Above the endless Pacific Ocean, a Galen ship sailed smoothly. Today the weather was perfect, and the sailors were on deck, enjoying the bright sunshine. It was a British naval warship that was heading from the British mainland to the North American continent to take up a new rear admiral in the colonies. Chatter, the colony's major general, was too old and a little overwhelmed, and after a bit of operation, he asked his cousin to take over. And on this ship was his cousin Kamal.

Kamal is a 40-year-old middle-aged man who still looks very healthy and strong because he loves to hunt and has been exercising. However, Kamal is also a complete nobleman, even at sea, he has made ten out of ten nobles. Even the captain of the battleship was kicked out of the captain's room by him and lived in the cabin like the sailors. And the captain's room, of course, was inhabited by Kamal. However, he is not alone, there is also a man in his 50s who wears housekeeper clothes.

This man is not Kamal's butler. And the reason why Kamal was able to let him be in the same room with himself was also because of his origins. This butler is called Porter Charlie and is Charlie Mill's personal butler. Originally, Potter had no surname, but later because of his dedication, he was appreciated by Charlie, and then gave the Mill family a surname. With the governor of the entire British North American colonies standing behind him, it is no wonder that Kamal treats him with courtesy.

After all, Kamal went to the Americas, that is, a rear admiral, and he couldn't do without the support of this kind of bigwig. Seeing that the weather was just right, Kamal walked out of the room with Potter, who was far less physically than him, and wandered around the deck, talking and talking, and making friends.

"Brother Potter, we seem to be there, and we've already seen seagulls. ”

"Yes, after more than a month of tossing, I really can't bear this old bone. ”

"My brother has completed the task given by the governor perfectly this time, and I am afraid that there will be a reward when I go back. ”

"Hehe, thanks to Your Excellency Potter, it's also thanks to you that you can buy French-made weapons this time. ”

Speaking of which, it was an accident that the two met. Potter was sent to England by Charlie later, after Shoren had destroyed the town controlled by the Pandey family, and Charlie was very annoyed with the new power that had caused the colony to lose strength. Originally, he planned to send a large army to wipe out the Yanhuang Trading Company, but both the Addams family and the Pandey family said that the weapons and equipment of the colony were now lagging behind the Yanhuang Trading Company, and Charlie had to believe it.

He heard that the British mainland was starting to change into new equipment, so he hurriedly sent his butler Potter. After explaining the reason for the incident with the British government, he was given a sum of money to buy new arms. However, the British munitions manufacturing capacity of this period was not comparable to that of the French. Charlie has said that he needs the most advanced musket artillery and does not care which country produces it. To this end, he also gave Porter a private amount of money to use to purchase truly advanced munitions.

However, Potter has not been back since he was eighteen years old and followed Charlie's father to North America. For a while, there was really no way. Fortunately, the Mill family still has some influence in the British mainland, and they found Kamal. Kamal's aunt is said to have been married to a French count. This count has a lot of arsenals in his hands, and secretly, he is also a powerful underground arms dealer. At that time, Kamal also received the news that he was going to North America to take up a post, and Potter came to the door, and he took the opportunity to deal with it.

After a great deal of effort, more than a month of hard work, and a lot of money, Cai finally bought enough weapons and ammunition from his uncle to arm a thousand men. Not to mention the weapons bought from the French. After all, it is only enough for 1,000 people, and it does not account for the majority. And the weapons bought from the British mainland were enough to equip six thousand soldiers. The muskets were all brown bass muskets produced in a factory. In principle, the brown bass is so famous because it was one of the first flintlock smoothbore guns to be manufactured in a standardized manner

The reason for this is because the first country to standardize the musket process was, of course, the French. The brown bass musket as we know it originated from an arms development contract signed by the Royal Ordnance Office on 15 September 1714, which consisted of soliciting design ideas from private ordnance dealers on preferential terms, which were then approved for production by the Ordnance Department authorities. This musket, which has only been around for about four years, is enough to use in Potter's mind.

In fact, it was only in 1722 that the first standard musket 'King's Pattern' was finally born, which may indicate that the Ordnance Bureau had high expectations for it, or perhaps it could not come up with a better name, and then there were pilot models such as the P1724, until it was finalized in 1728, and the appearance of the P1730 musket in mass production in 1730, and the 200-year history of Brown Bess began. Today's brown bass muskets are not fully standardized. The shortcomings remained, but the effective firing range was also about 130 meters.

Artillery, in the case of artillery, there is not much improvement. However, in 1697, Europe simplified the aiming and reloading process by replacing the bulk gunpowder inside the ignition hole with a tube filled with gunpowder. So Porter did not buy artillery, but this powder tube technology. Ordinary artillery can be produced in the colony, and it would be too much trouble to buy it here and ship it back.

From the French, he bought ten four-pounder guns, which he was going to ship back to the colonies for prevention, in place of the three-pounder guns used in the colonies. The muskets, bought from the French, did not have an official name, but were armed with improved regular bayonets. Also belonging to the front-loading flintlock pistol, the musket bought from the French has an effective range of about 150 meters, but to achieve this maximum range, you can only shoot two rounds a minute, and the same is true for the brown bass musket.

Later, Kamal also helped so that Potter could return to the Americas with his weapons and on a ship with him. In this way, the two really got along. In return, Potter also said that he would help him connect with the Inspector General, and arrange a private meeting between the two within a week. Kamal was not mistaken, the sight of the seagull meant that it was not far from land. The next night, they docked in Boston Harbor. The warship was able to come here because there were documents from the governor, and no one dared to stop it.

There were already people waiting for Potter here, and overnight, the weapons were unloaded and transported to the Boston barracks to be stored first. Charlie has henchmen here, and he is not afraid that someone will guard and steal from him. After receiving the news of the arrival of the new weapons, the representative officers of the various forces arrived at the governor's palace the next day, and they wanted to show their loyalty and get their hands on these weapons, which could greatly strengthen the combat effectiveness of the army. They were still proud, and they didn't know that even if they had this batch of weapons, they were no match for the Yanhuang Trading Company.

The Yanhuang Trading Company is equipped with a rifle that was only invented in the late 19th century, and even if the name is changed, it cannot hide the fact that the Yanhuang Type 1 rifle is nearly 200 years ahead of the present. Even if Zhao Menghai, Yu Xiao, and Yu Wei joined, they felt that this rifle was very suitable for the current Yanhuang Trading Company. Previously, due to process problems, the actual performance of the Yanhuang 1 rifle was only about 70% of the design performance. With the accumulation of technology during this period, not long ago, the new batch of Yanhuang Type 1 rifles has also reached 100 percent of the design performance.

According to Zhao Menghai, there is still a lot of room for improvement in this rifle, and he is now studying the information of the Dongying 38 rifle, and he has also obtained a few high-imitation entities. According to him, at most, in one year, he will be able to improve the Yanhuang Type 1 rifle, and after absorbing the advantages of the Type 38 rifle, it will be 30% stronger in terms of power, accuracy, effective range and rate of fire. Of course, the Type 56 submachine gun and the revolving machine gun were also selected by the four as weapons that could be popularized in the army.

The appearance of machine guns is of great significance. It put an end to the era of cavalry, and made the cavalry who dominated the battlefield become the weaker slaughtered by tongues of fire. If the revolver machine gun is equipped with troops, the escort team of the Yanhuang Trading Company can be completely one hundred. Of course, these two weapons are still a bit high-tech for the current Yanhuang Trading Company. Relying on Yu Wei and Zhao Menghai, two graduate students majoring in mechanical engineering, it will not be possible to study it in a short period of time.

The law and order in Huaguo is too strong, and it is too difficult to find some people here to help him research weapons and equipment. At the same time, it is not possible to buy large quantities from China's weapons stockpiles. It's okay to secretly buy a little bit of a deterrent weapon, but you can't hide it from Sorento and the Chinese side when you want to buy it in large quantities. Unless, Xiao Lin is willing to confess his adventures and the country, the best result is that the two sides cooperate in development.

If you encounter some scum, you may be directly robbed by force. His little strength, in the whole of China, really has nothing to look at. However, they did not sit idle during these three months. They formalized the artillery suitable for use by the Yanhuang Trading Company, named the heavy-fist front-loading rifled gun, and the progress of development was in the final stage.

In order to increase the range of artillery, rifled guns were tested in European countries in the early 19th century. In 1846, Major G. Cavalli of Italy made a spiral rifled cannon that fired a cone-headed cylindrical long explosive projectile. The spiral rifling rotates the projectile and stabilizes the flight, which improves the power and accuracy of the gun, and increases the range of the gun. At the same time as the appearance of rifled guns, the bolt was improved, the gun was rear-loaded, and the rate of fire was significantly increased.

At present, there have been no shooting experiments in the heavy punch style, and the data is not yet certain. In March, Xiao Lin ran several sets of them, just to bring the finished product of the heavy punch style and Zhao Menghai to the 18th century, ready to carry out design experiments.