General Daniel Lewis, who was really tired, sat by the river, nibbling on a piece of dried Indian flatbread, unable to bite it, and his expression was very painful.The march lasted more than 10 hours, but the British army was torn by the Chinese army, and it only walked less than 25 kilometers.Now the Chinese army has two divisions, 40,000 troops bite his main force of 200,000 British troops, and it is not yet 200,000, it is too late to estimate the remaining soldiers, Daniel Lewis estimates, at most there are 180,000 British troops left under his own command.He was originally a British nobleman, and he came to India to enjoy the blessings, and if he didn't enjoy much blessings, he was afraid that he would die in this foreign land today.Daniel Lewis looked at the soldiers around him, the officers and soldiers were already very tired, if he continued like this, if he wanted to escape to Kabul to stabilize his position, he would have to give away the names of at least 100,000 soldiers, one run, one chased, and the side that chased and fought, there was no personnel consumption at all, so the Chinese army was equal to one who did not die, and all the dead were British soldiers.Daniel Lewis suddenly regretted that he did not follow the advice of Abdul Rahman Khan, if the main force of the British army was left to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese army, the Indian coercive army and the Afghan coercive army were killed from both wings, with millions of superior troops, it would not be so passive as the current situation.Originally, Daniel Lewis had great confidence in fighting in Afghanistan this time, but now the Chinese army has joined him, so that his confidence has been lost, and he usually looks down on the Chinese army and the Chinese country, but in fact, in the hearts of Daniel Lewis and the British officers, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army is not lost to the German army at all, and is even stronger."
No, you can't run like this anymore, the army is in formation, the artillery is in formation, and the Chinese army is fighting, pay attention to protecting the two wings."
Daniel Lewis seemed to be stimulated by something, and suddenly stood up and yelled, and slammed the bread in his hand to the ground."
What are you doing at this time" This is the voice of all the British officers and soldiers who heard Daniel Lewis speak, of course, no one dared to say this kind of thing, even if they said it, they all whispered to each other, and Daniel Lewis fled fifty miles with the army, and the morale of the army was already scattered, and the morale of the army was gone, "Did you hear the order, take action, or the two divisions of the Chinese army will surround us and then annihilate them all, don't you see the situation clearly, don't you talk desperately, No one can get out," Daniel Lewis said angrily.Daniel Lewis finally saw the situation clearly, but now for him, whether he is desperately arrayed or desperately fleeing back to Kabul to stabilize his position, it is actually almost the same, and, at this stage, maybe it is better to flee back to Kabul to defend and wait for food and grass to fight a protracted battle.However, since the commander has given the order, the tactical literacy of the British army is different from that of those coerced subordinate troops after all, and it is still relatively high.Wang Dashan has already been on the front line in person, and he will join Zhang Haobo, and Gao Yitong will still continue to lead a group of Afghan indigenous troops to assist the Fifth Field Division of the Chinese Army to bite the Indian and Afghan coercive forces."
Great, the British are not leaving, they are going to fight with us, General."
Zhang Haobo excitedly held the telescope and said to Wang Dashan.Wang Dashan nodded with a smile, "No matter which move he takes, I will let him be buried in the invaded land to upload my orders, the Sixth Field Division of the Chinese Army and the Seventh Field Division of the Chinese Army will accelerate the encirclement, and surround the British army to death within an hour, everyone should pay attention to keeping a distance, use bullets to consume each other, and give full play to the advantages of our President's 1878 rifle over the British army's rifle with a long range, high accuracy, and continuous fire." ”"Yes, General."
When the adjutant heard Wang Dashan's order, he hurriedly went to inform the signal corps to send a telegram to several divisions and brigades below.The 1850s were an era of crazy leaps and bounds in rifle technology, and if you distinguish it from the technical level, there are roughly so many generations of rifles.Arquebuses such as shotguns have been eliminated around the world, and are still used in large quantities only in a few countries and regions, such as the Qing Empire, Afghanistan, and Japan.The flintlock pistol, mainly a smoothbore gun, has advanced a generation compared with the arquebus, but after nearly 300 years of popularity, it has been completely eliminated after 1850 because of the progress of technology, and the armies of the world's major advanced countries have been reequipped.Among them, the Brown Bess smoothbore flintlock pistol, which was produced from the beginning of the 18th century and fully retired in the 1840s, can be said to be the absolute main equipment of the British army during the Napoleonic Wars and the Opium Wars, and the production of the Indian type used by the army alone exceeded three million.The breech musket, which is more advanced than the flintlock pistol, adopts the fire cap firing technology, which is more reliable, more convenient to load, and can be used in rainy days, and can also be used intensively, and it has gradually become popular since the beginning of the 19th century, and soon squeezed the flintlock pistol out of the market.Among them, the famous Krenswick rifle front-loading smoothbore rifle, this rifle began to equip the troops in 1838, ready to be fully equipped with the British army's pre-loading flintlock pistol, but before it was fully equipped with the troops, the newer Mini rifle Mini rifle appeared, fixed ammunition and many other technologies made the effective range of the rifle from a mere one or two hundred meters to more than five hundred meters appeared, and in 1851 began to equip the British army, as a result, this eliminated new rifle can only be quickly withdrawn and sold, The Mini rifle showed absolute performance superiority in the Crimean War, completely overpowering the old rifles of Imperial Russia, and then the great powers were all completely reequipped with Mini rifles.The good days of the Mini rifle were not long, and all kinds of breech rifles were eliminated in the next 10 years, and breech rifles evolved into all kinds of repeater guns, but the correct direction of breech rifles was the magazine rifle, and the subsequent progress was replaced by smokeless powder, and by the end of the nineteenth century, pointed bullets replaced round rounds.Since the 1850s, there has been a revolutionary change in rifle technology every five to ten years, and many rifles are facing obsolescence as soon as they are fully equipped with troops, and there has never been an era in the history of rifles that has undergone such drastic changes.From the First Opium War around 1840 to the Second Opium War around 1858, the British army made a leap forward in equipping rifles, directly from flintlock pistols to Mini rifles.In the first Opium War, most of the British expeditionary force was just flintlock pistols in 1838 The British army began to use front-loading smoothbore muskets to replace flintlock pistols, and not much was changed, because of the emergence of the Mini rifle and switched to the Mini rifle, to be precise, the Brown Bess smoothbore flintlock pistol, the Qing army green battalion soldiers used a bird gun, an arquebus in the early 17th century, or a product of Ming Dynasty technology, this gun was still used in the Qing Dynasty until the beginning of the 20th century.At that time, the Tibetan army did not think that the rifle could not need the arquebus, and it saw that the British army did not ignite the arquebus at all, and as a result, when the arquebus was extinguished, the British army said that the negotiation could not be successful, and immediately opened fire, while the Tibetan army was annihilated because the arquebus could not be ignited, and the two sides had a certain gap According to the comparison of experts, it is said that a Brown Bess can completely suppress 23 green battalion soldiers' shotguns, if you count the quality of the soldiers, this gap is even greater, but it is far from the second Opium War later, at this time, the British army is a longer range, the rate of fire is greater Mini rifles, The Qing army was still dominated by shotguns, and there was a big gap.At that time, if only the weapons were compared, the Qing infantry would not have been so defeated; At the same time, it also shows the role of bayonets at that time, and the shotguns of the Qing army did not have bayonets.If it weren't for Qianlong's destruction of Bi Maokang, who invented the flintlock pistol in 1635, there are instructions for the production of flintlock pistols in the description of the flintlock pistol, and the Qing army could have used Bi Maokang's technology to manufacture flintlock pistols, although Bi Maokang's flintlock pistol was inferior to the British army's Brown Bess flintlock pistol, but it was stronger than the arquebus.The British army now uses the Martini Henry rifle.The Martini Henry rifle played an extraordinary role in the expansion of British empire 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 Martini Henry rifles.The storied history of the Martini Henry rifle began with Henry Peabody, a gunsmith in Massachusetts, USA.In 1862, Peabody patented the breech-loading rifle, which used a landing bolt that automatically ejected the cartridge case when the bolt was lowered and allowed the next bullet to be loaded quickly.The gun was fired with a simple musket-style hammer and had to be fired manually.In the late 1860s and early 1870s, this breech-loading rifle was favored by countries such as Spain, Canada, Turkey, Romania, New Zealand, and Mexico, and tens of thousands of them were purchased.In 1866, Frederick von Martini, an Austrian designer living in Switzerland, modified Peabody's design to replace the bulky external hammer with a spring-controlled firing pin mounted inside the bolt, as well as a redesigned receiver and reinforced shell hook.These improvements result in a shorter firing time for the gun, which is 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 0577-inch 1466 caliber Snyder.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.In 1868, the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield received orders to produce several Martini rifles for further field testing.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 K1 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.The Martini Henry K1 rifle is very easy to operate, the shooter only needs to pull the lever down, and the following action will be accomplished: the firing pin is retracted into the front of the bolt; The bolt rotates, revealing the chamber; The trigger is embedded in the iron blocking groove; The gun's only safety device was a droplet-shaped standby indicator on the right side of the receiver, which was pointed at 10 o'clock when it was fired and at 12 o'clock after firing.The top of the right side of the receiver is engraved with the words VR, which is the Victoria Crown logo, and the lower right side of the receiver is the military standard logo.The K1 rifle still had some malfunctions in field use.There are four main problems: firearm failure caused by the quality of ammunition; When firing, the recoil is excessive; When firing continuously, the barrel overheats; The bayonet was more bulky.In 1877, the Martini Henry K2 rifle was adopted by the army.The K1 has been redesigned with a redesigned ruler, handguard, trigger and bolt, and the rear of the butt has been lengthened to reduce recoil., replaced by a bayonet with an annular seat.The K2 rifle omitted the safety device.Like China, the Great Powers are constantly developing and improving their own standard rifles.However, the President 1878 rifle now used by the Chinese army is at least ahead of the British's Martini Henry rifle, and the technical level is more than 10 years, which can not be regarded as a product competition of the same era.The bayonet of the Martini Henry rifle was mounted on the muzzle and had a hilt and a blood groove.Its main function is to assassinate enemies in white-knuckle combat.There are many types of bayonets used in the Martini Henry rifle, and almost every style of rifle is equipped with a corresponding bayonet.Of these, there are two most used, one is a bayonet with an annular seat, and the other is a sword-shaped bayonet.The 1853 bayonet was the most common bayonet with an annular seat.This bayonet was designed to be equipped with a 1853-style breech-loading rifle.The 1860 sword-shaped bayonet was a modified bayonet to match the Martini Henry rifle.During the widespread use of the Martini Henry rifle, this bayonet was also heavily armed.The 1876 bayonet was modified and redesigned on the basis of the 1853 bayonet.It was used on both K2 Martini Henry rifles.This battle is the first time that the president's 1878 rifle and Martini Henry rifle have clashed on the battlefield, and both the Chinese army and the British army have just replaced the standard equipment, and who has better actual combat results, relying on this battle to prove that "all bayonets, ready to meet the charge of the Chinese army" Daniel Lewis looked at the neatly assembled British army formation, and gave an order.The British army's formation was very orderly, although after repeated escapes and tens of thousands of attritions, morale and strength were affected to a certain extent, but under such circumstances, it was not easy for the troops to maintain order like this.The British army is still the same old tactics, compared with the tactics when the Opium War was launched, there is no progress at all, one phalanx is in the center, and two phalanxes protect the security of their flanks, which is equivalent to a cold weapon tactics with hot weapons.Wang Dashan looked secretly funny, he didn't give the order to charge for a long time, who would be stupid and wait to hit your guns and bayonets" Order, don't attack the British army without authorization, listen to my orders, and tie your pockets tightly first. ”Wang Dashan said to the adjutant beside him."
Yes, General."
The adjutant promised to go down and give orders.Wang Dashan nodded while comparing the enemy's formation and the map on the other.Zhang Haobo said with a smile: "Their technical and tactical level is not much stronger than the original Huai army. ”Wang Dashan snorted, "That's the case, the Huai army is not weak, the weak is the Qing court, the country is weak, how can the army be strong" Relying on the advantages of the president's 1878 rifle with long range and high accuracy, the Chinese army divided its troops to dig trenches while shooting, and gradually formed a huge encirclement.This made Daniel Lewis panic, why didn't Hua Jun follow his own routines t1706231537: