At this time, the two sides entered hand-to-hand combat, and they were all face-to-face distances, not more than one or two zhang, but the armpit rifle and bayonet were long, while the rifle and bayonet of the Xian army were short, and the Xian army did not have any advantage in stabbing the upper ham, so it could only make up for it with the firepower in the magazine.

However, the chambers of the armpit infantry who arrived later were filled with bullets, and both sides were loaded at this time, and even if it was a smoothbore gun, the accuracy of the fire fired within one or two feet was almost negligible.

In this case, the armpit people will choose to shoot first, and the Xianjun army will also choose to give priority to using bullets to solve the problem, but the problem is that the Xianjun army cannot make it lose its combat effectiveness after three or five shots, and they shoot one shot, which is enough to penetrate the bulletproof armor of the Xianjun army at close range, causing devastating damage to the human body.

The armor of the Xianjun army, the golden silkworm lining, could barely block the 155 caliber black powder bullet from a hundred paces away, because the axillary rifle muzzle velocity was much lower. However, at close range, the muzzle velocity is relatively high, the kinetic energy is high, and the bulletproof armor is no longer enough to resist the penetration of the projectile, and the resulting organ damage is very serious.

Moreover, armpit people can play dead while being shot and fall to the ground, waiting for the bullet in their body to be rejected, while humans will die quickly.

If the battle is a continuous and high-intensity positional battle, humanity cannot and does not have time to check whether the enemy who has fallen to the ground is killed or pretended to be dead, and only the victorious side has the right to consider these after the battle.

As a result, when the battle drags on for several days, especially at night, these armpit infantrymen who lie on the ground and pretend to be dead, waiting for the projectile to reject and heal themselves, will appear out of thin air like bamboo shoots growing on the ground, flee back to their positions, or continue to fight, depending on their injuries and will to fight.

Therefore, it often happens that suddenly, hundreds of "reinforcements" appear inexplicably, falling from the sky, causing a huge impact on the front that has just been pushed forward.

At the post-war summary meeting, officers at all levels reported that in hand-to-hand combat on the battlefield, revolving shotguns, submachine guns, and pump-action shotguns were most effective when teamed up with spears, horse lances, and hook and sickles. The shotgun is lethal enough within forty paces to inflict heavy damage on giants and blast dwarves, the hook and sickle is specialized in the next three ways, and the horse lance is more than two feet longer than the armpit rifle, and the length of the spear is just right.

However, the Type 647 is too short in length and single-barreled shotguns with too little ammunition, and the seven-round pump-action shotgun and the twelve-round retainer are in hand, supplemented by two or three submachine guns, and a combat squad of 15 people, the survival rate in close combat is higher than that of the three teams with fully automatic weapon configuration.

In view of this, Bailiyan transferred 3,000 pump-activated shotguns, 2,000 revolver shotguns, and 15,000 spears, horse lances, and hook and sickles from China in case of emergency.

The next day, Bai Liyan and Zhou Kong and other generals went to Liang County, and arranged for experienced officers to go to Zhou Kong and the new barracks to teach experience and combat skills.

Unlike other vassal armies, the Xian army had to sum up lessons and lessons after the war, sum up the victories and even more so the defeats, and pass on the experience and technology to the other armies. Only in this way can we pass on our experience and know-how, expand our future gains, and reduce our own casualties and defeats.

On the twenty-fifth day of September, an unfortunate news reached Yongping, Antai Hou Jitong passed away in Boyuan City at the age of sixty-eight, and his son Ji Kang succeeded to the Marquis of Antai.

The moment she learned the news, Bai Liyan was silent for a long time.

He knew that the characters of this generation represented by Ji Kang began their final curtain call, so he sent people to Boyuan to mourn. At the same time, he was also worried about his sister Bailijuan, Wang Rui, the queen of Jin, and Baililu, the king of Qi.

Now that they are old, they are also old, and every time they think of the bumpy fate of the year, they feel even more unfortunate in their old age at this moment.

On the twenty-seventh day of September, the Son of Heaven in Boyuan City was deceased, and the Son of Heaven was deeply saddened by the death of Ji Tong. Since Ji Tong succeeded to the throne, although he has not achieved great achievements in the battlefield war, he has made great contributions to the Liang State politically, reversing the passive and unfavorable situation, and he ranks second in the Liang State, and no one dares to rank first.

"Third uncle, the second uncle's funeral affairs must be accommodated, not sloppy."

The Son of Heaven said earnestly, Ji Feng wiped away the tears on his face, nodded and said

"Please rest assured, I will do my best for my brother's funeral."

The saddest thing about Ji Tong's death was actually Ji Feng, during the reign of the first emperor, Liang pursued politics as the guide and economy as the starting strategy.

Ji Tong implements political strategy to the outside world, Ji Feng implements economic policy to the outside world, the two rely on each other and are inseparable, which can be called Liang Guowen and the two heroes, the operator behind the scenes, Ji Feng can do the business of the whole world.

Now that Ji Tong is dead, although it does not hinder the overall situation, but when he thinks of himself, he is sixty years old, and as soon as Ji Tong dies, there are few people of the same generation in the country, and there is one less sibling who can communicate with him, and he can't help but worry about his posthumous affairs.

replied to the Son of Heaven's message, Ji Tong turned around to leave, and at this time the Son of Heaven stopped him and asked

"Third uncle, now that the war is becoming more and more tight, how many guns can Boyuan Machinery Workshop make?"

"Back to Your Majesty, I can only barely copy more than 30,000 guns of the Xianguo 647 and 648 guns without stopping day and night, and there can be no more."

"It's too little, I heard that Xianguo can now produce more than 400,000 guns of various types a year, and my country only has more than 30,000, how can it compete with it in the future."

The Son of Heaven said worriedly, and Jia Zhou answered on the side

"Your Majesty, last year the minister has ordered the ordnance department and the ordnance supervision to mobilize skilled craftsmen to gather with Boyuan imitation machinery, in order to expand manufacturing, although the production is small this year, but it will increase next year."

"Then why can't I buy some machinery from Xianguo first and think I can use it."

The Son of Heaven was puzzled, and Ji Feng said helplessly

"Your Majesty, the sale of machinery has long been banned in Xianguo, so no matter how much gold and silver you spend, you can't buy it. Even if Baili Yan is willing to sell, the price at this moment will not be less, so my country can only imitate the existing machinery to seek self-sufficiency. ”

Soon after the war began, Liang Guo got the originals of the 647 and 648 guns from Yuke and tried to copy them, but because there was no steel and the knives were also restricted by Xianguo, Ji Feng had no choice but to ask Bailiyan with a thick face.

At the same time, in view of the strategic position of Liang State, let it have basic production and manufacturing capabilities, which is conducive to turning Boyuan Manufacturing Factory into a downstream enterprise and repair institute in Xianguo.

Now Ji Feng begged to come to the door, naturally there was no reason to refuse, so he agreed to authorize Liang Guo to manufacture, sent an expert group to Boyuan to guide and arrange production, and assisted Liang Guo to build 50,000 jin and 10,000 jin smelting furnaces, improve domestic industrial and mining facilities, and meet the basic needs of domestic industrial steel, while consumables such as knives, two bodies, and ammunition still had to be purchased from Xianguo.

Boyuan Machinery Factory can now only produce 30,000 647 and 648 gun types, more than 10,000 sets of crossbow gun accessories, more than 500 grenade launchers, and nearly one million other wooden-handled grenades, land mines, etc., which basically meet the minimum military production, and there is no new machine tool and equipment, so naturally there is no basis for expanding production.

Fast forward to October, the battle is still deadlocked, the only change comes from the Xianguo itself, the stalemate on the Western Front makes Oka turn his attention to the Xianguo again.

Because mines and bombs were planted on the overseas islands north of the Argent State and the water sources were poisoned, the occupation could not be realized for a long time, which seriously restricted the activities of the Allied Navy in the waters off the Aral Sea and the docking and replenishment, and caused great trouble in harassing the coast of the Arham Sea and exploring eastward.

Therefore, after suffering two major defeats at sea in the past three years, Oka was forced to shrink the navy of the Eastern Front to operate within 500 miles east of the coastline of Changsun, and sent clippers and ironclad canning ships to reconnoiter and explore the sea surface of the salty foreign sea.

At the beginning of October, the main fleet, led by 20 ironclad canned ships and followed by more than 200 wooden warships, suddenly appeared in the sea off the coast of Sangbei County for 200 miles, without stopping, and sailed eastward.

The four ironclad canned ships that were sunk in the previous time were only blown up and sunk in the port because they were too light on the enemy, and this time twenty ironclad canned ships were dispatched, and the Xianguo Navy fought a decisive battle on the sea, and the probability of sinking them was very small.

In the state political prison, King Xian convened a meeting between the cabinet and the military attachés of Sima Mansion and Taiwei Mansion, and Jiang Yu asked Chen Qu in the court

"Old General Chen, what is the intention of sending the ship this time, you can make a clear decision."

"King Qiqi, judging from the trajectory of the armpit people, the minister thinks that the armpit intention is not in our country, but it seems unlikely to cross our country to attack the Jin country."

"What basis does General Chen have for concluding that the axillary intentions are not in our country?"

"Since the First World War in Sangbei, Sangbei has accelerated the construction of fortress forts and coastal fortifications, and Jiangdong Dongjun under the control of the Jin State has also built fortress forts and fortifications, so that the coast has been to the east, and fortress forts are being built everywhere on the coast of the Jin Kingdom.

Armpit all the way eastward will soon find that the coast is full of fortresses, only more than 200 warships to expedition and landing operations, it is really difficult to launch a strong attack, and the follow-up force is lacking, can not fight for a long time, so it is not possible to attack the coast of our country and the coast of the Jin Kingdom. ”

"Then what are they doing all the way to the east, are they full of food and holding on!"

Jiang Zhen questioned Chen Qu, and then Lu Gao answered

"My lord, the minister thinks that there is another thing that must be guarded against."

"What did Lusa say?"

"That is the Wangqinjiang Military Port. Looking at the Beihai coasts of Xian and Jin, it is only expected that there is a river channel that cannot be contained, and there is no port available on the coast of the North Sea. ”

Lu Gao's words were agreed by Chen Qu, and he hurriedly said

"Da Sima is reasonable, and he is indeed very likely to come to my Qinjiang shipyard. However, on both sides of the Wangqin River entering and exiting the estuary, there are our army's forts and hidden artillery positions, and if they invade our Wangqin River, they will be blocked by light and dark artillery fire on both sides of the strait and will not be able to get close. ”

At this time, Jiang Yu said

"Not necessarily, General Chen. The range of the armpit artillery is far above that of our troops, and if they hide from a distance and attack us, they will do nothing. ”

"The king doesn't know that most of the forts and artillery positions on both sides of the Wangqin River are camouflaged and hidden in the shadows, and the fortress batteries that he can see are only deliberately exposed. More than eighty percent of the artillery was hidden in the shadows, so it was not easy for all of them to be discovered. If they destroy our exposed forts and invade the river on a large scale, they will be flanked by our concealed artillery on both sides of the river.

And if it wants to be foolproof, it must be led by ironclad warships, and the width of the Wangqin River is only a few miles, all within the range of our army's large and small artillery, and the minister is absolutely sure that the enemy ships will be defeated in the future. ”

Listening to what Chen Qu said, Jiang Yu felt a little relieved, he said

"So, its more than 200 warships can't pose a threat to our country in a short period of time?"

"Yes, the king, as long as our army does not come out of the battle, it can be lured into the river and inflicted heavy damage."

The reason why Chen Qu is so sure is that, in addition to the more than 200 warships of the navy today, several torpedo boats that have been launched this year are being trained and ready for equipment early next year.

In addition to a total of more than a dozen wooden warships that have been refitted, two marine six-cylinder engines, gearbox systems and propeller drives have been added to the speed, even when there is no wind and no sails, it can maintain a certain medium speed.

Although a small part of the firepower and load will be sacrificed, maneuverability is often more important than firepower in maritime operations, and a rebalanced configuration will benefit naval operations.

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