The afternoon training left everyone breathless----- not only tired, but mainly because of the smoke of gunfire, they were conducting artillery training.

Now the location of the fleet is the shooting range of Penghu, which is conducive to supply, Xuanwei, and showing the ships passing around.

At 2 p.m., all the officers and men entered their combat posts, and the subjects of the drill included simulation and live-fire training.

Simulation is the training of cannon propulsion, which has great value, but after all, it is not as good as real artillery.

Yan Changwu decided that in order to prepare the sailors for battle, nothing could compare to the explosion of real shells, let alone teach them to aim their guns in the right direction.

The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold, and there is only non-stop cannons! Masturbate! Masturbate!

Let the officers and soldiers form a "conditioned reflex", so that everyone can move their hands and feet faster than their heads, and only by hitting the enemy's vital points in a single bombardment can they have a chance of winning!

Otherwise, when you are fighting, what is missing is that one shell, and if you are still thinking about the artillery position, thinking about how to fight this cannon, then you will definitely lose!

Artillery skills are practiced!

He believed in this theory very much, and in order to allow his artillery team to have adequate training, he did not hesitate to import a large amount of gunpowder and homemade gunpowder, and built huge ammunition depots in Kaohsiung, Taipei and other places.

Others are heartbroken, but Yan Changwu thinks it's worth it.

After training, some officers and men of the Fujian Navy Division believed that the amount of artillery fired by the Southeast Fleet in a month of training was equal to that of the Fujian Navy Division...... The amount of guns fired in ten years!

The artillery training in the afternoon gave everyone a dismount, from 2 o'clock to 8 o'clock in the evening!

The constant sound of artillery is no child's play, and the well-fought artillery squad has the officers' meals, while the inferior artillery squad is responsible for cleaning the deck and washing the bathrooms the next morning!

No one wants to smell the "tempting" smell of those Yoneda ko.

And then there is the deduction of the sea allowance!

Everyone took every shot very seriously, shooting in the red circles drawn on the rocks in the sea during the day, and on the rocks and rocks lit by bonfires at night.

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The cannon roared, and the officers led by Yan Changwu patrolled the gun decks on the upper and lower floors, paying special attention to the bulwarks on both sides.

During the shelling, the full weight of the cannon body is sharply retracted, and then the shell is fired out with a whoosh from the tail of the gun, and its recoil is very large, and the retreat distance of the gun body is up to several meters, in order to slow down the recoil distance of the cannon, it is necessary to use cables, chains and sandbags to block, among which there is a reset rope through the ring behind the gun, which is connected to the bulwark.

The planks are pulled by the recoil, and if they are not strong, they will tear the bulwark.

The 24-pounder gun was extremely powerful, with a range of up to 1,350 meters at an angle of 4 degrees; When the angle of fire is raised to 8 degrees, it can reach 2,250 meters. At a distance of 100 meters, the solid shells fired from the 24-pounder gun were capable of penetrating 5 feet of oak wood, and the pieces of wood shattered by it were enough to kill people and cause great damage.

That is, piercing one meter five oak wood! (1 ft=0.3048 m)

The world is fair, the more powerful it is, the greater the power to pull your own wooden wall, and if you don't make a shot, cracks will appear in the wooden wall.

The power of the 18-pounder gun is not small, Yan Changwu pursues fierce firepower, and the northern Fujian fir used by the Southeast Fleet to build ships is claimed to be on par with oak, but it is also a claim, compared to the durability of oak, it is still a little distance, and this distance is likely to be the last straw on the camel's back.

Therefore, the engineers of the Kaohsiung Shipyard used the strengthening technology, first nailed a large metal plate to the wooden wall, and then fixed the reset cable on the metal plate, so that the recoil of the cannon was dispersed by the metal plate, and the engineer was afraid that it was not strong enough, and also nailed two more vertical logs to the metal plate as a stiffener, and the muzzle was treated like this on both sides, as ugly as a patch, but to ensure that the wooden wall was firm and strong.

Therefore, many aspects of the South China Sea level are ideal, but there are also many aspects that are simplified because of ugliness, after all, it is the first time, and it is a rush to work, and there is quite a kind of rush to get things done.

After several rounds of shelling, the joints on the wooden walls seemed unbreakable and withstood the test.

"Great!" Yan Changwu said happily.

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During this period of time, the fleet was soaking in the Penghu Islands, where a living base was established, the warships did not dock, and the supply ships kept sending live livestock, poultry, fresh fish, fresh vegetables, fruits, and fresh water to the warships.

In the oncoming waves, the battleships were tossed up and down, their seaworthiness was quite good, they were easy and in first-class condition.

They opened the gun doors of the lower gun decks for artillery training in the wind and waves, and the waves sprayed in through the gun doors, making the officers and men embarrassed!

The sea water made the deck smooth, and people passing by would slip and fall if they were not careful, and the sea water was also drenched with gunpowder, so they had to carry new gunpowder to the battle station quickly.

More and more water poured in, flowing everywhere along the cracks, and the sea water under the bilge did not reach the surface of the feet, so it began to pump and get busy.

Loud and swearing, cursing and complaining!

The results of the day's shelling were very unsatisfactory, the shooting was slow and not counting, the shooting was like sleepwalking, and the shells were all airplaned!

Yan Changwu didn't scold anyone when he looked at the statistical table, but just ordered to follow the rules: reward for playing well, and brushing the toilet for bad play.

After all, there is progress compared to before, and when the four battleships of the Southeast class encountered strong winds and waves, they had no achievements!

Their guns were low from the sea, and they did not dare to open them to avoid flooding, which prevented the main guns of the lower gun decks from firing, and the battleship's firepower was suddenly downgraded to cruisers. (Although the doctrine in the army says that against the enemy, even if there is a strong wind and waves, the cannon must be opened to fight, but just talking, what kind of wind and waves, when the strong wind and waves surge through the cannon gate, even the cannon can't be fired, and the sea water pours in, how to fight?) ）

The Nanhai class is different, the gun door of its lower gun deck is high from the sea surface, the seaworthiness is better, and the pumping capacity is strong, so that its combat performance is significantly improved, as long as it is not too big waves, it still dares to open the gun door of the gun deck to engage.

When the group was gone, he looked at the stats and thought that there would be anything, that the deck was smooth, and that it would be nice if there was rubber for the soles, but this was a new subject.

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In their non-stop training, Yan Changwu felt that he was constantly improving and became a real seafarer by performing his duties as a captain, he could sensitively feel where the land was, where the water was deep and shallow, knew the daily wind direction law, knew how to seize the upper hand to sail, and knew how to deal with various sea conditions.

In the past, he had to think and calculate, but now he pointed out the correct course almost without thinking, and he saw Mr. David's pleased gaze, he was the navigator, and he taught Yan Changwu what he knew, and in the future he could proudly say that the navigation technique of "Jinshang" was taught by me!

We have to train, keep training, and form a conditioned reflex, so that we can only have a chance of winning against those old pirates who were born in red hair.

Now they are approaching the mainland, behind his right shoulder, you can see the black land that is close to the sea level, hidden from time to time, the big ship is not slow, they enter the headwind, go zigzag, they rush the wind many times to turn the direction, the speed of the big ship is much faster than the previous flagship, the sailing speed has been above six knots, which is remarkable, considering that this is a large battleship!

Sail this course for an hour, and then let the fleet almost face the wind, one or two compass points to the left from the present direction, and you will be able to reach your destination.

Xiamen!

It's time to come out and stumble and let Governor Zou see our battleships!