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Hoff looked at the stranded Zhiyuan with great satisfaction. He seemed to have seen a grand banquet in the Tuileries Palace. He was wearing a chest full of gold medals and was toasting with the French Emperor!
And all the prisoners of the Zhiyuan could only wait for trial outside the banquet in humiliation, trembling under the bayonets!
"This is such a refreshing thing. God loves me, hahaha..." Hof actually giggled at the end.
But what happened next completely shattered his dream. After a period of panic, the stranded Zhiyuan ignored Hoff's persuasion to surrender. The 210 main gun fired again, still tenaciously bombarding the French troops landing on the beach.
The Zhiyuan was designed with a main gun load of 150 bombs, but in order to meet the needs of returning home from the last ocean voyage, Prussia deliberately made the sailors' cabins more narrow and crowded, in exchange for the expansion of the ammunition warehouse.
At present, the Zhiyuan's main gun load has reached 210 bombs, which is already considered the limit.
In the fierce battle that just lasted three hours, the Zhiyuan fired a total of 165 shells, of which all the bombs were consumed and only 45 high-explosive shells remained.
This is the last ammunition of the Zhiyuan. Xiang Ying has given a death order. All these forty-five shells will hit the heads of the soldiers who are trying to land on the beach.
"Persuading you to surrender? You're trying to persuade me! Keep bombing... It's just a matter of death. I'm afraid of you!"
"Lin Zhen...are you mute? You shouted so vigorously before, why are you pretending to be a grandson now?"
Xiang Ying didn't know that half a pound of muscle had been shaved off Lin Zhen's left arm, and half a barrel of blood had been left. He only knew that the Zhiyuan's firepower had dropped during this period, and the firing frequency of the main gun had also dropped.
Lin Zhen's face was pale and he leaned against the bulletproof steel plate of the main gun. With the help of morphine, he could barely hold on, "Have you heard that? The captain thinks we are all dumb! Reload! Continue bombing and find freedom where the enemy is the most." bombing……"
"But sir... But our main gun has fired more than fifty shells in a row, and the shells are almost red-hot... Prussian engineers once said before that our cannon is an experimental model and must be fired before it has been fired twenty times. It’s time to check it out!”
"It will explode! There will be a danger of explosion..."
The Zhiyuan's cannon is a 210-caliber 25-fold breech-mounted rigid hoop gun produced by Krupp Arsenal. From the name, people can feel the complexity of the structure of this cannon.
For an excellent cannon, just looking at the caliber is not enough. Corresponding to the caliber, there is also a multiplier indicator!
People understand the caliber very well. It is commonly said that the bigger the caliber, the more justice! '!
The larger the caliber of the artillery, the larger the shells fired, the greater the charge of the shells, and the more powerful the lethality! Generally, by the late period of World War I, cannons with a caliber of more than 300 became the standard equipment. Such artillery shells can basically bring down a building with one shot!
When the 400mm caliber artillery appeared, the power of this artillery shell was almost equal to that of a tactical gun!
During the Gulf War, the U.S. Iowa-class battleship, as the last representative of the era of big gun ships, used its 406-caliber cannon to bomb Iraq.
The power of this kind of artillery bombing is no weaker than that of tactical guns. What it lacks is accuracy!
However, a large-caliber artillery does not mean that the accuracy will be higher, because the most important attribute of a rifled gun is to allow the rifling to cut into the surface of the shell, thereby forming a high-speed rotating trajectory.
This rotation force can improve the stability of the cannonball. That is to say, the longer the barrel and the greater the muzzle velocity, the higher the stability of the cannonball.
This gives rise to a brand new artillery indicator, double diameter!
How many times the length of the barrel is the caliber? This value is called the diameter!
The magnification of the Zhiyuan's main gun is 25, which means the length of the main gun is 25*210=5250 mm, which is a distance of five meters and two!
Don't underestimate this five-meter-long barrel! This could be said to be the limit of artillery technology at that time!
For a five-meter-long gun barrel, you must ensure that there are no trachoma or bubbles in the steel, and the rationality of the entire internal metal structure must be consistent.
The longer the barrel, the more complex the casting process will be!
The longer the barrel, the greater the risk of deformation!
Thanks to the fact that Prussia's steel industry was at the forefront of the world in this era, those steel plants that were not favored by Britain and France contained the most advanced casting technology in the world at that time.
The little-known Krupp Military Factory also has world-class sleeve barrel production technology!
Only the best steel and the best production technology can produce such heaven-defying weapons as the Zhiyuan. This is the first warship in the world to conduct in-depth research on the caliber of artillery.
In this naval battle, France's black and short stupid cannons did not consider the issue of magnification at all, so throughout the naval battle, the hit accuracy of French artillery was very low.
On average, one out of every four rounds of the Zhiyuan's main gun can hit the enemy, while only one out of twenty rounds from the French battleship can hit the Zhiyuan.
After this battle, British statistics shocked the world. In the North Sea, where the waves were two meters high, the Zhiyuan was able to guarantee a 25% hit rate. This was simply a miracle!
New weapons bring terrifying lethality, but this weapon also has its hidden dangers, that is, the more high-tech weapons are, the more valuable they are!
After all, this is not the time of World War I. Humanity's smelting technology and military technology still need decades of evolution and upgrading. Although cannons like the Zhiyuan can be built at this time, the reliability is still incomparable to what it will be decades later!
Prussian engineers have long said that after this cannon fires twenty rounds, it must undergo maintenance and repair inspections, otherwise it will be in danger of exploding the barrel!
Today, each of these three main guns fired more than fifty shells, which in theory has reached a dangerous extreme!
Lin Zhen's eyes widened when he heard the nonsense of his men, "Exploding the barrel? Grandma, is there something wrong with your brain? We are all going to be crushed here today... Are you afraid that the main gun will explode?"
"I'm standing next to the barrel. If you want to blow up the barrel, blow me up first!"
"If I die, you can stuff my body into other cannons... I would rather die than die in the enemy's corpses and sea of blood!"
"Load! Blow it up!"
Boom...the muzzle sprayed out a red flame more than two meters long, bright as a torch in the dark night!
The artillery shells rushed into the fleeing crowd of French Army soldiers at the closest distance, and exploded with a bang that caused smoke and dust to be two stories high!
All the French troops within a radius of ten meters were killed, and the shock wave swept across all the French troops within a radius of twenty meters, sweeping down a large area like cutting leeks.
There were miserable wails everywhere, the wounded soldiers' backs were covered with shrapnel, and their mouths were vomiting blood!
The soldier whose legs were blown off pulled his neck and roared like a dying jackal!
"Counterattack! Counterattack...For the sake of God, don't run away! No matter how you run, you can't escape the shells!"
"Since you are destined to die, then die on the way to charge! French warriors... fight back!"
On the battlefield, the French commander was desperately boosting morale!
