Chapter 54 Paper Bullets and Breech Cannons

When Yang Dongfang heard that Li Hongzhang was coming, he was also surprised, how could this guy come to Shanghai, isn't he preparing to attack Changzhou City now?

Li Hongzhang is a ruthless person, in November did not secretly buy the eight kings of Suzhou City, promising all kinds of benefits for them to make internal responses, so in December the soldiers took the important town of Suzhou without blood, and as a result, the eight kings were slaughtered backhanded. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Suzhou City, first the eight kings booby-trapped Mu Wang Tan Shaozhuo, the original 100,000 troops in the city, the eight kings 80,000, first slaughtered the Mu Wang 20,000 pieces, and then the Huai army entered the city, the eight kings stood guard and watched, sitting and watching the Huai army rob and humiliate. (A strange flower in the history of surrender)

In the evening, the Huai army lured the eight kings together and killed them, and then they turned around and slaughtered 40,000 of the eight kings' army.

This incident shook the world for a while, and the Western powers looked sideways, and Gordon, the victorious army who was originally good with Li Hongzhang, also directly picked his son and quit, saying that Li had no humanity, and the Qing court should be destroyed if he reversed his word.

Charlie said to Yang Dongfang embarrassedly: "Yang, you know, you Qing Governor, you are very strong in that regard, Suzhou City is not far from Shanghai, in the words of your Han people. What the.. You can stop the child's night crying, we don't want to offend him. ”

Yang Dongfang almost squirted out a mouthful of internal injuries, pushing your lungs, you will still be afraid of him, and you will cry at night.

On the surface, Yang Dongfang was naturally empathetic and said: "Mr. Charlie, then I will leave first, you can send my things to Hong Kong, I will also go to Hong Kong in a few days, please write to your HSBC headquarters, I hope to go there to visit." ”

"Okay, Mr. Yang." Charlie smiled very satisfied, and let people open the door and say, "Send Mr. Yang for me." ”

I walked out with the staff, and in the aisle, I saw dozens of strong men wearing regular brocade clothes, all of them in good spirits, looking at the momentum, and their martial arts were extraordinary.

In the middle of them was a middle-aged man in a military suit, of medium height, with a square face and a smile, who was whispering something to an Englishman.

When Yang Dongfang passed by, he glanced at him a few more times, the eyes of the two briefly intersected for a while, and a trace of light flashed in the eyes of both of them, Yang Dongfang stopped half a step slightly, and there was a slight movement of pulling out the knife in his body, but as soon as he saw the martial arts master behind Li Hongzhang, he left directly.

After Yang Dongfang left, Li Hongzhang felt an inexplicable pain in his heart, and asked the Englishman next to him who walked over just now, and the man replied: "He is a rich businessman, very rich." ”

Li Hongzhang shook his head, and instructed his subordinates in a Huainan dialect: "This person has the assets of a dragon and a tiger, and there is a murderous aura hovering in the depths of his eyes, which is easy to hurt people, you go and check it for me." ”

Just when Li Hongzhang wanted to check on Yang Dongfang, Yang Dongfang called all the personnel from the two departments in Shanghai.

"Li Hongzhang suddenly came to Shanghai, this thing is a bit strange, you keep an eye on it, see who he met when he came to Shanghai, where he entered, remember, even if you can't find anything, don't expose it."

Everyone knows in their hearts, Yang Dongfang has taught them that the most important thing in intelligence is safety.

At this time, a man who was squatting on the dock said: "Chief, two armed merchant ships came into the dock today, and they took a lot of things from it. ”

Armed merchant ships!

Hearing this, Yang Dongfang's eyes lit up, there are cannons on the armed merchant ships, and there are muskets to fight, if you do a guy.

But let's take a look at what was shipped first, Yang Dongfang had a faint guess that those goods were likely to be munitions.

Maybe it has something to do with Li Hongzhang?

At night, the dark clouds capture the moon, the river is calm and the water is quiet, and the warehouses of various foreign banks are basically lying horizontally by the Huangpu River, enjoying the tranquility of the night, and there are people guarding all around.

But don't expect these guards to be more conscientious, they stand on the sentry post of the Kumen in twos and threes, and talk lightly about the young woman of the noble family, with big buttocks and big breasts, and sultry eyes, while leaning against the brick wall with their guns crooked, not moving much, and not going around patrolling.

Wearing a black outfit and a mask, no one could recognize himself, Yang Dongfang quietly came to the edge of the warehouse, looked around and checked, and then quietly slipped in.

"The system can really pass through, aren't you funny!"

"Host, why are you so cowardly today, this is not the demeanor of a murderer, this is not the majesty of the commander of the first division of the New People's Army!"

It's not that I'm afraid of you cheating on my father, what if I cross over to the wall and hit a big bag, my handsome face! Although I don't eat with my face!

"The target is locked, whether to cross or not, remind the host that this crossing consumes 1000 prestige value, and it can only be used once a day, and the distance at a time is no more than 500 meters!"

It's so expensive!

Yang Dongfang was still sure, and then his eyes blurred for a while, and then it seemed to be weightless, but this feeling was only a short 0.000 second, just like taking an elevator.

"Congratulations to the host, the first time you successfully crossed, and the era of crossing has been started since then, but there is no reward."

Yang Dongfang didn't bother to pay attention to the system, because he found that he had really entered the warehouse, after all, there was no moonlight outside and it was better than the warehouse vision.

It's really out of sight.

"Fortunately, I was prepared in advance." As he spoke, Yang Dongfang took out the match in his arms, swiped it lightly, and the spark shone brightly, and then lit a kerosene lamp.

Matches and kerosene lamps were bought in foreign stores, both of which are now imported goods, and the price is surprisingly expensive, which is definitely used in today's China.

If you have money, you will be capricious, Yang Dongfang directly swept away the kerosene lamps in Shanghai, and with this thing, it will be more convenient for the New People's Army to train and study at night in the future.

Dimmed the lights a little, and Yang Dongfang began to scan the things in the warehouse, all of which were large boxes half a person high and about two meters long.

"No matter, let's take a look at it first."

With a prayer, I put the lamp steady, and then I took out my tools and gently pried open the plank, removing the weeds on it, and below it was a layer of oil-paper wrapped object.

From this perspective alone, Yang Dongfang dared to guess that this thing was a gun nine times out of ten.

Sure enough, when I opened the oiled paper, brand new guns appeared in front of me.

What made Yang Dongfang happy was that this box of guns turned out to be Mini rifles, twenty in a box, neatly and neatly.

"Sure enough, it's munitions. Ha ha. Yang Dongfang was overjoyed, and then continued to pry into several large wooden boxes with Mini rifles.

This gun is good! There is no need for primer, although it is still front-loading ammunition, but this gun has a long shooting distance, can reach four or five hundred meters, is powerful, can penetrate people's bodies, and the most important thing is that the loading speed is fast and the accuracy is high.

"If you have a gun, you have to have ammunition!"

This is what Yang Dongfang cares about the most.

A few more wooden boxes were pried into and the bullets were finally found, oh no!

It's a paper bullet!

Yang Dongfang was pleasantly surprised to find that the bullets in his hand turned out to be ammunition shells made of paper shells, and he immediately realized that he might have overlooked something.

This bullet was not rationed to the Minnie rifle!

"That is, there are other guns here." Muttering, Yang Dongfang pried up the wooden boxes one by one, and finally found different types of wooden boxes in a corner pile.

After prying it open, sure enough, the gun inside was not a flintlock pistol, but a new rifled gun with a back-loaded bolt needle.

"It's sent. I sent it. That's the gun. "I finally felt the gun that didn't have to be so troublesome to load, pulled the bolt, turned around and aimed, and I felt like I had returned to the 21st century.

When aiming, the evil term sniper comes to mind.,Don't work too much with the black gun.。。 Ha ha.

"Huh! That's not right! Sharps. Isn't this an American gun? It's strange why the British sold American cowboys' guns to Li Hongzhang! ”

"Forget it, count it so much. Harvest.. Harvest.. It's all received.。。 "Don't be in a hurry to see how many breech guns there are, Yang Dongfang first packed all the things in the warehouse and said, anyway, the system will tell him the specific number.

But what surprised him even more was that there was a sharp weapon in the innermost part of the warehouse.

Cannon! Artillery!

There are still twenty cannons, the ones who sell lambs!

Yang Dongfang definitely didn't expect that there were still cannons here, and what he didn't expect was that he walked over and checked, these twenty cannons, all fucking breech-loading rifled guns.

These cannons are all British-made, and the inscription on the cannon tells Yang Dongfang that this is the famous British Armstrong cannon, of which 10 are 95 mm field guns and 10 121 mm siege guns.

I don't know why the British would also get this kind of cannon to the Chinese battlefield?

Yang Dongfang didn't know that the reason why the Armstrong cannon was famous was because Armstrong was the first to make a 100-ton heavy gun, and he was disgusted by the British at first, but later he bought it by careless people, and almost scared the British out of it.

And the reason why these guns came to China is probably because after the end of the Sath-British War in 1862, because the Armstrong cannon (Armstrong had not designed a large cannon before 1876) repeatedly had problems during the battle.

There was a suspicion of the reliability of the artillery within the British army, and the British government then decided to form a committee to deal with the problem of the Armstrong guns.

Then, because of the malicious slander of the rival opponents, the Armstrong gun produced in the early stage was finally abandoned by the British army, and the British army abandoned the breeched rifled gun and replaced it with a mature front-loading rifled gun.

What kind of place is the battlefield in China, it is the test ground for firearms of all nations.

It is also a good place for Western countries to turn obsolete firearms into a lot of silver, so these advanced guns have a fate to cross the ocean and come to Shanghai without any difficulty.

Knowing the trend of artillery in the future, can Yang Dongfang not be excited? Can you not wonder?

Well, he doesn't care for any reason, as long as he can get it away.

It's all in the system, and the specific data is fed back.

"20 artillery pieces, 10,000 shells of all kinds."

"2,000 bolt-type needle-hit breech guns, 100,000 rounds of ammunition."

"6,000 Mini rifles and 400,000 rounds of ammunition."

"Whew! Huaijun is really rich, no wonder he likes robbery so much, Li Hongzhang is worthy of being the person who can afford the Beiyang Fleet later, haha, he is generous. ”

When he was about to leave, Yang Dongfang stopped again.

For a figure slipped down from the storehouse, like a night elf, and like a god of death.

Just when Yang Dongfang was nervous, in a dark place on the road one or two miles outside the warehouse, two people with the same figure looked around.

"I didn't see it when I followed here, and suddenly I disappeared, this kid is a little weird."

"That's right, I went over there just now to look for it, and I didn't find it, I guess this kid is likely to have entered the foreigner's warehouse, and we have to go back and tell the adults about this."