Chapter 669: The Empire Will Go Bankrupt

When Hollybat, the crown prince of the Orr Kingdom, secretly arrived on the armored cruiser Chongke of the Great Heng Imperial Navy, with this heavyweight, the two sides quickly finalized the procurement of various emergency military supplies.

In fact, in recent years, the Orr Kingdom has also spent a lot of effort to develop its own defense industry, building a comprehensive arsenal that can imitate and produce Luoan IV rifles, 11 mm bullets, 75 mm 20 times field guns and artillery shells.

But the scale of their factories is too small, and the scale of their supporting steel, machinery, and chemical industry is not large.

Belongs to that kind of little sparrow, although there are five internal organs, but small!

It looks okay on weekdays, but when it comes to a real critical moment, this capacity is not enough!

Coupled with the increasing movement on the side of the Krull Kingdom, this is already a large-scale recruitment and expansion of troops in the two colonies in the south, and war will break out at any time!

This is also the reason why the Orr Kingdom urgently found the Great Heng people to order all kinds of military supplies.

Due to the very high pressure on the Orr Kingdom, war may break out at any time, so they strongly demand the spot, even if it is not spot, they also ask for delivery as soon as possible, and at the same time ask Daheng to deliver the goods to the door.

For this reason, they prefer to buy at a high price, and make it clear that even if it is second-hand weapons and equipment, as long as it is usable and delivered immediately, they are willing to give it at the price of new.

The reason why there is such a condition that seems to be a big loss for them is because although the production capacity of the national defense industry in the Daheng Empire is huge, it is impossible for the factory to produce hundreds of thousands of rifles in advance when it is idle, and hundreds of artillery pieces are put in the warehouse and sold slowly.

Although there are some stocks in the major arsenals, most of these stocks are prepared for internal orders or foreign orders from the Daheng military.

Even so, there is not much inventory in the factory, and if you want to get a large number of ready-made weapons and equipment at one time, then there is only one way, and that is to ask the Daheng military directly.

Daheng has hundreds of thousands of standing troops, as well as a large number of strategic reserves prepared for the garrison troops, and the reserves of various types of weapons and ammunition are naturally extremely large.

And if you want to take away the military's active weapons and equipment and strategic reserves, it is naturally impossible to not pay the price.

Daheng's army and navy carefully took stock of the active equipment and strategic reserves of each unit, and finally agreed to their procurement requirements!

It is ready to sell 100,000 Luoan IV rifles to the Orrs, of which only a few are brand new products, and the rest are second-hand goods directly and temporarily retired from the Daheng Army.

In addition, 100,000 old Roan 3 modified rifles sealed in the combat readiness warehouse were also thrown to them.

During the unification war of the Daheng Empire, more than 2 million Luo'an III rifles or similar rifles were manufactured and modified by the feudal towns, and after the unification of the empire, a number of good conditions were successively selected as strategic reserves, and some of them were sold cheaply, and those that were unusable were returned on the spot.

Over the years, nearly one million Roan III rifles have been disposed of cheaply, but it seems that a lot of them have been sold, but they have not made much money, because the prices are very cheap, and more often they are used as an addition to the arms trade......

Now these 100,000 are already the last batch of sealed Luo'an III rifles in the Great Heng Empire, and they will be gone after they are sold.

In addition to the total number of 200,000 rifles, there are also more than hundreds of various types of army artillery, among which the 75-mm 20-fold field guns and 75-mm 14-fold howitzers that have been mothballed by the Daheng Imperial Army after being reequipped.

Even a hundred and fifty-millimeter cannon was sold to them for a dozen.

In addition to traditional guns, there are also machine guns!

The Daheng Empire has always been secretive about machine guns before, and banned exports, but the technicians of those powerful countries are not stupid, and a few years later, the machine guns of the Daheng Empire have been imitated, and the Krull Kingdom and the Walia Empire have successfully imitated and equipped machine guns, so since last year, the Daheng Empire has also released the restrictions on the export of machine guns and is ready to be exported.

This time, too, the Orrs procured a batch of machine guns.

And finally, the ammunition for the big heads!

The guns and cannons on it are actually just small heads in this ordnance trade, and the real big heads are actually seemingly inconspicuous bullets and shells.

The rifles, artillery, and machine guns ordered by the Orr Kingdom added up to more than 10 million Heng Yuan, but the 75 mm shells they ordered alone were worth 15 million Heng Yuan, and other types of shells were worth 8 million Heng Yuan.

With just eleven millimeters of ammunition, they ordered 50 million rounds, worth millions of constant dollars.

Otherwise, how can it be said that since the Daheng Unification War, the war has been expensive, because those Daheng people took the lead in applying breech-loading rifled weapons in the unification war, especially after they began to use machine guns, which led to a sharp increase in ammunition consumption on the battlefield.

In the 6th year of the reign of Qiansheng, a skirmish broke out between the Walya Empire and the Kekel Empire on the western continent, but in the battle, repeating rifles similar to the Luoan IV, heavy machine guns, 75 mm caliber rear-loading rifled guns and mortars were widely used, and the rear was also supported by heavy artillery.

In less than two days of fighting, the participating troops of the Kyle Empire only had a mixed infantry regiment with a strength of about 2,000 people, and an artillery battalion in the rear to provide support, but it consumed more than 200,000 rounds of ammunition, 2,000 barreled artillery shells, and 1,000 mortar shells.

And the situation of the participating troops of the Walya Empire on the opposite side is similar, or even more severe than them, because just one day after the battle broke out, their front-line conflict troops have already urgently requested ammunition support from the military headquarters in the rear!

And the reason why this time the conflict between the two sides is only a conflict is largely due to the huge amount of ammunition of all kinds of new weapons that scared the high-ranking generals of both sides stupid!

At that time, Field Marshal McCarthy, commander of the Southern Army of the Walya Empire, was resolutely opposed to the war, because once the war started, the ammunition reserves of the Southern Army under his command would only be enough to support the troops for half a month!

Emperor Anto VI of the Valia Empire said: what if the Empire gave the front-line troops an adequate supply of ammunition?

McCarthy replied: "Then the empire will go bankrupt!" ”

Compared with the pre-loading era, the consumption of ammunition in war has increased by a large margin, and this has formed a relatively general consensus in the military circles of various countries.

The Orr Kingdom naturally knew about it, otherwise it wouldn't have rushed to Daheng to purchase!

They want not only weapons and ammunition for the army, but also equipment for the navy!