Armored train! Armed train! Train gun!
General Luo Huo's most important trump card finally appears! When Xiao Letian established the Railway Corps, it was impossible not to develop armed trains with ample power, sufficient space, fast movement, and powerful firepower...
Armored trains have all the advantages you can think of!
The design idea of the armored train is not very advanced, but the armored train has already reflected the highest level of heavy industry technology in the 19th century!
The in-depth cooperation between the Chinese and Prussian steel industries has created an invincible and decisive strategic weapon!
The first section shows the locomotive spewing white smoke. The conductor is operating the machine. The coal shoveler behind is covered in sludge and sweat. A shovelful of anthracite coal is thrown into the boiler!
Xin Jian was the chief maintenance engineer for this mission. He led his technicians back and forth along the train carriage to check the operation of each machine!
The second car is a coal car, which is full of selected anthracite mined in Kailuan. It is all hand-selected by humans to ensure that not a single piece of coal gangue is mixed in it.
The smoke produced by burning this kind of high-heat selected white coal is gray-white, unlike ordinary buses, which burn black paint and leave cinders everywhere!
The third carriage is a specially made and elongated sports car, which is more than twice as long as an ordinary carriage. A staggering giant cannon is slowly rotating its muzzle on it!
The commander of this mission was Jiang Lie, who had made contributions in the Austro-Prussian War. He was already a school-level officer among the Chinese, and only such officials were qualified to command train guns!
210 caliber, this is already the largest caliber artillery that the Chinese can obtain. At present, the Chinese industrial system is not able to manufacture such a large-caliber artillery.
This gun barrel was imported from Krupp. The original plan was to allocate it to Annan to build a port fortress fort.
When Luo Huo organized the Railway Corps, an independent army, this huge artillery blank was allocated to General Luo Huo by the military!
What was the core technology and crown jewel of the steel industry in the 19th century? In fact, it is the barrel of a large-caliber artillery. The Chinese can basically produce other parts by themselves!
Today, the Chinese can produce all gun barrels below 180 caliber by themselves. Of course, the larger the caliber, the lower the production capacity. The 88-caliber field gun barrel has the largest output and the highest degree of assembly line!
Just now, Guiziliu used the Chinese 88 field artillery to bully Fu Qing's army!
What exactly is the concept of 210 caliber? Even an adult's head can be easily stuffed into it. The weight of a cannonball is close to 150 kilograms, the weight of two adults.
Loading such shells requires mechanical and hydraulic power, and manpower alone cannot carry it!
Unfortunately, the caliber of this cannon is indeed smaller than the free 26 caliber, so it looks a bit stubby. However, in the Qing Dynasty, such a cannon was already invincible!
An artillery piece of this caliber can blow down a brick-faced earthen city wall like Zhuozhou with one shot!
Jiang Lie shook his head. His eardrums almost burst from the shock just now. He couldn't bear it even if he covered his ears. But this was not the time to think about his eardrums. The most valuable thing was the data!
"Each group inspects the mechanical condition...the military observers record the damage data...the temperature of the barrel, the degree of debris in the barrel, the rifling...all the data are recorded clearly!"
"Holy shit..." When Jiang Lie took the telescope and threw it towards the battlefield, the small mushroom cloud was beginning to spread downwards!
A 150-kilogram shell, even if the charge is half, is high-explosive powder produced by Nobel Company. Its power is not comparable to the old black fire powder!
In the military formation of the 50,000-strong army commanded by Cheng Beile, a deep pit with a diameter of ten meters suddenly appeared. The soil in this deep pit was loose and dry, and the water and plasma in the soil were evaporated in the instant high temperature!
The shock wave swept away all the rebels within a radius of fifty meters, and the rebels near the center of the explosion were completely vaporized!
Gone, nothing is gone, all traces of a person’s existence in the world are gone!
What falls from the sky are some ash, and you can feel a little bit of graininess when it falls in your hands. Is that the dregs of human bones or the gravel in the ground? Only the devil knows!
The more serious consequence was that thousands of rebels around him lost their hearing. Even Zaicheng's ears were buzzing and he could no longer hear anything. The roar of his war horse knocked him to the ground!
Of course, the war horses have received adaptability training to the sound of explosions, but they have never been accustomed to this kind of explosion sound. It is too loud and will destroy the world!
All the war horses on the battlefield were frightened. Even the kidnapping horse couldn't control the mount on its crotch. Many war horses ignored the control of their owners and ran around like crazy!
The rebels' war horses also ran away, as did the kidnappers' horses. Even the airship in mid-air was tilted by the strong wind of the explosion shock wave and almost turned over!
"Ouch... holy shit, is this still a cannon? Zhengyang Gate can be blown down!" Li Tuo's face turned pale with fright. Looking down from the sky, the power of the explosion was even more obvious.
The reporters accompanying the army quickly pressed the shutter from mid-air to record everything at hand!
The battlefield was deathly quiet, and with just one shot, both the enemy and us were completely stunned!
No one was fighting anymore, and no one cared about military orders. There were even rebels strangling the new army's neck, and the new army pressed the rebels' bodies. The two of them were in a stalemate with this action, but their heads were tilted to watch the scene. Shocking explosion!
Jiang Lie finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Haha... These are giant cannons used to deal with the over-heavy armor of battleships. It's really a bit of a bully to use them to bomb the rebels!"
"Prepare the second round, extend the shot... Stay away from our people, and use two shells today! Damn... I only brought out five shells in total. These are treasures worth gold, but Gotta save some money!”
The fourth carriage is the ammunition carriage. There are really only five 210-caliber artillery shells. Each one has a number. Each shot must be registered and must be fired in order!
The Chinese troops are very disciplined, so after firing these two shells, Jiang Lie would have to write at least twenty pages of records, replay all the details, and write down all the data and experience!
In fact, the caliber of each cannonball is different, because the rifling will be worn every time it is fired, so the cannonballs are smaller at first and then gradually increase the caliber one by one!
These are all the little secrets of war, the devil is in the details!
Xiao Letian worked in a large company in the capital back then. In those large companies that were seriously involved, 80% of their energy was spent on various forms and reports!
Just dig into the details, study every step, and keep calculating!
This kind of torturous rules was all involved in the Chinese, but it is also very effective. Today, the Chinese military has become the most respected army in the world for data, experience, systems, summarization, calculation... !
Even more curly than the Germans!
