In the afternoon, Williams, the British minister to Brazil, who had just had lunch, sat in a chair, sipping the taste of tea while gazing at the unfolded newspaper.

When the war resumed, the world's attention was focused on the fertile land of southern South America.

On the one hand, the menacing Republic of Brazil, which intends to regain lost territory, and on the other hand, the South American Han State, which is poised to attack and has long had ambitions for the territory of Paraguay,

As for the original protagonists of the war, the several forces involved in the Paraguayan civil war, because of the disparity in strength between the Brazilian Republic and the Han State, it was too great and was actively ignored by almost all countries.

As the first contact between the two sides on the battlefield in Paraguay, the war of Biarrica has not yet ended, but only through a short positional battle, the comprehensive combat strength of the Han army has surprised the diplomats of other countries who pay close attention to the battlefield situation.

The Han was the first country to invent smokeless gunpowder, and it was also the first country to apply smokeless gunpowder to the military field.

Compared with traditional black powder, bullets with smokeless gunpowder as propellant have more obvious advantages in terms of explosion speed and ability.

The muzzle velocity of bullets with black powder as the main raw material is often only more than 400 m/s. Therefore, to ensure that the bullet has enough kinetic energy to kill, the diameter of the warhead is generally more than 11 mm, and the mass is also large.

Smokeless gunpowder can provide more propulsion, making the warhead's muzzle velocity faster (700m/s+), and due to the increase in muzzle velocity, the warhead's mass can be reduced to obtain a straighter trajectory while maintaining kinetic energy.

As a result, the caliber of the first rifle to use smokeless gunpowder, the Jianye Six-Year Rifle, was shortened from a dozen millimeters in the era of black powder to 7.62mm.

The Jianye six-year rifle is 1.18 meters long, 1.6 meters long with a bayonet, the empty gun weighs 3.5kg, and the barrel is 710mm long.

Equipped with a double row of exposed magazines, the ammunition capacity is 10 rounds. Bullet caliber 7.62X51, muzzle velocity 715m/s;

Effective firing range 800 meters.

The Jianye Six-Year rifle borrows from the design of the Mosin-Nagant and Mauser rifles of the smokeless gunpowder era series of rifles. Compared to smokeless rifles of the same era,

The design of the Jianye six-year rifle is relatively simple, and the overall operating feeling is not as good as that of the Enfield rifle of later generations.

However, the advantage of the Jianye six-year rifle is that it is easy to produce and use, simple and reliable, which is extremely important for the Han army, which has not yet completed the construction of the industrial system and the relative lack of highly educated officers and soldiers in the army, especially in the protracted war period, it is necessary to increase the production of weapons to meet the needs of the front line, and a large number of supplementary garrison troops, militia and other combatants often have insufficient training time. This advantage of the Jianye six-year rifle can ensure that the Han army has continuous combat effectiveness and counterattack capabilities.

With higher accuracy, longer range, and greater lethality of all-metal armor bullets, the first appearance of the Jianye six-year rifle on the battlefield officially opened the curtain of smokeless gunpowder replacing black powder and becoming the protagonist of the battlefield.

The United States, France, Germany, and even Dongying, who is far away on the other side of the ocean, are trying their best to steal intelligence information about the new weapons of the Han Kingdom, while Britain, as the well-deserved hegemon of this era, the inherent arrogance of the British makes the group of gentlemen and nobles in London more than one step behind other countries in the military application of smokeless gunpowder.

More than 200,000 regular army troops of the Han State completed the refitting of new rifles, the French completed the technical research and development of the Lebor rifle in 1886, and officially put it into large-scale production in 1887, and the German Empire, which had close economic ties with the Han State, also began the work of equipping the troops with new rifles at the beginning of 1888.

In the face of the advent of the era of smokeless gunpowder, the British Army was stunned that it had not completed the design of a new rifle that used smokeless gunpowder as propellant for nearly six years.

Williams was puzzled by the sluggish response of the London government to smokeless gunpowder, but in contrast to England, Williams was surprised and shocked by the exuberant creativity of the Han Kingdom of South America, a country founded by drifting Chinese laborers!

The Far East Continent is the economic colony of the British Empire second only to India, in order to open up the economic market of the Far East Continent, Britain launched two long-distance expeditions spanning tens of thousands of kilometers in the same year, and in the following time, the use of political, diplomatic, economic and other means to gradually integrate British power into the Far East Continent.

The British gained a huge economic market in addition to India through the means of war, and as the losers of the war, the people living in that land were not only subjected to the brutal rule of the Qing court, but also suffered from the colonial oppression of the Western powers.

From the 1850s to the 1890s, the people living in the Far East were in a desperate situation on the verge of death, tens of millions of people became homeless refugees because of famine and military disasters, and nearly 10 million people fell at the crossroads of escape because of lack of food, and eventually became piles of bones.

Civilians in troubled times are like grass mustard, and during the period of Ding Shuqi, the Chinese people who were skinny and weak and swollen all over the body squatted on the side of the road and waited for death with a desperate look.

In the urban gathering area where the wealth is broken, the affected Chinese women stand at the corner of the street, numb when they are pointed out by human traffickers, and children of three or five years old hold broken bowls, holding on to the last bit of strength, pleasing the innocence of begging............ Such desperate and depressing scenes often appear in the Far East, and Williams, who was a diplomat of the British Empire and had spent a lot of time in the Far East, had witnessed it many times.

Perhaps the gods believed in by the Orientals really existed. Or maybe it's fateful fate!

At a time when the descendants of that ancient nation were suffering, a hero in the eyes of overseas Chinese came into being.

The times call for heroes! Heroes appear in line with the mission of the times. Twenty-one years ago, on the same day as today, the Han Emperor Li Mingyuan led a group of desperate miners to set off a great uprising that changed the direction of history!

After thousands of years of civilization, the belief in hero worship has always been spread among the Oriental people! At the most desperate and helpless moment of the Chinese workers in South America, Li Mingyuan appeared at the right time and assumed the role of a hero who pinned the hopes of the Chinese workers!

The influence of the Taiping Army's status as the prince of the king, the power of mystical beliefs, Li Mingyuan's background, the mysterious color shrouded in his body, his outstanding military command ability, and his predictable strategic judgment ability are all combined, which not only achieved Li Mingyuan's legendary achievements, but also established Li Mingyuan's unique and unshakable leadership position in the Han Kingdom in South America!

The Chinese community has a tradition of monarchy, and the rule of the monarchy is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The monarch has unique powers,

A monarch's personal ability and subjective judgment. It can affect or even change the direction of a country's development and survival.

Li Mingyuan has proved that he has the ability to govern the country and lead the people to the road of prosperity and strength with one war victory after another and one reform decree after another, while the Chinese people, who have generally experienced the hardships of war and have extremely low standards for life, have almost regarded Li Mingyuan as a god in the world after adapting to a completely unimaginable happy life, and infinitely respected and obeyed any orders of Li Mingyuan in the way they treated the gods.

A wise and foresighted monarch, a group of industrious, courageous, and knowledgeable citizens who maintain unlimited worship for the monarch, a group of modern troops who have received advanced ideological education and have firm convictions, a group of new-style officials who obey the orders of the monarch, whose powers are limited and supervised,

The four groups were combined together to form a strict and efficient social system, in which the Han Emperor Li Mingyuan played the most central role, and the people, officials, and military groups were all under the macro command of the emperor, with rare obedience and discipline, each performing its own duties, and in their respective posts, doing their own efforts and playing their own roles for the development of this emerging country.

Through the surface of the war, after seeing the essence of the operation of the social structure of the Han Kingdom, and experiencing the memories of the miserable life of various social groups in the Han Kingdom in the past, and the gratitude for the happy life in the present, etc.,

Williams has an understanding and perception of the achievements of the Han Kingdom in the past 21 years.

Civilization and tradition are the heritage of a nation, and suffering is a good medicine to awaken a nation.

When an ancient nation endures all kinds of hardships and setbacks, and then awakens at the call of one or a group of heroes,

The tremendous energy of the whole group will surprise and shock everyone!

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