Valley Emperor

The world's first actual combat with machine guns did not occur in the Guards who were the first to be equipped with machine guns, nor in the army with a relatively large number of equipment, but in the navy.

Not even the Marine Corps responsible for land operations, but an ad hoc support force formed by sailors on naval warships.

The landing support combat force of more than 60 people organized by the cruiser Guangning, in addition to carrying light weapons such as rifles, also removed a 12mm heavy machine gun from the ship, installed it on two gun racks, and accompanied the local garrison troops to fight.

In the subsequent expulsion and purge battle, this machine gun broke out with astonishing combat effectiveness.

According to the battle report reported by the front-line troops, the actual combat time of the machine gun was only about half an hour, but the results were quite brilliant.

This machine gun alone killed at least two hundred enemy troops.

This battle report was soon reported by the navy, and finally sent back to the local Jinling City. Not only did the senior navy know about it, but the army and the guards also knew the huge results of the first actual combat of the machine gun.

This also directly led to the army, navy and Guards once again increasing the purchase of machine guns, and it is expected to equip more machine guns.

Among them, the Guards are preparing to increase the equipment scale of machine guns to at least 100 per division. Together with mortars, they will be directly assigned to infantry companies.

Even a brand-new "machine gun platoon" was specially established for this purpose, equipped with 60mm mortars and 8mm machine guns at the same time.

The Army is naturally not so perverted, but it is also considering equipping each division with at least 24 8mm machine guns.

The same is true for the Navy, which has increased the number of machine guns for the Marine Corps.

The emergence of heavy machine guns will once again increase the firepower density of the Datang military at medium and short distances, making the Datang military, which was already in invincible equipment, move in a more invincible direction.

Today's army and navy of the Datang Empire have a very complete firepower system. The army's long-range heavy artillery 120mm and 150mm cannon are enough to carry out long-range artillery fire at the enemy ten kilometers away.

A large number of field and howitzers can hit enemy targets at distances of more than four kilometers and less than ten kilometers.

70mm infantry guns and mortars can effectively cover targets ranging from 500 meters to 3,000 meters.

The machine gun is able to cover the combat area within one kilometer.

The last rifle is responsible for the combat area within 500 meters.

Finally, there are grenades responsible for the combat area within thirty meters.

Many weapons form multiple firepower strikes from far, medium and near.

And this kind of firepower, no indigenous country in this world can resist.

The Tang Empire itself knows this, and even those indigenous countries know that, after so many years, these indigenous countries have basically learned to be smart, and if you offend anyone, don't offend the Tang Empire.

In this way, it is understandable why the Ottoman Kingdom is so willing to sell the area within ten kilometers on both sides of the Black Sea Strait directly to the Datang Empire as a military base. The one-time sale is priced at 2.2 million Tang Yuan, all of which are discounted. High-end export weapons provided for the Tang Dynasty, including flash cap firing muskets, new smoothbore guns that can fire time-delayed fuze round grenades, different specifications, including some plate armors that can effectively resist muskets.

Datang Empire's arms business is very large, and it provides a variety of export weapons. Just muskets, there are various versions of arquebuses and muskets, which can fully meet the needs of different customers around the world.

However, some of the high-end goods are still not easily exported, such as the flash cap firing musket, which is a restricted export weapon, not to say that you can't buy it if you have money.

When the Datang Empire exported various weapons, in addition to making money, it also considered the final impact of these weapons, especially whether it would cause imbalances in the local situation.

In the past, it was impossible for the Ottoman Kingdom to buy these good things, but after they sold both sides of the Black Sea Strait to the empire, and even their own capital was still within this range, the Tang Empire was considered After being generous for a while, as a supplement, they restricted the export of a batch of the most advanced export type weapons to them.

After all, although the capital of the Ottoman Kingdom is not within the scope of the lease, it is completely surrounded by the military restricted zone, leaving only a port and a land passage about six kilometers long and no more than one hundred meters wide to communicate with the outside world.

But it is very strange that since the Ottoman Kingdom and the Datang Empire formally signed the land transfer agreement in the Black Sea Strait, there has been a very interesting trend inside the Ottoman Kingdom.

First, the Ottoman king, who had already moved to the outskirts of the capital with his ministers, returned to the capital with his royal family members and dignitaries.

Not only the local dignitaries, but also many wealthy businessmen from other places flooded into Istanbul after hearing the news.

why?

Two words!

Safety!

According to the land transfer agreement, those empires sold to Datang will be the territory of the Datang Empire from now on, and the Datang Empire will turn the above-mentioned areas into military restricted areas, prohibiting any indigenous intrusion.

This also means that if the Ottoman Kingdom encounters any crisis, such as a rebellion or the like, the Ottoman royal family blocks the entry and exit passages that are only 100 meters wide from the west, then the entire western land part of Istanbul will be completely in the Within the siege of the military restricted area of ​​the Tang Empire.

Others simply don't expect to be able to cross these military exclusion zones and attack Istanbul from the ground.

This is actually one of the reasons why the Ottoman Kingdom finally agreed to the Black Sea Strait transfer agreement with harsh conditions. As for other willingness, the most important thing is naturally the battleship of the Datang Navy moored outside Istanbul.

Apart from these factors, there is still a big factor that once the two sides of the Black Sea Strait belong to the territory of the Datang Empire, even if it is a military restricted area, the subsequent Datang will more or less immigrate to these places, and at the same time station a large number of troops. It is even possible to choose a suitable place to establish a city in the Black Sea Strait, and use it as a military base, a commercial port, and a supply port.

This also means that Istanbul will have more ties with Datang in the future, especially business ties.

However, the influx of large numbers of people has also put Istanbul under great pressure.

Contemporary Istanbul is actually not big, it is a typical fortress-like city. It is a triangle as a whole, facing the sea on three sides and the Datang military restricted area on the west. That's all, outside the urban area, mainly in the west, there is a buffer zone of about ten square kilometers. According to the agreement, this place cannot have any buildings or live in it.

This place has a large population, and now that so many people have poured in, the living conditions are even worse.

The hygiene situation is very worrying!

Well, the main reason is that the people of the Tang Dynasty are worried. For this reason, they also suggested that the Ottoman royal family should do a good job of sanitation. Look at you, people in this street have different ways of dying all day long. You are not afraid, we in the Tang Dynasty are afraid!

But the people of the Ottoman royal family listened to their opinions very seriously~www.wuxiaspot.com~ think that the Datang people are not looking for trouble, it is not that the urban area is a bit dirty and smelly, and there are a lot of dead people, it's a big deal, It's worth your Tang people to come and talk about it.

Besides, the people who died were all from our Ottoman Kingdom, it's none of your business in the Tang Dynasty.

Well, after a few days, the Datang diplomat proposed a new friendly proposal to the Ottoman royal family: If you are unable to rectify the urban sanitation, in order to prevent the urban pollution from spreading to the surrounding Datang territory, we can use kerosene for the expensive The capital of the country is disinfected for free!

The messenger of the Ottoman Kingdom was a little confused. He knew what kerosene was. This thing was used to light lamps, so he wondered: kerosene even has the effect of disinfection?

Datang's diplomat replied: "It's definitely possible. The temperature of kerosene burning is very high. Scientists in our country have tested that the ultra-high temperature is enough to kill almost all bacteria and viruses!"

Hearing this, the messenger of the Ottoman Kingdom didn't react for a while, and he was stunned for several seconds before he reacted: Ma Dan, what this **** said was setting the city on fire!

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