the imperial decree to force Xu Xinsu to submit. It just wanted no rebellion in Fujian.

However, after Fei Cexian suppressed his anger, he decided to find an opportunity to contact Haihan's senior management again to see if he could persuade them to release weapons supply to Ming Dynasty, at least to allow Ming Dynasty to participate in the bidding in an event like today. Haihan

Hankou keeps saying that he and the Ming Dynasty are the same as each other, they are of the same race and descent, and they are both descendants of Han Chinese. They can't really ignore death and watch the Ming Dynasty continue to suffer in the war, right?

While Fei Cexian was thinking wildly, the previous background cloth had been removed from the stage, and a new background was propped up on a shelf. This background depicts a battle between two armies on the battlefield, one of which is wearing a red coat.

The Haihan army with blue double-color flags, and the other side were all cavalry charging on horseback with swords waving.

"It's Hou Jin's cavalry!" The first person in the audience to recognize his identity was North Korean envoy Li Xi. He was very familiar with the Jin soldiers' weird money rat tails, and he could tell the identities of these cavalry at a glance.

"Everyone, the scene depicted on this background is the Liaodong battlefield. Our army does not need to be introduced. I believe you have recognized it. However, our enemies may be very unfamiliar with the countries located in the South China Sea. They live in

The Jurchens in the far north, their country is the Houjin that everyone has heard more and more in recent years, and the Houjin cavalry is currently the most powerful armed force in the area north of the Ming Dynasty."

Baikes did not rush to show off the next weapon and equipment, but first introduced the content depicted on the background wall to the audience present. In fact, everyone present had heard a little bit about the rapid rise of Hou Jin in recent years.

, after all, the newspapers published by Haihan published a lot of news about Houjin. Even the countries located in the South China Sea knew that this horseback nation had suppressed the Ming Dynasty severely in recent years.

It has been more than two years since Haihan sent troops to Liaodong. In the past two years, most of the main combat troops have set foot on the Liaodong battlefield through rotational battle arrangements. The scene depicted on the screen is the actual battle situation of the Jinzhou Isthmus Battle last year.

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Bai Kesi continued: "The most powerful skill of Hou Jin is the cavalry charge. This tactic has made the Ming garrison miserable in the past few years, especially in the field, there is almost no way to compete with the opponent head-on. I

I think Master Fei from Ming Dynasty should be very clear about this."

Fei Cexian felt the complicated looks from around him, but snorted coldly, and did not pay attention to Bai Kesi's words. He could not refute what Bai Kesi said. The northern border of the Ming Dynasty was becoming more and more tight year by year. After the Jin army moved south, it turned out that

They were able to advance all the way to the vicinity of the capital. However, the gap in cavalry strength between the two sides was getting wider and wider. The defenders would hardly go out of the city to engage in field battles with the opponent, except to stay in the city and wait for the enemy to plunder enough and retreat on their own in the name of waiting for reinforcements.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty was not content with such a passive situation. Especially in the Liaodong Peninsula, Haihan defeated his cavalry by foot. After the battle, the Jin army retreated steadily, and Haihan took over the area south of the Jinzhou Isthmus. This record

The encouragement for the Ming Dynasty is still great. But the problem is that the combat power of the Ming army cannot reach the level of the Haihan army. If you attack the Houjin army in the wild, it will undoubtedly be a dead end. If you want to defeat the Houjin army with Haihan's tactics,

Jin Jun, then at least the problem of weapons and equipment must be solved first.

But in this way, it reached a dead end - the Ming Dynasty could not purchase Haihan weapons in large quantities through normal channels, and it was difficult to equip the Ming army in an organized manner to improve its combat effectiveness. In the end, it had to let Haihan do its own thing in Liaodong, which was equivalent to using

The land of the Liaodong Peninsula was exchanged for the military deployment of the Jin Army after Haihan held back in Liaodong. Although other countries may not know these inside stories, Fei Cexian himself knows it well. Of course, the insider must also add someone who also knows Liaodong.

The inside story of this deal in North Korea.

"As we all know, our country sent troops to Liaodong out of respect for Ming Dynasty and the long-term friendly relations between the two countries to assist Ming Dynasty in resisting the invasion of Hou Jin..."

When Fei Cexian's words fell into Fei Cexian's ears, they were automatically filtered out. Now he would not believe even a word of the beautiful words spoken by these high-ranking officials of Haihan.

"...A very important reason why our army was able to severely inflict heavy losses on the Houjin Cavalry in Liaodong is because we have equipped our troops with heavy weapons with extremely strong long-range lethality capabilities, artillery! It can attack the cavalry just as it begins to charge.

To attack them, no matter how brave the Houjin Cavalry is, they are still made of flesh and blood, and there is no way they can compete with steel! Halfway through the charge they launched, there were only piles of broken flesh and blood foam.

What else can be used to threaten our army?"

Bai Kesi's speech almost reduced the Houjin Cavalry to nothing, but the more it went like this, the more unhappy Fei Cexian felt in the audience. This opponent who gave Ming a headache was kneaded like dough in front of the Haihan Army.

Come and go, doesn't this further illustrate that the Ming army's combat power is vulnerable?

"Everyone, artillery can not only be used to defend and siege cities, but can also exert great power in field battles. Of course, some people may question why the Haihan Army can repel cavalry with artillery, but other countries cannot.

Yes, I will answer this question here today."

Fei Cexian pricked up his ears and wanted to listen carefully to what Bai Kesi had to say. The Ming Dynasty army had a lot of artillery, but it seemed difficult to exert the same effect as the Haihan army in field battles. Could it be that Haihan had something?

Advanced tactics.

Then I heard Bai Kesi say: "There are only two reasons. First, there are not enough artillery equipped. Second, the lethality of the artillery is not strong enough."

Fei Cexian almost spit out a mouthful of blood. These two reasons were so shameless that he couldn't think of any way to refute them.

Baikes continued: "But the army artillery we want to provide to various countries this time is to solve the problem that existing artillery is difficult to transport and deploy in the field, and its lethality is not strong enough."

In fact, the field artillery used by the Army is simply designed to be lightweight and easy to move, and can be transported easily and quickly using animal power or even manpower. As for the issue of lethality, without increasing the caliber,

, then we can only achieve this goal by increasing the effective range as much as possible and improving the shell structure at the same time.

For safety reasons, Haihan Ordnance must control the performance of exported weapons and not be too close to its own weapons. Therefore, although artillery is also one of the exported weapons, the performance upgrade is actually smaller than that of firearms.

To encourage donors to spend money to buy equipment, you have to find a publicity point that can impress them.

Fortunately, Haihan engages in frequent foreign wars, so there is no need to worry about finding actual combat examples to prove the selling point of Haihan's excellent artillery performance. Baikes used the war in Liaodong as an example to illustrate that Haihan's artillery is enough to defeat Haihan in field battles.

Strong armed cavalry. Of course, the premise is still what Baikes just mentioned: it is effective only if it is equipped with enough artillery.

How much is enough? Of course, each army will have different standards. For example, if the Haihan army has a mature tactical system and rich combat experience, perhaps a battalion of fifteen to twenty field artillery is enough to deal with an enemy with three to five times the strength.

The Ming army, which is not good at this kind of field battle, may need twice as many artillery to stabilize the morale of the army and prevent it from collapsing when faced with the enemy's cavalry charge.

The Xu family, who is not short of money, would of course be better off with more. It would be best if one battalion could be equipped with dozens of cannons, so that there would be no need to start a fight. If they were to spread out in front of the formation, they would scare the enemy to death. As for North Korea, maybe one battalion would be better.

Three or five cannons are enough - it's not that North Korea is arrogant, it's that it doesn't have that much military budget to purchase expensive heavy weapons like artillery.

The number of artillery equipped will certainly affect the combat effectiveness of the troops, but it is not the only factor that plays a role. The Haihan military has always emphasized that talents are the decisive factor in war, followed by weapons and tactics. However, in external operations

When promoting arms sales, the order must be adjusted to emphasize weapons only, intentionally or unintentionally weakening the role of people and tactics.
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