Hong Tao could neither treat colds nor detoxify, and wandered in the desert for three days, and his original curiosity was gone. This place is regarded as a treasure, and Hong Tao is very annoyed. If you want anything, all you see is a color and a thing after walking for a few days, it's really hard to understand how these Arabs live, they are all Xiaoqiang.

"Lao Sai, it's not that I don't respect your religion, but I don't want to promote any religion in my country. When the opportunity is ripe, I will allow all religions to enter my country, but I will never allow one to dominate, and as for whether everyone wants to believe or not, which one to believe, it is their own choice. Before I can give them the right to choose, I have to give them the ability to choose. If the people of a country are illiterate, they don't have the ability to discern, and they can cheat as much as they want, which will allow some people to take advantage of the situation, which is not in line with my original intention. Every day after camping, Hong Tao would ride a camel around the camp, and then huddle in the tent and start discussing with Said. In fact, there is no knowledge, it is nothing more than raising the bar, and the main problem is the future development direction of Jinhe Kingdom.

Said believed that if a country does not have religious beliefs, it is difficult to effectively unite together, and it is easy to do when there are few people, but it is difficult to rule when the population is large and the territory is large. Hong Tao partially agrees with Said's statement, but he does not want to use religious beliefs to fool the people. Faith can be had, but it is better to let the people choose for themselves when they are clear-headed and aware enough. Both agreed to use religion as an instrument of domination, but differed in how it should be used.

"Your Majesty, how did you get this ice?" In fact, Said is also a fake monk, and Mousz-Lin is forbidden to drink. But he was when no one was around. For example, when in Hong Tao's cabin and Hong Tao's tent. As long as there are no outsiders, they will not refuse to smoke and drink. Now he was drinking a glass of cold wine, and while he was raising the bar with Hong Tao, he wondered why there was ice in the ice bucket in such a hot weather!

"You can't understand it, just like you told me the theories of those sages, I can't understand it." On the issues of physics, chemistry, mathematics, and navigation, Said could hardly look forward to Hong Tao's back, and he was not even qualified to be an apprentice.

"Your Majesty is actually not fit to be the emperor, you, like His Majesty William, do not have a lot of enthusiasm for this position, but the two of you do the best. Things in the world are really complicated. Said picked up a small piece of ice, threw it into the cup, and chatted, there was no theme at all, and what he thought of and said. For people who have been thinking about problems all day long, it is actually a kind of rest and relaxation.

"Someone...... Who's out there putting guns? Suddenly, Hong Tao sat up from the carpet, his ears were sensitive, and there was a crisp sound in the distance, which would be far away in the wild. This sound is very familiar, it is the sound of gunfire.

"I don't know...... It seems to be a sentry on the west side. Captain Lang was about to send someone to check it out. The guard at the door of the tent was quick to reply.

"Check the fart, blow the whistle, turn off the lights, light the fire!" Hong Tao stood up directly, picked up his two short guns while putting on his shoes, and walked out without even tying his belt.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong?" Said didn't hear the gunshot, or heard it, but he didn't know what the sound was, and when he saw Hong Tao's serious face, he didn't know what was going on.

"Bang ......" Another gunshot rang out in the distance, this time significantly louder.

"We've been attacked! You just stay here, put the lights out, and I'll go out and have a look. "This time Hong Tao is really sure, it's not a fire, it's not a wild beast, it's really a stranger coming, and there are quite a few of them, and the speed is quite fast, otherwise the first and second sentry posts would not have been broken through so quickly.

Hong Tao is not a qualified army general, but he is a 100% chicken thief and is afraid of death. Every day when he set up camp, he would scatter the sentry five hundred meters away, it was still a secret sentry, and he would never see a shallow pit dug in the ground without coming to him in the dark, and there were still people under the blanket. These posts were divided into three tiers, one hundred meters and one floor, spread in all directions, and there were also tanks of mixed oil in the sentry posts, which would fire warning shots whenever they detected an enemy situation, and at the same time ignite the mixed oil in the jars.

By the time the flood came out, four or five fires had been lit up in the west, whistles were blaring in the camp, the Marines were running out of their tents and feeling the black formation, and the three deck guns had also removed their gun jackets and began to reload their shotguns.

"Your Majesty, who is going to attack us?" Said did not stay in the tent, but came out with Hong Tao, saw the fire in the distance, pulled Hong Tao's robe, and his voice trembled a little.

"I don't know, anyway, it won't be the Great Song people, and it won't be the Byzantines, so they can't run out of the port of Maska. Here, take this, just squat here and watch, don't look up, understand? Go get me another helmet. At this time, Hong Tao didn't forget to say strange things, he definitely didn't know who the person who came, but it was 100% an Arab from the neighborhood, that's right, whether it would have something to do with Said or the Al Yin family, I haven't had time to figure it out yet. Since he didn't want to stay in the tent, let's see how he dealt with these people.

Soon, there was a slight tremor on the ground, and a wall of fire was lit up more than a hundred meters away from the west side of the camp, and more than a dozen marines were running back with their lives, and a large figure appeared a hundred and ten meters behind them.

"Camel cavalry! Your Majesty, it's the Bedouin camel cavalry! Not only did the soldiers see it, Hong Tao saw it, but Saeed also saw it, and he was more familiar with this figure, and immediately called out his name.

......A sharp whistle pierced the night sky with a sharp whistle, and the Marines, who had already lined up in three rows, raised their rifles at the same time and pointed at the figure to the west.

"Da da da ......" this time is not a whistle, but a shrill trumpet.

"Papapapa......" followed by a continuous crisp sound, and the night was torn open by hundreds of firelights in an instant. The firelight illuminated the young faces of the Marines, the hideous face of Hong Tao hiding behind a pile of boxes, the terrified face under Said's helmet, and the bearded face of the charging camel cavalry in black cloak and black turban, more than a hundred meters away.

Since the first row of guns fired, the gunfire has not stopped, and the three platoons of marines are like a pair of machines, one row after another stepped forward to shoot, and row after row retreated. Three rows of men paced back and forth in place, neither forward nor backward, and shot rows of buckshot at the tall figures in the distance.

Although it was nighttime, the line of sight was not ideal, but with that wall of fire, it was easier to aim at the target. Because anyone who comes close to the wall of fire will be illuminated with an outline, the Marines' shooting is not aimed at all, they only need to find the high and low position of the distant target to pull the trigger, as for whether they can hit the target, it is all up to God.

The effective firing range of the most primitive smoothbore guns is less than fifty meters, and the hit rate drops sharply beyond this distance, and it is difficult to make up for it even by numbers. There are defects in the barrel manufacturing process, but more for the convenience of loading, the bullet of the smoothbore gun will be a few millimeters smaller than the chamber, so that when shooting, the bullet will collide with the chamber wall and will not fly out in a straight line. In addition, the bullet of the smoothbore gun is round, and the aerodynamic shape is not suitable for stable flight, so it will be impossible to hit the head.

However, with the gradual improvement of manufacturing technology and smelting technology, the effective range of smoothbore guns slowly increased, until the American Civil War, which suddenly reached a new level. At that time, American soldiers found that if a bullet was wrapped in oil-soaked suede and stuffed into the chamber, it could not only prevent the bullet from falling out, speed up the reloading, but also greatly improve the range and accuracy of the smoothbore gun.

At present, the Marine Corps uses this technology, and also uses fixed ammunition, that is, the firing and shooting ammunition are sealed in advance in a silk tube soaked in cetacean wax, and one end of the silk tube is also wrapped with a buckshot wrapped in whale skin. When using, directly buckle the cetacean wax at one end of the silk cylinder, and poke the entire silk cylinder into the bottom of the barrel with a strip.

This thing was developed by Hong Tao according to various flintlock pistol loading techniques of later generations, and it is not 100% plagiarism, but can only be said to be a reference. The paper tube is cheap but there will be residue, and the chamber must be cleaned after each shot, which seriously reduces the firing speed. Hong Tao used the cartridge ammunition for export to the New Army of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Marines and the Imperial Army used all silk ammunition. If you are not afraid, the empire is rich, and this cost will be passed on to other countries anytime and anywhere, and the paper tube bullets sold to the Great Song Dynasty are sold according to the cost of silk cartridges.

The flintlock smoothbore guns used by the Marines are made with higher precision and longer barrels, and the live ammunition training level of the team members is also higher, even higher than that of the Imperial Army, because they have the opportunity to follow the battleship to Jawa Island to practice with the real knives and guns of the local rebels.

"Boom...... Rumble...... After several rows ......of fire, three more clusters of larger and brighter fire erupted on either side of the Marines, and with the sound of the sky cracking, the deck guns began to spray large expanses of iron sand at the camel cavalry that came into range.

These three cannons were much more effective than muskets, and the cavalry that charged in a dense formation was afraid of this kind of large-scale and indiscriminate scattering, and there was nowhere to hide, and a large area fell at that time. However, the cannon also had side effects, and the camels in the camp were immediately shocked, if it weren't for the dozens of Al Yin's entourage desperately pulling the reins of a few camels, these hundreds of camels would have run towards the darkness to the east, and they are not stupid, which side is bright and which side is dangerous.

(To be continued.) )