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Just for this reason, Duan Ruiquan was also willing to give Zhao Shouhong half of the troop quota, not to mention that he knew the strength of the West Army.Once the West Special Army demonstrates its strong combat effectiveness on the battlefield of the Western Continent, even the central government where he is located will have a lot more say in the international arena.

Duan Ruiquan had already made up his mind and asked Zhao Shouhong to send troops to participate in the World War. He pretended to be concerned and asked, "I don't know which troops the West Army plans to send to fight?"

Chapter 768 The Magical Use of the Pioneer Tree

"The First Army of the West Special Army, the First Zhongchuan Garrison Division, and the First Air Force Division." Gu Weijun obviously knew that he had this question, and said immediately.

When Duan Ruiquan heard that the Air Force was still participating in the battle, he couldn't help being secretly surprised, but he didn't show it on his face.After thinking for a while, Duan Ruiquan said: "Alright, just do as Shou Hong wishes."

"Thank you, Prime Minister Duan, but we sent [-] troops this time, so we should be the commander of the third batch of participating troops." Gu Weijun asked another question.

"This..." Duan Ruiquan rolled his eyes, he thought to himself that these troops would be unified under the name of Xu Shuzheng when they arrived in the Western Continent anyway, so why bother to fight for the title at this time, so he immediately nodded and agreed, and this has become His last order before stepping down as prime minister.

The reason why Zhao Shouhong suddenly changed his attitude and hoped to send troops to the Western Continent was because he saw that the Austrian army was at the end of its strength, and the battle would soon be decided.A month before making this decision, Archduke Ferdinand, who personally commanded the Austro-Hungarian army in combat, failed to escape his fate and was directly killed by a large-caliber shell.

As a dual monarchy, the Austro-Hungarian Empire did not have a main nation, and its national cohesion was relatively low.The death of Archduke Ferdinand, the sole heir of the country, greatly reduced the cohesion of the country.This problem will trigger a series of chain reactions, which will greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the Austro-Hungarian army.

The Teutonic Kingdom was already struggling to support it, and without the help of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, failure was inevitable.At this time, the first thing to consider is Hualan's international status after the war, which requires sufficient military exploits.In the face of national interests, Zhao Shouhong had no choice but to put aside his personal relationship with Crown Prince William.

Joining the battle at such a moment will not be as intense as when the battle first started, and his army can gain more experience in the war while minimizing casualties, which is also good for future army building.In addition, he also has some economic considerations. There are more than 300 million Hualan migrant workers in Tiao-ao, and these people are all skilled workers that Hualan industry urgently needs.If these people can return to the motherland, Hualan's industry will inevitably experience explosive growth.With Duan Ruiquan's consent, both the Xite Army and the Cochin Army began to mobilize troops and march towards Huangdao, where the participating troops would gather.

Chen Wenbao, who was always so busy that he never touched the ground, came to Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. When he saw Talat Pasha again this time, he felt very happy. Rat Pasha was in a different mood.

It has been a year since Hualan Tree Planting Company entered the Ottoman Empire.At the beginning, the three giants of the empire were not optimistic about these people and did not pay much attention to them.But these people used the saplings they brought to start planting trees in Kuwait in a planned way.

Kuwait and the Arabian Peninsula are across the sea from the Red Sea Province controlled by Ma Fuxiang, and the sea traffic is extremely convenient.Since the Ottoman Empire promised to plant trees and demarcate boundaries, a large number of people and tree species have come across the sea and entered these areas in large numbers.Pieces of planting areas were quickly established, and everyone felt incredible that once these new tree species called pioneer trees by the Hualan people were planted, they only needed to be watered once and there was no need to manage them again. Speed ​​grows up.

The growth rate of these pioneer trees was so fast that the Simans couldn't believe their eyes.It only takes one month for these small saplings, which are less than half a meter high, to grow into big trees about three meters high, and their canopy is enough to cover a three-meter square area.

In fact, the roots of these trees are extremely deep, they can draw water from the deep underground, and the huge canopy can synthesize oxygen and organic matter through photosynthesis.Unknowingly, the sand on the ground is turned into soil by the roots, and gradually becomes arable ground.Tree roots even have nitrogen-fixing tumors similar to beans, which are enough to convert nitrogen in the air into nitrogen fertilizer and store it in the soil, which is much more efficient than ordinary beans.

With these shocking abilities, the Pioneer Tree was able to spread across the Arabian Peninsula. Today, one year later, the entire Arabian Peninsula is full of Pioneer Trees except for the Gulf of Aden and Yemen occupied by the Kingdom of Saar.Coupled with Kuwait, which was full of trees in the early stage, the Ottoman Empire was going to die.

It was precisely because of this information that Talat Pasha was unwilling to meet Chen Wenbao, because that would mean that the Ottoman Empire lost another large piece of territory.Looking at the helpless Talat Pasha, Chen Wenbao held back his own smile and said, "My lord, one year has come. According to the agreement, we must perform the contract."

"Can you wait for a while, after all, these are our country's land, and the handover will take a long time." Talat Pasha said: "Besides, I still need to discuss it to see if Enver agrees to do so."

"What? Does your country have the idea of ​​breaking the contract?" Chen Wenbao frowned and said: "After your country accepted our weapons, it defeated the Egyptian Saar army. Now you control the entire Suez Canal and completely occupy the entire Egypt. And advance to Libya. I think all these victories are inseparable from the army’s dependence on weapons. If your country breaks the contract, we will take necessary measures, including stopping the supply of ammunition to you.”

"Don't do it." Talat Pasha almost jumped up in shock.Although the Siman army is brave, its weapons are always inferior to others, so it suffers a lot every time it fights.Now that they finally have the advantage of weapons, the Siman army rose up for the first time and beat the Sar country army to flee. This feeling is so good.However, once the supply of ammunition in the Western District is stopped, the Siman army will immediately be beaten back to its original shape. This situation makes them unbearable.

Talat Pasha looked at Chen Wenbao, and countless thoughts had already turned in his mind at this moment.Between continuing to advance triumphantly and breaching the contract and retreating, he finally had to choose the former. "Okay, I agree to hand over the Arabian Peninsula and Kuwait to the Western Special Zone as a reward for the last purchase of weapons and ammunition. But I need to discuss it with Enver, and I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer within a month."

Chen Wenbao nodded with a smile: "The Western Special Administrative Region is very satisfied with your country's integrity. Mr. Zhao asked me to tell His Excellency Enver that as a reward for old customers, we will provide ten bases of ammunition for free as a reward. "Slap a sweet date, this is Chen Wenbao's trick that never fails in the Western Continent.Hearing that Chen Wenbao had actually offered a huge reward, his expression softened immediately. With the input of this batch of ammunition, he believed that he could occupy more land.

Chapter 769 Arabian Province

Enver reluctantly agreed to assign the land to the Western Special Zone after hearing that Chen Wenbao had donated a large amount of ammunition and received his assurance that the trade with the Ottoman Empire would not be interrupted.This time the Ottoman Empire signed a secret treaty with the Western Special Zone, which was not announced to the public. Afterwards, the new Arabian Province was established, and Hualan got another piece of 'barren' land floating on the oil.

Yang Xizi, who was in charge of immigration, didn't dare to be careless, he immediately launched a new immigration plan.A large number of new immigrants were resettled to the greened Arabian Peninsula and Kuwait to build new petrochemical plants in preparation for future oil extraction.

Be prepared in advance, tens of thousands of Hualan immigrants will soon be flooded into these places in advance. As for the aborigines here, they all moved into the Baghdad area according to the contract signed with the Ottoman Empire.Because of the effect of a large number of pioneer trees, the desert here has all become arable soil. When they build chemical factories, they can reclaim enough farmland to solve their own food problems.

The foundation of the Arabian Peninsula was quickly laid, and Yang Xizi devoted all his energy here, from population resettlement to militia establishment, from factory infrastructure to railway construction, every detail had to be reviewed one by one.Under Zhao Shouhong's explanation, Yang Xizi knew very well that after the end of the war, the area expanded by the Western Special Zone would have a dangerous period. If he could not firmly grasp these territories, he might lose them again.

Zhao Shouhong was very moved by Yang Xizi's dedication to work, and he later decided to appoint Yang Xizi as the governor of the Arabian Province, fully responsible for the construction situation there.The work of the immigration department is also concurrently held by Yang Xizi, so that he can easily immigrate to Arabia Province and consolidate the dominance of the Hualan ethnic group there.

In the government departments of the entire Western Special Zone, there are countless people who work as hard as Yang Xizi, which allows Zhao Shouhong to relax and think more about the future of the Hualan nation, as well as new technological trends.Just when the establishment of the Arabian Province was approved by the central government, Zhao Shouhong witnessed a weapon test at the Zhongchuan Arsenal.

Zhongchuan Armory attached great importance to this weapon test. They not only invited Zhao Shouhong, but also several high-level army officers, including Chief of Staff Jiang Fangzhen, Army Deputy Commander Pan Wenhua, and Commander Xu Haiqing of the Eastern Military Region stationed in Shudu.

Many high-level officials were sitting on the stands set up, using binoculars to watch the ongoing weapon testing on the shooting range, and the weapon designer Fidel Federer was also beside him, explaining the performance of this weapon to many army high-level officials.Since all companies under the Hanxing Group Company are responsible for their own profits and losses, and the company announced that it will not go public and issue shares as bonus shares to all key employees, everyone's enthusiasm for work has increased unprecedentedly.

For example, in the past, after the weapon was developed, the military was only notified to conduct tests. If the military was satisfied, it would place an order for direct production, and if it was not satisfied, it would give up completely.The development and manufacture of weapons are under the unified planning of the government and the military. The Hanxing Group Company is like a state-owned enterprise. Everyone receives state wages and has no profit to speak of.

Weapons are distributed directly to the army after they are manufactured, the government pays the price at cost, the arsenal does not make profits, the designers do not have any interest incentives, and their enthusiasm for work has never been high.Nowadays, all companies have become commercialized operations, and they are all guided by profits.

Develop a weapon that the military likes, the designer can get a big bonus, and the company can also get enough orders to make a profit.Under such multiple stimulations, the arsenal no longer passively designed weapons as before, but tried every means to attract the attention of the military with various whimsical ideas.

A row of testers soon came to the shooting range. They stood in front of a row of shooting positions and began to check their weapons.Zhao Shouhong adjusted the telescope closer, and finally clearly saw the details in the hands of those testers.Zhao Shouhong found that the weapons used by these people were not the same. Some were using Type 98 rifles, while others were using foreign rifles such as Phil, Mauser [-], Springfield and Leber. Personally, he was using a rifle he had never seen before, but Zhao Shouhong could tell from the removable magazine under the rifle that it should be a new type of rifle that could always be loaded quickly.

Under the command of the on-site commander, everyone raised their rifles and aimed at the target 100 meters away.Fidel Federer next to Zhao Shouhong hurriedly explained: "My lord, please look, these people are using the main battle rifles of various countries, as well as the new guns that we have just successfully trial-produced. They all use ten bullets as the base to show the shooting speed and accuracy."

"Which one is a new type of rifle?" Before Zhao Shouhong could speak, a ten-year-old young man beside him hurriedly asked.The young man was wearing a military uniform, with red Army University epaulettes on his shoulders, and looked like a student.This person is very familiar to Fidel Federer, because he is also a frequent visitor to the arsenal. Whenever he is free, he will spend time here, begging him to see new weapons.This young man is Zhao Shouhong's brother-in-law, Sun Liren, the youngest son of Principal Sun Xize.

After his two older brothers devoted themselves to scientific research and business respectively, this young man from a family of literati unexpectedly chose to join the army.He graduated from Shudu No. [-] High School with excellent grades and was admitted to Yazhou Army University. Now he is a senior student and is about to graduate soon.

This young man who is obsessed with weapons always looks for opportunities to see new weapons from various military companies in the Western Special Zone.He is talented and intelligent, and he can understand the weapon's performance in detail after two trials. At the same time, he can match existing weapons and come up with practical tactical skills.

Zhao Shouhong had high hopes for this brother-in-law and didn't have much control over him, and everyone also looked at Zhao Shouhong's face and was willing to let him see the new weapons of various factories, hoping that he could influence Zhao Shouhong and win some orders.In fact, even Jiang Fangzhen and others looked at this young man who had not left school with admiration. They all felt very incredible about Sun Liren's talent in tactics.

Today, the Zhongchuan Armory invited many high-level officers of the Army to visit the test firing of new weapons, and Jiang Fangzhen took the initiative to invite Sun Liren to come over.For this lively young man, Fidel Federer also likes it very much. He immediately smiled and said: "The second person on the left uses it. Keep your eyes open and try to see if you can come up with a practical tactic."

"Didn't you say it's a subversive weapon? I want to see if it's as mysterious as you said." Sun Liren pouted.

7 Chapter seventy semi-automatic rifle

"This time I have absolute confidence." Fidel Federer said shaking his fist.

"That's not necessarily the case. You also said the same thing when you developed the riding rifle last time. What's the result? Didn't it pass the approval of the military and was abandoned?" Sun Liren first poured cold water on the other party.

With the degree of familiarity between the two, even if Sun Liren made fun of Arsenal, Fidel Federer would not care.He waved his chest and said confidently: "This time it's true, it's definitely not something like riding a rifle."

"Well, it's useless to just talk, let's see is believing." Jiang Fangzhen laughed.

"No problem." Fidel Federer nodded. He picked up the red flag beside him and waved it as a signal to the shooting range.The military engineer obviously saw the red flag, and all the testers started shooting almost at the same time as he gave an order.

The tester who used the Type [-] rifle was the fastest. He fired first, then quickly pulled the bolt, and aimed at the target again.Although the other testers were a little slower, they didn't fall too far. Everyone was repeating the actions of shooting and pulling the bolt, aiming and shooting again. Only the testers who tested the new rifle were different.

He also fired a quick shot after aiming at the target, but instead of pulling the breech, he continued to pull the trigger.To the amazement of all the officers, the rifle, which had not been bolted, continued to fire a single bullet.The tester didn't pull the bolt at all, just fired the bullets one by one, and quickly sent all ten bullets into the target.

After emptying the bullet, the tester seemed to be more than satisfied. He loaded another magazine and started shooting again.There was a lot of gunfire on the shooting range, and puffs of gunpowder smoke filled the sky, making the testers look hazy.It wasn't until 1 minute later that everyone fired ten rounds of ammunition. After almost all the rifles were shot empty, they used the bridge clip loading method, and then pressed a plate of bullets to continue shooting.

The end result is pretty obvious. Clip-loaded bolt-action rifles require re-aiming every time the bolt is pulled, and they have limited reloads, and the clips are too slow to reload.On the other hand, the new rifle was different. Not only did it not need to pull the bolt, but it also used a ten-round magazine. It was light and easy to shoot.In the time it took the normal bolt-action rifle to fire ten rounds, the tester had fired 43 rounds with the new rifle.

"What kind of weapon is that? It's so powerful, it's comparable to a light machine gun." Sun Liren exclaimed.

"The semi-automatic rifle looks very good. I don't know if the structure is simple." Zhao Shouhong smiled. Having a semi-automatic rifle in this era will give the Hualan army a huge advantage. to great cheap.

"What is a semi-automatic rifle, and is it easy to use?" Sun Liren asked.

"A semi-automatic rifle is a rifle that can achieve semi-automatic shooting without pulling the bolt. It uses the recoil of part of the gunpowder gas to eject the shell and automatically load the bullet, and can achieve continuous shooting. As you can see, using this The weapon saves the pulling of the bolt, which not only saves time, but also eliminates the hassle of re-aiming. A ten-round magazine reloads faster and lasts longer." Firearms that used to be hard at work Designer Fidel Federer, stimulated by today's order cuts, has also become like a businessman.

Zhao Shouhong felt a little funny looking at Fidel Federer. He didn't expect that the environment could change a person's character so much.However, Fidel Federer's introduction is not over yet, he continued: "This rifle is naturally more complicated than ordinary bolt-action rifles, but with our efforts to simplify, a large number of stamped parts are used, and the process has been greatly simplified. , and there are only 43 parts in the whole gun, which is very convenient for production and maintenance. We have conducted rigorous tests, and even in various harsh environments such as severe cold, high temperature, and humidity, it can also achieve [-] shots without obstacles."

"Brother-in-law, equip more, I think this weapon is definitely a good thing." Sun Liren looked at Zhao Shouhong and said.

Pan Wenhua on the side joked: "Tell me, Sun Liren, if we use this new type of rifle to replace the Type [-] rifle, what changes can be made in the army."