Although some weapons designers had already designed submachine guns during World War I, both the technology and related tactics were still in their infancy.
At that time, some British officers believed that handing such automatic weapons to new recruits would be a disaster. It was meaningless except a waste of bullets. They stubbornly still used the bolt-action Lee Enfield.
In fact, even though all the belligerent countries suffered heavy losses in World War II, only the Soviet Union and the United States popularized and equipped automatic weapons on a large scale.
The Soviets are fully aware of the benefits of this kind of automatic weapon, while the Americans have a big business and strong enough logistics so they can afford it.
The British did not fully realize the power of submachine guns until after the Dunkirk evacuation, and then modeled the Sten on the German MP40.
Although the Germans themselves were the first country in the world to equip submachine guns, their method of use was to issue submachine guns to elite veterans or infantry squad leaders. It was not until the end of the war that they mass-produced people's submachine guns in order to save the defeat, with the intention of arming a large number of soldiers.
The people came to fight against the Allies.
Of course, these things will not happen until more than ten years later during World War II. It is still 1925.
Even those Americans who come for "archaeology" basically carry revolvers, the traditional American populism, and even O'Connor is no exception to this.
Therefore, O'Connor was very surprised when Ada Wang took out a submachine gun and a semi-automatic rifle from her backpack.
"This is... a submachine gun? I have never seen this type of model. Is this produced by your Dongfang company?" O'Connor picked up a submachine gun, removed the magazine, took a look, and asked Ada Wang curiously.
asked.
"This is a sponsorship for us by a weapons research institution. My trip to Egypt was sponsored by them, and these weapons are part of the sponsorship." Seeing O'Connor's curiosity, Chen Mo suddenly came up with an idea and made him up.
A piece of nonsense explains: "This is a very powerful weapons research institution. These automatic weapons are their flagship products. They believe that in future wars, automatic weapons will replace traditional bolt-action rifles on a large scale and become the new darling of the army.
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So they designed these new weapons for me and my assistants to carry for self-defense, and also helped them test whether the new weapons worked well."
"But automatic weapons..." O'Connor held the submachine gun and looked at it over and over in his hand. Perhaps because he had never used it, he asked in confusion: "Besides wasting bullets, what other advantages does this kind of thing have?
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Regarding this question, Chen Mo just shrugged and made a hand-opening gesture: "I'm not a weapons expert. I don't know how to explain it to you. I'm just a scholar."
"Well, maybe I should actually use it to know whether this kind of gun is good or bad." Seeing Chen Mo's answer, O'Connor knew that he was blind in asking, so he had to say to Ada Wang
After thanking him, he accepted a mini submachine gun and two magazines.
As for Ada Wang herself, she picked up a semi-automatic rifle equipped with a red dot sight and a flame muzzle brake, hung a mini submachine gun on her waist and prepared a rocket launcher beside her.
Seeing her fully armed, Chen Mo couldn't help but pick a semi-automatic pistol from the large bag of firearms he brought as his own self-defense weapon.
After everyone selected their weapons and armed themselves, they sat around the campfire and started to enjoy their dinner.
Because they were worried that the Pharaoh Guards would come back and attack, the wine that Jonathan originally bought was obviously not suitable for sharing at this time. Everyone just baked some Egyptian flatbreads and paired them with dried meat boiled in water for dinner.
This kind of flatbread is the staple food of local people in Egypt. In the later generations that Chen Mo knows, this kind of flatbread even has national subsidies from the Egyptian government. The Egyptian government imports a large amount of wheat every year and invests a lot of financial expenditure to make this kind of flatbread.
It can be as cheap as almost 20 cents a piece, maintaining the basic living security of a large number of Egyptians.
But this is unimaginable now.
On the one hand, the Egyptian government, which is still controlled by the British, is not so generous. On the other hand, Egypt's agriculture is still relatively developed. The Nile River that floods regularly has brought fertile silt to the land on both sides, allowing Egypt's agriculture to be maintained.
, and does not require a large amount of imported grain.
In fact, Egypt was self-sufficient in food until the 1970s. Even after the construction of the Aswan Dam, Egypt's cultivated land area increased and it even exported food for a time.
However, Aswan prospered and Aswan died. Although the construction of the dam controlled the flooding of the Nile River and created a large amount of arable land on both sides, it destroyed the ecological balance of the Nile River region for thousands of years.
Without the silt brought by the regular flooding of the Nile River every year, without this "gift" of the Nile River, Egypt's cultivated land has become increasingly barren, requiring the use of huge amounts of chemical fertilizers to maintain production. Not only does Egypt also need a large amount of imported grain
In order to maintain the country's consumption, the important Nile Delta is also facing the danger of "sinking" to the bottom of the sea.
Although these issues seem to have nothing to do with Chen Mo and will only happen in the future, if Chen Mo wants to rule Egypt, these issues are what he needs to consider.
Thinking about how he should rule Egypt and how he should govern and develop the country after driving the British to control Egypt, Chen Mo finished his dinner while chatting with Evelin about ancient Egypt.
Mo gradually had a rough plan in his mind.
Just when he was about to find a notebook to write down his thoughts, Chen Mo suddenly realized that someone was missing, so he asked O'Connor: "Speaking of our little fat warden? Why don't you see him?"
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"Well, he seems to have encountered an accident and has died unfortunately." Only then did O'Connor realize that he did not tell Chen Mo that the warden was dead.
Hearing what O'Connor said, Chen Mo could only express regret.
Although Chen Mo still wanted to use this warden to infiltrate Cairo City and control important people in the city, but since he was dead, he had to give up this plan.
Although it is not impossible to use the corpse, it is just a warden and is not worth Chen Mo's effort.
And just as Chen Mo and O'Connor were saying this, the sound of horse hooves was faintly heard from outside the city.
When O'Connor heard the sound of horse hooves, his eyes suddenly changed, he picked up the shotgun and ran towards the entrance of the ancient city.
