1717 New American Empire

Above the endless Pacific Ocean, a Galen ship sails smoothly. The weather is perfect today, and the sailors have come to the deck to enjoy the bright sunshine. This is a British naval warship, sailing from the British mainland to North America.

The main purpose of going to the mainland was to send a new rear admiral to the colony to take up his post. The original rear admiral of the colony, Chat, was old and a little out of his depth. After some operation, his cousin was asked to take over. And this ship

The person staying on the boat was his cousin Kamal.

Kamal is a 40-year-old middle-aged man. Because he loves hunting, he has been exercising and he still looks very healthy and strong. However, Kamal is also a full-fledged aristocrat. Even at sea, he behaves like an aristocrat.

It was done 100%. Even the captain of this battleship was kicked out of the captain's cabin by him and lived in the cabin like the sailors. Of course, Kamal lived in the captain's cabin. However,

, and it’s not just him, there is also a man in his 50s wearing a butler’s clothes.

This man is not Kamal's butler. The reason why Kamal is able to let him live in the same room with him is because he has a good background. This butler is called Porter Charlie, and he is Charlie Mir's personal butler.

Originally, Porter did not have a surname. Later, because of his hard work, he was appreciated by Charlie, and then he was given the surname of the Mill family. Behind him stood the governor of the entire British North American colony. It is no wonder that Kamal wanted to treat him with courtesy.

Treat each other.

After all, when Kamal arrived in America, he was a rear admiral, and he still couldn't do without the support of such a big boss. Seeing that the weather was just right, Kamal helped Porter, who was much weaker than him, out of the room and sat on the deck.

Go for a walk, talk a little bit, and make friends.

"Brother Potter, we seem to be arriving. We have already seen seagulls."

"Yes, after more than a month of hard work, my old bones are really too much to bear."

"Brother has perfectly completed the task assigned by the governor this time. I'm afraid I'll be rewarded when I go back."

"Haha, I have to thank Mr. Potter for this. It is also thanks to you that I can buy weapons made in France this time."

Speaking of which, it was an accident that the two met. Porter was sent to England by Charlie later. It was after Xiaolin destroyed the town controlled by the Pandey family, and Charlie was concerned about the colony's loss of strength.

The emerging forces were very angry. They originally planned to send a large army to destroy the Yanhuang Trading Company, but the Adams family and the Pandey family both said that the weapons and equipment of the colony now lagged behind the Yanhuang Trading Company, and Charlie had to believe it.

He heard that the British mainland was starting to install new equipment, so he quickly sent his butler Porter. After explaining the cause of the matter to the British government, he received a sum of funds to purchase new arms. However, during this period,

The British arms manufacturing capabilities are not comparable to the French. Charlie said that what he needed was the most advanced muskets and artillery, and he did not care which country produced them. For this reason, he also gave Porter a private fund.

Used to purchase truly advanced arms.

However, Porter went to North America with Charlie's father at the age of eighteen and never came back. For a while, there was really no way out. Fortunately, the Mill family still had some influence in the UK, and they found Kamal after some troubles.

Kamal's aunt is said to be married to a powerful French count. This count owns many arsenals and is secretly a powerful underground arms dealer. At that time, Kamal also received the news that he was going to North America.

When news of his appointment came to Porter, he took advantage of this opportunity to deal with it.

After spending a lot of effort, more than a month and a lot of money, Cai finally bought enough weapons and ammunition from his uncle to arm a thousand people. Not to mention the weapons bought from the French. After all, they were only weapons.

It is enough for a thousand people, not a large number. The weapons bought from the British are enough to equip six thousand soldiers. The muskets are all Brown Bess muskets produced in a factory. In principle, the reason why Brown Bess is like this

Famous because it was one of the first standardized flintlock muskets

Why is it one? That’s because the first country to standardize musket technology was of course the French. The Brown Bess musket as we know it originated from an arms development contract signed by the Royal Ordnance Bureau on September 15, 1714. The contract

The main content includes soliciting design opinions from private arms dealers under preferential conditions, and then having the Ordnance Bureau approve the production. This kind of musket, which has only appeared for about four years, is sufficient for Porter's understanding.

In fact, it was only in 1722 that the first standard musket, the 'king'spattern' (king type), was finally born. This name may indicate that the Ordnance Bureau had high expectations for it, or maybe it could not come up with a better name. Later, it was

Pilot models such as the p1724 appeared. It was not until 1728 that the model was finalized. The mass-produced p1730 musket appeared in 1730, and the 200-year history of brownbess began. The current brownbess muskets have not been fully standardized. The shortcomings still exist, but the effective range

It also reached about 130 meters.

As for the artillery, there were not many improvements. However, in 1697, Europe used tubes filled with gunpowder instead of bulk gunpowder in the ignition hole, simplifying the aiming and loading process. So Porter did not buy the artillery, but purchased this

Plant gunpowder barrel technology. Ordinary artillery can be produced in the colonies. It is too troublesome to buy it here and then transport it back.

From the French, he bought ten four-pound cannons and planned to transport them back to the colonies for prevention to replace the three-pound cannons used in the colonies. The muskets bought from the French did not have official names, but they were equipped with

An improved regular bayonet. It is also a front-loaded flintlock gun. The musket bought from the French has an effective range of about 150 meters. However, if you want to achieve this maximum range, you can only shoot two guns per minute.

Yes, the same goes for the Brown Bess Musket.

Later, Kamal also helped, allowing Porter to take a boat with him back to America with weapons. In this way, the two people truly became friends. In return, Porter also said that he would help him connect with Governor Charlie, and within a week

A private meeting would be arranged for the two of them. Kamal was not wrong. He found seagulls, which meant that they were not far from land. The next night, they docked at Boston Harbor. Warships can come here,

It was also because of the Governor's document that no one dared to stop it.

Someone was already waiting for Porter here. Overnight, the weapons were unloaded and transported to the Boston military camp for storage. Charlie had confidants here, so he was not afraid that someone would be watching to steal them. After receiving the news of the arrival of the new weapons, various forces

All the representative officers arrived at the Governor's Mansion the next day, wanting to show their loyalty and get their hands on these weapons that could greatly enhance the army's combat effectiveness. They were still complacent, but they didn't know that even with these weapons, they would not be the same as Yanhuang.

Rivals of trading companies.

The Yanhuang Trading Company is equipped with rifles that were only invented in the late 19th century. Even if the name is changed, it cannot conceal the fact that the Yanhuang Type 1 rifle is nearly two hundred years ahead of the present. Even if Zhao Menghai, Yu Xiao and Yuwei joined, they still feel that this rifle

It is very suitable for the current Yanhuang Trading Company. In the past, due to process problems, the actual performance of the Yanhuang Type 1 rifle was only about 70% of the design performance. With the accumulation of technology during this period, not long ago, a new batch of Yanhuang Type 1 rifles also

One hundred percent of design performance has been achieved.

According to Zhao Menghai, this rifle still has a lot of room for improvement. He is currently studying the information on the Japanese Type 38 rifle and has obtained several high imitations. According to him, he can make it in one year at most.

The Yanhuang Type 1 rifle has been improved and absorbed the advantages of the Type 38 rifle. It is 30% stronger in terms of power, accuracy, effective range and rate of fire. Of course, the Type 56 submachine gun and rotating machine gun were also selected by the four

Weapons that can be widely used in the army.

The emergence of machine guns is of great significance. It ended the era of cavalry and reduced the all-powerful cavalry on the battlefield to weaklings slaughtered by tongues of fire. If the rotating machine gun is deployed in the troops and the escort team of Yanhuang Trading Company,

One can be worth a hundred. Of course, the technological content of these two weapons is still a bit high for the current Yanhuang Trading Company. Yu Wei and Zhao Menghai, two mechanical graduate students, cannot develop them in a short time.

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The security of China is too strong, and it is really difficult to find people here to help him research weapons and equipment. At the same time, you can't buy large quantities from China's weapons reserves. You can secretly buy a little to deter criminals.

The weapons are okay, but if you want to buy them in large quantities, you can't hide them from people in Sorento and China. Unless Xiao Lin is willing to confess his adventures to the country, the best result is a cooperative development between the two parties.

If they met some scum, they might be robbed directly. His little power is really nothing to see in the whole country of China. However, they did not sit idle during these three months. They officially determined

An artillery piece suitable for use by the Yanhuang Trading Company was found. It was named the Chongquan-1 front-loading rifled gun. The development progress has reached the final stage.

In order to increase the range of artillery, European countries conducted experiments on rifled cannons in the early 19th century. In 1846, Italian Major G. Cavalli made a spiral rifled cannon, which fired cone-head cylinder long explosive projectiles. The spiral rifling caused the projectiles to rotate.

, the flight is stable, the artillery power and shooting accuracy are improved, and the artillery range is increased. At the same time as the rifled gun appeared, the breech block was improved, the artillery was rear-mounted, and the firing speed was significantly increased.

At present, the Heavy Fist Type 1 has not been subjected to shooting experiments, and the data is not yet certain. Xiao Lin ran several sets in March just to bring the finished Heavy Fist Type 1 and Zhao Menghai and others to the 18th century to prepare

Conduct design experiments.