No. 1, the Three Kingdoms time and space, the imperial god capital Luoyang.

Since Li Zhe officially moved the capital back to Luoyang, it has once again responded to the hustle and bustle of the past hundreds of years. Most of the institutions of the empire have once again entered this ancient capital. Following these state agencies, there are also a large number of surrounding affiliated institutions and a huge population serving these people.

The population changed the appearance of the city, and the huge influx of population caused Luoyang to rise up one after another, and the city was crowded with people, and soon returned to the prosperity of its heyday. One of the differences between industrial civilization and agricultural civilization is that the carrying capacity of industrial civilization is relatively much higher, and the degree of population aggregation is far beyond the ability of agricultural civilization. In Luoyang, in just under a year, the urban population once again broke through the 500,000 mark and advanced towards the boundary of one million people.

Back here, there is also a major event in the Ming Empire recently that Li Zhe needs to make a decision, which is the finalization of a series of new weapons closely related to the power of the emperor.

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The carriage of His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire appeared again after disappearing for a long time, stirring up the thoughts of the imperial subjects and stretching towards the north.

The vast Mang Mountains to the north of the capital and hundreds of miles of continuous hills are hidden in a large number of cement buildings. The two major research institutions of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and the Imperial Academy, which have just been officially separated, are now located here. Far away, this area has been set up with a checkpoint, and the warning signs of the Imperial military forbidden area are everywhere along the mountain.

Li Zhe came here today and was invited to judge the empire's recent strategic scientific research direction.

"Your Majesty! Look, this is the result of our Thor project team. The 37MM aperture direct-firing rear-mounted rifled gun is equipped with a spring set to retract and buffer, and the lifting and direction are controlled by a series of threaded rod sets. The pipe sighting device and gun stand are modular, and the operation is simple and convenient. That is absolutely a good gun." Emperor** Fire expert, Jin Xin came up as soon as he finished the ceremony.

Looking in the direction of Jin Xin, there was a small cannon parked on the open space. The barrel was only one meter long, small and light, and the gun stand was different from before. It looked completely different from the original artillery. It had the style of a 37MM flat-fired cannon in the Taisho 11th-year Japanese National Taiwan in modern time and space.

Li Zhe nodded, encouraged Jin Xin a few words, and was also a little excited.

"How about it, how are the test-shooting experiment results?" Faced with such a powerful weapon, he couldn't wait.

"Okay! Very good! It will definitely satisfy you. You are waiting, and we will demonstrate it for you immediately." Li Zhe's words made Jin Xin extremely happy. From this he saw that His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire attached great importance to his work! Just these alone meant a great gift for scientists like him!

Immediately after Jin Xin's order, the artillery drill began. A group of gun crew members rushed towards the cannon, and only four people lifted the entire gun team completely, demonstrating the maneuver power of the cannon, and then the installation and disassembly of the cannon stand, which was also very fast and easy.

Then the gun team re-opened. Under the intense work of the gun team, the deployment preparations were completed in just ten minutes. After asking Li Zhe for instructions, the gunner loaded an integrated shell into the breeze, pulled fire, fired, and boomed. Three loud thunders were heard one after another, and the target position three kilometers away was accurately shot and turned into a fire point!

Oh hehe! The gun crew cheered in unison. The three-kilometer distance was hit by three shots at one time. This was definitely the best result they had ever had since gunfire. Even the group of officials watching next to them were shocked. Such accuracy was much better than the previous smoothbore cannons, and they could be called snipers.

"How is this? This one is better than the squinting cannon! That thing can't be compared with us!" Jin Xin encountered an unexpected surprise and was so happy that he could hardly stop talking!

"Your Majesty! I think Ma Jun's squirting cannon project can be completely destroyed. I have been studying it for several years, but it is not enough yet. Why not use my Thor to produce products of different calibers in the future and can meet different needs, build tens of thousands of doors and equip it to the Imperial Army troops. From now on, the world is so big that no matter what kind of fortress it is, it will never be able to stop the Imperial iron hoof anymore!" This old guy, even when he was most proud, still never forgets to make trouble for his old opponents.

Li Zhe pursed his lips and held back his smile, raised a finger and shook it at Jin Xin, "Haha! No! What you said doesn't count. Your cannon is very good, very good, but the squint cannon project on Ma Jun is equally important. Both of your projects are heavy hammers of the imperial troops in the future and are also indispensable. For this, don't give people eye drops in front of me again!"

Jin Xin was rejected by Li Zhe, grinning, showing his iconic silly smile, and I don’t know if it was concealing his uneasiness!

The verb-fired cannon is actually a copy of the mortar. It is simpler than the rear-loading rifle and easier to operate. Since the breakthrough in the chemical industry and the successful industrialization of mercury in the past year, it has been included in the military development plan by Li Zhe and has been ordered to begin. But for some reason, it has not been completed yet. This round of competition between Ma Jun and Jin Xin is undoubtedly a big lag behind!

The rear-mounted rifled guns and mortars are the last new leap of the Imperial Artillery Project. From the on-site exercises, its range and accuracy have not been improved a little bit compared to the past. With this, does it still require a cluster strike that can be formed by hundreds of artillery as before?

After these long-range and accurate shooting artillery equipment, it can be said that the army's offensive ability must be a jumping growth. From now on, as long as the firepower of a small group equipped with the artillery team has sufficient offensive ability, and can complete the attack at the level of destroying cities and destroying countries. It can be imagined that in the future, the battles of countless battalion-level troops will form countless arrows, and will fight a comprehensive attack like mercury. There is no need to gather troops to siege the city as before, forming a long-term battle.

This thing can almost change the war mode!

At least, from now on, the crossbows and smoothbore gun holes should be completely out of date. With the attack of new precise long-range artillery, coupled with the support of rocket launchers suitable for cluster strikes, the combat method of the Imperial Team may also undergo a major change!

In fact, such changes have already happened in the imperial army!

The breakthrough growth of the chemical industry has brought changes to the weapons and equipment of the Imperial Team, which is definitely not just as simple as detonator fire hats and integrated shells. New weapons and new weapons pop out in groups like kaleidoscopes.

From last year to this year, it can be seen that the battle mode of the Imperial team in the southern jungle is that due to the limitations of the terrain, the combat mode of the Imperial team has changed in the battles in these areas. The devastating cluster strikes of the Imperial team are gradually being replaced by the mode of small-scale assault troops.

The previous attacks on the city like a tsunami were almost unable to find the target in these primitive indigenous people. Except for the rocket and incendiary offensive that was still as terrifying as ever, other aspects have undergone profound changes.

The Imperial Army and Marine Corps had to become increasingly small-scale in these battles, often in a single song or department, and became the main force in destroying cities and nations in the jungle! The attacks of grassroots troops of the Imperial Empire are becoming increasingly irresistible!

What really plays a huge role in this is not the empire's famous artillery and rocket launchers. Those big guys are really hard to move in the jungle, but a series of mature single-soldier weapons and equipment.

The next year black gunpowder grenade, made with potassium chlorate as the main component, is almost a typical example of large-scale shoddy manufacturing in the imperial weapon industry. The cast iron bullet body with a length of four centimeters and a wooden handle of ten centimeters long is almost completely a thick and short bomb, both ugly and heavy.

But although it is not good-looking, its huge charge brings its extraordinary power and is full of firepower in the jungle. Although most soldiers hate the shortcomings of throwing grenades not far away, in real battle, this thing is the most trusted weapon for the imperial soldiers to deal with groups of indigenous people.

Also favored by grassroots soldiers is the second-year individual black powder rocket launcher. After a period of development of technology, the range of this rocket launcher has not increased much, but its power and accuracy have greatly increased, and it is the best firepower recognized by soldiers.

Others include black powder mines and boxes of incendiary bombs, which are weapons that soldiers like to use in the jungle.

In addition, the first weapon of hand-to-hand combat, the 20-centimeter-caliber shotgun held by a single soldier, a terrifying guy who can completely turn people into meat paste at a distance of five to ten meters. The grassroots soldiers of the Ming Empire were holding such things against the natives holding weapons such as bows, arrows, short swords and blowers. It is no surprise that the overwhelming offensive caused. During the battle, a sufficient team rate would often lead his subordinates to attack the garrison of a primitive tribe of thousands of people, and plunder everything!

This is how the imperial army is, creating unmanned lands in patches in the jungles of the Indochina Peninsula, devouring everything like locusts, destroying the local primitive indigenous civilization! It is a new chapter in the significant expansion of the empire's territory!

And Li Zhe, seeing all this, the new situation finally prompted Li Zhe to make up his mind!
Chapter completed!