The night was dark, there was no moonlight tonight, and the starlight was very pale in the light of the twinkling gaslights. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 InfoAs a thousand-year-old city of Dublin, his streets are narrow, of course, this does not mean all streets, some streets are relatively wide, and in the middle of these spacious streets, you can see barricades made of sandbags made by the British, although Dublin is still far from the front line, but now, like every city in Ireland, it is also on alert.

In front of the General Post Office in Dublin, the British in red uniforms held the latest Schneider rifle - the first breech-loading rifle in Britain, and although the Hanyang breech gun was widely used in China, the impact on the British replacement breech gun may not have been as great as one might think, until the outbreak of the Sino-British War, when the British suffered many defeats on the battlefield immediately developed a serious sense of urgency in the face of the superiority of the breech guns used by the Chinese army.

In the second week of the war last year, Britain set up a special committee to discuss the matter, and after listening to many opinions, including some British officers who had returned from the battlefield, they were determined to change their breech rifles, but at the same time, they were caught in a huge contradiction, on the one hand, it would take a huge expense and a long time to completely replace the breech-loading guns for the armed forces, and on the other hand, the disposal of millions of Enfield front-loading guns had become a problem.

Eventually, after several months of trials, Jacob from the United States? Schneider's design was considered to be the best and adopted by the British, and the method of modification of the Schneider rifle was very simple, that is, the breech position of about 2.5 inches long near the bolt was cut and converted into a right-hand unscrewable cap structure, this simple cover formed a latching device, and in Schneider's scheme, the hammer only needed to be machined to be used without the need to add a new firing device.

The Schneider rifle was chosen for its adaptability, and of course its performance is not bad, in many tests, the Schneider rifle fired 20 rounds in a total of only 2 minutes and 30 seconds, which is not even inferior to the Han rifle, and it is for this reason that this new rifle has been rapidly produced in the past few months, no, it was modified with millions of P1853 rifles, and then quickly sent to the front line.

The equipment of this rifle finally allowed the Red Shrimp soldiers to regain some self-confidence, especially in the face of the Han-style rifles of the Sino-Irish coalition army, they will no longer have the confidence to shoot as they did when the war first broke out. Now, at night, on the streets of Dublin, only the Schneider rifle in his hand can give the Red Shrimp soldiers the courage to watch at night, after all, no one knows where the bullets will come from.

In the conference room on the third floor of the General Post Office, which had become the headquarters of the British Army, the Earl of Cardigan stood by the window, his eyes fixed on the street, and by the gas lamp at the British soldiers standing on the side of the road, looking at the moving red dot, now the whole of Dublin was under martial law, this martial law was against the resistance of the Irish, but how long could this bullet pressure last?

Perhaps at this very moment, in some corner of the city, a vicious bullet had flown towards one of the Queen's soldiers, and had taken the life of the British warrior - and in the last few months the whole of Ireland had become a battlefield, where there was no distinction between front and rear, and where the Irish could attack at any moment, and their attacks increased day by day.

"One thing is for sure, every victory of the Chinese now is encouraging those Irish mongrels, and even the slightest victory will cause thousands of Irish people to fall to the camp of the Republic of Ireland, rebellions are endless, and even now we are in a state of exhaustion, our convoys may be attacked on the road to the front, our patrols will be ambushed, our army camps will even be attacked, in short, Those Irish mongrels won't miss a chance to attack us! ”

The staff officer's words made Earl Cardigan fall into deep thought, and he looked silently at the street lamp, but did not speak, while the generals in the room were also looking at their commander-in-chief.

In the Crimean War, although the commander-in-chief did not give a clear order, knowing that he would die, he led his cavalry brigade of 673 men into the muzzle of the Russians and led a heroic death charge, although he captured these cannons, but failed to withstand the Russian counterattack and retreated, as a result of the loss of a third of his troops and two-thirds of his horses, but after returning to England in a heroic form in the war, he was appointed lieutenant general of the cavalry commander, Two months earlier he had been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in Ireland - because the failures of several of his predecessors had left London with no other choice.

"The Chinese infantry is invincible!"

In London, almost every army general is told that in the mouth of any general who has fought with the Chinese army, the most vivid memory is probably the sound of the Chinese attacking, which is a strange sound from the trumpets and whistles. For this kind of sound, many people will never forget it after hearing it on the battlefield, in the piercing trumpets and whistles, they shoot, stab, throw grenades, and then quickly tear the British defense line to pieces, as for the "thin red line" of Britain that once made them proud, it is not the opponent of the Chinese at all.

At a time when the generals throughout London were in fear of the Chinese army, almost no one wanted to come to Ireland, because everyone knew that coming to Ireland meant that they would say goodbye to personal honor, but not all of them did not have the courage to come here and fight.

For the Earl of Cardigan, who represented the snobbish, arrogant, and incompetent aristocratic leadership of the British army, his arrogance could not hide his true courage and generosity, and when everyone chose to back down, at the Prime Minister's inquiry, he resolutely accepted the mandate, led reinforcements to Ireland, and now his only mission was to defeat the Chinese.

"For our soldiers, the whole of Ireland is a battlefield, General, and now the soldiers are exhausted, because for them every moment there is a need to tense their nerves for a battle that may arise at any moment! Checkmate! ”

"How can we stop the Irish from resisting?"

Earl Cardigan looked back and asked. He may have been incompetent, but he saw the heart of the matter - that the resistance of the Irish was now undermining the morale of the British army.

"General, unless we achieve a victory on the battlefield, the resistance of the Irish will only grow fiercer, but, Chinese......"

The staff officer who was talking paused slightly, and everyone chose to be silent, wanting to defeat the Chinese, it was like a dream!

The silence of the generals and staff officers in the conference room looked in the eyes of Count Cardigan, and he could see that the courage of these people had almost disappeared, and it was obvious that they were afraid of the Chinese.

"Gentlemen!"

Looking directly at the people in the room, Earl Cardigan's tone was calm.

"Are the Chinese really invincible?"

Earl Cardigan, who had already heard rumors when he was in London, naturally did not tolerate his troops and did not even have the courage to fight in a hurry, courage was the first prerequisite for victory.

"The Chinese use rear-loading guns, we also use rear-loading guns, Chinese use rear-loading guns, we too, Chinese dig trenches, we also dig trenches, gentlemen, in that case, what else is there to fear about the Chinese?"

It seems that there is nothing to be afraid at all, at least in the opinion of the Earl of Cardigan, with the same weapons, they should have already defeated the Chinese, after all, there are now 200,000 British troops stationed in Ireland, no, it should be 230,000 now, and the Chinese only have a pitiful tens of thousands, even with the addition of those Irish there are only 100,000.

He hasn't defeated them until now, it's simply that his predecessor was too incompetent!

"General, you don't know, those Chinese......"

Finally, one of the colonels said with a little squeak.

"I have fought against Chinese on the battlefield, we have all fought against Chinese, we think that the British soldiers are good, but on the battlefield we find that the opponents we fight are not people at all, but, but ......"

The colonel, who stammered a little, spoke for a while as if he were mentioning some nightmare.

"It's a group of demons who rush out of hell, they don't know what pain is, they don't know what death is, they don't know what fear is, you don't know, when they rush out of the smoke, the screams from their mouths will even make the Knights of the Round Table tremble......"

Before the colonel could finish speaking, Earl Cardigan immediately scolded bitterly.

"Damn, what are you talking about, you know what? If the Chinese, the Chinese, the Chinese are invincible, then, how did we defeat them more than twenty years ago? Gentlemen, don't make excuses for the cowardice of the soldiers, there is no excuse to explain all this, the reason why they failed before was because they were too cowardly, and now, since I have arrived here......"

After interrupting the Colonel's words with an angry face, Earl Cardigan continued/

"Then I will give them back their courage, let them pluck up the courage and return to the battlefield like a British soldier, gentlemen, now for us everything has only one purpose, and that is to win, and for the sake of victory, you can do whatever it takes! We will win this war in any way we can! ”

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