"Governor, telegram from Humen Fort. The British fleet began to attack the Humen Battery! Within half an hour of the battle, a telegram about the battle was sent to the Guangfu Governor's Mansion in Foshan.

After more than 200 warships of all sizes from the British, French, American, and Russian combined fleets arrived in Hong Kong, the Liberation Army knew that war would break out sooner or later. Having seen the combat effectiveness of the British, the Liberation Army knew that as long as the British had enough troops, they would not give up their efforts to sell tobacco in Guangdong because of a defeat in a battle. The British are very capable of fighting.

Weeser did not answer immediately, he was very clear about the British temperament. As early as more than a year ago, when the British returned to Hong Kong, the Liberation Army began to rebuild the Humen Fort. However, the preliminary work was mainly design, engineering survey, including the study of the geological conditions of the battery. The design concept of the new Humen Fort was proposed by Wei Ze, who was not originally engaged in engineering construction, but from the Lushun Fortress he had visited.

For the new Humen Fort, Wei Ze is very confident. Even without machine guns, open-hearth steelmaking solved the problem of steel barrels for rifles. Although the rolled steel pipe also has the problem of high cutting tools when drilling, it is indeed difficult to process the steel barrel with a simple high-carbon steel cutting tool. But that's just difficult, but it's no longer unsolvable.

Now that the troops of the Humen Fort have been equipped with singles with steel barrels, the troops can continue to fight even in the face of the attack of the British elite lobster soldiers. What's more, Wei Ze knew that the garrison of Humen Fortress was a very political army.

"Governor, what kind of telegram do you want to send to Humen Fort?" The secretary saw that Wei Ze was silent, and he asked tentatively.

"Tell them that the troops are being redeployed according to the original plan, and there will be no change in the military plan." Weeser said.

The secretary took out a brush and recorded it bit by bit, and listened to Wei Ze continue: "In addition, let Liang Changtai, commander of the Humen Military Division, tell Comrade Sù that behind the fort is Guangdong, so they are not only fighting for themselves, but also for the fathers and villagers in the liberated areas of Guangdong, Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and Guangdong!" ”

Liang Changtai, commander of the fort of the Humen Military Region, stood on a high lookout platform and watched the distance with a large magnification telescope. In fact, he could not see the specific links of the operation. But he just couldn't help but want to take a few looks.

This veteran commander of the artillery was a little unable to raise his head in front of everyone two years ago because of his brother's role as a water thief, but after so much time, no one has mentioned that idea for a long time. Liang Changtai later studied at the military academy for more than a year, and he originally thought that Wei Ze was dissatisfied with him and wanted to dry him for a while. Unexpectedly, after coming out of the military academy training class, he was put in the Humen Fort as the commander of the military division.

The Humen Army sub-district is mainly for coastal defense, and the largest heavy artillery cluster of the Guangfu Army is assembled here. No matter what Liang Changtai originally had in his heart, as soon as he worked in the Humen Military Division, Liang Changtai realized that the things he had studied in the military academy for more than a year were not enough here. At this time, he couldn't be clearer that Wei Ze was indeed entrusted with a heavy responsibility to Liang Changtai.

Governor Wei Ze was in charge of the curriculum when he was in the military academy, and some of the courses of artillery arms like Liang Changtai were also taught by Wei Zelai. In class, Weeser came up with the idea of a dreadnought on a very small scale. In Weeser's description, it was a warship with a tonnage of about fifteen thousand tons. All made of steel. Of course, this parameter is out of the imagination of these reliable officers. What you can probably understand is the shelling command system.

This idea of the artillery command system can be applied not only to warships, but also to the fire system of fortresses. The Humen fortress system is based on Wei Ze's concept of fire control and is the result of the joint research of several units of different specialties in the military academy.

As the commander of the military division, although Liang Changtai could not go to the front line in person, as a design participant, he could also roughly simulate the battle situation in his mind. From the beginning of the artillery battle, Liang Changtai first determined whether the British fleet had sent the 6th Army to fight on the 6th. After receiving a negative result, he stood behind the telescope without saying a word.

"Only a fool would shoot at naval and shore guns!" This is a very famous phrase in the British Navy. This, of course, refers to the battle between Britain and the European powers.

The great powers basically can't meet countries that can cast their own cannons overseas, China is counted as one with this level, Turkey is counted as one, and India may have a little artillery-casting technology, and India has become a part of Britain at this time. As for the rest of the region, there is no possibility of such a problem at all.

However, in the artillery battle that broke out on August 6, 1858, the British and French combined fleet finally realized the correctness of not firing at shore artillery. Because of the draft problem, the British and French fleets were all ships of steam paddle wheelers, and the caliber of the naval guns was not large, and the firing range could not reach three kilometers.

The Anglo-French forces came up head-on. First of all, several powerful guns were out of range of British and French naval guns, and they fired at the British and French navies with impunity. If these guns are directly hit, at least they will be completely incapacitated, and at worst, the ship will be destroyed. If the Anglo-French navy refused to obediently withdraw from the range of these cannons, it would have to keep closer. The last time the British captured the battery by the 6th Army, but by this time the British had already hit a warship, and the fleet commander knew very well that if he led the fleet to retreat now, the ship, which had lost power, would become a target and be subjected to concentrated fire. As long as any shell hits directly, the ship is finished

Rather than lose the ship in vain, it is better to move on and see what makes this newly repaired battery unique. The observers of the British and French fleets continued to approach the coast while recording the gun positions.

Second Lieutenant Zhu Hong, who had just hit the enemy ship, closed his eyes and prayed in his heart, "Daddy, Auntie, please bless me to be more accurate." ”

More than a year ago, Zhu Hong was just an ordinary person living by the Pearl River. When the British attacked the Liberation Army, his parents refused to leave the house, and both of them felt that they had not done anything against the British, and the British had no reason to attack them. However, fearing for war, they let their children take refuge in shelters set up by the Liberation Army.

The next day, when Zhu Hong, who couldn't let go of his heart in the shelter, ran home, he saw the burned home and the bodies of his parents at home. The Guangfu Army also sent people at this time, and Zhu Hong hastily buried his parents with the help of the Guangfu Army, and then signed up for the army of the Guangfu Army. Zhu Hong is not the only one, almost all of the six or seven thousand families whose homes along the Pearl River have been destroyed have signed up to join the army. There is only one thing on everyone's mind, and that is revenge!

"The coordinates of the enemy are 1o5,88. The direction is southwest, four nautical miles. The observer gave a string of numbers.

"Adjust the firing direction according to the preset coordinates, and the muzzle ratio is reduced by 3%." Based on his experience, Zhu Hong revised the number jù.

"Second Lieutenant Zhu, should we adjust the direction of the shelling, the enemy ship that was shot will sink if it comes again!" Second Lieutenant Zhu Hong's deputy couldn't help but raise the question of Jian.

Zhu Hong's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he said in a stern tone: "That ship can't run away now, when will it be beaten?" Don't play this little clever! ”

At this time, the artillerymen began to shake the huge winch vigorously, so that the position of the cannon body was adjusted somewhat. It was not possible for the main guns of such fortresses to flexibly track a certain ship, so the shelling was carried out in such a way that each gun had a firing area, which was divided into a number of small pieces, and the parameters of the landing point of the shelling were fixed after testing. After the enemy's warship enters the shelling range, the observer first determines a certain warship, and finally calculates a number and firing time according to the landing point of the shelling and the sailing degree of the opponent's warship.

This is not to use artillery shells to catch up with the enemy's warship, but to calculate the course of the enemy's warship, so that the warship and the cannonball collide together. The main artillery was saved to sink the enemy's warship with the largest tonnage and the strongest firepower, although the tonnage of the British warship this time was not large, and the bombardment with the main gun inevitably had the feeling of hitting mosquitoes with the cannon. In the face of a rare actual battle, the main artillery also received an order to participate in the artillery battle.

After the adjustment was completed, the time was calculated, Zhu Hong took out the stopwatch and ordered: "Fire in ten seconds!" ”

The gunners looked at Zhu Hong with bated breath...... A stopwatch in his left hand, and his right hand raised in the air. The officers were much more equipped than ordinary artillerymen, and there were not only stopwatches, but also pocket watches. These devices, with their beautiful metal casings, glass masks, and rotating hands that tick and tick, were the envy of the artillerymen. In particular, the handsome posture of holding these things in battle makes everyone feel that they have to work hard and get promoted as soon as possible, and they can also use these things.

Zhu Hong didn't have such an idea, and if he wanted to become an officer, he had to go through countless hard training. Compared to the hard and boring training that can take off several layers of skin, these equipment are just combat supplies. He looked at the stopwatch and counted in his mouth, "Ten, nine, eight, seven...... Three, two, one! Fire! At the same time as the order was given, Zhu Hong's raised right hand waved downward.

The gunners were ordered not to look at what was going on on the sea, and they couldn't see what was going on the other side. As trained, the gunner decisively pulled the rope. In the blink of an eye, the heavy artillery roared, the reinforced concrete main gun battery shook as a whole, and more than a dozen pounds of shells were sprayed out of the barrel, drawing a small arc in the air, crossing a distance of more than a kilometer and hitting the position near the waterline of the British ** ship.

The shells smashed through the wooden hull and fired directly into the ammunition compartment with huge kinetic energy. A moment later, there was a huge explosion inside the British ** ship, the whole ship was broken in two, the ship and the stern were cocked upward, and it sank within half a minute.

After all, the British are well-informed, they have seen a lot of this kind of heavy artillery, and some British soldiers who served in the fortress of Gibraltar have seen more powerful artillery than this. Even if two warships were shot, the British army did not think that the Liberation Army was anything too remarkable. At best, this is the "luck of newbies" that often occurs.

Just as the combined Anglo-French fleet continued to advance to a distance of two kilometers from the coast, it suddenly came under new artillery fire. These times the French fleet did not have the luck of the last time, the warship at the front was hit head-on, the shell penetrated the deck, directly hit the chimney under the deck, and made a huge gap in it, and soon the French ** ship came out of billowing smoke. The number of guns that joined the fire this time was about seven or eight, and the fire was significantly higher than that of the heavy artillery that fired at the beginning. The hapless warship came under heavy fire in ten minutes, hitting three shots in a row. One of the shots hit near the waterline, and soon, the French ship came to a complete halt and began to slowly lean to one side.

The armies of the great powers are like great powers, and at this time, the combined fleet of Britain and France has no intention of retreating. The gun positions of the Humen Fort were basically exposed. The two successive firing cannons were cannons, which were extremely powerful, but the ballistic curvature of the guns was limited. A little closer to the sea would have been enough to get out of the range of these guns.

The combined Anglo-French fleet, which continued to approach the battery, finally came into its own range, and the ships slowed down, their guns were fully open, and they began to turn their bows towards the battery. At this moment, a new artillery group on the battery joined the ranks of shooting. This time, a full twenty guns joined the firing. The guns that were fired were all cannons, but this time the twenty guns were howitzers. Dense shells rained down on the British warships.

And to the shock of the British fleet commander, because of the proximity to the coast, he saw that the Chinese artillery on the opposite side began to fire not only in fixed gun emplacements. There were still some empty gun emplacements along the coast, and the Chinese artillerymen pushed the gun mounts with great difficulty, pushing more than two dozen guns into the originally empty gun emplacements. They quickly fixed the gun mounts, and then took part in the shelling of the combined British and French fleet. Now instead of two dozen howitzer guns are firing, more than forty howitzers are firing fiercely at the combined Anglo-French fleet.

Warships are not infantry, not to mention the difference of a few meters in 6 battles, the difference between the landing point of the shells and the people is half a meter, and the infantry can escape with a life. But the huge size of the warship, not to mention half a meter, the drop point difference of more than ten meters can also hit the warship. At this time, the British and French combined fleets have reduced their degrees to shoot at the Liberation Army, and the hit rate of the howitzers with accurate landing points will naturally be greatly improved in the face of the huge warships.

"Ergin, you killed Lao Tzu!" The British naval commander, who had participated in the Battle of Dagukou, angrily scolded in his heart, where is this Tm the barbaric and backward level of Chinese artillery, which is obviously the level of artillery of the European powers.

At this time, it is useless to make any adjustments, and the 3-inch artillery of the Liberation Army can continuously fire ten shells at a distance of 1.6 kilometers, and the landing point is only two meters scattered. At a distance of 1.3 km, shells with a rounded warhead are more accurate. The shell easily penetrated the shell of the British and French warship, and exploded violently inside the warship. The remaining warships were shot one after another.

At this time, the two steamships of the Liberation Army, which had fled from the desert during the war, had turned around and headed towards the rear of the combined British and French fleet. The gun's jacket on the warship was lifted, and the swarthy guns were clearly visible on the deck.

Just when the commander of the British fleet was seriously considering whether he was going to surrender, he saw a cannonball whizzing. The commander bent down subconsciously, and then felt the cannonball almost graz his shoulder. Then the shells smashed through the wooden deck, and a moment later there were two violent explosions below the deck. The officer was thrown into the air by a violent explosion.

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