Chapter 382

Of course, the stone bear knows the information.

First of all, he was a puppet fan before crossing. Even if he had a "puppet" in front of him, he was also a military fan, wasn't he?

Secondly, he was a cultural protection officer in the museum before the soul wear. He may not have seen some old objects of historical significance, but he has definitely seen the materials. For example, how can the brown Beth rifle, which once occupied an important position in the American Independent War, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic era, and the American Mexican War, escape the eyes of the stone bear?

The most important point is that Shi Xiong went to the United States for investigation and study before soul wear. As a student bully, he always likes to learn something in advance to enrich himself, so that he can be more prepared during the period of investigation and study.

Therefore, there are some important things, characters and events about the history of the United States, which have been carefully studied by the stone bear.

For the main types of muskets equipped by the British army in the independent war, how could the stone bear not know the information of this rifle?

Throughout the history of British ordnance, absolutely no weapon can be compared with the brown Beth series rifle. Even though Britain has never attached importance to the army, its invincible navy has dominated the world for more than 100 years, and its battleships have made the world tremble, it is no exaggeration to say that in the history of British ordnance, no weapon has been as dominant as the brown Beth rifle for 132 years!

Yes, this legendary suicider was born in 1722 and ended in the post Napoleonic era. Brown Beth witnessed the rise of the British Empire.

Although the battle of the British Empire continued when the brown Beth rifle was retired, the brown Beth flint gun, an old general who had served the British Empire for nearly 132 years, a loyal comrade in arms of the red shirt army, and an enemy whom Louis XIV never forgot when he died of hatred with Napoleon, could not defeat him even though he had made great achievements in the war.

In 1839, Britain stopped all the production of flint guns. In 1854, the firing weapons based on brown Beth also ushered in the end of military service, and the brown Beth rifle completely withdrew from the stage of history.

But in the next century and a half, no weapon could dominate the war history of mankind for more than 200 years like the flint gun, and no flint gun could dominate the sun never setting empire for 132 years like the brown Beth rifle.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the war of succession to the Spanish throne broke out. The two sides in the duel were the British Olympic coalition and the French Bavarian coalition.

In the famous battle of Brenham, under the command of John Churchill, Duke of marbler, the British and Austrian allied forces defeated the French Bavarian allied forces of 56000 people with 52000 British and Austrian allied forces. More than 40000 Pakistani and French soldiers were killed and captured, and the total casualties of the British and Austrian allied forces were about 13000.

Although the British and Olympic allied forces won the victory, a series of problems caused by the uneven production technology of British military muskets in active service were exposed in the war of succession to the Spanish throne. Although the French were defeated in the war, the French rifle based on standardized manufacture was the envy of the British.

So the British decided to develop a standardized smoothbore gun. On September 15, 1714, shortly after the end of the war, the Royal ordnance Bureau of the British Empire signed an arms development contract. The main contents of the contract included soliciting design opinions from private ordnance suppliers on preferential terms, and then the ordnance Bureau authorities examined and approved the production.

In the late modern European countries, military light weapons came from this way, but in the early modern times, especially in the conservative Britain, this was a bold decision.

However, this contract has not been carried out so smoothly. As soon as this contract appeared, it was strongly opposed by the conservative forces from all walks of life in Britain.

Among these opposition forces, the force of the British military corps is at the forefront.

In those days when there was no complete unification of military uniform and equipment, the government only distributed maintenance funds to the troops, and how to use the funds under the institutional framework was basically the responsibility of the officers of the regiments and battalions - even in Britain at that time. The positions of military officers could be directly purchased as long as they met certain conditions - in Britain, the system even lasted until 1871, In history, the Duke of Wellington, who was "valiant and invincible forever", relied on this system to buy a major from a second lieutenant at the beginning of his military career, which made his career have a brilliant beginning

This system gave the middle-level officers of the British Army great freedom at that time. Many officers could control the expenditure of equipment to collect the remaining money into their private pockets. The standardized production and procurement of weapons would undoubtedly affect their "legitimate" income, and it would be natural for them to encounter their opposition.

There are also some private arms dealers who are resisting. The standardized arms production is not only a challenge to the traditional arms handicraft industry which pursues diversification, but also the vested interests absorbed in the traditional procurement system are likely to lose their original iron rice bowls.

Although there were many opposition forces, in the end, the British ordnance Bureau ruled out all difficulties. It took eight years. In 1722, it finally developed a smooth bore rifle based on standardized manufacture. This rifle is the brown Beth rifle!

Since the brown Beth rifle was finalized in 1728, it has been continuously improved and produced, from the army model at the beginning to the Navy and militia model later; From the earliest long style to the later short style

In any case, the models of brown Beth rifle can not be said to be numerous, but the number of models is also rare in modern ordnance history.

In the just concluded seven years' War, some British soldiers were equipped with p1756 long muskets, which were gradually replaced by 175659 Navy militia short brown bass before the independent war. During the independent war, British soldiers were mostly equipped with short brown Beth

The shot fired in Wisconsin made the British suddenly find that their position in the whole world was suddenly challenged. Some European countries began to reach a simple and crude consensus on the issue of Independent War - never let those damned Brits live!

After that, the plots are very old-fashioned, such as the constant conflicts between Europe and the West during the independent war, the constant plundering of British routes in the Atlantic Ocean, and the poor supply of military supplies

Britain's military industry is once again under great pressure, which is borne by the tired red shirts and their new generation infantry muskets, the p1777 short land muskets.

The p1777 short land muskets began to be produced in large quantities during the independent war. In addition to the British local arms manufacturers, Britain also signed a large number of production contracts with other countries' military factories and private contractors to expand the war reserves. During the eight year independent war, Britain produced and outsourced more than 300000 short brown bass muskets

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