The wet Andreev was lifted onto the Zhiyuan in a hanging basket. The splashing seawater and humid morning mist wet his military uniform and leather robe. The cold sea breeze chilled Andreev's spine.
What chilled him even more was not only the sea breeze, but also this extremely huge and powerful steel ship. There was a very elastic teak floor under his feet. Everything he could see was made of steel, including the deck, machine guns, main guns, and masts. Even the guardrails that protect sailors from falling into the sea are made of steel.
Human beings are born with a sense of worship for steel. This is the genetic code that is innately imprinted in the soul. When the primitive tribes holding wooden sticks and stone axes first met the civilized city-states holding bronze daggers and spears, , it is a dreamy feeling of seeing gods.
When the barbaric peoples were fighting against the ancient empire, the armored jungle made of steel and the indestructible steel blades probably made the difference between civilization and barbarism only this inch of cold light.
For metals, especially steel, humans are obsessed with the sense of power in them. Thousands of years of precipitation have become a kind of gene.
Andreev remembers clearly that he and Vadim are different. Vadim came to the Far East from Central Asia on a horse, while Andreev came to China by boat from Europe.
He remembered clearly that the entire Baltic Sea was full of sailing battleships, and it was worthy of cheering for the soldiers to encounter a cruiser with a double-decker turret. But when he reached the English Channel and saw the three-tiered battleships of the British Empire pressing over him like a mountain, Andreev almost suffocated.
A sense of power came over him. At that moment, he really felt that the empire was invincible as the sun never set.
That kind of memory has followed him until now. Later, when he came to East Asia, looking at the ridiculous broken wooden ships of the Qing Empire, Nanyang, Korea, and Japan, a sense of European superiority arose spontaneously. At that time, he really thought that he was in the Far East when he came to civilization. Liberating the barbarians, he has no consciousness of being an invader at all.
But today, the familiar feeling came to my heart again. The heavy feeling of depression did not come from the maritime battleship of the Empire on which the sun never sets, but from the Chinese ship Zhiyuan.
No matter how much legendary information Andreev had obtained about this battleship before, he certainly knew the legends about the Reach traveling across the Atlantic and South America, but he always thought that it was just a legend.
The Chinese have been good at making lies since ancient times, and bragging is what they are good at. Of course, the Chinese themselves do not think that is bragging, but a strategy. But in the hearts of soldiers like Andreev, any deceptive tactics are shameful, and only Power is real.
Until the Zhiyuan entered the battle of Vladivostok, the heavy shells that exploded in the city actually exploded the fragile pride in the hearts of the Tsarist Russian soldiers.
They never imagined that the Zhiyuan's combat power was so powerful that it was no longer a legend but a fact.
Today, when Andreev personally boarded the world's largest pure steel battleship, his views were once again subverted. There was steel everywhere, and the heavy aura made it hard for him and the surrounding soldiers and civilians to breathe.
The Gatling gun fixed on the battleship was rotating with their figures, and the sailors behind the 57mm Hotchkiss rapid-fire gun were busy performing maintenance. The running soldiers completely ignored Grandma Liu who walked into the Grand View Garden. There was just this war and the mission that had just been assigned.
The sailors with live ammunition escorted them towards the bow of the ship, where Xiao Letian was ready to meet these unexpected guests. When Andreev saw the main gun of the Zhiyuan for the first time, his last trace of pride and reserve Was completely shattered at this moment.
Putting a 210-caliber main gun on a battleship was a feat that people did not expect at the time. Artillery of this caliber was mostly concentrated on coastal defense batteries. No wooden-hulled battleship in the world could withstand the recoil of such a cannon. .
In fact, even the Zhiyuan, which has a pure steel keel, is very difficult to cope with such recoil. The designed dual-shot main gun is actually unable to fire continuously at all, and can only fire single shots at intervals. As a result, the rivets on the keel have become loose. The problem.
If you are half a step ahead of this era, you are a genius; if you are one step ahead of this era, you are a madman. Xiao Letian understood the shock in Andreev's eyes, and the super-era feeling had completely defeated him.
No one can describe that feeling, but Xiao Letian can easily understand it, because only Xiao Letian understands that the appearance of the Zhiyuan was a full 24 years earlier than the real history. This means that the Zhiyuan has a 24-year relationship with the era at that time. Technology generation gap.
What is the concept of a 24-year generation gap? It seems that the number 24 is not that big, but Xiao Letian can compare it with certain things of his era.
Because the era that Xiao Letian lived in belonged to an era of technological explosion, such as mobile phones, people’s communication tools. In 2014, when Xiao Letian traveled through time, smartphones had begun to become popular on a large scale, and people could often see them on the streets. My fingers are stroking around on the touch screen, either browsing Weibo or playing WeChat, or cutting fruit.
But if you push forward 24 years at this point in time, that is, in 1990, if you could walk down the street with a touch-screen mobile phone with Android system, please, it is estimated that this gadget in your hand can alert the National Security Bureau.
In 1990, even bb-consoles were not widely available. If you could pick up a mobile phone on the street, people would look at you like an alien.
The same principle also applies to people of this era. Andreev, who was used to seeing sail battleships and wooden hull boats, suddenly encountered this dream battleship with advanced black technology. He was completely impressed, and a sense of depression drove him Completely defeated, all the words of negotiations organized along the way were now speechless.
"This officer! This gentleman! Hello, are you listening to me? This officer, what on earth do you want to see me for?" Xiao Letian looked at Andreev, his eyes were a little dull, and he was just dumbfounded. Looking at the twin 210-caliber main guns, he knew that Grandma Liu had been shocked.
"How do you feel? This is a naval battle cannon developed by Krupp using 300 engineers and gathering elites from six industries. Doesn't it feel very powerful?"
"Yes, yes, I'm sorry! I'm rude." It was only at this moment that Andreev woke up from his dream. When he saw the Chinese wearing a general's uniform in front of him, he knew that this was the real owner Xiao Letian, and he quickly raised his hands to salute. .
"Andreev, commander of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Army and 2nd Regiment of the Tsarist Russian Far Eastern Army, salutes the Prime Minister!"
"Relax! You shouldn't salute me first. I'm not the most noble person on this battleship!" After saying this, Xiao Letian dodged and Zai Chun, dressed in a dragon robe, appeared behind Andreev. in front of.
