New World 1620

On Friday, March 1621, 3, the lunar solar term horrified and was cloudy.

The large-scale spring plowing finally came to an end yesterday, and the rest is to send various agricultural technical teams to supervise the farming in the surrounding Indian villages.

Compared with the staff of the Ministry of Agriculture who have been tense for more than a month, exhausted and listless, the newly established "Ground Guard" less than two months ago will usher in an important change today.

More than 100 officers and soldiers who privately admit that they have no special skills but are still proud today are standing in a clearing in the northern woods of the Manhattan settlement today, waiting for their weapons to be changed.

The flintlock guns seized by the Mayflower used during recruit training have been criticized by officers and soldiers of the Hundred-odd Land Guard.Although they are the most advanced weapons of this era, modern youths who have military service experience are speechless in terms of misfire rate, weight and shooting accuracy.Especially for security, the officers and soldiers who have been influenced by street stall literature are deeply afraid of this kind of weapon that may kill their own people more than kill their opponents.

Especially when "Major Chen Liwen, Commander of the Land Garrison" sees these fake "German devils" wearing German M36 combat uniforms and carrying military bags on their shoulders, they can't bear it even more. I want to vomit.

In less than a week since the start of the recruit training, Chen Liwen ran to the Brooklyn Industrial Zone countless times. Lin Youde, the chief engineer of the industrial zone, spread his hands every time, and told the progress of the current raw material reserves and metal processing technology with his fingers. How unsatisfactory.In a word, before realizing the improvement of the quality of metal smelting and processing technology, he couldn’t make AK47 for everyone’s enjoyment, not to mention AK47, even Mauser 1898 would only appear when he was dreaming at night.

Well, at least all these complaints made Zheng Quan, the community committee member in charge of the military, calm down and make a special instruction, that is, the military industry department must come up with something that can at least be more advanced than the more than 3 flintlock guns now. individual weapons.

The instructions were so vague that it was hard to say how the Military Industry Department led by Lin Youde understood what was in it.It is difficult to take a big stride, but it is okay to make some progress, so there is today's weapon changing ceremony.

Except for the core of a small group of officers and soldiers equipped with modern 81 bars, 90 soldiers, under the smiling eyes of engineers such as Lin Youde, took a brand new rifle about 1.2 meters long and a detachable rifle from the quartermaster. bayonet.Judging from the appearance, it is already very close to a modern rifle. If it weren’t for the obvious flintlock and medicine pool lock cover in the trigger part, the officers and soldiers would definitely appreciate it greatly.

It is still a flintlock gun, but Lin Youde and several military fans of the two knives have undergone major technical improvements, adopting many advanced gun mechanism brakes and safety designs, and improving the two-point sighting parts.What is even more commendable is that, with the authorization of Zheng Quan, this batch of named Type 21 flintlock rifles uses one of the committee's most precious modern materials: 20mm seamless steel pipes imported from South Africa.

From the wreckage of the Baihe 05 bulk carrier, there is not only a complete set of coal liquefaction production equipment of South African SASOL company loaded, but also a batch of precious seamless pipes imported from South Africa.

Before the production of better gun barrel materials, the imported seamless steel pipe of 20×4mm is simply a sharp weapon for making smoothbore flintlock guns at this stage. Modern technology can ensure its strength and the precise and consistent caliber of the inner wall.

"Generally speaking, it is a smoothbore flintlock gun based on the technology of the British Brown Beth flintlock gun with modern materials and improved technology. After testing, shooting at a stationary target at a distance of 100 meters, there are no less than 65 % hit rate, but considering the influence of black powder smoke in actual combat, as well as the psychological pressure of soldiers and environmental noise interference, this hit rate will be reduced by half. But this accuracy is enough to be proud of any era before the early 19th century! And very Safety is definitely the gospel of queuing up to shoot the party!"

Lin Youde introduced it to Zheng Quan, the military security committee member who was present beside him, but the faces of several officers of the Ground Guard became more and more dark.

"You shouldn't be telling the truth...Although I agree that this is the best equipment we can get at this stage." Zheng Quan also wanted to laugh, but because he was in a high position, he couldn't chill the hearts of a group of passionate young people too much.

"All of them! Gun under the shoulder!"

With one order, 90 "German devils" who have been familiar with the rules of flintlock shooting for more than a month lined up in two rows under the command of the officer. Paper bag fixed ammunition.The standard portion of granulated black powder and round lead bullets, which are only 0.5 mm smaller than the bore diameter of the gun, were loaded and tamped by the soldiers within 15 seconds.

"Raise the gun! Aim!"

The sound of raising the guns sounded one after another, and the rifles pointed at the rows of thick wood targets 100 meters away with a slight shake.

"Fire!"

In the flames, dense smoke and dust sprayed out one after another, followed by another row of flames.

The target in the distance suddenly collapsed with sawdust splashing and was broken for a long time. It seems that Lin Youde's test data is still very accurate, especially since these soldiers are using Type 21 flintlock rifles for the first time.

"Clap clap clap!"

There was applause and clapping, and the military workers headed by Lin Youde were full of tears and smiles, expressing their sincere...satisfaction with the excellent results of their hard work.

"Go back and talk to the people in the Ministry of Trade, and find a way to sell the previous weapons. By the way, see if such weapons have export potential. In addition, find an opportunity to urge the chief engineer Lin Youde..."

Before leaving, Zheng Quan explained a lot to the secretary very seriously.

The soldiers at the scene were all silent, because starting today, they completely killed the first and possibly the last generation of the Ground Guard to line up and shoot the name of the party.

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The fight between different Indians that took place in the middle of last month, under the coordination of Li Xiang and the community committee, finally achieved a satisfactory result in early March.

The community committee will build a new trading post on the west bank of the Hudson River, a few kilometers north of the current Indian trading post. In order to reflect fairness, this trading post will employ both Mohawk and Delaware Indians to be responsible for security , and strictly demarcated the trading areas of the two parties, separated by a high wooden wall in the middle.

The Manhattan community would equally supply all exports to both nations, and the Mohawks would act as trade agents with members of the Iroquois Indian Confederacy throughout the Northwest.The whole result pleased the Mohawks, who coveted Manhattan's neighborhood tradables.

If you can get rich rewards that are difficult to intervene without bloodshed, who would fight to the death, right?

Feeling aggrieved, the Delawares immediately received an exclusive agency contract for water transportation from the new trading station to the wharf in the Brooklyn Industrial Zone. They will get a commission for every shipment of supplies.Watercraft would be the most boring product of the Brooklyn Shipyard at this stage, river flat wooden boats that would carry no more than five tons of cargo and would not last more than three years due to the use of freshly felled lumber that had not been treated.

As a result of such handling, the committee has solved a lot of river transportation burdens, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.

During the whole process, Li Xiang's young wife Na Da played the most critical role as a bridge.As the precious daughter of the tribal elder and her status as a "Chinese" husband, Nada has a considerable right to speak and make suggestions during the negotiation process, but behind the scenes, people think that Li Xiang is in charge of everything.

From now on, a small amount of Mohawk Indian laborers will also be employed, but they and Delaware employees will be assigned to completely different labor departments.This win-win situation has been unanimously approved by the committee members.

But the crisis did not end here, because the entire vast area on the west bank and upper reaches of the Hudson River is not only distributed with a few Indian tribes, and such problems will emerge in the future.If it really comes to the stage of irreconcilability, then the community committee has to choose a clear position to minimize the loss of its own interests.

These results have also greatly eased several kinds of debates in the residential area about the attitude towards the Indians. After all, no one is willing to face the Indians' turning against them now.What's more, among the Indian women, there is no shortage of women with good appearance like Nada. The single settlement men also began to gradually contact after a short period of resistance in their hearts.

Every evening, material transport ships depart from the two trading posts, heading for warehouses in Manhattan or Brooklyn.Accumulations of furs, food, ores, linen, and Indian copper were gradually increasing.What made the community committee members laugh is that many transactions are not limited to bartering. Things like vouchers have begun to be recognized by some Delaware villages on both sides of the Hudson River.

You don’t need to work hard and carry a lot of weight every time you trade, you can guarantee that you can exchange your own things immediately when you need it. After trying a few times in a hurry, the simple Indians easily believed and got used to the words of the Chinese business representatives.

And its instigator, the young Zhou Kemin who was confused by an Indian girl in a certain night, is still sullenly staying in a certain sailboat on the distant sea.