Loggins was immediately confused.
The steady and sharp artillery fire almost landed beside him in an instant.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
For the first time, the entire Tahiti dock had been bombarded to pieces and was churning everywhere.
"this……"
Loggins was startled.
What kind of shell is this? Obviously they are still two nautical miles away! It can be so accurate?
What kind of artillery is this?
What kind of warship is this?
How come he had never heard of it before? Seeing that the dark fleet group has begun to accelerate. An incredible guess suddenly flashed through his mind.
"Dragon Flame Army?"
"Yinzhou ship?"
His expression changed dramatically.
He suddenly thought of this incredible guess. Because before, he always believed that the battleships of the British Empire were the most powerful battleships in the world. Their "Victory" battleship has always been the most powerful battleship in the world today, and it is also the most powerful battleship in history. The most famous three-masted, three-deck warship is nearly 70 meters long, has a displacement of more than 3,000 tons, and a speed of about ten knots. In the just-concluded Battle of Trafalgar, Lieutenant-Admiral Nelson, commander of the British Navy, It was with this ship that he defeated the French and Spanish coalition forces and became famous in the first battle.
However……
Now the appearance of the Yinzhou ship has completely subverted Loggins' view of battleships.
Big!
It can be said to be huge!
And it’s very high!
The darkness is like a war on the sea, a giant fortress on the sea! What he doesn't know is that today's Yinzhou ship can be regarded as the strongest battleship in the world. After undergoing several improvements and improvements, the total length of the Yinzhou ship has exceeded 130 meters. There are 150 artillery pieces, and 50 tons of gunpowder and 150 tons of shells can be stored on the ship. One voyage can last up to a year.
powerful!
Britain's Victory was no match for the Yinzhou ship.
What's more...
At this time, there are twenty Yinzhou ships!
"alert!"
"alert!"
Loggins, for a moment, couldn't care less about why Long Yan's navy appeared here. He had gone crazy. Soon, under his command, the 80,000 British troops at the Tahiti dock began to rely on the fortifications they had built long ago to be alert and counterattack.
"fire!"
Loggins is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy of Britain. He has strong theoretical knowledge of war and practical experience. Soon, the British side stabilized. The cannon was also pulled out by them. He quickly judged that this time, the scale of Longyan's army was too great!
There are an estimated 200,000 people!
Two hundred thousand!
Once they successfully land, the only thing waiting for them is death!
Britain's artillery is still a sixty-eight-pound smoothbore cannon. It is relatively heavy and has violent recoil. This smoothbore cannon is what people call the red barbarian cannon. As for the research on artillery, the entire world is still in the smoothbore artillery stage. This kind of artillery is quite troublesome to bombard, whether it is loading or subsequent maintenance.
However……
What they don't know is.
At this time, the Yinzhou ship was equipped with breech-mounted rifled guns... This kind of advanced rifled gun would not appear until more than a hundred years later. Regarding artillery, there have always been two types of development, one is smoothbore cannon, and the other is rifled cannon. These two types of artillery have been changing throughout history. It is definitely not rigorous to say who is advanced. Smoothbore guns and rifled guns are mainly distinguished by rifling. The main function of the rifling lies in the ability of the warhead to rotate, so that after the warhead comes out of the chamber, it can still maintain the established direction due to the action of centripetal force, thereby improving the hit rate.
but.
In fact, in order to improve the hit rate, the smoothbore cannon's shells with tail fins can also achieve this effect. Such is the case with mortar shells. However, the firing chamber pressure and temperature of mortars are relatively low, and the tail fins of its shells are also easier to manufacture. However, if it is used on a large-caliber artillery that requires higher firing chamber pressure and temperature, a relatively expensive cost must be used to manufacture the projectile tail fin.
This also greatly increases the cost of artillery.
Therefore, among various large-caliber artillery that are mainly used for long-range fire suppression, rifled guns with lower launch costs will still be used.
only.
Most of the rifled guns currently used in the world are front-loaded guns, which also made front-loaded guns almost dominate wars from the 16th to 19th centuries.
During this period, of course, breech rifled guns also appeared, but due to technical limitations, the leakage problem of red powder gas was difficult to solve.
Speaking of front-loaded artillery, the most famous one is naturally Liu Zheng's previous life, the great humiliation the Qing Dynasty brought to Chinese civilization, and the Battle of Bali Bridge. Including the Battle of Tanggu Fort, the British army only had twelve Armstrong cannons. Twelve guns knocked down the entire Tanggu Fort.
In the Battle of Baliqiao, the 10,000-strong British and French coalition used this cannon to inflict more than half of the 30,000-strong Qing army casualties, while only five of the British and French coalition were killed and 47 injured...
shame.
This is absolutely a shame for Chinese civilization.
Among the tasks Liu Zheng assigned to Mo Chen, improving artillery was always the top priority.
He knew that although the Armstrong artillery had shone brightly several times in the war of national humiliation at that time. But in fact, this rear rifled gun is not particularly perfect. The rifling, lead-coated shells, and breech-loading occlusion design led to poor reliability and frequent problems. In the end, the British abandoned this artillery and switched to the ancient front-loaded cannon.
so.
Yintan City, under the accelerated scientific research technology, has developed a cross-wedge breech block with excellent air tightness, which has completely made the "Liangzhou Cannon", this advanced rear rifled cannon, truly mature.
And, began to try to equip it on the Yinzhou ship.
This kind of artillery.
How can the Hongyi cannon be compared at this time?
Loggins began to realize in despair that his artillery could not hit the other party's ship because it was too far away! But the opponent, a long time ago, the cannonballs could accurately land on the pier!
Boom boom boom boom!
The entire Tahiti has been bombarded by artillery fire, causing dust and chaos.
Loggins never thought about it before coming to Australia.
There can be such a powerful navy in this world!
It's actually possible, such a powerful artillery!
this……
Is it Dragon Flame?
"Back off, back off everyone!"
Before the Yinzhou ship landed, Loggins was already going crazy.
retreat!
At this time, they were all exposed to the gunfire attack range of the Yinzhou ship. How dare they not retreat!
