Vol 3 Chapter 590 Chasepo rifle used by Napoleon III
“The United Kingdom and Upper Burma have assembled a total of nearly 200,000 people to face off in Burma, and countries on both sides of the Atlantic are concentrating on the war that Britain and Upper Burma are about to start. William IV does not know what method he used to make it happen. Those in Upper Burma who dare to declare war on Britain”
Crown Prince Frederick of the Kingdom of Prussia asked inexplicably.
William I: “William IV has always been a mysterious man. When it’s time to be low-key, he’ll be low-key, but when it’s time to be high-profile, I’ve never seen him bow his head to anyone. I can’t guess this person, but anyway, William IV. Promised us to contain the British Empire, and now we have done it”
Prime Minister Bismarck also said: “Your Majesty is right. Now that the Netherlands has given us what we want, what we need to do next is to quickly prepare to attack France.”
Crown Prince Frederick asked: “I wonder what month is the best time for us to start attacking France?”
William I glanced at Bismarck.
Bismarck laughed: “Why didn’t the French Empire attack us?”
Seeing that Prince Frederick was puzzled, Bismarck said contemptuously: “We need to create an excuse to let the French Empire strike us first, and Napoleon III will provide it to us.”
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On June 3, 1869, the British army of 85,000 assembled around the whole of Burma advanced twenty kilometers north.
And the lower Myanmar also went south, and the room for relaxation between the two sides became smaller.
In Paris of the French Empire, Napoleon III frowned even more when he received the news that the Five-Party Alliance in Upper Burma had declared war with Britain.
It is not a good thing that the British army is gathering more and more troops.
The war potential of the Upper Burma Empire has actually been launched almost, limited by traffic and productivity, which should have enabled them to use the maximum force.
The population of Upper Myanmar at this time was 2.1 million, and the entire Myanmar was 3.4 million (historically, Myanmar had 9.606 million people until 1900).
In the First Anglo-Burmese War (1819-1822), the British supported internal rebels in Burma, which were finally thwarted by the Burmese royal family.
In the Second Anglo-Burmese War (1837-1851), the British took advantage of the civil war and diplomatic dilemma in Burma to erode Burma’s internal power step by step, and only gave you the three areas of the Arakan region, the lower Burma region and the Tanah Sarin region on the western coast. All occupied and become colonies, occupying one-third of the territory of Myanmar. The rest of the northern part of Upper Myanmar is all inland, and the northern part is close to the ancient powers of the Far East.
In the middle of the 19th century, the world’s major capitalist countries began to transform from liberal capitalism to imperialism. The United Kingdom led by Queen Victoria and the European countries led by the French Empire led by Napoleon III expanded commodity markets around the world and plundered them. Origin, and go to great lengths to fight for colonies and spheres of influence.
Thinking of this, Napoleon III sighed and said unwillingly: Queen Victoria’s England took the first step. Relying on the strength of the navy, they took the Indian subcontinent first, and then took down Bangladesh, and drove the Malay Peninsula, which was originally owned, and slowly encircled the coast of Myanmar to prevent other countries from intervening in their attack on Myanmar.”
Prime Minister Olivier also said: “In the nearly ten years from 1860 to 19869, the British cabinet government, from the former Prime Minister Viscount Palmerston to the present of Disraeli, has tried to make Upper Burma a similar situation to India. The vassal status of the native state has all suffered failure.
It has to be said that the people in Upper Burma are not stupid. They even know how to use our French Empire and the conflict and struggle against the British for the Indian subcontinent and the Southeast Asian peninsula. Half a year ago, we resumed negotiations with our French Empire and adopted what the Orientals called. The policy of conquering barbarians with barbarians. ”
Napoleon III laughed at himself: “But we haven’t been recruited yet? How about going to Burma?”
Prime Minister Olivier: “The people in Upper Burma have promised us that if they help them defeat Britain, then they are willing to secretly support France in the war between the Kingdom of Siam and the French Empire.”
Napoleon III: “Do you believe it?”
Prime Minister Olivier: “Letter”
Napoleon III: “Why?”
Olivier: “Because Upper Burma is the orthodox of Burma, it has always competed with the Kingdom of Siam for influence on the Southeast Asian peninsula. Especially because of the border issue on the Malay Peninsula. It has fought several times. Upper Burma supported the French Empire in Laos. It is understandable to support the French position in the war.
What’s more, Upper Burma promised us that after the British had been driven out of Burma, they were willing to transfer the Tanah Salim area of Burma’s territory on the Malay Peninsula in the eastern Andaman Sea to France. If successful, the French Empire would first transfer the territory to France. Expand to the Malay Peninsula, you know, there is the heartland of Britain and the Kingdom of Siam and the Netherlands.
As long as France enters there, then France can intervene in the issue of safe navigation in the Malacca Strait and officially enter the Andaman Sea. More importantly, the French Empire will use this to play an auxiliary role in the ongoing war of invading Cambodia. By that time, the Ethan Sarim area is close to the western part of the Kingdom of Siam, and its capital Bangkok is only a short one or two hundred kilometers, I think Rama IV will know how to do it.”
Napoleon III looked at his confidant Prime Minister Olivier with a wise bead in his hand, but he had to admit that what he said was reasonable, “It is also true that no matter how smart Queen Victoria and Disraeli are, they will also I don’t know, but in fact, they have secretly purchased 10,000 Xia Saibo rifles from the North Vietnam and Laos areas we occupied in the past few months, which were only installed in our French Empire army in 1866. That is Our current most advanced rifle is the most advanced gun of its kind in the world, I think this time, it should give the UK a surprise.”
Olivier nodded and said, “Your Majesty can’t say it. France was weakened by the Kingdom of Siam under the ‘expectation’ of the United Kingdom, so how can Britain ‘survive’ on its own?”
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The Royal Palace of the Netherlands.
“Keep up with the news from Burma, saying that they should ask the French Empire to provide more guns and ammunition, and it is best to move the French arsenal to the Far East.”
William IV to the Director of the Netherlands International Intelligence Service, Mackay. Sean said, “Which firearm is the French Empire?”
McKay. Sean: “The French military currently mainly uses the Chasepo rifle”
“Is it?” William IV frowned. In the 1850s, the equipment of the Prussians for the Dreiss bolt-action needle gun devoured many countries, including France. Although European countries generally believe that this kind of weapon is not as airtight as the front-loading rifle, it is also Also more or less recognized the superiority of rear-mounted weapons and began to consider the problem of changing.
Afterwards, the Prussian Kingdom launched the 1863 Purdan War and the Prussian Seven Weeks Dynasty War launched in 1866 to accelerate this urgent xing.
In this context, the excellent example of the early rear-loading rifle, the Chasebo rifle, which was a combination of honor and disgrace, was developed in France at this time.
McKay. Sean: “This French Chasebo rifle is 130 cm in the field, 79.5 cm in length with a strong beam, weighs about 4.6 kg, has a caliber of 11 mm, a rate of fire of 410 m/s, and an effective range of 800 m. ”
William IV: “What’s the problem?”
Mike. Sean: “When the Chasepo rifle is used, the lead bullet is easily deformed in flight, and its lethality is not as good as that of the traditional Mignet rifle. But in the eyes of France, it is not a big problem.”
William IV asked: “How is it better than we are at Mauser rifles?”
“Nature can’t be compared” McKay. Sean affirmed: “On August 30, 1866, the Chasepo rifle was approved for installation in the French army. In the same year, Chasepo, who developed the rifle, was awarded the Legion of Honor (ranked as a knight) and an award of 30,000 francs by Napoleon III. However, Napoleon III and French officers valued it very much.”
See William IV’s questioning gaze.
McKay. Sean explained: “The first blood of the Chasepo rifle came from the Italians. In October 1867, Garibaldi led the Volunteer-Will Army to press on Rome, and the French Emperor Napoleon III sent troops to Rome first and formed a group with the Pope. Coalition forces, in the Battle of Mentana on November 3, the Garibaldi Zhi-Wan- Army, which was poorly organized and lacked cavalry and artillery, was severely beaten by the French troops equipped with Chasepo rifles, and more than 1,000 people were killed and injured. Withdrawing from Rome the next day, the wounded even included Garibaldi himself, the French army had only 38 casualties, and the Pope’s army had 144 casualties.”
He pointed out, “It was precisely because of the miracle created by the Chasepo rifle that the French were excited for a while, and it was precisely because of this battle that the French sought to find out from the fears of the Prussian War and the Austro-Prussian War. After regaining their confidence, they believed that there was almost no comparable breech-loading rifle at the same time, and for the French military, the appearance of the Chasepo rifle may reverse the military strength of the Franco-Prussian War in one fell swoop.”
“William IV asked uncertainly: “In other words, in terms of the current threat to Prussia by France, do you think that France has an overwhelming advantage over Prussia due to the superiority of the Chasepo rifle? ”
McKay. Sean: “Good”
“Those who don’t know are fearless,” William IV secretly said.
He thought: “In the history of 1882~www.readmtl.com~After France took control of North and South Vietnam and Cambodia, and occupied the northern territory of Laos, a vassal of the Kingdom of Siam, the aggressive expansion of France in the Southeast Asian peninsula made Britain uneasy. 1883 In May, Burma Xipao sent a mission to France to win France’s commitment and assistance to itself. After the British heard the news, they felt even more threatened and decided to put pressure on France and plan to annex Upper Burma in one fell swoop.
In March 1885, when France was busy fighting with the ancient great powers in the north and competing for Madagascar, the United Kingdom officially sent a diplomatic note to France on the political alliance between France and Burma I. France denied the alliance with Burma and recalled the consulate in Burma.
After containing the French power, on October 22 of the same year, the United Kingdom issued an ultimatum to the Burmese king on the pretext of the Mumbai Burma trading company logging teak case, requesting that the United Kingdom be given the power to supervise and control Burma’s foreign affairs activities. . . . . ”
He thought that now those of us have disrupted the rhythm of history, and let the Netherlands, driven by people inside Upper Burma, make Upper Burma and France secretly early alliance at the beginning of this year, and not in the later French Third Republic – and – countries loosely allied.
Just McKay. Sean also mentioned that France has provided 10,000 of the most advanced Xia Saibo rifles to Upper Burma, and now that the United Kingdom is keeping up with the war in Burma, I think France will fall deeper.
He told McKay. Sean instructed: “Prussia has seen that our promise has been fulfilled, and urge Prussia to hand over the Bahrain Islands to us first.”
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