Chapter 2744: It's not safe to stay in the military port

No wonder he was surprised. You must know that Cherbourg Naval Port is an important naval base in France. In addition to battleships stationed there, there are also coastal forts equipped with 150 mm breech-loading artillery, which are far more powerful than naval guns. The South China Army also had this type of artillery.

Since equipped with this kind of large-caliber artillery, both the enemy and the enemy will hardly attack the coastal strongholds equipped with this kind of artillery. Into the soul, and naval guns are almost difficult to hit the coastal fort.

It is really shocking to hear that the South China Fleet raided Cherbourg and caused the withdrawal of our own fleet and the loss of battleships.

The intelligence news came one after another. After Braham Duquesne and Don Aznar Antonio learned about the battle situation, he was deeply shocked. The Chinese are awesome!

The Chinese actually installed the H210 heavy guns on the battleships to bombard the battleships of the Western French Allied Forces stationed in the anchorage of the Cherbourg naval port!

They think that staying in a heavily guarded military port means we can do nothing to them?

No, our smart Chinese soldiers just smashed these shrinking turtles!

This is not just aimed at Cherbourg, but a new issue. The solution to this issue is the result of brainstorming from the top and bottom of the South China Navy, and the thinking of "there are always more solutions than difficulties" and brainstorming.

Some people said that the marines were directly sent to land and seize the fort, because the enemy had a large number of troops stationed in the harbor and did not sell it; The power was greatly reduced; some people also said to launch an arson ship, but it also fell through because the opponent's defenses were tight...

Finally, a feasible method is to modify the warship, install the army's 210 heavy guns on the ship, and shoot the enemy ships in the harbor from a long distance, so that it is safe and stable. , There is always a shot that hits the enemy, anyway, the ammunition is cheap enough.

Put the army h210 heavy artillery on the ship?

The official model of the gun is h210n1663, "h" is the initial letter of "H", "n" is the initial letter of the year, 210 indicates the caliber, 1663 indicates the year of finalization, the barrel is four meters long, and the caliber has reached an astonishing 210 mm, the whole gun weighs 16 tons (including the gun body, gun carriage, wheels, hoe, etc.), the maximum range is six kilometers, and the effective range is two kilometers.

The army's most powerful artillery has a caliber of 800 mm and is called the "Thor's Hammer". The h210 is not as powerful as the "Thor's Hammer", but it is still full of lethality, and it is more convenient to use and has a faster rate of fire. The artillerymen affectionately called it "the emperor's little hammer!"

Although the small hammer is small, it is powerful enough to hit the enemy, and its data is coveted, but it is really quite difficult to install it on a warship.

First of all, we must solve the problem of bearing the heavy artillery on the ship. If it is not placed properly or a few shots are fired, the battleship will fall apart. These are Cheng Yaojin's three axes, which cannot be used for a long time. to afford such consumption.

The second is how to eliminate the amazing recoil of the heavy artillery when it is fired?

You know, the recoil of artillery is amazing. For example, the 42-pound naval gun weighs 2.5 tons, and the recoil of firing the gun is enough to kill people---Spanish and French gunners were in a hurry after the war because of their poor business, so they were killed by the artillery. There are not a few people who were killed and injured by seat force collisions. Even the well-trained Nanhua gunners are killed and injured every year during training, and there are also casualties after the war.

And the recoil of the 210mm heavy gun is even more terrifying. How can the warship bear it?

The third is whether it is convenient to use. You must know that the h210 heavy gun uses the breech to fire, and the rate of fire is greatly increased. It must also maintain its convenience on warships in order to have practical value.

The reason why "Thor's Hammer" was neglected by the army is because it fires too slowly. It fires at most one shell per hour.

Its predecessor was the "Urban Cannon", which was used by the Ottoman Sultan to bombard Constantinople during the conquest of 1453. It fired more slowly and could only fire seven rounds a day. Although it was powerful, it did not play a decisive role Due to the slow rate of fire, the destructive power to the walls of Constantinople is limited. Whenever night falls, the soldiers and civilians in the city rush to repair the damaged walls overnight, so that the effect of the last shelling is often completely destroyed at dawn the next day. Vanishing into nothing, the advantages of the Urban cannon were suppressed to a certain extent.

If it is not easy to use, it is unnecessary to modify the cannon to board the ship.

As for problem 1, it is easy to solve. Take out a third-level battleship as the carrier of the h210 heavy gun. The battleship has a solid body and strengthens the support on the gun position. It includes steel plates as the deck and pillars underneath. This is very important for the engineers of the South China Army. No problem.

If the extra weight is supported, the ship will not be equipped with heavy guns, and the weight of the hull can be reduced.

As for recoil and convenience?

After technical research, the key is to have the emperor's guidance. The emperor drew a circle and then a line. With a little explanation, the smart Chinese fully understood.

The circle means that the position of the artillery is placed between the mainmast and the foremast of the battleship, and the pointing of the artillery can be rotated 360 degrees.

Generally, artillery has no anti-recoil device. The barrel and the gun mount are rigidly connected. When shooting, the artillery wheel may jump up (if the artillery is light), or it will retreat (when the artillery is heavy), and the gunner needs to push the artillery back to its original position. Only by re-aiming can the second shot be fired, as is the case with the naval guns of battleships now.

With the development of war-killing technology, the heavy artillery of the South China Army was put on the ship, and the recoil force was eliminated by the recoil technology. The principle is that the artillery is installed on a slope-shaped slide rail. Slide back, then slide forward under the influence of gravity to reset. The steel wheels and tracks under the cannon base are used to adjust the direction of the cannon. The gun body and the gun frame are rigidly connected~www.wuxiaspot.com~The artillery that absorbs recoil energy by the gun frame retreating is called a frame retreat gun. During the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War, the Krupp, Armstrong naval guns and coastal guns of the Beiyang Navy belonged to the retreating guns.

As for the more complex but more useful tube retreat technology, it is currently beyond the scope and cannot be done.

With the technology of withdrawing guns, the H210 heavy guns were put on the warships. The Nanhua Navy was rich and powerful, and equipped three such gunboats at once. They acted together with the battleships that had gone to attack Cherbourg. Outside the radius, fired at the French battleships in the harbor.

Two of the three shots failed, and the third shot collapsed the **** of the French battleship "Marengue"!

The gunboats fired one after another, hitting the battleships of the West-French Combined Fleet in the port one after another, and even one shell hit an unlucky armed merchant ship, splitting it in two on the spot!

With the continuous sound of cannons, the supreme commander in the port, Earl Ernie of the French Army, could no longer sit still.

This is true, heretics are heretics, causing trouble everywhere, why don't you just stay well!

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