The Italian cannon in "Bright Sword" is actually not made in Italy, it is a standard French Miss 75. During the First World War, France half-sold and half-sent a batch of 75 ladies to Italy to fight Austria-Hungary, but the romantic Italians didn't look down on the ladies from France, so they were thrown in the treasury all the time. Wait until World War II, Italy gave the ladies to the book, and finally these ladies were used in the Chinese battlefield, and one of the ladies was captured by the second battalion commander...... Therefore, the tattoo on the lady's body is engraved in French, not Italian.

And the cannon standing on the playground of the Dayuan Merchant Hall today is a standard Made in Italy, and the cannon body is engraved with Italian yards. It was a son, of Italian descent from Bofors, more ferocious than its father, whose full name was the "Bofors L/70 40mm anti-aircraft gun".

The original 40-mm anti-aircraft gun of Bofors was successfully designed in 1933, just in time for World War II, which swept the world, and the United States alone copied 60,000 of them at that time.

However, more than 20 years later, the stars of the past have become old, so in the 70s, Bofors began to develop an upgraded version of the 40mm gun; The final product began to equip the army in the late 70s, and then was copied by a number of countries, including Italy.

Therefore, the brand-new Bofors in front of him, which flashes silver-gray fierce light, shines brightly, and has never been fired before, is actually a post-90s person-an old cannon that has been out of the factory for more than 20 years.

After the Italians obtained authorization in the late 80s, they successively built a number of new versions of these Bofors to arm their own destroyers. However, time is flying, and more than 20 years have passed accidentally, and even the turtle boat is playing with copycat arrays and sea sparrows, so the imitation Bofors from various countries are once again unemployed......

In the process, a local tyrant surnamed Cao, because he didn't want to deal with the British and American imperialists, had no confidence in the products of the Indian three, so he bought a few Italian ...... After all, Otto Melera is also a long-established artillery company.

The original Bofors is 60 times the caliber, and the upgraded version in front of him is 70 times the caliber, with a barrel length of 2.8 meters, which coincides with Cao Chuan's spatial edge length. With an effective range of 3.7 kilometers and a maximum flat range of 12.5 kilometers, this gun is a 17th-century bomber - note that 3.7 kilometers refers to a fight...... If it is used to fight a sail warship with a huge size and almost zero speed relative to the aircraft, then within 10 kilometers, the sailboat will be caught by the electro-optical sighting system attached to the Italian gun...... The end is incredible.

Chairman Cao brought a total of two boxes this time, one of which contained the base and barrel of two Italian guns, as well as some spare parts and ammunition; The other box is full of 40mm high-explosive incendiary bombs - the only thing that needs to be used by the Italian master must be to hit the sailboat, and this is the most powerful thing to hit the wooden hull, and there is no need for other ammunition.

One of the two single-barreled Italian guns will be arranged on the turret in the northwest corner of the merchant house, which can completely control the inland sea of the river and the outer sea of Dayuan and even the coast of Chikan. After the demolition of the old merchant hall, a turret will be built in the dock area to suppress the situation.

The other gate will be placed in the future Imperial City, forming a crossfire with the turret. Cao Chuan's warehouse in Africa still has two spare tires, and when the crossing forces can produce their own diesel, there will be two propeller-powered capital ships equipped with Italian cannons as a magic weapon to suppress luck and protect the industrial empire of the crossing people.

And Cao Chuan, a Duobao Daoist, was sitting proudly on the playground at the moment, surrounded by many people, and several army and navy leaders were touting Daxian hard. However, when the words howitzer and six-barreled machine gun popped out of the mouths of these people one after another, Duobao Dao people immediately knelt down.

The more he listened, the more wrong Cao Dong became, at this time he quickly stood up and stood up with one palm: "Stop, stop, I said, are you buying spicy noodles in the supermarket?" ”

Glancing left and right, Cao Chuan said angrily: "Let's put it this way, in the CIA's supercomputer, I must be on the list now, but the priority is not high." Anyone who buys so many weapons will be filed, and which arms dealer has not organized behind it in these years? Don't think that if you turn several hands, you can find out if you turn eight hands, but because there are many old-fashioned weapons, people are too lazy to check me. ”

"Now everyone has a foothold." Cao Chuan Zhengse said: "I'll announce it here: in the future, I won't buy anything like RPG for anti-thieves, including cannons and heavy machine guns, at most a little light weapons and ammunition, you can use it leisurely, and you can ...... howitzer if you want it." Be self-reliant, I'll see if I can find some drawings for you. ”

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The military leaders of Long Wangshu ate a small turtle this time, and went back to fiddling with their new toys. The original Italian artillery, the weight of the entire system was 5 tons, and a force that was extremely lacking in import quotas naturally did not need such a perfect mechanism.

The first to be canceled was the heavy "X" gun bed, which was designed to be towed and maneuvered by a car, and in combat state, like a tank in the stars, the X-shaped gun bed was lowered and supported by four jacks. Now the gun bed and the tires of the four corners are left in Africa: the crossing crowd does not need it to maneuver, and HOLD is there to town.

The second thing to cancel was the heavy cannon shield: if one day the redcoat cannon on a sailing ship could fire an iron ball from a distance of several kilometers and threaten the battery...... It's not too late to temporarily install a self-produced iron plate.

The third canceled is the motor assist system and radar fire control. The movie scene of a cool quadruple anti-aircraft gun chasing a plane in a circle wouldn't have been seen in the 17th century, and the traversers were pretty sure that their opponent wouldn't have a Zero. Therefore, it is good to slowly use the manual wheel to adjust the muzzle parameters, in addition, the electric shock is an evil way, we don't need it either, the foot pedal fire has been tested by history and is stable, just use it, don't worry, time is ......

Imagine that a sail warship can travel from 7 kilometers away to the sea at a standard speed of 4 knots. At this time, the gunner goes to take a nap, and after getting up, it takes another 2 minutes to lock the incoming ship.

Then fire the cannon, and give it one, two, three, rounds, and if the sailboat is lucky not to sink and is not burned through by the fire caused by the high-energy explosives, then it must be turning around with difficulty - and when the tactical maneuver is completed, the gunner has finished his coffee and smoked a cigarette and then returns to the gun position, and the sailing chrysanthemum is aimed again......

Well, this is indeed the war of the 17th century, the pace is so slow, and the war is usually calculated in "months".

After all the weight reduction work was completed, the total weight of the core combat parts left by the Italian artillery was only 1.6 tons, so the next morning, the roar began to sound on the island of Dayuan, with the merchant hall as the center, and the surrounding area was bombed by sea and land - the gunners began to measure the firing meter.