The sound of a super-revolver firing a grenade is very quiet, like the sound of striking a tin with a small hammer: boom, boom, boom-

Sounds pretty crisp and pleasant.

More than a dozen super-revolvers fired at the same time, and the dense grenades were a bit overwhelming, and the mercenaries were knocked down by shrapnel and steel balls flying everywhere as soon as they poured out of their tents, and the scene was truly miserable.

There is no way to organize any effective resistance, nominally the mercenaries are the elite from various countries, and they can be regarded as battle-hardened, but they have never experienced such a situation before, which is beyond their understanding of war, many mercenaries even think that a large-scale war broke out, and more people were directly killed in the first round of attacks.

These people are happy because they don't have to go through the next ordeal.

Almost as soon as the grenade shooters fired, the infantry struck quickly in squads, and by this time the infantry had not forgotten to maintain their formation, but it was clear that they had been overly careful, and the infantry did not encounter any resistance until they entered the combat position.

Wei Zhen did not participate in the charge, he held a telescope and observed the situation in the merchant inn from a high place.

Right next to Wei Zhen were a dozen precision shooters in charge of sniping, using a scoped Martini Henry, who could be reloaded with precision rifles produced by the Nyasaland Arsenal after this battle.

The precision rifle is actually a Lee Enfield rifle, and compared with the Lee Enfield equipped by ordinary soldiers, the high-precision Lee Enfield used by precision shooters has a smaller error between parts, and the machining accuracy of each part has almost reached the highest level at this time, so that the combined Lee Enfield will be greatly improved in accuracy compared with ordinary Lee Enfield.

Of course, the improvement of accuracy also means an increase in cost, Nyasaland Arsenal estimates that the cost of a precision rifle is about 2 times more than that of an ordinary rifle, as for the external sale price-

I'm sorry, but in the short term, Nyasaland will not sell precision rifles to the outside world, and even if they do in the future, the price will be more than ten times that of ordinary rifles.

Too expensive?

You don't want to be too expensive, you can't buy it if it's too expensive.

For precision shooters, the meaning of a high-precision rifle does not need to be discussed, an ordinary soldier may need 100 rounds to kill an enemy, and an accuracy shooter can do it with one bullet, this is not only a technical gap, the role of the weapon is also important.

Even the most common bullets, the bullets used by precision shooters are different from those used by ordinary soldiers, although they are also 7.7 mm caliber, but the bullets used by precision shooters are all handmade, and the bullet is heavier than the bullet of ordinary rifle bullets, in order to ensure shooting accuracy, the bullet of precision shooter uses only one material, while the bullet of ordinary bullets is two materials.

Better technology, more advanced weapons, and more mature combat methods combine to be overwhelmingly superior.

Wei Zhen clearly saw that when the battle first began, there were officers among the mercenaries who were organizing a counterattack, but these officers who gave the order were killed by accurate shooters in the first time, and then the mercenaries fell into a state of confusion.

As for the two Makqin heavy machine guns equipped by the mercenaries, they are the focus of the precision shooters, as long as someone tries to use the heavy machine gun to counterattack, they will be killed by the precision shooter immediately, after five or six shooters are killed in a row, all the mercenaries are far away from the two heavy machine guns, and no one tries to fight back.

After arriving at the combat position, the officers and men of Company D did not rush to destroy the enemy, but shouted "1, 2, 3" to throw grenades together.

Even the Shen Jinsheng of the wounded disappeared.

When D Company set off, Anton asked all the enemies to be hanged, but after the battle, the officers and soldiers of D Company cleaned up the battlefield and found that many mercenaries were directly burned to charcoal, and even two heavy machine guns were burned into two piles of scrap iron.

There was no doubt about the victory, and the mercenaries were quickly surrounded and annihilated by the officers and men of Company D before they even had time to escape.

News had reached Nyasaland on January 2, 1904, when Roque made the announcement at a New Year's celebration dinner in Little Rock.

The officials of Nyasaland have become accustomed to it, and the officials of Nyasaland have never feared that the Northern Rhodesian Division will lose long after the mercenaries crossed the border, and now the Northern Rhodesian Division has once again proved its strength with its achievements, and the officials of Nyasaland just had a drink together at Roque's mention, and then lost interest in those mercenaries.

"You really did it, and now I really doubt that your men are all Knights of the Round Table." Frank raised his glass to Roque with a mixed expression.

This is not a good metaphor, the legend says that the Knights of the Round Table were the men of King Arthur of England, and after the collapse of the Roman Empire, King Arthur led his Knights of the Round Table to unify the British Isles, fulfilling the myth and becoming known as King Arthur.

Roque is an English baron, and Frank's comparison of Roque and King Arthur is a big rebellion, but fortunately, the agents in Nyasaland are all Frank's subordinates, and it is estimated that no one reported Frank.

"How is it possible, first of all, the Northern Rhodesia Division is not my subordinate, this is Cecil's troops - secondly, the officers and soldiers of the Northern Rhodesia Division will also be injured when they are attacked, but no matter who dares to provoke the Northern Rhodesia Division, then they must be prepared to be retaliated by the Northern Rhodesia Division, who is the Belgian king? Leopold II, he's going to be out of luck! "Roque won't just leave it at that, although this matter probably has nothing to do with Leopold II, but Roque doesn't intend to let Leopold II go.

"Locke, what do you want to do? I have to warn you, don't mess around, the majesty of the royal family is inviolable. Frank was nervous, Roque wasn't joking, Frank knew very well that Roque was really capable of doing it.

If Roque wanted to do something, he didn't need Roque to do it at all, and only Leopold II and the Belgian government could find mercenaries? If Roque is waving a check, there will also be a large number of mercenaries working for Roque, that is, Roque is still restrained, otherwise Roque has the ability to burn the war to Belgium, not to mention the Belgian Congo.

"Frank, I treat you as a friend, don't you mean? I can only be beaten passively, but I must not fight back, are you the director of the war office of the British Empire, or the director of the war office of the Kingdom of Belgium? Roque directly questioned Frank's position, and Frank should be consistent with Roque no matter what.

"Of course I'm the director of the War Office in the British Empire, but it's nothing to do with my position-" Frank's expression was broken, the hat was too big for anyone to wear.

"Why doesn't it matter, as the director of the British Imperial War Office, shouldn't you protect the interests of the Imperial Baron?" Xiao Si is still singing and harmonizing next to him, which is standard to watch the excitement and not a big deal.

"We must launch a counterattack, and this is also to preserve the dignity of the British Empire, and no one can offend the British Empire and retreat with one body." Anton added fuel to the fire on the side.

"Lord Nyasaland, we are ready, and with your command, we will be able to set foot on Leopoldville." Martin is shouting like crazy, playing a fanatical general who starts a war without a brain.

Frank is a real headache, there are hawkish leaders like Roque and Xiao Si, there are militants like Anton and Martin, but the Belgian government still doesn't know whether to live or die provocations, Frank really wants to ignore it, and care about the life and death of his Belgians.

But it is impossible to ignore it, and if Roque expands the scale of the war, then it may trigger a full-scale war between Britain and Belgium, which the British government absolutely does not want to see.

After the Franco-Prussian War, Prussia replaced France and became the hegemon of the European continent, and Britain's current national policy is to unite with France to suppress Germany, and Belgium is France's younger brother, and if war breaks out between Nyasaland and the Congo Free State, it will definitely affect the cooperation between Britain and Belgium.

"Sir, I hope you will exercise restraint, and if you can, you can leave this matter to me, and I will definitely give you an answer that you can accept." Frank knew what to do to satisfy Roque, and he only needed the Belgian government to cede a part of Nyasaland's territory, and Roque would be satisfied.

This was not unacceptable in Frank's view, and it was only after the Berlin Conference that Leopold II emerged as the biggest winner, and it was only then that the great powers realized that they had fallen for the Belgians.

For the weak, the outcome of the Berlin Conference is a talisman, and for the strong, the outcome of the Berlin Conference is the toilet in the bedroom, so the Congo Free State is part of the plans announced by Britain and Germany after the Berlin Conference.

In other words, both Britain and Germany would tear up the Berlin decision at any time, as long as the form was favorable.

"Well, I'm waiting for good news from you, Frank." Roque doesn't care, after all, this matter still has to speak with strength.

After Frank returned to the base of the War Office, Masan contacted London in the hope of making contact with Belgium.

Unfortunately, before the news of London came, another vicious incident occurred, and on January 4, Duncan, the general manager of the Nyasaland Agricultural Company, was assassinated while inspecting the North Sea.

Although Duncan is only the general manager of a company in name, in Nyasaland, Duncan is actually the chief executive of Nyasaland, and even if Frank wants to mediate, it is estimated that Roque will not give up.

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