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Chapter 272 The Temptation of the New Rifle

A few days later, most of the old rifle factory was used to install new production equipment and production of Dresser rifles began.

The technicians and experts who previously produced French 1777 rifles and similar rifles were trained to produce 1841 model Dreiser rifles.

At the beginning, these technicians were also very deceived. When they woke up, they almost lost their jobs?

Fortunately, the Dresser rifle of the 1841 model still has many similarities with the 1777 rifle, so these techniques and experts can be put back into the production line with a little training.

Some of the production equipment given by the system is not enough to meet Chu Yun's needs for upgrading a large number of individual equipment, so even more production equipment for the production of new rifles has to be manufactured.

After the production of the Dreiser rifle began, Chu Yun summoned the chiefs of various troops, involving the Ministry of the Navy and the Ministry of War.

Changyi, the Fifth Infantry Brigade in the Heilongjiang River Basin, Xu Ji, the Sixth Infantry Brigade that suppressed the Jurchen tribe in the West Sea, and Sun Sheng, the Dragoon Brigade in Guihua City, were all recruited to Jinzhou City.

"Old Chang, have you led the Northern Expedition for several months? I wonder where your Fifth Infantry Brigade has advanced?" Liu Xingzuo, the brigade officer of the Third Infantry Brigade who returned from Jianzhou Wei, asked.

"The south of Heilongjiang has basically been taken down. The next step is to send officials to the local area to establish management order, and then set up private schools to improve the local atmosphere." Changyi dismounted wearing a large cotton military uniform.

Since the Liao army was weaponized, the officers and soldiers of the Liao army rarely wore heavy and inflexible equipment such as armor.Before winter came, Chu Yun asked the textile factory to produce a large number of green uniforms.

"I really envy your [-]th Infantry Brigade, which can still fight. Our [-]rd Infantry Brigade guards the Jianzhou Guard and establishes a new order. Except for drills, there is no place to consume ammunition. This year's military merit approval is estimated to be like that." Liu Xingzuo said regretfully.

"General Liu, you are the only one in our army department who has the rank of general because you helped the military leader turn the tables. The only two generals in the Liao army, if you make great military exploits again, the military leader doesn't know how to reward you. .” The rest of the officers booed.

"Do you think the warlord is going to start the battle again when the military leader asked us to come?" Mrs. Yang rubbed her hands and said eagerly.

"No way, didn't the military lord say that? We have no war for the time being, and we need to recharge our batteries. Besides, if we continue to fight, we will officially fight against the Ming court." Archduke Karl of the Second Infantry Brigade said.

"If you fight with the imperial court, you can fight. We even cleaned up the Jurchen tribe, and the imperial army is just like that. Liu Wang, I heard that your marine brigade bombarded Jinzhou City, making the imperial court civil and military officials noisy. Don't you dare to fart?" Mrs. Yang said to Liu Wang of the Admiralty.

Liu Wang heard that Mrs. Yang asked him about the bombardment of Jinzhou City, and his expression was a little unhappy: "Don't mention the bombardment of Jinzhou City. After the military master came back from the prairie, I heard that I took people to sneak around Jinzhou City. , but gave me a hard training.”

"Ah? I have to do the same thing about bombarding Jinzhou City. How majestic." Mrs. Yang said, "Why would the military lord blame you?"

"The military leader said that he would do such a cool thing before he came back, and punished me to face the wall and think about my mistakes..." Liu Wang said innocently.

"Ha, he really deserves to be the leader of the army, and it fits his character too much." Many officers couldn't help laughing after guessing the ending.

Speaking of which, they all wanted to take the cannon to the Ningyuan defense line to shoot.

The group of them came to Chu Yun's mansion while talking, and saw Chu Yun smiling.

"I've seen the military leader." More than a dozen brigade-level officers saluted Chu Yun.

Chu Yun looked with satisfaction at this group of generals who had been trained by himself, or summoned, or took refuge in him. Unknowingly, there were more than a dozen military leaders at the brigade level alone.Six infantry brigades, one artillery brigade, the chief and deputy commander of the naval fleet, the marine brigade, two directly subordinate cavalry brigades, and some cavalry units newly established by several Mongolian tribes, the Siberian pioneer group in the Nuergan area, and the mountainous areas of the Ryukyu Islands Battalion, there are [-] to [-] troops under Chu Yun's jurisdiction.If it hadn't been for the beginning of the industrial age in eastern and southern Liaoning, the grain output of Houjin at that time would not have been able to support such a group of professional soldiers.

"There are three things to recruit everyone today. The first thing is of course to conduct a year-end assessment and report on each unit. The second thing is to change defenses next year and change defense areas." Chu Yun said.

The change of defense of the garrison is a system adopted by Chu Yun to prevent the army from being in close contact with local officials and noble families.If a unit stays in a jurisdiction for a long time, many things will happen.

More than a dozen senior military officers looked at each other, and roughly guessed Chu Yun's intentions, but they also acquiesced in Chu Yun's approach.

"From the beginning of next year, the fifth infantry brigade will switch defenses with the sixth infantry brigade, the third infantry brigade will switch defenses with the fourth infantry brigade, and the first infantry brigade will switch defenses with the second infantry brigade. The defense zones of the rest of the troops will be fine-tuned. Do you have any comments? " Chu Yun said.

"Everything is under the command of the military department." The officers said one after another.

"Master, didn't you say there are three things? What is the other thing?" Mrs. Yang asked.

"The third thing is that our arsenal has produced a new type of rifle, which is ready to be produced and distributed to various troops." Chu Yun clapped his hands, "Yu Cheng, the Dreiser rifle."

"Yes." Yu Cheng took off the rifle on his back and handed it to Chu Yun.

It was only then that many officers realized that Yu Cheng's rifle seemed to be somewhat different from the rifles they usually used.

"The Dreiser rifle is a new type of rifle developed by the arsenal. In the past, the ammunition we used was loaded from the front of the barrel, but the Dreiser rifle is loaded with bullets from the back of the gun." Chu Yun showed these officers The new-style rifle, "the rate of fire is 4 to 5 times that of the old-style rifle. It can shoot 1 to 10 rounds per minute. The effective range is about 12 meters. Of course, the closer the distance, the better."

"The rate of fire is so fast? The distance is still so far?" Mrs. Yang and the others were dumbfounded.

"Otherwise, how can it be called a new generation rifle?" Chu Yun said proudly.He heard these data from the ordnance expert he summoned.

"However, there are still some shortcomings of the Dresser rifle, that is, the airtightness is not good enough. And our line tactics also need to be adjusted. With the breech-loading rifle, soldiers can rely on obstacles, crawl and shoot, and then evolve More tactics, such as skirmish tactics and special forces. So we will organize a group of officers and staff to study new combat methods." Chu Yun said.

"Master, I propose that the new generation of rifles should be equipped with our [-]st Infantry Brigade first." Mrs. Yang immediately jumped out and said.

(End of this chapter)