The five high platforms tirelessly sprayed ammunition outward, stopping only occasionally to change ammunition, but in just a few minutes, the French were already strewn with corpses, and a French musketeer lieutenant colonel shouted loudly, "Retreat, retreat!" Before he could finish this, his body had been shot by the lightning cannon, and he fell to the ground with convulsions and died. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Miller was terrified, he lined up the crowd, watching the one-sided slaughter on the battlefield, the French soldiers were like dominoes, the guns on the high platform swept there, and the French there just fell to the ground and could not get up again, "How can there be such a weapon!" He roared so loudly that he could vent all his horror, "why are their muskets so fast!" ”

In this moment, dozens more people fell in a pool of blood, and Miller immediately ordered, at this time it could only be ordered, "Retreat immediately!" There was no blood on his face, as if he himself had been shot by such a musket, and had lost all his strength, and the French soldiers retreated in despair, and the remaining faces were full of horror, "They are devils!" It's the devil! ”

Miller looked at the mess and corpses all over the ground, and couldn't help it anymore, his mind was dizzy, his eyes were dark, and he couldn't help but faint.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

"Retreat!"

Fortunately, the Chinese did not pursue, but just held the front, from the third front back to the first front, the French left like a lost dog, Chu Yunfei nodded with satisfaction, "Sure enough, put away our brother's corpse immediately, throw the French corpse aside, don't get in the way!" He turned his head to look at Feng Zicai, and was about to brag, but he was surprised to see Feng Zicai's pale face, which looked very haggard and gloomy, "Hey, hey, old general, let's win, why do you still have this expression?" This is not supposed to be! ”

Feng Zicai shook his head, "I know that we won, but ah, seeing this lightning cannon, I know that we old men will not have any capital to go to war in the future, you see," he pointed to the corpses all over the ground, and some French soldiers were lying on the ground screaming in pain, like purgatory on earth, "As soon as this lightning cannon came out, it killed so many French soldiers in just a moment." With such guns, will people still need to fight in the future? No matter how powerful a warrior is, in front of such a gun, he can't do any kung fu, "Feng Zicai knows very well that relying on the combat ability of soldiers in the future may be far less than relying on ordnance to kill people, and it will come faster and faster."

"This is only half of the words," Chu Yunfei put his arm on Feng Zicai's shoulders and got off the command platform, "If you have a good weapon, if you have ambition, you won't succeed." At this time, the pro-soldiers of the statistics came to report, "Lord Dutong! Lord Admiral! The French lost 3,125 dead and more than 500 wounded! ”

"Good!" Chu Yunfei laughed, "Among the more than 3,000 people, I estimate that 3,000 people will die under this lightning cannon, but it will be ten minutes," he patted Feng Zicai's shoulder vigorously, "Old general, tell me, in ten minutes, even if you are invited to kill pigs, you can't kill 3,000 pigs, right?" The French have died so many people, let me see if they still have the courage to continue to attack me! ”

"Did you have this thing before?" Feng Zicai asked, "There is such a thing, what kind of Zhennan Pass do you have to guard, it is directly erected on the city wall, even if the French come with 100,000 people, they will not be able to enter Zhennan Pass for half a step!" ”

"Not before," Chu Yunfei shook his head, he first instructed the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield, "Those French soldiers who hit the vital point, if they can't save them, they will kill them directly, and those who are slightly injured will be pulled aside, these French people are still useful, and they can't all be killed," he turned his head and continued to say to Feng Zicai, "This has only been successfully developed in the past few years, and it is a top secret in normal times, except for a team of people from the Baoding Ordnance Factory, no one knows about this thing." It was only after I got to the south that I took over such a sharp weapon. ”

"I didn't make this thing ourselves," Feng Zicai said suspiciously, "I don't understand this, but if we can make such a powerful thing ourselves, we will be able to dominate the countries a long time ago." ”

"We didn't make it," Chu Yunfei whispered, "It was invented by a foreigner, but this foreigner is already in our country, and the lightning cannon invented by this invention is also owned by the imperial court." ”

The lightning cannon was the famous Maxim machine gun, which was the world's first truly successful automatic weapon powered by gunpowder gas. Before the advent of the Maxim machine gun, the guns used by people were non-automatic guns, and the bullets needed to be loaded one by one. The decisive force for victory in the war depended largely on how fast the reload was, and many people were inexplicably killed before they could reload a second round. Makqin's machine gun, at the moment of firing, the machine gun and the barrel are buckled together, using the gunpowder gas energy as the power, through a set of organs to open the chamber, the bolt continues to recoil to withdraw the empty cartridge case and throw it out of the gun, and then drive the bullet supply mechanism to compress the re-entry spring, under the action of the spring force, the bolt pushes into place and fires again. This way, once the shooting starts, the machine gun can continue to fire until the cartridge belt is finished, which can save a lot of reload time. American engineer Hiram Stevens Mackin came from a poor background and became a well-known inventor through diligent self-study. In 1882, when Makqin went to England to investigate, he found that soldiers often shot from the recoil of old rifles, and their shoulders were bruised and purple. This shows that the recoil of the gun has a considerable amount of energy, which comes from the gunpowder gases produced when the bullet is fired. It was from the recoil phenomenon that people are accustomed to and turned a blind eye to that Makqin found the ideal impetus for the automatic continuous firing of weapons. Makqin first carried out a modification test on an old-fashioned Winchester rifle, using the gunpowder gas emitted by the bullet during firing to make the gun complete a series of actions such as unlocking, unshelling, feeding, and re-locking, realizing the automatic continuous shooting of the single-barreled gun and reducing the recoil of the gun. Makqin was the first to successfully develop the world's first automatic rifle in 1883.

In the original history, this Lem Stevens Maxim would later cooperate with the British government and military, and then British nationality and knighthood, but in this era, the Maxim machine gun first appeared in China, and it is clear that the Chinese took it first.

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