Corporal Garset, wearing a beret and camouflage, was still moving in a wet bush forest. He was quietly observing a pastoral village called San Francisco with a small monocular telescope.

In the battle of Caishi Town, the rifle regiment that was temporarily recruited (the Minni rifle used, the rifle was rifle) was shocked by the excellent performance of the regiment during the battle. After the war, he successfully persuaded the Duke of Desay and exchanged interests with General Barbanegel of the Third Brigade, and selected 800 people from the troops of more than a thousand men to form the rifle regiment of infantry and cavalry, and officially listed it as the organization of the First Brigade.

This newly formed rifle regiment seems to be a small problem, that is, the inconsistency of the styles of the two types of military uniforms. The gunmen from the Norte Aragon were all dressed in mountain camouflage clothes, which was very inconsistent with the traditional dark blue uniforms of the First Brigade. Because the Norte Aragon belonged to the private territory of the Duke of Hruna, Desay had the right to change the uniforms of the army. However, the First Brigade (including the Fourth Brigade and the Fifth Brigade) was still in the French military sequence, and no commander had the right to change the dress of the Empire-Soldiers except the orders of the Ministry of Army of Paris and Emperor Napoleon.

This difficult problem was submitted to the division commander again. Desai made a decision without hesitation. The rifle regiment was changed to a camouflage outfit with gray and dark green as the main colors. In addition, in order to facilitate its own concealment, the original flat-top high-tube military cap with bright color feathers on the soldiers' heads was also changed to a soft and brimmable military cap, namely the Beret. According to the agreement between Desai and Napoleon, once Evora was captured, the emperor would officially issue an edict to recognize the Catalonian-Aragorn Kingdom under Desai's rule. Desai changed the style of the military uniform in advance, which was not too illegal.

When the rifle regiment was officially formed, nearly 300 Northern Aragon soldiers, including Garset, Enrique and Pablo, were attracted by General Delney and were all transferred to the regiment. In addition to retaining the camouflage characteristics of the mountain troops in their military uniforms, the officers and soldiers of this newly formed team were also equipped with a war horse to serve as a mount. In 19th century Europe, every adult man would ride a horse, and it might be worse for them to be a cavalry, but it was more than enough for infantry and cavalrymen.

In addition, in terms of firearms, the Rampage Regiment has also changed its entire equipment, no longer using the Minni gun originally improved based on the British Baker rifle, but a new infantry weapon developed and produced by the Khruna Ordnance, the Khruna Type 1810 rifle. Two weeks ago, these firearms followed the logistics baggage team escorted by the armed forces and arrived at the Badajoz Fortress from Catalonia.

The Hruna 1810 rifle is still a single-shot front-load, usually 3 to 4 rounds per minute. The barrel is equipped with a double line with a diameter of 0.58, and a conical bullet (Mini bullet) is used. The bullet speed is 290 meters per second. The gun body is slightly short, about 1.45 meters, and the total weight is 9 pounds. It is also equipped with a bayonet with a length of 0.53 meters.

Thanks to the cheating reminder of the time traveler, the Khruna Ordnance Institute was able to obtain the best chemical reaction equation of black gunpowder 15 years in advance, before the British chemist Shevreri: 2KNO3+3C+S—K2↓+N2↑+3CO2↑. Based on this, the theoretical ratio of nitrate, sulfur and carbon is 74.84%, 11.84%, and 11.32% as the best gunpowder formula. Soon, the Khruna Ordnance Institute formulated the ratio of nitrate, sulfur and carbon according to this equation, with a ratio of 75%, 10%, 15% of gun-fired gunpowder, and a combination ratio of 78%, 8%, and 14% of gun-fired gunpowder.

In addition, the Hruna Ordnance uses physical and chemical methods to extract purity of nitr and sulfur with advanced industrial equipment; use steam engine to drive the drum-type device to crush the medicinal materials and mix and mix the medicinal materials; use a water-pressure machine to place the configured gunpowder on the mill and press it into solid and uniform particles, so that the gunpowder has a certain geometric shape and compactness; use a mechanical granulation cylinder to make the gunpowder blocks into gunpowder particles of uniform size; put the made granular gunpowder in the drying room and dry it with a steam heater to keep it in a good dry state to be launched; a graphite machine polishes the surface of the medicine particles to remove pores, reduce moisture absorption, and extend the storage period of the gunpowder. These advanced processes ensure the excellent quality of the gunpowder.

(Note that the above two sections quote historical materials from Baidu search)

Simply put, the Hruna Type 1810 rifle has reached or even exceeded the rifle level during the Opium War. Its effective range is 500 yards and its longest range is as high as 850 yards. If equipped with a long-bore sight, it accurately shoots any target within 600 yards. Since the Hruna Type 1810 rifle uses a thunder mercury fire cap as a launching medicine, it not only greatly improves the ability to ignite the launching medicine, reduces the chance of silence, and can almost achieve all-weather combat, but also makes it very rare to emit white smoke from the rear end of the barrel. Even if 800 rifle soldiers fire forward in a dense queue, they will not fall into the artificial fog of the battlefield.

However, the Hruna 1810 rifle also has some shortcomings, the most important factor is that the cost is too high. Due to the defects in the gun making process, steam or water conservancy machinery cannot be used in the manufacturing process, and many skilled technicians need to use manual processing. In addition, mass production was not possible in the early stage, so the cost of a Hruna 1810 rifle is as high as 300 francs. Therefore, equip this 800-person team, it costs 250,000 francs in guns alone, which has not yet calculated the later firearm maintenance and parts consumption.

As for the Desay-based rear-loaded Spencer rifle based on high hopes (one of the most outstanding weapon inventions during the American Southern War), there is still no news. According to the weapon engineer who arrived at the Badajos Fortress and was responsible for inspection and maintenance of firearms, the rear-loaded rifle that combines projectiles, bottom fire, and launching drugs into one, and paper-case fixed-loading guns are still trapped in a difficult problem, that is, the tail end of the barrel is still difficult to seal, which will cause gunpowder gas to easily run out of the back, resulting in dull fire.

After hearing this, Desai called the ordnance engineer to him and threw him a ball of black vulcanized rubber to inform him of its purpose. Soon, the ordnance engineer ran back to study with the vulcanized rubber, but Desai could not get a big killer. The arrival of the rear-mounted Spencer Rifle was at least before the end of the Portuguese War.

At dawn today, when the First Brigade set out from Porter, the Rampage Regiment where Garset and others were located, as the brigade's outpost unit, had already made secret rides in the direction of Evora 2 hours in advance to monitor and investigate the enemy situation and prevent the Portuguese from destroying the roads and river bridges along the way. However, the General Staff of the Division overestimated the Portuguese's vigilance.

Along the way, the soldiers saw waves of golden wheat fields on both sides of the road, and farmers working hard in the fields with the scorching sun. It was mid-July, when the wheat was ripe. At the beginning of the month, General Bellsford, the commander of the Eastern Front of the coalition, sent 3,000 Portuguese regular troops and 3,000 guerrillas from the Evora barracks, and let them scatter within 20 kilometers of the Evora Fortress, cooperated with the local people to conduct armed patrols to strictly prevent French intelligence spies or small groups of French troops from attacking.

But in fact, these Portuguese soldiers, who were civilians, did not care about General Bellsford's orders at all. In their opinion, the French were still slowly crawling in the northern line, which was still early from the city of Evora, but the wheat harvest in the fields was not at all careless, otherwise it would delay the hard work throughout the year. Soon, the idle Portuguese soldiers ran back to various villages and households in groups to help the elderly and young families harvest the wheat fields. In response, the officers turned a blind eye and simply let it go.

In this way, the entire outer cordon of Evora was useless. Whenever the French outpost troops rushed into the village on horseback, the farmers and soldiers who were still busy in the wheat fields only had sickles and sticks. Faced with the sudden muzzle of the French army, most of them wisely chose to give up resistance, and only dozens of impulsive Portuguese soldiers fell under the spoils.

Starting from 7:00 a.m., in less than three hours, without much effort and casualties, the soldiers of the rifle regiment who were currently on the outpost successfully occupied 6 and 7 villages along the way in one breath. At the commanding heights of various major transportation routes and villages, the officers left a small number of troops to prevent the villagers from reporting to Evora City and guarding the road ahead of the main force and artillery supplies.

If the map is marked correctly, the village of San Francisco in front of Corporal Gasset is the last village leading to Evora. The reason why the village is called such a loud name is that you can look out from every corner of the village, the Church of San Francisco in Evora is the famous and creepy church of the human bones.

Garset didn't care about this. In fact, he just glanced at the so-called spire of the so-called spire of the church of Human Bones and locked his eyes on the village of San Francisco, which was less than 100 meters in front of him.

The village of San Francisco is not large in size, with only one main street, and the houses scattered on both sides of the street are not dense, with only more than 200 households. Men are mostly busy rushing to harvest wheat, or drying wheat in front of their houses or in the square to pile up the wheat in the barn; women and the elderly are mostly taking care of the vegetables, fruits and melons in the yard, or feeding livestock in the livestock; children are early on playing with adults, and after being driven away by their parents, they hide in groups of three or five under the shade of oak trees to play games.

A wonderful and harmonious pastoral landscape in front of meadows, rivers, oak jungles, and golden wheat fields seemed to bring Gasete back to North Aragon - his hometown. Soon, Gasete shook his neck vigorously so that his sleepy head, which was sunken by the scorching sun, would wake up again. This is the battlefield, and on the other side of the rivers, every Portuguese coming and going will be his enemy.

From the lurking bushes in Garset, 20 meters ahead, although the green lawns are green, then forward, there is a small river. This is the midsummer season with sparse rain (Mediterranean climate), the width of the river is only about 8 meters, so it can only be called a river stream. One of the main exits of the village of San Francisco is a bridge about 40 meters away from the left side of Garset, made of countless tall oaks.

The bridge is very wide, about 5 meters long, and can accommodate four people riding horses in parallel, and it is also very strong. Garset saw more than a dozen white canvas carts loaded with wheat rushing onto the bridge together. The bridge was still motionless. I believe that the 12-pound cannon and the logistics team cart could also pass through the city of Evora. Protecting this bridge will be the main responsibility of Garset and others.

Suddenly, Garset felt a slight vibration behind him. It was someone, at least two people approaching him. He hurriedly picked up the Type 1810 rifle, stood up, and pointed the bayonet at the muzzle at the attacking person.

"Who!" Garset shouted softly.

"It's us, Garset!" This was Enrique's voice, and Pablo was following him.

Garset put away his gun, stepped forward a few steps, came to the two of them, and immediately questioned: "How can you leave your post without permission? Go back to your respective posts!"

Enrique quickly explained, "It was not that he left his post, but that Pablo had discovered it. He saw several Portuguese riding horses, running from behind us, heading straight for the village of San Francisco, whether they need to be left behind."

Garset quickly checked with a monocular telescope. Soon, he put the barrel in his arms again, grabbed the rifle with one hand, and said calmly, "It's too late, the reporter has crossed the bridge. Pablo, you ride a horse to report the situation here to Commander René and ask for reinforcements; Enrique, you go and summon the other six brothers and hold the bridge with me, and you can't destroy it until the reinforcements arrive!"
Chapter completed!