While the world situation is changing, An Ning is also actively making preparations.
This time Lazar Cano came to Milan to personally escort the factory's new products.
This is a new rifle with added rifling after improvements in the production process. Based on the breech-loading gun sent from the UK, rifling in the barrel was added.
There were rifled rifles in this era, but the rate of fire of muzzle-loading rifles was too slow.
Because in order to exert the effect of rifling, the projectile must be closely attached to the inner wall of the gun bore. This makes loading a muzzle-loaded rifle very troublesome. In order to insert the bullet, you have to use a hammer to knock the through bar, like punching.
Drive the purge bar into the barrel like a nail, so that the bullet can be pressed to the bottom of the barrel.
Therefore, the rate of fire of this kind of muzzle-loading rifle is only one-tenth of that of ordinary smoothbore rifles, and loading is particularly laborious.
Knocking through the bar is a standard laborious task.
In addition, rifled guns were difficult to produce. There were no machine tools in this era, so the rifling inside the barrel was planed by hand, making production very time-consuming.
Precisely because of such restrictions, when An Ning set out for Italy, the army was not equipped with many breech-loading guns, nor did it bring multiple-line guns. Everyone held conventional muskets.
But An Ning arranged a task for Lazar Cano, who stayed at home, and asked him to supervise the craftsmen concentrated under him to research manual machine tools that can conveniently and quickly plan rifling, and at the same time improve the design of breech-loading guns to enhance productivity.
Produced using the assembly line invented by An Ning.
Lazar Cano came this time with the results of An Ning's instructions.
Yes, after two years of tinkering, An Ning finally had the first batch of 500 breech-loading rifles.
The combination of breech-loading rifles and rifle guns can perfectly solve the problem of the previous muzzle-loading rifles being too slow to load.
After all, when loading from the back, you don't need to let the projectiles pass through the barrel with the rifling line engraved on it. You just need to stuff the projectiles directly into the butt of the barrel from the back.
The rest can be left entirely to gunpowder.
Such a weapon with long range, high accuracy and high rate of fire was born.
The only problem with this kind of gun is that it is too complicated to produce and the output is really worrying. An Ning still adopted the assembly line method, which greatly improved the production efficiency and the production capacity was only 500 after so long.
Not to mention the cost, the cost of making one such gun can be used to make more than ten muskets.
If An Ning, a time traveler, hadn't pushed hard for the practical use of this thing, this kind of thing would have replaced the musket on a large scale only when productivity developed to the point where it could be mass-produced like cabbage.
As a time traveler, An Ning used his own power to advance the application of this technology in the military.
After Lazar Cano arrived in Milan with these 500 guns, An Ning was very happy to go to the outskirts of Milan for testing and found that all the indicators of this thing were satisfactory.
Anning's officers had mixed reactions to this new rifle. Napoleon firmly supported the use of this new technology. Lassalle believed that this new rifle was just an addition and that his cavalry could win the war. Davout said
cautious optimism,
Berthier believed that this weapon would have no substantial effect other than increasing ammunition consumption.
But An Ning ignored the opinions of the officers and immediately decided to form a precision marksman company, selecting 250 soldiers with hunter backgrounds, each of whom was issued one of this new rifles, and the remaining 250 rifles were used as backup.
An Ning was very looking forward to the performance of this precision shooter company in the coming war and watched them practice using the new rifles every day.
And his officers were more concerned about the 10,000 new troops brought by Lazarcano.
These new forces were recruited with the wealth An Ning plundered from Italy, and they were all progressive young people who supported the revolution.
The courage and morale of the army composed of progressive youths in battle have been widely recognized by the officers, and some even believe that these fresh troops can be worthy of the 20,000-strong dynasty army.
However, the total number of troops in An Ning's hands is still far lower than the predicted enemy strength he will face after the war begins.
An Ning's action for this purpose was to form a large number of Italian Sequoia Army. He planned to use the Sequoia Army to defend various passes, and be responsible for logistics and transportation, so as to gather all the French troops for field battles.
Of course, the French troops must be guarding the strongholds along the route from Nice to Savona. After all, this is the lifeline of communication with the country.
Excluding the troops guarding these places, the French army can have more than 40,000 field troops.
The French army faced a combined army of 100,000 troops from Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Fortunately, because the French army often defeated more with less, the soldiers did not take this difference in strength seriously, and their morale was very high. It was as if "General Frost" could just wave his hand and defeat the soldiers who were far superior to them.
The enemy troops were wiped out.
At the end of November, the latest order came from Paris. The newly elected National Assembly controlled by the Jacobins promoted all the officers under An Ning.
Davout and Berthier both received the rank of major general. La Harpe, who went to recuperate, received the rank of colonel like Rana. Massena, who had been reorganizing the original Italian Legion troops in the rear, was also promoted to colonel.
The only person who was dissatisfied with the promotion result was Lasalle, uu Kanshu www.uukanshu.com. This young hussar only got the rank of lieutenant colonel, and he complained a lot about it.
La Salle: "Why am I ranked first than Rana? Just because I only commanded one cavalry brigade? Rana was promoted to acting division commander because Laharpe fell!"
In order to appease this general under his command, An Ning could only ask the painter David to paint a painting for him, called "General La Salle Rushes to the Enemy in Diego", which mainly depicts his great achievements in Diego.
A week later, the painting was drawn and sent to La Salle's barracks, along with the Dorman coat that An Ning specially asked the most expensive tailor in Milan to make for La Salle. This coat was sewn with gold threads.
A regular Dorman coat has more lace.
Basically, all hussars love to be beautiful. When La Salle saw this beautiful coat, he liked it so much that he finally stopped talking about his military rank.
Along with the promotion order, there was another person coming from Paris.
Theoretically, An Ning does not know this person, but An Ning knows him because in the original history, he was also a quite famous person.
This man's name is Paul Barras. Yes, he is the commissioner who appointed Napoleon as the commander-in-chief of the Toulon artillery in the original history, Paul Barras.
In the original history, this man was the lover of Napoleon's wife Josephine, and she cuckolded Napoleon.