The live-fire exercise off the coast of Chongming Island shocked all Xiaoxiao, and Jiangnan's morale, which was about to collapse, was once again boosted. The streets and alleys were reporting thunderous naval gunfire, describing the Chongming Island shooting range as like hell.
How knowledgeable could the people of the late Qing Dynasty be? If you are half a step ahead of them, you are a genius; if you are one step ahead, you are a madman; if you are ten steps ahead of them, these people will treat you as a god!
It would be difficult for people in the 21st century to understand the visual impact of naval guns on the people of that era. If they had to make a comparison, it would be like Somali pirates seeing Dongfeng missiles, incomprehensible!
They don't even have the basic concept. In their minds, cannons are thick, black, rusty iron lumps that can't rotate the muzzle!
That's a big firecracker, a bit lethal but within people's understanding!
The 88 Steel Cannon later produced by the Chinese was also a portable and easy-to-move weapon. It had strong firepower, fast rate of fire, good accuracy, and was easy to move!
This kind of field artillery is the limit of cannon that people in the late Qing Dynasty can understand!
Although there are several large-caliber coastal defense guns, they have never been experienced in actual combat, and they will not be open to the public for viewing. There is absolutely zero memory in the public's memory bank!
Today I finally saw a heavy naval gun on the sea. This thunder-like power made everyone stunned. The damage capability of the naval gun was dozens of times that of a field gun!
This kind of heavy artillery is so powerful that it can blow down a city wall with one salvo. Just look at the tidal flats of Chongming Island. Each of those craters can be filled with water and used as fish ponds!
This is the power of the navy. Before the air force appeared, and in the era before aerial bombs and missiles appeared, naval guns were the king of firepower output of all weapon systems!
This is a powerful weapon of a great power, a strategic-level weapon that cannot be touched by mortals at all!
After one blast, there will be basically no one alive in half the football field. The people in the center of the explosion will have no bones left, and the people on the edge will also be killed by the shock wave!
Such destructive capabilities were invincible to the Qing Dynasty, a country in the era of transition from cold weapons to gunpowder weapons!
With the live-fire exercise of such weapons, the people in Jiangnan suddenly had the idea of invincibility in their hearts. Market confidence quickly stabilized, and a large number of people began to prepare to 'buy the bottom' again.
Private funds poured into various markets, pushing up prices and giving the Chinese war preparation funds an opportunity to sell at a high level!
Even a big shot like Jiu Shuai has already started to think about it. He is beginning to think about the specific price of truly integrating into the Chinese race. He doesn't like the envoys from the north very much!
Even the Ninth Marshal already feels that the Chinese have a good chance of winning, let alone the common people. Almost no one at the bottom of Jiangnan believes that the Chinese will lose, and the public's emotions are getting higher and higher!
In this jubilant scene, there are definitely people who are calm. The senior Chinese people are very calm. At this time, they have to actively prepare for war. Everything is just strategic deception, and they are all preparing for the war!
The Chinese have plundered all the strategic materials on the market, the more the better!
All retired veterans returned to the military camp. The original training plan of more than four months for the recruit training camp ended two months ahead of schedule!
The private sector has even begun to register a large number of new recruits to serve as reserves. The original training venues are no longer enough, and many schools have temporarily requisitioned their playgrounds and classrooms for recruit training.
This is not happening in Naha alone. Almost all Chinese industrial areas are conducting such recruit training and are carrying out large-scale arming.
Especially within the Northern Industrial Zone, from Tanggu all the way north to Tangshan, there are more than ten recruit training camps, which can accommodate more than 10,000 recruits for training at the same time.
There are rumbles of artillery and bursts of gunfire everywhere, and the bullets consumed by live ammunition are as if they are free!
But strangely enough, the more intense the preparations for the war, the more excited and excited the people became, and the feeling of invincibility in their hearts became stronger!
The foreign devils have been watching everything, and spies from all over the UK have summarized the intelligence and sent it to the embassy in Beijing and Shanghai.
Everyone is reporting on this fanatical Chinese preparation for war, and all this is in the eyes of Delaney and other military attachés!
"The poor Chinese are indeed a nation without any knowledge... They seem to have forgotten the failures of the two Opium Wars. Do they really think that the Chinese are the saviors?"
"Xiao Letian is no longer in the world, are you still dreaming? These humble yellow-skinned monkeys have never seen the true strength of the British Empire!"
"Think you are bound to win? Is it possible?"
"Looks like I have to add some seasoning to these Chinese!"
Are the Chinese really bound to win? Not only the British were thinking about this issue, but Xiao Letian who was far away on Savage Island was also thinking about it. He locked himself in a tent and didn't care about the military base that was increasingly being built.
He thinks, judges, and writes hard every day! European intelligence was sent by Fang Guan and Pierre, and Asian intelligence was collected by Liu Lang and Tietutuo. This savage island has secretly pulled the submarine telegraph line, and all the secret lines of the head of state have been activated, and a massive amount of intelligence is being sent to them. Come here.
"Must win? How can it be that simple! It's just as I expected. The Chinese have just risen, and they are already so arrogant inside!"
"Xiang Ying! You can't be so confident. The British navy has dominated the sea for nearly 200 years. Europeans have a long history of playing navy and they have too much war experience. How can you be so careless?"
"Is the Eighth-Eight Fleet awesome? Just these eight battleships have a total tonnage of more than 57,000 tons... We have a total of 14 cruisers with a total tonnage of just over 66,000 tons..."
"There are 12 destroyers in total, and the total tonnage is only over 10,000 tons... There is a huge difference!"
"The total tonnage that can be pulled into the decisive battle in the deep sea and the high seas is only more than 135,000 tons... It's a big difference, a big difference!"
"Let's look at the intelligence of the British Great White Fleet... there are 12 battleships, four more than us!"
"Even the Huanglong, which was built by Zai Chun, was snatched away by the British and added to the Great White Fleet..."
The Huanglong is 7,000 tons, the Royal Oak is 7,100 tons, the Norman Duke is 7,300 tons, the Iron Duke is 7,100 tons,
The Warrior is 7100 tons, the Avenger is 6900 tons, the Prince of Wales is 7300 tons, and the Dublin is 7300 tons.
HMS Royal Power 7300 tons, HMS Queen 7300 tons, HMS Duke of York 7300 tons, HMS Edinburgh 7300 tons
"Look carefully, the total tonnage of the British battleship alone is more than 83,000 tons..."
"Looking at the British cruisers, there are as many as 16..."
Kent 3800 tons, Hampshire 3700 tons, Bonhomme Richard 3800 tons, Liverpool 3700 tons,
The Aberdeen is 3600 tons, the Birmingham is 4000 tons, the Oxford is 4100 tons,
The Essex weighed 4,000 tons and the Cardiff weighed 3,800 tons.
The Drake is 4100 tons, the Golden Hart is 4000 tons, the Granville is 3800 tons,
Howard 4,000 tons, Edward Teach 3,800 tons, Captain Kidd 4,000 tons,
Quick Jack 3800 tons, South Cape 3800 tons, Indian 4000 tons
"The total tonnage is more than 69,000 tons... plus the 21 destroyers, the total tonnage is more than 20,000 tons, and there are four supply ships!"
"Damn...the total displacement of the British Great White Fleet has reached 200,000 tons!"
