Thanks to the joint efforts of Frederick and General Shuvalov, who had received a large amount of money, the duel between Grand Duke Sergei and Wilhelm was finally "forced" to be canceled in accordance with German law.

Despite a fight in the bars of the Armory, Grand Duke Sergei fell in love with Mr. Storsch's new bar culture, and at the strong encouragement of Joey, who was also relieved by his parents, Mr. Stockh would cooperate with Grand Duke Sergei to open several such high-end bars in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Out of gratitude to Grand Duke Sergei for not killing William, and with a pure friendship for creating new forms of entertainment for the freezing Russians, Joey proposed a new entertainment plan with new bars, restaurants, casinos, and hotels, typical of his previous Las Vegas-style entertainment.

Of course, in order to take care of the great national feelings of Russia, Joey called this program the Las Vegassky Casino Plan.

With the support of the commander of the Moscow Military District, the future governor of Moscow, and the chairman of the Russian Council of Ministers and the head of the secret police, Joey believes that the Las Vegassky casino run by Mr. Stockch must be on fire in Russia! Let the Russians fall in love not only with vodka, but also with gambling. Of course, in order to maintain the positive image of the Russian royal family and government, outsiders do not know what is wrong with this.

At the Berlin-Frankfurt train station in the early morning of June 30, it was the day when Grand Duke Sergei and General Shuvalov and his party said goodbye to Berlin, and it was also the decisive day to decide whether Joey was a braggart or a bourgeois in front of his friends.

On June 30th, the first day of Joey's summer vacation, Joey and his friends from the Berlin School of Arts and Sciences and the Berlin Military Academy arrived at the shooting range in Spandau early in the morning. Joey's long-vaunted Lee-Enfield SMLE No.1 MKIII* rifle, which has finally been produced from the Grusen Small Arms Company in Magdeburg, is to be tested for the first time at the range today.

Of course, there is one detail that needs to be corrected, but the official name of the Grusen Small Arms Company should now be Hermann-Karl AG, or HK for short.

The reason for the name was that Sir Gruson believed that the gun was fired from Joey, and that the new gun factory had an investment from the Princess Victoria Foundation, so Sir Gruson strongly disagreed with the naming of the small arms company after himself, insisting on using Joey's name, while Joey firmly disagreed.

After a long stalemate, with the help of Crown Prince Frederick, both sides finally took a step back and named the new company after Uncle Hermann and Joey's father, and the initials of Heckler and Koch GmbH (HK), Joey's favorite in his previous life, miraculously appeared in 19th-century Germany.

According to the gun naming rules of HK Company in Joey's previous life, this Lee-Enfield SMLE No.1 MKIII* rifle was officially named HK81A1 and HK81A2, the front 8 represents the rifle, and the rear 1 represents the 7.62X56mm bullet, the projectile is a full-power bullet with a full armor tip, the projectile weight is 11.28g, A1 represents the black powder propellant, the muzzle velocity is 563m/s, and the A2 uses a bi-base propellant, and the muzzle velocity reaches 743m/s.

Joey chose 7.62mm, a caliber that he is familiar with, which is not only different from the historical .030-inch British 77 caliber, but also different from the historical 7.92mm caliber of the Mauser 98K, just because Joey was a member of the IDPA in his previous life, and he liked the 7.62mm caliber G3 very much.

According to the composition of the "Codwin" bi-base propellant provided by Joey, with the unremitting efforts of German chemists, after many failed experiments, the optimal ratio of various components was finally found, and the bi-base smokeless propellant appeared in Joey's world 12 years earlier than history.

Although smokeless propellants appeared in advance, they were stuck in industrial production, especially in the large-scale manufacture of industrial nitric acid, the main source of industrial nitric acid is still from saltpeter mines in South America, and before obtaining a stable source of saltpeter and industrial ammonia synthesis technology, Joey decided to produce it in small batches secretly.

Out of the need to protect the "high-tech" products of the nineteenth-century army, smokeless propellants, Joey also introduced the deceptive black powder propellant. In order to propel the full-power warhead to a higher muzzle velocity and longer range in the case of black powder propellant, the only way to increase the charge of the flanged bottle-shaped cartridge case was to increase the length of the bullet, so the length of the bullet was chosen to be the same 56mm as the British, instead of the usual 51mm of the Germans.

In terms of bullet primer selection, Joey chose to produce a simple but non-reloadable Bordane primer, rather than a complex but reloadable Boxe.

Unlike Lee Enfield's evolution from blunt round-headed bullets to pointed-head bullets in history, Joey, as a traverser, will not make the same mistakes that Lee Enfield once made, and directly let HK Company produce the same MKVII as Lee Enfield in history.

It should be noted that the pointed bullet produced by Magdeburg is still different from the MKVII pointed bullet, and the famous MKVII warhead case in history is a lead-aluminum composite bullet core, with an aluminum bullet tip in the front and a lead bullet in the back. But in 1879, aluminium was still an expensive metal, so the engineers in Magdeburg explicitly told Joey that if aluminum was used for the point, the price of the bullet would be comparable to gold.

But it was not difficult for Joey, a more vicious bullet, a bullet with a wooden pulp paper instead of an aluminum tip, to appear on the production line of bullets in Magdeburg. After being shot by this kind of bullet that rolls in the human body, the rescuer must not only face complex bleeding and organ damage, but also have to disinfect and clean the wound many times, otherwise the wound is extremely susceptible to the infection of wood pulp paper.

On a battlefield without antibiotics, such a severe gunshot infection means that one foot of the wounded person has stepped into hell.

In addition to Joey's brains to copy the historical successes of the Lee Enfield rifle, the HK81A1 displayed at the range, there is also a quirky cannon that appears at the range, a quirky gun designed by Mr. Maximian Schuman of Grusen Arms.

This gun has an odd name: the Grusen-Schumann armored mobile battery, which is equipped with a 53mm, 25 times diameter, rapid-fire gun with a rate of fire of up to 30 rounds per minute, and the matching shells are grenades and shrapnel (submunitions) using black powder, and the projectiles are also divided into black powder propellant and bibase propellant.

The reason for its weirdness is that it has a berserk little cannon that relies on springs as brakes. The key is that this small, one-man gun is housed in a 10mm thick fully enclosed turret protected by Harvey armor. At the same time, in order to ensure the flexibility and mobility of such artillery, this fully armored and airtight battery was equipped with two wheels at the same time, which could be towed and transferred by horses.

The artillery of the European armies before the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, like the artillery of the navy, was a short-range direct-aim artillery, rather than a curved artillery that could shoot at a long distance after entering the twentieth century. In 1879, the artillery, like the infantry, was at the forefront of the battle line, and the courage of the bayonet was great to confront the enemy's infantry and artillery.

Now is not only the era of infantry queuing up to be shot, but also the era of artillery queuing up to shoot.

However, unlike the Navy, the artillery shells used by the Army Artillery are still grenades and shrapnels, which mainly rely on fragments to kill people, rather than the Navy's armor-piercing shells. Based on this difference, when Joy saw the famous Maximian Schumann at the Magdeburg Arms Company, Joey asked the most famous designer of the fortress gun of the German Empire to come up with his famous work: the armored turret.

Loaded on two wheels and pulled by a horse, Joey saw it as a living nineteenth-century tank. It may not be possible to do a tank-style armored charge, but with the protection of Harvey's armor, it can completely withstand the bullets and shell fragments on the opposite side, and with the exaggerated rate of fire of 30 rounds per minute, it is absolutely handy to defend the ground.

Compared with the HK81A1 rifle, which is still on static display, the two display postures of the Grusen-Schumann armored mobile battery on the shooting range can be described as eye-catching. The first is a demonstration of a moving attitude using wheels, in which an armored mobile battery gallops through the range under the tow of two horses.

At Joey's suggestion, a large area of land within the range was simulated in a variety of road conditions, ranging from sandy and muddy to rocky, rugged and bumpy puddles. No matter how complicated the road surface, this gun can pass quickly and smoothly.

After running wildly, the armored mobile battery came to the firing position, and the conversion speed from mobile to firing also opened the eyes of the visitors. By erecting two sections of train tracks, the armored mobile battery relied on its own small steel wheels to smoothly slide into the preset firing position, and it took less than 5 minutes from preparation to start firing.

Listening to and watching the continuous sound of cannons, Li Fengbao, the Qing ambassador to Germany, said to Mr. Maximian-Schumann with a smile, "Dear Mr. Schumann, the performance of this cannon is really eye-opening, it is really as fast as the wind and invades like fire!" I dare to assure you that your artillery with Krupp must be the first choice of artillery in the Qing Empire. ”

Hearing Lord Li Fengbao's compliments and assurances, Mr. Schumann, who had long been jealous of Krupp's monopoly on the Qing artillery market, smiled and said, "Dear Lord Li, this is only the first work of the Grusen artillery, and we also have even better fortress guns and rapid-fire guns." ”

"It's all there!" Mr. Schumann waved his hand vigorously and said loudly, "It will be open to your country!" ”

"Dear Sir Stokema, on behalf of the Chilean government, I hope that this miraculous cannon can also be included in the military assistance provided by your country!" Balmaseta made the same urgent request to Sir Stokema, CEO of the Victorian Crown Princess Foundation.

Sir Stokema, the chief housekeeper of the Imperial Palace, who has always been responsive to Chileans, nodded with a smile in agreement.

Just as one party was elated to get sharper weapons and the other was elated to get more wealth, 13 little children appeared on the shooting range, and a shooting show was about to begin.