Chapter 657: That Inferiority
early morning.

San Francisco, suburbs.

Xiao Duo led more than 90 soldiers on the hidden front line, aiming their guns in the wilderness…

“preparation!”

“beat!”

boom!
boom!
boom! boom! boom!
The latest model of the big eight-bullet rifle was fired continuously in their hands. The streamlined design of the gun body and the curvature of the gun tail were constantly reducing the recoil of the gun. The convenience of not having to pull the bolt reminded them of the legendary semi-automatic rifle H217Y used by the ’34’ troops. However, after getting the weapon with a significantly more advanced gun body design, Xiaoduo and the others finally understood what the Garand was.

Situ provided them with a small number of such guns, only twenty in total, which was the result of the utmost effort of the entire Zhigong Hall.

The targets used by those familiar with firearms are not paper targets, but hollowed-out cans and glass bottles.

Snapped!
Boom!
The sounds of cans being pierced and glass bottles being smashed echoed in the wilderness. Xiao Duo pulled the trigger several times with the gun in his hand before turning his head away in disbelief…

“Situ, if our troops could use such firearms…”

Situ shook his head after listening to what Xiaoduo said and reminded him, “Don’t even think about it. Unless our superiors can get through the top connections here and make them willingly sell weapons to us, once this kind of firearms appears on the anti-Japanese battlefield, everyone who has had contact with you on this land will probably be implicated.”

“Are you afraid of death?” Xiao Duo said to them with a bit of contempt.

Situ laughed out loud and responded: “You don’t understand at all.”

In order to prevent Xiaoduo from asking further questions, Situ waved at Lao Ba, and Lao Ba’s men immediately brought over several new guns. These weapons were shotguns, the M37 shotguns manufactured by the Ithaca Company in the United States. Yes, it was the one used by Arnold Schwarzenegger in “The Terminator”.

This firearm was selected by the US military due to its extremely superior performance in that era. The US military was the only force that used shotguns on a large scale in Season 2. In addition to Ithaca M37, they also used Winchester Defender in Season 2.

In exactly the same era, the shotguns available on the market in my country were still at the M1897 stage.

Click.

Xiaoduo took the shotgun, fiddled with it for a few times and began to load bullets. The feeling that seemed to transcend the times appeared on this gun – boom!

The shape of this gun was a type he had never seen before, and when the shot was fired, the huge scattering area of ​​the attack surprised him. At this moment, after Situ said beside him that the scattering range of this gun could be controlled by replacing the bullets, Xiao Duo finally understood how Li Hongzhang felt when he came to this world, the feeling of thinking that someone wanted to negotiate with him in such a small space when he entered the elevator.

Isn’t this just Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden?
The gangs here all use Thompson!
People here all drive cars…

That feeling was like the envy of a general who was standing on tiptoe to look inside a warship in an era he was not aware of, and yet was still being driven away.

He feels inferior.

Xiaoduo really felt inferior because he could only access the top level that Situ could access. So, what about the army of this country?
He dared not think.

“Do you have the Thompson type that Hip Sing Hall uses?”

Xiaoduo tried his best not to show any expression, but only he knew what kind of heart was hidden under such calmness.

“Have!”

Lao Ba brought a submachine gun to Xiao Duo, but this one was different from the one he used last night. It didn’t come with a magazine, but a drum magazine. The round drum magazine was stuck under the barrel. Xiao Duo took the gun and squeezed the trigger. What he heard was endless gunshots – da da da da da da da da…

What kind of firepower is this?
Xiaoduo’s vision represents the majority of soldiers in our country at that time. He even has a broader vision than ordinary soldiers, but even so, he still feels speechless.

“Duo, I contacted an arsenal for us and have already negotiated the gun spring issue, but they are unwilling to sell us the machinery to make gun springs, let alone send technicians to help us produce them.”

“They said they are willing to produce gun springs for us. They can produce any model we want…but they can only do it by placing an order.”

Xiao Duo released the trigger of the submachine gun in his hand and turned his head: “Are you going to keep making money from us?” Situ smiled: “What do you think?”

“This is the world, this is the difference between advanced and backward… This is also the reason why those wealthy people and warlords in China are willing to risk their lives to send their children abroad to see the world.”

“Times have changed. The ‘Liao 13-type, Zhongzheng, and Type rifles’ you mentioned may still be the main combat weapons in our country, but here, they are all going to be swept into the garbage dump.”

“I have a feeling that it won’t be long before the ‘Garand’ that has just been mass-equipped to the US military will completely replace all rifles and become a unified military configuration, while more practical submachine guns and shotguns will be used in close combat…”

Xiao Duo didn’t know what to say, so he asked a very stupid question: “Don’t they… fight with bayonets?”

After asking this question, Xiao Duo lowered his head, lowered his head in San Francisco in 1938. This scene should have been recorded, but no one knew about it. Even when Situ was invited back to China, he never said this to anyone.

But the war that happened many years later completely changed Situ’s opinion. He cried bitterly and shouted while drinking from the bottle of wine: “Fight, they have to fight with bayonets. Anyone who meets you guys who don’t care about their lives will have to fight with bayonets!” His face was full of heartache.

“Actually, I’m not too sure about the technological development here…” Situ had already given Xiao Duo some face: “To be precise, the level of technological development here has reached a point where no one can fully understand it.”

He turned his face away, not wanting to embarrass Xiaoduo too much.

At this time, Xiao Duo handed the gun to a subordinate who had never touched a submachine gun, and followed Situ’s footsteps to the side: “Tell me, what do we need to do to make Xieshengtang behave?”

“It’s useless to kill the Xiesheng Hall. For them, it’s just a matter of moving to a new house.”

“And San Francisco…” Situ turned around and smiled at Xiaoduo, and said a little embarrassedly: “The businesses occupied by each hall are completely different. For example, where Chinese people gather, there are ‘Fan Tan’ gambling tables everywhere. This is the business controlled by the hall.”

“Chinese people love gambling, especially in recent years, more and more Chinese people come here, they often put the money they earn on their bodies or at home, which is called ‘family bank’ by those foreigners, which has led to the prosperity of fantan gambling tables in the streets and alleys… After all, if you put money in your pocket, it will jump out, especially in front of the gambling table.”

Xiao Duo followed Situ and asked, “You guys?”

“It’s better to stick with it a little bit, it’s an extra income.”

“But we are different from Xieshengtang. They don’t stick to gambling, but stick to Chinese workers.” Situ stopped and said, “They have a lot of Chinese workers in their hands. These Chinese workers are divided into two groups. One group is paid, and the other group is not paid.”

Xiao Duo frowned and asked, “Why is it still different?”

Situ looked at him and explained, “If there is no one else in your family, and they are sure that you will not cause any worries, then you will be among those who will not be paid. If you are lucky, you will be sent to various construction sites to work as a laborer. Only when you are paid will you realize that you have been cheated. But at that time, you will be alone facing a group of thugs. What can you do?”

Xiao Duo asked with some reluctance: “What if we are unlucky?”

“Do you know where this is?”

“This place has a name, called Jinshan. To distinguish it from JS in Melbourne, San Francisco is also called San Francisco.”

“Do you know how many gold mines and black gold mines there are here?”

“Those white people would not come out to confine the Chinese workers, but they would hire the labor of those who confined the Chinese workers. They would watch from afar as the people of Xiesheng Hall whipped the Chinese workers to speed up the process… Compared with whipping, the incentive of increasing bonuses is too low.”

Xiao Duo stood behind Situ and gritted his teeth: “Don’t you care?”

Situ sneered and said, “This is America, the symbol of freedom. Just as they advertised, there are no slaves here, unless… you are not from their country.”

“I heard that they recently received a big order from a big name, and the deadline was very tight. This forced the people from Xieshengtang to send all their people over, but none of them came back.”

“If you can destroy this business of theirs, Duo, you will not only be able to rescue all the Chinese workers inside, but will also deal a fatal blow to Xieshengtang!”

(End of this chapter)