Yes, it's not weapons. Those weapons are indeed weird and powerful, but they are not enough to scare one of Tsarist Russia's military commanders in Siberia.

He was frightened by the amount of gunpowder.

When the Chuhuer camp withdrew from the siege, the first order Ivan gave was not to look after the wounded soldiers, but to ask the armed attendants to quickly pick up an unexploded rocket for him.

He didn't know the principle of this thing, but he could probably guess that when he filled the tube with soil, he could fill it with seven kilograms, and if he added explosives, it would be at least eight kilograms.

Just for this thing alone, the besieging army outside the city shot thirty or forty of them, including guns and flying cannons, plus four small cannons that continued to bombard for half an hour. In a short siege, a thousand kilograms of weapons were lost.

gunpowder.

What is this concept?

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Tsarist Russia treated officials who went on an expedition to Siberia very generously as soldiers. The infantry commander of a fortress could receive an annual salary of twenty rubles.

These days the ruble is a kind of silver bar, weighing about 1,000,000 taels, which is about two and a half German thalers. It can buy not only a sable skin, but also an old musket in Würzburg, Prussia.

In other words, the annual salary of an infantry commander can buy eight old muskets.

However, for the same twenty rubles, you can only buy fifty kilograms of gunpowder, and there are additional charges for guns and shells.

This thing is almost the most expensive of all ordnance in Europe.

Generally speaking, in Siberia, everyone in the expedition team is equipped with a gun, and one hundred kilograms of gunpowder is the entire gun, gunpowder and baggage of a hundred-man expedition team equipped with a single iron cannon.

Before the war began, the gunpowder stock in the entire Tomsk Fort was less than 1,000 kilograms.

Ivan could brag about this battle for half his life when he returned to Moscow. He survived an offensive with a thousand kilograms of gunpowder.

Outside the city, Sunday Qiang and Chu Huer also laughed happily.

Because the Hundred Corps Brigade commanded by Wang Jinzhong had a very successful exploratory attack on Tomsk. Although the defenders had strong forts and many men and guns, their firepower was basically the same as theirs.

Even because of the existence of small individual artillery such as lifting guns and flying guns, the defenders can be suppressed in a subtle way.

Zhou Qiang looked at Chu Hu'er and said, "The Heavenly Army has withdrawn the siege. The Orus soldiers in the city must suspect that our division has run out of ammunition, and they will probably come to kick the camp tonight!"

Chu Hu'er was not optimistic about this speculation. He shook his head slowly and said in a stiff voice: "They don't dare to fight with me."

Sunday was stunned for a moment, then waved his hands and said: "It's okay if they don't dare. If someone dares, the heavenly army will besiege the castle, and reinforcements will be sent from the surrounding villages and water forts. In the past few days, the general has led the horse army to encircle the point for reinforcements and wipe out all the reinforcements."

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Having said that, Sunday Qiang's nose was breathing heavily, and he looked at the fortress with burning eyes. He raised his hands to stretch out his sleeves, inserted his hands into the leather belt around his waist, and said: "When the general personally leads the fleet with guns, cannons, and arrows, we will respond."

Firearms comes here to decide the overall situation, and the northern border of our Generalissimo's Mansion can be further advanced for another 1,500 miles!"
Chapter completed!