When Bi Yuntao and Acton returned to Gu'an with the capture, everything was as usual in Gu'an City, but the barracks were already a scene of the New Year. Gongs and drums are noisy, firecrackers are ringing, large bowls of wine and large pieces of meat, laughter and joy are full of joy. A while ago, Saishan's small treasury was in an emergency, and everyone was very quiet for a while. Today is not counting silver, just grain, grass, meat, and fruit Xing'a brought back a few carts, of course, to improve and improve.

Saishana naturally received the silver brought back by Goxinga, and he threw the seal of the household directly into the stove, and he was selectively blind to the blood stains on the silver. There is a place in the arsenal, and there is no need to go to the people of Shanxi, and there is no need to worry about the storage of silver, and Cezanne is finally relieved from his sad face. Guo Xing'a didn't show up in the barracks, nor did he go to count the money with Saishan'a, but pulled Kong Zhen, Bian Changdi and a few other artillerymen to drum up the cannon together.

The Armstrong cannon was a cutting-edge weapon developed by the British in 1855, and the British army had only been equipped with it for two years, and it performed very well in various tests, and the British also specially enacted a special law to prohibit the export of the gun to foreign countries. Because of the frequent problems with the heavy artillery equipped by the British Navy later, the British abandoned this advanced artillery ten years later and played with the front-loading gun, so the gun's record in the British army was not outstanding. But the flowers bloom inside the wall and the fragrance outside the wall, and in the Restoration War of Little Japan, the Armstrong cannon shines brightly, and it is blown into the sky by literary works. Goxinga is very familiar with Armstrong cannons, in fact, it is also because of the influence of the Japanese in his previous life, and Japanese cartoons are full of various Armstrong cannons.

The biggest feature of the Armstrong cannon is the vertical bolt that opens the brain hole. Lift the bolt with the handle, then reload the ammunition, and before the gun fires, plug the bolt back to complete the gun's airtightness and prevent the leakage of gas*. The Armstrong gun also had a spiral gun tail bolt to reload and lock the gun chamber. Other than that, it is much the same as other guns, but it is more elaborate in casting. The whole gun is forged from wrought iron, and adopts a multi-layer composite gun body structure, and the whole gun is composed of large and small double barrels composed of composite multi-layer gun body, in which the small tube is engraved with rifling. The shells were made of cast iron, mainly spherical shells, and coated with soft lead like Mineer shells to devour rifling. Of course, there are also some slightly more advanced types of ammunition that use oval projectiles. In terms of bullet types, *, grenade shotguns, and shotguns can all be fired.

Whether in his previous life or in his present life, it was the first time he had seen the real Armstrong cannon, and it was the first time he had tinkered with this thing. Although I have seen the detailed operation process in the video in my previous life, it is not the same as watching it and getting started by myself after all. Guo Xing'a took a few artillery masters and tinkered for a long time, but he was still in a hurry. Fortunately, after tossing and turning thirteen moves, I finally hit it out, and I didn't get any trouble such as exploding.

However, after seeing that the range of the Armstrong cannon had taken effect, Goxinga was petrified, and the cold sweat on his back was dripping. This thing has almost twice the range of a smoothbore gun, and it's very accurate. Compared with the Armstrong gun, the effective range of the Napoleon gun of 1,500 meters is a bit blind, while the Armstrong gun can be shot anywhere between 2,000 and 3,000 meters.

In Goxinga's original concept, he had considered fighting positional warfare with the coalition forces, which involved artillery warfare. It turned out that although Guo Xing'a also knew that the range of Napoleon's cannon was not good, he also had a backhand, and he was ready to use * to make up for it. But this time, seeing the actual power of the Armstrong cannon, Guo Xinga was afraid for a while. Napoleon's cannon can't reach it, * maybe the head, if it really does it with a black eye, Guo Xinga will definitely suffer a big loss. Although the cannonball after Goxinga fired the golden finger was far more powerful than the cannonball of the Armstrong cannon, it was useless if it couldn't hit. Once he entered the positional battle, Goxinga must have been pressed to the position by the coalition forces, and was named by the Armstrong artillery of the people.

"Let Fengsheng Ah and Da Meng study imitations! The captured Armstrong guns were all incorporated into the artillery company so that the brothers could learn to use them and familiarize themselves with them. Guo Xing'a said helplessly.

"My lord, what about these six gates?" Kong Zhen asked, pointing to six nine-pounder cannons.

"Alas! This is also an Armstrong cannon, but it is a cavalry cannon, so the construction is not the same. Guo Xing'a didn't recognize it at first, and it was only later that the vertical lock bolt was discovered.

The people of the artillery company left a few sample guns for the people in the arsenal to study, and the others returned to the station with the guns, and everyone seemed to have a stone in their hearts. They are all people who live with cannons every day, and they have always thought that the Napoleon cannon in their hands is the best artillery, but today they have opened their eyes. Whether it is range, rate of fire, or accuracy, there is no way to compare with the Armstrong gun, and it is not easy when it comes to artillery battles. Although he also has the Armstrong cannon in his hand now, there must be more of them, and everyone feels a lot of pressure. How to deal with the artillery fire of the coalition forces on the battlefield in the future has become a stubborn stone in the hearts of the big guys, and the joy of returning from the victory just now has been swept away.

Rong Hong's original purchase focus was precision instruments, although he could not buy the highest sophisticated, but it is also a world-class level. After the arsenal was built, Guo Xing'a also personally started to make tools and made some precision machining machine tools. However, the Armstrong cannon is also the most advanced product of Britain's current industrial technology, although Guo Xinga has made some things that are beyond the times, but he is not from the background of machine tools after all, and the degree of progress is also very limited, and it is basically impossible to make the Armstrong cannon in a short time.

"My lord, we are currently short of wrought iron raw materials, and this bolt is very precisely processed, we don't seem to be able to do it!" Rong Hong is now a very skilled technician, and after checking it, he found that this thing arsenal can't handle it in a short time.

"According to the British method, we can't handle it, but we need this thing, otherwise we won't be able to fight the artillery battle in the future. So the arsenal must find a way to get it, the British method does not work, you go to some skilled craftsmen and try our Chinese methods. Guo Xinga also knew that he was making it difficult for a strong man, but now he had to. After finishing speaking, Guo Xing'a could only give Feng Sheng'a and Rong Hong a look that I believe in you, and then turned around and walked away in a dashing manner.

"Alas!" Rong Hong and Feng Sheng Ah were speechless, and could only sullenly face the distress.

Also distressed were the high-ranking members of the coalition forces in Hexi, who carefully understood the whole process of the battle, and then inspected the battlefield in detail, but they did not gain anything. The allied forces of Hexi Wu suffered heavy losses in the First World War, even surpassing the Second Battle of Dagukou, and all the officers were blown up. It's nothing to be attacked and defeated, but it's surprising that you don't even know who did it.

"Monk Greenqin, he must have dispatched all his main forces to attack us!" The sixty-three-year-old commander of the French army, General Montauban, was furious, and although the losses were mainly due to the British, as a friendly army, the French army was also humiliated. Montauban snickered, but also to express his indignation.

"It can't be the Qing government army, they don't have this strength. If they had such strong strength, we would still be fighting them in Beitang now! Lieutenant General Grant of the British Army said unceremoniously that he was fed up with Montauban's undisguised schadenfreude.

"Yes, gentlemen, the enemy who attacked Hexi this time has not only attacked our army. At the same time, they also robbed the Qing government's treasury and private wealthy merchants, which was not the behavior of the government army, but more like the behavior of bandits. Brigadier General Vincent also did not look down on the virtues of the French.

"Will the robbers have better weapons than the government army? The Sikh cavalry was under heavy musket fire, and where did the robbers get so many muskets. Mr. Brigadier General, your imagination is too rich. Colonel Albert of the French army also came out to ridicule the British.

"The people of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are also rebels, and they also have very good weapons, at least they can gather enough muskets to concentrate their elite troops. We may have met the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the north, they may have concentrated a few thousand of their elite among hundreds of thousands of troops, and then they attacked us by surprise. Vincent also has his own ideas.

"The elite Red Shirts have been defeated by a group of bandits!" Montauban's tone made Grant want to shoot him very much.

"We've lost many times, but we've always been the winners." Grant said proudly.

"We'll see!" Montauban snorted. Although Grant didn't say it explicitly, every Frenchman could tell that this damned Englishman was referring to Napoleon. Napoleon, the eternal pride of the French, defeated the Europeans countless times, including the damned British. But in the end at Waterloo, Napoleon lost everything, and the British won the final victory.

It didn't take long for the coalition forces to wait for the results. The Qing court gave up the old peace expert Gui Liang, and re-selected two important ministers, Prince Yi Zaiyuan and Shangshu Muyin of the Military Department, to go to Zhangjiawan, Tongzhou to negotiate peace with the coalition forces again. The military commanders have long lost interest in this kind of humor, and the army will be one step further than the city of Beijing, they need to negotiate, they only need war.

However, the two plenipotentiary ministers in Tianjin did not think so, and the politicians always wanted to deal with problems in the most cost-effective way, and it was obvious that war was not the most cost-effective way. So they gave the order to halt the march and sent Shabali, known as the Chinese expert, to Tongzhou, preparing to achieve the best result through negotiations alone.

Emperor Xianfeng is ready to negotiate and negotiate peace, and he has to grasp both hands and be hard with both hands, but Guoxing'a in Gu'an doesn't understand it at all. Guo Xing'a, who got the news, almost scolded the sky in Gu'an, and even said such nonsense as the faint monarch and minister. Now it's time for the soldiers to come to the city, what kind of! Now everything is meaningless except war.

However, when Guo Xing'a scolded the emperor, Xianfeng couldn't hear it, and Xianfeng didn't understand Guo Xing'a's thoughts. The negotiation team of important ministers still walked into the military camp of Zhangjiawan monk Lingqin amid the curses of Guoxing'a.