It has to be said that the support of the world's first empire is still very alarming, but other than that, it is useless......

The Han Empire did not provide any military, economic, personnel and other material support to the independent peoples of North Africa, that is, the Han Empire did not take any action other than slogans......

As the Han Empire was busy accepting the legacy of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, how could it have time to deal with the independence movements of the indigenous North Africans?

Facts have proved that independence has never been succeeded by slogans and speeches, and the Axis bloc in Europe will never allow such a handful of troublemakers to appear in this stage of national resistance against Han!

British and Italian armies soon moved into North Africa from Morocco and later Somalia, respectively, and quickly and easily defeated the newly independent national armies......

Or, it should be more appropriate for those national armies to be called mob forces......

They used all obsolete weapons from the Ottoman Empire, mostly broadswords and spears rather than firearms......

The British and Italian armies used breech guns and breech-loading rifled runs, and the two sides were not at all an order of magnitude!

Of course, the riots in North Africa were only an insignificant episode for the world, and when the Han Empire flew all the way to the Ottoman Turkish Empire, Zhao Dutian's combat laboratory successfully came up with the first actual battlefield light machine gun!

In fact, it is the French-made Hatch Chase light machine gun in the history of the earth!

The machine gun was small and light, the original bulky tripod was eliminated, the number of parts was reduced to a minimum, and a stronger mount was installed, which was replaced by a bipod. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The biggest breakthrough of this machine gun is that the new machine gun can be carried by basically one soldier, and the other ammunition hand is responsible for supplying the ammunition, which is used by a team of two.

However, the fatal drawback of the gun is that due to the exposed bullets, in the trenches full of sand and mud, the clumsy cartridge plate reloading method can easily cause the phenomenon of poor ammunition supply.

Theoretical rate of fire: 300-350 rounds per minute

Automatic mode: pneumatic type

Ammunition feeding method: elastic plate

Locking method: rotary locking

Plate capacity: 15 rounds

Rifling: 4, right-handed

This light machine gun makes up for the lack of firepower of individual weapons, and although it has a fatal flaw, it is more than enough to deal with those who are lagging behind!

The installation of the Hatch Chase light machine gun made a qualitative leap in the rapid advance of the Han army's firepower and light firepower, and the Han army quickly hit the Black Sea coast with its new weapons and advanced military system!

It was only in front of the European defense circle that the European Axis bloc had painstakingly built with manpower and material resources that it stopped moving forward!

The reason why the Han army stopped was very simple, when they attacked the city of Istanbul, they were surprised to find that the capital of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which had long since changed owners, was actually equipped with primitive Gatling rocker machine guns and breech-loading rifled guns!

There are quite a few of them!

Combined with the defensive terrain advantage of Istanbul City, the Han army will undoubtedly have to pay a huge price if it wants to capture it!

The most important thing is that the Han army, which has swallowed most of the Middle East, urgently needs to reorganize and replenish the army that has been fighting continuously, as well as to stabilize the administration and law and order of the occupied areas!

At the same time, the Russian Empire also stopped another partial division of the Han army near the Black Sea, but the gray cattle of the Russian Empire paid a great price!

Even though they were equipped with rear-loading rifled guns, they only used single-shot breech-loading rifles, and the Russian army was armed with very few Gatling stick machine guns, and the breech-loading guns were in the single digits......

Under the combination of light and heavy machine guns of the Han army and the direct fire of field artillery, and the frantic bombardment of grenadiers, the Russian army could only rely on tenacious willpower and the blood of soldiers to delay the pace of the Han army!

Fortunately, although the Russian army is a little behind in weapons, at least it does not reach the edge of the enemy like a flintlock pistol in range, and as long as it is willing to risk his life, resistance can still be carried out......

The Russian army used a 10:1 battle loss ratio to create 100,000 corpses for the Han army, and after making 1 million corpses for itself, it finally repelled this Han army's partial division......

The use of machine guns has raised the casualties of the war to a terrifying stage, and most of the battlefields on both sides are still in flat areas, and there is no place to cover the shells, and the soldiers do not even understand the reason for digging trenches to avoid shell bombardment except lying down......

One can imagine how many people will die in such a war!

The Imperial General Staff quickly realized the contrast in combat effectiveness between the two sides, and Zhao Dutian, who was addicted to violent soldiers, expanded his army to 5 million again, using Han Chinese recruits against Russia's gray livestock, while the other main forces waited for the arrival of new weapons from the combat laboratory!

Under the command of Zhao Dutian's intention, the second scientific research achievement of the combat laboratory was newly released!

An official large-caliber howitzer heavy gun, a 150-mm howitzer developed by the combat laboratory!

This newly developed 150mm howitzer belongs to the original model, and its performance is far inferior to all types of heavy guns of the World War II period in the history of the earth, but it is definitely the most powerful and long-range heavy weapon in this era!

Due to the imbalance in military technology of the Han Empire, even when the 150mm howitzer was invented, it was difficult to be moved by the army!

It must be disassembled and transported to the designated place for assembly......

In desperation, the Han army only needed to use the Zhenyuan to transport this 150mm howitzer to the Persian Gulf for unloading and then to the front line!

In this era, the efficiency of sea transportation far exceeds the efficiency of land transportation!

In the middle of the 72nd year of the Han Dynasty, when the European Axis military alliance was shocked by the casualty ratio of the Russian Empire and tried its best to improve its military technology through captured weapons, the Han army stationed outside Istanbul erected 5 150mm howitzers, the world's largest volume, and bombarded the white European soldiers on the defense line of Istanbul!

The deafening sound of artillery hammering rang out for a whole day and night, and when the Han army began to attack the next day, it was found that many white European soldiers, who had never seen such powerful artillery since childhood, had been frightened into fools in their own positions......

However, the soldiers of the Han army saw all kinds of strange and painful corpses the most!

The first use of 150mm howitzers successfully defeated the white European soldiers led by the Axis Alliance, and the Han army occupied Istanbul, a fortress city symbolizing the gate of Europe, like an invincible demon!

At the same time, the Han army of the Russian Empire, reinforced by 2 million Han Chinese new troops, once again launched a full-scale attack on the Russian army, which had suffered heavy losses!

The change in the mode of warfare made the Russians extremely uncomfortable, the heroic and fearless column charge, and the hand-to-hand combat with bayonets became irrelevant in the war, and the bayonet charge, which the Russians were best at, was under the crossfire of the light and heavy machine guns of the Han army, which had no effect except to leave a corpse on the ground and prove their spirit of death!

After the Han army's 2 million troops overwhelmed the Russians' only superiority in strength, they finally had to admit the fact that the Russian Empire had lost......

The Han army rushed all the way west into the territory of the Russians like locusts, and the crushing defeat of the front-line army shrouded the entire Russian Empire in a stage of low morale, and in the face of weapons that were enough to form a generation gap, the Russians had no choice, and resistance would not stop the Han army from attacking for even a day except for the merciless slaughter of the Han army!

At this moment, the news that the city of Istanbul had been destroyed by a powerful cannon like the roar of the god of war reached the heart of the Russian Empire, Moscow!

The Russian Empire, which had been defeated militarily, had no choice but to unilaterally send messengers to the commander of the Han army, hoping to preserve its wealth and life and pray for peace......

The Han army agreed with a rare breath, which made the magnates of the Russian Empire breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time announced the fall of the Russian Empire!

The reason why Zhao Dutian agreed to the surrender of the Russians was naturally not because of the benevolent mentality, but because of the fact that the seemingly glorious surface of the Han Empire had been weakened due to the long-term war!

In order to assist these 5 million front-line soldiers, the Han Empire must mobilize at least tens of millions of Han people to engage in all walks of life to serve the army!

Although a large number of conquered peoples provided cheap labor, the expansion of the Han Empire was so rapid that it led to extreme instability in the occupied areas, and the power of the Han Empire on the front line was gradually equal to the power to suppress the occupied areas!

Even with a steady stream of local security officials provided by the Han Chinese, who could guarantee absolute loyalty and professionalism, the ethnic hatred accumulated under the war machine of the Han Empire continued to accumulate with the extension of the date and the war!

The reason why the Han Empire can still maintain its superficial brilliance and stability is only because the army of the Han Empire has won successive battles and has never been defeated, and Zhao Dutian's spies are high-pressure politics and always monitor the local nationalities, so that they can maintain the rule of the Han Empire!

Although the conquered people dare not speak out, they can express their attitude towards the Han Empire with neutrality and non-cooperation!

This made the collapse of the logistics route of the Han army in the land of China, which could only be maintained by relying on the powerful navy of the Han Empire!

Fortunately, the weapon advantage of the Han Empire was too great, and when the manpower gap was filled, Europe would not be able to resist even if it was temporarily united......

Although the European army has rear-loading rifled guns and primitive machine guns, there is still a big gap between the Han rifle and the Maxine heavy machine gun, and the Han army's large-scale use of machine gun tactics in the war has made the soldiers of the European Axis Alliance shed blood!

In particular, the collapse and capitulation of the Russian Empire made the entire European Axis bloc exist in name only!