Chapter 198: Carbine
Wen Xinyi, who was dressed in tatters, walked around outside the defensive wall of Dongfang Harbor with his followers for a while, and only left after listening to the national anthem of the Senate for a while. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info し The actions of the two of them did not arouse the vigilance of the army soldiers patrolling nearby, in the eyes of the army soldiers, this is just two refugees who want to come to the chief, the only curiosity is that these two people left without even going to the soup kitchen.
Wen Xinyi couldn't stop the secret joy in his heart, and he couldn't even hide the joy on his face, he took his followers and didn't go back to the scrap dump, but went directly in the direction of An Yuncheng. His destination was not An Yun City, but through An Yun heading north, to Beihai City, the capital of An Nan.
The attendant was very strange, and hurriedly followed Wen Xinyi's footsteps and asked as he walked, "Master, why is this?" Why did you stand by the wall of the thief for a while and then leave? ”
"Hahaha," Wen Xinyi lowered his voice, but still couldn't suppress the joy in his heart, "Master, I have found evidence of the thief's rebellion!" ”
"Oh?" Not only did the follower not understand, but he wondered even more, "This thief is just singing, why did he rebel?" ”
"This thief really has anti-intentions, it doesn't matter if you don't understand, the old men of Beihai must understand." Wen Xinyi said triumphantly as he walked hurriedly. "I shouldn't have told you this, but ......" Wen Xinyi really didn't want to explain the thief's anti-song to his followers, but now that he was happy alone, he was too lonely and self-appreciative, and it was also a good choice to let the only person around him be happy with him.
"I'll tell you, sir." Wen Xinyi walked to the side of the road as he spoke, holding on to the tree and gasping, although he had been fleeing, he would still be out of breath if he walked in such a hurry. "Do you know the Yellow River and the Yangtze River?"
"I don't know," the attendant's head shook like a rattle.
"At first glance, it's a product that doesn't read poetry and books." Wen Xinyi looked like he hated iron but not steel. "I don't know the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, but I always know the Pearl River, right?"
"I don't know." The attendant continued to shake his head.
"Honghe always knows, right?" Wen Xinyi was really speechless, so he had to continue to ask.
"The little one knows," the attendant figured out this time. "It's the biggest river in our Annan."
"Yes, the Pearl River is north of the Red River, the Yangtze River is north of the Pearl River, and the Yellow River is north of the Yangtze River, all of which are thousands of miles apart." Wen Xinyi said that the words changed sharply, "You know Beijing City." ”
"Of course this little one knows." The attendant nodded repeatedly. "Won't Banzai live in the city of Beijing?"
"Yes, that's it, the city of Beijing is north of the Yellow River." Wen Xinyi finally nodded with satisfaction. "Now you know what it means to cross the surging Yellow River and Yangtze River, right?"
"I don't know, what do you mean to cross?" The attendant's curiosity made Wen Xinyi almost choke on his own saliva.
"The meaning of the lyrics of the thief is to gather the rebels, cross the Yellow River and the Yangtze River to the north, and go straight to the capital!" Wen Xinyi explained hatefully, "Do you think this is an anti-thief? ”
"Ahh Only then did the attendant suddenly realize, "It's really a thief!" Master, what are we going to do in Beihai? We're going to have to flee south! If they head north, won't we still have to be caught by them? Otherwise, we'd better hide in that scrap stack area, and the thieves wouldn't have found out about us. ”
"You! I really don't want to talk about you! Wen Xinyi's right index finger shook his follower's face several times, but he didn't click it. At present, this follower is the last person of his own, and when he escaped from Wu'an Village, one of the two followers around him was still an orphan he picked up from Anyun City back then. Since he escaped from Wu'an Village, he has really become a loner, and he is wanted by the Senate, during the period of escape, it is this follower who is by his side to serve him, if he and another follower are desperately protected, I am afraid that he would have died outside a long time ago.
"What are we going back to do?" Wen Xinyi shook his head, "My whole family was killed by thieves, and several generations of family business were also copied by thieves, if I don't take revenge, can I Wen Xinyi still be called a person?" ”
The attendant was speechless on the side, and after a while, he nodded at Wen Xinyi, "Master, of course you have to avenge the extermination of the clan!" The little one follows the master! ”
Wen Xinyi nodded firmly, "Let's go, let's wait to Anyun City to find a way to get some money, buy some dry food, and then go to Beihai." ”
"Master, there are a lot of bandits outside the Oriental Harbor City, if we ......"
"Afraid of what? We were bandits a few days ago! The two of us are in rags, and we don't have any money at first glance, who will rob us? Wen Xinyi patted the dust on his body as he spoke, and patted the shoulder of his attendant, "Let's go, let's go now!" ”
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"Big shopkeeper!" A ragged bandit almost crawled into the room where the smoke was drawn.
Since fleeing from Dongfang Port all the way to Chinese New Year's Eve, he no longer dares to fight the idea of Dongfang Port, and even the recent looting has tried not to get close to Dongfang Port, but only looted in the area of Anyun County. Their gang found a good place to camp on a small hill near Sun Changfu's Zhuangzi, where dense woods and shrubs blocked most of the directions, leaving only a small path into their bandit camp. And all the way to Yan also arranged for his men to open a path for him from the back of the jungle, so that he could escape when the entrance was blocked by the enemy.
"What's the matter?" He had been awakened by nightmares of the night, often dreaming of thieves harvesting his companions with terrifying weapons that would spew tongues of fire. At this time, he heard his subordinates rushing in in a panic, and he jumped three feet high nervously, and hurriedly asked with a dagger in his hand. "The thief is coming?"
"Yes! The big shopkeeper! The little bandit hurriedly reported, "The little one went to Dongfang Port today to explore the way, and met a thief who was singing and coming this way." ”
"What? Singing? Yiyi Yan felt that his head was a little insufficient, and asked curiously, "What are you singing?" ”
"The little ones don't know, they're about to come down our mountain, why don't you go over with the little ones to have a look?"
All the way to Yan nodded and shouted, "Copy all the guys!" Go see the thief! ”
Of course, although they went to see the thieves with their weapons, none of them would be stupid enough to rush in front of the thieves, and at this time they were all lying far away in the bushes on the side of the road to secretly watch the team of the thieves.
At the foot of the hill, the army soldiers in dark blue uniforms, carrying rifles on their right shoulders, marched in a neat stride on the paved avenue toward the west, each wearing a cloth hat like a straw hat on his head.
Yan counted carefully all the way, there were about a hundred people, just watching them march in order, you can know that this is an elite army, not a rabble under his own command can deal with. However, it seems that they have no intention of going up the mountain to encircle and suppress them, but are just marching towards the west.
"Damn, is this still going to let people live?" Yan couldn't help but be a little annoyed, and quietly pulled out a sweet grass from his side and chewed it in his mouth.
"Big shopkeeper, what are these thieves going to do?" The attendant beside him quietly leaned around Yiyan and asked softly, lest the loud voice attract the attention of the thief.
"How do I know? I'm not a thief! Yan Yan angrily chewed two mouthfuls of sweet grass, gently spit it aside, and said, "But these thieves are all elite soldiers!" ”
"Isn't it? These thieves have neither helmets nor armor, so even if they have a powerful firecracker, what can they do? Isn't it necessary to use a burning stick if you put a gun? "Another attendant next to him was obviously a little disagreeing." In the past, when we were in the Thousand Households, the firecrackers would have to be loaded for a long time with a hammer, but now if we suddenly rush up, we will definitely be able to catch them off guard. ”
"You're crazy!" All the way Yan scolded in a low voice: "Don't you look at it, which of these thieves is not carrying a short sword?" As he spoke, he pointed to the army soldiers who were marching in unison singing the "Army Song" on the flat avenue at the bottom of the mountain. "I've seen them put these short swords directly on the mouth of the fire, they can be used as spears to stab, and these thieves are not afraid of death, and the stabbing techniques are fine, generally two or three people are no problem to deal with a dozen of our people, if you want to die, you can rush, don't bother us."
"Big shopkeeper, look!" The little attendant on the side pointed to the rear of the third column of the army, "What a lot of fat sheep!" ”
Sure enough, behind the soldiers, followed by a large group of ordinary people, some of them carrying burdens, some pushing carts, and more of them just carrying large and somewhat outrageous burdens.
Looking at the appearance of the group of elated people, he couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva all the way, "Damn, it's really a fat sheep." "He can imagine with his toes that the vast majority of these ordinary people are businessmen who go to Dongfang Port to buy goods, and the baggage and burden in the cart are either strange goods or gold and silver property from Dongfang Port." Can you see it but not eat it...... What a fucking grievance. ”
He didn't dare to touch the ideas of these ordinary people at all, since he saw in the Chinese New Year's Eve raid that the thieves did not even dare to use the militaristic weapon that would continuously spit out flames in order not to accidentally injure the people of the Wu Dynasty, he knew that these thieves would inevitably stand up for these people. If he ran out to find the bad luck of the common people at this time, not to mention the elite weapons and well-trained thieves, it would be impossible for the remaining thirty or forty people under his command to deal with these more than 100 ordinary people alone.
"Go back quietly, the thief is not looking for trouble with us." All the way to the cigarette threw away the sweet grass that had just been chewed half-grunt, and instructed his subordinates.
"But the big shopkeeper, these fat sheep ...... below" A little follower was a little reluctant, and before he finished speaking, he was glared at fiercely by all the way to Yan. If Lao Tzu wasn't afraid that the thief would find out about us and slap you to death, so many people, would you be able to grab it? Don't be afraid to die, go by yourself, don't pull us. ”
The bandits all quietly left, leaving only a cigarette still staring at the army of thieves singing strange songs in the distance. After a long time, he sighed, "I'm afraid this An Yun won't be able to stay." ”
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"After a few days of training, we have come to the results that the soldiers have improved their ability to travel long distances, and we have found that the leggings are very effective in increasing walking speed and distance." Liu Lihua stood up and said to several senior officers of the army staff in front of him.
"Very good," Xiao Mingwei nodded and said, "What is the ordinary marching speed of your third company?" ”
"We calculated that it was about four kilometers per hour, and the weight of the equipment on our bodies was 20 kilograms, which was considered to be up to standard." Li Jieqi interjected, "According to the training syllabus, all the army's established units have reached the standard. ”
"But we have to know that we will start to fight against bandits from next month, and we are the first to conduct special training in jungle warfare this time and space, and we do not have helicopters of the US military in the Vietnam War, nor do we have close fire support, and some are just two legs." Li Zhen added on the side, "In this case, our artillery still uses artillery with extremely poor accuracy such as the conscienceless cannon, and it may not be able to hit accurately even if it has a good field of vision, let alone under the conditions of jungle warfare." And there is another point, although the rifle used by the soldier has been improved to a certain extent, such as using dummy bullets or increasing the magazine function, but because the length of the gun itself is one meter two, and the bayonet will reach about one meter five, it may be difficult to gain an advantage in firepower with such a long weapon to fight in the dense jungle. ”
"Yes," Lin Shenhe added, "even if our rifles are replaced with dummmy rounds, they are still point kill weapons, and the distance between the two sides in the jungle may appear within 100 meters or even 10 meters, and the hit rate of point kill weapons is extremely limited, if we can't use weapons with fast shooting speed to suppress rapid fire, we can only find ways to use surface kill weapons." ”
"So as the head of the Military Industry Commission, do you have any recommendations?" Li Jieqi asked. "You know, our anti-bandit operation will start next month, unless the weapons you said are in stock, it's the same as if you didn't say it."
"Yes!" Lin Shenhe's face was filled with a confident smile, "First, we can equip the non-commissioned officers with revolvers. ”
The army officers began to talk to each other, "But because of the military budget, we can't even equip the rifles of the recruit units, how can we equip the non-commissioned officers with revolvers?" ”
"Or......" Lin Shenhe took out a rifle from behind him and put it on the table, "Modify the revolver." ”
"Revolver ???" The officers' eyes widened one by one, and the revolver could still be used on a rifle?
"Yes, revolver rifles were popular for a while during the Civil War, and the Northern Army once purchased several thousand of them for battle, but found a fatal problem: the gunpowder in the paper-shelled ammunition leaked. Gunpowder that leaks when fired is also ignited, which then ignites the ammunition in the other nests, causing a chain reaction in which all the bullets are fired together. As a result, the bullet hit the soldier's rifle-wielding left forearm. As a last resort, the rifle was sold cheaply at 42 cents each, less than one percent of the original price of $44. ”
"Then you still made it for our people??" Someone questioned.
"This is a small-caliber gun, using a 9mm Pyrabem round, the metal cartridge case does not have this defect, and although the barrel is longer than a pistol, it is much shorter than a rifle, which is suitable for use as a carbine, and it must be effective in jungle warfare." Lin Shenhe's eyebrows danced.
"But doesn't this rifle cost money? You say so much, our army still has no military spending! Li Jieqi couldn't help but be a little frustrated, and covered his face with his hands.