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Chapter 70 The Assumption of Artillery

In fact, Lu Hong had an idea after boarding the warship. However, the transformation of this warship is no small-scale than making a machine by himself. It would cost money if he was smashed. Just adding paint and adding a training rapid-fire cannon would cost more than 20,000 yuan. No matter how much, Lu Hong is sold now, and there is nothing left.

So, after visiting the Jiangnan Shipyard, Lu Hong hand-drawn a simple drawing and asked the craftsmen in the shipyard to make a small thing, hanging it on the cross fork with a vertical pointed cone, with the scales on the front, back, left and right below, and then installed the thing on the main gun platform...

Lu Jianzhang obviously saw this thing, which made him a little strange. This thing was definitely not what he had before... but he didn't know what it was!

"This is a level!" Lu Hong obviously saw the strange expressions of the two of them, and he had never moved the idea of ​​changing the main gun of Nan Rui. Unless Liu Kun took out the money, he would not have been able to go bankrupt if he played with this money-burning warship. However, it was obviously inappropriate to make a small fight.

"Sir... Is this related to artillery?" Lu Jianzhang, Qi Fengyi and the others were obviously confused about the thing Lu Hong was equipped next to the fort, but they still vaguely guessed something.

Lu Hong stood in front of the fort and took out a drawing to hand it to them. On the drawing, he used several diagrams of the elevation angle of the gun barrel caused by the warship rolling and undulation. Lu Jianzhang and Qi Fengyi understood the function of this small device almost at the same time... The shooting of the cannon and the pitch angle difference of half a tick is a fatal error. Obviously, when the navy was practicing artillery, he chose to reduce the speed of the ship to minimize the occurrence of this situation. However, with this small level, the horizontal position of the turret can be predicted and the cannon can be fired at the best position!

Lu Jianzhang and Qi Fengyi were both from the navy teacher, so they naturally understood the amazing value of the schematic diagram on this piece of paper. However, the two of them muttered and discussed for a long time, but there were still many problems that had to be raised... For example, there was a problem of delay in the firing of the artillery. The artillery of this era was not fired at once. After ignition, because the black gunpowder burned slowly, it would take a while before it started!

For example, the hull rolls left and right and backwards will obviously affect the position of the level. How can we overcome this? Can't we fire the fire without running the middle position...

Lu Hong nodded with satisfaction as these two guys understood the artillery command map he drew so quickly, "Langzhai, have you been a teacher? Can you briefly talk about the artillery situation of the artillery master!"

When talking about Lu Jianzhang's familiar naval training, he immediately became energetic and demonstrated the so-called artillery techniques of the Nanyang Navy and even the entire Chinese navy with the 210mm Krupp heavy artillery in front of him. This made Lu Hong scratch his head when he heard this... The aiming mainly depends on the cannon aiming, and he also used his eyes to observe whether the cannon pipe was on the same surface as the enemy ship. If it was not aimed, he would turn the rotating platform... As for the pitch and timing of the cannon, it depends entirely on experience!

Such so-called artillery techniques are really based on the accumulation of experience in daily training. When talking about experience, this time, Lu Jianzhang, who was very confident, had a somewhat awkward expression. You should know that this naval artillery test is not something that can be trained just by wanting to be trained in peacetime. When Guo Baochang was the commander, he stipulated that the main warships train 5 artillery pieces per month. In fact, in most cases, even 2 artillery shells may not be able to be practiced every month. This training fee must be deducted from the shipping fee of the steer. Will that steer be unable to match his own money?

As a result, there was a bizarre situation. The navy had no intention of doing it during training. When the peak came to the test, the target ship and the target had both tampered with the built-in explosives, and even used ropes to measure the distance. The so-called cannon performance was just a show... This did not surprise Lu Hong much. He had seen these things in his previous history books!

After listening carefully to Lu Jianzhang's introduction, he thought about it and then said to the two of them firmly: "In the past artillery, you must completely abandon them. You must master new artillery as soon as possible. In the past two days, you will first urge the workers to clean the ship and load the artillery. Then come to me, the artillery of the navy must be completely innovated!"

Now the hardware of the warship cannot be greatly improved for a while. Obviously, Lu Hong naturally turned his attention to the improvement of the navy's technology!

In this era, naval artillery was obviously a key element of maritime victory, and the British Empire was obviously far ahead of China and Japan, which were about to go to war. The British were never stupid... Although the British Empire desperately promoted their various warships to various countries, the Navy's research on naval artillery has never stopped, and has never actively sold any instruments related to artillery art to the outside world.

Recently, on the Yoshino ship sold to the Japanese, in view of the strong demands of the Japanese, the Armstrong factory installed the first generation of McMit rangefinders that the Royal Navy has eliminated. This optical rangefinder can maintain a certain rangefinder accuracy within a distance of 2,000 meters. However, within 2,000 meters, direct gun aiming and prediction can solve the problem of hit rate. Of course, this is not considered a series of problems that affect shooting accuracy.

Since 1893, the Royal Navy has begun to equip the FA-MKI vertical MKI rangefinder rangefinder from the British company Barr Stroud. This more advanced rangefinder has a standard 8-foot rangefinder baseline and uses the combined lens technology to make the target rangefinder judgment. At a distance of 3,000 meters, the rangefinder accuracy can reach an error of 1-2%, which is already a very technically mature technology.

When Lu Hong and several others were discussing how to improve the artillery of naval divisions on the warship, Lu Jianzhang and Qi Fengyi were all officers who were familiar with the military affairs of the navy. From their detailed introduction, he soon discovered more problems. The warship had no concept of wartime damage control, and there were neither full-time personnel nor full-time training.

Speaking of this, these two guys were even quibbling. Once a problem occurred, nearby sailors and soldiers would naturally engage in emergency repairs... Lu Hong had no choice but to do anything about the unprofessional attitude of these two guys, but he still asked them to prepare for the team of damage management. He began to think about going back to write a booklet and quickly gathered the team!
Chapter completed!
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