Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1190

[Chapter 1177 The straw that broke the camel’s back]

Qingzhou.

Xiao Ming is testing the empire’s first submachine gun. In the history of firearms development, the submachine gun is also called a short-barreled machine gun. It is a close-quarters firearm used by infantry.

After the Han-style modified rifle was put into service, Xiao Ming ordered Song Changping to develop a submachine gun because in his opinion, the imperial soldiers urgently needed an assault firearm between a rifle and a machine gun.

This assault rifle will help soldiers achieve faster victory in street fighting and trench warfare.

“Da da da…”

At the shooting range, with a burst of crisp and rapid gunshots, there were some scattered bullet holes on the wall fifty meters away.

“Well, the firepower is pretty good.” Xiao Ming said with a smile. As an assault weapon, a submachine gun does not have many requirements in terms of range. It is usually around 200 meters. Firepower is its most important performance.

The combat fire rate of this Song-style submachine gun developed by Song Changping is about 40 rounds per minute for a single shot and about 100 rounds per minute for continuous shots. It is qualified in terms of firepower.

Hearing this, Song Changping breathed a sigh of relief. These days, he was overwhelmed by the development tasks of submachine guns and light machine guns.

Now that the submachine gun was approved, he was halfway done. Then he asked the technicians to bring over a light machine gun. If this machine gun also passed, his character would be perfectly completed.

“Your Majesty, this is our Fire Hedgehog light machine gun. Compared with the Changping machine gun, this machine gun is lighter. It only weighs 16 pounds. It can be used by one person and is very convenient.” Song Changping pointed at the machine gun held by the technician.

Xiao Ming showed a satisfied smile when he saw this, and said: “Now the empire is fighting on the European battlefield. If these two weapons are equipped, it will definitely be of great benefit to the war. From now on, you will mass produce these two weapons.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Song Changping responded.

The war in Europe now affects the hearts of every citizen of the empire, because once the empire wins, the rules of the world will be rewritten by the empire.

After observing the performance of the two firearms, Xiao Ming took a special car back to the palace, and then he called Zhang Liang to inquire about the construction status of the aircraft carrier.

In contemporary times, the world’s first aircraft carrier was born in 1917. It was a modified British cruiser. The building in the middle of the cruiser was not demolished, and the decks were divided into two parts, front and rear. It was inconvenient and dangerous for aircraft to take off and land.

In 1918, the British converted the mail ship “Kakis” under construction into an aircraft carrier and renamed it “Hundred-Eyed Giant”.

This is the first aircraft carrier with a direct access to the deck. The flight deck is 168 meters long. There is a hangar below the deck. There are multiple elevators that can lift aircraft to the deck and can carry 20 aircraft.

Now that the empire has the ability to build battleships and large merchant ships, building such early aircraft carriers is naturally not a problem.

What’s more, all he needs is for the aircraft carrier to carry bombers to Europe.

In his opinion, victory in the European battlefield is very simple. It is rare to completely destroy the enemy’s will. This is just like the contemporary atomic bomb that disintegrated Japan’s will to resist.

The empire currently does not have the ability to develop an atomic bomb, but he believes that this era-defining weapon, aircraft, will have a great deterrent effect.

After all, tanks can still be destroyed, but Europeans have nothing to do with things like airplanes flying in the sky.

The arrival of imperial reinforcements prepared Xie Yuan to launch a storming attack on London.

Before the troops rushing to help Europe arrived, he had been encircling the points for reinforcements as ordered. In a month, he repelled hundreds of attacks by the British Red Shirts. However, they counted 30,000 dead British soldiers.

After London was trapped, the British troops on Hadrian’s front immediately chose to retreat. Lu Jun immediately led the imperial soldiers and Scottish soldiers to pursue them as planned.

When the situation became clear, Wales immediately announced that it would join the Vienna Entente, and Ireland also sent a 20,000-strong army to land on the west coast of England at this time.

Now England is completely isolated, and the main force of the British army led by Buterin is trapped between Xie Yuan and Lu Jun, unable to advance or retreat.

“Hey, these battleships are really powerful.” Xie Yuan looked at the battleships on the sea with envy.

He had been in Europe for more than a year, but he never expected that such a ferocious sea monster would appear in the empire.

“Of course, such a battleship can defeat a group of armored ships.” said the naval admiral who led the team. This time he was responsible for transporting ammunition supplies, weapons and equipment, and personnel support to Xie Yuan.

Xie Yuan nodded. He did not think that the young general was bragging, but the large-caliber artillery on the battleship was enough to explain a lot of problems.

After watching the warships on the sea for a while, he said: “Since we are here, we have to put on a show. The task of bombing London is left to you. These British people have not surrendered yet, so it seems that they can only do it hard.”

“Of course there is no problem.” The young general said confidently, and then he made a gesture. The main gun of the imperial battleship had a range of twenty kilometers, which was more than enough to bombard the city of London.

“Hehe.” Xie Yuan sneered a few times at this time. It had been a month since he launched the attack on Britain. He didn’t want to win the war before the war on the European continent ended.

“Boom, boom, boom…”

A deafening explosion came from the sea, and the large-caliber main guns on the imperial warships emitted huge flashes of flames.

After the flash, dense explosions sounded in London.

The buildings in the city that were hit by the shells collapsed instantly. This terrifying destructive power scared the British in the city out of their wits.

Murphy and a group of nobles were also frightened. During the month of siege, the central area of London had never been bombarded. After all, the city of London was very large.

“Murphy, how long will you continue to hesitate? Do you really want to ruin everyone’s lives? Don’t forget the threat from the empire.”

In the office, a group of nobles were trembling with fear. After the bombardment, they immediately came to find Murphy. Along the way, they saw the tragic scene of the city being bombarded.

With buildings crumbling and bodies strewn everywhere, they begin to believe that the Empire’s threat of massacre is no joke.

Thinking of this, they were really frightened. Now Victoria was living outside, like a lost dog, and the royal majesty was in ruins.

What else do they have to hold on to, compared to a prosperous life, so what if they surrender to the empire?

At this time, Murphy was disheveled. He was very aware of the current situation in London. For the past month, he had been insisting on hoping Butlin could rescue him, but now Butlin could not protect himself.

What’s more important is that London is now out of ammunition and food. If the siege continues, London may collapse on its own.

Slowly standing up, Murphy looked at the nobles and congressmen in the office, all of whom were eager to give the final order.

With a wry smile, he said: “I declare that all soldiers in London will lay down all their weapons and surrender to the Empire.”

(End of Chapter)