Become a feudal king from today

"Your Highness, I have received information that the British, Beidi, and Russians are colluding with each other, trying to reunite the scattered powerful clans to deal with us." In the study, Xu Hark handed a document to Zhao Xu.

Their Fourth Academy has spies in the Wu Kingdom, and naturally they also have spies in the Nanliang and Nanping Kingdoms.

When the British envoy went to Nanliang, the blond and blue-eyed British people were naturally very eye-catching and couldn't hide it at all.

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

After a pause, he continued: "Right now, the British envoys are going to the Kingdom of Wu, escorted by soldiers and horses from Beidi and Nanliang. They are expected to arrive in Changcheng soon."

Zhao Xu frowned.

Since the Battle of Qizhou, Nanliang has parted ways with other powerful clans, while Nanping Kingdom has always been peaceful.

If the three families unite, it will be equivalent to the resurgence of the Yan Alliance.

The only difference is that the original alliance to conquer Yan was promoted by Japan alone.

Now it has become dominated by the British and Russians.

He could imagine that the powerful and Beidi troops would confront him in the south of the Yangtze River under the unified command of the British and Russians.

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

This is the current situation.

So he said: "It doesn't matter, let him be crazy and let him be crazy. The breeze is blowing on the mountains. It's only a matter of time before the hostile forces unite, but it will definitely happen."

Tsui Hark was stunned for a moment. This situation was not good for him.

This is equivalent to Jiangbei being in a C-shaped encirclement.

Except for the east, everything is enemy.

Even the east side is not completely safe.

Japan has not yet completely calmed down, and the fleet of the Sam Kingdom may arrive in the eastern seas soon to compete with them for control of Japan.

So King Yan's attitude was so relaxed, he was quite surprised and couldn't help but said, "Your Highness is not worried at all?"

"Why should you worry? If you are afraid and compromise, it will be like falling into the British scheme." Zhao Xu stood up and came to the map, waving for Tsui Hark to come over.

After pondering for a while, he said: "When three dwarfs are stacked on top of each other, 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: "Weren't they our enemies before they united? Aren't they always in conflict with us? But they still have no choice but to be afraid of us and worry about us. Attack?"

Tsui Hark nodded slowly.

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

One attacked the coast of Jiujiang, and the other continued to harass the north.

But they achieved nothing but a few dead bodies.

Nowadays, there are just Nanliang and Nanping.

And these two are basically dispensable to the palace.

Zhao Xu continued: "This alliance is essentially an action taken by the people of Britain and Russia because they are afraid of my king's rise in the east. This should be something to be happy about, because they believe that only through alliance can they fight against my king."

"I see. Although their alliance seems very powerful, it is actually just a sign of weakness. The advantage lies with me."

"Yes." Zhao Xu laughed, "But the trouble is a little troublesome after all. Yesterday we caught ten pigs, and we will 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 Hark suddenly heard the sound of the musket just developed by the Department of War.

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

Having said this, Zhao Xu ordered Xu Hark to go back, while continuing to keep an eye on the actions of all parties to provide intelligence for the prince's pro-army war.

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

He wanted to go to the Military Division, but he didn't want to neglect the beauty.

The red gauze tent is warm all night.

The next day, Zhao Xu couldn't wait to go to the Bingzhan Division and saw the needle-fire breech-loading musket developed by Wang Yinghe's craftsmen.

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

Unlike the muzzle-loading gun, this musket no longer requires a cleaning rod for loading and cleaning. Instead, it has a metal bolt structure at the back of the musket.

When using it, you only need to pull the bolt open and load bullets, which is much more convenient than loading bullets in a muzzleloader.

For example, the rifled guns currently used by the royal army can only fire about five bullets per minute, even if they use conical bullets.

This breech-loading gun has twice that, ten rounds per minute.

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

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

This was also the first time he named the muskets of the Bingzhan Division.

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

The muskets currently used by the royal soldiers are just modified based on the original flintlock muskets.

So it has never been named.

This rifle is different, it is a truly new type of musket.

The material of the barrel is smelted in a converter, and the bolt parts are made on a lathe.

At the same time, it is also a transformation of muskets from front-loading guns to breech-loading guns.

"Qin style rifle? Do you mean taking Qinzhou?" Wang Ying scratched his head.

Zhao Xu shook his head.

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

Qin unified the six countries and made the world unified.

Next, he will make every effort to produce Qin-style rifles with the Bingzhang Division and deliver them to the royal army.

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

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

Wang Ying nodded. Since King Yan didn't say anything, he naturally didn't dare to ask anymore.

Suddenly grinning, he said: "Your Highness, would you like to try the Qin-style rifle."

"Of course." Zhao Xu felt excited.

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

"Your Highness, the bottom of this paper shell bullet is equipped with a flash cap. Pull the trigger and the firing pin will explode as soon as the firing pin hits it, pushing the cone-shaped warhead out of the muzzle." Wang Ying introduced as he handed the bullet to Zhao Xu. .

Zhao Xu nodded.

Breech-loading needle-fired rifles initially used paper-cased bullets.

Because of this, the initial breech-loading guns had leaks due to gaps between parts, resulting in a lower effective range than the front-loading rifled guns after the emergence of tapered bullets.

It was not until the emergence of metal bullets that the air leakage problem was solved, and the muzzleloader was completely exploded at the range.

Therefore, the development process of breech-loading guns since their emergence has been the process of solving air leaks.

However, although Zhao Xu knew the problem with breech-loading guns, he could 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 cone-shaped bullet into the cartridge case, the cartridge case and the bullet need to fit perfectly.

In this way, cartridge cases and warheads are produced with a high degree of accuracy.

Paper-cased 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.

Furthermore, in this era, paper bullets are sufficient.