The short cannon that Colonel Henry mentioned was the Flang machine carried by the Ming cavalry. This kind of cannon was originally invented by Europeans. It was passed down to the Ming Dynasty by the Portuguese during the Jiajing period and was called the Flang machine.

However, compared with the use of this kind of artillery by Europeans, the Chinese obviously later transformed it. In Europe, since the Flang machine is a rear-mounted gun and mother gun, the sealing ability has never been solved, and its range and power are somewhat unsatisfactory.

Therefore, Europeans gradually stopped using the Flanger machine, but instead adopted a large number of front-mounted artillery to ensure the range and power of the artillery. However, in China, the Chinese saw the advantages of the Flanger machine, which is that it can be miniaturized and launched rapidly. After the improvement of the Chinese, the Flanger machine became the standard equipment of the Ming army.

The three-eyed gun also introduced before that this is a unique firearm belonging to China. Although the three-eyed gun has problems such as low accuracy, short range, and complicated loading, the Chinese have used it to cavalry, allowing it to fully utilize its advantages of launching three times.

It has to be said that in many aspects, the perspectives of Chinese thinking about problems and using weapons are different from those of Westerners. To give the simplest example, it is a powerful pistol invented and manufactured by the Germans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Mauser military pistol, also known as a mausolean gun, a fast-slow machine or a box cannon.

Although this special pistol is much more powerful than ordinary pistols, with extremely fast firing speed, safe and reliable, and can also fire in a single shot or fast continuous firing, for Westerners, this pistol has a fatal weakness, that is, the muzzle will bounce under the influence of the subsequent force during firing, which affects the accuracy of the shooting. Therefore, this pistol will not be loved by soldiers from all over the West after it is manufactured.

But in China, the smart Chinese saw the advantages of Mauser's military pistol and came up with a very simple method, which not only solved the problem of up-jumping the muzzle, but also transformed it into the advantage of fully automatic rapid fire. The gunman held the gun in his right hand, pulled the gun to the rapid fire gear, raised the gun upward, reached to the left front, and pulled the trigger. The up-jumping effect of the muzzle made the gun from the left front to the right front, and when raising the gun downward, fired from the right front to the left front. When holding the gun in his left hand, the opposite was made.

A simple method can turn decay into magic, and make Mauser's military pistol play a major role in the Chinese battlefield. It can be said that this is the biggest difference between Eastern and Western cultures and thinking.

What's more, the Ming Dynasty has redesigned and manufactured these two weapons, which is much stronger than the initial power and accuracy. Even in Zhu Yicheng's view, the Folang machine is equal to the current mortar of the Ming army, and the three-eyed gun is similar to the revolver. It is just that due to technical problems, the real mortar and revolver cannot be manufactured for the time being.

Although Louis Alexander was a nobleman, he was also an excellent soldier. Of course, he could see the advantages of this three-eyed gun and immediately understood what Colonel Henry said.

Then, while cleaning the battlefield, the French army also discovered several three-eyed guns left on the battlefield, and were sent to Louis Alexander. After real shooting, the best range of the three-eyed gun was fifty meters, the effective range reached one hundred meters, and the longest range even reached about one hundred and sixty meters.

This result shocked the French even more. Although the range of the three-eyed gun is slightly worse than that of the French muskets, its shooting speed and use of cavalry make up for this weakness. When the cavalry charges at high speed, the three-eyed guns at the fortification can often have a great killing effect, which is undeniable.

In fact, Colonel Henry was most keen on the love of weapons like the three-eyed gun. As the commander of the Dragoon, he knew very well that if the Dragoon could be equipped with such weapons, it would inevitably further enhance the attack power of the Dragoon. In addition, the Chinese used the Flang machine that had been eliminated in Europe, which also opened Colonel Henry's eyes. Colonel Henry, who had suffered losses in the Ming cavalry battle, immediately proposed to imitate these weapons and equip the Dragoon.

In response, Louis Alexander agreed to let those seized weapons be copied as soon as possible to enhance the strength of the French army.

But now, what was before him was not only the issue of weapon imitation, but whether to continue to attack the Ming army's defense line.

Judging from today's battle situation, the Ming army on the opposite side had obviously received reinforcements, otherwise the Ming army would not have changed its tactics suddenly, and it also sent cavalry troops to attack the Faspisian coalition from the rear for the first time.

Although Louis Alexander believes that the number of reinforcements from the Ming army will not be too large. If the number is enough to compete with the French army, the result of today's sneak attack is definitely not just the losses now, but the Ming army on the opposite side will also launch a fierce counterattack, defeating the French coalition in one fell swoop by attacking each other in the past and back.

Louis Alexander judged that only part of the reinforcements of the Ming army was the real situation. However, the Ming army had already had reinforcements, which was very bad information for the French-Swiss coalition. Who knows that in the coming days, the Ming army will not continue to reinforce? If their reinforcements continue, then this battle will be difficult to fight.

After suffering losses on this day, Louis Alexander temporarily stopped his continued attack on the Ming army. On the one hand, he was considering whether to continue attacking the Ming army, and on the other hand, the morale of the Fans was a little depressed due to the damage to war, and he needed to rest the troops.

But what he never expected was that just after he had just rested for less than two days, a sudden news completely made him give up on his continued attack, which also affected the outcome of the war.

The news was delivered in the afternoon. When the soldiers who were racing on horseback delivered the 100,000 urgent news to Louis Alexander, he looked at Louis Alexander, who had just looked at it for a few times and could no longer sit still. He stood up, forgot the etiquette of the nobles, and cursed in anger.

The content of the news is not complicated. This is an urgent message sent by the troops left behind in New France. Just a few days ago, the British suddenly mobilized several regiments of elite troops and launched an advance towards the important town of New France.

Although the war had not officially begun when the letter was sent, judging from the route of the British and their goals, it was obviously the same as the northern battles that year. The purpose was to directly cut off the important roads of the north and south of New France to expand the British territory in North America.
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