Krupp's eyes twitched with anger. He pointed at the sophisticated weapons in the showroom and said tremblingly, "Are these all garbage in your mouth? These are the best-selling weapons in the international arms market. ah!"
"So what if it's the British Army? The quality of the artillery they equip is just like this. In your eyes, these products are all trash. I'm sorry, dear head of state, please forgive me for being rude. All I can say is Your tone is too arrogant!"
"What is Asia really like! I think you know better than me. There are not even the most basic steel mills there. They can't produce a steel cannon at all, and they can't even produce high-quality bronze cannons!" "
"If such a weapon is brought to Asia, it will definitely increase the combat effectiveness of your troops several times. You can dominate the entire Asia!"
"If you hadn't been kind to Prussia, I would have asked you to leave here immediately just because of your rude words today!" After saying this, Krupp turned around and breathed heavily.
Xiao Letian smiled. It seemed that Mr. Krupp was exactly as described in the intelligence. He was a typical arrogant, stubborn and rigorous Prussian.
At their core, these people are no different from other Europeans. From the bottom of their hearts, they look down on backward Asia.
However, the Chinese are an exception. During the Austro-Prussian War, Chinese soldiers fought bloody battles and created their own golden brand in Europe.
But even so, old ideas are not so easy to eliminate!
Perhaps in Mr. Krupp's eyes, the Chinese are a group of brave warriors, a group of disciplined and powerful warriors, and worthy allies. But Asians are Asians after all, and they are definitely not as good as Europeans in science and technology. .
Xiao Letian was not angry. He reached out and patted an eight-pound bronze cannon beside him and whispered, "Mr. Krupp, have you forgotten? I once participated in the Austro-Prussian War. In that war, why? The Prussian Army still uses a large number of front-loading artillery?"
"I want to remind you that during the Austro-Prussian War, the Army was clearly equipped with a large number of breech-loading needle rifles. But why does the development of artillery technology lag far behind that of rifles?"
"Obviously, the technology for producing rifles is more rigorous than the technology for producing artillery, okay? Why did artillery come first and then muskets in human history? It's not because of the processing technology."
"I participated in that war, and I also came into contact with many of your Prussian veterans. At that time, your domestic artillery technology had encountered a serious bottleneck, and I know this very well!"
"Let's be honest! I hope to see new artillery that solves this technical problem, rather than these traditional and old front-mounted models!"
Mr. Krupp's face became a little embarrassed. He didn't expect that Xiao Letian was also an expert, but this guy belongs to the category of people who have a tough mouth even after being cooked. He still said stubbornly, "Well! There is no latest model. This is the latest model we produce!”
Xiao Letian hummed in a low voice, "It seems that the window paper must be pierced! Sir, let me make it clear! What I want is the latest breech-loaded cannon that solves the air leakage at the rear of the artillery, not now Such rubbish!"
Krupp took a breath and looked at Xiao Letian with incredulous eyes, "What do you mean?"
In the history of the evolution of artillery from front-loading guns to breech-loading guns, there is a very big technical difficulty that has been plaguing scientists from all over the world.
This is the problem of air leakage at the rear. As we all know, artillery shells and guns are installed at the end of the barrel. Cannonballs require high-temperature and high-pressure gas provided by the *explosion to propel the cannonballs into flight and kill the enemy.
Since the breech of the breech-loading gun is open, there is a movable breech for loading ammunition, which poses a sealing problem, and the burning tail flame will inevitably leak out from the gap.
Although the principles of artillery and muskets are the same, the number of guns they install is completely different. The artillery will produce more high-temperature and high-pressure combustion gases during the explosion.
If the breech-mounted artillery breech seal is not tight, these high-temperature and high-pressure gases will spray out from the gap. At the least, it will cause energy leakage, affect the range and power of the artillery, and at worst, it will cause fatal damage. Tail flame.
Before the Austro-Prussian War, Krupp had produced several models of breech-loading artillery, but none of them solved the problem of tail flame leakage. Moreover, two of the accidents also resulted in the deaths and injuries of soldiers operating artillery.
The high-temperature burning flames directly burned the soldiers, and some soldiers even died of their injuries.
Such a cannon must not be sent to the battlefield. It will burn your operator's hand to death before killing the enemy! Wouldn't this become a joke?
Not only was Prussia troubled by this problem, but the armies of Britain, France, and the United States were also troubled by this problem.
After the Austro-Prussian War, Krupp learned the hard way and invested heavily in trying to solve this major technical problem in the history of artillery evolution.
God bless Prussia, just last year Krupp finally came up with a mature and stable solution and launched the latest artillery.
This kind of artillery completely solves the problem of tail flame leakage. The safety performance of breech-loaded artillery is improved dozens of times. Not only that, because the tail seal is stricter, the loss of kinetic energy of this artillery is very small.
*After the explosion, all the kinetic energy is released towards the muzzle, so that the cannonball can get more energy bonus, and naturally it will fly farther and hit more accurately.
In this way, with the same amount of charge, the range of the new artillery is more than double that of the old front-loading cannon!
This is obviously the top secret of the Prussian military, but I didn't expect Xiao Letian to open his mouth and break this layer of paper today!
As soon as Xiao Letian saw the panic and fear in Mr. Krupp's eyes, he knew that he had hit his vitals.
The head of state sneered and said, "Please don't forget that we and Prussia are a paramilitary alliance, and we will also go to the battlefield in the future!"
"The secret weapons that Prussia possesses can also be possessed by our Chinese army! Now please take out your latest model cannon!"
"Damn it! Who told you? Was it Bismarck? Or Moltke? They are treason! I'm going to the king to sue them!"
Xiao Letian curled his lips and said, "Okay, sir, stop acting here! No one told me, I just guessed it through some common sense."
"In the second half of last year, the Prussian military suddenly placed a huge order for 623 cannons from the Krupp Arsenal! This is very counterintuitive. Why does this happen? I think the only explanation is the new cannons. !”
"At this moment, Prussia is already in a state of national war preparation. Military expenditure can be said to be a copper plate that needs to be broken in half. Orders for artillery were placed as early as three or four years ago. Why was there suddenly such a large additional increase last year? An order?”
"Be honest, dear Mr. Krupp, bring out your latest weapons. This will be beneficial to both of us, what do you think?"
"Oh! You are so treacherous, you actually defrauded me!" Krupp was so angry that his beard was blowing.
