Shi Xiong laughed happily.

　　 It's not good, he didn't expect that this greedy guy who Hank and Ferguson had always called a "vampire" turned out to be such a decisive person.

　　 But after a careful thought, it becomes clear.

　　 This is a serious colonel of the Royal British Army. He is in charge of the first British colony in the New World of North America. If he is an ordinary person, can he sit firmly in this position?

　　Resoluteness is one of the most basic qualities of being a superior person.

　　 Colonel Jones also laughed and shook hands with Shi Xiong. Although the deal was only verbally concluded, as far as the two of them were concerned, the deal was already a certainty.

　　 Actually, Ishikuma sold guns by accident. At least he hadn't thought of selling guns when he was fighting for the Poitan.

　　 Just after seeing Colonel Jones, the stone bear had an idea, and the idea of ​​selling these Ferguson rifles to Colonel Jones was born.

　　 Anyway, with the development of new rifles, the Ferguson rifles in the hands of expeditionary soldiers will be immediately eliminated. This is an indisputable fact.

The renewal of the rifle used by the Expeditionary Army is not as small as the British Brown Beth or the French Saint-Etienne. Because of the existence of the biggest bug, the stone bear, the renewal of the Expeditionary Army’s rifle is a real update. Replacement.

　　Once a new rifle is developed, its power is stronger than that of the Ferguson rifle. It is not a bit more powerful. It is really the gap between Ferrari and bicycles.

　　 There is a rifle with an effective range of up to 600 meters and a firing speed of more than 12 rounds per minute, or a fixed ammunition rifle. Who still uses a Ferguson rifle?

　　 This new rifle developed under the guidance of Shixiong is almost the same as the rifle of World War I. With this rifle, even the Ferguson rifle is very good, but it is definitely not enough.

　　 Therefore, once a new rifle is developed and mass production begins, the more than 1,500 Ferguson rifles in the hands of the expeditionary army will inevitably be completely eliminated—thrown into the warehouse, it is estimated that they will no longer be used.

Rather than let this batch of rifles be eliminated forever, it is better to take advantage of the performance and power of the Ferguson rifle far surpassing the Brown Beth rifle or the Saint Etienne rifle, and sell this rifle that will be completely eliminated by the expeditionary army to the United Kingdom. People or French.

　　 Originally, Stone Bear just showed this rifle to Colonel Jones with the idea of ​​giving it a try, but the result was surprisingly good, and Colonel Jones was taken the bait.

　　 This is really no way. As long as you are a real soldier, you will definitely be tempted to see this new type of rifle that has more than double the performance of other rifles in this era. Colonel Jones may be really greedy, but it is undeniable that he is a real soldier.

　　 So, he knows the goods very well, he knows the goodness of this rifle.

　　 Then, Mr. Colonel immediately took the bait.

　　 In fact, it doesn’t matter if Colonel Jones doesn’t buy this rifle. It’s not impossible to sell these rifles to French or Spanish, even Dutch or Prussian. With the excellence of the Ferguson rifle, Stone Bear bet that these countries will never let go of this rifle.

　　Of course, it is best to sell to the British.

　　 After all, this Ferguson rifle in the original historical time and space has not been promoted for this and other reasons, but in this time and space, perhaps with the ability of Colonel Jones, this rifle can be promoted in a small area.

　　 After all, Lieutenant Patrick Ferguson, who has no power background, is far from being comparable to Colonel Jones.

　　 And in the independent war that is about to break out in a few years, Shi Xiong also intends to make the British and Americans shed more blood. If we follow the development of the original historical time and space, the British with the front-loaded musket really can't compare with the Americans with the Kentucky rifle. Had it not been for the number of British soldiers to occupy an overwhelming advantage, in the early days of the war, the British would not be able to fight the Americans.

　　 Of course, if it weren’t for the later outbreak of malaria and smallpox that caught the British by surprise, maybe the ultimate victor of that war would be the British.

Shi Xiong does not think he has the ability to stop smallpox and malaria outbreaks, but if you want to deliver something good to the British, such as this kind of pen Kentucky rifle but also an excellent Ferguson rifle, and for example, earthen grenade and other more powerful The weapon, even if there is an outbreak of smallpox and malaria, the British can hold on for a longer period of time.

　　 As long as the British and Americans shed more blood, Shi Xiong doesn't mind pushing hard behind him.

　　 Anyway, it's all about a dog biting a dog's mouth, so I just need to watch the excitement next to me. Then push it at a crucial moment, and the ghost knows what the ghost will turn into in that single-handed battle.

　　 My purpose is to bleed more British and Americans!

　　 As for the price of these guns, Shixiong thinks that five hundred war horses is a very suitable price.

　　 Although current horses are still expensive, they are far from comparable to medieval cavalry.

　　 Medieval European cavalry often had two horses per person, one horse for fighting and one horse for feeding. At the end of the 13th century, a qualified war horse was worth about fifteen pounds.

　　 But if you raise a war horse, it will consume a lot, so the cavalry at that time was really a very expensive unit. Someone once said that in the Middle Ages, it took fifty farmers to raise a knight.

　　 But even now, although war horses are still expensive, they are not like the middle ages where an ordinary earl can only raise a hundred knights.

　　 Now on the European side, the price of a qualified war horse is about ten pounds. If it is a war horse raised by American colonists, the price may be cheaper. And if you buy war horses in batches on the North American New World, the price can be lowered.

　　 As for how much it can be lowered, that is not something Shixiong is willing to consider.

　　 In the heart of Shi Xiong, these thousand Ferguson rifles, UU reading www.uukanshu.com will need at least 500 horses in exchange.

　　 Regardless of whether it is British pound or gold, it is of little use to the current stone bear. What Shixiong lacks most now is the horse!

　　 Once they can own a thousand horses, the expeditionary force will be completely invincible on this continent.

Now because of the material problem, the mortar cannot be made, but once the material problem is solved and the mortar is made, then a hundred mortars will be acquired by then, and all the gunners and supplies will be provided with four hundred war horses. Pack transport, the remaining six hundred war horses, and then get a hundred grenadiers and two hundred musketeers. The other war horses are all used for feeding, so this one has high-speed maneuverability and at the same time it has a hundred squeezers. The team of guns, one hundred grenadiers, and two hundred musketeers will definitely be invincible on land in this era.

Even light mortars with a caliber of less than 60 mm can have a maximum effective range of 2,500 meters. In this era, this kind of mortar that can fire bombs is invincible, even in the face of a military The fortress can also be easily taken down.

　　 The heavy fortress artillery of this era with a very close effective range is not an opponent of mortars at all. Shi Xiong can confirm this.

　　 Therefore, trying to get a thousand horses as much as possible is Shi Xiong's biggest task at present.

　　 As long as there are enough war horses, conquering the Midwest will be a breeze.

　　 Therefore, the condition of exchanging these thousand rifles for 500 horses is the bottom line of the stone bear.

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