Raising artillery is a very expensive affair, and it is clearly stated in the original historical records.

During the Civil War of the American Civil War, in general, the artillery command sequence on paper looked like this:

Colonel: Regiment commander, a largest artillery regiment with 12 6-gun batteries, a total of 72 guns, 1840 men and 1100 horses; The smaller regiment had 12 batteries of 4 guns, 48 guns, 1240 men and 740 horses;

Lieutenant Colonel: Deputy Regiment Commander

Major: Battalion commander (in charge of 3 companies) or regimental staff officer

Chief Sergeant Major: The highest sergeant of a battalion, who manages the daily training of soldiers, etc.

Quartermaster Sergeant: Manages and distributes clothing, equipment, and rations throughout the regiment.

Arms Sergeant: Manages and distributes all ammunition for a battalion.

Captain: Company Commander.

Lieutenant: Platoon commander (two guns per platoon), there is no deputy company commander in the company, and the most senior lieutenant commands the whole company in the absence of the company commander.

Second Lieutenant: Responsible for managing all ammunition trucks and munitions in the company, he is also known as the commander of the ammunition truck platoon. During the operation, the artillery is deployed on the front line, each gun is equipped with an ammunition box, and the company commander and platoon commander are in the front line. All horses, ammunition wagons, and transports were listed in the second line, commanded by the second lieutenant, and he was responsible for replenishing the ammunition in the first line when it ran out. If there are two second lieutenants in the company, the senior one is the platoon commander, and the junior one is in charge of the ammunition vehicle.

Sergeant Major: Assists the company commander in managing the daily work of the company and is directly responsible to the company commander. The tasks included: training, discipline, arranging guards, equipment maintenance, assembly, grooming of men and horses, etc., but there were no combat missions. If there is one less officer in the company, the sergeant major acts as the second lieutenant and manages the ammunition wagon, and the second lieutenant fills the vacant officer's work.

Company Quartermaster: Responsible to the company commander and sergeant major, managing logistics such as clothing and food.

Both quartermasters and munitions sergeants are in the rank of sergeant, but they are paid the same as sergeants.

Sergeant: Responsible to the platoon commander, commanding half of the platoon-1 gun, and the trailers, ammunition trucks, and horses attached to the gun. His subordinates were artillery corporal and vehicle corporal.

Artillery Corporal: Commands 6-10 gunners and is responsible for the loading and firing of artillery.

Vehicle Corporal: Manages trailers and ammunition trucks.

Engineer corporal: There are no sappers in the artillery company, but they are often accompanied by a team of sappers who are responsible for repairing roads, digging fortifications, clearing obstacles, etc.

The company had only 5 officers, 1 captain, 3 lieutenants, and 1 ensign, which was 3% of the company's strength, plus 21-22 non-commissioned officers and more than 140 private soldiers.

In order to ensure that each artillery gun has a sufficient number of personnel in wartime, the artillery company has a certain number of substitutes, which are under the management of the second lieutenant in the company. According to the regulations, each 6 artillery battery was required to have 15 substitutes and 11 substitute horses.

According to the 1861 U.S. Army Regulations, an officer's income included food, forage, and servant (the salary, food, and clothing of an orderly) in addition to his salary.

Forage is calculated according to horses, 8 yuan per horse per month, and the servant fee is 24.5 yuan per orderly, for example, the colonel is allowed to have 3 horses and 2 orderlies, and 24 yuan and 49 yuan per month are paid.

Therefore, in the era when there were no railways, raising artillery and cavalry was a huge cost, not because technical talents were rare, but because the cost of raising horses was too high.

The cost of a horse, not counting anything else, is a cut above the salary of the most critical sergeant major in the US army (20 yuan).

At that time, if a big-headed soldier was not deducted from food, weapons, clothing, and other miscellaneous expenses (if these were deducted, the soldier would not have much money in hand), the military salary was only 13 yuan. The forage fee for one horse alone is enough to recruit more than two large soldiers.

Judging from the military expenses that the army receives every year, Chen Xin is not able to allocate all units with full artillery for the time being, so he can only give priority to selecting key units to gradually go deeper.

Even, in many cases, the Huaxia Army had to use artillery obtained from other countries and regions to make up the numbers for the time being.

At this stage in the first half of the 17th century, the artillery used all over the world had completely different specifications, and it can be said that a hundred flowers bloomed.

Not to mention the innumerable variety of artillery that appeared in the Thirty Years' War in almost all European countries, such as the Czech Republic, Palatin (one of the Electors of Germany), Austria, Denmark, France, Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Venice, Hungary, etc., which was beating people's brains into dog brains in Europa.

There are at least dozens of types of artillery equipped by several surrounding forces adjacent to China alone. Moreover, a large part of the artillery is "new" guns that have been cast in recent decades.

After the Huaxia Army got its hands on those artillery pieces of different specifications, even if it could not equip field troops, it still had no problem supporting firepower for the security forces or militia units.

In order to reduce the logistical pressure as much as possible, the Huaxia Army integrated the vulnerable parts of various artillery pieces as much as possible. Of these, the largest consumption is not ammunition, but wooden wheels.

The artillery used by the Huaxia Army now has been demarcated with standard gun mounts, and there are only three specifications.

Of course, what is said here is completely smoothbore artillery, and the rifled guns that the Huaxia Army is now mainly equipped with by the navy and heavy artillery battalions are not included in this list because they are completely different systems.

According to the latest issue of the artillery regulations, the three types of artillery mounts are:

No. 1 gun mount: 40mm caliber infantry gun, 5 kg smoothbore long gun, 10 kg howitzer.

No. 2 gun mount: 10 kg light long gun (including a naval 10 kg cannon modeled after the M1857 Napoleonic gun) and 20 kg naval howitzer.

No. 3 gun mount: 10 kg cannon and 30 kg naval howitzer.

In recent years, the war has not stopped, but the weapons of the Huaxia Army have also been in the process of upgrading, and after the promulgation of the latest issue of the artillery regulations, all kinds of new artillery have appeared, and most of them will use these three kinds of artillery mounts according to the division of light, medium, and heavy models, which greatly simplifies the logistics system of the Huaxia Army.

What's more convenient is that all the gun carriage wheels are the same diameter as the wheels of artillery ammunition trucks and supply vehicles, all of which are 150cm, and they are also similar in structure, and these wheels can be replaced with each other in case of emergency.

In the smoothbore gun, only the 10-pound mountain howitzer is an exception, this 10-pound mountain howitzer, in order to highlight its biggest point is portability, the diameter of the wheels has been reduced to between 97cm and 100cm.