The Jiawu rifle is particularly excellent in accuracy, especially in long-range accuracy, if equipped with a 4x scope, in windless and sunny weather, any biochemical soldier with firearms expertise can accurately hit a fixed humanoid target 600 meters away; And because of the steel core, the penetration of this bullet is also unmatched, which is beyond the reach of those classic rifles of World War I and World War II.

Of course, this has a great negative impact on its stopping effect, but the caliber of 8mm is enough to ensure lethality, even if it penetrates the target, the enemy will be killed or disabled nine times out of ten.

Besides, Li Hui actually made this rifle cartridge mainly for the use of machine guns developed in the future, and it didn't matter if the lethality of a single shot was weak, but its strong penetrating power would be very helpful when dealing with enemies with fortifications

The reason why he worked so hard to design a bullet was mainly to supply the machine guns that had not yet been put into use was because Li Hui planned to wait until the next level of scientific and technological research was completed, and then change to a rifle with a smaller caliber as the main rifle of the army.

The Jiawu rifle is good for everything else, but the recoil is too great, the muzzle kinetic energy is as high as more than 3700 joules, and the biochemical soldiers and Shandong Dahan are tall and strong, but it is not difficult to adapt, but in the future, after the territory expands and even unifies the country, this rifle is not suitable for mass use.

But at least in a year or two, the advantages of the Jiawu rifle are still obvious, the caliber is large, the bullet is heavy, the storage speed performance is good, and it has better accuracy at long distances.

Besides, Li Hui also needed a high-lethal bullet to supply the machine gun, so he came up with this two-step method, first using the Jiawu rifle, and then making a smaller caliber rifle when the conditions were met, and then changing the existing Jiawu rifles at that time to sniper rifles, making full use of the advantages of the system products with excellent workmanship

After obtaining these new weapons and replenishing them with grenades, the strength of the cavalry team increased several times, and even if it encountered the Qing army, it no longer avoided the battle, and in mid-May it even completely annihilated a whole battalion of more than 300 Qing army horses, which shook the whole province of Shandong.

After that, the cavalry team officially played its name, calling itself the "Flying Tiger Army" and advocating "walking for the sky", and at the same time changed the habit of mobile combat before, and began to establish a base at the junction of Qixia, Haiyang and Laiyang counties.

By the beginning of June, the total strength of the Flying Tigers had swelled to more than 3,000 men, and the territory under their direct control exceeded the size of a county. During this period, the nearby Qing army attacked several times, but they were defeated by them, and the total number of dead and wounded and captured Qing troops was no less than 3,000, while the Flying Tiger Army only killed and wounded more than 100 people, among which the biochemical soldiers as the backbone did not suffer any casualties.

After such a result came out, not only the Qing court was shocked, but even Li Hui, the initiator, couldn't help but be dumbfounded, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army was too watery!

It wasn't until later that he learned about the specific battle process that Li Hui understood what was going on, and it turned out that the problem was not entirely due to the combat effectiveness of the Qing army, but mainly due to the backward system of the Qing army.

Since the system of the Qing army has not changed, even the so-called elite who have been equipped with foreign guns and cannons are actually still feudal armies in essence, and those so-called elite soldiers who can fight tough battles are, to put it bluntly, all rely on officers to take the lead, so once they encounter an enemy with long-range sniper ability, tragedy is almost inevitable.

After being equipped with a Jiawu-style rifle, the Flying Tigers' biochemical soldiers can give full play to their accurate marksmanship, which can pose a great threat to the enemy within 600 meters, and once the enemy enters within 400 meters, it is even more life-threatening.

In addition, the Qing army officers who took the lead in the charge had no sense of defenseless sniping, and the official uniforms on their bodies were as eye-catching as fireflies in the night

Without these leaders, where would the Qing soldiers who were purely mixed food or were pulled to become soldiers still have the morale to continue fighting? As long as the Qing army withdraws, the Flying Tiger Army, which has always been dominated by cavalry, will take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and the result can be imagined

As with most battles since ancient times, the bulk of casualties have always appeared when fleeing, and the Flying Tigers did not strictly say that they killed so many Qing troops in battle, but slaughtered thousands of fleeing enemies and then captured those who gave up on escaping

"It seems that the Qing army is even easier to deal with than I originally thought! If the generals are timid and cowardly, the Qing army under his command will be 'a nest of bears', which is naturally vulnerable, and those who are brave in battle can be easily killed by sniping, and then there is no difference between the Qing army and the Qing army that those generals are useless, right, although the Japanese army in the battle of Pyongyang may not have done it intentionally, but in fact it is a similar situation, the Qing army can only resist by Zuo Guigui's bravery, and then after Zuo Guigui was killed by Japanese artillery, the Qing army immediately collapsed", Li Hui quickly came to the correct conclusion, and his heart was suddenly speechless.

You must know that the problems of the Qing army are far more than this, their mobilization ability is extremely low (at this time there are only 30,000 Qing troops in the whole of Shandong), the cycle required for recruit training is even longer to death, the so-called main elite are so easy to kill, and the weakness of the Qing court's strength can be imagined

After seeing the real military strength of the Manchu regime, it was not even a paper tiger in Li Hui's eyes, at best it could only be regarded as a paper kitten, weak when it looked at, and even weaker when it fought.

After realizing this, Li Hui's heart was like a cat's paw scratching, and he finally suppressed the impulse to immediately rebel and overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

However, Li Hui still made good use of the victory of the Flying Tiger Army, and just after that crucial victory, Li Hui immediately went to Tianjin to ask for a meeting with Li Hongzhang after "hearing the news", and requested that strong and brave people be selected from among the road miners to form a mine protection team and a Shanghai road team for military training on the grounds of fear of "bandits attacking the road mines."

As a result, Li Hongzhang, who was also worried about this, really agreed, but I don't know whether he was already a little vigilant or just because of the cautious mentality he developed after becoming a force, he only agreed to organize and train three battalions of road protection team and mine protection team under the pretext of "not delaying the production and construction period of the gold mine", with a total of only 3,000 men.

This made Li Hui somewhat disappointed. Although Li Hongzhang agreed to allocate the guns and ammunition needed to arm the 3,000 men (the salary was to be raised by Li Hui himself), Lao Li allowed him to abandon some of the construction projects to free up funds. ), and authorized Li Hui to use his name from the various departments of the Huai Department (including some troops who were not old Li Lao's troops, but were closely related to him. ), Tianjin Armed Forces Academy (including each camp Armed Forces Academy) recruits personnel whose current rank is not higher than 1,000 as officers.

However, Li Hui didn't look down on the weapons given by Li Hongzhang at all, and the officers under the Qing military system were even less valuable. However, in order to avoid arousing Li Hongzhang's suspicion, Li Hui could only "thank him with great joy", temporarily armed the mine guard team and road guard team with those inferior guns, and at the same time pretended to run all the Qing army garrisons that were not too far away, and then deliberately offered extremely low treatment, and in the end did not recruit a single officer