In other words, in addition to the already equipped Thunderbolt 1646, the remaining inventory can still arm more than 3,000 soldiers.
Although some firearms need to be replaced due to barrel wear and other problems, there are still many Thunderbolt 1646 models idle.
The most terrible thing is the wooden base bullet matching the Thunderbolt 1646, with more than three million rounds produced.
In other words, each of those 6,000 Thunderbolt 1646s must consume 500 rounds of bullets to completely consume the bullet inventory.
If the Thunderbolt 1646 is simply retired and replaced, the loss will be too great.
Therefore, the bosses of the interim management committee unanimously decided that Mauser G98 would be produced first, but not equipped for the time being.
This decision almost made Sun Xuebin upset.
Fortunately, after his hard talk, the big guys at the meeting agreed to allocate two hundred Mauser G98s to equip snipers.
No way, the accuracy of the Mauser G98 far exceeds that of the Thunderbolt 1646.
After Sun Xuebin's personal measurement, it can accurately hit a human-head target at a distance of 200 meters, and it can hit a human-shaped target at a distance of 400 meters.
In this era where telescopes are not widely used at all, four hundred meters is enough for the enemy to not know where the bullets are coming from.
And because of her good relationship with Sun Xuebin, Fang Xiaoyue specially installed a small scope on those two hundred Mauser G98s.
This is due to the fact that the technology of the glass factory has improved a lot since its establishment.
It is difficult for the human eye to clearly see a human-shaped target at a distance of four hundred meters, but it is different with a scope.
After Sun Xuebin received the two hundred Mauser G98s half a month later, he carefully selected a group of sniper candidates from the entire army.
There are one hundred people in this batch of sniper candidates.
But after a month of brutal elimination, only twenty people were left.
No, not every soldier can be a sniper.
You must first have extreme patience. Lying down in the grass surrounded by mosquitoes for five hours without moving will be considered a passing standard.
Secondly, you must have a good view of the overall situation and be able to select valuable targets from a large number of enemies.
As for his strong physical ability, it goes without saying that his eyesight is far beyond that of ordinary people.
As for archery, it can be trained slowly.
However, as the leader of the military team, Sun Xuebin did not have much time to train these snipers, so the final sniper captain was given to Wu Shanyun.
Wu Shanyun is indeed one of the best candidates for sniper captain.
Like Sun Xuebin, he is a special forces soldier, and his position in the army is a sniper, while Sun Xuebin is a fire blaster.
From this point of view, Wu Shanyun is more professional.
However, after taking over the sniper team, Wu Shanyun led the sniper team out of the dock area.
As for where he went, only Sun Xuebin in the entire dock area knew.
A month later, Wu Shanyun contacted Sun Xuebin using PHS.
It turned out that in this month, Wu Shanyun led the sniper team to almost half of the northern part of the South China Sea Island.
He visited wherever there was a county seat, a thousand-household residence, or a water village.
And he provided a lot of information to Sun Xuebin.
For example, in a certain thousand-household residence, in a certain county, the security is extremely lax, etc.
In Wu Shanyun's words, as long as the war is allowed, the twenty men in his hands alone can disintegrate the order of the Ming army and local officials in the entire northern part of Nanhai Island.
No way, snipers are too lethal in this era.
Not to mention anything else, after a county town knocks out the county magistrate, chief registrar, county lieutenant and other officials with snipers, the county town is completely defenseless.
However, the Interim Management Committee has not yet agreed to Sun Xuebin's plan to occupy the entire South China Sea Island.
The reason is very simple. Even though the dock area is bustling with activity now, the foundation is still too thin.
If the entire South China Sea Island is occupied in a short period of time, among other things, there will not be enough troops to maintain local order, not to mention there will not be enough civil affairs officials.
In that case, the entire Nanhai Island will be captured, but the chaos caused will cause great harm to the entire Nanhai Island society.
But the dock area now also needs expansion.
More than a month later, the number of naturalized citizens in the dock area has now skyrocketed to 20,000.
This is not surprising. After the news came out that the Kun thieves had wiped out the Ming army twice, the people of Qiongshan County suddenly felt at ease.
Why?
Before, everyone didn't dare to go to the dock area to apply for jobs. The most important thing was that they were afraid that the Kun thief would accidentally be surrounded and suppressed by the Ming army!
In that case, wouldn’t those who work under the bandits become bandits?
Bandits will be beheaded!
Now it's good, the Kun thieves have even defeated the Ming army. According to the fortune teller's words, the momentum is strong, and they may be able to establish a country.
Throw yourself in, and if you're lucky, you'll be a minister of the dragon.
As of now, there are more than 30 farms in the dock area alone, and the surrounding land is fully arranged. It is even difficult to squeeze out the land for some new factories.
Under such circumstances, the Provisional Management Committee issued the first military construction order since the beginning of spring 1647.
The first and second battalions of the first regiment remained stationed in the dock area. The third battalion moved to Qiongshan County and controlled the entire territory of Qiongshan County.
The fourth battalion of the second regiment moved to Lingao, the fifth battalion moved to Chengmai, and the sixth battalion moved to Ding'an, firmly guarding the three directions of the island leading to the dock area.
The third regiment moved to guard the Changjiang and Shilu Iron Mines to ensure the lifeline of iron ore.
As for the Jiaozhi Hongji Coal Mine Development Team, it was expanded from an existing under-staffed battalion into the fourth regiment.
Its main source of troops is those coolies who were transferred to the past, supplemented by some local people.
This military expansion span is quite large. If it is fully staffed, the total number of regiment training troops in the dock area will reach more than 4,000.
The Nanhai Island side is fine. It just expanded from 2,400 to about 3,000. Sun Xuebin just needs to recruit some more recruits. Anyway, after wiping out the invading Ming army twice in a row, the Chuanzhong gang The so-called Kun Thief already has quite a high prestige in the hearts of the local people.
As for the Jiaozhi Hongji Coal Mine, the expansion effort is a bit too much.
From the expansion of about 200 people to 1,000 people, it can be imagined that the first is the rapid decline in combat effectiveness in a short period of time.
After all, most of the coolies transformed from prisoners of war of the Ming Army were originally farmers, and they rarely had the opportunity to sharpen their swords and plunder.
However, in that foreign land, they were rare members of the coal mine development team.
It's the same species, so you have to be more confident.
Fortunately, the interim management committee has given strong support to the coal mine development team.
