"Your Majesty, colleagues, the above is the report on the Battle of Luzon. Generally speaking, it is too much to say that our army has made little progress, but the progress made every day can really only be said to be an inch of progress."

On November 15, 1621, the war reports of Cao Wenzhao, Liu Zhaosun and others arrived in Beijing. Naturally, the matter was discussed first at the state affairs meeting that day.

After listening to Ma Chengzhao's explanation, Zhu Youdong, who was sitting in the main seat, tapped the table with his fingers slowly and rhythmically, lost in thought.

In this dimension, because the time travelers are chasing each other to climb the technology tree, at least in the military aspect, weapons are changing too fast, which poses extremely high requirements and challenges to commanders in terms of tactics.

To put it simply, when Zhu Youdong personally recruited the Jianzhou Guards nine years ago, on the battlefield at that time, although Henghai Guards' pinnacle flintlocks played a decisive role, it must be admitted that the mainstream at that time was still heavy infantry embracing each other.

During the Eastern Expedition to the Tokugawa Shogunate three years ago, the typical queuing and shooting tactic was adopted. But now, machine guns are available. The queuing and shooting tactic was just born in the Ming Dynasty and had only been used for two or three times in actual combat. Naturally, it has been eliminated.

Facing machine guns and trenches, it is natural for skirmishing line tactics to emerge. In fact, relying on the teacher-student relationship at Fangshan School, Luo Xiong's privately written battle report was also submitted to Zhu Youdong. This expert in land warfare

Talented students even proposed that in the face of the opponent's tight defense, our army should form a combat group with three to five soldiers. The three to five combat groups would alternately cover the advance - isn't this the three-by-three system?

The prototype.

Zhu Youdong did not quite agree with Cao Wenzhao's treatment of Luo Xiong: after all, the commander-in-chief had been a humble military household for twenty years in his early years, and his fear of civil servants was deeply rooted in his bones, so his reaction was a bit excessive.

However, now that Cao Wenzhao has dealt with it, as the emperor, he can't say anything more: if Cao Wenzhao's decision is overturned, it will seriously damage the prestige of the general who commanded the army, and will also cause the students of the Fangshan Department to face their superiors in the future.

Lawlessness - isn't this the same as the Huangpu style of peanuts in later generations?

Therefore, even if Cao Wenzhao overreacted and shot Luo Xiong on the spot, he could only grunt twice. At most, he would give Cao Wenzhao a warning afterwards, not to mention that he would only be temporarily removed from his post.

In short, it is okay for the students of the Fangshan Department to report to him, so that he can control the army and civil servants more conveniently. But the matter stops here. It is absolutely not allowed to directly give orders to the students of the Fangshan Department without bypassing the superiors.

Old Jiang Yinjian is not far away from him, so it is really worth being vigilant.

As a king, you must never have the idea of ​​controlling all the details, because that is simply impossible! Doing it forcefully will only make your subordinates confused, and eventually the king and his ministers will become alienated, and the country will fall apart.

But, having said that, as a time traveler, isn’t the biggest advantage of being able to see further and more clearly than contemporary people?

According to the development of the historical plane, in fact, during World War I, the tactic of queuing to kill was over. But on the Western Front, Britain, France and Germany faced each other's defense lines organized with barbed wire, trenches, machine guns, and artillery. Even with

In the early days, tanks, aircraft support, and skirmishing line tactics were already very mature. But if the attacker wants to drive straight in, it is basically impossible. Why is this?

There are many reasons, such as tanks are still too primitive, and aircraft are still slow wooden-framed biplanes. But there is one very important reason: individual soldiers have a serious lack of firepower!

You can imagine that facing the opponent's dense and tight defense line, our soldiers endured the opponent's shelling and crazy machine gun bullets. After suffering huge casualties, they finally cut through the opponent's barbed wire and rushed in front of the opponent, but the rifles in their hands were

You can only fire bullets one by one. How much casualties can this cause to the opponent's soldiers waiting in the trenches? If you can't effectively kill the opponent, how can you occupy the opponent's trenches and advance the front?

So, what kind of firearms can allow a single soldier to charge easily and pour out a large amount of firepower in a short period of time after approaching the opponent's front? The answer is submachine guns and automatic rifles.

Well, submachine guns, the most famous early submachine gun is probably the Thompson submachine gun nicknamed the Chicago Typewriter, right?

This thing was born at the end of the First World War. Before it had time to show its talents on the battlefield, the First World War was over, and Otto Arms, which produced it, almost went bankrupt. It was not easy until 1920, when the United States promulgated the idiotic prohibition law, which resulted in

The smuggling business is booming. The smuggling business is naturally controlled by gangs. In order to compete for territory, the gangs will inevitably start a bloody fight: this epoch-making product of Otto Company was actually first promoted by the gangs.

Because the smuggling channel at that time was mainly from Canada to Chicago through the Great Lakes, gangsters used Thompson submachine guns to fight in Chicago - hence the name Chicago Typewriter.

You don’t have to count on the accuracy of this first-generation submachine gun, and its range is not as far as that of an ordinary rifle. But you can’t stand someone who can shoot a hundred rounds of bullets in ten seconds - in a narrow trench or house, your

No matter how accurate the rifle is, what's the point? As long as the first bullet doesn't hit the opponent's head, you're waiting to be swept into a hornet's nest by the opponent! In fact, throughout the 1920s, Chicagoans armed with pistols and rifles

The police and the Illinois National Guard were no match for Chicago gangsters armed with submachine guns!

In fact, if you really want to talk about it, even in the 1930s and 1940s in the historical plane, Germany's tanks and aircraft in the early days of World War II were really bad! The reason why it achieved such a brilliant record in the early stages of the war was not only that its fighting determination far surpassed that of Britain and France, but also its tactics

In addition to being ahead, a large part of the reason is that German soldiers generally have an MP38 in their hands (upgraded to MP40 after the Battle of France) - with this, plus the commando units that the Germans had already used very skillfully in the late World War I.

In terms of tactics, the British and French trenches were really vulnerable.

In fact, before World War II, the Chinese made submachine guns shine: During the Agrarian War, our party was a little poorer, but it still had some submachine guns. When our party faced the defense line densely covered with artillery and machine guns of the Fruit Party,

, often all the submachine guns are concentrated to attack the opponent only a little bit, and then break through across the board.

Therefore, the submachine gun, a weapon that can amplify the firepower of an individual soldier countless times, is the real terminator of trench tactics.

Well, submachine guns, it seems that this is the main research direction of Fangshan Firearms Laboratory in the future.

Although he is not a military fan, Zhu Youdong was an amateur history enthusiast before traveling through time, so he still knows: in terms of history, not long after the MP40 became popular, the Thompson submachine gun, which was previously solely supported by gangs, also received a large number of orders

Thereby bringing the dead back to life.

However, of these two submachine guns, the recoil of the Thompson is too large and difficult to control. The MP40 has insufficient durability and is difficult to process. It has been mass-produced, but the production speed is really slow. Even if it is produced, because it is zero

The parts are too delicate, and maintenance is also very troublesome... If we really want to talk about the pinnacle submachine gun, it has to be the Soviet Union's Bosha submachine gun.

In 1939, after Hitler invaded Poland, the Soviet Union, which had temporarily eased its border defense pressure, took the opportunity to launch the Soviet-Finnish War. As a result, the huge furry bear sent 1.2 million troops, but 400,000 of them were killed by the 200,000 Finnish army! In the end, only a tragic result was achieved

win.

Among the many reasons for this situation, a very important factor is: when the Soviet soldiers were still carrying slender, single-shot old-fashioned rifles to launch Ula charges, the Finns had already used Somi submachine guns.

The Somi submachine gun can be said to have the highest processing accuracy in the submachine gun family. It is all produced according to the precision of a sniper rifle, making its durability extremely reliable: the highest record is to keep changing magazines, shoot 3,000 rounds continuously, and kill more than 100 people.

A Soviet soldier!

For Comrade Steel, the technology of the Soviet Union is temporarily not as good as that of the United States, let alone Germany, why is it not even as good as the Finns? Soviet scientists must develop a submachine gun that is more powerful than the other side's Somi submachine gun

, the magazine is larger than the other, the appearance is more beautiful than the other, and the durability is higher than the other.

Under the pressure of being sent to a concentration camp if it could not be developed, the Soviet firearms designer Spakin came up with his pinnacle product: the Bobosha submachine gun.

This is really the pinnacle of submachine guns. On the Soviet-German battlefield in World War II, German soldiers would throw away their MP40s after picking up a Bosha submachine gun, which fully demonstrated the success of this submachine gun (later faced with a large number of this submachine gun)

All the soldiers on the side used Bo*Bosha, and the Germans had to open a special bullet line to match their own Bo*Bosha with bullets. This submachine gun was also completely suppressed on the Korean battlefield in the 1950s.

The American Thompson submachine gun. (There is a song called Taking over Lei Feng’s gun, and Uncle **’s hand is the Bo*Bosha submachine gun)

The advantages of this gun are very prominent: it has a simple structure and 87 parts in the whole body, most of which are stamped steel plates - easy to manufacture and maintain. In the middle and late stages of the Soviet-German War, when all the men in the Soviet Union went to the front line, the rear was old and weak.

Women and children can still produce Bo*Bosha quickly and with stable quality. The number of magazines is large - 71 rounds. The firepower is super strong - it can quickly cover an area of ​​three to five square meters. It is durable and has stable performance - Mao Xiong's.

Consistent quality.

As a time traveler, Zhu Youdong knows very well that when the country faces a full-scale war, the sophistication of weapons is secondary. Ease of production and stable quality are king. In World War II, only 1.2 million MP40s were produced. And Bo*Bosha

What? 6 million!

Therefore, in the face of Spanish military industry, Ming Dynasty needed to start the development of submachine guns as soon as possible in order to innovate tactics. But the direction of development could only be to follow the path of Bo*Bosha!

Of course, as a non-military professional, Zhu Youdong can only think of this, and the rest is not what he can do.

The rhythmic tapping of fingers on the table stopped, and Zhu Youdong stood up: "My lords, I know the current anxious situation of the war. I wrote back to Cao Wenzhao and Liu Zhaosun, telling them that I trust them and ask them not to be anxious. One inch

An inch of progress is still progress after all. Although Luzon is big, it only has one strong city, Manila, and it will be captured sooner or later. Our navy, on the other hand, must pay attention to monitoring the sea area and be wary of the opponent's fleet and reinforcements.

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"Yes, I accept the decree. I will convey the emperor's decree in the name of the Privy Council later."
Chapter completed!