Iron Dynasty

Qingzhou.

Xiao Ming is testing the Empire's first submachine gun. In the history of firearms, the submachine gun is also known as a short-barreled machine gun. It is a close-up firearm used by infantrymen.

After the Han-style modified rifle was installed, 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 firearm will help soldiers achieve quicker victories in street and trench warfare.

Da da da……

At the shooting range, with a crisp and fast gunshot, there were some scattered bullet holes on the wall fifty meters away.

Well, the firepower is good. Xiao Ming said with a smile. As an assault weapon, the submachine gun doesn't have many requirements on the range. Generally, it is about 200 meters, and the firepower is its important performance.

The Song-style submachine gun developed by Song Changping has a combat rate of fire of about 40 rounds per minute in a single shot and about 100 rounds per minute in a burst, which is qualified in terms of firepower.

Hearing this, Song Changping breathed a sigh of relief, these days he was overwhelmed by the task of developing submachine guns and light machine guns.

Now that the submachine gun is approved, he's halfway through, and then he asks the technician to bring over a light machine gun, and if that machine gun also passes, his character is perfect.

Your Majesty, this is our Fire Hedgehog light machine gun. Compared with the long-flat machine gun, this machine gun is lighter. It only weighs sixteen pounds. It can be used by a single person, which is very convenient. Song Changping pointed to the machine gun held by the technician.

Seeing this, Xiao Ming showed a satisfied smile. He said, The empire is now fighting in 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 the two weapons.

Yes, Your Majesty. Song Changping replied yes.

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

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 of the aircraft carrier.

In contemporary times, the world's first aircraft carrier was born in 1917. It is a British cruiser that has been refitted. The building in the middle of the cruiser has not been demolished.

In 1918, the British converted the cruise ship Cagis under construction into an aircraft carrier and renamed it Hundred-Eyed Giant.

This is the first aircraft carrier with a direct deck. The flight deck is 168 meters long, and there is a hangar under the deck. There are multiple lifts that can lift the 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.

Besides, all he needed was for the carrier to carry the bombers to Europe.

In his view, victory in the European battlefield is very simple, and it is rare to completely destroy the enemy's will, just like a contemporary atomic bomb that has destroyed Japan's will to resist.

Now the Empire has no ability to develop atomic bombs, but he believes that the cross-generational weapons such as aircraft will have a great deterrent effect.

After all, tanks can still be destroyed, but Europeans have nothing to do with planes that fly in the sky.

The arrival of imperial reinforcements made Xie Yuan ready to launch a storm on London.

Before the arrival of the European troops, he had been following the orders to encircle the points for reinforcements. In the past month, he repelled hundreds of British Red Shirts' attacks, but they counted the corpses of British soldiers reaching 30,000.

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

When the situation became clear, Wales immediately announced to join the Vienna Entente, and Ireland also dispatched an army of 20,000 to land on the west coast of England.

England is now completely isolated, and the main force of the British army led by Buterin is caught 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.

During his more than a year in Europe, he did not expect such a ferocious sea monster to appear in the empire.

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

Xie Yuan nodded, he didn't think the young general was bragging, but the large-caliber artillery on the battleship was enough to explain a lot of problems.

After staring at the warships on the sea for a while, he said, Since it's here, we have to perform. The task of bombing London is handed over to you. These British people haven't surrendered, so it seems that they can only come hard.

Of course there is no problem. The young general said confidently, and then he made a gesture. The main guns of the imperial battleships have a range of twenty kilometers, which is more than enough to bombard the city of London.

Hey. Xie Yuan sneered a few times at this time. It has been a month since he launched an attack on Britain. He didn't want to win the war before the end of the continental war.

Boom boom boom...

The deafening sound of explosions came from the sea, and the large-caliber main guns on the imperial warships burst into huge flames.

After the flash, a dense explosion sounded in the city of London.

The buildings in the city that were hit by the shells collapsed instantly, and the terrifying destructive power made the British people in the city terrified.

Also terrified were Murphy and a group of nobles. During this month of siege, the central area of ​​London had never been shelled. After all, the city of London was very large.

Murphy, how long do you have to hesitate, do you really want to ruin everyone's life? Don't forget the threat of the Empire.

In the office, a group of nobles shivered with fear. After the shelling was over, they immediately came to Murphy. Along the way, they saw the tragic state of shelling in the city.

When buildings collapse and corpses lie everywhere, they begin to believe that the threat of imperial slaughter is no joke.

Thinking of this, they are really scared. Now Victoria is out of the world, like a lost dog, and the royal majesty is swept away.

What else do they have to hold on to, and what about surrendering to the Empire than a prosperous life?

At this time, Murphy was unkempt. He was very aware of the current situation in London. For the past month, his insistence was to hope that Buterin would be able to clear the siege, but now Buterin himself is still unable to protect himself.

More importantly, London has now run out of ammunition and food. If the siege continues, London may collapse on its own.

Standing up slowly, Murphy looked at the nobles and councillors in the office, all eager to give their final orders.

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