Judging from the level of the S1 rifle (M1903), it has far exceeded the current perception of Spanish military personnel such as Rivera. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Although the S1 rifle is not much different in shape from the current popular smoothbore flintlock pistol, it has been turned upside down in essence. The S1 rifle is a rifled rifled gun with a rear-loading charge and a metal cartridge case with a bullet, propellant and primer.

Because of these differences, when the Don soldiers pressed the bullets into the chambers, Rivera didn't realize at first that they were loaded with bullets.

"This weapon is too advanced, we must get it!" Rivera whispered to Heseta beside him, and after witnessing the Tang Army's sharp weapons and lean training, Hesetta's arrogance had long since disappeared, and turned into a solemnity.

Heseta pointed to the Tang soldiers on duty over there and said, "These Tang people won't let us get close to their muskets at all, and we don't even have a chance to observe them up close, let alone take one away and take it back to Spain to copy." ”

Rivera said again: "Maybe we can make a condition to buy this musket from the Tang Army." ”

Perez couldn't help but interject: "If you were a Tang person, would you give away the huge advantage you have?" ”

Rivera and Hesetta were silent for a while, the small country of Tang and the widows, not to mention Spain, even the colony of New Spain with a population of 40 million, are absolutely not enough, and they can only rely on strong scientific and technological strength and superior military technology to maintain their status, and it is absolutely impossible to take the initiative to send advanced weapons to Spain.

Perez had a bad idea at this time, and said: "Perhaps, if we establish formal diplomatic relations with Datang, establish a consulate in Los Angeles, and strengthen the relationship between espionage and local intelligence, we will still have a chance to obtain this rifle." ”

Heseta did not contradict Pérez this time, he said: "Not only do we want to get the rifles of the Don, but we also want them to make the steamships nearly double the speed of the battleship, and we must find out how the devil's warship of the Don came to be." ”

Herseta has basically determined that most of what Pérez said was true, including the existence of the White Shark. Apparently flying as fast at sea as with wings, with artillery is capable of sinking a frigate of several hundred tons in a matter of minutes. The power of this devil warship is too great, if you don't figure out the origin of this battleship and know her weaknesses, then all the ships of Spain sailing in the Pacific Ocean will tremble under the deterrence of the Datang warship.

Several people combined, and Serra also said: "I think several people have agreed that it is completely unnecessary and unlikely for the New Spanish colonies to go to war with the Tang Republic, so it is unrealistic to seek a war to settle the ownership of California, of course, whether to recognize the control of the Tang Republic over Upper California, and how to demarcate the border with the Tang Dynasty, these are not things that we can decide, and we need to leave it to Governor Baccarelli and His Majesty the King to decide." All we need to do now is avoid war. Governor Baccarelli has given me and General Rivera the authority to withdraw the priests and soldiers from Monterrey and San Diego for the time being, if it is confirmed that the Tang is militarily strong enough. ”

Hesetta sighed and said, "Although I am very unwilling, there is no other way, so let's do it." ”

Rivera also nodded and said, "I will go to San Diego and inform the current Governor of Upper California, Figes, to lead our soldiers to move to Lower California." ”

Pérez said, "Then I ask the Don to take me to Monterrey." ”

As they spoke, there was a rumbling sound from the end of the training ground that they could not see.

"Is it shelling? The Don is practicing artillery? What a miserting shell. ”

"Maybe it's just for us." Heseta was still a little sour.

Rivera looked at the other end of the training ground and said, "Lieutenant Colonel Perez said that the artillery of the Tang Army is also extremely accurate and powerful, let's go over and take a look." ”

However, the Spaniards were about to leave, but they were stopped by the personnel at the training ground, the soldiers did not speak Spanish, but their bright bayonets made the Spaniards immediately understand that they had no friendly intentions.

Li Sheng'an, who was in charge of the reception next to him, also explained: "The next army training is confidential, so it is inconvenient for you to visit, please move." ”

Since they were not allowed to watch, the Spaniards had no choice but to return to the hotel and begin preparations to recall the personnel from Monterrey and San Diego.

In the artillery training ground of the training ground, Xu Daorun, who has become the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Chuanguang Regiment, is training with his own soldiers. There are not many soldiers in the second battalion who belong to the original peacekeeping battalion, only about 30 people, and most of the rest are supplemented.

The firepower of the army's infantry battalion is not very strong at the level of World War II, but it is simply beyond the norm in this era. In this era, many European armies with 10,000 soldiers were only equipped with a dozen artillery pieces, and at most times, there were more than 30 guns.

Xu Daorun's second battalion has a battalion-affiliated machine gun company, equipped with 6 12 guns. 7mm heavy machine guns, 3 81mm mortars and 2 120 rocket launchers. Under the infantry company, a fire platoon is set up, equipped with 2 12 guns. 7mm heavy machine guns, 2 60mm mortars. The firepower configuration of the infantry squad is 10 people, 8 S1 rifles, 1 S4 Thompson submachine gun, and 1 Type 92 machine gun.

The infantry squad actually had its own heavy firepower, which was a large number of grenadiers that had been transferred to the Kokufu Army after the surrender of the Japanese army in World War II. The Crossing Crowd inherited about a thousand of these grenadiers, as well as a large number of grenades. The process of making a grenadier is not difficult, and it is not very difficult to imitate a grenade, and even the grenadier can fire a grenade in special situations.

The only problem is that the grenadier canister does not have a precise sight, so it basically depends on the gunner's feel and experience. In the Chinese battlefield, Japanese soldiers used grenadiers to cause serious damage to the Chinese army, and with the outbreak of the Pacific War, a large number of Japanese veterans were killed, but the new recruits could not fiddle with these things, so the power of the grenadier plummeted, so that some senior officials of the Japanese military department proposed to abandon the idea of grenadiers.

For the Tang Army, the grenadier canister, a weapon with low cost, relatively simple production, and considerable power, was more suitable for the troops. Although this weapon requires experience and training, the Tang Army does not lack these things, and even if it is fully equipped with troops, there is still a lot of surplus. Moreover, the preparations for the construction of the iron and steel group and the military factory are now very smooth, and locally-produced weapons will enter the army within the year, so the Tang Army does not cherish the idea of fighting at all, and a batch of grenadiers will be specially taken out for training until they are broken.

Two soldiers were able to operate a grenadier, and there were different directions and different terrain topics in the drill subjects, and the Tang Army mobilized experienced veterans within the army, compiled their experience into a training manual, and sent it to the soldiers, who could train themselves according to the map and use the depreciation of a large number of shells and grenadiers.

At this time, the European smoothbore artillery still uses solid shells, the power of this kind of shell, even inferior to ordinary grenadiers, but the range of grenadiers is really a bit cold, not as good as the range of S1 rifles, if it is used for trench warfare or mountain warfare is more suitable, real combat, at a distance of more than a kilometer, it is still necessary to rely on 81mm mortars and 18 105mm guns of regimental artillery battalions.

The sound of artillery in the training ground made the Spaniards think that the Don Army had lit explosives packets or something, and pretended that they had a lot of artillery, and they simply could not understand that the Don Army had a small but comparable weapon to artillery.

Halfway through the training, Bai Nan hurried to the army training base.

Xu Daorun greeted him and said, "Lieutenant Colonel Bai, you are a busy person, I don't usually see you, where did you come from." ”

Bai Nan had a good relationship with Xu Daorun, and he also said with a smile: "Just now I came back from the Long Beach pier, the navy tested the firepower of the Qi Jiguang-class frigate today, and pulled a sailboat of more than 600 tons as a target ship. The firing range of the 92 artillery was not long enough, and the gunners were not particularly accustomed to operating the guns at sea, so the power of the 2 artillery was not enough. The navy judged that if the firepower of the Qi Jiguang class was used to deal with the enemy's third-class battleships, the victory or defeat would even be unpredictable. ”

Xu Daorun said: "Now the navy should be numb." ”

Bai Nan nodded: "Qi Jiguang-class has 8 guns on one side, with a range of more than 2,000 meters, and an ordinary European third-class battleship is often more than 30 guns on one side, except for the problem of accuracy, in fact, the firepower density is about the same, but the range of European smoothbore guns is still relatively limited, generally within a kilometer, unless you encounter a big guy like a 64-pounder gun." ”

"Then how is the Navy going to solve it?"

Bai Nandao: "How else can it be solved, start from the two aspects of firepower and defense, on the one hand, the navy wants to borrow a few 105 guns from the army, and then return them to the army when the military factory completes the special naval guns." Defensively, it is to speed up the iron-clad armor, which cannot be completed in the near future. ”

Xu Daorun snorted and said, "After talking about it for a long time, I still think about the army's 105mm guns." ”

"Haha, we have a total of 50 105mm howitzers, the army artillery battalion is equipped with 18, and it is good to keep another 12 for backup, and it is a waste to put the remaining 20 there, it is better to install them on the navy ship first."

Xu Daorun said to himself: "You came over directly, it must be the Ministry of Defense that agreed to this matter, what should you do, can I still hinder you from pulling the gun?" ”

Bai Nan patted him on the shoulder and went to the base's warehouse.