As for infantry combat weapons in the Napoleon era, the firearms equipped by the troops of European countries are similar, all of which are front-mounted smoothbore guns that fire black gunpowder and round lead bullets. The reference standards are all French "Type 1777" or its improved smoothbore guns. (Rifled) rifles are rarely equipped with them except for a few British troops. As for the rear-mounted guns that were launched in the late 18th century, they were not even interested in them because they could not be successfully used in actual combat.

Starting from the early 19th century, a few units of the British Expeditionary Force were officially equipped with new Baker rifles, a type of improved front-mounted rifles. Although an infantryman still had a shooting speed of 1 round per minute when using a Baker rifle (an excellent shooter can do 3 rounds per minute), the Baker rifle has many advantages of short gun body, large barrel diameter, large ammunition volume, long range, high accuracy and great power. In a windless state, he can even shoot targets 300 yards away.

In terms of appearance parameters, the Becker rifle has a diameter of 15.9mm, the entire gun is 1175mm long, the barrel is 762mm long, and the mass is 4.1kg. The butt guard is made of walnut. Among them, the barrel has 7 rifles, the sight piece is fixed, and the watch scale is folded. It consists of two notched doors, which are used for aiming at 100 yards and 200 yards respectively. The bayonet is sword-shaped.

On the Iberis Peninsula, it was not the British who were better at using this type of rifle, but the Spanish guerrillas who were active in the mountains and wilderness. From 1808 to 1810, the British cabinet provided nearly 10,000 Baker rifles in many aid materials to the Cadiz government, but the regular Spanish troops were unwilling to use them. Most of the Baker rifles were distributed to anti-French guerrillas in various places.

Among the two newly established experimental units of the Desai Division, most of the Catalan regiments came from the former Spanish regular army, and the soldiers still chose the right front-mounted smoothbore guns. The North Aragon guerilla soldiers were mainly mountainous guerrilla soldiers, and were required to be equipped with rifled Baker rifles. The source of such firearms was partly obtained by the Desai Division during the conquest of Catalonia and North Aragon; the other part was exchanged from the trophy of other French troops; or in the trade with the British and ** Fire, they purchased in small quantities.

According to Desai's suggestion, the engineers of the Hruna Ordnance secretly developed a conical bullet with a hollow bottom and threaded bottom, which is what later generations call "Mini bullet". The emergence of the Mini bullet has increased the firing efficiency of the Baker rifle to three times at once, at 3 rounds per minute, and it is more powerful and has a longer range (up to 500 yards). This solves the weakness of the front-loaded rifle's difficulty in loading ammunition and low firing efficiency.

However, for the purpose of confidentiality, currently in the Desai division, only the elite blocking battalion companies of the main brigade are equipped with powerful Minnie bombs.

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When night fell, before waiting to line up through the Ebro River bridge deck, the division's quarantine officer temporarily distributed the armed belt of North Aragonese garrison soldiers loaded with ammunition to the North Aragonese garrison soldiers, which were still old-fashioned round lead bullets and ordinary granular gunpowder.

30 minutes ago, Major Mardan had issued this combat mission to all the officers and soldiers of the regiment. He must surround the Monastery of St. Joseph in the southeastern block of Zaragoza before 8:40, and force more than a hundred Aragonese rebels who had wandered here to surrender.

With the help of the cover of night and the guidance of the Military Intelligence Bureau's guide, hundreds of soldiers of the regiment walked through the streets and alleys and successfully sneaked into the surrounding area of ​​St. Joseph's Monastery, forming an encirclement of the area. During the entire early operation, the guide kept taking out the cans from his backpack to open the road and bribed the citizens or refugee leaders on both sides of the street, so that they did not cause any trouble to the soldiers of the marching security regiment.

With the hidden effect of the camouflage uniform, the preparatory corporal Garset and his team, who were responsible for the reconnaissance mission, sneaked to the Monastery of St. Joseph, and were discovered by the rebels. Amid the warning, a chaotic ferry of guns shot from the monastery.

After the attack, the entire reconnaissance team was looking for their respective shelters, but Enrique in the front row suddenly jumped up, waved his arms, and shouted at the rebels: "Hey, Diego, Diego! It's me, Gonzalez Enrique! Garset and Pablo are here with me."

"Diego?!" Garset and Pablo also gave up their concealment and stretched out their heads from the ruins or grass to look carefully. The guy standing on the steps of the monastery raised his gun and aimed at him was indeed his fellow villager, Diego Rojas. Before, the three of them thought Rojas had been killed in the French ambush circle, but they didn't expect that he was also very lucky, so they jumped out of the sky and actually joined the rebels.

"Rebel? Damn it!" Garset first woke up and his mission was to wipe out the rebels in front of him.

While he was still thinking about how to do the next step, Major Mardan, the regiment commander, stood beside the corporal. The officer shouted to the monastery: "Diego, please inform General Fernando, Major Mardan, come and visit the old boss!"

Two minutes later, Major Mardan and Preparatory Corporal Garset, who had been disarmed on his own, were allowed to enter the Monastery of St. Joseph. The two of them stood up their chests and walked calmly to General Fernando with the strange eyes of their former comrades and saluted.

Fernando waved his hand, and responded, and asked, "Maldan, are you here to send us out of Zaragoza, or are you going to accept Desai's order to arrest me?"

Mardan shook his head, "You can no longer leave this monastery secretly. Even if my people and I can go out, there is a gendarmerie responsible for secretly surveillance. Irrational behavior is a disaster for everyone. In addition, the Duke's order is just to let the security regiment surround the monastery and to visit the general privately is my own claim!"

Fernando couldn't help but chuckled: "Haha, your courage and honesty are still the same as before. Tell me, why do you come here? Is it a way for us to surrender to the cunning little Derby?"

The major nodded and said, "Yes, I hope to persuade you and your former comrades to put down your weapons and surrender to the Duke of Hruna and the future Prince of Catalonia to end the war in Southern Aragon in a peaceful way."

"Shameless!" "Traitor!" "Traitor!" After hearing this, the guerrillas on the side surrounded him indignation.

Everyone angrily rebuked the enemy in unison. Several young men with strong spirits raised their guns and aimed at Mardan, who was a French lobbyist, with only the commander's order.

Fernando shook his head and waved his hand to signal the soldiers to scatter. Since Mardan could come to the monastery alone, he had already put his life and death aside. Intimidation and threats were of no effect at all, and would be counterproductive.

"Why did you give up your belief in personal dignity and freedom and surrender to our mortal enemy, the French?" The old general signaled his former subordinate to sit on the stone pier in front of him, and asked again.

Mardan raised his head and persuaded excitedly: "General, only when people live can they have the opportunity to pursue freedom and win dignity! Before April, hundreds of people were starved to death in the entire North Aragon area every day, corpses were everywhere and bones were full of bones. Where is their freedom and dignity? Who is his mortal enemy?

When the Spanish nobles of the Celtic Parliament had ever been concerned about the life and death of our Aragonese people, and what were they doing? Every day, they spent their days, sang and danced, and complained without any illness in the Parliament, and even sold the aid provided by Britain to the French, but refused to give the victims a grain of food and a piece of bread."

General, I believe you must understand who invited the Duke of Hruna's army to Aragon, is your compatriots and relatives. The various groups of Aragon refugees who arrived in Catalonia for a lifetime are always calling for and lobbying the French who you despise to send troops to their homes, hoping that relatives who are struggling on the brink of death can also have the right to survive.

During the Humane Shield Operation last month, Duke Hruna and his army kept their promises, believed in God, loved the church, did not plunder private property, did not humiliate women and children, provided disaster relief, arranged work and food for hungry people and children, and treated us Aragons fairly as Catalans.

A few hours ago, the deafening protests of the citizens of Zaragoza in the town hall square, you should hear more clearly and in more detail than me. In fact, as long as the Duke of Hruna spreads your hiding position and does not require the troops in the camps on the other side to reach here, the residents of Zaragoza will surround the monastery and escort you to the base camp of the Desai Division."

Mardan became more and more excited as he spoke, so he simply stood up and danced. The audience and audience around him were speechless and speechless. The guerrillas who wanted to refute a few words were also held back by their companions. Everyone knew what Major Mardan said. In fact, the main purpose of their followers to Zaragoza was to eat and to make food for survival.

But the cruel reality tells these people that the citizens of Zaragoza who were united in their hearts and united in resisting the French invaders were deeply hating these ragged, pale-faced guerrilla soldiers. They were not only enemies of Duke Khruna, but also enemies of Zaragoza. Due to the existence of the resistance faction, the citizens were about to lose the opportunity to survive.

While the iron was hot, Mardan ordered Corporal Gasset, who was always waiting beside him, to return to the gate of the monastery and make a gesture. In accordance with Major Mardan's previous agreement, dozens of soldiers from the security regiment put down their rifles and raised their hands to the outside of the monastery. In the vigilant eyes of the guerrillas, they put down their backpacks behind them one by one on the stone steps, and then left quietly.

Major Mardan took a brown backpack from the corporal, unlocked the strip and took out the internal food, and explained: "According to the army rules of the Desai Division, the backpack is equipped with three days of emergency rations, including: two pounds of canned pork or beef, two pounds of bread, two pounds of hard biscuits, one quarter pound of dried vegetables with seasoning, one third pound of raisins for sweets, and 30 cigarettes. Today, I ask the soldiers to share with you. If you want, maybe in a few days, everyone present can have such a tactical backpack, not just the rations in it!"

Hearing this, Fernando, who remained silent, sighed, and his whole body seemed to be exhausted by time, with indescribable fatigue and unwillingness. It was the kind of anger and disdain he had seen his former loyal subordinates, who had previously become envious and eager when facing the rich food. The meaning was self-evident.
Chapter completed!