After listening to Qiu Yahui's introduction, Qin Zheng also praised Fang Bin a few words, it seems that he did the right thing when he sent Fang Bin in the first place.

Later, Qiu Yahui introduced the current situation in Tianjin to Qin Zheng, and now Qiu Yahui set up his headquarters in the Bell and Drum Tower. This is not a violation of discipline, because the Bell and Drum Tower is a public building, and it is both the center of Tianjin City and the highest building, so occupying the Bell and Drum Tower, you can control the entire Tianjin City, and the Japanese army stationed in Tianjin also set up the headquarters in the Bell and Drum Tower.

However, because there were not many troops defending Tianjin, the main energy in the past two days was to maintain the stability and defense of the city, and the current number of people in the city was not counted, but the materials in the warehouse were counted.

It has to be said that the materials left by the Japanese in Tianjin were quite abundant, with a total of 3,200 tons of grain, 500 tons of flour, 120 tons of cooking oil, 50 tons of seasonings, 2,000 bottles of wine, 100 tons of medical supplies, 400 tons of forage, a total of about 200 tons of other materials, 86 horses and donkeys, and 43 cars.

In terms of weapons, in addition to more than 3,000 Type 30 Murata rifles, more than 2,000 sets of accessories, and more than 1 million rounds of ammunition, a large number of German-style rifles were also found, including more than 1,500 Mauser Type 1871 rifles, 2,000 Mauser Type 1871/84 rifles, 2,500 Committee Type 1888 rifles, 4,000 Hanyang-made Type 88 rifles, and about 1.5 million rounds of matching ammunition.

It turned out that after the Eight-Nation Coalition captured Tianjin, a large number of artillery pieces were found in an arsenal near Tianjin. Rifles and military materiel, according to a list compiled by an Italian officer, included: 36 87 mm Krupp guns, 60 70 mm Krupp guns, 42 57 mm Nordenfeld rapid-fire guns, 42 47 mm Nordenfeld rapid-fire guns, 42 37 mm Nordenfeld rapid-fire guns, 20 small-caliber rapid-fire guns, 30,000 newly marked Mauser and Manricher rifles, 30,000 bayonets, military supplies, and others. It is estimated to be worth about £2.5 million.

Naturally, artillery and other military supplies were divided among the Eight-Nation Alliance and brought to participate in the attack on Beijing, but no one wanted rifles, because the armies of various countries had their own standard rifles, bullets, and accessories that could not be used with other rifles, so it was useless to ask for these rifles. Like the Mauser 1871 rifle or the Franco-Prussian War era of single-shot rifles, and at this time Europe and the United States have been equipped with repeating rifles, naturally not eye-catching.

But other countries don't want it, but Japan is a treasure, these rifles are their own, because Japan is small and weak, and the industrial strength is not strong, in 1897 began to assemble the 30 Murata rifle, and now there are a large number of old single-shot rifles in the country, so these outdated rifles are still treasures in the eyes of the Japanese, like the Mauser 1871/84 rifle, the Commission 1888 rifle, Although the Hanyang-made Type 88 rifle is also a little backward, it is also a repeating rifle, and its performance is no worse than that of the Type 30 Murata rifle, which is still very useful in Japan. One of them has been shipped back to Japan, and the remaining ones are now remaining in Tianjin.

When Qin Zheng heard this, he was not only very interested, but said, "There is actually Hanyang made here." ”

Qiu Yahui nodded and said, "Yes, but the committee's 1888 rifles are all marked with the Mauser logo, which is estimated to fool the Qing court." ”

Qin Zheng laughed and said, "You also know the story of Mauser, the Committee Rifle and Hanyang. ”

Qiu Yahui also smiled and said, "Of course I know." ”

It turned out that in 1886, the French-made Le Band M1886 rifle was the first bolt-type repeating rifle in the industry that integrated smokeless gunpowder, pointed barrel and magazine. The performance far exceeded that of the Mauser 1871/84 rifle equipped by the German army, France's greatest enemy at the time. Therefore, the German government specially organized a rifle design committee to summarize the excellent rifle designs of many factories in Germany and even other countries to design a new type of rifle, which is the committee 1888 rifle, and assembled the German army in that year. However, 10 years later, the Mauser Company designed a more powerful Mauser Type 98 rifle, which was quickly adopted by the German military, and the Commission 1888 rifle, which had been assembled for only ten years, was eliminated.

At this time, Germany had produced more than 1.2 million committee 1888 rifles, in addition to their own storage and spare use, they could only be sold to other countries, and the Qing court was an important customer of German weapons at that time, before the Qing court had purchased a large number of Mauser 1871 rifles, Mauser 1871/84 rifles, because of their excellent performance, Mauser rifles in China has an excellent reputation. Therefore, in order to promote the Commission 1888 rifle to China, the Germans pretended that the Mauser 1888 rifle was the latest model of the Mauser rifle, so the Qing court also purchased a considerable copy, and as a result, the Qing army was equipped with three German rifles: the Mauser 1871 rifle, the Mauser 1871/84 rifle, and the Commission 1888 rifle at the same time.

At this time, Zhang Zhidong served as the governor of Huguang, founded the Hanyang Iron Works and the Hanyang Arsenal in Hubei, and was trying to introduce a type of advanced rifle from foreign countries to imitate it, although the committee 1888 rifle was still insufficient, but its performance was far better than the Mauser 1871 rifle and Mauser 1871/84 rifle purchased by China before, and it was named the latest model of the Mauser 1888 rifle, so Zhang Zhidong decided to buy the patent, drawing, and machinery, for imitation production,

Since 1896, the Hanyang Arsenal began to produce this type of rifle, which was named the 88 type, also known as the Hanyang-made 88 rifle, which is the famous Hanyang-made rifle in the old time and space. Because it is designed with a wooden sleeve on the barrel, it is commonly known as the old sleeve in the folk. In the year it was put into production, the Hanyang Arsenal produced 1,300 Hanyang-made rifles and 500,000 rounds of ammunition. By 1901, more than 22,000 were produced.

The Hanyang-made rifle was the first self-produced rifle in China, and some improvements were made to some of the shortcomings of its prototype, so at that time, it was also a good performance rifle, and there was no generation difference compared with the rifles of other countries in the same period.

However, because the Hanyang-made rifle is limited by the prototype and the production era, there are also some irreparable shortcomings, one is that only the round-headed bullet can be used and the pointed bullet can not be used, and the difference between the two is not much within 400 meters, but when it is 400 meters away, the power of the round-headed bullet is obviously not as good as the pointed bullet; second, the magazine is a missing clip rather than a universal bridge clamp, and the difference between the two is that the missing clip must be reloaded after all the bullets in the magazine are exhausted, and the bridge clamp can be loaded at any time; third, the unshell hook of the Hanyang-made rifle is aging very quickly because of its outdated technology, and its service life does not exceed ten years。

In the old time and space, Hanyang-made rifles were not discontinued until the end of the Anti-Japanese War in 1944, and they were produced for nearly 50 years, with a total of more than 1 million pieces, which occupy a very important position in the history of firearms and military industry in China. However, due to the ups and downs of the situation in China during this period, the quality of Hanyang-made rifles also varied, generally speaking, when the situation is stable, the quality is better, and when the situation is turbulent, the rifles produced are poorer.

Of course, for the current crossing group, these rifles are naturally usable, and the shortcomings can be ignored, because they are Hanyang-made rifles and Type 30 Murata rifles, because the base is large, and there is no generation difference with the rifles of this era, and they can be used in large quantities to assemble the army.

Later, Qin Zheng and others were led by Qiu Yahui and began to conduct on-the-spot investigations in Tianjin. The area in Tianjin is not large, and it is about the same as a larger real estate in later generations, and it only took more than an hour to basically finish.

It should be said that the environment in Tianjin City is indeed not respectful, in addition to the damage caused to Tianjin City by the Eight-Nation Alliance, Tianjin City's own urban construction, Planning and maintenance is really not done well, in addition to the four main roads that connect the city gate can still be seen, other places are really a little unbearable, the roads are all land, potholes, in some areas also form a lot of potholes, the houses are adobe mixed wood structures, there are many thatched houses, most of them are dilapidated, there are very few new buildings, and at the root of the wall, all kinds of garbage, waste piles, cobwebs under the corners of the eaves, dust, even a lot of urine, emitting a bad smell. Although the corpses in the city were cleaned, the houses that had been destroyed and burned by the shells were not cleaned up, leaving large areas of ruins, and weeds in many places.

Everyone only frowned, although in the old time and space, most people have visited tourist attractions such as ancient cities and villages, but these places have been somewhat artificially repaired, and there are special people to take care of them, although the old is old, but it is cleaned up, and the feeling is naturally very different. In contrast, the environment in the concession is indeed much better, so it is indeed the right decision to locate the administrative center of the traverser in the concession area.

When he was about to return to the Bell and Drum Tower, Qiu Yahui said: "Political commissar, there is one more thing to report to you, we have taken in more than 80 children in Tianjin, all of whom are orphans, and their parents and relatives have all died in this war. ”

Qin Zheng immediately said, "You arranged them all there?"

Qiu Yahui said: "Temporarily arranged in an unmanned residence in the city. ”

Qin Zheng nodded and said: "Very well done, children are the future, and they are very malleable, you are optimistic about these children, if you meet them again, you have to take them in, wait for a day or two, the things in the concession are arranged, after moving into Gordon Hall, I will arrange to take these children to the concession to be settled, so that they can be educated and cultivated well." ”

Qiu Yahui immediately said: "Yes." ”

At this time, I saw Fang Bin coming out of the Bell and Drum Tower, and saw Qin Zheng and said: "Political commissar, the representatives of the squires in Tianjin are here, do you want to meet them." ”

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