Ecuadorian President Beria only took office on September 8, 1876, so it was a little confused to hear that some Chinese occupied Panama City.

The evacuation was very sudden, and within a few days most of the Chinese disappeared from Peru. At that time, they were worried that the rebels had completely defected to the Chilean government army, so they were very worried about the safety of the southern border.

Peru and Chile have clashed several times over the interests of guano saltpeter.

After he came to power, the Chinese came out of Panama City, and changed its name to China City, and imposed customs tariffs on foreign ships, and the commercial capitalists of Britain and the United States were already discussing countermeasures.

As a result, a week ago, news came from the port of San Lorenzo that a large number of transport ships had gathered in the port, and groups of Chinese soldiers had taken control of the port.

Beria summoned the commander of the Eritrean armed forces, Kamani, and the speaker of the parliament, Salas, to the presidential palace to discuss countermeasures.

Kamani: "The news we have so far is that this group of Chinese rebels is likely to be the group of brown soldiers who left from the Peruvian side, numbering no less than 30,000 or 40,000 people, and they are very strong in combat, they have seized a large area of plantations and mines in the north, and many small town security patrols have been annihilated by them, and the situation is very critical!" ”

Speaker Salas disagrees with him

"Impossible, the Chinese workers in the United States are all from the Qing Dynasty in the East, how much combat effectiveness will a group of indentured slaves with braids and rags in clothes have? Your military must be dissatisfied with our businessmen and thus conniving at the Chinese rebellion. ”

Kamani: "You damned vampires, do you think we don't know your true nature, betraying the resources and interests of the country and willingly serving as the lackeys of the British and American capitalists!" ”

"What did you say?"

"I said you were lackeys?"

Beria was furious

"Shut up, you all shut up, did I call you here to make you quarrel? I asked you to find a way to solve the problem, and you know all day long that you can't do anything, and you are worthy of the great Ecuador? Hum! ”

Beria: "General Kamani, say what to do, say the specific plan. ”

Salas sat down with a grunt.

"Our plan is to expand our army to 300,000," Kamani said, and Salas jumped again

"Are you crazy, our country has only 2 million whites, and 150,000 regular troops have consumed 20% of the national tax, 300,000? Do you take money to raise it? ”

Kamani retorted: "We still have 5 million Indians, and we... ”

"Yo, those low-level natives, they can't even speak Spanish, their combat effectiveness is definitely not good, a waste of money and food." It is impossible for Salas to agree, he is the Quito, Catholic, merchant capitalist chamber of commerce, in charge of state finances, how can he agree to seize the interests of the capitalists by expanding the army!

In the end, Camani, who advocated the expansion of the army and took the initiative to attack the north, fell behind, and the weaker president supported the speaker of the parliament, Salas, and gathered the main army of 50,000 troops to Quito, and first spent less money to protect the capital of Ecuador.

Currently, the Eritrean army is using the Martini Henry rifle.

Zuo Zongtang used this rifle to eliminate 45,000 Turkish mercenaries led by Agubo, who had invaded Xinjiang.

The British company Martini Henry produced a series of lever rifles that were loved by the cavalry units of the western United States.

It fires a .577/450 black powder metal cartridge, and its actual caliber is .450 inches mm, which is 11.43mm.

The .577 inch in front is converted into a metric unit of 14.7mm, which is the bullet caliber of the previous Enfield Schneider rifle, because the .577/450 bullet is based on the .577 Schneider metal fixed load, so he was given such a name.

The muzzle velocity of the Martini is 410 m/s, the bullet weighs 31 grams, and the kinetic energy is 2630 joules, which belongs to the upper middle level of kinetic energy in rifles at that time.

The mid-19th century was the era of a massive shift from smoothbore to rifled rifles, thanks to the invention of the Minérgy round by the French.

This projectile, which is slightly smaller than rifling, can be easily loaded from the muzzle, and when fired, the hollow tail is propped open by gunpowder gas, allowing the edge of the bullet to rotate close to the rifling.

The storied history of the Martini Henry rifle began in Massachusetts, USA, with a gunsmith - Henry. Peabody.

In 1862, Peabody patented a breech-loading rifle with a landing bolt.

When descending, the cartridge case can be automatically ejected, and it is possible to quickly reload the next bullet.

The gun was fired with a simple musket-style hammer, and the soldier had to be ready to fire.

In the sixties and seventies of the 19th century, this rifle was exported to Spain, Canada, Turkey, Mania, New Zealand and Mexico.

Because the gun had a rifled barrel designed by Henry, plus the design of Martini.

The bulky external hammer was replaced with a spring-controlled firing pin mounted inside the bolt, and the receiver was redesigned and the shell hook was reinforced.

These improvements result in a shorter firing time (i.e., the time between the moment the trigger is pulled and the time between the primer firing).

The improved rifle was not only stronger than Peabody's prototype, but also had a much higher rate of fire.

However, the Swiss Army decided to adopt a single-shot rifle with a rotary pull-back bolt, and Martini had to offer his design to other countries.

In 1867, the British Army announced that it was looking for a rifle to replace its 0.577-inch (14. 66mm) caliber Snyder rifle.

Martini took his rifle to the British Army's trials, and despite the competition from many well-known gunsmiths like Henry, his rifle was the best of the best.

After extensive field trials, on July 3, 1871, the Martini rifle was officially adopted by the British Army.

Due to the fact that the gun had a rifled barrel designed by Henry, the British Army officially named it the Martini-Henry MKI. rifle.

The gun is a practical weapon, with a box-like receiver that allows the trigger guard to be positioned forward and the lever extends all the way to the stock.

A walnut butt was used and a handguard with two collars attached to the body of the gun, and a round rod was embedded in the bottom of the lower handguard through a groove, and a cavalry bayonet was mounted on the right side of the barrel.

Martini Henry co-authored a rifle that used a Martini landing bolt and Henry's polygonal rifling, and was the first specially designed breech rifle in England.

His landing latch is actuated by a lever, somewhat similar to the operation of a lever rifle.

However, the locking method was different, and Martini Henry was a single-shot gun, so he did not have the magazine and plate that moved with the lever like a lever rifle, but he had a figure-7 shell ejection that ejected the empty cartridge case from the chamber when the bolt sank to the bottom.

At that time, the Qing Dynasty considered the Martini-Henry rifle to be the most advanced weapon.

The version of the Qing army's armament was the Martini-Henry MK-1 rifle, which was the main gun model that the British army began to equip in 1871.

The Martini-Henry MK-1 rifle is very easy to operate, and the shooter can shoot by simply pulling the lever down.

Like Lee Maitford, it wasn't long before Britain would have used the .303 rifle cartridge for smokeless gunpowder.

Since the Maitford rifling was prone to wear out under the high temperature pressure of smokeless gunpowder, rifling designed by the Enfield Arsenal was used instead.

And a vote of Martinis due to the strength of the landing type lock, so it was also changed, this batch is called Martini Enfield, and there are still many British armies equipped with this gun during World War I.

Of course, An Yu captured the Ecuadorian army's Martini Henry rifle early, weighing 4 kg, a single-shot breech gun, with a caliber of 14.7mm, as far as it is now, this caliber is already a heavy machine gun bullet, and anti-aircraft machine guns are also useful for this.

In short, from the point of view of the vanguard soldiers: heavy, stupid, or single-shot, no!

The special combat team used the cover of the German businessman Walker, and the town of Camayan, the north gate of Quito, had already lurked 84 members of the vanguard special combat team, led by the battalion commander Li Yong, and at the same time sent a 12-member scout team commanded by Li Xiaoyu to Quito.

In order to perfectly implement the plan to attack Quito, Zhao Shi divided the 20,000 men into seven field regiments of about 2,000 people and a 5,000-man logistics engineer artillery composite support brigade.

At the same time, the pioneer battalion was directly disguised as the Ecuadorian local security force, and there was a company of more than 100 Scottish foreign mercenaries inside, trying to deceive the white guards of the small town along the way.

On January 8, 1877, 6,000 men of the three vanguard regiments had joined the more than 600 special combat regiments of Anyu 20 miles away from Kamayan.

An Yu introduced the current information to Zhao Shi.

"It turned out that there were only more than 20,000 defenders in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, but a day ago intelligence officers sent a telegram that another 30,000 Ecuadorian government troops had returned to the barracks west of Quito.

"So are there any conservatives in the government?" Zhao Shi asked

quiet

"If we talk about conservatives, it is better to be the spokesmen for the interests of the commercial capitalists in the urban agglomeration, it is the speaker of the parliament, Salas, and the rural plantation owners in the Shangbo area are pro-military, but the military does not have enough say in the government, as can be seen from their sudden transfer of troops back to Quito."

Zhao Shi is right to think about it, at present, Ecuador's economy has two important cities, namely the southwestern coastal city of Gualquia and the capital of the north-central region. The urban economy was controlled by the new capitalists, while the plantation mining industry belonged to the former Spanish aristocracy or their descendants, who had a different business model.

"That's okay, our focus is to severely crack down on the plantation mine owners, rescue the workers, strengthen our strength, and take a pull and beat the capitalists in the city.

Zhao Shi decided to take two steps.