"The first people to die on the battlefield are panicked idiots! If you don't want to die, calm down! Do you understand?! Zhang Cheng knocked on Guan Kuo's helmet vigorously and pressed him into the trench to relieve his breath. Grab your rifle and get back to your position.

Zhang Cheng is also afraid of death. But he knew that the easiest people to die on the battlefield were the cowards. Panic is the soldier's worst enemy. If you want to live, you have to force yourself to calm down.

'Smack! ’

After a slightly crisp gunshot, a blood flower suddenly burst out on the head of a mob who was put into the crosshair by Zhang Cheng, and the whole person instantly fell silently into the wild grass.

Zhang Cheng, who was tightly pursing the corners of his mouth, narrowed his eyes, skillfully pulled the bolt, aim, and shot.

"The second."

"The third."

"The fourth."

“”

By the time Zhang Cheng quickly finished firing four rows of bullets, he had already achieved eleven results. This is definitely a very remarkable achievement!

When Zhang Cheng once again put an enemy soldier in the crosshair and prepared to shoot, he was suddenly surprised to find that the heavy machine gun on the opposite side had been set up. Moreover, one of them had already aimed the muzzle of the black hole at where he was!

It's a completely instinctive reaction. At the moment when Makqin's muzzle turned around, Zhang Cheng suddenly shrank and shrank his whole person into the trench.

'Whoosh~~~' Dense bullets tore through the air and flew rapidly over his head, and the terrible sound frightened Zhang Cheng's heart 'fluttering'. This feeling of life and death is too scary. Zhang Cheng felt that at that moment he was secreting a large amount of adrenaline, which made his whole body a little stiff.

Dodging the greeting of death, Zhang Cheng gritted his teeth and looked at the machine gun point not far away in the trench. He wanted to see what his heavy machine gunners were doing. actually let the enemy set up Makqin smoothly.

As soon as Zhang Cheng's eyes drifted over, he saw a mercenary who was desperately pulling the trigger and was instantly shot through the neck. Warm blood shot out from the exploding neck, instantly dyeing the area around the heavy machine gun fire point a crimson color.

The person who was killed, Zhang Cheng, knew Luo An, a native of Zaozhuang, Shandong. When he first entered the mercenary group, he was still unconvinced, Zhang Cheng's marksmanship was compared with Zhang Cheng, and he gave Zhang Cheng fifteen silver dollars in a row before he became honest. The crux of the matter is that this man is not a machine gunner!

Zhang Cheng looked down, and immediately saw that the main and auxiliary machine gunners and ammunition men had all fallen in a pool of blood at this moment, all of which were fatal blows to the vital parts! Wu Shan, the most burly and fierce machine gunner in the entire company, had fallen on his back in the trench at this moment. The empty eyes looked at the blue sky, and a blood hole was opened in the place on the forehead!

"There are snipers?!" Zhang Cheng's eyes widened suddenly.

At this moment, he hated the bastards of the Doge's Palace in Milan who deceived him, an innocent boy who had not been deeply involved in the world. No wonder to give a high salary of two silver dollars a day, where is the mob on the other side? It's clearly an elite army!

"Zhang Cheng!" An angry roar called Zhang Cheng's mind back.

The captain and company commander also hung the lottery.

The originally dark and resolute face should have been grazed by a stray bullet and almost disfigured. Bobo's blood gushed from the wound, staining almost half of his body red. The uniforms, which had been so clean and tidy in the past, were now covered in blood and mud, and they didn't look much better than those Sardinian vagabonds on the outskirts of Milan.

"There's a sharpshooter on the other side, you go and kill him!" The fierce captain completely ignored the injuries on his face, and while pulling the person towards the machine gun point, he roared angrily at Zhang Cheng, who was not far away in a daze.

The captain knew Zhang Cheng's person. One of the best marksmen in the entire mercenary group. When he first arrived, many people had challenged his marksmanship, and the captain himself had lost more than 30 silver dollars on Zhang Cheng's body, so he was very impressed by Zhang Cheng.

The captain still got Zhang Cheng into his company through his uncle, who was the deputy of the regiment. Now that the heavy machine gun is suppressed, without artillery support, Zhang Cheng can only be counted on to be able to take out the sharpshooter on the opposite side.

At this time, the war was urgent, and the naval artillery support that had been there for a while disappeared completely. After Zhang Cheng changed his position, he quietly looked at the huge and brilliant manor in the upper reaches of the river in the distance. The sound of gunfire there was deafening, and the smoke of gunfire covered the sky. That's the main battlefield.

The main force of the mercenary group was deployed near the manor a kilometer away. Zhang Cheng's company was just an inconspicuous flank. After the fierce battle began, the mercenaries' artillery and the naval artillery support were all concentrated on the manor.

Looking at the manor shrouded in gunsmoke in the distance, Zhang Cheng pursed his lips with envy and hatred.

The estate was the property of the Doge of Milan. The tens of thousands of acres of fertile land near the manor belonged to the Viceroy of Milan.

According to the veterans of the mercenary group, the reason why the Sardinian tenants on the manor had started this huge rebellion was because of the overexploitation of the fat-headed governor.

Speaking of which, it is necessary to explain the world history in which Zhang Cheng is now.

In the more than a month since he came to this world, Zhang Cheng learned about the history of this world through various methods such as consulting materials and talking to people, which is roughly the same as what he knows. The bifurcation point appeared more than 500 years ago in the third year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, that is, when the Three Treasure Eunuchs went to Nanyang in 1405 AD.

At that time, when the fleet of the Three Treasure Eunuchs was going to the South Seas, several ships deviated from the voyage and disappeared due to a storm. The Three Treasures Eunuch led the fleet to search around. Unexpectedly, the ship did not find it, but found a spice island full of various spices!

No matter what the Three Treasure Eunuchs went to the South Seas for in the first place, after discovering such a huge cornucopia, history inevitably went to another fork in the road.

At that time, it was the time when the Ming Empire expelled the Mongol and Yuan Tatars and restored Chinese orthodoxy. Ming Chengzu Zhu Di is a promising monarch. At that time, the conservative forces in China were at their lowest point after being suppressed by Zhu Yuanzhang and his son. With the strong support of Zhu Di and driven by the actual interests that can be seen and touched, the Ming Empire opened a vigorous era of discovery!

The fleet of the Ming Empire, spearheaded by the Three Treasure Eunuchs, continued to open up new routes and territories on the sea. More and more diverse local products are discovered, and then shipweds are sent back to the mainland to become endless riches. When the gold mines on Luzon were discovered, the original exploration fleet began to inevitably go in another direction.

The Ming Empire was entangled with the natives of Luzon for nearly a decade. In the end, it came to an end after Ming Chengzu, who urgently needed a large amount of precious metals as military salaries and went north to conquer the Mengyuan Dynasty, sent a large army to completely sweep the entire archipelago.

The Ming Empire seized the fertile island of Luzon and soon established its first overseas territory here. From the seizure of Luzon, the tributary system that had lasted for thousands of years in China was completely broken. The inherent conservative forces were defeated in the face of yellow gold and vast fertile land. The Ming Empire completely embarked on the path of colonial expansion.

The fleets of the Empire, both civil and court, began to attack in all directions towards the unfamiliar overseas. A trip to sea may bury the belly of the fish, but it is more likely to make a lot of money, so as to change the fate of a poor life and live a chic life, and leave a lot of wealth for future generations. The appeal of such a thing to the poor is unimaginable. Countless Chinese men tightened their belts, drank a bowl of water and walked to the sea!

Java, Sumatra, Sulu, Pahang, Chenla, Guli, Siam, Adan, Tianfang, Zhofar, Kurumus, Mukudushu and so on. Patches of fertile land, full of all kinds of strange things, fell into the hands of the colonists of the Ming Empire, and the tentacles of the Ming Empire began to expand endlessly.

More than 80 years later, a fleet of expeditions from the Ming Empire reached the southernmost tip of Africa, naming it the Cape of Good Hope, and they entered the Atlantic. There they met their peers, an expeditionary fleet led by the Portuguese Dias. The Age of Discovery, East and West, began to meet.

In the early days, both sides were able to exercise restraint, mainly through trade and information exchange. But the adventurous spirit and pirate nature of the colonists will not be easily changed. It didn't take long for the war to break out.

Because of the distance, it can often take up to a year just to deliver the message from the front. Therefore, the war was very long, and it was more like a kind of armed weapon fight among the people. During this time, the Spaniards sent Columbus on a circumnavigation of the globe and discovered the American continent. Magellan then crossed the Isthmus of South America and crossed the Pacific Ocean before arriving on the island of Luzon.

Captured Magellan contributed the Great Earth Theory, as well as materials on the rich New World and Europe itself. This greatly shook the Ming Empire, which had established a solid dominance throughout the South Seas and the Australian continent. Immediately, the expansion of the Ming Empire entered the second stage.

Decades later, the Ming Empire established a large number of its own settlements on the west coast of the Americas. At the same time, the navy that defeated the Ottoman Empire entered the Red Sea and accidentally discovered that through the Egyptian peninsula it was possible to quickly get in touch with Europe.

At the beginning of the 17th century, the European coalition led by Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands began to frantically attack the Ming Empire in Africa and the New World in order to seize the colonies and change the completely unequal trade export relationship with the Ming Empire, and the first global war broke out.

This long war, which lasted for hundreds of years, finally ended with the victory of the Ming Empire. The Spaniards lost Gibraltar, which was extremely important in its homeland, where the Ming Empire established its first colony on the European continent. The Portuguese lost Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands and have been in a state of collapse ever since. The Dutch lost all their colonies in the New World and were completely reduced to a role in Europe.

In this war, the Ming Empire did not lose much benefit. The prolonged war led to a sharp drop in trade, and the conservative forces at home began to fight back. The European countries, which had been watching from the sidelines and doing things in secret, took advantage of this opportunity to set off the wave of the first industrial revolution and rapidly increased their strength. The barbarian tribes in the northeast of the mainland also rose rapidly, posing a great threat to the core of the Ming Empire.

Fortunately, through the tempering of the Hundred Years War, the Ming Empire also had a powerful army. With the support of overseas consulates in various places, he used a large amount of materials and troops to crush the barbarian tribes in the northeast and relieve the internal hidden dangers.

Although during this time, due to the rapid completion of industrialization in Europe, the power of the Ming Empire retreated from the American continent. But the Ming Empire also soon entered the industrial age. And with its huge heritage, it quickly surpassed European countries.

In the middle of the eighteenth century, the new industrial countries of Europe began to unite with the Ming Empire for supremacy in the maritime world. The Second Global War begins.