When the surviving people heard Di Qing's questioning and heard that he was the general of the King of Qin, and that His Royal Highness the King of Qin wanted to avenge them, they all cried loudly.

After crying for a while, they began to wipe away their tears, and intermittently, you and I said a word, and told Di Qing about the situation they had seen.

In the end, according to what several people said, Di Qing comprehensively judged that the number of Japanese robbers who attacked Weihaiwei was not large, about 1,000 to 1,500 people.

Most of them were armed with swords and muskets, and even carried small artillery cannons, which they bombarded the gates with to scare away the improvised formations.

In addition, as with the information gathered in the past, the swords of these Japanese are very sharp.

And they are all holding knives in both hands, and one knife can split a person into two pieces.

When some people resisted, the iron tools in their hands were often cut in two by the sword.

So this also confirms why Di Qing saw a lot of corpses, and the knife edges on them were very flat.

The information provided by one of the women made Di Qing feel a touch of something unusual.

According to the woman, there was a group of muskets that could be fired quickly.

And the range is said to be around two hundred paces.

Di Qing thought that this woman had never seen a musket, so he thought that the musket was very sharp.

Because in Di Qing's impression, Qin Jun's musket was already very sharp, and now it was a flintlock musket.

But when he showed the woman a flintlock musket from among his soldiers, the woman shook her head and said that the muskets of the Wako were faster than this one. And she saw with her own eyes that the would-be was reloading from the back of the gun, instead of the front of the barrel as they did.

This news made Di Qing feel very surprised, could it be that the firearms of these Japanese robbers were even more advanced than those of the Qin army?

Could it be that they have now appeared with breech-loading flintlock pistols?

If that's the case. That would pose a huge threat to the Qin army.

Di Qing kept the news in his heart and prepared to turn around to report the news to Jiang Chuan in the capital.

He questioned the survivors carefully, and concluded that the siege method of these would-be robbers was to intimidate and attack the city gates with artillery and muskets, and at the same time use various flying rope eagle catches and other things to cling to the city walls and fight in close combat.

When the gates of the city were opened, they rushed into the city, and killed anyone they saw, and committed adultery and plunder, and did all kinds of evil.

After the killing, they began to loot the city, taking most of its belongings and taking more than 1,000 women captive.

Those who did not want to leave were hacked to death by them at that time.

These scattered information were quickly formed in Di Qing's mind, and there was an intuitive outline of the image of this group of pirates: this group of pirates was an extremely fierce and inhumane group of bandits and pirates who did not invade the city for the purpose of plundering and slaughtering.

Moreover, they have advanced muskets and have appeared from the sea to attack. At present, the nest is unknown, the situation of the leader is unknown, and the specific distribution of forces is unknown.

These messages are completely incapable of determining the location of the pirates' lair and more.

I can only report the matter of the musket to the capital first, and then wait for the arrival of the black platform before making plans.

After reassuring a few surviving civilians, Di Qing sent a force to continue the search to prevent the Japanese from returning again, and ordered all the others to enter the city to help the people bury the bodies of the victims and clean up the ruins.

He ordered that the entire Weihaiwei should be cleaned up in the shortest possible time and turned into a military fortress with basic functions.

Although the large-scale construction of the camp is not good for the combat troops, the sailor carrying the engineering battalion is rapidly advancing along the sea route to Weihaiwei. Within two days, you should be able to reach Weihaiwei.

At the same time, Bai Jinxiu also took the black ice platform and was quickly advancing towards Weihaiwei.

And Hu Zongxian, the governor of Qingzhou, also began to mobilize people to supervise the transportation of grain and grass. It will also arrive in Weihaiwei in a few days.

Di Qing quickly reported the news to the Hu Zongxian Office in Jinan.

Hu Zongxian was also shocked after receiving the news, and immediately ordered people to report to the capital Jiangchuan non-stop.

After Jiang Chuan received the news from the front line, he was also surprised, and his brows furrowed deeply.

He didn't expect that there would be a breech-loading flintlock pistol among the would-be pirates, although the breech-loading flintlock pistol was not a new thing to him at all, after all, he had seen too many automatic weapons in his previous life, even laser weapons, etc.

The rear-loading flintlock pistol can only be considered an antique.

But in this era, in this time and space, the rear-loading pistol is the most advanced firearm he knows so far.

Because the muskets he himself now equips the army with are also front-loading guns. Although it is a flintlock pistol, it is still a front-loading smoothbore gun.

Although the front-loading smoothbore gun adopts the flint-fired mode, which greatly improves the firing speed, it is much slower than the rear-loading flintlock pistol.

Moreover, Jiang Chuan was keenly aware of another strange point from the information sent by Di Qing.

If the survivors' claims are correct, then the muskets of the Woko not only possessed not only a fast rate of fire, but also a breech-loading rifled gun, according to the theory that the range was more than 200 paces away.

What is a rifled gun? The walls of the barrel are now smooth.

When the bullet is fired out of the chamber, it is closely dependent on the explosion of gunpowder to produce a pressure drop in the chamber and the bullet is fired, so that the range and accuracy are very limited, and the bullet speed is not too high, so there is no good penetration.

With rifling rifles, because of the blessing of rifling, the bullet can be shot farther and more accurate, because the bullet is spiraling with the rifling in the chamber in the process of firing out of the chamber, and the rotation will be accelerated, so that the bullet will maintain a considerable centripetal force at a certain distance, so as to ensure the range and accuracy.

If the Japanese really had a rear-loading rifled gun, it would undoubtedly be a huge threat to the Qin army.

The only hope now is that the pirates don't have too many of these rifled guns, and they don't have large-scale equipment, so they don't pose much of a threat.

After all, at the industrial level of this world, the production of rifled guns is still very complicated.

If there is no lathe, the rifling in the chamber of the gun still has to be engraved by hand. This would be very inefficient and therefore costly, so it would be unlikely to be equipped on a large scale.

Despite this, Jiang Chuan's sense of crisis is still very strong.

He now urgently needs technical support from the system to see if he can upgrade the front-loading smoothbore gun to the rear-loading rifled gun in the shortest possible time, so as to have an advantage in equipment.

He didn't want his soldiers to die in vain under a group of inhumane and advanced weapons, and for him, he always thought that his army was equipped with the most advanced weapons in the world. Now it seems that the technological level of this world is still underestimated.