Chapter six hundred and ninety seventh war is too expensive
However, these data did not attract much attention from the outside world, especially the Kruls, because the various industrial products produced by the Daheng Empire were still mainly mid- to low-end products. In the impression of many Kruls, Daheng
The Heng people are still barbarians.
Now for the Kingdom of Krul, the biggest thing is still the Orr War!
This war, which has caused the Kingdom of Krul to bleed for a year and cost countless military expenditures, is still going on!
So far, the Kingdom of Krul has mobilized a total of 800,000 troops from the mainland and various colonies to participate in the war!
To this end, the Kingdom of Krul has spent nearly 1.5 billion yuan in military expenditures!
Of course, the expenditure of more than one billion yuan is still nothing compared to the war with Heng'ao more than 60 years ago. In the Heng'ao War, the Ji Dynasty of the Daheng Empire spent nearly 10 billion in military expenditures. This figure
What is the concept? It is roughly the sum of the expenditures of the major powers on many foreign wars in the past hundred years.
However, the Heng'ao War was too special. Except for the few years of large-scale landing operations in the middle, the two sides had actually been engaged in land wars in the Kingdom of Cassi and the Kingdom of Dana for many years before the large-scale landings. As for the sea war, it was even more
It lasted for more than twenty years.
Strictly speaking, the Heng'ao War was a war that lasted for more than ten years. In the last few years, Daheng gritted his teeth and directly sent millions of troops to land in the Orissa Empire.
And he was very stubborn, insisting on a cross-sea landing operation, sending more than one million troops to fight with the allied forces of the entire southern continent!
In the age of sails, just to maintain an army of more than one million people fighting far away from homeland would cost an astronomical figure.
The tens of billions of military expenditures counted actually include all military expenditures over the years, and the Ji dynasty's statistical abilities at that time were so poor that they actually included a lot of messy expenditures.
At the same time, waste and corruption are extremely serious.
It has even happened that the military supplies department purchased tens of thousands of top Nanzhou war horses from the mainland. However, when they were finally transported to the Orissa Empire for combat, only more than fifty were left. The rest went there, saying that they died due to some kind of sea transportation.
But only those people back then know where it went, or whether it actually purchased so much.
The tens of billions of military expenditures for the Heng'ao War are too little, but the annual military expenditures of 1.5 billion for the Orr War in the Kingdom of Krul are real.
The progress of the times and the changes in the mode of war have caused the cost of war to become higher and higher. Even in the steam age, ship and train transportation are more convenient, but the consumption of ammunition is also greater!
If the frontline troops fight a battle involving tens of thousands of people, tens of thousands of artillery shells will be consumed!
Last winter, the Kingdom of Krul tried to launch a large-scale battle to defeat the Kingdom of Orr in one fell swoop to win the war.
In the end, the battle of Callan Heights broke out between the two sides!
The Kingdom of Krul dispatched about 100,000 local army troops and about 300,000 overseas colonial troops. A total of 400,000 people participated in the battle. The Kingdom of Orr dispatched about 500,000 troops to fight!
The Battle of Callan Heights was the largest, longest, and most casualty battle in the Orr War!
During the battle, the Kingdom of Krul fired a total of 350,000 artillery shells, and the Kingdom of Orr also fired nearly 200,000 artillery shells!
In this battle, the artillery shells consumed by the Kingdom of Krul even exceeded the Battle of Jingzhou during the Unification War of the Daheng Empire!
As for the Battle of Jingzhou, it was not just one battle. It was actually the collective name for a series of large-scale battles surrounding Jingzhou, including the Battle of the Southern Front of Jingzhou, the Battle of Jingshi, and the Battle of Zhenbeicheng.
In addition to artillery shells, the consumption of bullets is also huge. The Kingdom of Krul consumed more than 30 million rounds of rifle and machine gun bullets, and the Kingdom of Orr consumed 20 million rounds of bullets.
Such a huge consumption of ammunition naturally means huge military expenditures!
In addition, the Krul Kingdom started to expand due to the labor force expedition, which also led to the Krul Kingdom spending more than one billion yuan in military expenditures a year.
This figure has already exceeded the annual military expenditure of the Lin Dynasty during the Daheng Unification War.
During the Unification War, the Lin Dynasty's peak military expenditure was in the first year of Qian Sheng, that is, during the Jingzhou Campaign. The military expenditure for that year was approximately 700 million yuan.
The Kingdom of Krul spent 1.5 billion a year!
In addition to huge expenses, the Kingdom of Krul also lost three battleships and multiple cruisers in the past year. More than 50,000 army and navy officers and soldiers were killed or missing in action, and countless others were injured.
The cost is huge and the losses are not small, but the Kingdom of Krul, which has paid such a huge price, still has no hope of victory!
In fact, they have not been able to penetrate into the hinterland of the Kingdom of Orr so far. Except for last summer, the people of the Kingdom of Krul recklessly launched a landing operation of 30,000 people. In the end, they were ambushed and annihilated. Only 5,000 people escaped. This human battle took place outside the hinterland of the Orr Kingdom.
At other times, the fighting areas between the two sides are around the Kingdom of Venabe and the Kingdom of Andel. Although these two places belong to the Orr Kingdom Alliance, they are not the homeland of the Orr Kingdom!
The Kalan Highlands are located in the central area of the Venabe Kingdom. This highland has an important strategic position. If you want to invade the hinterland of the Orr Kingdom, you must first conquer this highland!
It is a pity that the Kingdom of Krul has not been defeated so far!
The Battle of Yi'an shocked navies around the world and directly led to great changes in the navies of various countries.
The land wars in the Orr War also had a huge impact. The process of the Kalan Highlands battle was repeatedly studied by military observers from various countries, and finally came to the conclusion: fighting is too expensive...
The navy's study of the Ian Battle only affected the design of battleships and changed tactical ideas. However, the battle between the armies of both sides in the Orr War made the army generals of many countries frown.
The cost of this war is too expensive!
Those Kruls fired more than 300,000 rounds of artillery shells in a battle on the Kalan Highlands. Just these artillery shells were worth more than 10 million!
In addition to being amazed, many new weapons also showed great power in war.
Various types of breech-loaded rifled artillery have almost become the absolute protagonists in wars. Both the defender and the attacker must rely heavily on the fire support of artillery.
The artillery units of both sides demonstrated great tactical value.
In addition, the large-scale use of heavy machine guns on both sides of the war also attracted the attention of the armies of various countries!
The application of heavy machine guns in the Orr Kingdom is actually not too early, only one or two years ago, and a considerable number of heavy machine guns were only purchased from the Daheng Empire in the months before the war broke out, and there will be more in the future.
Part of it was purchased from Daheng through various unconventional means in the past year and transshipped via land in a third country.
The one used is the original heavy machine gun currently in service in the Daheng Empire Army!
As for the Krul Kingdom, they naturally use heavy machine guns developed by themselves. However, like the Daheng Empire's first-year heavy machine guns, they are all water-cooled heavy machine guns, because the Krul Kingdom's heavy machine guns are imitations of the Daheng Empire.
heavy machine gun, and a patent licensing fee was paid...
Although there are some patent agreements for international products on Blue Star, it is obvious that all countries do not take them seriously. This is especially true in the field of national defense. They do not care whether there is a patent authorization or not, and just copy them if they can.
Generally speaking, when it comes to technology licensing, most of the time you are unable to do it yourself, so you spend money on asking others to teach you. What you spend money on is technology, not just licensing.
The MK series heavy machine guns of the Kingdom of Krul actually only started to be equipped on a large scale last year. After the outbreak of the Orr War, they found that the effect was very good, so they quickly mass-produced it and sent it to the Orr battlefield. Well, at the beginning, because
Domestic production capacity is insufficient, so they also asked Daheng people to purchase a batch of heavy machine guns.
The heavy machine gun performed extremely well in the Orr War, which quickly attracted the attention of the armies of various countries!
Just like the A-series torpedo boats that became famous in World War I, the heavy machine guns of the Daheng Empire also became famous in World War I, and then received big orders from various countries!
The technology of heavy machine guns has been leaked for a long time, and all the major powers have basically begun to copy and produce them. Even the Orissa Empire in the south is already shamelessly copying, so the Daheng Empire started to liberalize the export of heavy machine guns last year.
limit.
Just like other types of weapons that are allowed to be exported, you can sell them as long as you give them money!
Even the Northern Six Nations Alliance in the north, fools know that they will purchase a large number of heavy machine guns to distribute to the West Sea Corridor, but the Daheng Empire still sells them!
Why?
Because the arms dealers of the Orissa Empire in the south also sell heavy machine guns to the Northern Six-Nation Alliance!
They all need to be equipped with heavy machine guns anyway. Rather than letting the Orissa people make the money, it is better to sell them the heavy machine guns and make the money first.
In this situation, in the eyes of many outsiders, the people of Daheng are just being ridiculous and selling weapons to their enemies!
However, the senior officials of the Daheng Empire never thought about breaking out a war with the six northern countries.
The six northern countries are extremely barren and have nothing to offer, so what's the use of conquering them?
Besides, what should we do with the people of the six countries after they are defeated? Directly annex them and turn them into Daheng people?
This is impossible. In Daheng's thousand-year history of expansion, there has been no precedent of trying to turn foreigners into one's own.
The Daheng people's past expansion was all about land and not people!
If the people of the country are also annexed and foreign races are allowed to seize their own resources, the Daheng people would rather not expand!
The Daheng Empire has been a single nation for more than a thousand years. It was before, it is now, and it will always be in the future.
But if you don't annex the Chinese people, is it possible that you can massacre them all?
Although Daheng people did this in the past, times are different now.