In the military innovation still set off by the Daheng Empire in the twelfth year of the Qiansheng Dynasty, the main feature was the application of smokeless gunpowder.

Of course, the Daheng Empire had actually secretly used smokeless gunpowder a few years earlier, but it was only exposed in the eleventh year of Qiansheng, and by the twelfth year of Qiansheng, various countries were actually equipped with small-caliber guns that used smokeless gunpowder one after another.

At the same time, in the twelfth year of the reign of Qiansheng, the two naval battles of Bova during the Lieji Incident, and the offensive and defensive battles of Bova Fortress were also the first large-scale practical applications of various new weapons, including the application of new warships.

This military innovation was marked by the use of smokeless gunpowder, resulting in naval rapid-fire guns, small-caliber guns, and army artillery with a larger range and higher rate of fire.

As for the navy, it is necessary to add hardened armor and high freeboard technology.

As for the army, it is simpler, mainly marked by small-caliber firearms equipped with smokeless gunpowder and the use of artillery.

During this period, the caliber of rifles dropped directly from 11 mm to less than 8 mm, and in some countries, the caliber of rifles even dropped directly below 8 mm.

The Fuyuan five-type rifle of the Daheng Empire is a typical one, and the eight-millimeter caliber has directly become the standard caliber of the first generation of smokeless small-caliber rifles in all countries in the world, because this is already the standard small-caliber tested by the Daheng people.

Of course, countries will also develop on the basis of the Fuyuan five-type rifle of the Daheng people, in order to develop small-caliber firearms that are more suitable for their own use, the newly developed rifles of various countries, that are available in various calibers, such as the Orissa, their body is relatively shorter, so the new generation of rifles they developed is ready to use 6.5 mm bullets, which is to control recoil.

As for the Krull, the new generation of small-caliber rifles they developed is ready to use 7.8 mm, but the Kyle Empire uses 7.5 mm, and the Gafiya Empire is ready to use 7.6 mm.

In addition to rifle machine guns and divisional artillery, there are two other weapons that are equally important.

One is the mortar, which is also the first equipment of the Daheng people, and has been applied on a large scale during the Unification War, and the armies of various countries are basically touching the Daheng Army to cross the river, regardless of whether it is good or not, since the Daheng Army has used it, they are all unconditionally emulated.

Therefore, various countries are also equipped with mortars one after another, and mortars are also the same as other artillery, after the arrival of the smokeless era of fire, smokeless gunpowder began to be used as propellant, its effective range has increased significantly, and even can be played for thousands of meters, and the ballistic bend can also be used to directly attack the enemy in the trench, and the killing effect on the infantry is very good.

In addition, with the increasing threat of machine guns, contemporary mortars have a great tactical role in not only killing and injuring infantry, but also to hit heavy machine gun positions.

Mortars have basically become the standard weapons of the armies of major countries, but the caliber of this thing is relatively uniform, basically 60 mm and 80 mm, only the Krull people are more special, they engage in 62 mm and 82 mm mortars, but in fact the performance is about the same, I don't know why they specially make an extra two mm.

The role of mortars is huge, and there are many mortars of the Olisa, and as a large army, their mortars are well trained and hit very accurately, so that many heavy machine gun positions in the prince's army are knocked out by the mortars of the Olisa.

In addition, the Olisa also directly attached light howitzers to the infantry regiment as infantry guns, which further strengthened the Olissa's infantry support firepower.

And the prince doesn't have that in his army.

Infantry artillery doesn't seem to be a powerful thing, but in fact, it's often equipped in powerful countries or small and medium-sized countries with money.

After all, for many countries, their army cannot even raise 45 divisional artillery pieces for one division, and even lacks mortars, so how can they have spare money to directly equip infantry regiments and even infantry battalions with light howitzers.

This extra artillery will cost an extra cent of military spending, and for many small and medium-sized countries, the direct use of 80-mm mortars can barely complete the task of 75-mm infantry guns, and there is no need to spend more money to equip infantry guns.

But the role of this infantry gun is still huge, usually it can be used directly as a howitzer, used to suppress enemy infantry and mortars, heavy machine guns, and can also be directly flattened to fight fixed fortifications, the key is that because the infantry gun is rifled artillery, it is more accurate than smoothbore mortars.

Its tactical role is not something that mortars can completely replace.

The gap in equipment and personnel made the prince's army forced to abandon the attack because of excessive casualties after fighting the Olisa for three days in a row.

What relieved Zhou Yaping a little was that the support troops of the Daheng people were also on the way, and it would not take long to arrive in Andan.

It was still the 16th Division that he was more familiar with.

When the reinforcements of the Great Heng people arrive, a mere Olisa infantry division is a fart!

When he was a teenager in exile in Daheng, he once entered the international class of the Daheng Imperial Army Military Academy as a foreign student, and the last study was assigned to the 16th Division for internship for half a year.

The 16th Division of the Daheng Empire's Army was stationed in Ningyuzhou for a long time, and it was one of the many troops facing the south of the Daheng Empire.

At that time, more than 5,000 people under the command of Zhou Yaping were trained in the garrison of the 16th Division

Therefore, many of the backbone officers of the unit are actually the main military instructors of the Daheng Empire to help Prince Zhou Yaping train the armed forces in the early stage, and Zhou Yaping and his subordinate generals are still familiar with the 16th Division.

And it is precisely because of familiarity that we know better the powerful combat effectiveness of the 16th Division!

Zhou Yaping felt that there should be no army unit of that country in this world that could be compared with the Daheng Army.

The firepower of the Olisa army is fierce enough, but Zhou Yaping has seen it with his own eyes, when the Daheng Army conducts exercises, the divisional artillery is more than 100 mm caliber, and the 16th Division is equipped with 150 mm light howitzers.

Directly assign the 150 mm caliber artillery to the infantry division, as the division's firepower, and only Daheng people on the entire Blue Star will do this.

Not only is the firepower of the division fierce, but the military-level support firepower of the Daheng people is even more fierce!