Maori Yuan really didn't deliberately change the topic to escape the punishment of the cold sea, and there were countless paddling sounds in the darkness in front of everyone. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The sea was pitch black, but there were three large ships moored at a distance of 100 meters, probably to lower their own goals, and most of the lights on the large ships were dark.

Then the firelight and the faint starlight on the battlefield, people could see something approaching on the sea in a trance, and the sound should be a boat.

"Silence...... All on alert, ready for battle...... "The men let go of the samurai and formed a simple net of fire on the edge of the beach with their rifles in hand, welcoming the unidentified visitors.

It was getting closer and closer, getting closer and closer, and suddenly a bright light flashed on the opposite sea, which was the closed kerosene lamp that was turned on rhythmically, and the flashing light was the communication signal commonly used by the Chinese Navy.

"Don't shoot, it'......s the Navy," Ma Hui roared, then pulled an unused torch from his waist, tore the oiled paper that was sealed at the top, and lit it with a match.

The torches attracted visitors from the sea, and only the sound of the bolt of the gun was heard, and the soldiers on the sea did not know whether they were friends or foes on the shore.

Ma Hui turned the torch in the air three times clockwise, and then one and a half counterclockwise, and these codes matched, which was the simplest kind of identification code in the new army.

"Brother on the other side, which part of you are?"

"General Xiang is on the shore, and we are the ...... of the General's Guard"

"Damn! Master Long personally rushed up? How did you do it, how could you let the commander go to the front line? I'm Lin Zhen...... And Qiu Wei and Yan Xing are here, and the prime minister asked us to support you......"

Lin Zhen's voice Long Ye is very familiar, when the Ryukyu Rebellion was made, this son of the Lin family, Long Ye, knew him, this is the descendant of the Ryukyu native faction.

Xiang Shaolong walked to the front: "Lin Zhen, how many people have you brought here? Will it affect the ...... of naval operations?"

"Report to the general!" a saluting voice in the darkness said, "The Prime Minister has brought us one hundred and fifty people, although the number is not large, but it has brought you a batch of secret weapons!"

At last the sampan was revealed, and the sailors jumped into waist-deep icy water, dragging wooden boats onto the beach, and soon one hundred and fifty carefully selected sailors stood on the beach waiting for the admiral's review, each of them carrying a huge wooden box, which looked very heavy.

Everyone didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the prime minister's gourd, so Long Ye personally walked over and picked up a box with one hand, and the five fingers of his right hand were like iron tongs, and he crushed the wooden box, revealing a clump of straw inside.

Then he pulled out a large, strangely shaped musket, "Oh my God, what is this? How is it as ......thick as a big bamboo pole?"

In Long Ye's hand is a peculiar rifle with a length of nearly one meter, saying that this gun is strange because this is actually an arquebus, a long arquebus has not been lit and is wound around the bolt, it looks like it is not a reload, but a frontload.

What's even more bizarre is that the caliber of this rifle is too thick to be as thick as a tea bowl, and the diameter actually reaches 120 mm.

Look at the barrel of the gun, which is one centimeter thick, made of pure steel, and pressed into his hand, "What kind of gun is this? This must not weigh 50 pounds? Who can brush this weapon except for Lian Jiazi?"

"Report to the general, this is a new type of weapon developed by American engineers and teachers and students of the engineering department of the University of the Ryukyus according to the Prime Minister's idea, and the Prime Minister gave the name shotgun!"

"This is the most primitive model, according to the requirements, it should be operated by two people, and the bullet is this kind of paper-wrapped bullet......" Lin Zhen took out a paper roll cylinder that was the same size as the caliber of the shotgun from under the box.

"There are two layers in it, the lower layer is the gunpowder firing department, and the upper layer is painted red with the warhead, the principle is very simple...... The arquebus ignites the lower layer of pure gunpowder from the fire gate, and the huge explosive impact knocks the upper warhead out!"

"The upper warhead is a mixture of high gunpowder and small iron nails and broken iron filings, which will generally explode ten meters away, and countless iron filings and iron nails will form an explosion group, just like the principle of striking iron sand, no matter whether you have practiced the golden bell cover iron cloth shirt on the other side, one shot will all be beaten into a sieve......"

"Wow......" everyone exclaimed, "Good boy, such an old barrel, how much iron sand does it have to explode in one breath?"

"Haha, the Ryukyu Military Factory has done experiments, once the warhead explodes, not a single grass will grow within five steps, and everyone will be injured within ten steps. Aren't Rakshasa ghosts strong and good at hand-to-hand combat? Then let them try this......"

Shotguns, also known as shotguns in later generations, are based on the principle of fire muskets in the past, which the Chinese call firearms.

Due to the immaturity of the human precision manufacturing process, it is indeed difficult to manufacture the kind of small-caliber shotgun in later generations, and it is very complicated to make a rear-loading shotgun.

But it is much easier to make a front-loading shape, not to mention the process of smoothbore style arquebus, not to mention Western engineers, even for the skilled craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry of the Qing Dynasty.

If the power of gunpowder is not enough, then use the caliber to make up for it, and the larger the caliber, the more powerful it is. What? You say it's too heavy to handle? Get rid of it, there are more perverts who practice martial arts in this era, and the 120 mm caliber shotgun Long Ye can fire with one hand.

If you really can't do it, you can cooperate with the two people, anyway, this thing doesn't need to be aimed at all, it's all face killing, and half the street is iron sand when you shoot it.

"There were fifty boxes in total, and each box contained five shotguns, all covered with bullets...... Save a little bit, there's no place to replenish these bullets when they run out......"

"250 shots, please check the ...... general"

"Let's check the fart! The battle has reached a stalemate, and if there are new weapons, don't you hurry up and use ......."

"You, you...... You Fuso warriors, now it's time for you to atone for your sins, and if you don't want to be locked up after the war, you have to use your merits to top!"

"Now take my orders to protect the shotguns and transport them to the battlefield...... Wherever the fighting is fiercest, you will go!"

Shimazu Asuka and Maori One Yuan snapped a military salute, and then each unit distributed a special loose ammunition pack with a shotgun, and rushed towards the most accumulated place on the battlefield with a shout.

"Holy shit, I'm making you arrogant...... Rely on your strength to bully people, come on! The rabbit cubs will come up to me for hand-to-hand combat! I am not afraid of you ......."

Experiments with new weapons are always exciting, Xiang Shaolong is carrying a shotgun in one hand, a paper-wrapped bullet has been loaded into the barrel, and the fire rope has been lit, and now he is waiting for the damn ghost to be delivered to the door.

The general guards protected Long Ye and began to rush forward, and before he ran out of more than a hundred meters, he saw a burst of gunfire in a barn, and just when the guard company was looking for cover and shooting back, a squad of Russian soldiers suddenly rushed out of the right flank of the defense, and rushed straight at him with bayonets.