General Daniel Lewis, who was so tired that he couldn't do it anymore, sat by the river, gnawing a piece of dry Indian pancake, unable to bite it, and his expression was very painful.

The marching lasted for more than 10 hours, but the British army only walked less than twenty-five kilometers under the tearing of the Chinese army.

Now the Chinese army has two divisions, with 40,000 troops biting his main British army of 20,000, and there is less than 20,000. There is no time to estimate the remaining troops. Daniel Lewis estimates that at most he has 180,000 British troops left.

He was originally a British nobleman and came to India to enjoy his blessings. He didn't expect that he would not enjoy much blessings. He might have died today in this foreign land.

Daniel Lewis looked at the soldiers around him. The officers and soldiers were already very tired. If this continues, if he wants to escape to Kabul and stabilize his position, he will at least send out the names of 10,000 soldiers, one runs, the other chases and fights, and the one who chases and fights, and there is no personnel consumption at all. Therefore, the Chinese army is equal to one who is not dead, and all the dead are British troops.

Daniel Lewis could still calculate this. Now the Indian threat of joining the army and the Afghanistan threat had long been disbanded. Daniel Lewis suddenly regretted not following the advice of Abdur Rahman Khan. If the main British army was left to fight against the Chinese army, the Indian threat of joining the army and the Afghanistan threatened to joining the army and the Afghanistan threatened to joining the army and the Afghanistan threatened to joining the army, with a million superior force, he would definitely not be as passive as the current situation.

Originally, Daniel Lewis had great confidence when he came to Afghanistan to fight. Now that the joining of the Chinese army has caused him to lose all his confidence. He usually looks down on the Chinese army and the Chinese country. In fact, in the hearts of Daniel Lewis and the British officers, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army is not inferior to that of the German army, and is even stronger.

"No, you can't run like this anymore. The army is lined up, the artillery is lined up, fighting with the Chinese army, pay attention to protecting the two wings." Daniel Lewis seemed to be suddenly stimulated, stood up and shouted, and threw the pie in his hand to the ground.

"Array? Only arrayed at this time? What have you done before?"

This is the voice of all the British officers and soldiers who heard Daniel Lewis's words. Of course, no one dared to say such words. Even if anyone said it, they would complain to each other quietly. Daniel Lewis fled fifty miles with his army, which had already fled the morale of the army and all the morale of the army!

"Have you heard the order? Take action! Otherwise, the two Chinese divisions would encircle us and then wipe out them all. Can't you see the situation clearly? If you don't speak desperately, you can't get out of no one!" Daniel Lewis said angrily.

Daniel Lewis finally saw the situation clearly, but now for him, whether it is to line up and fight to fight back to Kabul and then stabilize his position, it is almost the same. Moreover, at this stage, it may be better to escape back to Kabul to defend and wait for the food and grass to fight a protracted battle.

However, since the commander gave the order, the British army's tactical qualities are different from those who are threatening to join the army.

Wang Dashan has already visited the front line and joined Zhang Haobo. Gao Yitong continues to lead a group of Afghan indigenous troops to assist the Chinese Army's Fifth Field Division in biting the Indian and Afghan forces to join the army.

"That's great. The British army is not leaving anymore. We are going to fight with us, General." Zhang Haobo excitedly held the telescope and told Wang Dashan.

Wang Dashan nodded with a smile, "No matter what step he takes, I will let him bury him in the invading land! Passing my order, the Sixth Field Division of the Chinese Army and the Seventh Field Division of the Chinese Army will join forces to encircle the British army within an hour. Everyone should keep a distance and consume the other party with bullets, and give full play to our President's 1878 rifle's range, higher accuracy, and the advantage of being able to connect."

"Yes, General." When the adjutant heard Wang Dashan's order, he quickly informed the correspondents to the telephone to the division and brigade organs below.

The 185o era was an era of crazy leap forward in rifle technology. If distinguished by technical level, there are roughly several generations of rifles.

Fuseballs like bird guns have been eliminated worldwide, and are still in large quantities in a few countries and regions such as the Qing Empire, Afghanistan, and Japan.

The flint rifle (mainly smoothbore rifle) has been one generation higher than the flint rifle, but after nearly 30 years of popularity, it was completely eliminated after 1850 due to technological progress. The 6th Army of the world's major advanced countries have been replaced.

Among them, the Brownbes smoothbore flints were produced in the early 18th century and retired in full in the 1840s. It can be said that it was the absolute main equipment of the British army during the Napoleonic Wars and the Opium Wars. The Indian-type production used by the 6th Army alone exceeded three million.

The borehole gun, which is more advanced than the flint rifle, uses fire cap strike technology, is more reliable and more convenient to load, and can be used in rainy days and can be used in centralized use. It gradually became popular since the beginning of the 19th century and quickly squeezed the flint rifle out of the market. Among them, the famous one is the Kronswick front-mounted smoothbore gun. This rifle has been equipped with troops since 1838 and is preparing to fully replace the front-mounted flint rifle commonly equipped by the British army, but it has fully equipped the troops. Previously, the updated Minni rifle (Mini rifle appeared, fixed-loading and other technologies made the effective range of the rifle jump from just one or two hundred meters to more than five hundred meters) appeared and began to be equipped with the British army in 1851. As a result, this eliminated new rifle could only be quickly withdrawn and sold. The Minni rifle showed absolute performance advantages in the Crimean War, completely overwhelming the old rifle of Imperial Russia. Then the great powers were fully equipped with Minni rifles.

The good days of the Minni rifle were not long. Various breech rifles were eliminated in the next 10 years, and breech rifles evolved into various bead guns. However, the correct direction of the breech rifle was the bullet-cage rifle. In the subsequent progress, smokeless medicine was used to replace black gunpowder. By the end of the 19th century, sharp bullets replaced round bullets.

Since the 1850s, revolutionary changes occurred every five to ten years, and many rifles faced the fate of elimination as soon as they were fully equipped with troops. There has never been an era in the history of rifles that had such drastic changes.

From the First Opium War (around 184o) to the Second Opium War (around 1858), the progress of British troops in equipped rifles can be described as leaps, directly changing from flints to Minnie rifles.

During the First Opium War, most of the British Expeditionary Forces were flints (in 1838, the British army began to use front-mounted smoothbore guns to replace flints, but they did not change much, so they switched to Minni rifles because of the emergence of Minni rifles), or to be precise, it was just Brownbes smoothbore flints. The Qing army green camp soldiers used a bird gun (a clamping gun from the early 17th century, and a product of Ming 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 expect that the rifle could not be needed. However, they saw that the British army did not light the ignition at all. As a result, when the ignition was extinguished, the British army said that the negotiations were not completed and fired immediately. However, the Tibetan army was annihilated because the ignition could not be ignited). There was a certain gap between the two sides (according to experts, it was said that a Brownbeth could completely suppress 2-3 Green Camp Soldiers. If the soldiers were included, the gap was even greater), but it was far from the Second Opium War (at this time, the British army had a longer range and shot a larger Minni rifle, while the Qing army was still mainly shot a shotgun).

If only the weapons were compared, the Qing army's infantry would not have been so defeated; it also showed that the role of the bayonet at that time was that the Qing army's bird gun did not have bayonets.

If Qianlong hadn't destroyed Bi Maokang (this person understood the flint rifle in 1635) "Military Artifacts" (there are instructions for making flint rifles), the Qing army could have used Bi Maokang's technology to create flint rifles. Although Bi Maokang's flint rifles were worse than the British Brownbeth flint rifles, they were better than the combs.

British troops are now using Martini Henry rifles.

The Martini Henry rifle became the British to expand its imperial territory all over the world, playing an extraordinary role. From the snow-covered Canada, to the Sultan on the edge of the Sahara Desert, to Afghanistan among the mountains, its footprints were left everywhere. Many brave Wushu nations in history were suppressed by British soldiers holding long-range and high-firing Martini Henry rifles.

The legendary history of the Martini Henry Rifle began with the gunman Henry Peabody in Massachusetts.

In 1862, Peabody obtained the patent for a breech loading rifle. This rifle uses a landing bolt. The shell can be automatically thrown out when the bolt drops, and can make the next bullet enter the chamber quickly.

The gun uses a simple musket-type hammering method and must be manually ready for hitting.

From the late 186o to the early 187o, 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, an Austrian designer Frederick von Martini, who lives in Switzerland, modified Peabody's design, replaced the bulky external hammer with a firing needle installed inside the bolt and controlled by a spring, and redesigned the receiver and reinforced the shell hook. These improvements made the gun's strike time shorter, which is the time interval between the moment the trigger was pulled to the bottom fire.

The improved rifle is not only stronger than Peabody's prototype gun, but also greatly improves in shooting.

But the Swiss 6th Army decided to use a single rifle with a rotating rear pull bolt, and Martini had to provide his design to other countries.

In 1867, the British 6th Army announced to the public that it would find a rifle to replace its O.577-inch (14.       66mm) caliber Snyder rifle.

Martini took his rifle to participate in the British army's test, and although many well-known gun dealers like Henry participated in the competition, his rifle was overwhelming.

In 1868, the Royal British Light Weapons Manufacturing Plant located in Enfield received an order to produce several Martini rifles for further field tests.

After a lot of field tests, the Martini rifle was officially adopted by the British army on July 3, 1871. Since the gun adopted a rifled barrel designed by Henry, the British 6th Army officially named it the Martini-Henry MK1 rifle.

The gun is a very practical weapon. The box-shaped receiver makes the trigger guard position forward and the lever extends to the stock. Using walnut stock and guard, the guard is fixed to the gun with two hoops, and a round rod is embedded in the bottom of the lower guard through the groove. A cavalry bayonet is installed on the right side of the barrel.

The Martini Henry MK1 rifle is very easy to operate. The shooter only needs to pull the lever down to complete the following actions: the firing needle is indented into the front of the bolt; the bolt rotates to reveal the chamber; the trigger is embedded in the iron barrier groove; the only safety device of the gun is a water drop-shaped waiting indicator located on the right side of the receiver. When waiting to be hit, its finger is at ten o'clock, and its finger is at twelve o'clock after hitting. The word v.r is engraved on the top of the right side of the receiver, which is the Victorian crown logo, and the lower right side is the army standard logo.

The mk1 rifle still has some faults during field use. The main problems are four aspects: gun failure caused by ammunition quality; when firing, the recoil is too high; when firing continuously, the barrel is overheated; when the bayonet is relatively bulky.

In 1877, the army adopted the Martini Henry MK2 rifle. In addition to redesigning the watch face ruler, guard, trigger and bolt based on the mk1, the rear of the stock was also lengthened. The purpose of this was to reduce recoil. The original bulky bayonet was also replaced by a lighter blade with a 552mm long and annular bayonet. However, the mk2 rifle omitted the safety device.

Like China, the great powers are constantly researching and improving their own standard rifles.

However, the President 1878 rifle used by the Chinese army is at least ahead of the British Martini Henry rifle, and its technical level is more than 10 years old, and it cannot be regarded as a competition for products in the same era.

The bayonet of the Martini Henry rifle is installed at the muzzle, with a knife hilt and a blood groove. Its main function is to assassinate the enemy during hand-to-hand combat.

There are many types of bayonets used in Martini Henry rifles, and almost every style of rifle is equipped with corresponding bayonets. There are two most commonly used ones, one is a bayonet with an annular seat, and the other is a sword bayonet.

The 1853 bayonet is the most common bayonet with an annular seat. This bayonet is designed to be equipped with a 1853 bore-loading rifle. The bayonet is 526mm in length and the blade is 432mm in length.

The 186o-style sword-shaped bayonet was modified to match the Martini Henry rifle. It is a curved bayonet with a total length of 714mm and a blade length of 577mm. During the widespread use of the Martini Henry rifle, this bayonet was also widely equipped.

The 1876 bayonet was improved and redesigned based on the 1853 bayonet. The total length is 635mm and the blade is 552mm long. This style of bayonet is specially designed for breech loading rifles. Both mk1 and mk2 Martini-Henry rifles were used.

This battle is the first time that the President's 1878 Type Rifle and Martini Henry Rifle confronted on the battlefield. Both the Chinese and British troops have just replaced the standard equipment. Who has the better actual combat effect can be proved by this battle!

"Everyone is bayonet and prepare to welcome the Chinese army's charge! Fire the cannon!" Daniel Lewis glanced at the neatly gathered British army formation and issued an order.

The British army was very orderly. Although after a series of escapes and tens of thousands of people were reduced, morale and strength were affected to a certain extent, it was not easy for the troops to remain in this case.

The British army still had the same old tactics, and compared with the tactics when they started the Opium War, there was no progress at all. One square array was in the center and two square arrays protected their flank safety, which was equivalent to a cold weapon tactic with hot weapons.

Wang Dashan looked at it secretly and was so funny. He didn't order a charge for a long time. Who would be foolishly waiting to hit your guns and bayonets?

"Transfer the order, do not attack the British army without authorization. Follow my orders and tie your pockets tightly first." Wang Dashan said to the adjutant beside him.

"Yes, general." The adjutant agreed to go down and pass on the order.

Wang Dashan nodded when he faced the enemy's formation and the map.

Zhang Haobo smiled and said, "Their technical and tactical skills are not much better than the Huai Army in the past."

Wang Dashan nodded, "That's right, the Huai Army is not weak, the Qing court is weak, and the country is weak, how can the army be strong?"

Relying on the president's 1878 rifle's advantage of long range and high accuracy, the Chinese army shot while digging trenches while digging, gradually forming a huge encirclement.
Chapter completed!