On the border of Venice, a permanent fortification stretching for dozens of miles separated the sphere of influence of the anti-Han allies and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

This fortification was built by the sweat of the people of the Italian Peninsula who had been poisoned by the Taiping Army, and the people of the Italian Peninsula after the occupation and occupation of the Taiping Army were like two peoples.

The occupation of the Taiping army broke the national boundaries of the people of the Italian Peninsula and deprived the people of the Italian Peninsula of most of their wealth.

Hong Tiancheng's aim was to destroy the well-developed artisanal manufacturing industry in the Italian peninsula and reduce the grain production of the Italian peninsula.

Obviously, Hong Tiancheng's goal was perfectly achieved, and the people of the Italian Peninsula paid the price for their cowardice, and the original level of food and clothing suddenly dropped to the point of not having enough to eat, so you can imagine how big the resentment of the people of the Italian Peninsula is!

It was precisely by taking advantage of this resentment that the Anti-Han League set up one army after another on the Italian Peninsula with a small investment, and many of the anti-Han Leagues did not even pay salaries, but were only responsible for providing food, clothing, housing, transportation, and weapons and equipment.

However, because the soldiers recruited in the Italian Peninsula did not belong to the troops of the main countries of the anti-Han alliance, the most advanced Mini rifles were not a single one, and they were all equipped with bayonet flintlock pistols eliminated by the French and Spanish armies.

Only those who have suffered will be very demanding.

This is just like the oppressed people of the ancient Oriental countries during World War II, who have a small Japanese 38 cover has been happily maintained as a baby, you know, the 38 cover used by small Japan at that time can be called the worst individual weapon among the major participating countries in World War II, there is no one!

Even the cheap Mosin Nagant series rifles used by Lao Maozi are several times lower than the failure rate of small Japan's 38 big covers!

Mosin Nagant was the standard rifle commonly used during the First World War!

The 38 cover was placed in the Pacific theater, and after being captured by American GIs, it was disposed of like garbage......

During World War II, the Asian battlefield and the European theater, not to mention the difference in combat effectiveness, just talk about the individual weapon series, the Asian battlefield can be 20 years behind the European battlefield!

The weapons of the First World War in Europe were rampant in the Asian theater of World War II, which is also the reason why little Japan had no power to fight back against the US army and the Soviet army......

In the time and space where Hong Tiancheng is located, the Taiping Army's combat courage and weapon technology are superior in an all-round way, and it is naturally more impossible to be defeated.

Especially in the backward years of the 17th century!

Even the leaders of the anti-Han Allied States themselves admitted that the individual combat strength of the soldiers of the anti-Han Allied Forces was far inferior to that of the Taiping Army, and that the anti-Han Allied States were able to fight the Taiping Army for five years because of their national heritage.

In the middle of 1672, the Italian troops in the fortifications of the Venetian border were suddenly reinforced in large numbers, and the anti-Han alliance threw all ten newly formed infantry divisions on the Italian peninsula in preparation for the imminent attack of the Taipings.

It has to be said that the Taiping Army, which is unpopular in the occupied areas, has always been in a weak position in terms of military intelligence, as long as the army goes out, the spies of the anti-Han Alliance countries can get a specific march route in minutes, unless the Taiping Army goes to an uninhabited area!

However, if the Taiping army did not choose the route of the big city, there would be problems with supplies along the way, so as long as the Taiping army launched an attack, the anti-Han allies could basically get the news in advance.

Of course, it's one thing to get the news, it's another thing to be able to stop it......

In other words, whether the anti-Han Allied forces are capable of stopping it!

For example, now, the anti-Han allies have received the news that five newly formed infantry divisions of the Taiping Army (the anti-Han allies refer to the Taiping army's breech-loading rifle infantry division) have entered Venice and intend to attack the strategic trend of the Italian peninsula.

In addition to the 10 new Italian infantry divisions, there are tens of thousands of allied troops from Switzerland, Savoy, France, Spain and other countries on the defensive line, with a total of about 180,000 combat troops!

This is all the troops that can be taken out on the Italian peninsula, of course, all the weapons equipped are bayonets and flintlock pistols, the mini rifle is still in production, and only a few infantry divisions in France and Spain are being installed, and they have not yet been completed!

Moreover, out of selfishness, all the troops armed with Mini rifles were stationed on the Rhine defense line to guard the homeland.

The subordinates of the anti-Han allies are also very wise, the handicraft manufacturing industry in the Italian peninsula has been almost destroyed, and there is no time for the recovery of productivity, so it is natural to give priority to the protection of France itself, and the current Mini rifle production can be all in the developed Kingdom of France, followed by the Kingdom of Spain, and finally the merged Kingdom of Great Britain.

Other small, independent countries have only sporadic production and simply cannot build them in batches.

If you want to put a new weapon into mass production, you can't just have samples, and you can't even think about it without developed handicraft productivity.

The Kingdom of France, Spain, and Great Britain had already entered the first industrial revolution, and the use of steam power had begun to become widespread, so that they had the capacity to manufacture a large number of mini rifles, but the production rate was very ordinary......

Hong Tiancheng is interested in this time difference, although the Mini rifle is decades behind the Hanyang-made rifle, but the disadvantage in range has been greatly compensated, although the theoretical range of the Hanyang-made rifle has an advantage, but the human eye aiming is limited, even in modern warfare, the rifle engagement distance is maintained at about four or five hundred meters, and it is difficult to hit the target human body if it is far away.

At a distance of four or five hundred meters, the human target is already very small!

Unless you install special sniper scopes such as 2x, quadruple, 8x, and 15x, you can greatly extend the shooting range.