After several months of actual combat experience, the Han-style rifle was finally officially finalized, and the name remained unchanged, still a Han-style rifle. 【】Mass production, batch assembly. Priority is given to the supply of the Xiao Cavalry, the Shooting Sound Army, the Lion Cavalry, the Mastiff Cavalry, the Leopard Cavalry, the Eagle Cavalry, the Eagle Cavalry, the Vulture Cavalry, the Falcon Cavalry and other troops, each of which is now equipped with a brigade, about 1,500 troops. The other units, first equipped with a squadron, were about three hundred.

At present, the total strength of each of the various units of the White Army, except for the chasseurs who are the guard troops and the four stragglers, is about 10,000 people. Of these, there are about 6,500 pure combat soldiers. With such a force, if all of them are equipped with Han-style rifles and a certain number of mortars, the combat effectiveness should be said to be quite strong. Even in the face of tens of thousands of enemies, there is complete certainty of victory.

In the future, basically, an army under the White Army will be able to take charge on its own. If you strengthen an army, you can form an overwhelming advantage over the enemy. The main resistance of the White Coats at present is to the west, north and northeast. As for the southeast, and south, the enemy is not strong. All you need to be armed with is a small number of Han-style rifles to achieve victory.

The current production capacity of the Ordnance Division has not been fully utilized, and it can only produce a maximum of 100 Han-style rifles per day. The most important reason is not that the production capacity of the Ordnance Department cannot be increased, but that the indicators of the Han-style rifle and the production process have not yet been finalized. If it is produced in large quantities, it is a tragedy to find out whether the product surname can meet the requirements. However, after the Han-style rifle was finalized, this problem has been solved.

According to Liu Guangliang's report, after the completion of modelling and assembly line production, the output can definitely be greatly improved. The current bottleneck is no longer a problem of production capacity, but a question of how many Han-style rifles Xu Xingxia needs. After all, the cost of a Han-style rifle is higher than that of a Yueyue gun. And some troops, in fact, do not need such advanced firearms.

Due to large-scale production, the cost of Han-style rifles is also declining rapidly. So far, the cost of each Han-style rifle has been less than eight taels of silver. There is also the possibility of a further decline. Eventually, it is extremely likely to be reduced to about three taels of silver. In order to reduce the production cost of various weapons and equipment, Xu Xingxia took out a large number of incentives to encourage craftsmen to use their brains to improve the cost of weapons and equipment from various angles.

In all areas of logistics production, Xu Xingxia has adopted a large number of incentive measures. In the logistics and production department of the White Army, there are actually many people who want to eat a big pot of rice. If you don't work hard, it's a man's lazy surname. Go to work and get the money, this kind of thing is the most comfortable. Before the Ming Dynasty, the Weapons Bureau and the War Bureau, there were too many craftsmen who were so mixed. Their production is actively surnamed, which is really not high.

However, under the auspices of Xu Xingxia, the logistics production department implemented a strict piecework wage. Every craftsman has a very low salary guarantee, and everything else depends on your performance. Do more, do well, get more money. If you do less and don't do it well, then I'm sorry, it's extremely likely that you won't even have money for food. Maybe upside down.

Those excellent, diligent craftsmen, at most, can get more than ten taels of silver a month. That's definitely an eye-popping number. The income of ten taels of silver per month can ensure that their whole family can live comfortably in Ningxia Town. If your skills are not very good, as long as you are diligent enough, you can get about three taels of silver a month. This kind of income is enough to ensure the needs of personal life.

Obviously, these stimulus measures are very effective. What artisan wouldn't want to take a little more? It may be difficult to get ten taels of silver, but five taels of silver is entirely possible. Because, as long as you are diligent enough, you can do it. Even the laziest person will not be unable to get along with money. The silver of white flowers is the best stimulus. How? Not convinced? Want to make trouble? First ask Xu Laomo what the three words mean!

The so-called three stinkers, beating Zhuge Liang, under the stimulation of huge interests, many craftsmen are racking their brains, searching for dry intestines, and repeatedly experimenting how to get the reward. In order to get these rewards, some craftsmen can be said to have no food and taste, unable to sleep at night, and have been thinking about how to complete the production task quickly and well. Unconsciously, they will automatically and consciously carry out technological innovation and explore faster and better production models.

For the production process, Xu Xingxia basically didn't ask. As long as the report issued by the inspection committee proves that the weapons and equipment produced by them are of good quality, the reward can be issued on the spot, and there will be absolutely no arrears. This kind of open, transparent reward stimulates other craftsmen even more. Even other industries are gradually adopting this method.

In addition to the production of Han-style rifles, the Ordnance Division is also responsible for the production of grenades and mortars. The technology of these two weapons is fully mature, and there is not much to improve. What needs to be done now is to reduce costs, expand the scale of production, and equip as many troops as possible. Mortars, in particular, are urgently needed by many troops. It is like the Tianxiang Army, a mountain force, needs to be equipped with at least 300 mortars to meet the needs of the battle.

In the eyes of the vast majority of army commanders, the combination of mortars, grenades, and Han-style rifles was enough to deal with all enemies. The battle of Yangguan Fort fully proved this point. No matter how formidable the enemy is, he will not be able to break through the blockade formed by these three weapons. However, in Xu Xingxia's view, this is not enough. He also needed a light mountain gun of 75 mm caliber, as well as a bazooka. The whites can arm themselves to the teeth.

The research laboratory led by Bi Maokang is carrying out all-round research on the 75-mm mountain artillery. Due to the problem of the quality of the barrel, the 75-mm mountain gun they developed was only about 10 times the caliber and the firing range was only about 3,000 meters, which was about the same as the 92 infantry gun of later generations. Of course, in appearance, there is still a big difference.

In fact, national feelings aside, the little devil's 92 infantry cannon is indeed a very ideal weapon, especially in the complex and changeable terrain of China. It was simply developed specifically for the Chinese battlefield. In the absence of enough towing vehicles and the need to use manpower and animal power to tow, the 92 infantry gun is indeed too useful. During the War of Resistance against Japan, as long as there were more than 1,000 little devils, they would definitely carry the 92 infantry guns. For this reason, the Chinese people have suffered a lot and paid huge sacrifices.

Bi Maokang also presided over the development of another weapon, that is, the bazooka. This thing is quite effective for wooden fortifications. With a single shot, the fortifications can be easily destroyed. Judging from the test results, its target is quite good, and it can easily destroy strong fortifications within a range of 100 meters, making up for the shortcomings of field guns and mortars in some aspects.

The technical content of the bazooka, relatively speaking, is not very high. Anyway, what Xu Xingxia needs is not a very long range, and a hundred meters is enough. The key is that its ammunition should be powerful and powerful enough to destroy fortifications such as pillboxes. The bazooka is designed to work exclusively with mortars and 75mm mountain guns. In the face of such a combination of firepower, no matter how strong the fortifications are, they will be beaten to slag.

The "40 Fire" used in large quantities by the People's Liberation Army in later generations is a rocket launcher with a caliber of 40 mm. It was powerful enough to destroy any kind of tank during World War II. In the years when there were no tanks and armored vehicles, the 40 mm caliber rocket launcher was already powerful enough to destroy any solid target that is currently known.

Xu Xingxia was originally going to study machine guns or something, but after thinking about it, he forgot it. It's not that it's too technically difficult, it's that it's not cost-effective. If the white-clothed army is equipped with machine guns, the logistical pressure is too great. In fact, a Han-style rifle in each hand is already a very unnatural existence. Even in the face of the tide of Green Cult fanatics, it is easy to win.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Xu Xingxia was examined in the radio laboratory. To talk about the role of radio, it is definitely epoch-making. It will open up a new concept of messaging. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the transmission of information mainly relied on fast horses. Even on the side of the Western powers, the transmission of information also relied on fast horses. If the message is transmitted by sea, it is even slower.

From the northernmost point of China to the southernmost point, if you rely on fast horses to deliver messages, it will take at least half a month. If it is passed from the westernmost to the easternmost side, it is estimated that it will take a whole month. Especially in the western region, the road conditions are not good, the speed of the war horses cannot be fast, and the time required to transmit information is even longer.

At the beginning, An Lushan rebelled in Fanyang, and the heralds sent out by Fanyang galloped all the way, I don't know how many horses were killed, and it took six days to spread the news to Chang'an. However, if you use radio, it will be instantaneous. With six days to prepare, it is estimated that Li Longji will not be so busy.

With the development of the times, the important surname of information transmission has become more and more prominent. Transmission on land, not to mention for the time being, transmission on the sea, is the most critical. Due to the barrier of the sea, it is very difficult to transmit information back from the ocean, or between different ships on the ocean.

It is simply impossible to mobilize forces at sea. Even if the two fleets were probably less than thirty miles apart, they would not be able to coordinate at all without a prior appointment. They will only pass by gorgeously. It was as if the hapless Napoleon, if he had been helped by radio to mobilize his troops, it is estimated that he would never have been defeated at Waterloo.

Some people may say, isn't there a flag on the sea? Yes, there are indeed flags on the sea. Flags, however, can only convey the most commonly used messages. Some special, unpredetermined, or relatively long messages cannot be delivered at all. Especially in the heat of battle, the smoke of gunfire is filled, visibility is limited, the cannon is rumbling, and it is impossible to hear the words of the ear, let alone use the flag and sound to convey the message.

In the current large-scale naval battles, it is simply difficult to convey certain special messages between warships. The commander must hand over the information to a special communications staff officer, and then appoint this communications staff officer to take a special clipper ship and run to the target warship to complete the transmission of information. If something goes wrong in the chaos, the news will be lost. In fact, in the heat of a naval battle, who can guarantee the safety of this communications staff officer? Who can guarantee that he will be able to deliver the information safely?

"What else do you need? What else is needed? How much more money is needed? I can fix it all! Xu Xingxia said without hesitation.

It's a pity that the people in the radio laboratory can't give Xu Xingxia a satisfactory answer. To be honest, the radio is completely unfamiliar to them. Before Xu Xingxia arrived, they hadn't even heard of the word radio. It is this laboratory that Xu Xingxia built by hand.

They have no theoretical knowledge at all, so they can only rely on Xu Xingxia's guidance, and then with a brute force, they are constantly and repeatedly experimenting, hoping to hit the big luck and toss the radio out. Of course, this cannot be said to be entirely wrong. At the very least, they are in the right direction. As for whether they can hit the big luck, it really depends on their luck.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, Xu Xingxia received information from Hamiwei that the army of the Yarkand Kingdom had launched a crazy attack on the Hamiwei area. The white-clothed army and the other side had fierce battles, and there were a certain degree of casualties. Gao Yigong himself also accidentally suffered some minor injuries. Fortunately, his injuries were not serious and did not affect the battlefield command.

In fact, the attack of the Yarkand army was launched on Chinese New Year's Eve. It took six days for the information to be transmitted from Hamiwei to Ningxia Town. In the days when there was no radio, it was really difficult to transmit information. It is said that the scout who was in charge of delivering the information killed five good horses along the way before passing the information to Ningxia Town.

The army of the Yarkand people set out from Yili and divided into three armies, and launched an attack on Hamiwei, Handong Zuowei and Aduanwei respectively. The battle was very fierce at one point. In order to concentrate his forces, Gao Yigong had already ordered the white-clothed army to temporarily retreat from Aduanwei, Qu Xianwei and other places.

The Han Chinese had a New Year's tradition, but the Yarkand did not, and neither did the Ottoman people. They chose to launch an attack at this time, and the purpose was naturally self-evident. Judging by the battle reports from the front, the situation is not very optimistic. Those fanatical supporters of the Green Cult have already poured into Hamiwei in large numbers, rushing towards the white-clothed army from all directions.

Fortunately, the lion cavalry with a high power collar has also been prepared. They resolutely fought back against the attacks of the Green Cult fanatics. The Mastiff Cavalry led by Gao Jie, as well as the Leopard Cavalry led by Mao 13, also approached Jiayuguan to support Hamiwei's battle at any time. However, before the construction of the railway, the logistics of the large army was still a very fatal problem. The battle of Hamiwei is unfolding on a large scale, and logistics transportation is a big problem!

"Radio, radio ......," Xu Xingxia muttered to himself.

"Railway, railway......" Xu Xingxia muttered again.

(To be continued)