After the St. Martin Empire overhauled its rifles, the two vassal states of the St. Martin Empire, the Latin Kingdom and the Hawa Kingdom, also purchased some Type 92 rifles, and later even the Oahu Kingdom purchased a thousand.

The army weapons of all countries in the world have gradually begun to change to modern rifles, and naval weapons have also developed rapidly. First of all, the Nantes Empire created the spring tube retreat technique, which was once unique to the Chinese Consulate, and they soon applied this technique to the main guns of warships, and the Nantes Empire's new battleship with a displacement of 16,000 tons soon began to be designed.

Not to be outdone, the Saar Empire also purchased this technique from the Nantes Empire, and then applied it to the newly designed 'Majesty' class battleships.

Prior to this, the Chinese Lord's twin turret salvo had always puzzled them, because although the Sahr Empire also had twin main guns, both of these guns were hard-connected and needed to be fired separately.

If two guns were to fire a salvo, then the structure of the warship would be damaged due to the huge recoil, which reduced the density of fire and also reduced the accuracy of hitting.

Now that they also have the technique of retreating, the Saar Empire has obtained a treasure, and immediately began to replace this new type of naval gun with all warships in the country after the experiment.

Seeing that the Nantes Empire and the Saar Empire, which were closely related, shared technology, they began to renovate warships in full swing, and the Yaman Empire, which had a bad relationship with these two countries, couldn't sit still.

Every country's scientific and technological research has high and low, the Yaman Empire is a standard land power, before the emergence of the Chinese Collar, the Yaman Empire has always been the leader of army technology, even now, his army technology is the strongest except for the Chinese Collar.

However, the current emperor of the Yaman Empire, Wilhelm II, knew very well that an army alone was not enough, and that without a powerful navy that could fight on the oceans, the Yaman Empire would always be a regional power.

With this understanding, Wilhelm II began to invest in the navy from the beginning of his succession, but it is a pity that the naval foundation of the Yaman Empire is too poor, and the naval technology is much behind, which can not be recovered for a while.

Originally, Wilhelm II had prepared for the Naval Design Institute to design a 14,000-ton battleship to counter the Saar Empire, but the emergence of new artillery made them face the threat of backwardness again.

Although this kind of artillery technology can be produced in a few years by the Yaman Empire as long as it is willing to invest in research, Wilhelm II understands that in terms of naval technology, the Yaman Empire is not lagging behind the old naval powers such as the Saar Empire and the Nantes Empire, and if the Yaman Empire can't catch up, it will be thrown farther and farther away, not to mention that a delay of a few years will make the Yaman Empire a whole generation behind the Saar Empire in warships.

In order to obtain new naval technology as soon as possible, the Yaman Empire focused on the powerful power of the Eastern Continent, the Chinese Consulate, and William II hoped to have in-depth technical exchanges with the Chinese Consulate and form an alliance, so he quickly sent a high-level expert group to visit the Chinese Consulate.

In order to speed up their journey, they even hid their identities by passing through the Northern Railway, which had not yet been fully completed by the Cossack Empire, and then by horse-drawn carriage into Dongmon County, and then by train from the Chinese Collar to Vladivostok.

The peaceful days of the Chinese Collar have lasted for nearly a year, and this period of time is the fastest growing period in the history of the Chinese Collar, and all this is not due to Fang Xiaoyu's contributions, because during this time, he has been soaking in the laboratory except for accompanying a few wives to go shopping, ignoring the things of the outside world.

"Let's start testing." Fang Xiaoyu gave an order on the mound next to the test site, and the herald on the side immediately raised the green flag and shook it, and the human head exposed on the big iron shell waiting under the mound immediately retracted, and soon the lid of the big iron shell was closed.

There was a roar, and a puff of black smoke came out from the tail of the big iron shell, which trembled all over its body and slammed forward.

Two driving wheels and eight driven wheels drove the long track to run happily, in front of which was a small ditch one meter wide, and the iron shell seemed to have not seen it, and it went straight over it, without even the slightest pause in the middle.

Tobul, who was watching it through a telescope, exclaimed, "Great, this iron guy is amazing." My lord, what's the name of this thing? ”

Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "I call him Chariot." Fang Xiaoyu didn't use the name tank, which he was very familiar with, because tank is a transliteration of the English water tank, and in this world, this name has no meaning, let alone explanation, it is better to call it a chariot.

"Chariots? What a name. Thoble put down his binoculars and said, "My lord, this chariot is really a good thing, when will it equip us?" ”

Fang Xiaoyu smiled and pointed to the marching battle lane below: "It's not over yet, let's take a look first." ”

Listening to Fang Xiaoyu's words, Tobul raised the telescope again, only to see that the chariot quickly climbed over the half-meter-high short wall, made another turn, and accelerated a distance.

Then it stopped a few hundred meters away from the dirt hill of the shooting range, lifted the two 12.7 mm machine guns it was equipped with, and fired violently, sending dust flying on the dirt mountain.

At this moment, five Type 94 light machine guns fired fiercely at the chariot from the side, only to see that the bullets were clanged back by the chariot's iron armor, and the entire chariot was undamaged except for some patent leather.

After watching the performance of the chariot, Tobul said excitedly: "My lord, this chariot has strong firepower, strong defense and flexibility, you must equip our army with more." ”

Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "I plan to equip the Guards, but this is only a prototype, we now have eight prototypes undergoing testing in various aspects, and when the technique matures, it should be even more powerful after it is really finalized." ”

"Will it be even better?" Tobul's mouth opened wide in surprise.

Fang Xiaoyu took the document in the hands of the technician on the side and looked at it: "This experimental chariot weighs seven tons, is five meters long, one hundred and seventy-five meters wide, and two meters high, and has two members. It used an upright liquid-cooled four-cylinder gasoline engine with an output of 39 hp, a maximum speed of 10 kilometers per hour, and an armor thickness of 22 mm in the front, 15 mm in the sides, 12 mm in the rear and 6 mm at the top. The maximum climbing degree is 45 degrees, the width of the trench is 1.98 meters, and the wading depth is 0.7 meters. The armament was two 12.7 mm machine guns with 4,000 rounds of ammunition. ”

Although Fang Xiaoyu was quite disdainful of the performance of this kind of chariot with quite rudimentary performance, Tobul, who had listened to the information of this kind of chariot, was already so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.

Fang Xiaoyu said in a very flat tone: "This is just the initial experimental model, and it will definitely be more powerful when it is really finalized, and I am still considering whether to replace the machine gun with an artillery." ”

Tobul hurriedly said: "This is powerful enough, if our army is equipped, is there still an opponent?" ”

Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Any weapon has weaknesses, as long as it is on the battlefield, the other party can create targeted countermeasures, so we must strive for excellence and strive to make it last longer on the battlefield, as for this experimental combat vehicle, I think it will be sold to our allies as a foreign trade type in the future." Tobul had already been fascinated by the galloping chariot, and Fang Xiaoyu didn't listen to a word of what he said, just nodded mechanically.

"Husband, there is a delegation from the Yaman Empire, which is led by Prince Dresia himself, and Mr. Hua thinks you should go and meet it in person." Elena walked up to Fang Xiaoyu and whispered.

"Oh? Are you from the Yaman Empire? Fang Xiaoyu's eyebrows furrowed slightly.

Tobul on the side smiled: "This is to congratulate the lord." ”

"Congratulations?" Fang Xiaoyu looked at the smiling Tobul in surprise and said, "Is there anything to congratulate?" ”

Thoble said: "The Yaman Empire will not send such a high-level visiting delegation for no reason, and now there is only one possibility in this situation, they want to form an alliance with the Chinese leader." Prince Dressia was visiting as a plenipotentiary and he had the right to make any decisions. ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "How can you see it? ”

Toble said: "You only need to look at the current situation in the western continent to understand that the strategic location of the Yaman Empire is very bad, to the west of him is the Nantes Empire, which had a war twenty years ago, and the Saar Empire, which has always had a bad relationship, to the east is the feuding Cossack Empire, and to the south is the Habushburg Kingdom, which has always been close to them. ”

The map of the Western Continent seemed to be in Tobul's mind, and he didn't need any materials, so he directly talked eloquently: "Now that the Cossack Empire is very close to the Sahr Empire and the Nantes Empire, once these three countries are de facto allied, the Yaman Empire will face the situation of being attacked on both sides. In the event of a conflict between the Yaman Empire and any of these nations, they will be in danger of fighting on two fronts, so they must change this situation, and we are the best choice. ”

Thóble paused and said, "We are in the east of the Cossack Empire, and we have enough strength to compete with any power, especially our navy, even the Saar Empire is very jealous. If the Yaman Empire and China form an alliance, it will be the weakest Cossack Empire of the Three Kingdoms that will be attacked by two fronts, not to mention that our navy will largely contain the fleet of the Saar Empire, so that the naval pressure on the Yaman Empire will be reduced a lot. ”

Fang Xiaoyu listened to Tobul's analysis, touched his chin with his hand, and asked repeatedly: "Since the chief of staff is so clear, I don't know what kind of attitude we should take?" ”