Chapter 4: The Great Cavalry of Black Knights

  Zhou Yu nodded and continued on the topic from earlier.

  Three: The troops' weapons and equipment must be advanced and unified, in order to save resources and energy and facilitate management. Weapons are the second life of soldiers.

  With the determination of sweating more in peacetime and bleeding less in wartime, but the advancement of weapons is also necessary.

  Outside, there are two guns I brought with me, which are advanced weapons invented and created by myself in private.

  It is currently the world's most powerful individual combat rifle.

  Four: Scientific and technological talents are the foundation of a strong troop, region and country. Without scientific talents, there will be no long-term stability and prosperity for the country and the troops.

  A large number of scientific and technological talents must be reserved, cultivated and recruited.

  Money and grain are prerequisites for the development of a country, region and troops.

  When soldiers have no money for food, they will go hungry.

  A country without money and grain will cause people's livelihoods to be unbearable, leading to popular uprisings.

  Six: Large warships and cannons; without large warships and cannons one can only be slaughtered at will, the Qing dynasty's Opium War is a real example.

  Great Britain is a small island country, its land area is 1/70 of that of our great Qing.

  40, population is 1 of my China

  Not even 10. They rely solely on big ships and cannons.

  Seven: The Western powers, the British Empire, and Great Britain are building a class of battleships with the world's strongest naval power, the British Vickers Whitehead-class armored battleship. This battleship has a standard displacement of 10,880 tons and a full load displacement of 11,880 tons.

  It is currently the world's first battleship with a tonnage of over 10,000 tons, and it has epoch-making significance.

  America, France, Germany and Russia all have giant warships and cannons, with several fleets of cruisers.

  France is eyeing the base of the Black Flag Army in northern Vietnam, and a fierce battle with the French army will be inevitable within three years at most. How can Generalissimo refuse the invasion of the French army?

  Britain and the United States, founded on commerce, buy our Qing dynasty's raw silk and cotton at low prices, process them into cloth and clothing, and sell them to our country at high prices to earn the hard-earned money of our Huaxia people.

  Tsarist Russia is a country that is greedy for land and has always been eyeing the fertile northern territories of our great Qing dynasty.

  Japan is a narrow-territoried and resource-poor island nation, but they also have their eyes on our Great Qing's Taiwan, Korea, and Northeast.

  Again I look at China, our national strength is weak, the army is in disarray, the people are thinly clothed and poorly fed.

  Why should we reject them outside the national gate like a pack of wolves?

  The powerful and wealthy of our Great Qing Dynasty are indulgent in wine and meat, drunk day and night, and live a life of luxury. They regard the people of China as their slaves, but turn a blind eye to the cruel and brutal treatment of our people by foreigners.

  If this country is no longer a country and the family is no longer a family, will all of you gentlemen not be in danger?

  General, is it that you just want to take the Black Flag Army's soldiers away from the crumbling Qing dynasty forever and then be at peace?!

  By saying this, Zhou Yu was already choked with sobs and bowed deeply to everyone.

  Everyone was deeply moved by his great patriotic sentiment and felt that Zhou Yu's words were reasonable.

  They had tears streaming down, faces full of anger, shame and embarrassment, heads hung in deep thought, but the eyes they cast towards Zhou Yu were all filled with warmth and friendliness, respect and adoration.

  Liu Yongfu furrowed his brow tightly, so with your intelligence, sir, how can this be resolved?

  Zhou Yu replied:

  1. The Black Flag Army is loyal to the Chinese nation, rather than this corrupt Manchu Qing dynasty.

  2. The Black Flag Army will have to invent more advanced technology and giant cannons than the Western countries in the future.

  3. Moreover, it is necessary to create many industrial industries to earn the money and grain that our Chinese army and national development must have.

  4. It is necessary to reserve and recruit many scientific and technological talents of various types and countries for our nation's use.

  5. More importantly, gather a large group of Chinese patriots at home and abroad to strive for the awakening and glory of the Chinese nation.

  I don't know if all of you sitting here have made preparations in this regard! Are you prepared to help our Chinese nation which has suffered numerous disasters and hardships?

  The crowd in the hall was speechless when asked by Zhou Yu, everyone stared at each other with wide eyes, and no one made a sound.

  At this time, Liu Yongfu stood up and asked: Mr. Zhou, are you willing to help our Black Flag Army?

  Zhou Yu swept a circle, his eyes burning with eagerness as he gazed at the crowd of Black Flag soldiers. Of course I'm willing! Not only am I willing to help you all, but even more so, I'm willing to help those countless compatriots of our great Chinese nation who are suffering in hardship and turmoil!

  My wish is that through hard work, the military, industry, technology, law, politics and national quality of my Chinese nation can catch up with or surpass those of Western countries.

  Make China a powerful empire where the country is at peace, politics are clear and transparent, and people are wealthy, rather than the current Qing dynasty where the people are numb and hopeless, the government is corrupt and decadent.

  At first, General Liu, you followed the Taiping Army in rebellion. With such a large scale, why did you fail? The reason is that your strength was not enough, your army had no faith, no discipline, and no direction. Moreover, you lacked talent, technology, and weapons.

  An army should first give them a direction, then use strict discipline to restrain them, and also teach them cultural knowledge, let them become a closely united group, only in this way can the troops have collective super fighting power.

  To become even stronger, they need to be equipped with advanced weapons, which requires the development of military scientific research capabilities and a large amount of funding.

  This is still not enough, in addition to developing civil industry, so that the people can have advanced things to use and have plenty of opportunities to work and earn money, in order to live a rich and stable life.

  To have a stable life, there must be an enlightened government leading a united nation, which in turn involves the system of the country and the talents managing the country.

  In short, all the issues I mentioned above about technology, talent, military affairs, industry, and people's quality must have a large amount of cultivation and reserve in advance to achieve great things.

  Everyone in the Black Flag Army was suddenly enlightened after hearing Zhou Yu's words, and they all looked at him with admiration, having a strong urge to worship him as their master.

  Zhou Yu found that everyone in the Black Flag Army had some intention, so he wanted to take advantage of the situation to show off his abilities.

  Then let's have everyone follow me out of the hall first, and I'll prove that I have the ability to gain your friendship. With that said, Zhou Yu turned around and walked out first.

  Everyone heard the words and curiously followed Zhou Yu's back, stepping out of the hall and into the large square outside. They all wanted to see what kind of trick Zhou Yu was going to play next!

  Tian Ergou stood outside, looking at him with a puzzled expression. Zhou Yu returned a smile to him, indicating that everything was fine.

  Zhou Yu took his A2-style automatic rifle from the little head's hand outside the door, and handed one of them to Tian Ergou. Tian Ergou felt a weight in his hand and hurriedly held it with both hands to prevent the gun from falling to the ground. In his heart, he thought secretly, "Wow, I saw Mr. Zhou holding it so easily, I didn't expect this thing to be so heavy."

  Only to see Zhou Yu open the gun bolt, casually pick up a handful of stones on the ground, as many as 7-8, he lightly flicked his hand, and the stones flew quickly into the sky like a goddess scattering flowers. Until they were about to disappear from sight, everyone suddenly saw Zhou Yu raise his right hand extremely fast, without even aiming, and then a burst of gunfire rang out in their ears...

  It wasn't until they heard the sound that everyone finally realized; Zhou Yu had fired his gun, and it suddenly dawned on them that this thing was a gun!

  Everyone in the Black Flag Army saw that the stones in the sky were all hit and exploded instantly, without exception.

  Everyone applauded Zhou Yu's marksmanship, but Liu Yongfu and the other Hei Qi Jun troops saw it from a different angle. They discovered that this gun had no gunpowder, did not need to be reloaded, and could fire continuously without stopping.

  Liu Yongfu secretly calculated in his heart that if a team of tens of thousands of people were fully equipped and proficient with this gun, the result would be - super terror! This was Liu Yongfu's secret conclusion.

  He thought about it and felt that this gun brought him a chilling feeling, and an extremely huge and shocking pressure.

  He felt a chill run down his spine and shivered with fear.

  Then he quietly pulled Zhou Yu aside and asked, "Is this gun really made by Mr. Zhou himself? How many of these divine guns can you make now?"

  Looking at Liu Yongfu's anxious appearance, Zhou Yu seemed to shrug his shoulders helplessly. The manufacturing process of this gun is particularly complex, and the precision requirements for mechanical processing are quite strict.

  It was I who separately came and privately manufactured in the precision machinery gun factories of various countries in the West. Its main features are:

  The most difficult part of making a gun is the 6 grooves, because it is a high-precision right-handed twist with a pitch of up to 178mm and the barrel must also use 1

  9 twists per inch.

  It also increased the 3-shot burst mechanism, which can be fired in single shot and 3-shot bursts, as well as single shot and continuous fire; The rear sight can adjust for elevation and windage at a distance of 800 meters; There is no downward opening of the flash hider to suppress muzzle rise when firing, and soldiers can eliminate dust on the ground when shooting in the prone position.

  A deflector was added to the right rear of the ejection port, which prevented the ejected case from striking the shooter's face (left-handed shooters); it was lightweight, universal and practical.

  Its main advantages are: the handguard is round, with a special heat dissipator, and has ribs for easy grip; the barrel is heavier, with increased stiffness, and features a new muzzle brake with recoil-reducing effect; the stock and pistol grip are made of ultra-high-strength nylon material.

  It has almost stringent requirements for the precision of steel materials, magnifying glasses, trajectories, winding wires, rotating rifling, synthetic plastics, and dial calipers.

  In today's world, no single country can complete its processing technology alone.

  Even if all the Western countries were to unite and manufacture, without my participation and the data, drawings I designed for them, they would still be unable to produce this gun.

  Although we can't make this gun now, I have got several other ways to make guns, but they all need to buy a lot of technical equipment to be manufactured.

  Next, Zhou Yu was pulled by Liu Yongfu to a secret room for a mysterious meeting with only a few members of the Black Flag Army and Zhou Yu.

  Zhou Yu mainly shared his ideas and prospects on the military, politics, economy, civil affairs, law and other aspects with Liu Yongfu and others in detail.