Chapter 126 Royal Security Intelligence Service (please subscribe!)
On June 6, 1902, on this not-so-special day, Arthur and a very mysterious-looking man quietly came to the garrison of the Guards. In name, they were watching the training of Guards soldiers, but in reality they were sending people to form a new army.
It is said to be a new army, but it is actually a new organization responsible for the intelligence and espionage services, the Royal Security Intelligence Service.
Following Arthur was Barty Crouch, the director of the Royal Security Intelligence Service appointed by Arthur himself.
Barty Crouch's identity is quite special, and he is different from Duke Arthur's previous men.
Barty Crouch lost his parents when he was young. He was adopted by Duke Arthur at a very young age and was trained to become one of his capable assistants.
The relationship between Barty Crouch and Arthur is also very friendly. Because he respects the old Duke Arthur very much, Barty Crouch is also 100% loyal to Arthur and is absolutely a die-hard loyalist.
Even Barty Crouch's loyalty is comparable to that of the old Butler Hunter, and his relationship can even be called the adopted son of the old Duke Arthur.
"Barty, how are you? Is there anyone you like among the soldiers of the Guards?" After watching the training of the Guards for a while, Arthur looked at Barty Crouch with a smile and asked.
"There are some guys who look good, Your Highness. If you train them well, they should be good candidates for intelligence and espionage." Barty Crouch nodded and said.
"That's good, Barty. You can choose the soldiers of the Guards, and the same goes for the soldiers of the Australian Army. I hope that the shelf of the Royal Security Intelligence Service can be set up as soon as possible. At least in Oceania and Asia, we should have Common intelligence capabilities." Arthur nodded and ordered.
As we enter the 20th century, spies and intelligence services have become one of the important means of diplomacy for various countries.
On the surface, European countries are currently engaged in an arms race, but behind the scenes there are countless spy exchanges and confrontations between intelligence agencies, and there is not a lot of bloodshed in the dark.
"I understand, Your Highness. The physical fitness of these soldiers of the Guards is still good. After only a short period of training, they have the qualifications to become intelligence agents." Barty Crouch nodded. .
The Royal Australian Security Intelligence Service is the core intelligence agency established by Arthur. Director Barty Crouch is even qualified to arrest cabinet ministers.
In addition to the fact that the Prime Minister cannot be easily offended, the Australian Royal Security Intelligence Service has the power to arrest any government officials and parliamentarians at any time.
It can be said that the Royal Security Intelligence Service is a sharp sword hanging over the heads of all Australian officials, and it is also an important means for Arthur to supervise and check and balance the government.
As members of the Royal Security Intelligence Service, they are naturally not ordinary intelligence officers.
After these soldiers are selected into the Royal Security Intelligence Service, their various identities will be hidden in Australia, and then they will be trained as senior agents to carry out any possible mission.
This is harder and more dangerous than being a soldier.
Arthur believed in the loyalty of the Guards soldiers, but also improved the welfare benefits of the Royal Security Intelligence Service personnel.
Not only is the salary much higher than that of ordinary Guards soldiers, but if they are killed in battle, the pension they will receive is an unimaginable amount.
I have to say that Barty Crouch was strict in selecting personnel. The Australian Guards are a combination of the original British Empire Guards and the Australian Army after training. Their overall quality is definitely much higher than that of ordinary soldiers.
However, there are more than 8,000 Guardsmen plus 17,000 Australian Defense Forces, and only more than 100 people are selected to become the Royal Security Intelligence Service. These soldiers all have a common characteristic, that is, while their physical fitness is relatively good, their minds are also relatively flexible. As the saying goes, if their limbs are well developed, their minds are equally well developed.
These people are also relatively scarce in the military. Although Barty Crouch tried to avoid military officers when selecting candidates, there are still a large number of officers and potential officer candidates.
This also leads to the fact that although the current Australian Royal Security Intelligence Service only has a scale of more than 100 people, these more than 100 people are carefully selected from Australia's more than 20,000-strong army. Even if they are placed in the army Zhong Ye definitely has outstanding officer talents and reserves.
Arthur thought that the establishment of the Royal Security Intelligence Service had been initially successful, and he was currently waiting for the soldiers to be trained in intelligence.
Unexpectedly, Barty Crouch threw another difficult problem to Arthur, and that was the issue of the use of firearms by these intelligence officers.
Although Australia currently has two gun systems that were world-famous until World War II, one is the Lee-Enfield rifle produced in the United Kingdom, which can be called the most powerful rifle in the world today.
The other is the Gew98 rifle produced in Germany, which is the predecessor of the famous 98k rifle.
However, both rifles are not suitable for use by intelligence personnel. The barrel is too long and difficult to carry.
Barty Crouch's proposal to Arthur was to let the military factory invent a semi-automatic or even fully automatic weapon that was smaller than a rifle but more powerful than a pistol.
To be honest, when Arthur first heard Barty Crouch's proposal, a weapon automatically came to mind, and that was a submachine gun.
The shooting history of submachine guns dates back to the middle of World War I. When the First World War gradually shifted to trench warfare, armies of various countries discovered that the usual dense formation cluster charges that usually push the boat forward will only increase casualties in trench warfare.
In order to break the deadlock in trench warfare, Germany developed an automatic weapon that uses pistol bullets. It combines the advantages of violent firepower of automatic rifles and lightness and reliability of pistols, becoming the most powerful weapon that can be carried by an individual soldier and output at close range. , this is the famous MP18 submachine gun.
The MP18 submachine gun adopts the principle of a free machine gun and uses the same nine-millimeter Parabellum pistol bullet as the bullet used in the Ruger pistol.
Because it can only fire fully automatically, the MP18 submachine gun consumes a lot of ammunition. German soldiers also called the MP18 submachine gun "Kugelspritz", which is a bullet ejector.
As the world's first true submachine gun, the MP18 submachine gun combines the advantages of a rifle and a pistol, but also exposes some shortcomings.
The advent of the MP18 submachine gun did not have a decisive impact on the war situation, but its potential also attracted the attention of the Allied Powers.
Although the Treaty of Versailles after its defeat prohibited Germany from continuing to manufacture and develop submachine guns, Germany still used various means to circumvent the prohibition of the Versailles Treaty, and secret research and development work is still in progress.
After the end of World War I, the MP28II submachine gun was quickly born. As an improved model of the MP18Ⅰ submachine gun, the MP28Ⅱ submachine gun solves one of the biggest shortcomings of the MP18 submachine gun, which is that it can only fire fully automatically.
The MP28 submachine gun, which has a single-shot and continuous-shot switching function, officially opened the prosperous age of submachine guns. In order to avoid the ban related to the Versailles Contract, the MP28 submachine gun was transferred to Belgium for production and developed a variety of calibers for export.
The hundreds of submachine guns of the island country and the Lanchester submachine gun of the United Kingdom are all imitations of the MP28 submachine gun, which is enough to show the performance and power of this submachine gun after improvement.
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