Naturally, the reason why various countries are so active in purchasing Haihan arms is not entirely due to military considerations. Expressing one's position, choosing a camp, and seeking long-term asylum through arms purchase contracts are also the main reasons why many small countries squeeze out funds to purchase arms from Haihan.
After buying Haihan's weapons, of course you have to learn the corresponding tactics. Asking Haihan to send instructors to the country to guide military training, or selecting officers to study abroad at Haihan's military academies are the next logical steps.
Over time, these countries not only installed Haihan weapons, but also gradually adopted the Haihan model for daily training, tactics, and troop organization. Vassal states like Annan and Korea even copied their command systems so that they could seamlessly connect with the Haihan Army in wartime.
Of course, Haihan weapons are not available to anyone who wants to buy them. Based on the situation in each region, Haihan will have different plans to exert influence on the region.
Western buyers like Portugal and the Netherlands will be subject to more restrictions in the arms trade to prevent their military power from exceeding that of neighboring countries. As for the countries surrounding its colonies, Haihan will support them intentionally or unintentionally, in a disguised form, restricting the colonial expansion of Western countries.
In the early years of Ming Dynasty, Haihan was also one of the buyers of arms. Haihan sold many weapons to it to help it fight against the Qing army in the north.
However, in actual operation, the Ming Dynasty did not deploy all the equipment purchased with heavy money to the northern border. Instead, a considerable part of it was used to kill the peasant army in the country, but the combat effect was not ideal.
The reason is that after Ming bought the things back, he still used his own tactics and failed to give full play to the power of these weapons.
However, after Haihan and Ming broke up, the process of delivering weapons to Ming was terminated. With the Ming Dynasty's military manufacturing technology, even if it could imitate Haihan's weapons to a certain extent, it would not be able to achieve mass production due to the lack of industrial foundation, and its military strength would stagnate.
While the wine was brewing, several arms sales deals had already reached preliminary intentions. North Korea and Annan are eager to finalize arrangements for a new batch of military students to go to Sanya this year.
Of course, North Korea actually sends more than one group of military student students, but a group of people are selected from the north and the south respectively. This has become a common practice in North Korea.
A new trend this year is that Japan is also trying to send military officers to study abroad in Sanya. It's just that Japan's domestic fragmentation situation is more complicated. The shogunate does not want each vassal state to stand on its own. Inevitably, there will be internal fighting to reach a compromise.
Haihan is of course happy to see this happen, and he hopes that the internal fighting in Japan will become more intense, the better. The more fierce the fight, the more dependent these vassal states are on Haihan, and the more chips Haihan can use to bargain with the shogunate.
After the lunch break, the military exercise continued outside Yuhang County.
Compared with the artillery bombardment in the morning, the content of the military exercise in the afternoon was much more gentle. It mainly showed the troops suddenly encountering enemy attacks while marching, the rapid transition from marching state to combat state, and the soil work of constructing field positions.
Although these operations are not as exciting as the firing of guns and cannons, they are basic skills that an army must possess. The Haihan Army's training level in this area is also ahead of its counterparts from other countries.
When encountering an enemy attack during the march, they used the packhorses and the baggage caravan accompanying the army as cover to seek out the enemy and counterattack. The Haihan Army's rifles have a far greater range than bows and arrows. As long as they avoid the first round of attacks, they can use firepower to suppress the enemy's offensive. In response to the impact that the enemy may launch based on its superior strength, Haihan also has corresponding powerful weapons. The tongues of fire spit out by the two water-cooled heavy machine guns are exactly like life harvesters on the battlefield.
Seeing the bullets fired from this thing blowing the wooden dummy a hundred feet away into pieces, all the guests watching took a breath. The lethality of the Haihan rifle is already very powerful, and it also creates a monster that can fire continuously. If it goes to the battlefield, how many lives will it take to fill it?
North Korean envoy Jin Shangjiu no longer cared about the subsequent steps of building a field position, and cautiously asked Yan Chujie: "Master Yan, such a sharp weapon...has been equipped in the Haihan Army?"
Yan Chujie nodded and said: "We estimate that each battalion will be equipped with eight to ten such weapons in the future to make up for the lack of firepower."
Jin Shangjiu was speechless for a moment. Your Haihan and Han armies are still complaining about insufficient firepower. So what level do the armies of other countries belong to?
Jin Shangjiu had a relatively good understanding of the Haihan military system. He immediately made some calculations. The Seventh Lu Division under the jurisdiction of the Donghai Region had ten battalions. How could it not be equipped with eighty to one hundred of these weapons?
With the firepower of this thing, even if it is against thousands of troops, it should not be defeated.
The second thought that immediately came to his mind was that the Ming Dynasty was suffering. With such a sharp weapon in the Haihan army, even if the Ming Dynasty assembled a large army, it would be difficult to gain favor on the frontal battlefield.
As for whether he could afford to buy this thing, Jin Shangjiu didn't dare to hope. He knew that Haihan's new weapons were always for display only, but would not be included in the arms sales list. This thing is so powerful that it will not be sold to the outside world for at least ten years.
However, the display of this new weapon was only for a short time. Before everyone could get enough of it, Hai Hanjun had already collected the treasure, broken it into several large pieces, wrapped them in waterproof tarpaulin, and carried them to the carriage.
What they don't know is that this type of Maxim heavy machine gun imitation has not been mass-produced, let alone installed in the army. Only two samples were displayed in the military exercise, and they will have to return it after the exercise is over. An arsenal for Tian Du.
The heavy machine gun is certainly powerful in terms of lethality, but with Haihan's current level of military industry, the cost of manufacturing this thing is still quite high.
Moreover, because the rate of fire of heavy machine guns is too fast, which can reach 600 rounds per minute, which is almost a hundred times that of ordinary rifles, the life of the gun body parts will be greatly shortened, and the related problems have not been solved so far. It looks fun to shoot, but in reality some parts may become scrapped after two boxes of bullets.
Another issue that cannot be ignored is the ammunition consumption of heavy machine guns. The basic ammunition supply of a heavy machine gun is equivalent to that of an infantry company. The ammunition used must be manufactured on a separate production line. Not only is it expensive, but it is consumed very quickly.
Yan Chujie's claim that a battalion is equipped with eight to ten heavy machine guns is just a boast to scare people. If it were really equipped with so many heavy machine guns, the military expenditure of the entire Haihan Army would probably increase by 20%.
But for the guests watching the military exercise, the short appearance of this thing has already had a huge impact on them. No one will think about the combat performance and cost of use. Everyone has the same thing in mind. Thought - Is there any way to enable our own troops to compete with such a weapon?