This rotating machine gun is divided into navy version and army version.
The naval version of the rotary machine gun is mainly equipped on strategic battleships. Each machine gun weighs 160 kilograms. It is mainly used to deal with enemy ship deck targets and near-shore targets.
The Army version is lighter, only 130 kilograms. It is transported on a special cart and can follow battalion-level troops in combat.
This castle is equipped with five rotating machine guns, with a range of up to 1,200 meters and a rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute, thus causing a devastating blow to the approaching camel cavalry.
After the camel cavalry retreated and after two days of repairs, a strategic capital ship of the southbound fleet led two frigates straight to the capital of the Aliba Dynasty.
The capital of the Aliba Dynasty was also built on the seaside, about three hundred kilometers away from the castle.
For a strategic capital ship, the cruising speed is only ten hours.
When the three warships arrived in the waters near the capital of the Yaliba Dynasty, everyone in the Yaliba Dynasty was shocked.
The 5,000-ton displacement battleship looks like a black giant beast on the sea.
In front of this black giant beast, the wooden warships driven by the Ariba people were just like little rabbits standing in front of the elephant.
An interpreter named Yaliba, who was recruited by the Putao people and then transferred to the Xinghai people, took a boat ashore and submitted his credentials for the Xinghai Kingdom.
The general idea of the letter of credence is that it is willing to become an ally with the Yaliba Dynasty and hopes to explore some mineral deposits within the Yaliba Dynasty. For this, Xinghai Kingdom is willing to pay some benefits.
However, after receiving the news that the camel cavalry was almost wiped out, the talented King Yaliba was very angry, and he misjudged the intentions of Xinghai Kingdom and the strength of both parties.
Even Grape Press was beaten by him and he fled in embarrassment. How dare such a Xinghai man resist?
Now you still want to please me?
Don't even think about it!
With an order, hundreds of wooden ships of the Yaliba Navy immediately launched a desperate charge against the strategic capital ships of the Star Sea Kingdom.
Well, except for His Majesty the King, the rest of the people, including those in the Yaliba Navy, do not feel that these wooden ships can cause much damage to the enemy.
No way, the difference in strength between the two sides is too obvious.
The giant ship could crush these wooden boats just by ramming it all the way. The sailors on the wooden boats couldn't even climb up the cliff-like hull. It was too high to climb up.
The extremely pitiful Yaliba Navy was shot to pieces by rotating machine guns before it even got close to the strategic capital ship.
Afterwards, the warship, which seemed to the Yalibans to be extremely large, slowly approached the capital. As the eight 180mm main guns slowly aimed their muzzles at the green city, many Yalibans were stunned. There was an inexplicable convulsion in Liba's heart.
The next moment, fire erupted from the muzzle, and the shells crossed parabolas and fell into the city, setting off bursts of violent fire.
Teach them a lesson.
These are the exact words of Lin Xuefeng, commander of the fleet heading south.
As outsiders who have just arrived, the Xinghai people are undoubtedly hostile here.
If you want to realize the fuel development strategy of Chief Executive Zheng Xiangdong and explore oil here, you need a safe environment.
Under such circumstances, it is important to give enemies or potential enemies a certain degree of deterrence.
The 180mm main gun of the strategic battleship was originally developed for attacking strong castles across the shore.
After all, for warships of this era, the 125mm main gun is enough to easily send any warship to the bottom of the sea.
The 180mm main gun originally had some caliber waste.
Initially, within the Ministry of Industrial Affairs, many senior officials did not agree with the development of 180mm naval guns and felt that it was a waste of time and energy.
But Fang Xiaoyue had a different idea. Think about the castles everywhere in Ouzhou in this era. Naval guns with larger caliber are still useful.
When the strategic battleship stopped shelling, two hours later, the Yaliba envoy holding a white flag came to the giant ship in fear.
As soon as the messenger got on the boat, he was shocked.
This turned out to be a giant ship made of steel!
Well, the envoy's eyes could not see through the wooden structure under the iron armor, so he naturally regarded the strategic battleship as being made entirely of steel.
This realization made his morale drop to the lowest point.
"Your country launches attacks on our strongholds and our fleet. This is Chi Guoguo's hostility. In view of this, our country makes the following requests to your country..."
Lin Xuefeng, wearing a white general's uniform, stood majestically in front of the envoy of Yaliba. Every word he said would make the envoy tremble.
According to what Lin Xuefeng said, cutting the Yaliba Kingdom into pieces would not be enough to compensate.
Fortunately, Xinghai Kingdom is kinder and only made a few small requests.
The cession of territory and compensation, the granting of free passage rights, the safety of the Xinghai people in the Kingdom of Yaliba must be guaranteed... and a series of other demands made the envoy speechless. He knew that if he dared to put all these in one breath, If you agree to the request, you will probably be hanged immediately after you return.
Under such circumstances, he could only say that he had no right to make the decision, but he could take these requests back to His Majesty the King.
"I only give you two days to think about it. Once the two days are up and there is no reply, our cannon will not agree!"
Lin Xuefeng could be regarded as a big villain this time, and his vicious face would really frighten the messenger.
Even though the entire Kingdom of Ariba was full of anger towards the Star Sea people, His Majesty the King finally succumbed to the cannons of the Star Sea Battleship.
No way, in this era, the size of the artillery caliber and the power of the shells determine whose side the truth is on.
After the Kingdom of Ariba and the Kingdom of Xinghai signed a series of mutual assistance agreements, the geological exploration team of the Kingdom of Xinghai immediately entered the Kingdom of Ariba and conducted oil exploration according to the prompts of the mineral deposit maps in the library.
Well, to be honest, several senior members of the Xinghai Kingdom's geological exploration team were just editors of geographical magazines before and had not conducted geological exploration in a real sense.
But the mineral map they had made it easy for them to find several oil fields in the Kingdom of Yaliba.
After discovering the oil field, Xinghai State immediately mobilized newly developed drilling equipment.
As for the Kingdom of Yaliba, they feel that what the Kingdom of Xinghai asks of them is pitifully little.
Except for some land demands, they were not asked to pay war reparations.
The Xinghai Kingdom is even willing to provide loans, export advanced weapons to them, and help them form a new army to fight against the Hahusha Dynasty in the north.
