Chapter 816: Qin Style

"Your Highness, I have received intelligence that the British, the Northern Di, and the Russians are colluding with each other and trying to reunite the scattered clans to deal with us. Reading" In the study, Xu Ke handed a document to Zhao Xu.

They have spies in Wu State, and naturally they also have spies in Nanliang and Nanping.

The British envoys went to Nanliang, and the blond and blue-eyed British were naturally very eye-catching and could not be concealed at all.

Afterwards, they inquired about the news through the bribed Nanliang officials and finally confirmed the matter.

After a pause, he continued: "At present, the British envoys are escorted by the Northern Di and Nanliang troops to Wu State, and they are expected to arrive in Changcheng soon."

Zhao Xu frowned.

Since the battle of Qizhou, Nanliang has parted ways with other clans, and Nanping has always been in a corner.

If the three families unite, it means that the alliance to attack Yan has revived.

The only difference is that the original alliance to attack Yan was promoted by Dongying.

Now it has become dominated by the British and the Russians.

He can imagine that the powerful tribes and the northern Di troops will confront him in the south of the Yangtze River under the unified command of the British and the Russians.

However, before going south, he predicted the most severe situation with the generals.

That is the current situation.

So he said: "It doesn't matter, let him be crazy, the breeze blows over the hills, and the union of hostile forces is only a matter of time, but it will definitely happen."

Xu Ke was stunned. For him, this situation is not good.

This means that Jiangbei is in a C-shaped encirclement.

Except for the east, there are enemies everywhere.

Even the east is not completely safe.

Japan has not been completely pacified, and the fleet of the Sam Kingdom may soon arrive in the eastern waters to compete with them for control of Japan.

So he was quite surprised that the King of Yan was so relaxed, and couldn't help saying, "Your Highness is not worried at all?"

"Why should you worry? If you are afraid and compromise, it means you have fallen into the British trap." Zhao Xu stood up and came to the map, waving his hand to call Xu Ke over.

After a pause, he said, "Three dwarfs stacked together, do they become giants? On the contrary, they are afraid and can only disguise themselves as giants to scare us."

Drawing a C on the map, he said, "Before they united, weren't they also our enemies? Didn't they always have conflicts with us? But aren't they still helpless against us, and can only be afraid day by day, worrying about our attack?"

Tsui Hark nodded slowly.

Before going south, Wu and Beidi had cooperated in the north and south under the instigation of the British.

One attacked the coast of Jiujiang, and the other constantly harassed the north.

But apart from leaving some corpses, they did not achieve any goals.

Now, there are only Nanliang and Nanping.

And these two are basically dispensable to the royal palace.

Zhao Xu continued, "This alliance is actually a move by the British and Russians who are afraid of my rise in the East. This should be worth celebrating because they believe that only by uniting can they fight me."

"So that's it. Although their alliance looks very powerful, it is actually just a weak performance of banding together for warmth. The advantage is mine."

"That's right." Zhao Xu laughed, "But the trouble is a little troublesome after all. We caught ten pigs yesterday, and we will have to catch a hundred pigs in the future. But it doesn't matter. Our soldiers will soon be equipped with new firearms to catch pigs."

Xu Ke suddenly remembered the musket that the Arms Department had just developed.

He knew about this, but he didn't know the details of this musket.

After saying this, Zhao Xu ordered Xu Ke to go back and continue to keep an eye on the actions of all parties to provide intelligence for the war of the royal army.

After Xu Ke left, Zhao Xu returned to the bedroom.

He wanted to go to the Arms Department, but he didn't want to ignore the beauty.

The red gauze tent was warm all night.

The next day, Zhao Xu couldn't wait to go to the Armory and saw the needle-type rear-loading musket developed by Wang Ying and the craftsmen.

"Your Highness, I have been waiting for you to give this musket a name." When Zhao Xu arrived, Wang Ying immediately presented a musket.

Unlike the muzzle-loading musket, this musket no longer needs a cleaning rod for loading and cleaning, but has a metal bolt structure at the back of the musket.

When using it, just pull the bolt open and load the bullet, which is much more convenient than loading bullets with a muzzle-loading musket.

For example, the rifle used by the Wangfu's personal army at present can only fire about five bullets per minute even with conical bullets.

And this breech-loading musket is twice as fast, ten rounds per minute.

"It's called the Qin-style rifle." Zhao Xu said.

When he came back, he thought of the naming issue.

This is also the first time he named the musket of the Armory.

The reason is just as Wang Ying said in the letter.

The muskets used by the Wangfu's personal army soldiers at present are just modified on the basis of the original flintlock muskets.

So it has never been named.

This rifle is different. It is a real new type of musket.

The barrel material is made from a converter, and the bolt parts are made from a lathe.

At the same time, it is also a change from a muzzle-loading musket to a breech-loading musket.

"Qin-style rifle? Does it mean Qinzhou?" Wang Ying scratched his head.

Zhao Xu shook his head.

This Qin is not the Qin of Qinzhou, but the Qin of the contemporary Qin Dynasty.

Qin unified the six kingdoms, and the world was united.

Next, he will make the military department fully produce Qin-style rifles and deliver them to the royal army.

Let the division of Dasong end under the majesty of the Qin-style rifle.

"When there is a chance, I will ask you to explain the meaning of the word Qin. For now, you just need to name it according to this." Zhao Xu said.

Wang Ying nodded. Since the King of Yan didn't say it, he naturally knew what was going on and didn't dare to ask again.

Suddenly grinning, he said: "Your Highness, do you want to try the Qin rifle?"

"Of course." Zhao Xu was moved.

The group arrived at the shooting range, and Wang Ying brought a handful of paper shell bullets.

"Your Highness, this paper shell bullet has a primer at the bottom. When you pull the trigger, the firing pin will hit the bullet and the bullet will explode, pushing the conical bullet out of the muzzle." Wang Ying introduced the bullets when he handed them to Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu nodded.

The breech-loading needle-percussion rifles used paper shell bullets at the beginning.

Because of this, the breech-loading rifles at the beginning had air leakage due to the gaps between the parts, resulting in an effective range that was not as good as the muzzle-loading rifles after the appearance of conical bullets.

It was not until the appearance of metal bullets that the air leakage problem was solved, and the range was also far better than that of muzzle-loading rifles.

Therefore, the development of breech-loaders since their appearance is the process of solving air leakage.

However, although Zhao Xu is aware of the problem of breech-loaders, he can only continue to use paper shell bullets.

Because the current industrial capacity of Yanzhou cannot establish a metal bullet production line.

To perfectly insert the conical bullet into the shell, the shell and the bullet need to fit very well.

In this way, the production of shells and bullets maintains a very high precision.

Paper shell bullets are different, because they don't care about air leakage.

Paper shell bullets can be thicker or thinner.

It is very convenient to produce.

Moreover, in this era, paper shell bullets are enough.