Chapter 892 Strategic Equipment (3)
Since food can ensure the Luo family's large-scale military expansion and military equipment requirements, then the rest of the Luo family's current combat preparations are in place.
In terms of weapons, the main weapons workshops of the Luo Family are currently concentrated in the No Takayama, Matsuura-gun, Hibikiku. This workshop has gathered more than 300 iron and wooden craftsmen, mainly responsible for forging and repairing the Luo Family's standard spears, bows, arrows, arrows, knives, black eagle daggers, horse rifles, shields, full armor, armor, cloth shoes and other weapons.
According to the materials submitted by the Interior Pavilion, Intelligence Pavilion, and Military Pavilion (although the Luo Family’s materials are subject to statistics and management, they are sent by the Interior Pavilion, Intelligence Pavilion, and Military Pavilion to jointly supervise them for a long time), the Luo Family’s warehouse currently has more than 2,000 standard long spears, more than 1,000 bows and arrows, more than 3,000 knives, and a certain number of black eagle daggers, horse guns, shields, full armor, and cloth shoes.
After the expansion of the Luo family this time, the Luo family's regular spearmen were 5,530, including 7 permanent spearmen on land, 3,500 permanent spearmen on four naval troops, 1,600 permanent spearmen on warriors, 200 samurai squad leader, and 50 cloaks. In addition to nearly 70% of the spears in the regular team, there were no replacement equipment, more than 1,000 spears were needed, and the reserves of the 2,000 current warehouses in the Luo family are enough.
In terms of the standard bows and arrows of the Luo Family, after the expansion of the army, there were 4,250 regular archers, of which seven of them were 2,450 permanent archers (700 Luo Family archers and 1,750 bow-tied bow-tied bow-tied bow-tied bow-tied bow-tied bow-tied bow-tied bow-tied bow-tied bow-tied bow-tied bow-tied bow-tied bow-tied, and 200 archers of the martyrs (100 archers and arch-tied bow-tied bow-tied bow-tied bow-tied). In addition to nearly 60% of the original bow-tied arrows in the regular brigade, there is no need to replace the equipment. More than 1,000 long-bows are needed. With the reserves of 1,000 pieces of the current warehouse of the Luo Family, just enough to meet the needs.
In terms of standard knives, the Luo family's regular ranks used 5,850 knives, of which seven were on land, (2,450 archers and 350 iron artillery soldiers needed to be equipped with a samurai sword), four naval troops had 1,800 (1,600 archers and 200 iron artillery soldiers needed to be equipped with a samurai sword), eight hundred iron artillery soldiers, four hundred samurai soldiers (200 archers and 200 iron artillery soldiers needed to be equipped with a samurai sword), and fifty cloaks. In addition to nearly 60% of the original knives in the regular ranks, there was no need to replace the equipment, more than one thousand knives were needed. With the current reserve of 3,000 knives in the Luo family's current warehouse, it was enough.
Other reserves such as Black Hawk daggers (mainly equipped for Black Hawk ninjas and retainers), arrows, horse guns, shields, full armor, cloth shoes, etc. After the Luo family expanded its army, it could barely meet the overall needs of the Luo family's army. In addition to the above-mentioned Luo family's standard weapons, the various weapons collected from various forces in the Luo family's warehouse at this time could barely meet the needs of the permanent reserves of more than 20,000 people and the equipment of temporary peasants.
At the same time, since Notakayama is not only the place where the Luo family started, but also built the main weapon workshops, commercial workshops, hero cemeteries, ancestral temples (i.e., Chung-kyu Temple. Every time the Luo family takes off, Masayoshi and others will come here to worship and ask Hachimanda Bodhisattva to protect him), so this place is also closely protected by the Luo family's military force. In addition to the continuous patrol of the Luo family's naval army, the Luo family's recruit training camp has been stationed since then (as a training camp for training new recruits for the Luo family, even if the new recruits are still maintained for a long time, it still has a scale of at least 500 new recruits).
Of course, the workshops in Notaoshan are mainly responsible for the forging and maintenance of general weapons such as spears and knives of the Luo family. The workshops such as iron cannons, gunpowder, large tubes, siege tools, etc. were built in the mountain canyons near Kishigaoyama Castle, Matsuura-gun, Hibishikikuo. The defense here is mainly responsible for the Black Hawk Ninja Village, which is also here.
After this expansion, the Luo Family's iron cannons have increased to 1,550 people. Among them, seven of the land-based teams have 350 people, four naval teams have 50 people, two iron cannons have 800 people, and two warriors have 200 people. In addition to nearly 40% of the existing regular teams in the regular teams, there are no need to replace iron cannons, more than 1,000 iron cannons are needed. With the reserves of more than 700 iron cannons in the current warehouse of the Luo Family, it is obvious that the iron cannon workshop still needs to continue working overtime forging.
The fundamental reason for insufficient iron cannon reserves is the lack of raw materials. As we all know, although many copper ore, coal mines and other resources were found in the Luo Family Territory, which not only met the needs of the Luo Family forging weapons, but also improved the efficiency of smelting ore (mainly the use of coal increases the smelting temperature), but as a major weapon consumer, iron ore (especially the consumption caused by knives and iron cannon forging, the forging of Luo Family Armor and other forging also consumed iron ore raw materials) was missing in the Luo Family Territory. At present, the companion iron ore in the Luo Family Territory can only barely meet the needs of the Luo Family Workshop. More iron ore were actually imported from all over Japan and even from North Korea and the Ming Dynasty by smuggling.
In addition to the iron ore, which is a high-consuming raw material for the Luo Family, saltpeter, which is a raw material for gunpowder, is also a large consumer. So far, the Luo Family has not found a large saltpeter mine in Japan, so the current saltpeter of the Luo Family is smuggled from North Korea and the Ming Dynasty, which limits the reserve of the Luo Family's gunpowder and reduces the attack power of the Luo Family's army.
Chapter completed!