Starting with the "Lin's machine gun", so far, the Shipmaster Gun Institute has been able to produce new French Chasebo rifles, which occupy a large part of the market for the armies of the southern provinces of China. But now the difference is in production.

Since the establishment of the Shipyard Gun Institute, all aspects have been running well, but due to the limitation of scale and funds, it is impossible to greatly increase production capacity. But until his death, Lin Yizhe had been trying to support the operation of the Harbour Master's Gun Station, which now not only has many first-class technicians in China, but also two well-known foreign firearms experts, the American Gatlin and the Frenchman Hatch Cash.

Hearing that Lin Yizhe didn't know how to dig up these two great gods, Lin Yiqing was shocked in his heart.

Lin Yiqing roughly told Ding Yusheng about Lin Yizhe's plan to weaken Japan, and Ding Yusheng was also excited when he heard this, and expressed his full support.

Due to the limited production capacity of the shipyard gun station, Ding Yusheng expressed his willingness to provide Lin Yiqing with the remaining 3,000 French "snuffbox" rifles in the current stockpile, and then successively provide 7,000 French Grasse rifles converted from Chasebo rifles.

As for the artillery that Lin Yiqing urgently needed, Ding Yusheng said that there were still 36 German-made Krupp 75mm camp guns in the inventory of the shipmaster gunner, and all of them could be used by him first.

Although the results were not very large, Lin Yiqing knew that for the Satsuma people, these weapons were definitely equivalent to a charcoal in the snow.

He was very familiar with the history of firearms for the "snuffbox" rifles that the French army had been equipped with in large quantities.

In addition to the American Civil War, the largest variety of weapons used in the war was the Franco-Prussian War, which had not been over for too long, and the snuffbox rifle used by the French army can be said to be the largest caliber breech-loading gun ever equipped for infantry in the world.

Prior to the Franco-Prussian War, France purchased a number of rifles, carbines, and pistols from the United States that had been left over from the Civil War, as well as some from other neighboring countries, such as Belgium and the United Kingdom, thus allowing the French army to be equipped with a wide range of weapons at the same time, from the old front-loading guns, to the American "Spencer", "Springfield" rifle, "Sharps" rifle, "Remington" rifle, "Winchester" rifle, "Maynard" rifle, "Smith" carbine, and the British "Enfield". "Rifles, "Schneider" rifles, etc., you name it. However, the rifle used in the French army in the largest number was the "Chasepo" breech-loading rifle, followed by an improved version of the "Dreiser" rifle used by the Prussian army at that time, which also used fixed ammunition.

Soon after the start of the Franco-Prussian War, the French side realized that the production of Chasepol rifles was far from sufficient and needed to be supplemented by other weapons. Due to the limited budget of the army and the tight schedule, the French military decided that it would be a good idea to take some steps to convert the front-loading gun to the rear-loading gun. In this regard, both the United States and Britain have already experimented, with the United States having modified the "Alin" rifle and the British adapting the "Schneider" rifle. Based on the above ideas, the French army converted some old front-loading guns into rear-loading guns, and because the reversible bolt used by the modified guns was similar to the snuff boxes used by the French upper class at the time, the modified rear-loading guns were also called "snuffbox" rifles.

The snuffbox rifle was mainly adapted from two weapons, most of which were modified from the French musket of the time, and some from the hussar carbine. The muskets that were converted into snuffbox rifles were mainly French muskets of the 0.69-inch caliber at that time, including both standard infantry muskets and cavalry muskets. The hammer of these muskets is located on the side of the barrel, and the position of the fire cap is above the end of the barrel, so the end of the barrel is used as a bolt structure during the modification, and the position of the fire cap is changed to a firing pinhole. After this change, it was easiest to use the bolt side, so the modified rear-loading gun adopted the bolt side-swing structure. In addition, because the modified weapon was originally 0.69 inches in caliber and the available space for the chamber was relatively limited, the modified snuffbox rifle was equipped with a short, thick cartridge in shape, using a rolled brass cartridge case with a detachable base, a bullet mass of 36 grams, and a charge of 4.5 grams of black medicine.

The operation of the snuffbox rifle is very simple, first pull the hammer slightly backward to make the hammer semi-ready to fire, then rotate the bolt to the side to open the chamber, load a bullet and close the bolt, and then pull the hammer backward to make the hammer all ready to fire, and then shoot. Because it is a modified front-loading gun, the gun does not automatically eject the case, and the bolt must be opened and pulled back to extract the empty cartridge case.

Although the snuffbox rifle is more reliable to use, and is durable, and has good dispersion accuracy when shooting at a distance of 64 meters, it is a modified weapon after all, and its performance cannot be compared with the Chasebo rifle and some other imported rear-loading rifles, so most of the guns are not distributed to the regular front-line troops of the French army after the modification is completed, but to irregular troops and reserve forces.

With the end of the Franco-Prussian War, large quantities of snuffbox rifles entered stockpiles and were sold as surplus to the civilian market. A significant part of them are sold to China. Because of the cooperation with France in the shipbuilding industry, French businessmen took the opportunity to vigorously sell this gun to the local authorities in Fujian, and the Fujian side purchased more than 6,000 guns. Later, under the facilitation of Lin Yizhe, the shipmaster and the local defenders of Fujian began to replace them with new Xia Saibo rifles, most of which were returned to the warehouse except for the wear and tear of use, and then a large part of them were used by Lin Yizhe to arm the aborigines of the Gaoshan tribe in Moss Bay against Japanese aggression. These rear-loading rifles remodeled from old guns are already backward in performance compared to the Xia Saibo rifles equipped by the current shipmaster and sailors, but for Fanmin, they are the most suitable weapons and hunting tools. Therefore, when the Japanese army invaded, these snuffbox rifles played a huge role in the hands of Fanmin, giving the Japanese army great casualties - because in terms of performance, the snuffbox rifles were no worse than the Schneider rifles now equipped by the Japanese army.

The 75-mm Krupp cannon that Ding Yusheng promised to provide was a magic weapon for the Prussian army to defeat the enemy in the Franco-Prussian War. Although the number of 36 is not much, it is enough to make the Japanese Meiji government army suffer a little.

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