1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 65

The plan was quickly completed and was sent to Carol and Rockefeller. After studying the plan carefully, Carol said to Rockefeller: “John, is this plan a bit wrong?”

“What’s wrong?” Rockefeller asked.

“We ran a spear thrust to kill the other company’s high-level records. Will people follow suit and put us in danger. You know, others can also buy MacDonald’s 1857 precision shooting rifles from the market. Yes.” Carol said.

“It’s not unreasonable what you said.” Rockefeller said, “But, Carol, do you really think that people would not use such a trick without us starting this? In other words, they would not use such a trick. Against us?”

Carol also knew that Rockefeller was telling the truth. The MacDonald 1857 precision shooting version appeared on the market, and its advertising point was precision shooting at a long distance. Although the advertisement only mentions that you can use it to kill brown bears, bison, American lions and Indians at very long distances, it does not mention using it to kill people. But how many people who really bought this gun didn’t intend to use it against people? That being the case, even if there is no proposed action in Blackwater, it will be sooner or later that the Macdonald 1857 precision shooting version will be used for assassination. Maybe he should blame Scrooge, shouldn’t he come up with such a cruel thing?

But Carol also knew that Scrooge had his intention to launch such a gun. Scrooge is not an otaku who has a special hobby for fear of technology trees. Otherwise, the Maxim machine gun, or even more radical, may have come out of the original version of the AK47. For Scrooge, technology progress is used to gain profits or to suppress opponents. In the final analysis, it is for more profits. Under the premise that no more profits can be obtained, no truly rational capitalist would be interested in the so-called technological progress. When MacDonald’s 1857 regular version is already invincible and can continue to bring more money to Scrooge, it is foolish to come up with better things to replace it. Isn’t this suppressing yourself? As for the precision shooting version of MacDonald 1857, Scrooge deliberately increased the price to avoid this gun from occupying the market of the Macdonald 1857 regular version. On the other hand, the existence of this gun, It is an invisible deterrent to other firearms manufacturing companies-don’t want to compete with me on technology. Even if you make something close to the regular version of the Macdonald 1857 rifle, I can quickly get the Macdonald 1857 accurate. The shooting version is slightly simplified and the progress you have spent a lot of money on becomes worthless.

“But how can we guard against this kind of assassination in the future?” Carol said.

“Carol, you didn’t realize that the first criterion for Scrooge to find us bodyguards is to be big enough. Why? One of the reasons is to surround these people. The gunmen will never find it. Is there a goal? There is always a way, Carol. Even if they don’t, others will do it. We might as well do it ourselves.”

“Well, then.” Carol was persuaded again. “Then approve the implementation of this plan. Well, this plan doesn’t have a name yet, what would you like to call it?”

Rockefeller rested his chin with his right hand, thought for a moment, and said, “Since the plan proposes to carry out this plan during a thunderstorm, then it is called the’Great Thunderstorm Plan’. Oh, by the way, we’d better go to DuPont to book one now. Batch gunpowder.”

Bob and a few gunmen quietly climbed to the small mountain bag. They have been to this small mountain bag twice, and everyone has chosen a shooting position for themselves. Now the sky is densely covered with dark clouds, and the faint thunder can already be heard. It is actually a dangerous thing to come to the highest hill in this neighborhood during a thunderstorm. It is not impossible to be struck by thunder because of bad luck, not to mention that they are now doing things that deserve to be “struck by thunder.”

However, a weather station on the top of the mountain has reduced this danger. A huge lightning rod is erected on the weather station, which makes thunder or Zeus who are determined to maintain justice weak.

There is an old guard at the weather station, but now, the old man is taking a nap, and because some things have been added to his drinking water, he is sleeping very deep now, even if it is the rumble of thunder, he can’t wake him up. Sweet dreams.

Now that the rain hadn’t fallen, Bob took advantage of this time to squat down at the position he had chosen, took out a set of green raincoat from a bag, and put it on him. Looking at it from a distance in this way, he almost merged with the green surroundings.

Bob opened the gun box and took out the tuned McDonald’s 1857 precision shooting rifle-of course, it wasn’t the one that King Sardin gave him, he couldn’t bear it. Because it is to shoot in the rain, this gun has been treated with some rain protection. The scope is equipped with an extra large cover to prevent rain from directly hitting the mirror surface.

At this time, with a large drop of rain falling on the ground, the rain finally started. Bob looked in the direction of the target through the scope. The presence of rain made his vision a little blurred, but he could still see clearly where the target might appear.

“As long as the rain doesn’t get too big, the problem won’t be too big.” Bob thought.

The rumbling of thunder began to sound, and the rain began to grow stronger. Bob wiped the rain off his face, turned to look at the companions next to him, and nodded to them.

“Just wait for the “Giant Cannon” to speak.” Bob thought.

“Sergey Sha, are you ready?” Siegfeld asked.

“Okay!” Sergey replied, putting a cushion on his shoulders, and then pressing the huge butt of the “Great Cannon” on his shoulders.

Sergey Sha is a Russian immigrant and is now a dedicated shooter for the Blackwater Company’s “Great Cannon” gun. This kind of powerful thing, at the same time, the recoil is also terrifying, and now only a big guy like Sergei who is close to two meters tall and weighs close to 250 pounds can use such a thing.

“When the next lightning flashes, shoot immediately.” Siegfeld said.

A snow-white lightning flashed, and Sergey turned the trigger, and a group of orange-red flames spurted out of the 16mm muzzle. The gun body slammed backward, but it was thickened by Sergey. Blocked by his shoulders.

The bullet fired at high speed easily penetrated the thin wall facing the river. Then, from the gunpowder depot, there was no sound at all, so that Sergei put another incendiary bomb on the “giant cannon” and was about to do another one.

At this moment, a shock spread across the river, and almost at the same time, the entire gunpowder depot suddenly exploded. The thin wall facing Selesha and the others was blown to pieces almost instantly, and the flames soaring out of the sky, like a fire dragon, crossed the entire river.

“Get down!” Ziegfeld shouted.

The two people threw down what they were holding, and covered their heads with both hands. After a while, some of the pebbles that had been blown up in the explosion began to crackle and fall beside them. A small stone still hit the finger that Ziegfeld was holding his head, and it hurt.

After the stone rain passed for a while, the two raised their heads and looked over there, only to see a raging fire burning in the direction of the gunpowder depot. The thin slab wall of the gunpowder storehouse against the river was long gone, and the roof was overturned. Even the other three walls were said to be three meters thick, and one side completely fell down, and the remaining two walls also collapsed partly. It can be seen the power of the explosion.

“Well, our work is finished, let’s retreat.” Ziegfeld said. The two put away their weapons, turned around and left the scene quickly.

Compared with Sergey Shah and Ziegfeld, Bob and the others are closer to the gunpowder store, so the vibration they feel is greater. When the powder magazine exploded, Bob almost jumped from the ground. When small stones fell on Sergei Sha and their heads, the stones with the size of the children’s fists crackled and fell beside Bob and them. Fortunately, they were well prepared, and they had long put on the helmets used by the workers. So although someone hurts their arms or something, their heads are fine.

“It’s spectacular!” Bob exclaimed. “I’m afraid I won’t see such fireworks several times in a lifetime.”

“Okay, get ready and watch!”

The DuPont family manor is very close to their factory, almost only two to three hundred meters. Of course, the distance from the gunpowder depot is farther. Therefore, the shock of the explosion of the powder magazine was even more shocking to the DuPont family. The whole building shivered during the explosion, and all the glass upstairs was shattered to pieces in the loud sound of the explosive detonation.

“What’s wrong? What’s wrong?” The woman and the children asked in a flustered manner.

“This must be the gunpowder depot being struck by lightning and exploded in a thunderstorm!” The men explained in a flustered manner. Most of them have experienced the explosive magazine explosion more than ten years ago. In that explosion, a third of the DuPont family’s factory was blown up, and nearly half of the workers were injured or killed. Several family members also died. It was after that explosion that DuPont moved the powder magazine farther away from the factory area and designed a safe building model with three thick walls and one thin plate wall.

How useful are these designs, and to what extent can they reduce losses? In fact, all people have no bottom in their hearts.

“What are you doing here? Go back to your own post right away! Kahn, take a few people and go to the scene with me!” After the initial shock, Henry, nicknamed “General”, reacted first.