Li Ming and Song Tao smiled bitterly at each other. They also heard that the members of the technical group had made a batch of rear-loading rifles and several army field artillery, and they were also very excited to learn about it.

"Lao Wang, it is said that they made a few things, and now I don't know if they have been loaded on the ship."

Wang He smiled and said, "How can I keep the samples, just waiting for you to come and see." I'm not going with you, don't even spray me at the end. ”

Li Ming suddenly remembered something, so he asked, "By the way, I heard that you got another retired landing ship of the Navy, what model?"

"A few days ago, a group of naval personnel from the Ministry of Security have come to receive it, this is still the relationship of the Song Tao family, contacted a person from the Equipment Department, we explained the situation to them, that is, our company is going to Africa to engage in development, facing the attack of local armed factions and pirates, so we bought this decommissioned landing ship, I heard the Navy people say that it seems to be a 072 medium landing ship, and it is equipped with two personnel landing craft. The military people were still afraid that we would suffer losses on the African side, and they wanted to send some retired cadres and soldiers of the army to accompany us, so how dare I agree, so I politely declined. He has been contacting me lately, hoping that we will contact the local embassy when we get to Africa, and he has given me a few phone calls, saying that if there is a problem, they will help solve it. ”

Li Ming and Song Tao laughed when they heard this, and Song Tao quipped: "Lao Wang, you didn't say that we still have branches in the Middle East, maybe we can cheat some weapons and ammunition." ”

Wang He said with a smile: "Don't say it, when we bought this ship, they really gave us a batch of obsolete weapons, all of which are recoilless guns or something, and a batch of firearms, but there are not many of them." When you get to the company, you can take a look. ”

Li Ming and Song Tao glanced at each other, both very excited. Domestic recoilless guns are definitely a good thing, simple and lightweight, widely used, in that era they could be used as cannons, I don't know how many shells there are. As for the Type 072 landing ship, it is estimated that it is also an early old model, at that time, they and Qiao Haipeng wanted to buy a landing ship, so they specialized in studying several domestic models and knew several landing ships of the domestic navy very well. It wasn't until they bought two crocodiles-class ships in Grand Kamene that they dispelled the idea.

After chatting for a while, they arrived at the company's headquarters in the seaside. As soon as I got off the bus, I was warmly welcomed by the staff of Linhai headquarters. In the past few days, everyone is looking forward to it, just waiting for Li Ming to come.

Now the work of the Linhai headquarters has basically ended, most of the personnel have gone to Vladivostok, and the remaining personnel are only a few hundred. And most of them are also technicians in the maritime team and various departments. Everyone came to the company's canteen, where a banquet had been set up to pick up the wind for Li Ming and Song Tao.

Li Ming also reported to everyone the results achieved by the advance team in Vladivostok, although everyone knew about the situation of the advance team through the Vladivostok branch, but now that they heard more detailed information from Li Ming's mouth, everyone was still very excited, and the scene was very enthusiastic for a while.

Whenever Li Ming mentioned something inspiring, there was warm applause in the company canteen, which lasted for a long time.

After Li Ming finished speaking, everyone began to walk up to Li Ming and Song Tao to toast, although they were all veterans of the alcohol test, but they couldn't stand the crowd, after drinking the first glass, can you still not drink other people's wine, isn't that looking down on people. So the two of them were poured by this, and they were already blindfolded after a while. Others lost their goal and began to pour themselves into it, and finally the company's canteen was a mess and slept on the ground.

The next day, as soon as Li Ming and Song Tao got up, they were knocked on the door by a group of old guys from the technical group, and they were pulled away by the two of them, one by one with a straight face and did not speak. The faces of the two of them hadn't been washed yet, but they couldn't explain it.

As soon as they arrived at the technical department, they were surrounded by a group of technicians, and before they could sit down, everyone began to spray.

"I wanted to look for you two yesterday, but considering that you have just arrived in Linhai, we can't be unreasonable. But we kept holding our breath. Is the armament plan formulated by your Ministry of Security completely nonsense, and with the level of technology we have now, the army actually chooses to load guns and guns in front of it, what is this for, to look down on our technology department? ”

"The lives of our soldiers are precious, why do you still hold such backward military ideas, don't you know that front-loading rifles need to maintain the normal state of the line in order to maximize the advantages of firearms and weapons, then the casualties will be very large. My comrades, you are committing a crime! ”

"What did you do in the army back then, has our army been reduced to this point now? We are facing a team of horses from the post-Golden Tartars, as well as the rangers of the Mongol Tartars, what if we encounter an encounter? ”

Everyone squirted at the two of them, foaming at each other, making Li Ming and Song Tao dizzy, the two of them were mentally prepared yesterday, but when they were on the front line, they were still a little unbearable.

A middle-aged man with glasses waved his hand to make everyone stop, this person's name was Zhang Jiang, and it turned out to be an expert in the technical department of a military factory. He looked at the two people gloomily, and said sternly: "If you army have any ideas, can you say it?" Don't act like we're unreasonable, should we talk about democracy too? Now let's talk about it. ”

Li Ming looked at a large group of men with glasses around him, and there was a burning gaze behind the frames. Li Ming said in his heart, if anyone reasoned with you intellectuals, he would be a mallet. The point is that you can't talk about them, everything is a set of things, and they all insist on their own subjective ideas, and they don't tolerate other people's opinions at all.

Anyway, people who are engaged in technology are stubborn, and there are too few reasonable people. Maybe that's why science keeps improving.

Li Ming coughed, cleared his throat, and then said with a smile: "When Lao Gao and I formulated this army armament plan before, we mainly took into account the objective reality, and in the first two years of the Far Eastern Company, the main task was to gain a foothold in the Vladivostok base, try to do a good job in the infrastructure of the Vladivostok Development Zone in the shortest possible time, and also the reception of immigrants from Liaodong.

Because the threat of the company was relatively small during this period, the company's security department did not have a military plan to take the initiative to attack, but took the training of new recruits and the training of future backbones of the army as the main work in the past two years. The armament plan of the troops is mainly formulated on the basis of the enemy we are targeting and what kind of strategic intention we are going to achieve; it is not that the more advanced the weapon, the better, but also that the effectiveness and cost ratio of the weapon should be considered.

Our plan is the same, to lay the foundation for the troops as much as possible during this period when the threat to the company is relatively low. Cultivating a group of backbone veterans who can go to the battlefield and finding some good seedlings of excellent troop leaders is also for the sake of the long-term planning of the troops. ”

As soon as Li Ming's words fell, a stout middle-aged man stood up, slapped the table and said loudly: "What nonsense! ”

This person's name is Li Tiexiong, he turned out to be the deputy director of the workshop of a heavy machine factory, he is a military fan, he is in major military forums, he is one of the leaders of several weapons-only theory in the company's technical department.

"Now we think about what cost-effectiveness ratio we need now. While the wormhole is still there, why don't we transport a large number of AK47s to another time and space, as well as tanks, armored vehicles, rocket artillery, why don't we use these equipment, but get those useless things. Even if you give me an armored battalion, I can fight to Shenyang in a month, and the sooner the Houjin regime is eliminated, the better it will be for us, you ......"

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Jiang next to him stopped Li Tiexiong, for fear that he would say something more. But as soon as he grabbed Li Tiexiong, several supporters of weaponism next to him also stood up.

"If I want to say just get some Vulcan cannons, the firepower will definitely be able to hit the tartars and save even the cannons."

"Why do we want to develop sailing ships, can we develop all-steel armored battleships, and even without firing guns, they can sink European sail battleships even if they collide, and then install a few large-caliber guns, and one shot can destroy a city."

"We can also build some tractors, hundreds of large tractors are loaded with machine guns, and push all the way, all the Mongolian iron cavalry and Tartar horse teams are scum."

A group of technicians hurriedly persuaded these people, and they also knew that it was unrealistic. Li Ming and Song Tao smiled bitterly at each other, but they didn't refute it, after all, everyone's mood is understandable, and they all hope that the company's troops can be as strong as possible, but reality does not allow them to do this.

If you want to hit Shenyang, ten BTR-60 armored transport vehicles and fifty jeeps are enough to complete this task. But what to do after the fight, this is completely contrary to the company's strategic intention of steady and steady development, occupy a place, who will manage it, there are not enough cadres, even if it is a ground, it will not solve the problem fundamentally.

It is still necessary to transform a group of indigenous people of the Ming Dynasty and cultivate enough grassroots management talents in order to keep the occupied areas stable. The army will definitely have to expand on a large scale in the future, but there are not enough grassroots backbones, how can this unit be built, and should people from the Ministry of Security be the platoon commanders?

However, there are only a few people in the Ministry of Security, and there are a considerable number of navy and army personnel, and there are also a considerable number of cadres and non-commissioned officers of other branches of the military, such as technology, logistics, artillery, etc. Even if they are all platoon commanders, how many soldiers can be brought out, and what about the reserve forces of the troops.

The building of the armed forces includes all aspects, logistics alone is an important component of the army, fighting a war is fighting logistics, and the materials needed by tens of thousands of troops in a day are not a small number. The materials needed on the battlefield are even more astronomical, and people eat horses and feed them, and don't transport them from the rear.