The cute CEO was not afraid of anything, just because he was afraid that this batch of supplies would not be delivered on time. With this batch of supplies, the entire First Brigade of the First Field Division of the Chinese Army could all be replaced with new equipment.

The replaced equipment is enough to equip another brigade to serve as the armament of the Kyushu Island Security Command.

There is also food, which is enough for more than 500,000 Han people to spend the winter.

Li Hongzhang arrived with the transport fleet.

Li Hongzhang has been promoted to Deputy Prime Minister of China, and Zhao Qingluo was officially promoted to Prime Minister. Li Hongzhang was a diplomatic addition to Zhao Qingluo. At the same time, awarding Li Hongzhang this real title is also a kind of praise from the cute president to the country's advanced patriotic intellectuals.

Among the Qing court, there were at least hundreds of officials with enlightenment like Li Hongzhang, and tens of thousands of officials at the prefectures and county governments!

Relying entirely on the new school in China to train cadres, the level of training cannot keep up. It is necessary to transform a group of officials from the former Qing court into China before they can be fully promoted.

The country is not afraid of the inflated institutions, but is afraid of corrupt officials. The cute president likes to subdivide the responsibilities of officials. There are only ones, some people who do things and check them. He is willing to spend more wages, but he cannot raise corrupt officials.

Xuan Jianzhang brought a group of commanders and brigade commanders from the First Brigade of the First Field Division of the Chinese Army, as well as local officials from Sasebo City, and more than 20 people to welcome Li Hongzhang.

Li Hongzhang walked off the boat ladder with a smile, "Teacher Xuan, don't be so polite, how can I greet him in person?"

"I want it, the Deputy Prime Minister comes in person, and he risked his life to send us supplies." Xuan Jianzhang shook hands with Li Hongzhang with a smile.

"Look at what I brought to you this time? Because winter is coming soon, the president has transported all the goods he can bring, shells, bullets, a complete artillery battalion, and a brand new CEO Type 1878 rifle!" Li Hongzhang said with a smile.

"Finally settled? It's great. I've heard that the standard rifle is under development and has changed several concepts." Xuan Jianzhang's eyes lit up, "President 1878 rifle? Is our army going to change its equipment again? I've heard that the CEO 1878 rifle is much better than the CEO 1874 rifle, which solved the company's problems."

If the cute CEO's 1978 rifle is based on the original history, it is actually the German kar98k rifle.

The kar98k rifle inherits the classic Mauser-style rotating rear-pull bolt of the 98 series Mauser rifle, and the tail of the bolt is a safety device.

Bullets are built-in magazines arranged in double rows and interlaced with 5 magazines. Bullets are loaded with bullets. Bullets are pressed into the magazines above the receiver, and can also be loaded alone.

It adopts a downward-bent puller handle, which is easy to carry and install the scope. It uses a curved watch scale, a "V" notched door, and an inverted "V"-shaped sight. The sight has a circular shield.

The kar98k rifle became the most widely used rifle of the Nazi German team during World War II.

It is a reliable and accurate rifle. It is considered one of the best spinning rear pulling rifles in World War II.

The Type 98 rifle is a rotating rear-pull rifle that supplies ammunition.

The ammunition supply system and the bolt are its two most distinctive designs. The design of the bolt part has become a classic design of manual rifles in the world and is famous for its history.

The ammunition supply system is a built-in double-row bullet casing in which the bullet casing is arranged interlaced. The bottom magazine can be removed so that the magazine spring can be replaced if necessary.

When loading bullets, you can load them in a single load, that is, turn on the bolt and load the single bullet into the magazine; you can also use a disposable magazine.

Each magazine is filled with 5 bullets, just filling the bullet cabin.

When loading, the magazine is directly inserted into the receiver guide groove, the bullet is pressed into the magazine compartment, and the empty magazine is automatically thrown away when the bullet is locked.

If you want to remove the loaded bullet, just pull the bolt (the safety device must be in the middle position, that is, it is safe but the bolt is unlocked), or directly remove the bottom bullet casing.

The Mauser-style bolt is a simple and sturdy monolithic bolt, which can be said to be a genius design.

The bolt has two locking teeth, both located on the top of the bolt.

This system helps to achieve better accuracy in the rifle.

People often mistake a convex bamboo shoot located at the back of the bolt for the third locking device, but in fact it is a safety convex bamboo shoot, but does not touch the locking shoulder on the receiver.

The bolt pull handle is connected to the bolt itself, and on the earlier model of the 98 rifle, it is straight and remains parallel to the ground when the bolt is closed.

On the 98k rifle, this pull handle was changed to a curved shape.

This design makes the bolt more comfortable and convenient to move.

On the Type 98 rifle with a gun scope, a straight pull handle will touch the gun scope frame, while a curved pull handle will not.

The horizontal puller handle is easy to operate by hand when aiming, which is conducive to hitting the target and is convenient for shell removal from the bottom.

A vent hole is designed on the bolt to drain the hot gunpowder gas to prevent damage to the shooter's face.

It is only 1878, and the steel quality of the Chinese army needs to be further improved, but the weapon manufacturing level of the Chinese army is now the world's leading position, even more than the old weapons powerhouses such as Britain, France and Germany, which are at least 1 to 20 years ahead!

The military industry of the Chinese army has made great progress in the past four years.

In fact, before the CEO's 1878 rifle came out, at least five design plans had been rejected.

The cute president is actually no longer helpful in technology. He is just an ordinary worker and cannot even be considered a technician.

When China's military technology was just starting, the cute president could still give some ideas. Now, he can only give some guidance and ask about progress.

For example, what a car can be about to show? This cute CEO can tell you, but how can it be shown like this? How can he know?

The same is true for rifles. The only requirement of the cute president is to be sturdy, durable, easy to operate, and does not need to be too dazzling. Practicality is the king.

On this point, the industrial concepts of the cute president and the Germans are synchronized.

In original history, the only one that can compare with the German Type 98 rifles was the American rifle.

However, the American design philosophy is inconsistent with the cute president. The cute president advocates practical, sturdy and durable, and does not follow the American rifle route!

Instead, we will unswervingly follow the German weapons route.

The American m1892 rifle, also known as the Krager Jorgensen rifle, is the first type of smokeless gunpowder used in the process of military modernization of the US military to rotate and pull and use ammunition storage to supply ammunition.

The original form is the Krager-Jorgensen rifle developed by Olekrague and Eric Jorgensen of the Norwegian Arsenal in 1888. Its characteristics are side-pressed semi-rotating "﹄" magazines, and the bullets press down from the left side of the barrel instead of the middle, and rotate into the magazines at the bottom of the barrel.

Since it was the period when the rifle transitioned from single to ammunition type, this ammunition design that could accommodate 5 bullets was undoubtedly a strange flower in the competition for the development of infantry light weapons in Europe, and was adopted by Norway, Denmark and other teams.

At this time, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the United States, which recovered after the Civil War, began to rise in the world, took off in the economy in 188o. Of course, the 6th American Army had to advance with the times, catch up with the armed forces of the European powers, and keep pace with the world.

So the military began to prepare to eliminate the single Springfield M1873 rifle equipped with the army at that time. Among the samples provided by European arms dealers who were booming in the arms market at that time, the US government selected this Norwegian Krague-Jorgensen rifle from more than 40 designs including gun master German Mauser, etc.

The American version of m1892 was manufactured by the famous Springfield Arsenal in 1892. From 1892 to 19o4, it was the main combat weapon of the US infantry.

It was not until 19o3 that the US military began to use the m19o3 type 7.62mm caliber rifle, which was also developed for the Springfield Arsenal, that the American version of the Krager Jorgensen rifle was gradually eliminated from the military in 19o7.

The design of the magazine of the Krag Jorgensen rifle is characterized by a side-pressing semi-rotating "﹄" magazine. The bullet presses down from the left side of the barrel instead of the middle, and rotates into the magazine at the bottom of the barrel. The rectangular protrusion on the right side of the gun body is actually the bottom cover of the magazine, which can be removed after opening. The "constrained ammunition supply" pull-out hook designed by Paul Mauser to prevent double-invasion bullets will not appear until 1892.

The old gun m1892 once participated in several battles in which the United States, which had just entered the ranks of the world's powers, was used to stretch its muscles and show its strength.

These include the famous battles between the United States and Spain.

It was the Battle of Cuba, Puerto Rig, the Philippines, and Guam, which was born in 1898. Spain, a veteran colonist who once dominated the world, was defeated by the emerging American team, and was forced to abandon Cuba and hand over the colonies of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rig to the United States. Spain embarked on a journey to become a second-class country.

Any weapon must be tested in actual combat, including this m1892 selected by the American side.

In this battle between the United States and Spain, the gun was unable to withstand the actual combat test of the battlefield, which directly led to its later replacement by m19o3.

At that time, the Spanish army generally used the Spanish-made Mauser m1893 7mm rifle.

Not only shooting, but also its power and accuracy are much higher than m1892 used by the US team.

American soldiers generally reported that their firepower was suppressed by the other party and could not be unfolded, which made them feel cowardly.

The most famous battle was born in Cuba. At that time, 750 Spanish city guards used Mauser m1893 in their hands to suppress the attack of nearly nine times the number of enemies, namely, American soldiers holding m1892.

Although the US military finally launched a strong attack with the cooperation of artillery and Gatlin heavy machine guns, defeating the Spaniards, the casualties of the US military in this battle actually reached 140.

In other words, the Spanish killed two American devils with one Mauser m1893 on average.

The Americans 66oo added m1892 and the cannons, and the heavy machine guns failed to kill all 750 Spanish red-haired ghosts. Due to the heavy casualties in this battle, the General Staff was shocked after the war. After research by the bricks, it was concluded that the gun was inferior to that of humans, so the military decided to consider changing clothes immediately.

The Mauser m1893 rifle used by the Spanish at that time, which was directly loaded into the bullet cabin and the bullet bridge to supply ammunition, which was better than the m1892 that pressed bullets into the bullet cabin through the hot gun chamber, which could withstand the test of the battlefield.

So 7oo fast guns almost made the US military unable to raise its head on the m19o3 rifle used by the US military later, replacing m1892.

The US military was attacking, and the m1892 and machine guns and cannons in their hands were still hit by the Spanish, causing heavy casualties.

The second large-scale practical test this gun can be said to be the battle between the United States and the Philippines from 1899 to 19o2, when the US military suppressed the independence movement moved by the indigenous peoples of the Philippines.

Although m1892 proved to be very unsuitable for the tropical rainforest climate and environment of the Philippines, the US military finally managed to prevent the indigenous people from moving with overwhelming force at the cost of a total force of 120,000 at its peak, 41oo killed and more than 3oo injured (plus 2oo killed in the Philippines' Royal Association). The troops once survived the armed independence of 1.2 million people.

In this battle, many Filipino soldiers died, and countless injuries were injured, while the deaths of civilians were estimated to be 1.5 million.

From then on, the Philippines became the territory of the United States until its independence in 1946, and English became the official language of the Philippines.

The rifles were the most concerned about by a group of officers, and they picked them up to try their hand, which was more accurate than the heart.

"Yes, there is no change in the weight and length, and there is no need to adapt again." The leader of the first regiment said with a smile.

"Master, let's take a shot and see what the effect is?" the others encouraged.

Xuan Jianzhang couldn't let go of the CEO's 1878 rifle for a while, and then shot a shot at the seagull in the distance. A seagull flying in the air immediately fell into the water.

"Good shooting skills." Li Hongzhang and the officers praised Xuan Jianzhang.

Xuan Jianzhang laughed, "It's not that my marksmanship is good, it's indeed a good gun, a good gun. In this way, my Chinese army alone can withstand the attack of 20 Japanese people!"

Li Hongzhang said oh, "Are you sure?"

Xuan Jianzhang smiled and said, "Did the Vice Prime Minister bring the emperor's latest instructions?"

"No." Li Hongzhang shook his head and said, "The Emperor has completely handed over the affairs of Kyushu Island to the two of us. From now on, until next spring, we don't have to expect North Korea to come with supplies again. We have to rely on ourselves. The Emperor hopes that we can completely seize Kyushu Island."

Li Hongzhang whispered to Xuan Jianzhang about the cute CEO's idea, and Xuan Jianzhang was shocked.

What is the strength of a brigade to capture the entire Kyushu Island?
Chapter completed!