Qin Shihuang visited Jieshi in the east and carved the "Jieshi Gate Ci". He also sent Lu Sheng from Yan to go to the sea to seek immortality. He once stayed here and stayed here, so it was named Qinhuangdao.

Li Xiao took a long breath of the salty sea breeze. The unique smell of the sea reminded him of the difficulties of starting a business in Pi Dao. Qinhuangdao is famous for its fine beaches and clear sea water.

Blue sky, white clouds, beach, blue waves! The warm sea breeze blows across the sea, carrying a salty smell to the land. The sea carries waves, hitting the rocks on the shore, and hitting countless white waves. If If there are a few bikini beauties, it would be even more perfect.

pity!

There are no beauties in bikinis on the beach, but thousands of strong, tanned men.

These are all soldiers of the Marine Corps. In order to form the Marine Corps, Li Xiu personally went to Meihekou, and he didn’t know what method he used. He just pulled a tooth out of Master Ao’s mouth and walked more than a hundred squads and platoons. long.

With these squad platoon leaders, Li Xiu recruited another 200 graduating students from Mao Wenlong, plus the 500 marines he originally accompanied on the ship. With these people as the skeleton, in less than a year, It supports the skeleton of the Marine Corps.

The Marine Corps is now organized into the First Regiment and the Second Regiment, headed by Li Dingguo and Zuo Liangyu respectively.

Li Dingguo was Shi Kefa's confidant and favorite general, and Zuo Liangyu was promoted by Hong Chengchou. Both of them were considered traitorous generals. Generally speaking, it would be good to be the commander of a garrison division. They didn't expect that they could still stay here. Frontline combat troops.

They are all talented killers who are used to killing on the battlefield. They know that joining the garrison division may lead to a happy life, but their career in this life will end here. Maybe one day the Ministry of War will be happy and abolish the garrison division. , what is waiting for them is to go home and hold their children.

The front-line combat troops are different. As long as the battle is fought well, promotion is a sure thing. Although the field division only has five division commanders, everyone knows that these five division commanders are the overlords of one side. The second division commander Yuan Chonghuan For their sakes, in the military and political affairs of Fujian, there was a king of Fujian and Zhejiang. The king of Fujian and Zhejiang was as majestic as he wanted. He was also a division commander, and the division commander of the garrison division could only nod, bow and pick up his shoes in front of them.

Not to mention, the boss of the Marine Corps is the commander-in-chief's brother, Li Xiu. Nowadays, some people secretly call Li Xiu the second commander, but more people are still accustomed to calling Li Xiu the second master.

With such a big boss, no one is afraid that their military achievements will be corrupted, nor is they afraid that they will not be promoted in the future.

Finally, a pie fell from the sky, and it was stuffed with beef, and it hit me on the head.

Zuo Liangyu and Li Dingguo, who were demoted generals, felt that they must have saved the Milky Way in their previous lives to be so lucky.

The Second Master still has a lot of face. Who doesn’t know that the First Division Commander Ao Canghai and Ao Master are an iron door bolt. The fence at home is so strong that it’s so strong. If you want to get someone out from under his hand, it’s like a gluttonous belly. There is no difference in eating.

As soon as the second master came forward, Ao master took away more than one hundred yuan.

Cadets from the Shanhaiguan Army Military Academy are a hot commodity. Only seven or eight hundred of them graduate in a year. The second master went to Shanhaiguan and brought back 200 students. I heard that if Mao Wenlong hadn't begged so hard, maybe he would have graduated. Even the instructors poached hundreds of them.

As soon as the shelves were set up here, the commander-in-chief came to inspect them in person. Whose army could have such an honor?

In order to show off in front of the commander, Zuo Liangyu and Li Dingguo used all their strength to show off their skills in grappling, shooting training, and even the latest training subjects of landing on the beach in the name of military exercises.

The waves were rolling, and groups of soldiers charged to the shore in small boats. The latest weapons and machine guns were installed at the front of the small boats.

This is the latest high-tech product developed by Zhao Shizhen. The entire gun is fed by a bullet chain. It uses the energy of gunpowder gas as power to open the bullet chamber through a set of mechanisms. The bolt continues to recoil, ejects the empty bullet case and throws it out of the gun, and then drives the

The ammunition supply mechanism compresses the recoil spring. Under the action of the spring force, the bolt is pushed into position and fired again.

Of course, as a cross-generational product, there are still some shortcomings.

First of all, this machine gun is too bulky, because the material of the barrel is not up to standard. If a six-barreled barrel is used, it will be ruined after hundreds of rounds. Zhao Shizhen is smart enough. He actually made this possible by increasing the number of barrels.

This freak also reached a rate of fire of 180 rounds per minute. Although this rate of fire is not worth mentioning compared to the MG42's rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute, it is still very amazing in this era.

Thirty gun barrels plus ammunition chains weigh more than three hundred kilograms. The huge weight means that this thing can only be installed on ships, or in fixed strongholds such as city walls. Even so,

All the troops are also rushing to get it.

Mr. Ao mounted the machine gun on a carriage and was dragged by two horses. During the battle, the carriage needed to be turned in a circle to achieve the shooting requirements. Li Xiao persuaded Mr. Ao that the carriage was carrying such a heavy thing.

In Liaodong, where the roads are smooth, you can still move freely. But on the grassland, two horses can't pull you at all.

"Then I'll move this thing to the ox cart." Ao Canghai said, and Li Xiao was at a loss. The horse cart couldn't pull it, but the ox cart could probably pull it. Unfortunately, the maneuverability of the ox cart was a big problem.

Apart from Ao Canghai's 1st Division, only the Marine Corps was left, because they had the inherent advantage of being equipped with this heavy and unusual rotating machine gun.

Three machine guns lined up in a row can indeed play a very good suppressive role. The dummy made of straw instantly turned into a pile of weeds under the hail of bullets. Li Xiao has no doubt that if it is

If anyone stands here, he will definitely be torn into pieces by the bullets fired wildly.

There is a one-centimetre-thick steel plate in front of the machine gun, which is used as a bulletproof plate. Even fire blunderbuss may not be able to penetrate it at long distances. Not to mention the primitive weapons such as blowpipes and bows and arrows in the hands of the indigenous people.

Li Xiao felt that simply using these machine guns, he might be able to achieve his goal of conquering the entire Southeast Asia.

The soldiers jumped into the water from both sides, waded through the chest-deep water with their guns held high, and pushed hard towards the shore. As soon as they stepped onto the beach, the artillery squads carrying mortars began to build mortars.

position.

The infantrymen were guarding both sides of the mortar, with smoke constantly coming out of their guns. The targets on the opposite side were hit with debris flying.

Li Xiao discovered that each of the infantrymen had to carry two mortar shells. In this way, at the beginning of the landing, each mortar would have at least twenty-four shells available. With these twelve shells, they could survive

It was a difficult few minutes during the initial login process.

Because subsequent Marine soldiers will land one after another, mortar shells will also be continuously brought to the mortars by the soldiers.

I have to say, this is a very good idea, and I don’t know who came up with it.

Li Xiao is also very satisfied with the tactics of infantry wing-protected mortars. After all, in this era, there are no long-range howitzers. Even though the English and Dutch can make explosive shells, they have not yet invented such a heaven-defying thing as the howitzer.

.

There are no tigers in the mountains, so monkeys naturally dominate. The infantry's best friend, the mortar, now plays the role of the infantry's main firepower output. As long as a squad of soldiers surrounds the mortar, rounds of shells will hit it accurately.

to the enemy's head.

In the telescope, Li Xiao saw with his own eyes that a cannonball exploded under the target. The fragmented target was lifted more than ten feet high, and it was smashed into a sieve by countless shrapnel.

Although various types of artillery have developed rapidly due to Li Xiao's leadership, the rate of fire of mortars is still unmatched by anyone.

The mortars quickly turned the opposite side into a sea of ​​flames. The infantrymen held rifles with bayonets and began to charge with shouts. When they captured the red flag on the top of the mountain, Li Dingguo was so excited that he beat his chest and howled in pain like a gorilla.

"The tactics are pretty good, with mortars as the core. Even if there are more people on the opposite side, under machine gun fire and mortar bombardment, there probably won't be many people left alive." Li Xiao put down his telescope and looked at Li Xiu during this period.

The training is affirmed.

"Actually, these are all redundant. As long as the artillery on my ship fires, everything on the beach is no obstacle." After seeing the ironclad ship being built, Li Xiu became a complete supporter of the theory of big ships and huge guns.

In order to curry favor with Li Xiu, the fisherman specially converted the original five-masted ship into the large arsenal ship that Li Xiu wanted.

Each arsenal ship is equipped with two seventy-two-barrel heavy rocket launchers and two thirty-six-barrel light rocket launchers, one on each side of the ship. After a single launch of the rocket launcher on one side is completed, the arsenal ship can quickly turn around.

head, and hit the land with rockets from the other side.

With five of these fire-breathing monsters, Li Xiu's fleet could launch a massacre-like saturation bombardment on the enemies on the shore before landing. Whether it was the English or the Dutch, if they were bombarded by such a bombardment, they would instantly fall apart.

"Although the arsenal ship is good, have you ever thought about it. When launched like this, the consumption of ammunition is very alarming. Are you sure that just relying on the rockets carried on the ship is enough to cope with the complex situation of a landing battle?"

"This...!" Li Xiu choked, and Li Xiao was right. Even if the rocket launcher shells have a large caliber, without the shells, the arsenal ship would be a moving target at sea.

"If you go deep into the South China Sea for thousands of miles, you need more than just ammunition. You also need coal, water, food, and all kinds of supplies. It's not enough to just carry it on the ship. You also need a large comprehensive supply ship.

The breeding ship is larger than Zhenyuan and Dingyuan, and it must be able to hold the fuel, water, and ammunition you need for several months.

If you have three ships like this in your fleet, I can guarantee you that you will not have any rivals to the end of the world." Li Xiao confidently educated his younger brother.

"That's right! One ship supplies supplies, and the other two ships rotate with the team. In this way, we will never worry about running out of supplies." Li Xiu jumped up all of a sudden, as happy as a child.

Li Xiao curled his lips helplessly. In any case, the Li Xiu and Mr. Li in front of him were just a young man who had just turned twenty-one.

"I'll go find Mr. Yu and ask him to create this kind of synthesis for me...!"

"Comprehensive supply ship!" Li Xiao reminded him helplessly.

"Okay, let's go to Changxing Island and ask the fisherman to help me build it. Brother, I need you to help me raise the funds. If you do this, the cost of building the ocean-going fleet will increase infinitely. If you don't equip me...

!”

"Hey! You dare to threaten your elder brother? Tell me, who did you learn this from?" Li Xiao angrily kicked Li Xiu. Of course, Li Xiao didn't kick hard, but he just touched Li Xiu's butt.

one time.

"How dare I? It's just that this action involves the lives and fortunes of thousands of brothers, so I don't dare not take it seriously."

"There are ironclad ships, arsenal ships, and the latest comprehensive supply ship on the agenda. Looking at the world, who is my opponent, Li Xiu? If we cannot maintain peace in the South China Sea, then the front line of our Chinese front is Hainan Island. I, Li Xiu,

I don’t want to be this eternal sinner!” Li Xiu said confidently.

"shit!"

Li Xiu was stunned, not understanding that his eldest brother would suddenly have convulsions.

"Put down all the arsenal ships and large comprehensive supply ships in your mind. What you want to do now is go home and work with the eldest daughter of the Zheng family to create a child.

Look at you, you still have no children. Look at Huzi, my concubine is pregnant again. There is no movement here at all, what's going on?

I will make a rule for you today: if your sister-in-law cannot give birth to a child for a day, you will not be allowed to board the ship for a day." In order to let Li Xiu pass on the incense, Li Xiao made a big move that he had been holding back for a long time.

"What...?" Li Xiu's eyes widened to the size of cow eggs. I have never heard that Li Xiao would care about such things. Whether he has children or not is none of his business.

"Why are you so stupid? My parents are both gone. I am now the patriarch of the Li family. If your subordinates are not prosperous, shouldn't I, the patriarch, be concerned? You will go back to Shanhaiguan today. When will the Zheng family be taken away?

The eldest lady's belly is getting bigger. When will you take care of your fleet again?" Li Xiao gave Li Xiu a death order.

"Brother, there's no need to be like this. Now is the most stressful time of training. How can I go home and give birth to my baby?" Li Xiu looked at Li Xiao with a look at him, and kept kicking the pebbles under his feet.

"You are a soldier, and I am now the commander-in-chief. Soldiers take obedience as their bounden duty. This is an order, execute it!" Li Xiao turned around and without looking back, he faced Li Dingguo and Zuo Liangyu who had been waiting in the distance.

Walk over.

"No!" Although he was extremely reluctant, Li Xiu straightened his back and stood at attention.

"See the Marshal!"

"See the Marshal!"

Seeing Li Xiao approaching, Zuo Liangyu and Li Dingguo quickly bowed and saluted.

"Now that you have arrived at the Liao army's tent, you are no longer required to bow down. When the Liao army meets, there are not so many rules. You only need to salute each other!" Li Xiao waved his hand to the two of them with a pleasant look, indicating to Zuo Liangyu and

Li Dingguo was exempted from the gift.
Chapter completed!