Chapter 1030 Assassin's Creed (First update, please subscribe)

New tactics, new era.

In fact, from the Nanhua era to the imperial era, the army and navy used tactical advantages to make up for deficiencies in various aspects.

For example, in order to make up for the shortage of manpower in the early days, the Nanhua Security Team used the "Spencer Rifle". In order to increase the range, they even used shrunken bottleneck bullets. Although the range was slightly inferior to the Minié rifle, it was almost the same.

The excellent accuracy, amazing rate of fire, and the deadly firepower of the mortar, the combination of the two ultimately made the South China Army famous, and Chile and Argentina were successively destroyed.

By the time of the Battle of Brazil, the mature Imperial Army achieved all this not so much by taking advantage of its technological and weaponry advantages, but rather by taking advantage of its tactical leadership to overwhelm the Brazilian Army, which had larger forces and whose technological equipment was not much behind that of the Imperial Army.

In fact, the Imperial Army is not conservative. The Ming Empire has always had an army commando team directly under the General Staff. Although this small-scale commando team is similar to the special forces of another era and is good at carrying out assaults behind enemy lines, it is essentially a reconnaissance force.

Although, during the expedition to Africa, the commandos used airships to implement rappelling at the suggestion of Emperor Zhu, that was in Africa, without resistance. In the subsequent tests, rappelling behind enemy lines was not very successful.

Because rappelling needs to take into account various ground artillery threats, especially the enemy's targeted deployment, which will also pose a threat to the commandos' Sauron operations.

It was for this reason that Emperor Zhu came up with the idea of ​​establishing the Army Assault Corps, which was actually an airborne force. Perhaps in another era, in the face of heavy weapons such as tanks and armed helicopters, the importance of airborne troops would have dropped sharply, but the current era is completely different.

An elite force equipped with automatic weapons can play a role on the battlefield that is absolutely beyond people's expectations. For example, in the early days of World War II, the Russian paratroopers played an extremely important role. Even during the Cold War, the Russian paratroopers in Bughra and Kandahar also played the role of assault spearheads.

In the past, when there were no automatic weapons, the commandos were just a relatively elite reconnaissance force for the general staff, far from being assault spearheads.

But what about now?

With the Anton, everything changes.

Even Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang had made up his mind to make the Andong style a symbol of the Ming Empire, just like the MP40 and the Sandezi, and the PPSH and the Maozi during World War II.

Of course, it still needs time to mature, but some things always need to be prepared in advance.

When the two newly appointed captain and deputy captain of the assault corps left, Emperor Zhu picked up the phone on the table.

"Call Li Shaobai from Huitong Bank."

Huitong Bank was Emperor Zhu the Great's private bank, and it was just one of many banks. In addition to the Imperial Bank and HSBC, the royal family also owned Huitong, America and South China City Bank. Together with Pacific Insurance, Atlantic Insurance and Ping An Insurance Company, the royal family controlled almost 75% of the empire's financial industry.

Although Emperor Zhu personally monopolized the empire's financial industry, he intentionally or unintentionally supported the competitors of the Imperial Bank, from HSBC to South China City, all of which were objects of his support.

A single dominant company is a national taboo.

Soon the call was connected. There was no other purpose, just asking the bank to acquire Anton Weapons Company - a company that had just been established for less than two months. I am afraid that even Xu Anton himself did not expect that his company would become "imperial property" overnight. He did not expect that in a few years, Anton style would be closely linked with the image of the empire.

Sometimes, the world is always full of too many coincidences, and some coincidences will always change the fate of individuals or even countries inadvertently.

Just when Emperor Zhu ordered the establishment of the "Assault Corps", Wang Youling, former assistant minister of the Executive Yuan of the Ming Empire, also began his visit to Peru. Although this was a "private trip", the Peruvian side still treated it as a major enemy.

This great enemy did not regard Wang Youling as a great enemy, but was afraid that this former high-ranking official of the empire who was visiting Peru-Bolivia Federation in a private capacity would encounter an accident in Peru. On the day he arrived in the Federation, federal officials dispatched thousands of military and police to maintain order and protect his safety.

When he arrived in Tacna, the federal capital, tens of thousands of Chileans who had fled there expressed their protest and dissatisfaction through various channels and even burned the flag of the Ming Empire. Wang Youling turned a blind eye to this. At the reception banquet held at the Presidential Palace, facing the federal president and senior officials from Peru and Bolivia, Wang Youling gave a speech in fluent Spanish.

In his speech, he naturally complimented Peru and said, "As a member of South America, the Empire is willing to develop mutual trust and cooperation with South American countries." In a word, he was telling the world that the Empire has no intention of expansion and is willing to live in friendship with South American countries. All in all, it is the usual cliché.

Of course, he also bluntly pointed out that senior federal officials were too wary of the empire and viewed the empire's private investment as tigers and wolves, which was not conducive to friendly coexistence between the two countries.

But... that's it.

Apart from this, the visit did not produce any results, and federal officials were eager for him to leave Tacna immediately. On the third day after his arrival in Tacna, its President Manuel Pardo bluntly rejected his request to visit the southern desert mining areas and other provinces for security reasons.

Not only that, he was also advised to end his "trip". Faced with such an expulsion order, although Wang Youling was a little reluctant, after receiving Manuel Pardo's promise to improve the investment environment for the empire, he left Tacna contentedly and headed for the next stop - Mexico.

The reason why he went directly to Mexico was because Ecuador and Colombia directly refused Wang Youling's visit on the grounds that "security could not be guaranteed." It must be said that Wang Youling's private trip was full of twists and turns.

Compared with the rejection of other countries, the Mexican Empire, as a traditional ally of the Ming Dynasty, certainly welcomed the visit of this former senior official of the empire with open arms.

After all, for the Mexican royal family, the Ming Empire is their closest ally. Now that a former imperial official is visiting, it will definitely be beneficial to the rule of the Mexican royal family.

That is, when Wang Youling boarded the cruise ship and left the Federation amid the "warm farewell" of hundreds of thousands of exiles in Chile, Oswaldell also boarded the cruise ship, but he did not take action because there was a Ming warship passing by in the port.

This cruiser of the Imperial Navy was not meant to escort Wang Laoxiang, but was just passing through here after completing its cruise mission in the North Sea Governor's District and returning to Cape Harbor, the home port of the Pacific Fleet...

At least from the official point of view, the arrival of the cruiser at this time was just a means of transportation. Not many people would believe this coincidence.

Oswaldell, standing on the deck, looked at the man's figure and muttered to himself silently in his heart.

"Wait, just wait, there will always be a chance in the end."

Patience is the first creed of the assassin!

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(End of this chapter)