"It's okay." Emperor Hua smiled indifferently.

"No, it is definitely a first-class firearm. I admire the engineers in China." Grand Duke Carol I of the Kingdom of Romania smiled, "However, we still tend to buy firearm production lines from Germany."

Hua Huang nodded, "Of course this is possible, but Mr. Da Gong, you must know that the products produced by purchasing production lines directly from other countries may not be the same. Technology is not so easy to buy. The most fatal problem of the army is that it has no idea about modern wars!"

In fact, Emperor Hua was no longer happy when Carol I suddenly said this. He knew that this guy was not hinting at hiding the price, but was already refusing the hint of the alliance he proposed yesterday.

During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Japanese soldiers only consumed 8 bullets, which defeated the Qing army.

Before the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Qing army had 1,733 cannons and machine cannons; the Japanese army had 294 cannons.

The Qing army was equipped with 230,000 foreign guns, 40,000 old-style bird guns, and 85% of the 120,000 participating troops were equipped with guns; the gun equipment rate of the Japanese army participated in the war reached 100%.

Overall, there is not much difference in equipment between China and Japan.

In terms of weapons alone, it can even be said that the Qing army still had a slight advantage.

As Fujimura Daosheng said, "The Beiyang Army is equipped with Mauser rifles and Krupp cannons, ... it is superior to the Japanese army that uses Murata-style rifles and Bronze Mountain cannons."

The real difference lies in the uniformity of weapons.

The weapons and equipment of the Qing army mainly relied on purchasing from foreign countries. The number was quite large. For example, in 1894, Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, reported that he had bought 9,250 fast guns, 30 artillery guns, 7 million bullets, and 14,400 artillery shells; from 1894, Liu Kun, the governor of Liangjiang, purchased 15,000 guns and 2.8 million bullets. In this year, Li Hongzhang, who served as the governor of Zhili, submitted a report that he had ordered more than 28,000 fast guns, 56 fast guns, and a total of more than 15 million artillery shells and bullets from various countries. In addition, other places also purchased a large number of guns and cannons on their own.

After the arrival of these guns and cannons, most of them were equipped by the Qing army in time. For example, during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the governors of various places purchased more than 10,000 Mauser rifles and more than 10,000 martini rifles from Germany, and were successively equipped with various troops.

In October and November 1894, Liu Kunyi assisted 14,000 breech guns in various provinces, and Guangdong allocated more than 18,000 foreign guns and 3.6 million bullets in various places.

However, since the court did not have a unified plan, the guns and cannons bought by the local government came from the United States, Germany, Britain and other countries, and the models were different. The Huai Army alone was equipped with several types of Henry Martini back door guns, German Mauser rifles, thirty-shot fast guns, etc. Among the other Qing army, there were Haqiks, Shide guns, and even domestic locally produced guns, bird guns, and collaps. The Qing army used as many as 14 types of rifles.

When Japan first developed its military industry, it also encountered the same problems because it relied heavily on imports. However, with the development of Japan's military industry, it soon invented the Meiji thirteen-year-old and eighteen-year-old rifles and field cannons, mountain cannons, large-caliber mortars, etc., and mass-produced and equipped the entire army, achieving the unified weapon. The unified weaponization of weapons made the Japanese army far better than the Qing army in many aspects such as the unified training of the troops and the unified manufacturing and allocation of ammunition supplies.

However, the Sino-Japanese War was the first time that the Japanese Army went to sea to fight after the modernization reform. It also had many defects in health prevention and other aspects.

The key factor in ultimately defeating the Qing army with an overwhelming advantage was not the unification of weapons, but the modernization of its combat philosophy and training model of its troops.

In short: First of all, the Qing army generals still defended the "experience" when suppressing the Taiping Army and had no idea about modern wars. For example, most Qing army troops did not know how to deploy infantry and artillery, and often arranged artillery positions in "the front-line infantry positions or gaps", making "artillery a significant target, and was repeatedly destroyed by Japanese artillery in the early stages of the battle."

Among the 1895-1895 War, half of the 1894-1895 officers, half of whom had studied or inspected in Europe and the United States, knowing how to use artillery to give a fatal blow to the Qing army.

Secondly, Qing soldiers were generally not trained enough. Most of the time, they only required to "play various formations, with very neat steps, release a series of guns and cannons, and the sounds were also coherent."

The recruits temporarily recruited after the outbreak of the war were almost no training, and they just learned to "raise the spear together and rush forward, and shout "kill" in their mouths."

In contrast, the Japanese army not only had well-trained infantry, but also had independent engineers and baggage troops.

The Qing army still did not know what the latter was.

In this way, although the weapons purchased from abroad are advanced, they are difficult to exert effective in the hands of Qing army officers and soldiers. For example, when the Qing army attacked, "there was no order" and "the formation often used was to waving a large flag in a dispersed team to fire, and fire at will." The bullets fired by the Qing army "mostly passed from the head of (Japanese army) to reach a long distance. They did not consider using terrain and land, and never had to shoot kneeling or lying down, and all were fired standing."

Before the Qing soldiers fired the artillery, they had to shake the flag and became the target of the Japanese shooting.

In addition, the Qing army did not know how to maintain weapons, which was also a very fatal problem. When Liu Kunyi was stationed in Shanhaiguan, he found that "forty robots transported from Tianjin to Shanhaiguan, there were 100,000 ammunitions, and they were transported to Guan by train. They were piled up in sand and soil. After reading for dozens of days, no one took them into the control. After a German teacher went to check it, it was said that the whole medicine was wet and unbearable to use."

Due to this, in the Battle of Pyongyang, the Qing army was basically the same as the Japanese army (12,000), and the ammunition supply was far better than the Japanese army (the Qing army infantry consumed an average of 3,400 bullets per person), and it was not surprising that it was self-destructive and killed 180 Japanese troops. In short, the Sino-Japanese War between the Sino-Japanese War of 185 and the Middle Ages Qing army was a confrontation between the modern Japanese army and the medieval Qing army. It is unknown whether the outcome of the victory or defeat is found.

Emperor Hua suddenly felt that it was difficult to communicate with Carol I.

Carol I had shown enthusiasm for the visit of Emperor Hua before, which made Emperor Hua have fantasy. Now, this fantasy seems unrealistic.

Princess Katrina Kaif glanced at Mrs. Elizabeth, and Mrs. Elizabeth's face turned red, and Elizabeth also knew that her husband's attitude was not good this time.

Emperor Hua felt that the most difficult job in the world was salesmen. He wanted to tell others that China would be strong in the future and come and be friends with us quickly. It is difficult to convince people.

"We have our own difficulties, mainly because Germany is close to each other. Even if the quality of guns on both sides is almost the same, we are more inclined to buy from Germany." Carol I smiled.

"Does it have anything to do with us when you are close? I didn't say I wanted to sell arms to the Romanian Kingdom." The cute CEO said lukewarmly.

"I said goodbye right straight to the point. Your Majesty wants to form an alliance with my Kingdom of Romania. I have carefully considered this. At most, it can only be trade. You can sign a trade clause. There is nothing else. After all, if you get too close to China, the Tsarist Russian Empire, Austria-Hungarian Empire next to our Kingdom of Romania, and the German Empire not far away, will be unhappy. Please understand the difficulties of our small country. I really have no choice." Carol I looked bitter.

This made Emperor Hua feel much worse about this person. He estimated that not only did he come to the Kingdom of Romania by himself, but no matter who visits the Kingdom of Romania, this guy will be enthusiastic and thoughtful, because he thought too much before.

"It doesn't matter, but if there is no way, I can find a way for you." Hua Huang said with a smile.

"Oh? Your Majesty is a genius. I have known this for a long time. Tell me out and listen to it, so that I can also gain my knowledge." Carol I possessed me and looked at me with a look of listening.

Princess Katrina Kaif and Elizabeth, the wife of Grand Duke Carol I, were also very curious, and didn’t know what Emperor Hua would say?

"Let me talk about the idea of ​​China first and give it a reference for Mr. Grand Duke." Emperor Hua smiled indifferently and did not take Carol I's attitude towards heart. Originally, the Kingdom of Romania was a small country to China. Since the other party's attitude became cold, it would be useless to say more, but instead lowered its value.
Chapter completed!