Old Summer Palace, Nanyuan Royal Hunting Ground.

It was the crisp autumn weather, the Royal Forest Army opened the way, Li Weiguo took his children to ride horses and hunt together, and under the big tent not far behind him, there were the harem concubines led by Empress Fu Shanxiang, who wore all kinds of gorgeous clothes to watch the battle in the rear, colorful and colorful, becoming a beautiful landscape.

There are all kinds of animals in the hunting ground, jackals, tigers and leopards have been cleared by the Royal Forest Army in advance, leaving only deer, sheep, pheasants, etc., Li Weiguo originally planned to leave wild boars, because he likes to eat roast wild boar meat the most. It's a pity that there are many concubines in the harem who only eat halal, so they can only give up.

Bang bang bang!

Bursts of gunfire, Li Weiguo led the children to line up in an arc formation, holding various long and short guns, shooting at the prey in the encirclement, and in just half a day, he hunted hundreds of wild animals and returned triumphantly.

Li Weiguo handed over hundreds of wild animals to the imperial chefs, either to cook or barbecue.

"Let the Guards start hunting, no matter what prey they catch, it's all personal! Ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs to allocate 500 cases of beer, and all the officers and soldiers of the Royal Forest Army will eat and drink well today, and everyone will be happy together! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The officers and soldiers of the Imperial Forest immediately cheered, thanking Li Weiguo for his generosity.

Soon, the Royal Guards were dispatched, and the neat and orderly combat troops were more efficient in hunting wild meat.

Listening to the sound of gunfire, bullets raining down in the hunting area, thousands of wild animals were hunted, and the soldiers were all smiling and happy.

The game caught by the officers and soldiers of the Royal Forest was handed over to the cooking class, and hundreds of cauldrons were propped up, and the whole camp was suddenly filled with aroma and drooling when they smelled it.

At the beginning of the lunchtime meeting, Li Weiguo, his concubines, princes and princesses, and more than 400 men and women in a large family ate hot pot and barbecue together, and enjoyed themselves.

The surrounding officers and soldiers of the Imperial Forest were also drinking happily, and for a while, the entire Nanyuan hunting ground was noisy, and it instantly turned into an open-air restaurant.

At this moment, in the dense forest in the southwest, five masked men suddenly appeared, all of them were armed with weapons in their hands, the leader was holding two pistols, and the others were holding rifles, sneaky, looking like assassins, undoubtedly coming towards Li Weiguo.

"Are you all ready?"

"Ready!"

"The Dog Emperor and his family are eating in the big tent in the middle, the surrounding Imperial Forest Army is drunk and overturned, and the perimeter guard is also very loose, as long as we move fast, we can rush in directly, and destroy the Dog Emperor with one shot, and by the way, all his family will be slaughtered!"

"Remember, everyone must be fast later, whether it can succeed or not, in one fell swoop!"

"Action!"

At the sound of an order, the five of them quickly attacked, avoided the outer patrol posts, and went straight to the central tent.

Once they managed to get close to the central tent, Li Weiguo was in danger, and even his family could not escape.

The five Assassins made their way unhindered, and they didn't realize how it could go so smoothly.

However, just as they were approaching the central tent, five gunshots suddenly rang out, and five bullets directly exploded in their heads.

Until the moment of death, they did not make any sound, and they did not even know that the bullet was coming from that side.

If they had a chance to speak, they would have shouted, "Who the hit the black gun!" ”

The gunshot rang out, alarming everyone.

However, Li Weiguo just smiled slightly and motioned for everyone to continue, as if nothing had happened.

Soon, Zhuang Jiuxia led people to the scene to dispose of the corpses of the five assassins.

Although he is no longer Li Weiguo's chief of guard, after two years of training in the army, he was transferred to the Royal Forest Army as a commander.

This time it was undoubtedly a booby trap plan arranged by Zhuang Jiuxia, and he was originally going to stay alive, but when he thought that the assassins he had captured before were all Deadpools, they had all taken poison before the operation, and once the operation failed or the action time was exceeded, he would be poisoned and killed, and Zhuang Jiuxia was not given time for interrogation at all. Therefore, considering the possibility of accidents in catching alive, Zhuang Jiuxia directly ordered all of them to be shot.

Naturally, the sniper unit in charge of the operation is a sniper unit, who has been secretly lurking around, belonging to the secret outposts. Even if the enemy bypasses the open and mobile posts, they will not be able to avoid the dark posts at all. In the sniper scope, the enemy is shot in one fell swoop before they even have time to react.

"Quick, immediately send the corpse to the forensic doctor to take out the poison for testing, and send the weapons and clothing to the National Search Division to determine the source!"

Searching for the source through the corpses of the assassins and the weapons and clothing that they carried was the only thing Zhuang Jiuxia could do at present, because this group of assassins was well-trained and had a powerful organization behind them.

Zhuang Jiuxia came to Li Weiguo's side and made a report in a low voice.

Li Weiguo nodded, also frowning.

Eventually, the number of assassinations against him increased significantly, and the quality and skill of the Assassins increased. If in the past the Assassins used to use cold weapons to carry out assassinations, now they have begun to use guns and grenades.

One day when the assassins start using cannons, then Li Weiguo will probably have to hide in the tank all day.

"Dig each other out as soon as possible!"

"Yes! The ministers will go all out! ”

Today, five more assassins were lured out to send them to death, and Li Weiguo's goal was also achieved, as for whether he can solve the case as soon as possible, it depends on Zhuang Jiuxia's ability.

After the meal, Li Weiguo drove back to the palace, with the Imperial Forest Army on guard along the way, and the assassins would not want to hurt him unless they had missiles.

And snipers, by the way?

"Zhuang Jiuxia!"

"The minister is here!"

"Go to the military headquarters to spread my words, do your best to control all kinds of news about the sniper rifle, and never let the enemy know! Otherwise, if the enemy also uses a sniper rifle to assassinate me, how sure are you that you will be able to stop me? ”

Zhuang Jiuxia suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, he has always relied on secret snipers to guard, the enemy will die one by one, if the enemy also has a sniper rifle, it will be bad.

"Yes! Got it! ”

Li Weiguo returned to the palace, Zhuang Jiuxia suddenly fidgeted, and while notifying the military department and conveying the emperor's dictation, he stepped up research on how to deal with emergencies in which the enemy also had sniper rifles.

The officials of the Ministry of War were also taken aback, realizing that the sniper rifle was a double-edged sword, and because the previous secrecy work was done well, the European and American countries could not grasp the information of the snipers in the Chinese Imperial Shence Army, let alone the existence of the sniper rifle, and only thought that they were the world's top excellent gunners.

"Further strengthen the control of the use of snipers and sniper rifles!"

The military headquarters quickly issued an order to recall all the sniper units in all theaters and concentrate them for training and supervision, so as to minimize the possibility of leakage of secrets.

However, sooner or later, this secret will be known to the outside world, and it is only a matter of time.

At the same time, riots broke out on Rhode Island in the United States.

Since the Chinese Empire obtained the concession rights of Rhode Island, the whole Rhode Island has been surging, and the covert forces from Europe and the United States are infiltrating, and various actions against the Rhode Island Management Committee and the Rhode Island garrison of the Chinese Empire have been carried out one after another.

Early this morning, a group of Americans marched and protested in front of the Chinese Imperial Management Committee in Rhode Island. There were even some who went directly to the garrison of the Chinese Empire in Rhode Island, and demonstrated in front of the gate of the garrison, demanding that the Chinese Empire return Rhode Island to the United States.

Originally, it was just an ordinary whining, but today it was different, a dark force was dispatched, they hid pistols in their clothes, mixed in the crowd, and suddenly opened fire on the guards of the Imperial Chinese Army who were trying to maintain law and order, causing a soldier of the Imperial Chinese Army to die on the spot.

The crowd was in an uproar, fleeing in all directions in panic, and some people were even shouting that the Chinese Imperial Army had opened fire.

This incident shocked the headquarters of the Chinese Empire garrison in Rhode Island, which immediately ordered the blockade of the entrance and exit routes of Rhode Island, and imposed full martial law, and the garrison went out to search house to house, vowing to catch the murderer.

At this time, Rhode Island had 30,000 residents, most of them Native Americans, who were reluctant to leave their homeland. The Imperial Chinese Army saw them as a potential threat, and since Rhode Island had limited land, it was difficult for the immigrant citizens of the Imperial Chinese to find a suitable place to settle down, so it became urgent to drive these Americans away, but there was no proper excuse. Now it's time to take advantage of the opportunity to search for the murderers all over the island and drive them all away.

The rally was so large that the military and police were dispatched to jail them and then force their families to leave Rhode Island if they wanted to ransom them.

A large number of Native Americans wept bitterly and sold their houses and moved, scolding their children for not doing their jobs properly, why did they have nothing to do to demonstrate, and now they have to move out of Rhode Island if they want to redeem them.

The young men who went to the march also regretted it, but they blamed it all on the barbaric policies of the Chinese Empire, and even if they left Rhode Island, they would fight to the end.

Naturally, the murderer could not be found, after all, the forces in the shadows had long been ready to retreat, so the innocent natives of Rhode Island were shot.

Kill a hundred people, the Rhode Island garrison of the Chinese Empire arrested a large number of anti-Chinese elements, whether they are murderers or not, it is definitely right to kill.

As a result, the Imperial Court of China in Rhode Island carried out the "Rash of Human Life" operation for the first time, which will also be the first stain on the impartiality of the legal community of the Chinese Empire. But who cares? Anyway, it was against the Americans, not against the citizens of the Chinese Empire, and in turn for the national interests of the Chinese Empire, so the legal community was generally not interested in this matter and allowed this kind of behavior.

A large number of anti-Chinese elements were charged with various crimes, and the Rhode Island military and police were executing every day, plunging the whole of Rhode Island into a state of white terror.

The actions of the Chinese empire quickly angered the American government and further tensioned the already tense relations between China and the United States.

A large number of American refugees who fled Rhode Island petitioned in front of the White House, forcing the Grant administration to have no way out, and recalled the ambassador of the Chinese empire to the United States in protest.

However, the Chinese Empire does not bird Grant at all, anyway, on Rhode Island, the Chinese Empire does what it says, and the United States does not care.

On March 10, 1880, the American state of Connecticut held a large-scale military exercise, less than 20 kilometers from Rhode Island.

This is a demonstration and military provocation by Chiguoguo.

Not to be outdone, the Chinese Empire's Shence Army stationed in Rhode Island launched-for-tat military exercises, which made Sino-US relations more and more tense.

At the same time, the 17th Patrol Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy in Rhode Island even had a military confrontation with the American Navy in Narragansett Bay, and the two sides did not budge to each other, and the confrontation lasted for seven days.

If it had not been for the Chinese Empire's solemn warning to the American government, I am afraid that the confrontation would have continued.

In any case, the Grant government finally succumbed, but Grant also achieved his political goal, that is, to let the Americans see that he Grant had done his best, but the United States was not as strong as the Chinese Empire in terms of national strength and military strength, and was forced to make concessions, which made Grant's approval rating skyrocket, and he should have stepped down after serving two consecutive terms, but he was directly re-elected for the third time, breaking the rule that the president of the United States cannot serve more than two consecutive terms.

Grant, who was re-elected for three consecutive terms, was in high spirits, and the economic situation in the United States was very good, so that Grant had more money to invest in military development.

Since the end of December 1877, the construction of 8 Maine-class battleships, 12 Lexington-class armored cruisers, and 20 Philadelphia-class armored frigates has been basically completed and joined the service of the American Navy, and the actual cost exceeded the original military budget by more than 10 million US dollars, and finally cost 321 million US dollars.

At the same time, the American Army also completed a major redress, giving up the military uniforms and weapons and equipment that originally imitated the Chinese Imperial style, and reverted back to the military uniforms before the American Civil War, and the equipment was completely British, and the army also completely abandoned the military town system and changed to the division and regiment system, and even the military training method was British, which was to completely remove the influence of the Chinese Empire on the American army, and some American army officers who had studied in the Chinese Imperial Military Academy were also demoted and transferred, so that the shadow of the Chinese Imperial Army would no longer appear in the American army.

This is Grant's approach, but he also paid a lot of price for it, such as the weapons and equipment imported from the Chinese Empire before could not be replaced and repaired after being damaged, and after using British-made guns, all the supporting military factories and maintenance factories must be replaced.

However, Grant did not regret that American nationalism was on the rise, and as long as the slogan against the Chinese Empire was played, countless Americans supported it.

In the past, it was Grant who unilaterally coerced the American people, and after successfully rebelling against the will of the American people, now it has become the American people coercing the Grant government.

At the same time, the Imperial Chinese Navy also completed the final outfitting of 15 heavy cruisers and 15 light cruisers and successfully delivered them.

Previously, the European and American powers thought that the Chinese Empire would build fifteen battleships, but it turned out to be fifteen cruisers.

Just when the navies of Europe and the United States were rejoicing, they suddenly got another piece of news that a new type of battleship of the Imperial Chinese Navy had been completed.

"What? It was actually equipped with 12 12-inch guns? ”

The countries were instantly stunned! (To be continued.) )