The matter of fighting the war is very simple, but the negotiations after the ceasefire are trivial and time-consuming.
Yao Fen from the Inspectorate had been sent back to negotiate with Supervisor Biao Lvying, causing the Qing army to surrender and stop the attack. After crossing the river, two aides from Tusab, the governor of Guangdong, and Xu Zujing, the chief envoy, were sent to surround Haizhuang.
The temple's Fu Biao Qing army went to negotiate.
When it was almost seven o'clock in the morning, Tusab's staff came back and said that the Qing troops surrounding Haizhuang Temple had retreated. Zhao Xin then asked the Zheng family to take the soldiers of Beihai Town and Guangdong Governor Tusab to set off for Liyumen.
; The body of the fallen soldier was also taken away and prepared to be cremated and buried after arriving at Lei Yue Mun.
The purpose of bringing Tusab is to ensure that the group can pass Huangpu and Humen smoothly. You must know that there are four forts in Humen. As for the Zheng family itself, Zhao Xin is not worried about what tricks they will pull. After all, Zheng Yi, Zheng Qi and the others
They are still in the hands of Beihai Town. After seeing the governor, Zheng Lianchang will send gifts to Guangzhou or put them in sacks and throw them into the sea. Then let him go. According to Zhao Xin's estimation, Zheng Lianchang will most likely send someone to send gifts to Tusa.
Return to Guangzhou.
The two assault boats were towed away by the watermelon boat. Zhao Xin thought that his men might be able to use them after they went to Hong Kong Island. Anyway, this thing was useless after piercing it with a knife and leaking air. Without the diesel fuel in the motor, it was just a pile of scrap metal.
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After Zhao Xin and Liu Zheng escorted Sun Shiyi and others into Haizhuang Temple cautiously, their hearts were in their throats, fearing that a group of people would suddenly appear out of nowhere. Zhao Xin himself was not afraid, but Liu Zheng would be in trouble if he was taken away.
Okay, so they arrived under the three Bodhi trees, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
Under Zhao Xin's threat with a gun, several aides helped Sun Shiyi and left quickly. After the two quickly checked around and confirmed that no one was around, Zhao Xin put away the weapon and grabbed Liu Zheng's hand.
The arm disappeared under the bodhi tree in an instant.
Zhao Xin, who returned to Beihai Town, was unanimously criticized by the people who traveled across time. Originally, a simple transport of silver went to such an extent. Whether the five hundred thousand taels of silver were lost or not was not a big problem. The key was that Zhao Xin himself had to make a mistake.
, how will everyone go back in the future?
Maybe some people want to dominate the world, but the problem is that most people come to work to make money.
For these people, after getting over the initial curiosity, wouldn't it be better to earn money and go back to enjoy themselves instead of staying in an era where medical care and living and entertainment standards are extremely backward?
Faced with the "big criticism" launched by everyone, Zhao Xin had no choice but to bow his head and admit his mistake, saying that he would never go to the south to engage in other things in the future.
The biggest loss during this trip to Guangzhou was the loss of a Beihai Town standard rifle. Although everyone knew that it was impossible to imitate it with the smelting technology of the 18th century, no one could say what inspiration the Manchu craftsmen would receive.
As for the issue that others are worried about whether rifles will be lost to foreigners, Zhao Xin and Liu Zheng are not worried at all. Because the foreigners at this time are not the foreigners after the Opium War, they can't even enter the city of Guangzhou.
Not to mention going deep into the interior; at present, Manchu officials and foreigners are pursuing a "complete non-contact policy."
Zhao Xin himself believed that the biggest gain this time was that he saw clearly that the Manchu rule in Guangzhou was a paper tiger. The huge empire relied on trade, which made Western bandits look like flowers in the fog. Until Margani ten years later
With the arrival of the mission, we realized that behind the apparent prosperity was an astonishing decline, and that this huge empire was actually vulnerable.
Ding Guofeng drove the Thor away and went south to Lei Yue Mun to pick up people. Seeing that the Chinese New Year was coming soon, he had to bring back the bones of the soldiers who died in the battle for burial.
To be on the safe side, a total of one battalion of troops went south with the ship this time, which also included students from the navigation school. The Zheng brothers and Guo Po, as newly admitted students, also went with them. At present, the identities of the three of them are still unknown.
As a trainee sailor, in addition to doing odd jobs on the ship every day, he also has to learn how to use various navigation instruments. Such as sextant, barometer, wet and dry thermometer, anemometer, etc.
His eyes turned back to Oiqing.
At this time, news of the rebellion in Taiwan's Tiandihui had reached the capital. The document from Chang Qing, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, was handed over to Qianlong's case on the 12th of the twelfth lunar month. However, Qianlong and his military ministers did not pay attention to it. Everyone thought that Lin Shuangwen and others were no more than
It is a small group of thieves who are causing rebellion, and it is not an urgent matter at the moment. Since Huang Shijian, the admiral of the Fujian Navy, has led 3,000 troops across the sea to quell the rebellion, Lin Shuangwen and his gang will definitely be wiped out quickly.
On December 15, a letter of apology jointly signed by Sun Shiyi and Tusab caused an uproar in the government and the public after arriving in the capital.
It is said that such a big thing happened in Guangzhou. It is impossible for the Guangdong officialdom to conceal it, but how to apologize to the emperor is very particular.
First of all, the "soul-taking" incident that made everyone tremble the most. Because there were only a few people present at the time, the five major officials who returned to the city, namely the governor, governor, Naitai, Fantai, and Guangdong Customs Supervisor, quickly reached an agreement.
The offensive and defensive alliance unanimously decided to keep the "soul-capturing" matter in their stomachs and never leak a word to the outside world.
The second was how to report the events of that night to the emperor. In order to cover up the cowardice of the Eight Banners stationed in Guangzhou City and his own capture, Sun Shiyi and others, after discussing with Guangzhou General Cuntai who returned to Guangzhou, showed it to Qianlong and the military plane
What happened in front of the minister became as follows:
At first, Sun Shiyi learned from the garrison at the Eight Banners that Zhao Ni suddenly appeared in Guangzhou City and was colluding with Bai Xiong Xing to plot evil, so he mobilized troops overnight to arrest him. Then that night, hundreds of ruthless bandits suddenly came out of Bai Xiong Xing to resist the officials.
Army. Due to the sharp weapons of the bandits, more than half of the Supervisor's men and horses were killed and injured, and the Supervisor's Yamen fell.
Here comes the point!
Just when the governor's office was invaded by thieves, the officials led their own soldiers and guards to resist. When the situation was critical, the Eight Banners garrisoned in the city and the volunteers of Nanhai County rushed out of the old city and came to the governor's office to rescue them, repelling the bandits in one fell swoop.
.In the end, Zhao Ni saw that the army and people in Guangzhou were united and resisted to the death. In the end, he had no choice but to escape to the sea by boat.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In general, this operation in Guangzhou City is described as a long-planned attempt by the "Zhao Ni Gang" to rob Guangzhou City together with internal and external cooperation; and in total
The force size of more than thirty people was said to be several hundred.
Although Qianlong expressed shock and anger that Guangzhou City was almost lost, he was gratified that Sun Shiyi and others were able to defend Guangzhou City in this battle and at the same time capture the weapons of Beihai Town. He felt that if he had not previously approved Sun Shiyi to strengthen the training of Guangdong and Guangxi soldiers
Ma, maybe the city of Guangzhou won't be able to be defended this time.
The military ministers headed by He Shen even expressed their congratulations and praises. It is said that the emperor succeeded the ancestor Shizong Molie, sent out the remaining threads of Taizu Shizu, and worked hard to govern. Now Guangdong has successfully trained troops, which is enough to prove that the emperor's strategy is unparalleled.
When the army marches north, it will be the time when Zhao Ni will be crowned the leader.
As for the people in the White Bear Line who were beaten away, it made everyone in the court very worried. They pinched their noses before and called them "Great Ainu", but in fact, the rebellious people landed in Guangzhou, which really brought Qianlong and the Manchu civil and military forces to a halt.
It tastes bad.
What satisfied Qianlong the most was the Beihai Town repeating musket that came to Beijing with the memorial. Since the 49th year of Qianlong's reign, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties had fought against Beihai Town many times, but this was the first time that weapons had been seized.
It is said that there are many kinds of well-made muskets in the palace, and Qianlong himself is very familiar with muskets. In addition to self-made muskets, there are also tributes from princes, ministers and Westerners. For example, the Sixth Panchen Lama once paid tribute
There are Tibetan muskets and flintlock muskets given to Kangxi by the British.
However, when the well-informed Qianlong and several military ministers carefully inspected the Beihai Town rifle in front of them, they found that in addition to knowing which is the barrel, which is the trigger, and which is the front sight and rear sight, the purpose of the other parts is
I don't understand it at all, nor do I understand how to load this gun.
Since Heshen was currently the minister in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and in charge of the Military Academy, and had experience in Beihai Town, Qianlong gave Heshen the full authority to study the musket. After Heshen took the order,
, then he took a group of guards to escort the rifle to the Military Academy on the west side of Beichizi Road outside Donghua Gate.
In the Qing Dynasty, the Armed Forces Academy was affiliated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Together with the Shangsi Academy and Fenchen Court, it was collectively known as the Third Inner Academy. Its affairs were responsible for preparing military equipment for the court, and the department that made fowling guns was called the "Fowling Gun Department."
In a signing room of the Armed Forces Prefecture, Beihai Town's rifle was placed on a table, and a kind of bureaucratic craftsman, including Shu Wen, the minister of the Armed Forces Prefecture, was looking at the case carefully.
Among the officials present, apart from He Shen, Shu Wen, who was of the third rank, had the highest official position, so this person asked on behalf of his subordinates: "May I ask Zhongtang, how many shots can this continuous fire blunderbuss fire?"
He Shen took a sip of tea and said slowly: "There are always more than ten guns."
There are many sources of information about the weapons of Beihai Town from the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, such as the ransomed prisoners, the spies sent, the observations of the defenders in the city when they attacked Ninggu Pagoda, etc. Although the exact number is not clear, these people all swear that at least
Can fire more than ten shots in a row.
As soon as these words came out, Baitang'a, who was responsible for supervising the manufacture of shotguns in the fowling department, seemed a little surprised, but he was just a little surprised.
Why only "some"? Because repeating fire blunderbuss are really not a new weapon to these people. They are in the warehouse of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and there is a thick layer of dust.
There is a rumor in later generations that Dai Zi invented the world's first machine gun during the Kangxi period. However, because the Manchu emperor did not know the goods and did not understand advanced military technology, this weapon was not equipped on a large scale in the army. If the Manchu emperor
The Qing Dynasty could pay attention to the machine gun invented by Dai Zi. By the time of the Opium War, it had already defeated the British.
But the actual situation is not like this! The so-called Dai Zi Lianzhu gun is actually exactly the same as the flintlock 20-ring Pipa sheath gun that the British paid tribute to Kangxi; Dai Zi is just an imitation.
Kangxi was not a fool. If this gun was easy to use, it would have been mass-produced long ago.
In terms of the industrial level from the 17th to the 18th century, the Pipa scabbard gun was not practical at all because of its poor air tightness, let alone a machine gun. The processing accuracy at that time could not guarantee mass production, and the workmanship was very complicated. Since the air tightness was
The tightness is extremely poor, so the power and range will definitely not meet the needs of actual combat. Otherwise, why would the British use brown bass?
As for the so-called advanced rifles brought by the Macartney mission, even the British army itself was not equipped with them. The reason is very simple. They sent air guns, which could not be used for fighting at all. There was no problem at all for hunting sparrows.
Although the Manchus in the early and middle Qing Dynasty were conservative, they were not stupid enough to not care about advanced firearms. After all, there were so many battles fought during the Qianlong period, and the army's firepower projection must be guaranteed. Flintlock guns without bayonets were not included.
In fact, it is not as stable and powerful as the matchlock gun.
Weapons that are equipped in large batches must have stable performance, high quality and low price. This principle will be followed even in later generations when countries purchase standard weapons.
After receiving Heshen's permission, several worshipers held up the rifles on the bill with both hands, and were shocked by the heavy weight.
The so-called expert can tell if there is anything when he reaches out his hand. A worshiper was surprised and said: "This gun is actually made of steel!"
Everyone first weighed the gun carefully using a scale to confirm that the total weight of the gun was 7.7 kilograms. Then they used a measuring tape to measure the length of each place and recorded it. The next step was to analyze the composition of the gun body.
However, these people looked at it for a long time, and the only thing they could understand was that the wood on the gun was made of birch. Except for the barrel, bayonet, trigger, rear sight and other parts that could be distinguished, they were completely confused about the functions of other parts.
Take this gun barrel for example.
The barrels of the Manchu-style shotguns were forged from double-layered wrought iron; they were then put on a drill press and used to straighten the hole with a drill bit; then the tailgate was sealed and side ignition holes were opened; and then the medicine tank and gun were assembled.
.And in order to facilitate the fixation of the barrel and the wooden stock, the outer wall of the barrel must be made into edged surfaces.
But the barrel of the gun in front of them was round and black, with no welds visible on the surface. Everyone guessed that it must have been cast into shape with molten steel and then drilled with a drill. This made several Baitangs gasp in surprise, thinking to themselves:
How much effort does it take to drill out a gun barrel?
Steel is not the problem, the problem is that it is expensive! Nowadays, good steel is used to make waist knives and weapons. Anyone who uses it to make shotguns is really a loser!
Another example is the retractable handle on the back of the gun body. After careful consideration, several people thought that this should be the place for loading the gunpowder, but after looking at it for a long time, they couldn't figure out how to put the gunpowder and lead. They wanted to get some muskets.
I didn't dare to try it inside, for fear of damaging the gun.
"Where's the medicine pot? Why doesn't this gun have a medicine pot? Even if it's a tap fire, there has to be a place to put flints?" A Baitang Ala's trigger handle looked at the sun carefully for a while, confused.
The only accident during the research process was that someone accidentally flipped the safety in the trigger ring. Now it was bad and the trigger could not be pulled!
When He Shen saw it, his face suddenly turned pale. He finally captured a Beihai Town weapon. If it was broken, there would be no way to explain it to Qianlong!
When the man, sweating profusely, finally turned the insurance back to its original position, everyone heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that it was so suspenseful that the guy who was eating almost lost his insurance. However, after this accident, several craftsmen finally understood the insurance
What is it used for?
The problem is that if you really want to understand the structural principles inside, you must completely disassemble the gun. Who dares to do this?!
He Shen sat in the signing room for half an hour. He felt that the chief craftsmen had almost finished their research, so he smiled and said, "How is it? What can you see?"
"Going back to the central hall, this gun is made of fine steel except for the wooden support on the outside. When it comes to using steel to make a shotgun, the material is expensive and time-consuming. If you want the gun to have a consistent wall thickness, it needs to be carefully polished.
It can be formed before it can be formed. However, there is no sealing door at the end of the barrel of this gun. The slaves still can't figure out how to charge the powder and fire it. However, according to the slaves' speculation, this gun may be different from the one used by our government. If you really want to find out.
The inner structure requires dismantling the outer wooden supports."
"Yeah! I heard that they use blunderbuss covered with bronze armor, so they can hit fast and far." He Shen nodded after hearing this, and that was all he could tell at this time. He pondered.
After a while, he said: "In this case, I will ask the emperor for permission to see if the master can allow you to take this gun apart. Can it be copied in a month?"
"Go back to the central hall. If you only build one, as long as you can measure the detailed dimensions of each place, there should be no problem."
He Shen slapped the table with satisfaction and said with a smile: "In that case, I will go back and report to the emperor."