"This is the Martini-Henry rifle," Fang Hongyi watched the new army rush to the front line like a wolf, and the soldiers shot forward in a half-squatting posture one by one, and the French army that was originally assembled into a phalanx was a little flustered, and he explained to Feng Zicai, "I bought it back from the UK, and we slowly learned to build a lot of it ourselves, and the people in China call it a nine-shot gun, and Jinling has already built some in the second half of last year." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"With such a sharp weapon, why don't you quickly allocate it to the armies?" Feng Zicai said unhappily, "Bai asked the five provinces to train and our army to be suppressed by the French with fast guns here, so many brothers died. ”

"I built some, but the cost is extremely expensive, and it can't be allocated to the armies at all, and the twelve towns have not all been fully equipped, how can we talk about regimental training in various places," Fang Hongyi shook his head and said, "If it weren't for my fifth town to come to Vietnam to fight, I'm afraid that this rifle wouldn't be able to be used in my hands." ”

Looking at the military weapons of the late 19th century, the British Martini-Henry rifle is not without mentioning. It played an extraordinary role in Britain's expansion of its imperial territory throughout the world. From snow-covered Canada to Sudan on the edge of the Sahara Desert to Afghanistan in the mountains, it has left its footprints everywhere. Throughout history, many brave warrior nations have been suppressed by British soldiers armed with long-range, high-rate Martiny Henry rifles.

In 1871, after the Martini-Henry rifle was officially purchased by the British army, the Chinese also introduced this rifle as a priority configuration, Baoding, Jinling, Shanghai and other ordnance factories have different division of labor, the direction of the development of weapons is also different, Shanghai research is French ordnance, Jinling is the British goods, Baoding is naturally the most German, so Jinling Ordnance Factory for the development of this rifle is very successful, but the key technology requires skilled senior technicians to complete, The efficiency has not been improved, and the price of the self-made Martini-Henry rifle is not even as low as the price of buying it from the British.

"The artillery suppressed the French line of fire in the back, the musketeers scattered and charged forward in a line, and the cavalry spread out on both sides and inserted the enemy formation, which was the tactic of the French who defeated the French in Sedang and captured the French Emperor Napoleon," Fang Hongyi explained, "Today, these French people are still setting up a phalanx outside Lang Son City with the heart of despising the enemy. Heaven and earth, not to blame, today I must make this contribution! He waved his hand and gave the order, "Send a signal, order Chu Yun to quickly drive out the French in the high ground, and then combine the cavalry on the left and right sides to insert diagonally into the enemy's two wings, and today they will fight the French outside Lang Son City!" ”

The herald on the side said yes loudly, took a firework out of the iron box he carried, lit a fire letter, snorted, flew into the air, and exploded a red firework, the fireworks were obviously not the same as civilian ones, and it took four or five minutes to stop in the air before slowly dissipating.

Fang Hongyi actually had such courage, taking advantage of the fact that the French army was not on a stable foothold, and he was not afraid that he would start a decisive battle before his foothold was stable, Feng Zicai was very worried, "There are a lot of French soldiers, and I am afraid that I will suffer a loss." ”

"There are many of them, and there are a lot of us," Fang Hongyi said, "Needless to say, I also know that the French have always been unconvinced, feeling that in Vietnam, they were all successfully attacked by us, so they failed, and today I will use a dignified and upright army to repel the French army head-on, and let them know that in China, in Vietnam, it is not their turn to show off their might!" ”

Miller quickly stood up, he couldn't help but think of the most humiliating experience of his life, as a soldier, was a mess in the face of the Germans who were inferior to his own firepower, even His Majesty the Emperor became a prisoner, and he had to get rid of the role of prisoner of war after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, "These damn Chinese actually used a linear array!" "How could he not recognize the position put up by these damned Chinese? It was Germany that became famous in the Franco-Prussian War! I didn't expect them to come so quickly, and I didn't expect these Chinese regular troops to learn the German set so decently!

The adjutant hurriedly said, "Your Excellency General, let's quickly revise our team as well!" ”

"It's too late," Miller shook his head, "changing the formation at this time will only make our hands and feet more flustered, and it will boost their arrogance, I don't believe that they can learn the inner essence of these formations at all, today we will prepare here first, gentlemen, French warriors," Miller, who was originally very peaceful, shouted loudly and drew his saber, he understood that this time was also very critical, these regular armies were far from being comparable to those peasants, The frontal official battle is about to begin, so the brave are likely to be favored by the goddess of fate, "Today is the time to defend our dignity as the number one army in the world!" ”

The six phalanxes of the French army assembled in front of Lang Son received the order, and slowly moved towards the Chinese soldiers who rushed over, and the Chinese soldiers rushed into the line, both sides were in range, and it seemed that a roasted red sharp knife stabbed the butter, and the butter slowly melted, and it seemed to be a boulder, fearless and standing in the face of the impact of eggs.

Song Huihong panted, took a mace and a few soldiers who were still able to fight, and rushed to the front, there were already four rows of soldiers standing in front of him, he was originally going to charge, but was stopped by the soldiers of the new army, "At this time, it is not your turn, wait until we break through the French defense, and then let you go, you have no musket cover, now you will only die!" ”

All the soldiers of the new army are very confident, and they don't take the French in their eyes, Song Huihong felt the pride of the soldiers of the new army for the first time, originally just to be a soldier to eat food, at this time he felt a different meaning, if you want to be a soldier, why not be the best soldier?

The two sides have already started a war, the sound of the wind fighting, the sound of artillery and the sound of shooting are mixed together, Fang Hongyi stood still on the crumbling city gate, just holding a telescope to watch the situation of the battle between the two sides at all times, and from time to time issuing orders to adjust the attack in all directions, Feng Zicai looked at the battle situation and couldn't help shouting again and again, "This is what a war looks like!" (To be continued.) )