Fifty barrels of black powder were three hundred silver yuan, and De Mons could make a profit of two hundred silver yuan in this transaction, so his enthusiasm suddenly increased: "Liu Checkpoint, please come with me, although there is no Minnie rifle, my rifle is guaranteed to satisfy you." ”

Liu Chang was very dissatisfied and said, "Didn't you bring artillery?" I need not only a large number of mini rifles, but also a decent number of field guns. ”

This time, Demmons did bring a few small artillery pieces over, but all of them had been bought by Ge Wu, and Ge Wu was preparing to use this batch of artillery to break through the Yuhuan Battalion of the Green Battalion: "I'm sorry, I brought a lot of artillery here, but they were all bought by General Ge and Ms. Ye." ”

It's just that although Ge Wuye and Ye Niangzi have a lot of money, they are not as generous as Liu Chang at all, Liu Chang bought fifty barrels of black powder with five silver yuan and one barrel in one go, while Ge Wuye only bought twenty barrels, and the unit price of each barrel Ge Wuye and De Mons fought back and forth for an hour, and finally traded for 4.5 silver yuan per barrel.

Even with the addition of that batch of artillery and other military supplies, Fifth Master Ge's fleet only purchased 1,300 silver yuan of arms, how could it compare to General Liu Changliu, who was generous.

"But if there is a next time, I will definitely bring the field artillery that Your Excellency is satisfied with!" De Mons expressed his ambition to continue the deal: "We will definitely have a good time working together. ”

Ge Mengjin did not have high requirements for quality, and only required Chinese-style cannons that surpassed the equipment of the Green Battalion, but this General Liu was knowledgeable and had enough purchasing power to fool him by buying some of the cheapest but worst performing artillery from Shanghai.

However, when it came to the rifle, Liu Chang asked again: "So is there a firing gun?" A firing pistol fired by a fire cap? Don't tell you that there are only smoothbore guns here. ”

Sure enough, it was an expert, and Demons's sweat almost came down: "There are some, but I suggest that you buy a large number of smoothbore guns, a smoothbore tunnel gun only costs thirty silver yuan, which is better than any kind of rifle equipped by the government army." ”

"It's a clear demon! Didn't have a firing gun? Liu Chang was a little disappointed: "It's a pity." ”

The era of 1855 was an era of crazy leaps and bounds in rifle technology, and if you distinguish it from the technical level, there are roughly such generations of rifles.

Arquebuses such as shotguns have been phased out around the world, and are still used in large quantities only in a few countries and regions, such as China, Afghanistan and Japan.

The flintlock pistol (mainly the smoothbore gun) is a generation ahead of the arquebus, but within three hundred years of popularity, it has been completely eliminated because of the progress of technology, and the armies of the world's major advanced countries have been reequipped.

The breech firing pistol, which is more advanced than the flintlock pistol, uses the fire cap firing technology, which is more reliable, more convenient to load, and can be used in rainy days, and can also be used intensively, after 1800, it became popular all over the world, and quickly squeezed the flintlock pistol out of the market, but the problem is that they have just fully occupied the market, and they find themselves becoming obsolete products.

And now the most advanced technology is the Mini rifle, fixed ammunition and many other technologies make the effective range of the rifle from a mere one or two hundred meters to more than five hundred meters, in the ongoing Crimean War this rifle showed an absolute performance advantage, completely overwhelmed the old rifle of the Imperial Russia, the powers are fully equipped with the Mini rifle.

But the good days of the Mini rifle were not long-lasting, and the breech rifle of all kinds would be eliminated from the game within ten years, and the breech rifle evolved into a variety of repeater guns, but the correct direction of the breech rifle was the magazine rifle, and the subsequent progress was replaced by smokeless powder, and by the end of the nineteenth century, the pointed bullet replaced the round round.

From now on, every five to ten years there will be a revolutionary change in rifle technology, many rifles are facing the fate of obsolescence as soon as they are fully equipped with troops, and there has never been an era in the history of rifles that has undergone such drastic changes.

It's just that now Liu Chang can't even buy a Mini rifle, so he can only retreat and want to buy a batch of breech guns, and then Demons was embarrassed by him: "There are fifteen guns, but there are only fifteen shots, and each shot is forty silver yuan." ”

In the Shanghai Concession, the retail price of a rifle was only 15 to 20 silver yuan, but De Mons offered a high price of 30 to 40 silver yuan, but Liu Chang didn't care: "Take me to see it." ”

De Mons carefully took out one of the best-maintained sample guns: "You see, this is the standard equipment of the British Army, firing machine gun ramming fire caps, less than ten years old, almost brand new. ”

The rifle that Deemmons took out was indeed a standard rifle retired from the British Army and Navy, the famous Krenswick rifle (Brunswick) front-loading smoothbore firing pistol.

This rifle began to be equipped with troops in 1838, and was ready to be fully equipped with front-loading flintlock pistols commonly equipped by the British ** team, but before it was fully equipped with the troops, the newer Mini rifle appeared and was fully equipped with the British ** team at the beginning of 185, as a result, this obsolete new rifle could only be quickly withdrawn and sold.

But on the Chinese battlefield, this Krenswick rifle is an out-and-out excellent rifle, and judging from the data on paper alone, one Krenswick firing rifle is worth five soldier shotguns.

More importantly, he used a fire cap, which can be the most important rifle technology invention of the Miney rifle, an ordinary flintlock pistol will fail once in an average of seven shots, and the failure rate of the firing pistol is one in two hundred, and after the use of fire cap technology, the loading action of the rifle is greatly simplified, the firing speed can be increased by fifty percent, and it can also prevent rain.

In fact, as long as these fifteen Krenswick rifles have undergone rigorous training, they can completely lift the heads of a hundred green battalion soldiers' shotguns, but Liu Chang moved on to the next question: "Let me see your tunnel rifles." ”

The smoothbore gun that Deemons took out is also a British retired standard equipment: "This is also the standard rifle of the British Army and Navy, which is very reliable, and has a hundred years of service history in the British ** team, you should know how reliable he is." ”

This rifle is the more famous Brownbess smoothbore flintlock pistol, which happened to be the object of the replacement of the Krenswick rifle, which began to be produced in 1720 and retired in 1840, and can be said to be the absolute main equipment of the British army during the Napoleonic Wars and the Opium Wars, and the production of the Indian model used by the army alone exceeded three million.

All the advantages of the Krenswick firing gun are precisely the disadvantages of this smoothbore gun, but for the soldier shotgun commonly used by the Green Battalion, just looking at the data on paper, one Brown Bess can completely suppress two soldier shotguns, and the advantage in actual combat is even greater.

But Liu Chang asked the next question: "Dear Count Demons, how many brownbess shots do you have?" ”

De Mons's answer could not satisfy Liu Chang: "Fifty brownbesses are enough to fight against the arquebuses used by a hundred Qing demons." ”

"Is that all there is to it?" Liu Chang was very disappointed: "I can afford an unreasonable price, but I can't tolerate that my troops don't have enough advanced weapons." ”

He shook his head and said, "It's hard for me to convince myself to give you an order of hundreds of thousands of silver yuan. ”

De Mons only had the words "hundreds of thousands of silver yuan" in his ears.

Hundreds of thousands of silver yuan!

PS: Please tell everyone, what should be the official Chinese translation of brownbess, brownbes, brown bess or brown bes.

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