"Horn, Horn ......"

On the shooting range of the East Bureau, the sound of gunfire echoed from time to time, and occasionally someone in the game would cast curious glances at them. It is indeed rare for a dignified member of the dynasty to play with guns and cannons on this shooting range.

But Tang Haoran looked like he was enjoying himself, and kept pulling the bolt and pulling the trigger.

"The rate of fire of this gun is reversed!"

Because there was no need to go to Zhili and Shandong to recruit soldiers like Shang Dequan and the four of them, Su Yueyang, who had nothing to do, accompanied the adults to shoot targets with Li Han and Fang Zimin at the shooting range.

"Isn't it, if a battalion of soldiers fights with a platoon of guns, it will really rain bullets"

Putting down the Li rifle in his hand, Li Han echoed, but Fang Zimin said worriedly.

"No, it's just that this bullet is small and light, and its power is limited......"

The power of this gun is small, it is just a saying, Tang Haoran has seen this information in college, .303 bullets are now loaded with **, although it has been the potential of ** to the extreme, 7.7 back armor ballistics are very stable, so ballistic trauma is very problematic, at a distance of 200 to 800 yards Li Maitford is only one shot or two holes, the lethality is very disappointing to the British, after it exposed the problem of insufficient lethality, the British Damdam military factory provided the British army with half back armor bullets, When this bullet invades the human body, it will produce a tearing effect that people like to see, which is the famous dummmy bullet in later generations.

"Bullets aren't powerful enough?"

Fang Zimin's words made Tang Haoran think of the dummum bombs that some people in later generations made on the battlefield, which is the so-called "explosive", and thought about it, so he gave an order to Liu Si.

"Liu Si, go to the market and buy two pigs!"

In the confusion of Su Yueyang and the others, Tang Haoran held a bayonet in one hand and a bullet in the other, and carved two knives into the warhead, and a cross gap appeared in the warhead armor.

"My lord, this is ......"

"Do as I do, just carve through the copper skin, one knife will do, and two knives will do it!"

Although he was confused, Su Yueyang still carved a few bullets, because the copper skin was very soft, but in just a while, more than ten bullets were carved.

After waiting for about half an hour, Liu Si and the pig dealer led two pigs of nearly 200 catties into the shooting range.

"Tie the pig to the target!"

Tang Haoran said while pressing the bullets into the cartridge, now the Li rifle cannot be loaded with a bridge clip, it can only be pressed into the cartridge in one round, and it is a single row of 8 cartridges, and the last two bullets are the ungrooved bullets used by Tang Haoran.

"Look, the first two bullets are not notched!"

The sound of the gun rang out, and the screams of the pigs suddenly echoed on the shooting range, and the pigs who had been shot did not fall, but struggled with screams, trying to break free from the rope.

This power is really average.

With a muttering in his heart, Tang Haoran aimed at the pig again, and it was another shot, because the distance was only a few tens of meters, the shot was extremely accurate, and the bullet hit the pig's head accurately.

While the three of them were surprised, Tang Haoran once again aimed at the dead pig and pulled the trigger.

"Ah......h

The scene of the pig's head shattering dozens of meters away, the three people who were only frightened were all shocked, and they all looked at Lord Tang with an incredible look.

"My lord, this, this ......"

Is this still a gun?

"After the warhead is notched, when the bullet hits the object, it will be deformed!"

Tang Haoran explained, signaling the three of them to shoot at another pig, but only one shot, the pig fell, although it was only a bullet groove, but the power of the dummy bullet was undoubted, after each of the three of them shot a few times, the pig almost turned into a pile of minced meat, and the exit of the palm-sized bullet was full of broken intestines, broken bones, and the like.

Although he was also a member of the army, looking at the dead pig on the ground like a ball of minced meat, Su Yueyang couldn't help but feel sick in his heart.

"Big, Adult......"

"My lord, this bullet is too cruel to ......."

Without taking him to finish speaking, Tang Haoran said with a smile.

"Not for gentlemen?"

The smile suddenly narrowed, and Tang Haoran then asked rhetorically.

"But what is the purpose of war?"

After a rhetorical question, Tang Haoran's expression became stern.

"It is unscrupulous to seek victory, this bullet may be cruel, but if in wartime, it will kill with one blow, or cripple with one blow, don't forget jì, the means to win the war is to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible!"

The adult's words made the three of them silent for a while, and no one could speak when they looked at the minced meat on the ground, but Liu Si on the side looked at the fragments on the ground, but his scalp was numb...... The thought only came to him for a moment, and he felt a chill all over his body.

"My lord, it's just that it's too troublesome to carve a groove on the bullet, after all, there are so many bullets, you can't let the soldiers be fired at the moment!"

Fang Zimin's question made Tang Haoran stunned, he really didn't expect that the Ordnance Bureau did give enough bullets, but 3,400 guns were fully equipped with 4,000 boxes, as many as 6 million bullets! If those soldiers were allowed to make themselves, they might carve out what they would look like.

"It's okay, let's change some bullets first, and see if we can get a machine and make a machine, specifically carve grooves on the warhead!"

As soon as the machine was instructed, several masters came up with an idea, not the machine, but the "scissors", but the "scissors" The head is hollow, just to accommodate the warhead, only the top of the warhead is open, and the depth of the blade head is just right to carve the armor, and it can be carved on the top of the warhead like cutting wire, without any technical difficulty at all.

When he left from the machine, while admiring the ingenuity of those masters, Tang Haoran was thinking about another thing in his mind.

Artillery!

Although Zhang Shiheng made enough money and got a reward, not only did he get 3,400 new rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition, but the artillery only had 8 Krupp camp guns, which looked like a lot, but that is, the number of guns in a battalion of the Huai Army, and the number of shells was only 800 rounds.

A cannon with a hundred shells, without two thousand taels of silver, can never be bought, and if it is difficult to expand the new army in the future, it will be bought from the Ordnance Bureau or a foreign company?

Thinking like this in his heart, Tang Haoran's mind came up with the mortars of later generations, mortars can be made with steel pipes, otherwise, "invent" mortars? But now I don't seem to have any workers or equipment at hand. Unless you find a way to do it on the side of the machine, although you know the principle of the mortar, it is only limited to knowing its structure, maybe there will be any way on the side of the machine?

However, it is still too early to mention these, but the troops of 1,000 people and two battalions, and eight 75-mm guns, the firepower can already be described as "powerful...... Seoul's telegraph office, machine bureau, money bureau, and other such foreign affairs yamen had already fallen into Tang Haoran's eyes, and after people arrived in Korea, they slowly "returned to use" those places.

"North Korea, ......"

Thinking of the place in North Korea, and even some sinister situations, Tang Haoran's brows still couldn't help frowning, although he had a certain understanding of North Korea from others, and even postponed the departure time, but the problem was that there was not even a person around him who really knew North Korea, if he arrived in North Korea like this, wouldn't he be blind?

Wang Bogong, thinking of Weng Shangshu's good student, the corners of Tang Haoran's lips raised slightly, that Lord Wang had served in North Korea, but he criticized Yuan Shikai's arbitrariness, and even said that "today's North Korea is all Yuan Shikai's mistake", but he obviously ignored one point - North Korea's own attempt to stand on its own, if North Korea can obediently become a vassal state of China, how can there be so many things?

Let him go to North Korea......

It's not enough!

But who else is there besides Wang Bogong?

It seemed that there was no one else, and he was worried, and when he was just going to the gate, Li Guangguang hurried to the door.

"Chongshan, when did you come back?"

"My lord, I am glad that I did not disgrace my life!"

Li Guangguang gave a salute, and then said quietly.

"The navy's yamen has already been tied, they are waiting for us!"

Due to the postponement of the time of going to work, there was a conflict with the days when the Beiyang Navy Division inspected Incheon, and without the "escort" of the gunboats, Tang Haoran was naturally a little reluctant, so after postponing the time of taking office, he sent Li Guangguang to the capital to take care of the navy yamen. This dot is actually a matter of silver, Li Guangguang spent money in the capital to find a way, and he had to run to Li Hongzhang a few times, so as to delay the departure time of the sailor.

"The yamen side spit out, wait for us for forty days at most, the situation on the Korean side is tight, the Orientals may send warships over at any time, if they send warships, the navy yamen is afraid that the state affairs will be missed......"

"Can't be wrong!"

When Li Guangguang said this, Tang Haoran sneered, the current Japan is not the Japan of a few years later, and now they don't have that confidence, but four years later, they are also worried, but they didn't expect the Manchu Qing to be too uncompetitive, so they said confidently.

"Little Japan, it's just a bluff!"

Although Tang Haoran's words were not loud, but the two of them walked and talked like this, the words still reached the Xingyuan hall, and the young man who was originally sitting in the hall drinking tea stood up in surprise when he heard these words.

"Now, they don't have the guts to dare to make trouble with us!"

When the young man who walked out of the hall heard this, he was stunned at first, and then his face showed a look of approval.

"What your lord said is very true! Now the Oriental people really don't dare to trouble us! ”

Who is this?

Tang Haoran looked at this strange young man who came from the hall with some doubts, he had never seen it before! Just as Li Guangguang was about to be introduced, the young man in the robe immediately clenched his fists and bowed deeply.

"Tang Zhaoyi, the consul general of Xiaguan in Seoul, North Korea, has seen my lord!"