The entire scout team of twenty people searched forward in a fan shape. When they walked, their knees were bent to ensure that their leg muscles were always tight and they could make emergency movements.

Everyone was careful when landing, trying to avoid stepping on branches.

Kou Weifeng half-closed his eyes, and even his nose was trying to smell the surrounding smell.

He could feel himself getting closer to the source of the smell.

"Xilulu..." A horse brayed, and Kou Weifeng finally confirmed his judgment. The source of the sound was at the edge of the stream a hundred meters away.

This small stream was flowing forward dozens of meters away from Kou Weifeng and the others.

Kou Weifeng didn't know it yet, but there was a river beach just a few dozen meters in front of them. The river beach was covered with green grass, and a dozen green camp scouts from the Qing army wearing leather armor were drinking their horses here.

"Laisan, take care of your horse. If it barks again, I will kill it and eat its meat tonight." A scout officer scolded in a low voice.

"Boss Wang, this bitch is in heat right now and is calling for spring, but all the stallions in our team have been gelded, and there is no response even after calling her." Lai San with the triangular eyes

explained.

"What's the use of telling me this? All the horses given to us by the imperial court are geldings. How about you help him yourself?" Wang Ba said, and the scouts next to him laughed.

The scouts are in a state of high tension most of the time when they are out in action. Relaxing a little at this time will help everyone adjust their emotions.

The luck mentality is very strange. Almost everyone knows its existence, but once you have the luck mentality, you will find various reasons to explain and supplement it. For example, these Qing army scouts were thinking at this time, there has been no luck for so long

If you encounter an enemy, you can't possibly meet the enemy in just a short while while drinking the horse.

Kou Weifeng led the people towards the direction where the laughter came from. Whichever direction he turned, the fan-shaped formation of more than twenty scouts would turn in that direction as a unit.

This kind of consciousness is the muscle memory formed during high-intensity training.

The trees in front gradually became sparse, and wisps of light penetrated the gaps in the trees.

Kou Weifeng raised his left hand again, and then he raised the rifle in his hand.

Putting the butt of the gun against his cheek, the light reflected from the tail of the brass flash cap flashed past his eyes.

Since the discovery of mercury fulminate at the beginning of this century, this substance has been under research as a triggering agent.

The success rate of a mature flash cap gun is much higher than that of an ordinary flintlock gun.

The flash cap percussion gun does not use a medicine pot to hold the ignition powder, which can increase the loading speed to a certain extent, and it is easier to load, making it easier for soldiers to get started. Without the medicine pot, the air tightness is also better, which greatly reduces the leakage from the ignition part.

Gunpowder gas further improves weapon performance.

The most important thing is that the flintlock gun has a firing delay when shooting, because the gunpowder in the medicine pot must be completely burned before it can ignite the gun chamber. The ignition process is slow, and the firing gun fires at the moment when the hammer hits the flash cap.

, the flames generated by mercury fulminate will rush directly into the medicine chamber at a speed of 5400m/s, which makes the firing gun more accurate when shooting moving targets and easier to aim and shoot.

In addition, the percussion gun also has a simple structure and low cost. The most important thing is that the misfire rate of the flintlock gun is 1/7, while the percussion gun is 1/200. The improvement in reliability directly greatly increases the combat capability of the percussion gun.

, this is also the main reason why percussion guns quickly become mainstream firearms.

Dong Liang also knew that the use of flash caps was an important part of fixed bullets. At this time, brass eggshell fixed bullets had begun to be equipped in small batches in Western armies.

For a long time in the future, rifles will be the main equipment of the army. It is very important for an army to have a more reliable and advanced rifle.

At the beginning, most of the escorts used Mississippi flintlocks captured from American merchant ships. The characteristic of this kind of flintlocks is that they are durable and durable.

This gun and the Colt revolver saw great success in the Mexican-American War.

Soon Dong Liang relied on his own technology to establish a weapons workshop, but at the beginning, the workshop could only produce this kind of flintlock gun.

Dong Liang knows how to synthesize mercury fulminate. He only needs to react mercury and nitric acid to form mercury nitrate, and then react with mercury nitrate and ethanol to produce mercury fulminate. When a small amount of hydrochloric acid and copper are added during the reaction,

Mercury mercury is white mercury.

The raw materials used here are not too difficult to obtain.

But the actual operation was not that easy. At the beginning, Dong Liang could only prepare a small amount in the laboratory.

Later, they captured a preliminary industrial arsenal from Satsuma Domain, and Dong Liang was able to imitate his own steam engine based on the captured steam engine.

Under such circumstances, the output of the arsenal began to increase, and Dong Liang's method of producing mercury fulminate gradually matured.

For the rifled guns and smoothbore guns produced subsequently, Dong Liang followed the design of the flash cap gun and installed a pagoda-shaped flash cap firing structure.

The so-called pagoda shape is a cone-shaped hollow structure, and the small hole at the tip is the entrance of the spark fired by the flash cap into the medicine chamber.

The structure of the flash cap just fills this cone-shaped hollow.

At this time, most of the Qing army was still using matchlock guns, which was two or three generations behind them.

"Bang, bang, bang..." A burst of white smoke sounded in the trees more than 20 meters away from the Qing army. At this distance, the rifled gun was almost 100% accurate, and its power was amazing.

Some Qing troops were even hit and flew backwards.

Just as Mr. Wang was about to steal his three-eyed gun, he was shot down.

After one round of shooting, only a few Qing soldiers were left standing.

Kou Weifeng jumped out of the bushes, and his rifle was thrown to the ground, replaced by a revolver. At this time, the Colt revolver still required both hands to operate, just like in many Western movies, the right hand had to pull the trigger.

, place your left hand on the back of your right hand and pull the firing pin.

"Bang bang bang..." After a few more shots, Kou Weifeng knocked down the remaining Qing troops.

Looking around, there were no Qing troops standing on the entire battlefield.

Fortunately for Laizo, he was not injured, but his mare in heat pinned him down.

"Captain, there is a living person here." A scout spotted Lai San, raised the bayonet on his rifle and pointed it at his eyebrows, and then quickly reported to Kou Weifeng.

Kou Weifeng was still regretting that he had struck too quickly and too harshly, leaving no tongue. When he heard that there was a survivor, he was overjoyed.

"Brother, this horse is dying, can you give her a break? Whatever you want to ask, I will cooperate with you." Lai San is a person who understands current affairs.

He had neither the courage nor the motivation to die for the Manchus.

At this time, the war horse was not dead yet. It struggled when touched, and it was difficult to pull Laizan out.

Kou Weifeng nodded to Lai San, signaled to his men to pick up the weapon he had left not far away, then raised his pistol and shot the mare in the head.
Chapter completed!