The weather was perfect in the afternoon. Williams, the British Minister to Brazil, who had just had lunch, was sitting on a chair, enjoying the taste of tea and staring at the unfolded newspaper.
With the resumption of war, the world's attention has focused on the fertile land in southern South America.
On one side is the Republic of Brazil, which is trying to regain its lost territory, and on the other side is the South American Han State, which is ready to attack and has long had ambitions for Paraguay's territory.
As for the original protagonists of the war, the several forces involved in the Paraguayan Civil War were actively ignored by almost all countries because of the huge disparity in strength between the Republic of Brazil and the Republic of China.
The military confrontation between Han and the Republic of Brazil has just begun. As the first contact between the two sides on the battlefield in Paraguay, the Battle of Villarrica has not yet ended. However, through only a short positional battle, the comprehensive combat strength of the Han army has been demonstrated.
, which surprised diplomats from other countries who were paying close attention to the situation on the battlefield.
Han was the first country to invent smokeless gunpowder and also the first country to apply smokeless gunpowder in the military field. Following Han, France, Germany, and Austria obtained smokeless gunpowder technology from Han.
Countries such as Hungary have also successively developed new rifles and artillery using smokeless gunpowder as propellant, and have successively equipped their own armies.
Compared with traditional black powder, bullets using smokeless gunpowder as propellant have more obvious advantages in terms of explosion speed and capability.
The muzzle velocity of bullets with black powder as the main raw material is often only more than 400 meters/second. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that the bullet has enough kinetic energy to kill. The diameter of the warhead is generally more than 11 mm, and the mass is also large.
Smokeless gunpowder can provide more propulsion, making the warhead's muzzle velocity faster (700m/s). Due to the increase in muzzle velocity, the warhead mass can be reduced to obtain a flatter trajectory while ensuring kinetic energy.
Therefore, the caliber of the Jianye Six-year-old rifle, the first rifle to use smokeless gunpowder, was shortened from a dozen millimeters in the black powder era to 7.62mm.
The Jianye Six-year-old rifle is 1.18 meters long, 1.6 meters long with bayonet, weighs 3.5kg when empty, and has a barrel length of 710mm.
Equipped with double rows of exposed magazines, with a magazine capacity of 10 rounds. The bullet caliber is 7.62x51, and the muzzle velocity is 715m/s;
Effective range is 800 meters.
The Jianye Six-year-old rifle draws on the design of smokeless gunpowder era series rifles such as Mosin-Nagant and Mauser rifles. Compared with smokeless rifles of the same era,
The design of the Jianye Six-year-old rifle is relatively simple, and the overall operational feel is not as good as that of the later Enfield rifles.
However, the advantages of the Jianye Six-year-old rifle are that it is easy to produce and simple and reliable to use. This is extremely important for the Han army, which has not yet completed the construction of its industrial system and has a relative lack of highly educated officers and soldiers, especially in a protracted war.
During this period, it was necessary to increase weapons production to meet frontline needs, while a large number of additional combatants such as the garrison and militia often had insufficient training time. This advantage of the Jianye Six-year-old rifle can ensure that the Han army has sustained combat effectiveness and counterattack
ability.
With higher accuracy, longer range, and the greater lethality of bullets with full metal armor, the Jianye Six-Year-Type Rifle made its first appearance on the battlefield, officially opening the door to smokeless fire.
Powder replaced black powder and became the protagonist of the battlefield.
The United States, France, Germany, and even Japan on the other side of the ocean are all trying their best to steal intelligence information about Han's new weapons. On the other hand, Britain, as the well-deserved overlord of this era, the inherent arrogance of the British has made London's
That group of gentlemen and nobles were more than one step behind other countries in the military application of smokeless gunpowder.
The more than 200,000 regular army troops of the Han Kingdom have all completed the replacement of new rifles. The French completed the technical research and development of the Leber rifle in 1886 and officially put it into large-scale production in 1887. The Germans, who had close economic ties with the Han Kingdom,
The empire also started the process of equipping its troops with new rifles in early 1888.
It seems that the British did not see the intensive development of new weapons by Han, France, Germany and other countries. Facing the advent of the smokeless gunpowder era, the British Army failed to complete a single weapon in nearly 6 years from 1883 to 1889.
Design work on new rifles using smokeless gunpowder as propellant.
The London government's slow response to smokeless gunpowder puzzled Williams. On the contrary, in contrast to Britain, the vigorous creativity displayed by South American Han, a country founded by wandering Chinese workers, puzzled Williams.
Feel surprised and shocked!
The Far East Continent is the British Empire's economic colony after India. In order to open up the economic market of the Far East Continent, the British launched two long-distance expeditions spanning tens of thousands of kilometers in 1840 and 1860. In the subsequent period, they used politics to
Diplomatic, economic and other means were used to gradually embed British power into the Far East continent.
Through war, the British obtained another huge economic market besides India. As losers in the war, the people living on that land had to endure the brutal rule of the Qing court while also suffering from food shortages.
Suffering colonial oppression from Western powers.
Natural disasters, man-made disasters, famines, military disasters, coupled with the great famine that has never happened in a century, from the 1850s to the 1890s, the people living in the Far East were in a desperate situation on the verge of death. Thousands
Thousands of people became homeless refugees due to famine and war disasters. Nearly 10 million people fell at the intersection due to lack of food and eventually turned into piles of bones.
In troubled times, the common people were like grass. During the famine period in Dingshu, the Chinese people, who were as skinny as firewood, weak and bloated, squatted on the roadside and waited for death with desperate expressions.
In the ruined urban areas, the disaster-stricken Chinese women stand at the street corner, numb when they are being pointed out by traffickers, and the innocence of three to five-year-old children holding broken bowls, holding on to the last bit of strength, begging for help... something like this is so disturbing.
Scenes of people's despair and depression often appear in the Far East, and as a diplomat of the British Empire, Williams, who has stayed in the Far East for a short time, has witnessed it with his own eyes many times.
Maybe the gods that Eastern people believe in really exist. Or maybe it’s destiny!
At a time when the descendants of that ancient nation were suffering, a hero emerged in the eyes of overseas Chinese.
The times call for heroes! Heroes appear with the mission of the times. Twenty-one years ago, in the same weather as today, Emperor Li Mingyuan of the Han Dynasty led a group of desperate miners and launched a great uprising that changed the direction of history!
After thousands of years of civilizational influence, the belief in hero worship has been circulating among Eastern national groups! At the most desperate and helpless moment of the Chinese workers in South America, Li Mingyuan appeared at the right time and assumed the role of the hero who entrusted the hope of the Chinese workers!
The influence of the identity of the Prince of Taiping, the power bonus of mysterious beliefs, Li Mingyuan's origin, the mystery shrouded in him, his outstanding military command ability, and his predictive strategic judgment ability were all combined to create the legend of Li Mingyuan.
His outstanding achievements also established Li Mingyuan's unique leadership position among the Han countries in South America, which no one can shake!
The Chinese community has a tradition of monarchy, and monarchical rule is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The monarch has unique power.
A monarch's personal ability and subjective judgment can affect or even change the development direction and survival of the country.
Li Mingyuan used war victories and reform laws to prove his ability to govern the country and lead the people on the road to prosperity. However, the Chinese people, who had generally experienced the suffering of war and had extremely low standards of life, have adapted to a kind of
After living a happy life that was completely unimaginable, he almost regarded Li Mingyuan as a living god. He treated Li Mingyuan as a god, infinitely respecting and obeying any order of Li Mingyuan.
A wise and prophetic monarch, a group of citizens who are diligent, brave, and good at learning while maintaining unlimited admiration for the monarch, a group of modern troops who receive advanced ideological education and have firm beliefs, and a group of people who obey the monarch's orders, have limited power, and supervise
new officials,
The four groups were combined to form a strict and efficient social system. In this system, Emperor Li Mingyuan of the Han Dynasty played the most central role. Citizens, officials, troops and other groups were all under the macro command of the emperor.
With rare obedience and discipline, everyone performs their duties. In their respective positions, they do their best and play their own role for the development of this emerging country.
After looking through the surface of the war and seeing the essence of the operation of the social structure of the Han Dynasty, as well as realizing the memories of various social groups in the Han Dynasty for the suffering life in the past, and the gratitude for the happy life in the present, etc.,
Williams gained an understanding and appreciation of the achievements made by Han in the past twenty-one years.
Civilization and tradition are the heritage of a nation, and suffering is the medicine that awakens a nation.
When an ancient nation experiences various hardships and setbacks, and then awakens under the call of a group of heroes,
The huge energy burst out by the entire group will surprise and shock everyone!
