I want to be emperor

Although the firepower of the Qingyang-class frigate could not satisfy the observation officers sent by the high-level navy, it is undeniable.

It's not that the Qingyang-class frigates are weak, but that the high-level navy's ambitions are too great, and they even want to replace the combat effectiveness of some cruisers with mere frigates that were originally positioned for miscellaneous use.

Moreover, it is also a land bombardment that requires extremely high caliber of naval guns.

In the case of land bombardment, the caliber is justice, and the charge is the truth!

The caliber is not small, the charge of the shell is too small, and the other rate of fire, range, and accuracy are all castles in the air.

What's the use of hitting fast, but it doesn't work if you hit it?

Otherwise, why didn't the Great Chu Empire Navy use cheaper, faster-firing small-caliber naval guns to carry out artillery strikes against land?

For example, 75mm naval guns or even smaller caliber 55mm naval guns, because the artillery is small, the rate of fire is faster.

But these artillery are very useful against enemy ships, and they are also good enough to deal with the effective forces on the shore, but they are not enough to deal with the solid fortifications on land.

Don't think that the natives in the [-]th century didn't know how to build fortifications, they would also build castles and various fortifications, such as bastions, which are quite good at defending against artillery.

In addition, the rise of the Great Chu Empire is not a year or two, but a full 20 years, and intensive exchanges with European colonists for more than 20 years. European countries have long known that the grenades of the Chu army are powerful. Ten or [-] years ago, the Portuguese and the Dutch knew that they could dig trenches and build artillery fortifications to resist the grenades of the Chu army.

At the same time, these Europeans themselves are gradually using relatively primitive grenades, that is, the early matchlock-fuzed explosive bombs, which are fired with ultra-short-barreled mortars, just like the Chu army during the Unification War.

After this kind of mortar began to appear in Europe and was equipped on a large scale, it also prompted European countries to pay attention to howitzer protection in the construction of fortifications.

Over the past two decades, the Europeans have made great progress in artillery fortifications... Although the fortifications are still not good, some key defensive areas, such as coastal defense forts and fortresses, are still no problem in resisting small-caliber grenades.

If you want to knock down a fortress with one shot, and completely disable a coastal defense fort with a few rounds of shelling, you still need large-caliber artillery.

This is also the reason why the Qingyang-class frigate did not perform well when bombarding the Tangier coastal defense fort... The reason is simple. If the grenade is fired, the caliber is too small, the charge is not enough, and the explosive power is not enough. It is difficult to directly rely on the blast shock wave to destroy these strong fortifications.

The Spaniards are not stupid when it comes to firing semi-armour-piercing projectiles. The fronts of these coastal defense forts are very thick. They are generally composed of outer stone walls and inner layers of soil. They are used to resist solid ball shells. The effect is very small. At the same time, the semi-armour-piercing effect used to resist the Chu army is actually just enough, at least the small-caliber semi-armor-piercing can't penetrate...

The most important thing is that even if it barely penetrates, the small-caliber semi-armour-piercing gun has a pitifully small amount of charge, and the explosion after hitting it is not very powerful.

After the Shiquan frigate fired a 120mm 4525 times rear-loading rifled gun and fired a few rounds against the solid coastal defense fort, the observation officer was very dissatisfied... especially compared with the 150mm shells fired by the next-door cruiser Qiongzhou. The gap is too big.

How should I put it, the effect is not without, in fact there is, and it is also very good, if one shot can't kill it, it's just a matter of firing a few more shots.

But this is still relatively far from the expectations of the high-level navy... The high-level navy wants the 120mm naval gun to take the lead, but this world is such a good thing.

The firepower is one millimeter of caliber and one point of firepower. If the caliber is small, the explosive power will not increase.

After the observation, the Great Chu Imperial Navy decided not to let the frigate Shiquan bombard the coastal defense fort, but focused on the port area, castle area and other areas.

Although the 120mm 25 times rear-loaded rifled gun on the Shiquan is not bad for hitting the fort, the same purpose can be achieved by firing a few more rounds, but it is too wasteful of ammunition and the life of the barrel.

Not to mention ammunition, the new shells used by rifled guns are inherently expensive, and every bullet and every shell used in the fleet needs to be transported from the mainland nearly [-] kilometers away, and the freight is very expensive.

More importantly, it takes too long, and the transportation time is often several months.

It is troublesome to replenish ammunition, which also forces the expeditionary fleet to save ammunition.

In addition, the lifespan of the rifled guns these days is not good. The basic technology of the Great Chu Empire is actually the same. Don’t look at the triple-expansion steam engine and rear-mounted rifled guns, but being able to do it does not mean that the technology is very perfect.

Especially for the breech-loading rifle gun, being able to make it and making it well are two different things.

The low-pressure field guns used by the Army are better. For example, the main 75mm rear-loaded field guns in active service can reach about [-] rounds.

However, the high-pressure naval guns used by the navy have a very low barrel life.

The main naval gun used by the navy on frigates is the 34mm L120 rear-mounted rifled naval gun of the 25 model. The barrel life of this thing is actually only more than 1000 rounds

The cruiser's main gun with a larger caliber, the 150L25 naval gun, has a barrel life of only a pitiful 800 rounds.

What is even worse is that the 250L25 cannon prepared for the new generation of 300-ton battleships, that is, the Jinling-class battleships, has a barrel life of only more than [-] rounds.

This is the result of the fact that the basic industrial capabilities are not enough, but the high-pressure rifled guns are forcibly installed... to obtain greater chamber pressure at the expense of barrel life.

The chamber pressure represents the initial velocity of the shell, which means the maximum range and armor-piercing ability.

These are more important for naval guns.

On the contrary, the performance requirements of the artillery used by the army are lower. Even if it seems to have the same multiple diameter, the chamber pressure of the army field cannon is lower than that of the naval gun. In many cases, if the range is relatively short, it is even fired with a reduced charge to further extend the life of the barrel.

To a certain extent, the breech-loading rifled guns of more than 120mm currently equipped by the Chu army, that is, the first-generation breech-loaded rifled naval guns, are actually drug-intoxicating guns...by sacrificing the life of the barrel to obtain greater performance.

It’s just that some people in the navy have already proposed that this idea seems to have achieved better naval gun performance, but it has also led to higher follow-up costs for warships, and its life-cycle cost will increase a lot. It is better to use standard artillery directly to increase the life of the gun barrel and reduce the life-time cost of use.

As for the power, it is enough. To deal with a group of indigenous sampans and land artillery strikes, there is no need for any drug guns at all.

It's just that there are many people in the navy who stubbornly pursue the power of naval guns, thinking that larger caliber, faster rate of fire, and greater power can protect the safety of the empire... Well, it is not used to deal with foreign enemies, but to protect the safety of the empire.

Under what circumstances does the security of the empire need to be protected?Naturally, it was the time when the army or guards rebelled!
On the navy side, quite a few officers regard the army and even the guards as imaginary enemies.

There are no advanced battleships that are powerful enough, how can they go all the way to the Yangtze River and kill those turtle-shell offshore battleships of the Guards?Kill the Jiangyin Fort guarded by the Army and the Zhenjiang Fort guarded by the Guards.

There are three large fortress groups in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, namely, the Wusong Fort garrisoned by the Navy, the Jiangyin Fort garrisoned by the Army, and the Zhenjiang Fort garrisoned by the Guards.

It's all turtle shells, ruthless characters with a lot of heavy artillery deployed.

Among them, the Zhenjiang Fort garrisoned by the Guards is now being equipped with 250mm breech-loading rifled guns one after another... and the Jinling-class battleships in the navy equipped with 250mm breech-loading naval guns have not even completed their hulls, and they are at least three or four years away from service.

In addition, the army is also working on a train cannon plan. It plans to use trains to carry cannons for maneuvering and combat. Train cannons equipped with 170mm or even [-]mm cannons...

These turrets, these train guns, and the coastal battleships of the Guards... needless to say, they all know that they are all rushing to deal with the navy.

In this regard, how can the navy have no countermeasures?
As for the overseas barbarian aborigines, that group of scumbags and a few armed merchant ships can take them out.

It is not worth the effort of the Navy, spending huge sums of money to build various advanced warships, and striving to expand the size of the Marine Corps and equip the Marine Corps with the most advanced weapons.

Quite a few generals in their navy are keen to build an advanced navy because they are rushing to protect the king in the future.

For this reason, the Navy is even fantasizing about letting warships go ashore...to design, develop and equip a war weapon such as a "land battleship".

In the future, once the army or guards rebel, the navy will drive land warships ashore, and use powerful naval guns to cleanse the land for the army or guards!

This is why the navy has been funding the three major steam engine manufacturers to carry out in-depth research and development of steam engines. They are trying to obtain a super efficient steam engine with a higher thrust-to-weight ratio as the power of the land cruiser.

So don't think that the navy's internal land battleship plan is just for fun. Their navy has really established and promoted the project...but it's still far away from success.

The navy even has project plans for land battleships. The use of drug guns is naturally a routine operation, but the issue of barrel life has also attracted attention. The navy also has a so-called low-pressure naval gun project, but the main purpose of the naval guns of this project is to be used in overseas colonies to reduce the cost of overseas operations.

As for the main local warships, they will naturally continue to be equipped with various high-end naval guns, otherwise they will not be able to provide enough deterrence to the army and guards.

Once the navy is unable to effectively deter the army and guards, in the words of some senior navy generals: This is a sign that the foundation of the empire is unstable!

Even Emperor Luo Zhixue has heard such words... Sometimes he can't even figure out whether the conflict between the three armies is really serious to such an extent, or whether the navy is simply fighting for military expenses.

The huge ship cannon that the navy pursues costs more than 200 million... and there is no obvious foreign enemy, the navy can't come up with too many reasons to persuade the country to let the navy build such an expensive toy.

Luo Zhixue felt that the navy had forcibly created a so-called enemy for itself in the absence of foreign enemies.

Well, something similar happened with the Army and Guards.

The Guards blatantly set the imaginary enemies as the army and navy, and all armaments and even tactical training were tit-for-tat. They never targeted the overseas aborigines, but the army and navy.

Otherwise, what do you think the Guards fleet is doing to build a group of offshore battleships and hoard them in the Yangtze River?

That is specially used to resist the naval fleet.

Moreover, the Guards are also equipped with a bunch of 120mm field guns and 150mm field guns that the army is reluctant to equip, or that maneuvering is troublesome and difficult.

The purpose is to fully suppress the army's field firepower and ensure firepower superiority.

The Guards pride themselves on being His Majesty's last line of defense. Naturally, they need to have the strength to fully suppress all potential enemies. However, due to the lack of natural strength of the Guards, the quality of the weapons and equipment must be improved.

And hoarded a large amount of advanced weapons and equipment, with Yingtianfu as the core, built a complete mobilization system in Gyeonggi and nearby areas.

Once the army and navy rebel, the guards can expand from the existing more than 8 people to more than 30 at any time, and all of them are equipped with active main weapons.

There are many guards' combat readiness warehouses in Yingtian Mansion, which store weapons and ammunition enough to equip 20 troops all year round... These stored weapons and ammunition are also being gradually replaced with new breech-loading rifled guns.

Only the Guards can throw the newly purchased Type [-] rifles directly into the warehouse as a strategic reserve.

You must know that many main forces in the army are not equipped with Type [-] rifles yet, but the Guards have completed a full refit and have begun to hoard strategic reserves on a large scale.

At the same time, the Guards also adopted a multi-deputy system. Under the principal, there were often multiple deputies.

At the same time, the proportion of non-commissioned officers among soldiers is very large, almost three times that of the army.

The purpose of this is to be able to pull out enough officers and non-commissioned officers at any time to form the backbone of the new unit, and join the mobilized soldiers to quickly form an army in a short time.

The army is relatively calm, after all, they have the most people...

Moreover, most of the most elite first-class divisions in the army are actually in the country, and they are all deployed in transportation hubs, which can be quickly transferred to other places by train.

According to the deployment of the army, once there is a change in Gyeonggi, it will be in a state of first-class combat readiness all year round, and there will be a large number of train skins in reserve at any time. The No. 11 Infantry Division deployed at the mouth of Jiujiang Lake can rush to aid Gyeonggi within a day.

The Ninth Infantry Division deployed in Xuzhou, Jiangbei, the Anlu Hefei Second Cavalry Division and other Jiangbei troops can basically attack Pukou, Gyeonggi within two days.

And the elite first-class troops deployed farther away, located in Zhengzhou in the Central Plains, Tianjin in Hebei, Hantian in the accompanying capital, Guangzhou in Guangdong, etc., can also quickly assist Gyeonggi within a few days or as long as half a month.

To use the non-public private speeches of some senior generals of the army: Once His Majesty orders, our Great Chu Empire Army can mobilize at least 30 elite troops to Gyeonggi within half a month.

All first-class troops suppress all dissatisfaction!
Today's internal military construction of the Great Chu Empire, in addition to external expansion, is aimed at each other internally.

And the aloof Luo Zhixue has no opinion on this... It is better for the three armed forces to compete in military construction within the controllable range than to be a waste material.

However, Luo Zhixue knew better that the so-called competition between the three armies among the imaginary enemies was actually a superficial reason, and the real reason was nothing more than the three armies competing for military expenses.

As a military organization that does not need to generate profits, how to reflect the importance of its own organization and dominate the power of generals?
Especially in peacetime.

It is nothing more than the personnel and funds in the organization.

For the military, military spending is a very good measure.

No matter how loud you are, but the military expenditure is only a little bit, a group of officers and even ordinary soldiers in the interior dislike you and think you are useless.

You can't even fight for a fund, and everyone follows you, drinking the northwest wind?

And when you walk outside, those profiteers in the defense industry who want money don’t even look at you... If you don’t have money, you don’t have military purchases, and if you don’t have military purchases, let alone the defense industry, people in the entire industrial system don’t bother to look at you.

In many cases, the senior generals in the three armies, especially the leading ones, were forced to move forward step by step by the subordinates and the outside world... This is also the root cause of the huge conflicts between the military, the cabinet, and the three armies within the military in the budget meetings of the Great Chu Empire over the years.

To sum it up in one sentence: no money is nothing!
This is also the fact that in the three armies of the Great Chu Empire, among a small group of senior generals, there will always be a few people who do not fight without authorization, but fight against each other and fight for funds.

For example, the current Minister of Military and Political Affairs of the Army, Army General Hong Xuesong, has been in the army all his life and has never been on a serious battlefield even once.

Since joining the army, he has been working in the military supply department, and has been in various army departments and group army headquarters in Jinling City for a long time, and he is still responsible for administrative affairs.

But Leng stepped up to a high position step by step, and finally became the Minister of the Military and Political Department, and the Assistant Minister of the Imperial Study.

He was also well received by the army. Last year, the position of Minister of Military and Political Affairs was vacant, and a large number of bigwigs in the army supported him. Even Field Marshal Zuo Yingzhe, who had not held an actual position for many years, personally went to the palace to recommend him.

why?Because he fights for a lot of funds for the Army!

This person is not good at fighting, and he is not good at logistics, but he is good at playing intrigue, threatening and luring, forcing the cabinet and the navy, and the guards to make concessions on funds.

Although this man is a general, what he did during his military career was actually the work of civilian officials...

Therefore, the military construction of the contemporary Great Chu Empire cannot be viewed from a conventional perspective, otherwise you will feel that it is particularly strange: a general who can’t fight and has never been on the battlefield, but holds a high position, is in charge of military and political affairs, and even becomes the second-in-command in active service in the army as the “co-organizer of the Royal Study Room”.

But when you consider the internal environment and external environment of the Great Chu Empire in detail, you will find that all these are taken for granted.

And this slightly weird army building strategy is also reflected in overseas expansion. When landing in Tangier, the navy tried to replace cruisers with frigates to perform some combat missions... It turned out to be unreliable, and the blind pursuit of high chamber pressure also led to high combat costs.

This made several naval observation officers have to think, is the "low-cost and powerful warship" that the navy is currently engaged in for overseas operations is the future?

If this thing is placed in any modern national navy in the original time and space, it will be scolded to death... But in the Great Chu Empire Navy, it is seriously considering the feasibility of this kind of warship and preparing for large-scale construction.

The reason why the current large-caliber naval guns are expensive is because of the pursuit of the rate of fire and muzzle velocity. However, if these pursuits are abandoned, then the army's field guns can be completely followed by reducing the chamber pressure and using low-bore pressure large-caliber naval guns. Then the high cost of naval guns can be greatly reduced.

And the low-pressure large-caliber naval gun has a good effect on land bombardment.

The army was also equipped with a [-]mm caliber ultra-short-barreled howitzer before. It seems that the barrel is very short, but the caliber is large enough. The heavy shells fired are accurate against solid fortifications.

Lower the standard for naval guns, and then lower the standard for the hull and power system, such as speed, you don’t need pure steam power to run [-] knots, [-] knots, [-] knots or even [-] knots is not impossible... Continue to use sail power, just use sails for daily sailing.

The hull doesn't need any steel armor either. It's enough to continue to use cheap and mature wrought iron and add a wooden plank. Other hull designs can be saved.

In the end, it is very feasible to produce a low-cost and powerful warship. It is naturally unreliable to use it to fight other capital ships in active service in the navy, but it is very reliable to deal with various aborigines and perform bombardment missions against overseas aborigines land targets.

While these naval observation officers sent by Jinling were thinking about the feasibility of overseas low-cost and powerful warships, the landing troops sent by the army also landed in small boats under the cover of warships.

The Spaniards in the city once tried to counterattack and blocked the Chu army on the beach, but most of them were blown up before they started to act.

To deal with these sound targets, let alone 150mm naval guns, even the 75mm naval guns used as secondary guns on battleships, and even the 50mm naval guns used as self-defense firepower on transport ships can efficiently kill these living targets.

As a result, these Spaniards who wanted to attack were often bombed and collapsed as soon as they left the city, and then ran back to the city in a hurry.

However, the city was not safe either. All kinds of shells continued to fall, and there were rumbling explosions everywhere.

The three warships have a total of dozens of large and small artillery shells, aiming at such a small area, the ancient city with a population of only [-] people, not to mention comprehensive coverage, but at least it can cover many key areas.

Moreover, during the bombardment, the Chu army did not shoot blindly. Instead, the three warships raised their hot air balloons to look for high-value targets and shoot them. The effect of the fire was very accurate.

In particular, several suspected military barracks buildings in the city were quickly bombarded, and then some more prominent buildings that looked like the Governor's Mansion were also intensively bombarded.

After discovering that the Spanish garrison of nearly a thousand men left the city, a frigate aimed at them. Even though they retreated to the city, it seemed that they were protected by the city wall, but there were still curved shells falling on them.

The more people there are, the denser the shells will be.

After all, the lookouts of the Chu army were on a hot air balloon more than 100 meters high, observing with a high-magnification telescope. They could basically see the movement of the slightly larger Spanish garrison in Tangier.

This is also for the more than 1000 Spanish garrisons, whether they are going out of the city or entering the city.

In short, they were bombed everywhere and from time to time, and in the end the casualties were heavy, and the rest were also dizzy. After some smart people found that the more people gathered, the easier it was to be bombed, they would break away from the main force and flee for their lives.

In this way, when the landing troops of the Great Chu Empire Army, that is, the second battalion under the 211th Infantry Regiment of the Third Division and an artillery company that strengthened their allocation, completed the landing and advanced near the gate of Tangier City.

In fact, the Spanish defenders in Tangier have all collapsed, and there is no organized force to resist.

But looking at the bombed and collapsed city gate ahead and the native corpses and wounded all over the ground, the captain in the lead couldn't help but frown: "That bunch of turtles in the navy are so unreasonable!"

A lieutenant and deputy company commander next to him also had a bad face: "Damn it, it's okay for them to eat meat, and they don't even leave any soup for our army."

"We must protest sternly later. It was clearly agreed before we set off that we would leave some meat for our landing troops. We couldn't eat it all up, but they ended up eating it up again..."

"This is not the first time. Along the way, their navy has gone back and forth several times!"

"We, the mighty Imperial Army, have come all the way to Europe, not to clean up the battlefield for them!"

After a group of people from the army landed, they were very upset...but there was nothing they could do. Who made the Spaniards too scumbag, and the navy fought hard to test the combat effectiveness of the new and compared frigates.

I was so sick, I corrected a typo before posting, and wrote hundreds of words after correcting and correcting. I accidentally missed the update time at 12 o'clock. My full attendance...