The Iriast shipyard only received orders for three foreign battleships, two Argentines and one Brazilian. The design of these three battleships has been slightly changed according to the latest "United Force" class built by the Empire, and the hull has been slightly enlarged. What Lee Haydn expected was to win two to three Russian or Japanese orders in 1912, but unfortunately it was impossible to do so. The Japanese have always ordered warships at British shipyards, and diplomatic factors dominated, while the Russians decided to build them themselves.

Lee Haydn's focus in the past two years has clearly shifted to the construction of the Imperial Army. Two happy news are that Bolojevic was promoted to commander of the Crotia-Slovenian Military Region. This lieutenant general, who was deeply influenced by Lee Haydn's military thought, once expressed his full support for Lee Haydn's army reform plan.

Another news is that he will also serve as the commander of the Tyrol Defense Forces, so that he will have actual army command. Although the Royal Tyrol Shooters have only four infantry regiments, Lee Haydn is confident that he can expand them to two to three well-trained mountain infantry divisions within three years.

Lee Hayden has transformed the naval garrison troops stationed in Trieste and Bora into two slightly large and offensive marine brigades. He is preparing to form his third land brigade in Gruaro, close to the border between Italy and Austria. The military industry of the Austro-Hungarian Empire has never lacked manufacturing capabilities. Carlson, Steel, Linz and Trieste are all famous ordnance production sites. If all mobilized, their annual production capacity will be enough to arm the army of 5 million.

However, officials of the Imperial Army Department only focused on the manufacturing of heavy artillery, heavy machine guns and heavy mortars, but ignored the research and development and equipment of light support firepower. In fact, in 1903, the Danish army had already begun to equip the "Madson" light machine gun. This well-designed air-cooled machine gun weighed less than 10 kilograms, but the continuous firepower was slightly worse.

But this is not a problem. Thirty round magazines have actually proved to be a balanced choice in later generations. Too heavy chains or drums will affect the mobility of infantry. In the absence of mechanical transportation, the infantry's weight-bearing and carrying capacity always have a limit. Straya Machinery Manufacturing Company purchased the patent for the "Madson" machine gun in 1905. Later, the firearm designers of the branch factory in Carlson, Vakraf Harrick and Rudolph Jaylen jointly designed an air-cooled machine gun that could replace the barrel based on the principle of the air-guided automatic bolt.

After internal testing by Isleia, the Carlson 1906 machine gun, which uses 50 round drums to supply the ammunition, is comparable to the Maxim and Maedess machine guns. It is much lighter than the water-cooled Maxim heavy machine gun. It uses a foldable two-legged stand and weighs only 13 kilograms.

However, the Ordnance Department of the Imperial Army Department believed that this heavy machine gun had as long-lasting firepower as the Maxim machine gun, and refused to use it to replace the water-cooled Maxim machine gun. However, Li Haidn felt that this heavy weapon was useful enough and decided to use it to replace the bulky Maxim machine gun in the Marine Corps.

The Navy ordered 150 Carlson 1906 air-cooled heavy machine guns from the Carlson factory. Harrick and Jaylen shared the 20,000 crown bonus provided by the company and also owned future patents. Isleia provided Harrick and Jaylen with two sample guns of Madson machine guns, requiring the two to reduce the weight of the Kalson 1906 heavy machine gun to less than 10 kilograms.

In 1909, the two designed and manufactured their own sample guns. After comparison, Isleia chose Harrick's design plan. Jaylen's design was too similar to Madson, while Harrick uniquely adopted a method of feeding ammunition in the upper magazine.

This can avoid causing so-called patent disputes.

When Lee Hayden saw the Ka1909 machine gun at first glance, he suddenly felt a familiar feeling: Czech? ZB26 light machine gun? Oh, of course not, but the two are too similar.

This light machine gun was quickly recognized by the Army Department, and the Army ordered the first batch of 40 unisex guns in 1911. This light machine gun was eventually named the Carlson 1911 light machine gun. In 1912, the Army Department placed a large order to purchase 4,000 Ka1911 light machine guns, and the Navy also ordered 600.

Another contribution of Isleia to the Imperial military industry is various small-caliber artillery. Although it cannot compete with Skoda in the field of large-caliber artillery, Isleia has taken a unique approach and has its own unique features in small-caliber artillery.

Early artillery initially adopted a rigid-type retreat and re-advance method with a gun frame structure, which easily caused the gun frame to shift due to the recoil force after the gun was fired, which increased the difficulty for adjusting the bullet point again. At the end of the 19th century, countries had begun to study the filling of hydraulic brake devices for the gun.

The Germans used a spring-type hydraulic retraction and retraction device. This retraction and retraction machine was successfully developed in 18.95 and immediately became the pride of the Germans. They believed that they perfectly solved the problem of retraction and retraction of the artillery after launch, and the Germans were always arrogant. In fact, the French later improved the design of the Germans. In 18.97, they installed a hydraulic retraction and retraction device similar to a cylinder piston on the French army artillery, which perfectly solved the problem of retraction and retraction of the army artillery.

The piston-type pneumatic hydraulic retraction and retraction device reacts faster than the German spring-type hydraulic retraction and retraction machine. The French Army 75mm gun equipped with this retraction and retraction machine can fire 15 shells per minute, almost twice that of the Germans. The French kept this secret patiently until the war broke out in 1914.

Isleia only successfully developed this kind of retardation and advancement aircraft in 1911 and assembled them on its own 75mm and 57mm infantry guns, but the Army only ordered 300 units, and they were ready to slowly wait for the old guns to be eliminated before replacing them with this new type of gun. Skoda Arsenal also introduced this patent and installed it on 105mm and 150mm Army guns, and they received even fewer orders, only 120. Faced with this situation, Lee Hayden had no choice. You can't tell the bureaucrats of the Army that would break out in the next year, which would only make others regard themselves as a lunatic.

Lee Haydn has been thinking about how to avoid the war that swept across Europe. The conclusion was that this war was simply unavoidable and any efforts for it were in vain.

With the improvement of industrialization level in various countries, major industrial countries are facing the crisis of overproduction, and the competition for overseas markets is becoming more and more intense, which has led to the intensification of conflicts between various countries.

The Sarajevo incident in 1914 was just a fuse. Without it, a full-scale war would still break out in Europe from 1915 to 1917.
Chapter completed!