Messages were sent one after another, and by late January, the northernmost port of the entire telegraph network had finally gotten the news.

"Damn, those people in the industrial group have taken medicine? Jumping from a paper shell bomb to the AK47 era at once, this technological leap forward is amazing! ”

When Xie Xi saw the telegram, he first exclaimed as suddenly as everyone else, but then, like everyone else, fell into the imagination of happiness:

"Use Maxim against the cavalry...... Or a big guy with a caliber of 12.7 mm? Hahaha, cool! This time, don't say 600 against 10,000, 600 against 100,000 doesn't matter - just give me a few Maxims and enough ammunition. ”

Xie Xi is a soldier, and he is satisfied as long as he has good things to use. As an expert in mechanics, Xiao Lang paid attention to the other side after carefully reading the weapon models introduced in the telegram.

"Chief Engineer Xu and Dr. Feng are very powerful, and the secondary stamping problem that I couldn't solve at the beginning seems to have been solved by them."

-- According to Xiao Lang, the biggest difficulty in the technological leap forward of the industrial group and the comprehensive improvement of the level of military equipment is not in the manufacture of firearms itself, but in the ammunition production line. Five-six-punch and five-six-and-a-half, as well as the wine bottle-shaped cartridge case used in the five-four style are the most difficult to process - don't look at the small change of narrowing the mouth of the cartridge case, it needs to be stretched many times on the copper skin of the cartridge case, and the machining technology cannot reach a considerable level at all. It's easy to make one or two, try to make hundreds of thousands or millions of the same one?

In addition, the primer used in fully automatic and semi-automatic ammunition is no longer ordinary mine/mercury, and the requirements for stability are much higher, and it is estimated that it took a lot of effort for the chemical group to solve this problem.

"So at that time, my suggestion was to start with straight cartridge shells, and vigorously develop the / left / wheel / gun / system, anyway, it was enough to ensure the advantage of firepower. Dr. Feng didn't agree, it seemed that she was a little sure at that time...... Tsk tsk, that woman's heart is higher than ours. ”

Xiao Lang said as he beckoned to the dismissal. Holding out two fingers, the latter glared at him for a long time, but finally pulled out a pack of finished cigarettes with white paper shells and no logo from his pocket. handed Xiao Lang one and helped him light the fire, and he also took one in his mouth.

“…… Eh, cool! It's been a long time since I've smoked such an authentic one. The finished product that came out of the factory was really better than the one we rolled ourselves...... Shandong is really a good place to grow tobacco...... It's also a shame that Nanhai brought good tobacco seedlings over at the beginning......"

After swallowing the clouds and spitting fog, Xiao Lang looked at the telegram list again and continued to express his opinion:

"They would actually use the barge gun as the standard equipment...... Those military leaders are not very old, it stands to reason that they shouldn't have the shell gun complex of the veterans back then? ”

Facing Xiao Lang's disapproving expression on his face, Xie Xi was a little puzzled:

"Isn't the shell gun bad? There's nothing more powerful in a pistol, right? In addition, it can be assembled into submachine guns if necessary. ”

Xiao Lang heaved:

"It's just that big, and it's really not ashamed to be squeezed into the pistol classification, and it's not hidden at all...... Well. In this day and age, yes. As for being a submachine gun...... We all have five or six rushes, why do we still have this half-hanging? The structure of the barge gun is complex, and a large number of special-shaped components are used, which is very difficult to process, and the final production cost is probably higher than that of five or six punches. If you are the logistics director of the army, the price is about the same, do you give priority to purchasing shell guns or five or six punches? Besides, it's quite difficult to play this gun well, and in history even the Germans themselves can't look down on it, so the bandits and the Eight Roads have the patience to adapt to it. ”

Xie Xi was a little puzzled when he said this. But Xiao Lang also complained. Since he was not present at the time, he could not tell the committee these words, so he had to keep them for himself. Anyway, the barge gun itself is a good gun. In addition to the production port is troublesome, the user will never dislike it.

And Xiao Lang's attention quickly fell on the last column, and this time his attitude was much more positive:

"Makqin of 12.7 mm caliber? Damn, isn't this the Browning M2HB heavy machine gun? But there were no armored targets in this era. Cavalry is definitely too powerful, but I like it! Hehe, I didn't expect that Chief Engineer Xu was so rigorous, and he finally went wild. The bullet weighed so much. The barrel must be lengthened, and the range can break two thousand...... Haha, 'range represents truth, caliber is justice'! ”

The two of them were smoking cigarettes and bragging, and after a while, Xie Xi looked at the time, walked over and took back the newspaper with an expressionless face, and took off half of the cigarette roll from Xiao Lang's mouth, and patted him on the shoulder:

"Okay brother, it's time for you to release the wind, rest in peace."

“…… Dizzy, it's too unrighteous for you to be like this, so let me finish a sprinkle! ”

But Xie Xi was unmoved, and in Xiao Lang's complaining, he still took care of himself, first opened the window for a while to let out the smoke, then checked the stove again, and finally waved to the other party, saying that he would see him in heaven, and left the ward.

Stepping out of the small courtyard that had been used as a hospital, Xie Xi squinted at the lookout post at the top of the walled city, wondering if he could control the entire walled city if a heavy machine gun was placed there. However, he soon chuckled lightly at his worries - if it weren't for Xiao Lang's injuries that hadn't healed and he couldn't move in the short term, they would have taken a boat back to Shandong, and they still expected to be stationed here for a long time?

Of course, this Spring Festival is definitely going to be spent here. When Xie Xi came to the barracks outside the city and near the refugee camp not far from the barracks, he saw that his clothes were being washed everywhere, and the New Year's goods were sorted out, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of warmth in his heart.

- Even in such a difficult environment, the smell of the New Year is still very strong.

At this time in history, Lushunkou has fallen, Huanglong was martyred, Dongjiang Town was almost wiped out, the soldiers and civilians were either killed or taken captive, and this place has become a ghost domain. However, in this time and space, due to the strong intervention of the Qiong Navy, the Ming flag is still hanging high above the Lushun Pass at this moment. Moreover, both the population and the liveliness are more than ever, which is probably a certain characteristic of the Joan navy - wherever they are, even on the battlefield, they will soon cultivate a bustling bazaar. If someone makes a game setting in the future, the class characteristics of Joan's naval forces should undoubtedly be "business +10".

However, Xie Xi has seen such scenes many times in Qiongzhou, Dengzhou and other places, although he is slightly pleased, but it is not unexpected. Moreover, the larger the population here, the greater the logistical pressure - these people are now all fed by the food brought by their Qiong navy, as well as the garrison on the Huanglong side. In comparison, the consumption of more than 1,000 people in the two battalions of the Qiong Navy itself is nothing.

And here in Liaodong, they have to guard against another danger......

Soon after, Xie met his old partner, Pang Yu, who was reviewing a roster, in the barracks resident office.

"Another fugitive came today?"

"Yes, it's not too much today, only more than 30 households and more than 100 people have come, and they have just been resettled in the new camp."

Pang Yu's face was full of exhaustion, but he still carefully checked the contents of the roster, and placed it on the back shelf—the same roster had been piled up on the shelf, and these were all newly defected refugees from Liaodong, or, according to Houjin, "fugitives".

The aftermath of Xiao Lang's brilliant victory began to be felt in the following month or so. Houjin must have blocked the news, but it is difficult to say to what extent. The rout of an army of 10,000 people, and the death of a Baylor-level nobleman, was about the biggest battlefield defeat since the founding of the Later Jin Dynasty. The internal shock and impact on it is actually much more serious than what the outside world sees.

And reflected in Lushun, that is, during this period of time, more and more refugees fled from the Houjin rule area in the inland of Liaodong, at first there were only a few, a dozen, and then it was a family with a mouth, a dozen or twenty households, dozens or hundreds of people. In just a few days, more than 10,000 people have been accepted here, and the number is still increasing.

Xie welcomed this, after all, their original goal was to recruit refugees. And with Dengzhou's experience, tens of thousands of refugees are not a problem in his eyes. But Pang Yu's idea is not so optimistic.

"It's not good."

Hearing Pang Yu's emotion, Xie Xi was surprised:

"What? Don't have enough food? I remember that the amount of supplies set up at the beginning was very abundant, and now there are only 10,000 people, which is not enough to give us a headache, right? ”

"The number of refugees is not a problem, but I always feel that these people come too easily."

Pang Yu knocked on the table and muttered softly:

"I have asked about every group of refugees who have escaped, and the first few batches are indeed very difficult, and the later Jin soldiers have never shown mercy in chasing and killing the fugitives. But these people recently, according to them, have encountered a lot fewer interceptions along the way, and occasionally encountered a few patrols, and they avoided hiding in the woods of the road...... Hou Jin barely made a special trip to intercept them. ”

"Houjin deliberately let these people over?"

Xie Xi immediately heard the meaning of Pang Yu's words, and the latter nodded:

"Probably so, that guy from Huang Taiji reacted very quickly, and made another move against us, it seems that Awen's bombardment failed to scare him at all."

Not long ago, Wen Deji led the fleet north to Jinzhou and razed the entire Jinzhou city to the ground with several rounds of overwhelming "artillery exercises". According to Wen Desi's report, at the head of Jinzhou City at that time, there were many troops and flags of the Later Jin, and some people even identified the Zhenghuang banner hanging at the head of the city - it should be the troops directly led by the Later Jin Khan Emperor Taiji. (To be continued......)