Chapter 139: An eye-opener

"This incident has started to get very tricky," Xiao Mingwei said, lighting a cigarette, "At first I thought it was just a temporary rebellion, but after Ma Xiang sent back the report, I could only think that it was a rebellion instigated by the Medeno or Annan forces behind the scenes trying to wrestle with us." For more up-to-date chapters, visit: ะจะฉะฉ.(7)(9)XS.ัะžะœ. โ€

"Yes, I agree with that." He Rolling Long said approvingly, "Judging from the information gathered so far, the Maidno people secretly bought our personnel through the forces of Annan or the Wu Dynasty, and obtained 'smuggling' weapons from them. But after such a long time of infiltration, how did we not find out? And when did they start? โ€

"This is indeed a troublesome question," Du Yande said, "I also asked Qian Longzhou, and he reported to me that all the rebels in this Shabak rebellion were basically composed of the former Annamite line, and only single digits of Japanese and Wu dynasty people participated in it." โ€

"Since they are all rebellions of the Annam family, it would be good to just get rid of the Annamite people." Li Jieqi on the side shrugged his shoulders and said, "Although the Foreign Legion says that it needs a large number of soldiers, it needs reliable soldiers, and if the Annan people are unreliable, then it is good to keep them away from the army." โ€

"I don't agree with your point of view," Yang Minghuan shook his head at Li Jieqi, "Let's just talk about it here, but we must not 'show' it in front of the naturalized people, let alone say such things in the Foreign Legion." Saying that, Yang Minghuan picked up a document and said, "You can't throw away a pot of soup just because of a mouse droppings." If you look at this document, this is a rough count after the end of this rebellion, and there were more than 200 casualties in the entire rebellion, of which 215 soldiers of Annamite origin were killed or wounded, of which less than 100 were casualties of rebel desir, and the rest were all Annam Foreign Legion soldiers who put down the rebellion. โ€

There was silence in the conference room, and everyone was silent, and after a while, Li Jieqi said, "It seems that I blamed them." โ€

"That's right, it's their fault." Du Yande nodded and continued, "Starting from the new army of Champa Port, the predecessor of this foreign legion actually has two forces, the first is naturally the pro-senate lineage brought out by Qian Longzhou, and this batch is headed by Ruan Wen's 'jade' Niu Jinxing The other faction is more embarrassed, they belong to the opportunistic faction that saw the bright future of the new army after the defense of Champong Port, and the main composition of the opportunistic faction is composed of deserters from the old army, ruffians, etc., even if they have been trained by the new army and have a new army, but there is no new army. โ€

"Donkey dung and eggs are light outside." Zhang Yuan said, "But they didn't have the strength to launch such a rebellion before, why did they suddenly launch a rebellion at this time?" โ€

"Yes!" Du Yande hurriedly said, "The opportunists did not have such strength at the beginning, you must know that in terms of ability and qualifications, the opportunists were not as strong as the first batch of Annan factions, but when they captured the port of Zhancheng, because the two companies of the Foreign Legion suffered heavy casualties, the main body of their casualties were the initial group of the Annam faction. At that time, we did not pay attention to the situation of factions within the army, so the rapid replenishment of the lost troops in the following period was equivalent to mixing sand into it, which led to the gradual increase of the opportunistic faction, and gradually grasped some of the key 'gates' of the Foreign Legion. โ€

"Well, we know this situation," Xiao Mingwei poked out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, spit out the cigarette in his mouth and said, "They have grasped the gap in the 'door' of the Quartermaster Department before, and resold a lot of weapons and ammunition from the warehouse, and we want to know how much specific 'smuggling' data is." โ€

"It's hard to say for the time being, because several masterminds were either killed in the battle or disappeared, and the only 'door' non-commissioned officer of the Quartermaster Department who was caught was still being interrogated," Yang Minghuan said and shook his head helplessly, "We can't tell us the specific data now, but what is certain is that in addition to the weapons on the Beiyu 068, there are many weapons that have been smuggled out of the country, if it is correct, it should have been in the hands of the Maidno people." โ€

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"Oh my God! This weapon is incredible! A Yaning man picked up his rifle and looked at it carefully, "This kind of steel is used to roll the barrel, it is inevitably too tyrannical, and such a quality of steel can become the sharpest knife when used to make weapons." โ€

"Yes," said a craftsman on the side, taking up the bayonet and examining it carefully, "I think such a dagger is unremarkable, but the problem is that it is very heavy, and you see that the blade is not sharp at all, so what is the use of such a workmanship?" Can it be poked into the 'flesh'? โ€

"Yes," interrupted the craftsman's muttering to himself, a Medeno officer next to him, "and since we got these muskets and bayonets, we have found a few pigs to test the power of these bayonets. โ€

Hearing his words, all the craftsmen present couldn't help but put down their things in their hands, their eyes fixed on the officer, waiting for his next step.

The officer was wearing a full set of naval uniforms, wearing a common triangular military cap on his head, and a feather pinned to the top of the military cap, and when he saw everyone looking at him, he smiled slightly, "First of all, we are directly stabbing for testing, and our initial opinion is the same as that of the swordsmith, we think that such a bayonet is not sharp, and it should be difficult to stab the enemy's body." However, during the test, the results were very much surprising, the musket itself was very heavy, and the bayonet was very heavy, and when we stabbed it with a rifle and a bayonet, it easily stabbed into the pig's body. โ€

"We then took a closer look at the wound inflicted by the bayonet on the pig, which was not quite the same as the wound we usually inflicted with a dagger or a spear," said the officer, who took out a dagger and the tip of a spear and placed it on the table. "We found the terrible thing about this bayonet after many tests, you see, the dagger and the tip of the spear, either cylindrical or flat, when poked into the body, the skin and 'flesh' will be constricted, and the wound caused by the dagger and the tip of the spear will be tightly pressed against the edge of the weapon, and the bleeding will be stopped to a certain extent. Even if it is pulled out immediately, the wound will be immediately crowded, if it is not a heavy bleeding, basically it will not bleed for a long time, and if the rescue is timely, there is a certain possibility of survival. "You see, the cross-section of this bayonet is triangular, and the triangles are not sharp prismatic, and there is such a not-deep groove on the three sides of the bayonet, and we didn't understand what this groove was until ......," he said after a pause, and continued with a sigh, "until we stabbed into the body of the first pig and saw blood gushing out of these grooves, which was really vicious, It turned out to be a groove used by a special 'door' for bloodletting. โ€

"Phlebotomy? We've done this too," said one of the craftsmen curiously, "but it's just not popular." โ€

"Popularity?" A craftsman next to him shook his head and said, "We did make daggers for bloodletting grooves, but we quickly gave up, our steel products are not of good quality, if we want to increase the bloodletting groove, it is necessary to increase the thickness of the dagger itself, the thickness is too large, and it reduces the lightness of the dagger itself." So in the end, we decided that we just had to make the dagger and move the bloodletting groove to the tip of the spear. โ€

"Alas," said another craftsman, "so it is true, but the tips of our spears are forged by means of hydraulic hammers, and when the bloodletting groove is increased, the strength of the spear tip is greatly reduced, and it can easily be broken directly in battle. โ€

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"Won't this be broken?" Before the words fell, the craftsmen hula gathered around and snatched a few bayonets on the table, "Let me see!" "I'll take a look, I'll take a look!" "Don't rob it, I'll just take a look!"

"Calm down! Calm down! Seeing that the craftsmen did not obey his orders, the officer shook his head helplessly and shouted, "Just a dagger can make you so out of shape, what kind of decent?" This had an unexpected effect, and all the craftsmen stopped in unison and began to snatch the rifles on the table again.

Half an hour later, all the craftsmen in the messy venue sat in their seats, but each craftsman was dressed messily at this time, many of them had their hats torn and broken, the blonde and red hair on their heads were messy like a 'chicken' nest, many people had colors on their faces, and some people spit bloodshot saliva on the ground from time to time.

After a while, after several craftsmen sitting in front of him exchanged glances, a man who looked like he should be the chief craftsman stood up, a large piece of the pleated collar on the left side of his red 'colored' shirt had been torn off, a bloody nail on his left cheek, and his right eye was bruised. He didn't care about the injuries on his face, because most of the people present had scars of one kind or another, and even the left eye socket of the officer who listened to his report in front of him was a large black patch.

"Chief Miro, we have taken a closer look at these bayonets and muskets, and let's not talk about muskets, let's talk about bayonets first." The person listening to the report in front of him was none other than Miro, since the last time the naval fleet was attacked by the strange floating water round iron ball by the Chinese outside Wenshan Port, he not only found the unexploded iron ball but also successfully disassembled it, carefully disassembled, and analyzed the explosives, he once again stood out from a large number of Maidno naval officers with confused faces. When the new army did not defect from the port of Zhancheng, he once bought a number of rifles and ammunition from the new army of the port of Zhanchenggang, and later after Zheng Zhihu bought a batch of rifles from the senate, he tried to buy six or seven from Zheng Zhihu's sailors.

At that time, he summoned the senior blacksmiths of Yanin and Medeno in front of him to look at these rifles, the 'sexuality' of these rifles was not much different from the muskets used by the Medeno people, except that the barrel was longer and the wall of the tube was thinner, and the only thing that people couldn't figure out was the thin copper sheet called the fire cap. However, the problem of the fire cap is easy to solve, and the flintlock system can be added to bypass the fire cap ignition, at most the ignition rate has decreased. He thought that the Chinese's technology was nothing more than that, but then he saw something different in the report sent by Nguyen Minh Phuong to Hue.

From the record, Miro learned that at the beginning, the forbidden army suffered mainly from the 'shooting' of the new army, although the rifles of the new army were powerful, but the 'shooting' distance was not too far beyond the ordinary musket, but it was about 100 yards, and the 'shooting' speed was not high, and it took two or three people to load to maintain a continuous 'shooting' of one person. At first, the Forbidden Army thought that this was all the capabilities of the New Army, so they wanted to intercept the evacuation route of the New Army through the streets, but at the corners of some roads they would be subjected to some sudden continuous 'shooting' attacks, which were much faster than the Jewel Guns mentioned in the later Battle of Shabak, and the 'Shooters' were only about one or two people, very light, not as heavy as those Bead Guns.

Although these fast-firing firearms are powerful, they are not widely used by the people of the new army, and it seems that they should still have some scruples, but the final report worries Miro, and Nguyen Minh Phuong mentioned that when approaching the Jiehe Bridge, the Chinese army on the opposite side used muskets that looked similar to the Senate rifles to 'shoot' at them, not only exceeding the range of the Senate rifles by three to four times, but also the power was not weakened at all.

This report gave Miro a wake-up call, it seems that although the Senate rifle used by the squadron and the Senate rifle they sold look similar, there should be a big difference in design, so he also rushed to the Oriental Port many times to see what is different from the Senate rifle equipped by the squadron. Although several trips to Vostok-Harbor allowed him to see the Senate rifle, but because he couldn't get close, he couldn't see the difference, and he was just an intelligence officer, and he couldn't understand these technical 'sex' things, and just when he was about to give up, he happened to meet a man who had sold him weapons when he was in the new army.

The soldier of Annan not long ago had been promoted to the second lieutenant of the quartermaster department at this time, and he had a certain amount of power, and after he bribed a sum of silver, the quartermaster ensign patted his chest and promised to be able to 'get' a batch of senate rifles equipped by the squadron ** for him, as long as he gave more money, even the latest 1628 rifle was not a problem.

"Now let's talk about the musket," said the chief craftsman, holding up a rifle with the muzzle pointed to the sky, and said to Miro, "and it is not strange that this musket can 'shoot' far and accurately, and it has six rifling wires drawn in its barrel. โ€

"What?" Miro couldn't help but froze for a moment, he had diverged his 'sexual' thinking when he said the bayonet before, but he didn't hear it at all, and at this time the chief craftsman talked about the rifle, which couldn't help but attract his attention.

"Rifling, also called rifle, our hunters use hunting rifles have used these, but we usually mostly have two to three, will not pull six like the Chinese, the first is that too much rifling affects the strength of the barrel, and secondly, rifling affects the loading."