Chapter 225: Equipment Updates in the World Realm

In order to strengthen the firepower of the army, Xiao Jun's independent artillery division was reorganized into a heavy artillery regiment, which is also the establishment of an army, and at the same time, in order to strengthen his firepower and mobility, not only equipped the heavy artillery regiment with a large number of trucks, but also equipped with a part of the 203 mm heavy artillery that can definitely dominate the current land.

Due to the enlistment of a large number of elves, the special operations division was also upgraded to a special operations army, and Liao Jianchu and Al were still the commander and deputy commander respectively, while Qiao Yun was promoted to the deputy commander of the third division because of his merits.

With sufficient troops in the Eastern Continent region of the Chinese Territory, the First Army of the Iron Blood Army was transferred back to the Wild Continent, and after that, the Iron Blood Army will guard the Wild Continent full-time, which will exist as the base of Fang Xiaoyu's private industry and the Zhonghua Group Company.

As an iron-blooded army defending the wild continent alone, it can't be just a single army unit, Fang Xiaoyu still tilted the quota of the Vladivostok Naval School to the iron-blooded army, and at the same time trained some sailors for the iron-blooded army in the navy to prepare for the establishment of the iron-blooded navy in the future.

This great expansion of the Chinese Empire did not pose much threat to countries such as the Saar Empire and the Boston Empire, after all, the army could not threaten the sea, so they did not react much.

The only one who was shocked was the Cossack Empire, and Alexander III was deeply remorseful to see that this small territory had become a powerful force that could now be compared to himself.

At the beginning, he didn't stick to the end, and as a result, he gave the Chinese Territory a chance to develop and grow, and even lost a large part of his territory and the entire fleet. But now it's too late to regret it, and the army of the Chinese Territory has reached the scale of more than one million.

Although the Cossack Empire has an army of more than two million, most of it has to defend the borders of the Western Continent, especially the Yaman Empire, which is the feud of the Cossack Empire, and there are not too many people who can be transferred to fight against the Chinese Empire.

Since the last fiasco, Alexander III has stepped up the construction of the Beria Railway, but the construction of the railway has been delayed due to the lack of funds due to the large amount of money being used to restore the fleet.

Whenever the financial situation was stretched, Alexander III looked at the land representing the Chinese territory on the map with some greed, the wealth there has been recognized by the world, if he can own there, Alexander III is sure that he can unify the entire Eastern Continent within ten years, and it is only a matter of time before he occupies the entire Western Continent.

After the expansion of the Chinese Consulate, the consul of the Cossack Empire in the Chinese Consulate expressed to Wu Qiong the concern of the Cossack Empire, but Wu Qiong replied with a sentence that the country's internal affairs and other countries have no right to interfere.

He also directly and righteously told the Cossack consul that the territory of the Cossack Empire is not as good as that of the Chinese Empire, which has two million land forces, and the Chinese Empire is only more than one million.

The intransigence of the Chinese Empire made the Cossack Empire very worried, and if the Chinese Empire and the Yaman Empire united, it would be a catastrophe for the Cossack Empire.

In order to change the strategic situation that was unfavorable to him, the Cossack Empire began to send envoys to win over the two existing forces of the Monte Empire, hoping to make them merge again, and form a flanking attack on the Chinese Territory with the Cossack Empire, and at the worst let them form an alliance with the Cossack Empire.

Although the Cossack Empire hated the Chinese Territory to the core, because the gap between his weapons and equipment and the Chinese Territory was too great, Alexander III had been trying to solve this problem.

The technology of the Chinese collar, whether it is military or civilian, is very tightly blocked. Only the Saar Empire purchased the design blueprints of the lever rifle from the Chinese Consulate and renamed it the Martini Henry rifle to quickly equip its own army units.

However, the Saar Empire also spent a lot of money for this, in order to maintain their army equipment in the Western Continent to maintain their superiority, they blocked the firearms technology very strictly, and even the Nantes Empire, which had always had a good relationship with them, could not obtain it.

Under the pressure of backward weaponry, the powerful countries of the western continent have begun to increase their investment in weapons research in order to reverse their disadvantages as soon as possible.

The Arthur Arsenal of the Yaman Empire was the first to develop the rotary pull-back bolt, but unfortunately there was a loophole in their secrecy measures, the weapon was not finalized, and the design drawings of the bolt were stolen by the Nantes Empire spies.

Soon the new rifle of the Nantes Empire, the Lebel rifle, was designed, and due to their lack of heart, in order to show that they had not stolen the drawings of Arthur's arsenal, they named this rifle the Type 90 Lebell rifle, to indicate that their rifle design was earlier than the bolt design of Arthur's arsenal.

The Lebel rifle, which was only seven millimeters in caliber, was still a single-shot feed, but for the first time it used smokeless gunpowder developed by the Nantes Empire, and it was quickly popularized, and several countries on the Western Continent purchased formulas for this gunpowder for production.

Arthur, who hated the Nantes Empire to the core, heard the news, and drove back to the Yaman Empire from the Chinese Territory, regardless of his body that had not yet recovered from his illness, and under his auspices, the new rifle was quickly designed.

In order to express its indignation at the Nantes Empire, the Yaman Empire named the rifle the Type 88 Arthur rifle, to show that it was developed earlier than the Type 90 Lebel rifle, which also soon began to be mass-produced and equipped with troops.

Unlike the Nantes Empire's Lebel rifle, Arthur's design talent was higher, so he designed the Arthur rifle instead of a single shot, but a magazine feeding method, so that the Type 88 Arthur rifle could be loaded with five rounds at a time, so that the firepower of this rifle was greatly improved.

The Yaman Empire did not strictly control the technology of the new rifle, so Arthur immediately announced that the Type 88 Arthur rifle would be sold to the whole world.

Kokand is a country of the Eastern Continent, which is located in the area where the Eastern Continent meets the Middle Continent, bordering the Lanfang Empire to the east, the Stanya Alliance of the Central Continent to the west, and the Cossack Empire to the north.

Since the conquest of Kokand by the Cossack Empire a few decades ago, it has been a vassal state of the Cossack Empire, and this time it came to buy weapons at the behest of the Cossack Empire.

The Cossack Empire and the Yaman Empire had a feud, so they could not buy weapons directly from the Yaman Empire, but with the Kokand Kingdom as an intermediary, it was different, at least Arthur had an account for the government, so the first batch of purchase contracts was signed very happily.

Using its foreign exchange reserves, Kokand ordered two million Type 88 Arthur rifles from the Arthur Arsenal at a price of 40 billion Cossack rubles (equivalent to 400 million Lanfang coins).

The money was secretly provided by the Cossack Empire, and of course if the Cossack Empire blatantly sent these guns down, it would definitely cause dissatisfaction among the Yaman Empire, so they renamed this gun the Danber 3 rifle and equipped the troops in the name of replacing the current Danber 2 rifle.

Hearing this news, Fang Xiaoyu was very distressed, this batch of guns Arthur Arsenal made at least half of the profits. For Fang Xiaoyu, who has never suffered a loss, how could he let go of such a good opportunity, he immediately asked the early design drawings of the Type 91 rifle to be turned over, and asked the arsenal to manufacture it as a foreign trade version of the Type 91 rifle and named it the Type 92 rifle.

This rifle is not much different from the Type 91 rifle, except that the magazine is replaced with a bridge clamp load, which reduces the rifle's reload to five rounds, and the reload speed is slightly slower, although this rifle is a little worse than the current Type 91 rifle, but it is much better than the other two rifles.

Needless to say, even the Arthur rifle has the problem of being easily blown up, and the Arthur rifle uses a magazine feed, so it cannot be reloaded until the five rounds are fired.

The Type 92 rifle has a bridge clamp design that can pull out the bridge clip after the bullet is pressed into the magazine, and this rifle can also be pressed directly with a single shot without any auxiliary tools, which is much better than the Arthur rifle.

After receiving the news that the Chinese Collar was selling new rifles, the two lords of Tubo County and Loulan County of the Lanfang Empire immediately approached the Chinese Collar to purchase weapons, these two lords, one is the third uncle of Fang Xiaoyu's wife, and the other is Fang Xiaoyu's future father-in-law, and the price is naturally cheaper.

This time Fang Xiaoyu used the trick of the last time, the price of the Type 92 rifle was as high as 450 Lanfang coins, but the cost was only 80 Lanfang coins, and this time it was sold to the two territories It was still 450 Lanfang coins on the surface, but the preferential policy of buying one get four free was also implemented, except for the road expenses, Fang Xiaoyu almost did not make money.

The Chinese Territory's arsenal was very efficient, and although the number of rifles ordered by the two territories was as high as 700,000 pieces, the Chinese Territory delivered the goods within half a year.

Due to the advanced equipment and mature technology of the arsenal of the Chinese Ling, the Type 92 rifle immediately showed good strength after it was actually used.

In a skirmish between Loulan County and Kokand, the reliability and rapid fire ability of the Type 92 rifle perfectly suppressed the Arthur Type 88 rifle that was rarely equipped in Kokand, which made the Type 92 rifle famous, and all countries began to approach the Chinese consulate to purchase this rifle.

The first to buy are the two vassal states of the Chinese Territory, that is, the nominal allies, the Hanping Kingdom and the San Martin Empire. In recent years, the Han Ping Kingdom has developed rapidly with the help of the Chinese Collar, and naturally has the money to equip new weapons, while the San Martin Empire is a high-yield gold country, coupled with the recent investment and agricultural technology assistance of the Chinese Collar there, the funds are also abundant.

The sales of the Type 92 rifle were no worse than the Arthur Type 88 rifle, and the first two subject countries to buy as many as 1.1 million rifles, which made the arsenals of various countries covetous.