Zhao Song naturally knew that although Lin Ziran sent troops south, he only fought a tentative attack for several days, and then he did not move.

However, Rao is like Zhao Song, but Lin Ziran still shouldn't change his original intention.

He needs to slow down the pace of this chaotic battle!

He needs time, equip more breech-loading rifles, equip rear-loading rifled guns, reserve more ammunition!

So in the face of Zhao Song's request for help, Lin Ziran continued to hold his troops while appeasing.

To put it bluntly, just talk about it, don't practice!

In this kind of situation, Zhao Song is still very hard to resist the army of the county guard, although Li Dingjun over there also sent troops to the north, but it seems that it is too likely to penetrate the southern defense line of the county guard.

And Lin Ziran also stood still.

Under these circumstances, a steam freighter laden with ordnance crossed the Luo River from the port of Sanyang Town, bringing a large amount of ordnance supplies to the 6th Division in Pyongdan City.

On top of that, the freighter also carried a steel breech-loading rifled gun!

On March 23, from the beginning of Li Kun's self-play collapse and led to complete civil strife in Luo'an, the civil war in Luo'an had broken out for nearly ten days.

And on this day, in a camp on the outskirts of Pindan, a large number of senior generals of the Sixth Division appeared in this camp.

However, they did not pay attention to the other troops stationed in this camp, nor did they pay attention to the several 150 mm front-loading smoothbore bronze howitzers that had just been transported, but they all focused on a gun that did not look too big, but the appearance was different from ordinary artillery.

The size of this gun is not large, and the barrel is not large, estimated to be about 78 mm, but the barrel is very long, so the entire barrel is relatively slender.

The most important thing is that the tail of this thing is clearly different from the front-loading gun.

At this time, Guo Jingyuan, the section chief of the Ordnance Section of the Food and Salary Department, was introducing the artillery in front of him to Lin Ziran!

"This rear-loading gun has a caliber of seventy-five millimeters, a barrel diameter of twenty times, and a total combat weight of eight hundred kilograms."

"The bolt is a wedge-type bolt that you personally proposed, the structure of this bolt is very simple, and the material requirements are not high, otherwise, we have no way to solve the bolt problem, the spiral bolt of the research laboratory synchronous research has extremely high requirements for materials, and we have no way to solve the material problem for the time being."

Guo Jingyuan's subsequent introduction was full of confidence: "In our previous simple test test, the maximum effective range of this test gun can reach 5,000 meters!" ”

"And it's powerful!"

Guo Jingyuan at this time, his face was full of pride!

Pointing to the ammunition box on the ground, he said: "This is because we have cylindrical shells!" ”

"Considering that our new artillery is a rear-loading rifled gun, we have designed a new type of cylindrical metal fixed gun shell with reference to the metal fixed ammunition of the Aoyama rifle!"

"In the test, this metal fixed cylindrical shell can not only fit the rifling to keep the high-speed rotation of the warhead after discharge, but also the cylindrical projectile can also hold more gunpowder, so that the explosive power of the warhead is greater."

"What's more, we have equipped the warhead with our own self-developed collision fuse, which can ensure that the warhead explodes after landing!"

"The most important thing is that the accuracy of this gun is very high, even at a distance of five thousand meters, it is able to maintain extremely high accuracy of hitting!"

Listening to Guo Jingyuan's introduction, Lin Ziran smiled all over his face, in fact, he didn't need Guo Jingyuan's introduction, Lin Ziran also knew the benefits of rear-loading artillery, and even the specific data he knew before.

But now that I listen to it, I still feel so pleasant!

If nothing else, this rear-loading gun should be the world's first rear-loading gun that can be used in real combat.

When Guo Jingyuan finished boasting, Kong Deyi on the side couldn't wait: "Give it a try and see how it goes!" ”

Today, a large group of people came over, naturally not just to listen to Guo Jingyuan's boasting data, but to see with their own eyes the actual live ammunition of the rear-loading artillery.

Guo Jingyuan looked at Lin Ziran at this time, and Lin Ziran nodded lightly.

He himself would like to see live ammunition fired.

After receiving the order, the test operator is in action.

In fact, they were not active artillery soldiers in the 1st Artillery Battalion, but testers in the Qingshan Machinery Factory, of course, they were also transferred from the artillery unit before.

These people have been in contact with and conducted relevant training for a long time, because this is a drill, so it can't just be a reload and open a cannon, in fact, the drill is a complete set of content.

The members of the test artillery team first put the cannon away, mounted their horses and moved forward, and then unloaded the cannon and unfolded it, demonstrating to these generals the maneuverability and deployment ability of this artillery.

After seeing that the entire artillery crew only needed seven horses to operate, Kong Deyi on the side shouted: "This gun is quite light, and its mobility is good!" ”

Hearing this, the others also nodded in agreement!

"This cannon is so light, I think I can think about it, can it also be used as a cavalry cannon by the way!"

But!

If this is said in other countries, such as the Orissa Empire over there, if their army generals hear it, they will probably spray them to death.

With a caliber of only 75 millimeters, a gun weighing 800 kilograms, you are embarrassed to say that it is light......

But for the generals on Daheng's side, the weight of the whole gun is less than one ton, it is a light small cannon, because the one hundred and fifteen mm or one hundred and twenty mm front-loading smoothbore field guns they commonly use generally weigh more than a ton.

The new 120 mm cannon of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau weighs 1.4 tons, but the generals of Daheng don't think it's heavy.

There is no three or five tons, and the generals of Daheng do not think that this is heavy artillery......

There is no way, the terrain of Daheng is flat, the roads are easy to walk, and there are many horses, especially the Shayang horse, which can be regarded as the top excellent service horse in the world.

Therefore, the Daheng Army has always pursued the range and power of artillery, and as long as the weight is not too exaggerated, it is basically acceptable.

So 800 kilograms of field artillery, for these generals of the 6th Division, it is really a light small cannon!

Under the operation of the test artillery group, a series of processes such as assembling artillery, marching, and artillery deployment were completely rehearsed.

And the next step is naturally to enter the reload and shoot phase.

In order to avoid thinking that at this time, including Lin Ziran, in fact, many generals watched from the rear and did not watch directly near the artillery.

It's a test artillery, and it's not even a good part of the performance data, because it doesn't even complete a lot of tests, and the hell knows when it's going to blow up......

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