Under Bonham's stern warning, of the 98 former prisoners, 36 had to return to the concession, mainly the British and French, and almost all the Americans remained.

Wang Feng sent these thirty-six people to the outskirts of Suzhou, and the road under his feet was the concession to the east.

Meng Douban looked around with remembrance and sighed: "Mr. Wang Feng, I tried every possible way to return to China in the early months, but today I really left, but my heart is full of regrets, I thank you for your tolerance and generosity, the Chinese people have left a deep impression on me, especially you and the villagers of Zhoujiazhuang, I think, I will cherish it in my heart for the rest of my life." ”

Wang Feng stretched out his hand, and a soldier stepped forward with a tray in his hand, which contained thirty-six golden gold medals!

Wang Feng picked up a piece and said solemnly: "Mr. Meng Douban, I understand your embarrassment, although you can't stay in China, but you will always be old friends of the Chinese, this is a gold medal minted by Suzhou merchants in order to express their gratitude, entrust me to give it to you as a souvenir, Mr. Meng Douban, starting with you, I will award the plaque in the name of the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Democratic Alliance Army." ”

"Thank you!" Meng Douban was stunned, his upper body leaned forward, and Wang Feng hung the gold medal around his neck.

Meng Douban picked it up and looked at it, this gold medal was about the size of a palm, weighed about fifty grams, and it was heavy in his hand, but what made his heart even heavier was the words engraved on the gold medal, the front was an old friend of the Chinese people with eight big characters, and the back was cast by the headquarters of the China Democratic Alliance Army, which he knew in Chinese.

Meng Douban showed mixed feelings, scenes of the past suddenly emerged, and the corners of his eyes were a little moist.

Wang Feng said again: "Gold has a price. Friendship is priceless, Mr. Meng Douban. The Chinese people will always remember you if peace is achieved between China and France and between China and Britain in the future. I hope that you will come to China again, and the Chinese people will welcome you like honored guests. ”

"Thank you!" Meng Douban wiped the corners of his eyes and said: "I will always cherish the indissoluble friendship with you and the Chinese, after I return to China, I will devote myself to promoting the development of Sino-French friendship and folk cultural exchanges, so that more French people can understand a real China, if there is a chance, I will definitely return!" ”

"Mr. Meng Douban, cherish!" Wang Feng's eyes were also slightly red. hugged Meng Douban hard, then picked up another gold medal and stretched out his hand to signal: "Mr. Charlotta"

Half an hour later, Meng Douban and the others gradually disappeared from sight on horseback, Zhou Xiuying retracted his gaze and shook his head: "It was really touching just now, foreigners are true and true, much better than most Chinese in this regard, but I think your goal." It's more about buying horse bones, right? ”

"Buying horse bones? Perhaps? For foreigners, it is true that there are die-hards like Moon Ham and mercenary people like Kim Nenghyung, but there are not a few friends with romantic feelings and internationalist spirit. We in China are strictly lagging behind the West, and we can't do it by relying on my efforts alone, and I hope to use these 36 people as an example. Attract more people from the latter two to come to China to help us. Wang Feng sighed with emotion: "However, I am really grateful to them." In just a few months, they have already brought profound changes to China. It is enough to be an old friend of the Chinese people. ”

Zhou Xiuying said lightly: "No matter how internationalist and romantic the spirit is, we all have a motherland in our hearts, and we will eventually meet their motherland, will they have a feeling of being deceived?" ”

Wang Feng pointed to his heart: "In my heart, I also pretend to be a motherland, even if I am scolded as a liar in the world, I will not regret it!" ”

Zhou Xiuying's expression was a little complicated, she looked at Wang Feng in a daze for a while, and said with a wry smile: "Actually, I'm most worried about Alice, I'm afraid that she will be caught in a dilemma." ”

Wang Feng said helplessly: "In the torrent of the big era, everyone is a chess piece, Alice is, you are, I am too, all we can do is to break the shackles of fate and create a new era, there is a famous saying in the West, God's to God, Satan's to Satan, only by letting China return to China, and Europe's to Europe, can the world achieve peace, but before it is realized, it must be a bloody storm, I only hope that this process can be shorter, okay, the more you talk about it, the more mysterious it is, let's go back." ”

"Hmm!" Zhou Xiuying nodded, but didn't get on the horse, because a horse was galloping in the distance, and Wang Feng also looked over.

The knight rushed to the front, dismounted and saluted, "Commander-in-chief, the Weapons Manufacturing Bureau invites you to come over." ”

"Oh?" Wang Feng and Zhou Xiuying glanced at each other, could it be that the cannon came out? That's great news!

"Wang Feng, then we have to go over and have a look." Zhou Xiuying immediately got on the horse and urged.

"Good!" Wang Feng also jumped on the horse, shook the reins violently, and galloped away.

Wang Feng initially promised to allocate the original Suzhou Weaving Yamen to the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau as an office location, but with the rapid expansion of personnel and confidentiality and security considerations, soon after, the Ordnance Bureau had relocated to the outskirts of Suzhou, except for a small office in Suzhou.

In just twenty minutes, Wang Feng and Zhou Xiuying came to the Weapons Bureau, and they could immediately sense that there was a joyful atmosphere in the courtyard of Nuoda, and the director Zhang Wanchang saluted: "Commander-in-chief, fortunately, the combined knife for carving the barrel that you confessed has been successfully developed." ”

Although it is not the expected cannon, but this news also made Wang Feng very happy, the use of tissue knives to carve the mini barrel, can increase the success rate to more than ninety percent, Shen Mingshao ordered from the foreigners have all been dedicated to Wang Feng, including 10,000 guns, all flintlock guns, according to the original plan manual repeated carving, at most there can only be more than 4,000 successful transformation, and there are combined knives in hand, which is equivalent to the army can add more than 9,000 mini barrels!

"Where's the knives!" Wang Feng asked impatiently.

"Commander-in-Chief and Commander Zhou, please look!" Zhang Wanchang pointed to the middle of the room.

On a slender iron tie rod, there are 30 hard steel rings fixed, the distance between each steel ring is equal, and the equidistant scraper with the same number of corresponding rifling wires is arranged, according to the method of marking rifling, the barrel is sleeved and rotated, and each cutter can be connected with the cutter on the next ring according to its entanglement, and the spiral line can be carved from the beginning to the tail.

Its principle is that the protrusion of the blade on each ring is slightly greater than that of the previous ring, forming a series of cutters, and the grooves opened have a stable width, depth and spacing. The entire elination can be cut, reducing working time and increasing output and quality.

The key to this is not only the leap in the manufacturing process, but also the fact that the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau has mastered the calculation of the angle, and the world's mature formula for calculating the angle is on the market in 1920, which means that the Mini barrel manufactured by the Suzhou Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau has better accuracy and stability than the original barrel in Britain, France and the United States under the same material!

"Come on, give it a try!" Wang Feng waved his hand.

"Howler!" Several blacksmiths from the manufacturing bureau rushed to the scene, one of them holding the knife in place, and the other putting a smooth barrel on it, and then snapping the wrench, and the two of them turned it vigorously.

I heard "Zilala! After a shrill scraping sound, the barrel had been spun several times.

"Commander-in-chief, what do you think?" Zhang Wanchang took off the barrel of the gun, took a coarse brush and tinkered with it for a while, and handed it to Wang Feng.

In the barrel, four spirals are neatly rotated, and the incision is smooth, which is obviously a one-time molding.

Wang Feng was overjoyed, and without saying a word, the gun was assembled on the spot, and two minutes later, a Mini gun was assembled.

"Big girl, you can try!" Wang Feng handed the gun to Zhou Xiuying.

"Hmm!" Zhou Xiuying nodded violently, took the gun, loaded the bullet, and aimed at the target about 400 meters outside the house.

"Bang!" The muzzle of the gun flashed, and it didn't take long for someone over there to shout: "Congratulations to Commander Zhou, hit the Nine Rings!" ”

"It's not the Ten Rings." Zhou Xiuying muttered in disappointment, with her marksmanship, she should hit the bull's-eye, Wang Feng couldn't help laughing: "Big sister, the rifling is different, and the accuracy of the shot will inevitably be deviated, this is a new rifling formed at one time, a few more shots, just get used to it." ”

"Oh~~" Zhou Xiuying thought about it, loaded a bullet again, and aimed at the target, at this time, Zhang Wanchang handed over a gun again and said: "Commander-in-chief, this is a Mini gun converted from a gun captured by the Qing army, because the barrel quality is poor, so we thought of a way, with a thin wire hoop on the barrel, which can increase the strength of the barrel, this is only last night, we tried it, the barrel of the British can fire twenty shots in a row, this modified barrel, at most twelve to thirteen shots, I don't know if it is useful?" ”

"What?" Wang Feng showed a look of ecstasy, and even Zhou Xiuying looked at it, this is not just a question of whether it is useful or not, but how useful it is beyond measure!

Wang Feng now has 60,000 people, and the Mini gun has been slowly refitted, and there are only 3,000 in the army.

However, the flintlock pistols and arquebuses from the Qing army in Wang Feng's army were looted by warehouses in various cities, and the number reached an astonishing more than 50,000.

According to half of the spare barrels, the number of Minnie guns in the army will reach about 30,000, which is an extremely terrifying number, and Wang Feng is sure to hit Beijing City!

And on the battlefield, with the current intensity of war, a soldier rarely has the opportunity to fire 20 shots in a row, for example, fighting with 10,000 guns, 20 shots is 200,000 bullets, taking into account various factors including attrition, counting 20 bullets to kill an enemy, it is equivalent to destroying 10,000 enemies before changing the barrel, foreigner Wang Feng dare not say, but the Qing army died 10,000 is ironclad and the whole army is defeated! (To be continued......) R1292