Valley Emperor

In other words, although the Tatars fought fiercely, since the Western Expedition, they have almost no land, but this invincibility is only limited to the plains. If they are in the mountainous terrain, their mobility advantage will be lost, although the combat effectiveness is still the same. Powerful, but if the defending side uses the mountainous terrain and organizes a large number of troops to strictly guard against it, they can still block it.

In the Persian region, northwestern India and Ottoman West Asia and Eastern Europe, the reason why they were not conquered by the Tatars was because of terrain problems. At the same time, there was a regional power in these directions with sufficient troops.

This news is good news for Xu Zhenchuan, who came to Europe after all the hardships, but it is not good news for many countries in Central Europe.

Because they can't fight in the Balkans, and the Tatars don't like that, they like the plains.

So what will the Tatars do next?

They will intensify their attack on Central Europe!

The first to bear the brunt of course is the remnants of Poland and Lithuania, and the Holy Roman Empire behind Poland and Lithuania!

The main force of the Eastern Expedition Coalition Army sent to Poland and Lithuania before was actually the army sent by the Habsburg family of the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, and the troops sent by France, Spain and other countries were actually relatively small.

Therefore, the Ottoman Empire blocked the advance of the Tatars to the Balkans, which is not good news, or even great bad news, for many European countries.

The Spanish side has already realized that another branch of their family, the Austrian Habsburg family, is afraid of trouble.

And now Spain is also ruled by the Habsburg family. Although it has been separated for a long time, it belongs to one family anyway.

And more importantly, once the Tatars have destroyed the waves of Lithuania, it is very difficult to unite against the Tatars in terms of the chaotic interior of the Holy Roman Empire when they enter the Holy Roman Empire.

If the Austrian side is finished, the Spaniards do not think that the follow-up France will be able to resist the attack of the Tatars.

If France is finished, it will be Spain's turn.

Although it is still far from the Tatars, the three countries of the Spaniards, Portuguese and France have a strong sense of crisis.

This is really because the Mongolian western expedition had too much influence, and this time the Tatars showed no less combat power and aggressiveness than the Mongolians of the year, or even more than the Mongolians of the year.

It's always a good idea to prepare early.

How to prepare, of course, the armed forces!

In this way, the ordnance from the Tang Dynasty is also very easy to sell!

For a period of time, Xu Zhenchuan felt that he had become an arms dealer, and all those who came to him asked to buy arms.

Spaniards, Portuguese, French, Germans, Italians, Ottomans, Swedes, and all kinds of other messed up European dukes, marquis and other lords.

The lords of almost the whole of Europe came to the door to try to buy weapons!

But since the business came to the door, and the empire originally intended to support European countries against the Tartars, it was also open to anyone who came.

As long as there is money, then accept the order!

This makes the arms dealers in Datang quite gratified. These Europeans are quite cute!

However, although there are many arms trade in overseas markets such as Europe, and the profits are also high, compared with the three major domestic arms companies, although the sales and profits of the overseas market are also important, they are far less important than the domestic market.

This is from the three major domestic weapons companies. The export of various ordnance has been the same for ten years, and has never been updated. Even if there are occasional new models, it is an improvement made to save costs, but in terms of performance, it is from Once and for all, never improved!

It can be seen that the three major weapon companies basically do not pay much attention to the research and development of export-oriented weapons. Of course, this is also related to the strict restrictions of the Imperial Import and Export Commission. The Imperial Import and Export Commission directly limits the performance of various export weapons. and types.

For example, muskets can only be exported for smoothbore arquebuses, and flintlock guns are absolutely not for sale.

Plate armor, only light plate armor can be exported.

Therefore, there is basically no need for research and development of export-type weapons, but the weapons equipped by domestic troops need continuous research and development.

Especially the competition for the new generation of rifles of the army and navy has been very fierce in recent years!

The Imperial Army has long felt that the existing flintlock guns are unusable. The current imperial five-year flintlock gun, whether it is a rifle model, a cavalry model, or a navy model, has the defect of insufficient power.

But the powerful eight-year-style 18mm flintlock gun is too heavy.

The Army has always been a mix of the two in the past and is also looking for a solution.

Since last year, the Army has finally determined the replacement of the rifle. This time the new gun was not developed by the Royal Institute of Technology.

It was designed by a design team under the Jiangnan Weapons Company.

This gun uses a shorter barrel and a new type of steel pipe as the barrel. While ensuring the caliber of 18 mm, it also controls the weight of the rifle.

The weight of the whole gun is 4.4 kg, the caliber is 18 mm, and the total length is 1.52 meters. It is still a musket, using a bayonet, a ruler, etc. As for the ammunition, the ammunition has not changed. When the gunpowder pack is directly torn apart, it can be conveniently loaded, and the effective range can reach 100 meters!

Many performance standards here are actually not important, the important thing is the caliber of 18 mm and the weight of 4.4 kg!

The gun has a huge power, and the thick plate armor is still a hole in the past, and the weight is not too heavy.

This new gun was fired and after early testing, it was quickly identified by the Army as a new generation of standard rifles, numbered the twenty-six-year rifle.

And extended out of the cavalry, navy and so on.

According to the army and navy's replacement plan, all the muskets in the past will be replaced with twenty-six-year-old rifles, and this demand will be large.

In the short term, at least 500,000 to 600,000 pieces are needed, and at least one million pieces are needed in the medium term.

Such a huge cake, although the first soup has been robbed by Jiangnan Weapons Company, but even if the other two weapons companies can only authorize production, they must also produce the cake.

Compared with the order of millions of rifles for the domestic military in the medium term, the overseas orders for tens of thousands of arquebuses are nothing.

If the rifle is just a cheap thing, then other heavy weapons have caused more competition among the three major weapon companies.

Especially the artillery!

It is no secret that the military is dissatisfied with the existing front-mounted smoothbore guns. Even ordinary civilians know that the military now dreams of a new type of artillery.

More precisely, a rear-loading rifled gun!

What kind of artillery the military wants is open to the public. As long as you can come up with it, whether it is the army or the navy, you can immediately flood your desk with orders!

However, the designs of countless rear-mounted rifled guns were taken out one by one, and they were all rejected one by one in the end!

Now the military can't be fooled, it's not a mature and stable design, they don't want it at all!

A few years ago, the Hebei battleship was produced, which caused the military to suffer a big loss. Now they are very cautious.

So now the military is dreaming of new artillery, but it is not just an unstable test model to get a large order from the military.

Although the artillery still has to use the old-fashioned front-loaded smoothbore gun, the military operations of the Tang Dynasty will not stop because of the delay in the development of artillery.

In the autumn and October of the 27th year of Xuanping, the Northwest Railway officially announced the opening of the whole line.

As a result, many weapons from the Central Plains and even Jiangnan, South China and North China can be transported by train from the Northwest Railway, that is, Zhengzhou in Kaifeng Prefecture, all the way west, and finally arrive at Jiayuguan.

The Northwest Railway has just opened to traffic, and the military can't wait to transport a large amount of various materials and troops to Gansu Province by train.

In the first two months of the entire line being opened to traffic, 90% of the trains from Zhengzhou to Gansu were military trains, while ordinary passenger and civilian freight trains only accounted for 10%.

With countless supplies being transported to the northwest ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, it also announced that the expansion of the Tang Dynasty in the northwest is about to kick off.

And this will also be the empire's largest military operation in the past decade, surpassing the previous Indian Ocean campaign.

Seeing that the empire was about to launch a large-scale westward expedition, the army was all festive, and many army generals were light and airy when they walked.

The expedition to the west must be a one-man show for the army.

And such a large-scale western expedition will bring huge military exploits, and military exploits represent promotions and titles.

Many army generals were eagerly waiting for the Western Expedition a few years ago, just to get a military merit during the Western Expedition, and then win a title, and those with titles also tried to upgrade one level in exchange for better fiefs.

Even if they are unable to go into battle, they are still seeking favors everywhere, just to send their children and grandchildren, especially the heirs of the title, to the battlefield to gain military exploits.

Since the Son of Heaven decided to divide the nobility overseas, more than a thousand nobles have acquired fiefs overseas.

The fiefs of these nobles basically revolve around North Sea Province, Luzon Province, Banten Province, Malacca State, and Australia, and a few are canonized to North America and India.

Basically, nobles above the viscount have obtained overseas fiefs!

The large-scale overseas enfeoffment made the generals almost crazy in their pursuit of military merit!

Many people hope that they can also build military exploits, obtain titles, and then win overseas fiefs.

Even the nobles who have already obtained fiefs, they hope to make meritorious deeds in exchange for better and bigger fiefs.

Nowadays, the mentality of many generals of the army and even the military nobles in the country is like the eve of a carnival night.

Some excited, some nervous, but more still looking forward to it!