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Chapter 78 Light and Heavy Machine Guns

Because Cixi was prepared for a long time, the court responded immediately as soon as the memorial from General Fengtian’s Mansion was passed to the capital.

The Russians who were preparing to take this opportunity to extort the imperial court had to swallow their anger and dissatisfaction back into their stomachs.

Because the cunning Cixi directly took the attack to have nothing to do with the court.

And the Russians could not find any reason to blackmail the imperial court.

Once he showed off his strength and forced the head of the Qing court, the court would reply by sending troops to Liaodong to suppress bandits.

How could the Russians who have regarded Liaodong as their own pocket allow the imperial army to enter Liaodong and further aggravate the chaos in Liaodong?

Therefore, the Russians who wanted to take the opportunity to blackmail the Qing court had to stop and take revenge on Yang Xingguo through their own means.

The Russians did not gain any benefits because of the timely response from the court, but Empress Dowager Cixi received a lot of praise through her own way of handling this matter.

Of course, Yang Xingguo, who was far away in Liaodong, also got what he wanted, the appointment document of the seventh-rank troupe envoy of the imperial court.

As for the promise that Cixi asked Liang Cheng to pass it on to him, Liang Cheng directly took it as a word in front of him.

After all, no one knows when and under what circumstances will Yang Xingguo meet with Cixi next time.

After several days of sorting, the hundreds of rents in Yangjiatun that had been in disrepair were almost completely demolished and rebuilt with enough personnel in Yangjiatun's group training.

In less than ten days, rows of barracks mixed with soil and wood appeared in Yangjiatun.

At the same time, large areas of vacant land were all built into training grounds by Yang Xingguo.

Yangjiatun, which had been abandoned for two years, has been renovated. The establishment of Yangjiazhai group training has also undergone earth-shaking changes in the past ten days.

The day after Yang Xingguo returned to Yangjiatun, a long-term plan for expanding and reorganization appeared in the hands of Wang Hu, Zhao Zhigang and others.

On the basis of the camp, the Yangjiazhai group training was officially expanded into a group.

The regiment has three combat battalions, one guard company, one reconnaissance company, one sniper platoon, one artillery company, one heavy machine gun company, one new recruit baggage company, and one staff office...

The three combat battalions are under their jurisdiction, one guard platoon, one reconnaissance platoon, one sniper squad, one heavy machine gun platoon, and one baggage platoon...

Each combat company includes three combat platoons, a guard squad, a reconnaissance squad, a Madson light machine gun squad, and a baggage squad.

Each combat platoon includes three combat squads, one platoon leader, a total of forty people. It is equipped with 39 Mosinnagan rifles and four Mauser pistols. Among them, all squad leaders are equipped with two guns, one long and one short…”

The light machine gun squad is equipped with three Maderson light machine guns. The heavy machine gun platoon is equipped with three Maxim heavy machine guns. The heavy machine gun company is equipped with nine heavy machine guns. The guard company and the reconnaissance company are equipped with light machine gun squad. All company commanders and officers above the company commander are equipped with revolvers...

Anyone under Yang Xingguo's officers who read this plan would disagree.

Because, according to this plan, the firepower of each combat company far exceeds that of the Russians.

Although the Yangjiazhai team training is far inferior to the well-trained Russians in combat effectiveness, when they arrive on the battlefield, especially in this small-scale battle between companies and companies, the Yangjiazhai team training can completely use powerful machine gun firepower to make up for their lack of training...

More importantly, in addition to light and heavy machine guns, the Mosinnagan rifles and Mauser pistols that Yangjiazhai reserved through capture can already meet the needs of military expansion and reorganization of the troops.

As for the recruits, that's even more.

The new recruits brought back by Wang Hu were still more than 100 remaining, and were directly assigned to the new recruits' baggage company for training and replenishing the combat troops at any time.

Therefore, while the entire Yangjiazhai regiment was building a camp in Yangjiatun, three combat battalions and several direct companies were also reorganized.

When more than a thousand soldiers started training in units of companies.

The eight light machine guns that Yang Xingguo ordered from a German foreign company more than a month ago have finally arrived.

As his strength continued to expand and Yang Xingguo's vision continued to improve, the seven light machine guns that William sent him could no longer make Yang Xingguo so happy that he couldn't sleep well for several days as he did at the beginning.

After carefully checking the seven light machine guns sent by William, Yang Xingguo directly brought William into the headquarters to discuss a larger-scale business.

According to Zhou Zhongju statistics, in order to meet the Yangxingguo standard in the reorganized Yangjiazhai Group Training, in order to achieve the firepower of Yang Xingguo, there are still a total of 15 heavy machine guns and 25 light machine guns...

It is absolutely impossible to obtain so many light and heavy machine guns by just seizing them.

Especially the Madson light machine gun, even if Yang Xingguo wanted to seize it, there was no way to seize it even if the Russians were not equipped.

In this way, Yang Xingguo only has the only way to obtain these light and heavy machine guns.

"Mr. William, the Maderson light machine gun is very useful. I also want to buy in large quantities. I don't know if there is any problem..." Yang Xingguo did not hesitate and said straight to the point without hesitation.

Then, Yang Xingguo seemed to have thought of something. He immediately took out the appointment document just given to him by the court and continued.

"Mr. William, I know you have always been worried about my identity... To be honest, I am not a bandit, but an official of the Qing Dynasty... This is the appointment document given to me by the court, and the army I formed is all permitted by the court. So, you don't have to worry at all that your weapons were sold to the bandits, which will affect the reputation of the foreign company..."

What is Yang Xingguo's specific identity? After the problem that has always troubled him was solved, William, who sat in front of Yang Xingguo, obviously breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, he subconsciously asked, "Sir Yang, I don't know how many light and heavy machine guns you plan to buy this time..."

"Ten heavy machine guns, thirty light machine guns... Hundreds of thousands of heavy machine guns, and once 30,000 light machine guns... "Yang Xingguo told the numbers he had already thought about...

As a successful businessman, William is definitely more sensitive to numbers than ordinary people.

In just the blink of an eye, William calculated the total price of these light and heavy machine guns.

"Mr. Yang, according to the purchase price of the last time... ten heavy machine guns were 35,000 taels, thirty light machine guns were 60,000 taels, and one hundred thousand heavy machine guns were 100,000 bullets were 100,000 taels of silver, totaling 105,000 taels. However, as an old friend, I can get the price to 100,000 taels..."

"One hundred thousand taels of silver plus fifty Mauser pistols... it can be sold, or delivery or payment..." Yang Xingguo spoke after a brief contemplation.

Fifty Mauser pistols are only a light machine gun, and William certainly would not object.
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