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Of course, their superintendents can use trenches and forts to resist, but when the pseudo-Tang thieves are also digging trenches and then killing them from the trenches, there are not many ways to intercept them!

Cannonballs? It's useless, most of the hits will only leave a trace on the ground!

Bullets are also of little use!

The most effective is the grenade!

It's a pity that the Ming army has not always equipped a lot of grenades, because it takes too much gunpowder!

Unlike the Tang Army, the Ming Army could continuously obtain a large amount of sulfur, saltpeter and other materials from overseas. As long as there was money, gunpowder could almost be supplied in unlimited quantities.

But on the side of the Ming Army, money can't buy it!

Saltpeter is pretty good, and the key sulfur is difficult to get in large quantities!

Therefore, the gunpowder in the hands of the Ming army is still relatively precious, and there is not enough propellant used for muskets and artillery, so there is excess for large-scale production of grenades.

The same is true of the heavy short-barreled howitzer!

A heavy short-barreled howitzer actually has no technical content. The craftsmen under Zhang Yue’s hands are not dry. They can even make a nine-pound bronze gun, let alone a heavy short-barreled howitzer. And the artillery shell has no technical content, it can't be a hollow iron shell with gunpowder inside, basically just a large grenade!

But on the side of the superintendent, a few doors were tentatively built, and now they are on the side of Hanyang!

Then it just stopped!

Why?

Can't afford it!

A 48-pound howitzer, just by hearing the name, it needs to consume a lot of gunpowder. There is a lot of propellant, and there is a lot of charge for the shell. Once this kind of artillery is fired, it is directly equivalent to throwing out a large piece of silver.

Therefore, it's not that the Ming army can't make these big guys, but because they can't use them!

However, the Datang Army has no such scruples. Their military expenditure is much higher than that of the Ming Army. Although they dare not say that they are used, it can still be done to ensure the ammunition consumption of the front-line combat troops.

What's more, the industrialized production adopted by the Tang Dynasty also made their various ordnance costs much lower than that of the Ming army!

For example, artillery, now, a cast iron artillery piece in the Tang Dynasty is very cheap!

The ex-factory price of a five-pound field gun is only more than two hundred taels. A two-pound shotgun is cheaper, only sixty taels. A three-pound shotgun costs about eighty taels!

The price of bronze artillery is more expensive, but the current main force of nine-jin bronze field artillery costs only more than five hundred taels!

The cost of various types of artillery in the Ming army will basically increase by 50% or even double on this basis!

In fact, the price of the artillery itself is not expensive, because the price of a lot of equipment is not cheap compared to the price of the equipment. The whole set needs forty taels of silver!

In the case of military horses, take Mongolian horses as an example.

The price of the second-class draught horses, Thomas horses, and ordinary officers' riding horses is about fifteen taels.

The draught horses used by artillerymen have higher requirements for horses, and the basic price needs to be twenty taels of silver.

The riding horses used by the cavalry have the highest requirements and the most expensive, basically more than twenty-five taels of silver.

As for the Central Asian horses of the First Lancer Regiment, the value cannot be specifically measured, because the Datang Army spent more than 50,000 taels of silver on the introduction of Central Asian horses in order to arm the First Lancer Regiment. It takes more than 100 taels of silver, but in fact, even if these Central Asian horses are tall and strong, their actual value is definitely not worth it, but there is no way, whoever made the Tang Dynasty without these tall horses can only travel thousands of miles from Introduced in the Western Regions, the price needs to be normal.

The stainless steel waist knife equipped by the soldiers of the assault battalion cost two taels of silver, and the ordinary waist knives worn by ordinary soldiers of slightly lower quality also cost one tael of silver.

A cavalry sword is more expensive. The blade and even the handle are made of fine steel. Such a cavalry costs more than three or two silvers!

And this is the cost of industrial production in the Tang Dynasty. If it is placed in the Ming Dynasty, let's not mention whether they can equip so many weapons made of pure steel. Even if they can, the price is not a few taels of silver. , at least several times!

And a flintlock gun is now stable at around fifty taels of silver!

Many of the above equipments are only a few taels or tens of taels of silver. They seem to be very few, but they are actually not cheap.

However, although the prices of these equipment are not cheap, they are still cheap compared to various consumptions!

For example, artillery, to make a nine-jin field gun fight on the battlefield, it needs to be equipped with at least twelve horses, a dozen artillerymen, and a lot of ammunition.

The maintenance cost and combat cost of the artillery are higher than its own cost!

So if you do this calculation, you will know why the cost of the firearms unit is so much higher than that of the cold weaponry unit!

It's not that the weapon is expensive, it's that it's expensive to use!

To maintain an artillery regiment, it is impossible to do it with only a few tens of thousands of taels a year, and in battle, an artillery regiment can shoot out shells worth tens of thousands of taels at will!

This is tens of thousands of taels of silver, not a few taels of silver. This shows how much the firearms unit spends!

These days, in many factories under the State-owned Enterprises Department of the Tang Dynasty, the workers would get about one tael of silver for a month, while the peasants worked hard for a year to save money, and they would not be able to save in the end. A tael of silver.

The poor people at this time want to save money to buy a few taels of land per mu, and want the whole family to save money and spend many years of hard work, and there can be no accidents in the middle!

Otherwise, why do you think the peasants under the Datang Dynasty, especially those with no or little land, supported the Datang Dynasty so much, because the Datang Dynasty issued a 'Rent and Purchase Order' allowing them to buy government officials The land is paid in installments by the current year's land rent.

Why do so many children from poor families actively join the army? Whenever the local recruiting station starts a year of recruiting work, countless children from poor families will actively sign up!

Why? Good treatment is on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is very important to join the army and divide the land!

Today, the Tang Dynasty has distributed military merit fields to more than 80,000 soldiers and soldiers. These soldiers and soldiers have all met the conditions, including serving for many years and showing outstanding performance.

And everyone knows that the policy of joining the army and dividing the land cannot be continued forever, because every year people join the army, and the government land will eventually be divided.

If you want to divide the fields, you can only get from the dragon in the early stage!

In fact, the Tang Dynasty did exactly that. For the soldiers who divided the fields, they all divided the fields in the name of Conglong, rather than a specific system.

It is Li Xuan's special decree to divide the fields of eligible soldiers every year, and give them special gifts in the name of rewarding Conglong Gongchen!

And after the domestic reunification, will this gift continue? Unlikely!

However, they don't know that Li Xuan intends to continue to play this policy, but the land allocated by the military industry in the future will not be domestic land, because it must have been divided by then, and he intends to go abroad. Acquire land to serve as a military field.

Southeast Asia has a lot of fertile soil!

There are countless lands in the north and Central Asia, even if they are desolate, but the area is large and the quantity is sufficient. It may only give a few acres in the mainland, but in Siberia and ghost places, Li Xuan dares to directly give hundreds of acres or even thousands of acres. !

Then there are Australia, America, Africa, and India. There are so many unclaimed lands in this world!

At least Li Xuan felt that before occupying the world, he should not worry about not having land to distribute to the soldiers!

But Li Xuan didn't say it, and he hasn't started doing it yet. Outsiders don't know it. Now many people are thinking, seeing that the Tang Dynasty is about to completely unify China, and they want to win from the Dragon's Power and obtain the military merit field. , there is only one last chance left,

Therefore, when recruiting troops in the autumn of the sixth year of Xuanping, almost the entire area under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, the proportion of young men who signed up for the army far exceeded that of previous years, and it also exceeded the spring recruiting of the sixth year of Xuanping.

The land of Longxing in the Tang Dynasty, Zhengtai County, Xingquan Prefecture, this remote county with a population of less than 100,000 people, has more than 8,000 people in the army, and more than half of them are serving in the Guards.

This ratio is quite terrifying, because it represents that almost every young man in the family is serving in the army!

In recent years, the first choice of almost all young people is to join the army!

Of course, there are different ways to join the army. The children of landlords and gentry families generally apply for the martial arts school or the naval school, and their goal is naturally to become an officer.

Ordinary children, on the other hand, sign up directly to join the army!

The same situation also happened in other counties in Xingquan Prefecture!

Because in addition to the various original preferential treatment for joining the army~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Xingquan Mansion, the land of Longxing, local children have additional preferential treatment when they join the army. This kind of preferential treatment does not refer to other aspects, but It means that once they join the army, and if they want to, they can enter the Guards to serve!

And the treatment of the guards is much better than that of the army and the navy!

Of course, the main reason is because: the senior military generals in Datang today are almost all from Xingquan Mansion!

At present, all the generals at the lieutenant level of the military, Hao Bainian, Li Chunjing, Fang Xitong, Chen Keqiao, Lei Wan, Bao Yifen of the navy and other individuals of the army, these famous generals in the army are all from Xingquan. , without an exception!

And this also gives the children of Xingquan House an advantage that others do not have in joining the army!

What advantage?

Because they and these senior generals are related to each other, even if they are not close relatives, they can definitely be related to distant relatives. Even if they are not distant relatives, they can always find relationships, in-laws, fellow villagers, and even the same village. of.