Chapter 2 Smoking Tablets
After these soldiers finished eating, Gao Hongsheng knew what it was like to smoke a lot.
Speaking of which, who has ever seen opium smokers now, now they all smoke powder or needles, and the most inferior is pills or something, where there is so cumbersome in this era, and it is even necessary to use professional smoking guns.
Gao Hongsheng even understood what a double spear soldier was, originally Gao Hongsheng thought that the big cigarette pouch rod inserted in the back buttocks of these soldiers was used to smoke tobacco, and when they began to use it one by one, he realized that the original thing was used for smoking opium, not tobacco at all.
Opium guns made of bamboo, unlike tobacco pouches and pots, basically have a hole in the middle of the lower half of the bamboo, and the pipe is inlaid there, instead of connecting a pot at the root like the tobacco pouch used to smoke tobacco.
In fact, there is an interesting fact in this, this "lying down and getting shot" is actually transmitted from the smoking piece.
According to Lin Zexu, a veteran of the opium prohibition industry, it is called "gun" because it looks like a gun. Check the bamboo pole of smoking, which is called a gun. Because of a small hole between the bamboo pipes, it can spit smoke and breathe fire, and there is a arquebus like the old Ri arquebus, so the cloud "gun".
This gun is used in a slightly different way from the arquebus, and you must lie down with the muzzle facing you when you release the gun.
The so-called "lying in the gun" word, so out of the cage, in the future when using this word to pay more attention to the age of the problem, if the Ming Dynasty said lying down shot, ten of you don't know what you said Shenma.
As for why he was shot while lying down, it is not difficult to understand that when he smoked opium, his brain was paralyzed, his body was weak and weak, and he couldn't stand or sit for too long, and lying down was the most comfortable state.
The dreamlike feeling of soaring clouds and fog between swallowing clouds and spitting fog can only be done when lying down.
So in the past, the working people of the old world, the most beautiful in their dreams was to be full of three and one to fall.
This refers to smoking opium. Don't understand it as sleeping, working people are not so boring, they make themselves like pigs, and the construction of jing gods is very important.
That is, when the soldiers were lying on the ground smoking opium, Gao Hongsheng finally appeared as the last official.
It turned out that this guy had been hiding in the tent, from morning to noon, and there was even a big official, and he didn't come out to take a look. Regarding this fact, Gao Hongsheng felt that it was really novel.
The people under him are fighting desperately, and the officials can hide in the tent and hide the cats. It's really a soldier's death, and an official's escape.
This guy really has a good skin, a square face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a wide forehead, a righteous face, about thirty years old, not too fat, wearing an official uniform that I don't know what grade, surrounded by a few generals, he patrolled the stove one by one, and from time to time said a few words to the soldiers who were lying on the ground smoking a big cigarette, and the soldiers who provoked them shouted something, Lord Xie or something,
Gao Hongsheng really couldn't hear what he said, mainly because Gao Hongsheng was far away from where they were eating and resting, more than a thousand meters, and he couldn't hear what they said at all.
After inspecting his soldiers, the officer took the generals and plunged into a tent in the middle of the clearing.
Then I saw several small soldiers coming in and out with plates and bowls, and I didn't know what was inside, and I was busy for a long time before stopping.
After about an hour, I saw those people dressed as generals, yawning one by one, lazily walking to those brave soldiers to organize and continue the attack.
After a shout, a group of waste soldiers began to act again, and like the previous times, after more than half an hour, many of them returned to their original places.
The bored Gao Hongsheng took the tenfold military telescope and began to study the weapons of these waste soldiers.
Forty or fifty shotguns, that is, arquebuses, that thing can hit fifty to sixty meters accurately, and after this distance, God knows where the bullets can fly.
It's still front-loaded, shè is slow to die, even in this era, it's an antique weapon, but it's cheap, according to the price at the time, it's more than one or two silver a shot, cheaper than a bow and arrow, and you don't need to train, and you can play a fool a few times.
All that was left were nearly a hundred brave men with all sorts of breech guns, which were really varied and varied.
From Remington's singles one, the new Martini gun, and Mauser's rifles from 1871 to 84, and the Tunaud rifle modified from the British breech rifle, all the way to Gao Hongsheng's most optimistic fast gun with five magazines.
However, there are only about 20 fast guns.
But it was the most advanced rifle with a magazine at the time. You must know that at that time, Mauser 1871 was still a single one, and the fast gun was already a rifle with a five-magazine magazine, although it was much lower at the beginning, but the power and shè at close range were there, and at the same time it was still a round-headed bullet of smokeless gunpowder.
These soldiers with quick guns were probably the kind of guards of the officials, because they had never participated in a battle, and had always stayed by the big tents in the middle of the valley.
There are also more than a dozen large guns more than two meters long, which are used by two or three people.
That thing originally Gao Hongsheng thought it was shè's **, and after carefully observing it twice, it didn't show that thing was not shè's shot, it could be shè's only lead shot, and it wasn't the same breech charge as the arquebus, but the same as the singles was the breech loaded into a cannon barrel, and then a person was half-squatting in front of him as a gun carriage or directly on the tripod, and then a pull of the trigger, "boom" shè out of a big projectile out, and shè Cheng was quite far. Gao Hongsheng visually measured it, at least it can hit more than 2,000 meters, and at the same time, the degree of shè is not slow at all, pull the bolt, the cartridge pops out, and then one person on the side puts another one in, closes the bolt from the new, and then continues shè.
But it seemed that they couldn't shoot too many consecutive shots, that is, five or six shots, so they carried their big guns and ran back first.
The big gun looked mighty, and the sound was quite loud, but the accurate head was too cao, hitting the enemy a few hundred meters away from the mountainside, and it was able to break a small tree a few hundred meters away from the enemy with one shot.
Because the bandits' weapons were too far away, Gao Hongsheng couldn't see them clearly, so he didn't look closely, but in terms of gunfire, it was estimated that they were similar to the officers and soldiers. But shè's neatness was much better than that of the officers and soldiers, and Gao Hongsheng heard the bandits' shè quite neat more than once.
As for the artillery, Gao Hongsheng has not been used by both sides until now, the artillery of this era is sinking to death, and the bad road conditions of that era make no one want to use the artillery that is transported and kills.
The consequence of the failure of this attack was that everyone rested completely.
The bandits on the hill, cheering after the officers and troops withdrew from the attacking positions, disappeared behind the rocks and trees.
On the camp of the officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain, a group of waste soldiers, one by one, lying or sitting crooked in the middle of the camp, and even more soldiers who were addicted to cigarettes lay there and burned a few big smoke cannons and smoked them.
After a while, from the outside of the valley, a few herald-like soldiers on horseback led the ponies into the camp.
Then he ran into the big tent in the middle, and after a while he rode out of the valley without knowing what to do.
No matter how the battle was in the valley, even when the lunch was served, the officers and soldiers guarding the valley did not withdraw it, and they honestly guarded it one by one.
This is to make Gao Hong angry to death, who has Ma De himself so unlucky, these damn officers and soldiers can't be negligent and let themselves out, it's really bad luck to go home.
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