Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Daming's ironclad ships are generally painted black, ranging from second-tier battleships to fourth-tier battleships, and even smaller cruisers.Even if it is a cruiser, there are at least ten cannons on the side strings, and more than twenty cannons on the entire ship.

The iron-clad sailing warship in front of him was probably about the same size as a cruiser, but it was a bit narrower and longer, and it was painted white as a whole.

However, only five guns appear to be mounted on one side.

However, Chen Yonghua noticed that on the first deck of the bow and stern, the main guns loaded were obviously different from those of other ironclad ships—it was installed on a circular rail, and the caliber of the guns was quite large.

On the second deck, there is a small fort at the bow and stern of the ship, but it is equipped with a kind of weapon that looks like a gun that Chen Yonghua has never seen before.

To say it is a cannon, the caliber is too small.It can be said that it is a gun, not to mention the larger caliber, and there are several barrels, and it is placed on the fort, and there is even a fixed seat behind it.

There is also a circular rail under the weapon, which can obviously be rotated to adjust the shooting direction.

At this time, Bai Yuekui smiled and said: "This battleship can be called a light cruiser, also called an expedition cruiser, it is powered by steam and sails, and the main power is sails.

Don't think it has many side string artillery, but in a real fight, conventional cruisers, third-tier and fourth-tier battleships may not be its opponents.

As for why, you will come to the boat with me and take a closer look, and you will understand. "

After finishing speaking, Bai Yuekui motioned for Liu Guoxuan to take a group of people on board.

After boarding this battleship, Chen Yonghua and other talents discovered that there are many wonderful designs on the battleship, which is amazing.Even if they are college students, they can't understand the truth for a while.

"There are electric lights installed on this battleship?" Zhang Liangcun, one of the other two male students of the Navigation Club, couldn't help but wondered when he saw some light bulbs on the ship.

It should be noted that although many people in Ming Dynasty and Ming Dynasty know the existence of electric lights, many people in Nanjing have seen electric lights in some specific places, but they have never heard of anyone who bought electric lights in the first year of Zhaowu. Except for the "Immortal Magic Treasure Auction".

As a college student, he knows that things like electric lights are not something that Daming can produce at present.

So Zhang Liangcun was surprised that there were light bulbs on the battleship.

Auntie Zhu laughed and said, "There are two generators on this battleship that can supply power, so it hit a light bulb."

On the other hand, Chen Yonghua studied the main gun of the bow.

After looking at the barrel of the gun in a rather dangerous posture, he was surprised: "This cannon actually has rifling?"

Liu Guoxuan said from the side: "Yes, this is a rifled gun, and it is loaded from the rear. Its power is comparable to the main gun of a second-tier battleship, but it can hit farther and more accurately.

In addition, it passes through the turret rail and can fire in all directions 270 degrees.

The disadvantage is that it can only be loaded with special flowering bullets and armor-piercing bullets, and cannot be loaded with ordinary iron bullets. "

When talking about artillery, Liu Guoxuan obviously talked too much, and his words also became more excited.

Chen Yonghua took the opportunity to ask: "Then what kind of weapon is on the second deck?"

Hearing Chen Yonghua ask about this, Liu Guoxuan's expression became weird—excited, excited, yet fearful and lonely.

He said: "That is a machine gun, which can fire bullets continuously, and can fire 60 bullets per minute at the fastest!
Its effective range of up to 2000 meters, which is four miles!And the bullet has a certain armor-piercing effect! "

Chen Yonghua was directly shocked by Shihua, and when he came back to his senses, he thought Liu Guoxuan had made a mistake, "Firing 1 bullets in one minute? How is this possible?"

Liu Guoxuan said: "When I first saw this weapon, I thought it was impossible, but it just appeared. In front of it, thousands of troops are like paper.

However, 60 rounds per minute is its fastest speed, but if you shoot at this speed, you need to change the barrel once in less than 10 minutes, and it has five barrels.

More than 10 minutes, the barrel will be scrapped.

That is to say, if the barrel is not changed, one barrel will be scrapped in an average of 2 minutes-these barrels are made of special steel, and the price is extremely high.

Therefore, in training or normal battles, this machine gun generally fires bullets at a maximum rate of 10 to 30 rounds per minute. "

Chen Yonghua swallowed, and murmured, "Even if it's 30 rounds per minute, that's terrifying."

Because as far as Chen Yonghua learned in school, the fusiliers used by the infantry of the Ming army had the fastest reloading speed, and they could only fire four rounds per minute.

If it can reach two or three rounds per minute on the battlefield, then it is an absolute elite musketeer.

Therefore, it is really frightening that a gun-like weapon can fire up to 30 rounds per minute.

Seeing Chen Yonghua's frightened expression, Liu Guoxuan opened his mouth, but in the end he still couldn't say some words.

He heard that the Nanjing Firearms Research Institute has also developed a machine gun, not to mention lighter than a machine gun, and faster, which means that the single bullet is less powerful.

At this time, Bai Yuekui came over and said with a smile: "Actually, this battleship also has a weapon that is not inferior to the rear-loaded rifled main gun and cannon, and that is the torpedo gun."

Torpedo gun?
Chen Yonghua and the others showed puzzled expressions.

In fact, the navy of the Ming army used to have weapons to attack local warships from the bottom of the water, but the power was very small, it was inconvenient to use, and it was troublesome to cast, so it was eventually abandoned by the navy.

As for people outside the navy, there are even fewer people who know this kind of weapon.

It is not surprising that Chen Yonghua and others have never heard of it.

Bai Yuekui explained: "It's a kind of shell that attacks the hull of an enemy warship below the waterline from the bottom of the water—now that warships from all over the world, no one should be able to defend themselves against being attacked underwater, right?
Therefore, in a real battle, perhaps torpedo guns are easier to make meritorious service than main naval guns and machine guns. "

Chen Yonghua exclaimed: "There is such a cunning weapon, if so, the enemy is indeed hard to defend."

Bai Yuekui said again: "Actually, although the weapons configuration on this warship is much higher than that of today's navy warships, it is not the most admirable part of it.

What is really commendable is that this warship has a strong endurance-it is mainly powered by sails, supplemented by steam power, and can sail around the world like a sail warship.

In addition, the living facilities on the ship are extremely complete, even if you are sailing on the ocean, you will not feel too uncomfortable living on it. "

While speaking, Bai Yuekui led a group of people to visit the inside and outside of the battleship.

Chen Yonghua felt that, as Bai Yuekui said, the configuration of living facilities on this warship was even more exaggerated.

It can even be said that it is not like a battleship, but more like a ship for a certain super powerful to go out to sea.

Just when he was thinking this way, Bai Yuekui smiled and asked: "If I choose someone from the members of the Navigation Club to accompany me on this warship to sail around the world, would Brother Chen be willing to participate?"

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