Chapter 457 Lower Body Animals

Alexei just laughed at Li Xiao's complaints, because although Li Xiao was right about this matter, not everyone can be as predictable as him. After all, the weapons produced before are already very good, so it must be unreasonable to continue investing in them repeatedly!

Even Alexei knew that even after the unparalleled advantages of the new rifle and new ammunition, not everyone felt that investment was necessary. For example, Vishniak believes that the cost of new ammunition is too high to be used at all.

As for Leonid, who refused to invest in the beginning, he even thought that the newer rifles and ammunition were a waste, a meaningless luxury.

The saintly man thought that paper casings and a hinged breech gun with no rifling were good enough. I think that if we continue to engage in some "flashy" tricks on weapons, it will affect the soldiers' fighting spirit.

He always believes that the most important thing for soldiers is courage, and believes that a group of brave and fearless soldiers with knives and forks can also defeat a group of cowards with the latest rifles but no fighting spirit.

Whenever it was time to discuss the effectiveness of the new rifle, Leonid would quote Suvorov, who he admired the most, in his book "The Science of Winning", "The bayonet is a good man, and the bullet is a fool".

Obviously, Leonid was actually quite conservative in a sense, and his understanding of war was always bound by the rules and regulations of the nobility. Even though he could see the power of new tactics and new weapons, he couldn't help but want to maintain the tradition.

And whenever he quoted Suvorov's words, Li Xiao would immediately retort, telling him that Suvorov's intention was not literal, but a warning to the commander not to allow soldiers to shoot indiscriminately and blindly. They actually attach great importance to shooting. Tactics are not at all reckless men who only know how to fight bayonets.

At this time, the two people will quarrel and finally break up.

Anyway, Alexei was not interested in discussing the military significance of the new rifle and new ammunition with the two of them. This would only add fuel to the fire and make the already tense relationship between Li Xiao and Leonid even worse.

Of course, in general, Alexei is still on Li Xiao's side. Even though he and Leonid grew up together, he still thinks Li Xiao is more reliable when it comes to scientific issues.

Especially some time ago, he received a report from the National Army, explaining the process of a campaign to suppress bandits, he fully recognized the effectiveness of the new weapon.

In that battle, Turkish "horse bandits" who crossed the border from Bulgaria were preparing to ransack an outpost of the National Army. Hundreds of horse bandits surrounded the outpost by relying on their numbers, launching round after round of attacks.

The more than 20 national army soldiers in the outpost used the new-style rifles they tried out and relied on the fortifications to repel a total of seven rounds of their attacks and killed hundreds of bandits. In the end, they only paid a slight price of five casualties until the reinforcements arrived.

This battle example fully demonstrated the effectiveness of the new rifles. If they were old-fashioned rifles, especially those slow muzzle-loading rifles, even 200 men, let alone 20, might not be able to stop the cavalry's impact.

Alexei believes that if new rifles and new ammunition can be popularized as soon as possible, relying on relatively solid fortifications in future wars, the defense of the Wallachian National Army should be able to withstand the impact of Turkey and other Western troops, anyway, block Turkey People are not a big problem.

Of course, how to popularize it is a big problem. The prices of the new rifles and new ammunition are indeed not close enough to the people and not friendly enough. After more than half a year, the Wallachian National Army has only purchased more than 4,000 for trial use.

Not only is the price a problem, but the production capacity is also a big problem. Based on the production capacity of their arsenal, they can produce about 30 to 50 new rifles every day, that is to say, they start production without rest 356 days a year, which means 10,000 to 20,000 rifles a year.

Not to mention the popularity of this amount, it can't even meet the needs of the Wallachian National Army, okay?

In addition, the production capacity of bullets is also a big problem. In the past six months, they have produced a total of one million rounds of ammunition. Seems like a lot? But if you do the math, you know that the National Army and the Black Sea Fleet now have a total of about 5,000 new rifles.

According to training requirements, Russian recruits should consume no less than 180 rounds of ammunition each year. Multiply five thousand by ninety, and that's almost half a million rounds of ammunition. Then what? If the remaining points are divided equally among these 5,000 rifles, how much can each gun be divided into?

What's more, it's impossible for you not to leave a little bit of reserves, right?

Calculated in this way, this amount of ammunition is not enough to fight a decent battle, it is simply pitiful, okay?

How to expand production capacity has become a key issue. Alexey also raised this issue with Boris and Vishniak before, but these two are not very interested. To put it bluntly, they don’t want to continue to spend money.

This is actually understandable. Although their brothers have made a lot of money in Wallachia these years, most of the money is actually transferred from left to right. They just got it back and invested it again. It really fell to their brothers. There is not much sincerity in a pocket.

Even Li Xiao and Alexei, who took the lead, not only failed to make money, but had to pay their own wives to lose money.

That is to say, Li Xiao can still hold on after taking back his cheap Lao Tzu's property. Even Alexei feels tight and can only live a hard life.

"What should be invested still needs to be invested!" Li Xiao sighed, "I will take another 200,000 rubles, see how much more you can get, let's buy another batch of equipment! In addition, we must also strengthen the improvement of craftsmanship and worker technology, and then dig Take a look at the potential!"

Alexei also gave a wry smile, but he was still a little touched. After all, it is definitely true love that he is willing to invest money in Wallachia under the current situation. Look at Leonid's uncle and old father, he has long since turned into a hairless iron cock!

"I hope the war will break out sooner!" Alexey lamented, "I hope the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be more helpful!"

The corner of Li Xiao's mouth twitched, but he didn't say anything, because now he could only pray. After a while, he suddenly asked: "By the way, what are Boris and Vishniak doing recently? I haven't seen them for a long time!"

Alexei curled his lips and said: "One is busy preparing for the wedding, and may have to ask for leave to go back to Moscow in the near future. As for Vishniak, it seems that he hasn't seen him for a while. Anyway, he is mysterious, maybe Are you flirting with the lady and wife of another family!"

"Yeah?"

Li Xiao nodded, feeling that the possibility of picking up a girl is indeed very high, because that person is indeed a down-and-out animal...