C2759 Continue bombing!

Huo Fu looked at the stranded Zhiyuan Warship complacently. He seemed to be seeing the grand feast that was going on in the Tuileries' Palace and the gold medal on his chest. He was drinking with the French Emperor!

As for all the captives of the Zhiyuan Warship, they could only wait outside for judgement in humiliation.

"This is such a straightforward thing. God loves me, hahaha …" Huo Fu laughed foolishly in the end.

However, the scene that happened afterwards had completely shattered his dreams. After a moment of panic, the stranded Zhiyuan Warship did not pay attention to Huo Fu's persuasion at all.

Zhiyuan Warship's main cannon had a load of 150 bullets at its design time, but in order to satisfy the needs of the previous Ocean Return, Prussia had specially made the crew's cabin even narrower, in exchange for an expansion of the ammunition depot.

Right now the Zhiyuan Warship's main cannons had already reached 210 bullets. This was already considered their limit.

In the three hours of fierce battle, Zhiyuan Warship had fired a total of 165 cannonballs, of which the armor piercing bullets had been completely used up, leaving only 45 high explosive bullets.

This was the last ammunition from the Zhiyuan Warship, Xiang Ying had already given the order to kill, these 45 cannons, they were all going to land on the soldiers who were fighting for the land.

"Persuade surrender? Persuade my ass! Continue bombing... It's just death, what's there to be afraid of! "

"Lin Zhen... Are you dumb? "You shouted so enthusiastically before, why are you acting like a grandson now?"

How would Xiang Ying know that Lin Zhen's left arm had already lost half a kilogram of muscle, and that half a barrel of blood was left. He only knew that the Zhiyuan Warship's firepower had decreased during this period, and the firing rate of the main cannon had also decreased.

Lin Zhen's face was pale as he leaned on the bulletproof steel plate of the main cannon and used the power of the morphine to persevere with difficulty, "Did you all hear that? Captain thinks that we are dumb! Bullet loading! "Continue bombing, find the place with the most enemies and freely bombard them …"

"But sir... However, our main cannon has already fired more than fifty consecutive cannonballs, and the cannons are about to burn red … "As the Prussian engineer once said, our cannon is an experimental model. It must be inspected once before it has been fired twenty times!"

"It will explode!" "It could be dangerous to blow up …"

One could tell the complexity of the cannon's structure by its name.

An excellent cannon's caliber alone was not enough. It also had a target that was twice the diameter of the cannon!

People understood the caliber very well. It was commonly known as' The bigger the caliber, the more righteous it is! ' "What?!"

The larger the caliber of the cannons, the larger the artillery shell fired. The amount of ammunition fired would also increase and the destructive power of the cannons would be greater! Usually, in the later stages of World War I, cannons with a diameter of more than 300 caliber would be standard cannonballs that could collapse a building with a single shot!

When the 400 mm caliber artillery shell appeared, the power of the artillery shell was basically equivalent to a tactical missile!

During the Gulf War, the American Iowa class battleship used his 406-caliber cannon to bombard Iraq as the last representative of the era of the big guns.

This cannon's bombardment was not weaker than a tactical missile, what he lacked was accuracy!

However, a large caliber cannonball did not mean that its accuracy would be higher. This was because the most important attribute of a rifled cannon was to let the rifled line cut into the surface of the cannonball, forming a high-speed trajectory.

This kind of rotational force could improve the stability of a cannonball. In other words, the longer the barrel, the greater the initial velocity, and the higher the stability of the cannonball.

This led to the emergence of an entirely new cannon target, the double diameter!

The barrel's length was several times that of the barrel's diameter. This value was known as the double diameter!

The diameter of the Zhiyuan Warship main cannon was 25, which meant that the cannon's length was 2500210 = 5250 mm, which was a distance of 5.2 meters!

Don't underestimate this five meter long cannon! This could be said to be the limit of artillery technology in that era!

For a five meter long cannon barrel, you must ensure that there are no trachoma or air bubbles inside the steel, and that the rationality of the metal structure inside must be consistent.

The longer the barrel, the more complicated the casting process!

The longer the barrel, the greater the risk of deformation!

Thanks to the fact that the Prussian steel industry of this era was at the forefront of the world, the Steel plant that was not favored by the English and French were hiding the world's most advanced casting technology.

The obscure Krupp military factory also had world-class production technology for telescopic gun barrels!

Only the best iron and steel and the best production technology could produce such a heaven defying weapon like the Zhiyuan Warship. It was the first time in the world to thoroughly study a battleship's cannon diameter.

In this naval battle, those short, black cannons from France had never considered the problem of the diameter of the cannon, so the accuracy of the French artillery was very low.

The Zhiyuan Warship's main cannons would, on average, hit one enemy every four shots, while the French battleships would only hit one shot out of the distance.

After this battle, the statistics from the United Kingdom shocked the entire world. In the two meter tall North Sea, Zhiyuan Warship could actually guarantee a 25% accuracy, it was simply a miracle!

This new weapon had a terrifying destructive power, but it also had its own hidden dangers. That was, the more advanced the weapon was, the more precious it was!

After all, this was not the era of the First World War. Humans still needed a few decades of evolution and upgrading of their smelting and military technologies. Although they could produce cannons like the Zhiyuan Warship, its reliability was incomparable with that of a few decades later!

The Prussian engineers had already said that after firing twenty rounds of this cannon, maintenance and repair must be carried out, or there would be the risk of a blowout!

And today, each of these three main cannons had fired more than fifty cannons. In theory, they were already at the peak of danger!

Lin Zhen glared at his subordinates when he heard their nonsense. F * ck, is there something wrong with your head? Today, all of us will be smashed to smithereens here... Afraid that the main cannon will explode? "

"I'm standing right next to the cannon. If you want to blow me to death, then do it!"

"Now that I'm dead, you can put my body into another cannon … I would rather die in the mountains of corpses of my enemies! "

"Bullet loading!" Blast it for me! "

Boom … The muzzle of the turret spat out two meters of red flame, which shone like a torch in the dark night.

The cannonball shot through the nearest crowd of people running away from French Army, and exploded into two stories high smoke and dust!

All the French soldiers within a radius of ten meters were killed by the explosion. The shockwave swept across all the French soldiers within a radius of twenty meters, knocking over a large area like cutting leeks.

Miserable cries of agony could be heard everywhere. The injured soldier's back was pierced with bullets as he vomited large mouthfuls of blood!

The soldier whose leg had been blown off was holding onto his neck as he howled like a dying jackal!

"Counterattack!" Fight back … For God's sake, don't run! No matter how much you run, you won't be able to run away from the cannonball! "

"Since death is what we are destined to do, then die on the way of the charge! The warriors of the France... Counterattack! "

On the battlefield, the French commanders were desperately encouraging their morale!