Hong Tao neither treats colds nor detoxifies. After wandering in the desert for three days, his curiosity was wiped out. The Arabs regarded this broken place as a treasure, but Hong Tao was very upset. He had nothing to do with anything, but after walking for several days, he saw all the same color and something. It was really hard for how these Arabs lived. They were all Xiaoqiang.

"Old Sai, it's not that I don't respect your religion, but I don't want to promote any religion in my country. When the opportunity is ripe, I will allow all religions to enter my country, but I will never be allowed to dominate. As for whether you want to believe or which one is their own choice. Before giving them the right to choose, I must first give them the ability to choose. If the people of a country account for the majority, they do not have the ability to distinguish, and they can cheat whatever they want. This will allow some people to take advantage of the opportunity, which is not in line with my original intention." Without curiosity, there will be no excitement. After camping every day, Hong Tao will ride a camel around the camp, and then hurl in a tent to start discussing knowledge with Sayed. In fact, there is no knowledge, it's just arguing. The main problem is the future development direction of the Jinhe Kingdom.

Sayed believes that if a country does not have religious beliefs, it will be difficult to reunite effectively. It is easy to deal with when there are fewer people. Once the population is large and the territory is large, it will be difficult to rule. Hong Tao partially agrees with Sayed's statement, but he does not want to use religious belief to fool the people. Beliefs can be, but it is best to let the people choose when they are clear-headed and have enough knowledge. Both of them agree to use religious belief as a tool of ruling, but they have different opinions on how they are used.

"How did your Majesty get this ice?" In fact, Sayed is also a fake monk, and Muslims are forbidden to drink. But when he is out of nowhere, for example, in Hong Tao's cabin and Hong Tao's tent, he will not refuse to smoke or drink as long as there is no outsider. Now he is drinking with a glass of ice wine while quarreling with Hong Tao, while wondering why there is ice in the ice bucket in such hot weather!

"You can't understand it even if you tell me the theories of those sages, just like I can't understand it either." Sayed couldn't stand Hong Tao's sidelines in matters such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, and navigation, and he didn't even have the qualification to be an apprentice.

"Your Majesty is not suitable to be an emperor. Like His Majesty William, you are not very enthusiastic about this position, but you two do the best. Things in the world are really complicated." Said picked up a small piece of ice and threw it into a cup. He chatted, but there was no topic at all, and he said whatever he thought of. For those who were thinking about problems all day long, it was actually a kind of rest and relaxation.

"Who fires the gun outside the person who comes?" Suddenly, Hong Tao sat up from the carpet. His ears were very sensitive. There was a crisp sound in the distance, which would be heard far away in the wild. Hong Tao was very familiar with this sound, and it was gunshots.

"I don't know that it seems to be the sentry in the west. Captain Lang was about to send someone to check it out." The guards at the door of the tent quickly gave a reply.

"Check it out, blow the whistle, turn off the lights, and light the fire!" Hong Tao stood up directly from the stand, and picked up his two short guns while putting on his shoes. He didn't even tie his belt and walked out.

"Your Majesty, what happened?" Said did not hear the gunshots, or heard them, but did not know what the sound was. Seeing Hong Tao's serious look, he didn't know what was going on.

"Bang" Another gunshot came from a distance, and this time the sound was significantly louder.

"We are attacked! You are here, turn off the lights, I'll go out and take a look." This time, Hong Tao was really sure, it was not a fire, nor did he encounter any wild beasts. There were strangers coming, and there were a large number and the speed was quite fast. Otherwise, the first-level sentry and the second-level sentry would not have been broken through so quickly.

Hong Tao is not a qualified army general, but he is a 100% thief, afraid of death. Every day when camping, he would scatter the guard post five hundred meters away, and still secretly send a guard post. If he didn't walk in the dark, he would never see a shallow pit dug on the ground, and there were people under the blanket. These guard posts were divided into three layers, one hundred meters and one layer, spread all over all directions, and there were mixed oil tanks in the guard post. As long as the enemy situation was discovered, these guard posts would fire guns and ignite the mixed oil in the tank at the same time.

When Hong Tao came out, four or five fires had already lit up in the west, and whistles were heard everywhere in the camp. The Marines were running out of their respective tents and marching in the black line. The three deck cannons also lifted off their cannon suits and began to load shotguns.

"Your Majesty, who is going to attack us?" Said did not stay in the tent, but came out with Hong Tao. Seeing the fire in the distance, he grabbed Hong Tao's robe, and his voice was trembling a little.

"I don't know. Anyway, it's not a Song Dynasty person, nor a Byzantine person. I can't run out of the Port of Masca. Come, bring this, and squat here to watch. Don't look up, do you understand? Go and get me a helmet." At this time, Hong Tao did not forget to say strange words. He must not know who the person was, but it is true that it is 100% Arabs nearby. It's not a problem. Will it have something to do with Said or the Alin family? I haven't had time to think about it yet. Since he doesn't want to stay in the tent, let's see how he deals with these people.

Soon, a slight vibration came from the ground, and a fire wall lit up more than 100 meters west of the camp. More than a dozen marines were running to the death. A large number of people appeared a hundred meters behind them.

"Camel Cavalry! Your Majesty, it's the Bedouin Cavalry!" Not only did the soldiers see it, but Hong Tao saw it, Sayed also saw it. He was more familiar with this figure and immediately called out his name.

A sharp whistle sounded through the night sky. The marines who had already lined up in three rows raised their rifles in their hands and pointed at the figure to the west.

"Dadada" this time is not a whistle, but a harsh trumpet.

"Papapapapapapapapapapapapapa" followed by a continuous and crisp sound. The darkness was instantly torn apart by hundreds of firelights. The firelight illuminated the young faces of the Marines, illuminated the hideous face of Hong Tao hiding behind a pile of boxes, illuminated the terrified face under Said's helmet, and illuminated the face of the camel cavalry who was wearing a black cloak and a black turban, and charging more than a hundred meters away.

Since the first row of guns fired, the gunshots have never stopped. The third row of marines were like a pair of machines, shooting in rows and rows of fire, and then retreating. The third row of people were walking back and forth, neither moving forward nor backward, and bounced rows of lead to the tall bodies in the distance.

Although it was at night and the vision was not ideal, it was easier to aim at the target with that fire wall. Because anyone close to the fire wall would be drawn with a contour. The Marines did not aim at the shooting at all. They just needed to find the height and shortness of the target in the distance to pull the trigger. As for whether they could hit the target, it was all left to God.

The most primitive smoothbore gun has an effective range of less than fifty meters. The hit rate will drop sharply after this distance. Even if it is limited to quantity, it is difficult to make up for it. There are defects in the barrel manufacturing process here. More so, for the convenience of loading, the bullets of the smoothbore gun will be several millimeters smaller than the barrel. In this way, when firing, the bullets will collide with the wall of the chamber and will not fly out in a straight line. In addition, the bullets of the smoothbore gun are round and the aerodynamic shape is not suitable for stable flight, so if you hit it far, you will have no head.

However, with the gradual improvement of manufacturing technology and smelting technology, the effective range of the smoothbore gun gradually increased. Until the American Civil War, it suddenly took a new level. At that time, American soldiers discovered that if they wrapped the bullet in oil-soaked suede and stuffed it into the gun chamber, it would not only prevent the bullet from falling out and speed up the loading speed, but also greatly improved the range and accuracy of the smoothbore gun.

Currently, the Marine Corps uses this technology and uses fixed ammunition, which is to seal the launching medicine in advance in a silk tube soaked with whale. One end of the silk tube is also wrapped with a lead bullet wrapped with whale skin. When using it, directly buckle the whale at one end of the silk tube and poke the entire silk tube into the bottom of the barrel with a strip.

This thing was figured out by Hong Tao based on various flintlock reloading techniques in later generations. It is not 100% plagiarism, but it can only be said to be a reference. The paper tube is cheap but there will be residues. Every time it is fired, the gun chamber must be cleaned, which seriously reduces the firing speed. Hong Tao used the paper tube fixed-loading ammunition for export to the New Army of the Song Dynasty. The Marine Corps and the Imperial Army used all silk fixed-loading ammunition. Not afraid of the expensive ones, the empire is rich, and this cost is transferred to other countries anytime and anywhere. The paper tube fixed-loading ammunition sold to the Song Dynasty is sold at the cost of silk fixed-loading ammunition.

The flintlock smoothbore rifle barrel used by the Marine Corps has higher accuracy and longer production, and the team members have higher live ammunition training levels, even higher than the Imperial Army, because they have the opportunity to follow the warships to Jawa Island to train with real swords and guns of local resisters. They have seen blood and have been on the battlefield, and the soldiers who have been on the battlefield are much more stable than those who have been trained, and their shooting effect will increase exponentially.

After several rows of shooting, three larger and brighter flames burst out on both sides of the Marine Corps. At the same time, with the explosion like the sky and the earth cracking, the deck cannons began to erupt large pieces of iron sand at the camel cavalry entering the range.

These three cannons were much more useful than muskets. The cavalry that used dense formations to charge were afraid of such large-scale indiscriminate scattering and had no place to hide, so they fell down at that time. However, firing the cannon also had side effects, and the camels in the camp were immediately shocked. If the dozens of Alin's entourage desperately held the reins of several camels, these hundreds of camels would have run towards the darkness in the east, and they would not be stupid, and they would be dangerous wherever they were shining.

(To be continued.)
Chapter completed!