"For Britain!"

The blue sea surface was filled with salty and wet sea breeze, and Wesley raised his wine glass again.

"For Britain!" Johnson also shouted, "Teaching those yellow-skinned monkeys a lesson."

"We all hanged one by one, but it was actually the monkey named King Yan." Wesley punched the table hard.

After staying at the Port of Boer for three days, the fleet once again rushed towards India.

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Yanzhou.

Liu Fu led civil servants to carry out vigorous institutional reforms.

Zhao Xu and Yang Feng were inspecting the breech guns to be delivered to the army at the military camp.

Just as he said in the court.

The focus of Da Song at the moment is development, and at the same time, we must prepare for the coming war.

So after he was free, he focused on his arms.

Furthermore, the last time he was in Jinling, Wang Ying wrote to him to tell him that he had made a sample of the breech gun.

His reply was to ask him to build production lines and manufacture them in batches.

Now, the Military and War Office has stockpiled a large number of breech guns, but because the royal family and the Qin army are still fighting, they have not been delivered.

"Your Highness, whether it is a rifled gun or a howitzer, they have now adopted breech filling. According to Your Highness's design drawings, the howitzer's barrel has been reduced in caliber and increased the length of the barrel. The range of this batch of howitzers can reach eight miles." Wang Ying pointed to the howitzer in front of him and said.

Zhao Xu nodded. The style of howitzer in front of him was infinitely close to the style of howitzer in contemporary World War I.

In previous wars, a problem has been fully exposed.

That is, during war, because the howitzers have a short range, they can only use the howitzers to bombard the opponent's trench after the online chamber cannon clear the opponent's artillery.

This leads to a much lower efficiency of war.

Therefore, after solving the problem of breech filling, a howitzer with a long range and a small caliber is needed to replace a howitzer with a large caliber and a short range.

So, this rear-loaded howitzer was born.

At present, this howitzer weighs two tons, has a barrel of two meters and four meters long, a pitch angle of zero to forty-one degrees, and a caliber of one hundred and fifty-five millimeters. By extending the barrel, its maximum range reaches four thousand meters.

The rate of fire per minute is the same as that of the Qin-style rifle, which can reach ten rounds, almost three times that of the old howitzer.

On both sides of the barrel are huge wheels, and there is also a iron plate between the barrel and the breech mechanism.

This is to protect artillery and prevent them from being shot.

In short, the era of large-caliber and portable howitzers in the past has ended and ushered in the era of heavy howitzers.

After all, in the future, the Dasong army will face the Western and Turkish army, and it is necessary to ensure that howitzers can be outside the range of the opponent's artillery.

His eyes flew past the howitzer, and Zhao Xu looked at the rifled cannon again.

Like howitzers, there is another iron plate-like structure on the inline chamber gun.

Compared with howitzers, the elevation angle of the rifled gun is very small and the barrel is very long.

Obviously, the range is also increased through the gun barrel.

"The effective range of this rear-mounted rifled gun reaches 16 miles." Wang Ying continued.

"Eight thousand meters." Zhao Xu showed a satisfied expression.

During World War I, the range of howitzers could reach 16 kilometers alone, and the rifled gun could easily reach more than 30 kilometers.

The reason why there is still a gap between the artillery of the Military and Battle Art Office and the artillery of the War I.

This is because electricity has long been popularized during World War I.

First, it can produce oxygen and be used for oxygen blowing during converter steelmaking. At the same time, special gun steel is also available, and the gun barrel can withstand more launching drugs.

The accuracy of machining has increased, which has solved the problem of air leakage in breech filling, which has greatly increased the range.

When electricity is popularized in Dasong's workshops in the future, they can gradually bring their weapons to the level of First World War.

But even so, he was already very satisfied.

He believed that both the range of field howitzers or the range of field rifled guns were surpassed by the advanced design.

"It's amazing." Wang Ying's introduction made Yang Feng sigh, "But the range of howitzers are so far, is there no need to install rifled guns?"

Zhao Xu and Wang Ying looked at each other and smiled.

Wang Yingdao, "Although this is the case, the number of rifled guns can be reduced, but cannot be cancelled. Simply put, it is more efficient to clean up the opponent's cannon than howitzers."

Zhao Xu nodded and said that Wang Ying was right.

During World War I, howitzers were used to bombard trenches, and rifled guns were used to bombard the opponent's bunkers.

During World War II, it was used to fight tanks.

Therefore, although the range of howitzers has been improved, rifled guns are still needed to solve the problem of attack.

After circling around the two cannons, Zhao Xu said to Wang Ying, "Since that's the case, try to deliver the two cannons to the army."

"Yes, Your Highness." Wang Ying said.

Afterwards, the two followed Wang Ying to the office.

In addition to checking the two breech guns this time, Zhao Xu came here to have another important purpose.

That is, let the R&D Institute and the Bingzhan Office work together to build a small power plant within the Bingzhan Office to ensure the power consumption of the workshops in the Bingzhan Office and to transform the machinery in the workshops.

In this way, the next Infantry War Office can try to develop metal shell ammunition and the development of the cavalry's nemesis - machine gun.

In addition, there is another important thing, which is also a task that can be carried out at the moment, which is to create cavalry exclusive muskets and cavalry guns.

After the musket appeared, the cavalry tried to load the musket.

However, since muskets need to be equipped in front, cavalry often loads bullets before fighting and fires one shot in the last battle, which is too inefficient.

So muskets did not become popular among cavalry.

It was not until the 19th century, after the Second Industrial Revolution, that the revolver appeared and the era of cavalry equipped with firearms on a large scale came.

Later, with the emergence of the breech rifle, there were muskets and cavalry guns designed specifically for cavalry.

This rear-mounted rifle is much shorter than the rifles used by soldiers, so that it can be used by cavalrymen to shoot.

Because the gun is short, the effective range is shorter.

Zhao Xu estimated that the effective range of the cavalry gun made with the current technical level of the Military and Military Control Department is only about 250 meters.

This range is very stretchy for infantry, but it is very abundant for cavalrymen.

It is completely enough to use cavalry guns to attack Beidi cavalry.

Since ancient times, the Central Plains dynasty has been inferior to the grassland people in riding and shooting.

The difference lies in the archery technique on the fly, but as long as the cavalry gun is installed, the opponent's advantage will disappear invisibly.

In the future, the Dasong cavalry will never be afraid of the Beidi cavalry again.

At present, the Northern Di and the Western natives were getting involved, threatening Dasong's safety.

Before the Cavalry Destroyer, the Machine Gun, was obviously a good transition.

Otherwise, how could he face the combination of Beidi Cavalry and Ross infantry in the vast grassland?
Chapter completed!