This rotating barrel machine gun is divided into naval version and army version.
The naval version of the rotating barrel 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 repaired for two days, a strategic capital ship of the southward fleet led two frigates straight to the capital of the Aliba Dynasty.
This capital of the Aliba Dynasty was also built on the seaside, about 300 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 Ariba Dynasty, everyone in the Ariba Dynasty was shocked.
The 5,000-ton displacement battleship looks like a black giant beast on the sea.
The wooden warships driven by the Ariba people were like little rabbits standing in front of the elephant in front of this black giant beast.
A translator named Yaliba, who was recruited by the Putao people and then transferred to the Xinghai people, took a small 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 in 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 majestic and talented King Ariba 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 panic. How dare such a Xinghai man resist?
You still want to please me now?
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 Ariba Navy, do not feel that these wooden ships can cause much harm to the enemy.
No way, the difference in strength between the two sides is too obvious.
The giant ship was able to crush these wooden boats just by ramming it all the way. The sailors on the wooden boats could not 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.
After that, 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.
The Lipa man felt a twitch in his heart for no apparent reason.
The next moment, fire erupted from the muzzle, and the shells crossed a series of parabolas and fell into the city, setting off bursts of fierce fire.
Teach them a lesson.
These are the original words of Lin Xuefeng, commander of the fleet heading south.
As new arrivals, the Xinghai people are undoubtedly hostile here.
And if you want to realize the fuel development strategy of Chief Executive Zheng Xiangdong and explore for 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 from 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 wasted.
At first, within the Ministry of Industrial Affairs, many elders 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 is actually a huge 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, who was wearing a white general's uniform, stood in front of the envoy of Aliba with a majestic attitude. Every word he said would make the envoy's body tremble.
According to what Lin Xuefeng said, cutting the Kingdom of Ariba into pieces would not be enough to compensate.
Fortunately, Xinghai Kingdom is relatively benevolent and only made a few small requests.
The envoy was speechless because of a series of demands such as ceding land and indemnity, granting free passage rights, and ensuring the safety of the Xinghai people in the Kingdom of Yaliba...
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’ll only give you two days to think about it. Once the two days are up and there’s no reply, our cannons won’t answer!”
Lin Xuefeng could be considered a great 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 Yaliba 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 Yaliba and conducted oil exploration according to the prompts on the mineral deposit maps in the library.
Well, to be honest, several senior members of the Xinghai Kingdom Geological Exploration Team were only editors of geographical magazines before and had not conducted geological exploration in a real sense.
But the mineral map they had allowed them to easily 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 Ariba, they feel that what the Kingdom of Xinghai asks of them is pitifully little.
Apart from some land demands, they were not asked to pay war reparations.
Even Xinghai Kingdom is 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.