Chapter 1095 The First Step of Empire Expansion (Third update, please subscribe)
Emperor Zhu has not been sleeping well in recent times.
He went to bed late and got up early.
The same thing happened today, he didn't fall asleep until midnight.
He kept walking around the office, and occasionally, he would look out the window, as if he was thinking about something.
“Ding, ding…”
Suddenly, the clock struck 12 at midnight. In the quiet night, the clock sounded very loud. Emperor Zhu looked back at the clock, then his expression became a little solemn. He walked from the window to the table and turned a page of the calendar.
September 11th!
Staring at the time on the calendar, Emperor Zhu slowly walked to the window, looked at the starry night sky, and after a long time, a sentence in Latin came out of his mouth.
"Thedieiscast!"
He had said this to General Rodriguez when he led his troops across the Bio-Bio River.
From that day on, the Bio Bio River became another "Rubicon River" in the Ming Dynasty. In the history of the Ming Empire, the river was regarded as the first "imperial conquest", and its significance was even greater than Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang leading his troops across the Andes Mountains.
Later, someone erected a monument in front of the stone bridge to commemorate all this. On the base of the monument with the theme of soldiers was engraved the words "Thedieiscast!"
This is what Caesar said when he crossed the river. This sentence, which has been passed down through the ages, means "the dice have been cast". It means that the die is cast, the mind is made up, there is no turning back, and there is no way back. Finally, Caesar led his army across the Rubicon River and entered Rome, and took the first step to conquer Europe and establish the Roman Empire.
I came, I saw, I conquered...
Am I comparing myself to Caesar?
No, in fact, today is just the first step of the Ming Empire's conquest!
Why did Emperor Zhu think so?
Because this is the first step in the expansion of the empire. After all, Britain and the United States are now very cautious about supporting the expansion of the empire. If they are not careful, it will definitely cause a war.
It's different from the past when we took shortcuts. This time we're confronting them head-on.
It is for this reason that Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang regards the next step as the first step in the expansion of the empire. After taking this step, the empire will be irreversibly heading towards war with the United States and Britain. The next step, no matter where it is, once a conflict occurs, it will most likely be war!
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This night was destined to be one where many people could not sleep. Over the Atacama Desert, a dark cloud blocked the stars. A huge fleet of airships took off from a newly built secret base on the edge of the southern desert yesterday.
In the airship cabin, the commandos armed with live ammunition sat on the ground against the cabin wall with their eyes closed. When they heard any noise, they would always look up. When Xu Shaohua opened his eyes, he saw an airship crew member wearing a black floating troop uniform walking into the bathroom. What is the so-called bathroom?
It was a simple cubicle with a toilet seat. The wind blew through the holes in the toilet seat. If it was daytime, you could even see the ground. Even now, Xu Shaohua still remembered the thought that popped into his mind when he first went to the toilet on the airship - when defecating, would the stool fall from the air and hit someone?
Until now, this thought still comes to my mind from time to time.
After the crew member came out of the bathroom, he saw Xu Shaohua with his eyes open in the starlight. He forced a smile at him, then looked at the weapon in his arms that he had never seen before, and then moved closer.
"Brother, can't sleep there. Excuse me...what kind of gun is this?"
Zhang Honghai pointed at the rifle placed at the commando's feet. It was different from ordinary rifles, with a barrel as thick as an arm. He was full of curiosity from the first moment he saw it.
Curiosity, everyone has a curious mind.
"If you want to keep it a secret, just pretend I didn't ask."
"Keep it a secret from others. We are all on the same ship. What secrets are there?"
Xu Shaohua grinned.
"This is a grenade launcher, it fires small grenades. The power of the grenades is much smaller than that of the 50 grenade launcher, but it can fire directly or indirectly. The commandos don't have cannons, so they use this kind of grenade launcher to deal with them!"
It has half the body of the Yuannian rifle, but the front barrel is cut off and replaced by a short 50mm barrel. It uses blank cartridges to fire 50mm shells, and soldiers aim through the sight and front sight on the barrel. In fact, it is almost a rifled grenade launcher.
Xu Shaohua answered Zhang Hongshan's questions enthusiastically. As he spoke, he pulled out the grenade, which was about ten centimeters long, from the barrel and showed it to him.
The Type 50 grenade launcher is a new weapon invented by Emperor Zhu the Great. With a maximum range of only 600 meters, the grenade launcher can provide fire cover for the commandos. For commandos without cannons, this grenade launcher with a direct firing distance of more than 200 meters is a very effective support weapon.
Although it has not been tested in actual combat, isn't the grenade launcher in another world very effective?
"What kind of gun is that brother next to you holding? This is the first time I've seen such a gun. I see many of you use this kind of gun."
Zhang Honghai pointed at the submachine guns carried by the other people and said with some curiosity.
"These thick pipes are all used to fire grenades?"
"How about firing grenades? This is a silent submachine gun that only our commandos use. The sound of a gunshot is not much louder than the sound of our voices. The success of this operation depends entirely on it."
Anton submachine gun!
This is the world's first submachine gun, and it is even an original weapon. After the commandos tried it, they were immediately conquered by this "portable machine gun". After continuous improvements, the current Anton submachine gun has overcome problems such as jamming. In the test field, it once fired a thousand rounds of bullets without jamming. Although it is a little different from the standards of later generations, it is enough for this era.
During the process of improving the Anton submachine gun, Emperor Zhu even participated in it personally. While proposing some improvement suggestions, he also invented a silencer - in fact, it was just a multi-chamber silencer bowl. The silencer bowl component was composed of 13 steel chrome-plated silencer bowls of three different specifications connected in series. Each silencer bowl was connected by two connecting rods. There was a foldable lifting ring at the head of the connecting rod. It was used to extract and load the silencer bowl component.
There are 36 side exhaust holes in the shape of 4×9 on the barrel wall along the bore line. When shooting, part of the high-pressure gunpowder gas is discharged from the side holes and expands in the sleeve, which greatly reduces the flow of gunpowder gas discharged from the muzzle and greatly reduces the pressure, making the muzzle noise very slight.
In fact, the muffler looks very mysterious, but its structure is simple and its principle is similar to that of a car muffler, which is just multi-stage cavity expansion.
In addition, the 11mm bullets used by the Anton submachine gun are subsonic bullets, so using a silencer can naturally achieve better results.
The effectiveness of silenced submachine guns in special operations is self-evident. However, because submachine guns and silencers are confidential weapons, only the commandos among the 600,000 army and navy of the Ming Dynasty have these advanced weapons.
This is also the first time it has been put into actual combat...
(End of this chapter)
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