What kind of ability that the general has, Zhu Mingzhong doesn't know for the time being, but he knows very well what his real advantage is compared to that general.

Naturally, it will not be a navy that has just been established for a short time, and without a few years of training, it is impossible for that navy to become a real navy. However, compared to the current fleet in the East, Zhu Mingzhong knows very well where his naval superiority lies.

Technological advantages!

To a certain extent, technological superiority will ultimately determine the outcome of a naval battle! After all, naval warfare has always been a battlefield for barbarians, but a school field for wisdom and science. The competition is between wisdom and science, and as for the reckless man, on the sea, he has always been just a stepping stone to the fame of others.

On the artillery training ground of the Loyal and Righteous Army outside the city, there was a shiny and shiny short-barreled artillery gun in the center. This artillery, known as the "caron cannon" after a world and a half, was famous for its large caliber despite its short range, and played an extremely important role during the Napoleonic Wars.

The caron cannon was a very unique type of artillery for its time. Its magnification is close to that of howitzers and mortars, but it is used in a flat-firing manner like a cannon. It has only a single lug, a ring on the button, and the muzzle is not expanded, but retracted. Its caliber is huge, even up to 64 pounds, but its weight is much lighter than that of a cannon of the same caliber.

The application of horizontal boring machine, sand mold casting gun, gray cast iron and other technologies used in Jiangbei Arsenal has improved the reliability and accuracy of artillery, and also improved production efficiency. The application of these new technologies has also laid the foundation for the emergence of the Caron gun.

It's just that in this time and space, it is no longer possible to call it "Caron Cannon", otherwise, from now on, it will be called "Qinghe Cannon".

When Zhu Mingzhong was thinking like this in his heart, his eyes were staring at this cannon, because its cannon body was short, and the gun carriage was also a little different, so it was obviously different from the field guns cast in bronze in the arsenal and the naval guns, so it was very eye-catching.

In fact, there is not only "caron cannon" here, but also two bronze cannons, this is a field cannon cast with Japanese copper, after all, compared with cast iron cannons, the performance of bronze field cannons is better, in the past, because there was not enough copper for casting cannons, so it was "simple because of ugliness" The use of cast iron cannons, and now with the opening of the Japanese route, cheap Japanese copper not only allows the military division of the money bureau to have sufficient raw materials to cast the color of the "Shunzhi Tongbao", but also allows the arsenal to have sufficient raw materials for casting artillery.

Without exception, there is a wooden box next to each artillery, and in the wooden box is placed a "complete cannonball" composed of round shells, cork and oilcloth powder packets, which are two centuries ahead of the times and are the biggest magic weapon of the artillery of the Loyal Army, after all, in this era, the land and sea artillery of various countries still use bulk gunpowder. "Full-loading shells" allow artillery to fire shells at a faster rate of fire.

At this time, on the training ground, dozens of generals of the army and navy of the loyal army stood there in a regular manner, because the weather was still a little cold in spring, so most of them were wearing overcoats, different from the red military uniforms, the color of the woolen coats was navy blue, this Prussian-style military coat and the military uniforms of the late 19th century on their bodies, were designed by Zhu Mingzhong himself, but ordinary soldiers did not have this kind of treatment - the overcoats they wore were cotton-filled 87-style military coats.

These people stood there, talking in a low voice from time to time, and occasionally laughing a little, but when Zhu Mingzhong walked in, everyone saluted, and Zhu Mingzhong greeted everyone with a smile, and then said loudly:

"I invite you to come here today to take a look at some of the new weapons in our arsenal, which they have created after months of painstaking work, and they have all been tested, and today everyone has come to open their eyes. As we all know, whether this weapon is sharp and advanced or not has a direct bearing on the combat effectiveness of the army and on the outcome of the war. Now I would like to ask Jia Mei to tell you about it first. ”

The tall and thin Dai Cang walked up to everyone, he first took out a grenade from the table, then took the grenade, looked at everyone in Jiangnan official dialect and said:

"Generals, let's see how this grenade is different from what you usually use."

The generals' eyes turned to the grenade in his hand, which seemed to be no different, if anything, except that it did not have the clay cover that used to seal the ignition head.

"I don't see there's a clay lid on that top."

"But no, how can you prevent moisture and waterproof without a clay cover?"

In the face of everyone, Dai Cang said with a smile.

"Everyone is right, this grenade is not the same as the usual grenade, it is indeed missing a clay cover from the outside, and what is the biggest difference? The reason is that it is no longer like the old grenades of the past, which are fired with fire......"

"Don't need an ignition?"

"How can it explode without ignition?"

"If it doesn't ignite, is it still a grenade?"

"No, if you don't light the fire, it's not just an iron lump......

The generals all felt a little strange, and they all started to talk about it.

"This grenade is completely different from the grenades of the past, it does not need to be ignited, because the wooden handle of the grenade is equipped with a fire tube, this fire tube only needs to be pulled, it will automatically ignite the ignition inside, the ignition powder will be delayed for 5-6 seconds, and then explode, so that naturally there is no need to take the grenade there to carefully ignite as in the past."

Dai Cang, who was holding a grenade, explained to everyone in detail.

"You mean, this grenade can be thrown with just one pull?"

"How? How to pull? Pull there? ”

"If you don't need to ignite it, it's easy to use!"

"But no, although this grenade is good, it is really inconvenient to use in the past, if you don't need to ignite it, then when the fight starts, don't care about him three seven twenty-one, throw a few thousand, there is still a need for war......"

"No, if you don't need to light a fire, that's a great thing!"

"With this kind of thing, it's not like Zhang Fei eating bean sprouts, it's a piece of cake."

Like boiling a pot of water, the generals couldn't help but talk about it, with a smile on their faces, as the magic weapon of the loyal and righteous army to defeat the enemy, they are naturally no stranger to grenades, and they can even be said to be extremely familiar, and it is precisely because of this that they will realize at the first time what kind of changes the new grenades will bring to the battlefield.

In front of everyone, Dai Cang took a grenade, unscrewed the back cover under the wooden handle, and pierced the moisture-proof paper, and then saw a porcelain bead exposed, and the porcelain bead pulled a fire rope,

"Look, you just have to pull this rope hard to throw the grenade out, and then it will explode."

Of course, Dai Cang did not pull the rope, but handed the grenade to a grenadier beside him. Grenadier is a unique branch of the loyal army, most of their characteristics are tall and strong, in the past they are probably the strongest infantry in the loyal army in addition to the heavy armor, but with the comprehensive musket of the loyal army, especially the common equipment of new armor, after the heavy armor was replaced, the grenadiers gathered the strongest soldiers in the loyal army, and their task on the battlefield was very simple, that is, after the battle, close the enemy and then throw grenades at the enemy, Destroy enemy defenses with grenades that rain.

If we say what the impact of the Battle of Suqian on the Loyal and Righteous Army is, on the one hand, the Loyal and Righteous Army is convinced of the "armor", and on the other hand, it is well aware that when attacking, it is necessary to first tear apart the enemy's phalanx with grenades, otherwise attacking the complete enemy phalanx will only suffer relatively heavy losses. It is precisely because of this that the grenadiers began to become a full-time branch of the loyal army and were strengthened to a certain extent.

"Now let the grenadiers throw a few for everyone to see."

The grenadier who took the grenade walked behind the bunker made of sandbags in front of him, and then he took out three more grenades from the wooden box, and four grenades stood neatly in front of him, and then he began to prepare: turn around, flick his arms, and then pick up a grenade from the sandbag, and quietly look ahead, while preparing to pull the fire in his hand.

He's looking for a target.

Unlike in the past, when everyone was a grenadier, the grenadiers in the Loyal Army can be said to be the elite of the army, and what they are best at is throwing grenades. They don't throw bombs blindly, but they throw grenades far away with care and accuracy.

The requirement for a grenadier is not only to throw far, but also to be accurate.

Under the gaze of the generals, the tall grenadier first took a few steps back, stopped, and then looked ahead. After a while, I saw him pull the fire rope, and then strode forward to run, sideways, threw his arms, turned around, and stretched his arms, his movements were extremely accurate, as if a typical textbook bomb was prepared, in the process, people could even see a little white smoke coming out of the wooden handle of the grenade in his hand, and the next moment "whoosh", the grenade flew into the sky.

In the spring sky a small black dot flew forward, it flew very high, very slow, like the trajectory of a cannonball, forming a beautiful parabola, "boom", the grenade exploded, and in the midst of this violent explosion, another grenade was thrown out.

In the blink of an eye, the other two grenades were thrown out, and before the first explosion had disappeared, there were three thunderclaps in the distance, and the four clouds of smoke from the explosion were all connected......