Chapter 126 Royal Security Intelligence Agency (Subscribe Please!)

On June 6, 1902, on this not-so-special day, Arthur and a mysterious-looking man quietly came to the Guards' garrison. In name, they were there to watch the training of the Guards soldiers, but in fact, they were sending people to form a new army.

It was called a new army, but in fact, it was a new organization responsible for intelligence and espionage, 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 was quite special, and he was different from the Duke Arthur's men before.

Barty Crouch lost his parents at a young age, and was adopted by the Duke Arthur at a very young age and trained to be one of his capable assistants.

Barty Crouch and Arthur also had a very friendly relationship. Because he respected the old Duke Arthur very much, Barty Crouch was 100% loyal to Arthur and was absolutely a die-hard fan.

Even Barty Crouch's loyalty was comparable to that of the old butler Hunter, and their relationship could even be called the adopted son of the old Duke Arthur.

"Battie, how is it? Are there any soldiers in the Guards that you like?" After watching the training of the Guards for a while, Arthur looked at Barty Crouch with a smile and asked.

"Some guys look good, Your Highness. If you train them well, they should be good seedlings in 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 framework of the Royal Security Intelligence Agency can be set up as soon as possible. At least in Oceania and Asia, we should have good intelligence capabilities." Arthur nodded and ordered.

With the entry into the 20th century, spies and intelligence departments have also become one of the important means of diplomacy of various countries.

On the surface, European countries are currently only engaged in an arms race, but there are countless spy exchanges and confrontations between intelligence agencies behind the scenes, and there is no shortage of bloodshed in the dark.

"I understand, Your Highness. The physical fitness of these soldiers of the Guards is still good. After a short period of training, they have the qualifications to become an intelligence officer." Barty Crouch nodded and said.

The Australian Royal Security Intelligence Service is the core intelligence agency established by Arthur. The director Barty Crouch is even qualified to arrest cabinet ministers.

In addition to the prime minister who cannot be easily offended, the Australian Royal Security Intelligence Service has the power to arrest any government officials and members of parliament at any time.

It can be said that the Royal Security Intelligence Service is a sword hanging over the heads of all Australian officials, and it is also an important means for Arthur to supervise and check the government.

As members of the Royal Security Intelligence Service, they are naturally not ordinary intelligence personnel.

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 perform any possible tasks.

This is harder than being a soldier, and the risk factor is higher.

Arthur believes in the loyalty of the Guards soldiers, but he still improves the welfare benefits of the Royal Security Intelligence Service personnel.

Not only is the salary much higher than that of ordinary guards, but if they die in battle, the pension they receive is also an unimaginable amount.

It has to be said that Barty Crouch is strict in selecting personnel. The Australian Guards is a combination of the original British Empire Guards and the Australian Army after training, and the overall quality is definitely much higher than that of ordinary soldiers.

But with more than 8,000 guards and 17,000 Australian Defense Forces, only more than 100 people were selected to become the Royal Security Intelligence Agency.

These soldiers have a common characteristic, that is, in the case of excellent physical fitness, they are also more flexible in mind, as the saying goes, well-developed limbs and well-developed minds.

These people are also relatively scarce in the army. Although Barty Crouch tried to avoid military officers when selecting candidates, there are still a large number of officers and potential officers.

This also leads to the fact that although the current Australian Royal Security Intelligence Agency has only more than 100 people, these more than 100 people are carefully selected from the Australian army of more than 20,000 people. Even if they are placed in the army, they are definitely excellent officers and reserves.

Arthur thought that the establishment of the Royal Security Intelligence Service had been initially successful, and now it was just waiting for these soldiers to receive intelligence training.

Unexpectedly, Barty Crouch threw another difficult problem to Arthur, that is, the problem of these intelligence officers using firearms.

Although Australia currently has two gun systems that were famous in the world until World War II, one is the Lee Enfield rifle produced in the UK, which is considered the strongest rifle in the world today.

The other is the Gew98 rifle produced in Germany, which is the predecessor of the famous 98k rifle.

But these two rifles are not suitable for intelligence personnel to use, the gun body is too long and not easy to carry.

Barty Crouch's suggestion to Arthur was to let the military factory invent a semi-automatic or even fully automatic weapon that is shorter than a rifle but has a power greater than or equal to a pistol.

To be honest, when Arthur first heard Barty Crouch's proposal, a weapon automatically emerged in his mind, that is, a submachine gun.

The history of submachine gun shooting dates back to the middle of World War I. When World War I gradually turned into trench warfare, the armies of various countries found that the usual dense formation group charge would only increase casualties in trench warfare.

In order to break the stalemate of trench warfare, Germany developed an automatic weapon using pistol bullets. It combined the advantages of the fierce firepower of automatic rifles and the lightness and reliability of pistols, becoming a weapon with the most powerful firepower when carried by a single 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 9mm caliber Parabellum pistol bullets as the Luger pistol.

Because it can only fire fully automatically, the MP18 submachine gun consumes a particularly large amount of ammunition. German soldiers also called the MP18 submachine gun "Kugelspritz", which means bullet ejector.

As the world's first real submachine gun, the MP18 submachine gun has the advantages of both rifles and pistols, 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 Allies.

Although the Treaty of Versailles after the defeat prohibited Germany from continuing to manufacture and develop submachine guns, Germany still circumvented the ban of the Versailles Treaty through various means, and secret research and development work is still in progress.

After the end of World War I, the MP28Ⅱ submachine gun was soon born. As an improved model of the MP18Ⅰ submachine gun, the MP28Ⅱ submachine gun solved one of the biggest shortcomings of the MP18 submachine gun, which is the problem of only being able to fire in full automatic mode.

The MP28 submachine gun with the function of switching between single shot and continuous shot officially opened the heyday of submachine guns. In order to avoid the ban related to the Treaty of Versailles, the MP28 submachine gun was transferred to Belgium for production and developed a variety of calibers for export.

The Japanese Type 100 submachine gun and the British Lanchester submachine gun are both 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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