Chapter 213: The blessings of Qi people are difficult to enjoy

"I told her that I already have a wife at home, and I have a deep affection. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info But she said, since I married you, it is my duty to abide by the order of the elders and young, if he has the opportunity to go back to his homeland in the future, when he sees Wan'er, he will be commensurate with his sister......"

Hearing Lin Yizhe relay Lu Yingyan's words, he couldn't help but be moved.

If you can say such things, it seems that you are also a reasonable person......

Lin Yizhe's words made Chen Wan's hanging heart relax, and she knew that he was not angry with herself. But at this time, she was in the way of face, and the words of forgiveness could not be said after all.

"Wan'er, I swear to God, I have no intention of liking the new and hating the old!"

"As long as I'm still your wife, you can marry as many as you want." Despite Lin Yizhe's explanation, Chen Wan still couldn't completely let go of her heart, "I want to be quiet for a while, and you can go to sleep in Caiyue's room." ”

Lin Yizhe sighed, he looked at Chen Wan's back for a while, put on his clothes, and went out.

At this time, Caiyue had already fallen asleep, and when she saw Lin Yizhe wearing clothes and coming to her room, she was pleasantly surprised, but also guessed something.

"Uncle and Miss quarreled?"

"Oh...... It's okay, it's okay, she's tired, let me come to you. ”

"Huh?!"

"What's wrong?"

"Oh...... Could it be that the young lady is not feeling well? ”

"No, I'm tired."

"Didn't my uncle get something back from the West...... What is it that makes Miss De ......"

"Poof! …… Where do you want to go! Do I still need those things? ”

"How could that young lady ...... I was so tired that I asked my uncle to come to Caiyue's room......"

"Do you want to know? Then I'll answer your questions now! ”

"Yikes! Uncle, you ......"

"Come on! Let you taste it too, don't say I'm biased later! ”

"Ahh Uncle......"

At dawn on the second day, Cai Yue's beautiful eyes were opened, and she was still lying lazily, reminiscing about the style of last night, and she smiled sweetly, until she heard the sound of birds chirping outside the window, Fang Lian reluctantly got up from the quilt gently, not wanting to still alarm Lin Yizhe by the pillow. was grabbed by Lin Yizhe's jade wrist.

"Where are you going to get up so early?" Lin Yizhe said in a daze.

Cai Yue turned back to the quilt, lay on Lin Yizhe's chest, and said with a smile: "The plum blossoms in the garden are all blooming, isn't my uncle going to get up?" ”

Lin Yizhe frowned and said, "It's so fast......" He said, wiped his eyes, and was about to get up.

"Uncle may be too tired for a while, let's lie down for a while, don't be in such a hurry." Cai Yue said softly, "I'm too anxious, the blood rushes to the heart, and it's not good for the body." ”

Lin Yizhe looked at Caiyue's face of the new Chengyulu, doubly delicate, and still a little greedy in his heart, wrapped one arm around Caiyue's willow waist, put her tender face in front of him, and whispered to her ear: "How was last night?" What did I use? ”

Cai Yue said shyly: "I was tossed by you all night, and my body was about to fall apart, what's the good!" ”

Lin Yizhe heard this, and deliberately teased her: "Don't you like it?" You weren't ...... last night."

Cai Yue was afraid that he would say something embarrassing, so she reached out and stroked Lin Yizhe's face, bit her lip and said, "Okay, okay, people like it." ”

Lin Yizhe became proud and said with a smile: "I said, how can you not like the way you looked last night, Lang has to follow ......"

Cai Yue was ashamed, Yanxia dyed her cheeks, covered Lin Yizhe's mouth hard, and said hurriedly: "Besides, people can ignore you!" ”

Lin Yizhe smiled, and said in her ear: "What is it like, tell you about it." ”

Caiyue's ears were filled with his heat, and she said in a greasy voice: "Tell you, you have to let people go, don't make Miss angry, so that you can't eat and walk around." ”

Lin Yizhe smiled and nodded, Caiyue leaned into his ear and whispered: "Let people's hearts drift from beginning to end, the interest is really much better than before......"

Lin Yizhe smiled: "How do you say this? ”

Cai Yue said with a spring on her face: "I was tossed by you all night last night, but now my body is still warm and comfortable." ”

Lin Yizhe listened to it with interest, the palm of the quilt was inserted into her thigh, his fingertips rubbed the thin and delicate place, and said with a smile: "It turns out that Fang was coaxing me, since this is the case, then let you be happy again." ”

Where did Caiyue pay attention to his excuses, for fear that Chen Wan would get angry, so she resolutely broke out of Lin Yizhe's arms, got dressed, climbed out of the bed and slipped out of bed, glanced at Lin Yizhe gently, and said: "Uncle, rest for a while, I will come back in a while to serve my aunt and dress, I think there are still many things to do today, right?" ”

"Yes, it's a lot more going on today." Lin Yizhe watched Caiyue float out of the house, cleaned up the situation of the ********, and turned his mind to what needed to be done today.

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Attached: A brief history of rifles in the Chinese Empire

Continued:

Taking rifles as an example, at the end of the 1870s, the Lanzhou Arsenal was still manufacturing the Type 1833 Hall rear-loading carbine, and the only improvement over the American prototype was the use of rifled barrels, firing .58-inch paper-wrapped Mini-style cartridges, and a total of about 2,000 were produced. The main product that followed was a replica of Colt's revolver, but the Henry's .44 edge-firing round was used. Due to the loss of information, it is not possible to determine exactly how many pieces it produced. However, until the first decade of the 20th century, official imperial records still mention the seizure of the rifle in the hands of northwestern horse bandits and ****** rebels. The Reich's newly created army rejected the revolving rifle because it had no advantage over the Winchester repeater. Moreover, the revolver rifles made in Lanzhou usually have a fatal flaw: due to the flaws in the manufacturing accuracy of the parts, the chamber may not even be perfectly aligned with the barrel after it is rotated into place.

In 1880, the list of products submitted by the Lanzhou Arsenal to the imperial court also included a replica of the Henry Repeater and the Aguill machine gun, commonly known as a coffee mill. Only one sample of the latter exists, and due to poor manufacturing and large tolerances of the parts, even with the .577-inch Snyder copper shell cartridge, it still cannot be fed properly during the demonstration.

The most important reason for this poor achievement, in addition to the lack of sufficient processing machinery and the heavy reliance on the manual work of craftsmen, was that most of the energy of the Lanzhou Arsenal was devoted to improving the Imperial Army's antique firearms, the Lift Gun, and the officers under Zuo Zongtang had an almost paranoid fondness for this long-obsolete weapon. Some of the Empire's frontier officials were similarly conservative, fearing that soldiers untrained by foreign instructors would break down sophisticated imported rifles, preferring to use rifles that required two or three men to carry them. The first new type of gun made in Lanzhou was actually an enlarged Hall breech gun, which fired paper-wrapped ammunition with a caliber of .76 inches, which was said to be able to hit up to 2,000 yards away. However, it enjoyed a bad reputation among the military in the Northwest because of the frequent bombings.

The Colt revolver rifle produced in Lanzhou Arsenal was also enlarged to make a lifting gun, but it fired a solid 1-inch round from Nordenfeld, and the designers probably wanted to make it a weapon close to a machine gun. However, it is practically impossible to play an approximate role, because the Colt nest cannot be quickly replaced, and can only be reloaded and withdrawn one by one, and the reloading speed cannot be compared with that of a real machine gun. It was left unattended in the factory warehouse, and was finally burned down by the Lanzhou Arsenal itself in a fire caused by an accidental explosion in the gunpowder workshop.

With Zuo Zongtang's total defeat in the political struggle against Lin Yizhe-Li Hongzhang, the new Imperial Army, which had begun preparations in the late 1870s, finally decided to use the proven and accurate Sharps-Bochatt 1878 rifle, which fired .45-70 rifle rounds. In 1880, the Imperial Government sent an order to the United States for 7,000 rifles and purchased a franchise to produce them, which saved the Sharps-Hankins Company from bankruptcy. It was known as the Type 1880 Army Rifle in the Imperial Army of the Qing Dynasty to unify the messy rifle armament of the past.

The meticulously crafted Model 1880 Army Rifle has always had the advantage that Sharps rifles have always been known for: extreme accuracy. It is generally accepted that the Type 1880 rifles produced by the Shanghai Arsenal are of the best quality. This is illustrated by a typical example of war in Korea, where in 1884 there was a riot against the Qing Empire and all foreigners. At the Ongjin mine, about 150 kilometres southeast of Pyongyang, a makeshift camp for hundreds of British, American, and Russian mining engineers, skilled workers, and their families, is surrounded by more than 10,000 fanatical xenophobic insurgents. A small detachment of infantry from the Imperial Forces of the New Army entered the camp to protect the foreigners before the insurgents could assemble, and the same situation repeated itself for the next four days, with the most fanatical insurgents leaders taking the lead in the attack to boost morale, only to be killed by accurate rifle fire. The besiegers, who seemed to be in a frenzy of crowds, were demoralized and repulsed by a counterattack by a meagre defender. The insurgents even included former North Korean government servicemen who managed to get an old front-loading smoothbore gun and plan to bombard the camp from rifle range. However, two Nouvelles top marksmen alternated sniping with Type 1880 rifles, and the rioters who tried to get close to the artillery with torches were shot one after another and fell to death around the gun emplacement. Until the Imperial Marines landed reinforcements to completely wipe out the mob, the cannon never fired a single shot.

The cavalry of the new Imperial Army was eager to obtain a long-range and powerful carbine. The Army procured some Benjamin? The repeating carbine was designed by Harbgars, a brilliant American engineer who was the main director of the gun factory of the Harbharf Corporation. Haggais-style repeater reference Scotsman James? Paris? Lee's rear end is latched and rotated, and the barrel is hidden in the butt like a Spencer carbine. It replaces the empty ones in battle with preloaded barrels, which is more convenient to reload than the Winchester gun, and it fires standard .45-70 rifle rounds, which are more powerful than .44-40 rounds. In contrast, the Imperial Navy has always been a big fan of the .44-40 cartridge and is equipped with a modified version of the 1905 submachine gun.