Chapter 873: Large-caliber artillery
Will Zhao Xin disappear, of course not, let's not talk about the strength of the navy, if it weren't for the relationship between people, it would be easy to take the Northern Song Dynasty, and even without the whole army, there was a main army of 300,000, and it could be done.
Is it difficult, 10,000 or 20,000 Anglo-French troops beat the Qing Dynasty to the ground, and the difference between the weapons of the Anglo-French alliance and the weapons of the Qing Dynasty at that time was definitely not as big as it is now.
At the very least, the Qing Dynasty still has forts, and at the same time, the British and French forces are still not far away, and it is impossible to suppress all the forces in the Qing State, but the Ding Navy is different, he directly took the Liao State, and the border line with the Northern Song Dynasty is at least more than 2000 kilometers, such a long range, if the Ding Navy attacks with all its might, the Northern Song Dynasty has no ability to resist at all.
Under the premise that the generation difference in weapons is too large, the same number, or even ten times, can be defeated in battle, and there is no possibility that the navy will be defeated by foreign enemies.
So, is Zhao Xin likely to die, this aspect is not big, everyone will die, and time does not exist forever, but Zhao Xin's current age is still a long way from natural death.
Even according to the average life expectancy of the Northern Song Dynasty, about 40-50 years old, there is still at least 30 years to go.
As for illness, this does not exist, with Zhao Xin's body now, under the transformation of the card system, it is already very terrible, before because there is no adult relationship, even if Zhao Xin has surpassed Sun Ji in terms of physical fitness, but the combat effectiveness is not obvious, but now, in the 17th year of Qingli, Zhao Xin is already 20 years old, and the card system has changed, and in terms of physical fitness, he has been several times higher than Sun Ji.
The body is strong, Zhao Xin's body is also very good, this should be a change at the genetic level, he has not even been sick, 3-4 hours of sleep a day is enough to ensure the spirit of the whole day, which can be said to be an inhuman existence.
At this point, Zhao Xin faintly suspects that this should be the role of the card system, the card system, not only a puzzle class, should also have genes and for the body to improve the aspect, this promotion, created Zhao Xin's physical state, not only is it a non-human existence, but the body can also be immune to most diseases.
Zhao Xin's body can continue to improve, and the foundation for China will become stronger and stronger, and in more than 20 years, this foundation will take root and will never change, and a strong China will lead the world.
Even now, under Zhao Xin's outspokenness, Ding Haijun is still developing in the direction of his guidance, but in fact, Ding Haijun has a lot of new things, countless scholars, countless experts, in the laboratory, keep working hard, and some people are verifying those things proposed by Zhao Xin.
In the middle, there is step-by-step development, but there are still many people who are studying new things, some of these new things have appeared in later generations, and some of them are not, Zhao Xin may not be able to invent and create these things, but there is still no problem in distinguishing the good and bad of these things, under such a premise, the development of Ding Haijun has never slowed down, but with the passage of time, it has continued to increase.
In the middle, an important indicator is fiscal revenue, since the establishment of the Dinghai Navy, has maintained a growth of more than 30 percent, this has never been reduced, soon, from 10 billion, to 100 billion, and even now, may have reached the level of one trillion.
In other words, according to the 10-fold increase, the national production of the Navy is more than 10 trillion yuan, and even according to the current evaluation of 150 million people in the Navy, the value created by each person is as high as 70,000.
This is a lot, and the Dinghai Navy is relying on this, constantly accumulating strength, almost every minute, every second has made tremendous and incomparable progress, and this has constantly consolidated the foundation of the Dinghai Navy.
In addition to the rapid development of national strength and science and technology, the Dinghai Navy is more about the improvement of its own strength.
This own strength, the most intuitive manifestation, is in terms of weapons, after Zhao Xin opened the way to belong to thermal weapons, the Dingjun Navy along this direction, keep soaring.
Without going through the stage of arquebus, flintlock pistol, etc., the naval weapon was a smoothbore gun as soon as it came out, and then, the fixed ammunition directly made the weapon of the navy skip the initial many generations of primary firearms, and progressed to the middle and late stages, and the development is getting faster and faster.
Design and thinking are one aspect, and this point, for Ding Haijun, there is no problem at all, because Zhao Xin is a traverser, he can draw the form of many weapons in later generations, in this way, the designers don't need it, and the researchers only need to design according to this to see if it can be realized.
In fact, because of the existence of Niu Dali, the Dinghai Navy has reached the level of the end of the 20th century in steelmaking, except for some special steel, other ordinary materials, their performance is very outstanding, which solves a big problem of firearms, without considering the problem of materials, as long as you understand and figure out the basic principles of firearms, there is no problem with constant updates.
In just 10 years, the guns of the Ding Navy have undergone 4 large-scale reloads, and in the recent reloading, they have been equipped with rifles equivalent to the period of World War I, with a magazine of 5 bullets, and a rifle that can shoot continuously, which has become the main firearm of the Ding Navy, and at the same time, because of the large-scale use of stamping materials, the production of rifles has increased and the cost has been greatly reduced.
In fact, there is no way to do this, the former Ding Navy, weapons have gone through several reincarnations, cold weapons, hot weapons, non-stop development, the speed is too fast, the speed of refitting is also gradually rising, without considering the premise of the enemy, these weapons can only be sealed and destroyed, and can not be sold, this is also a heavy part of financial expenditure, fortunately, the financial revenue of the Ding Navy, the increase is too fast, can solve this aspect.
Thermal weapons are based on explosives, and in the early stage of historical development, why the power of firearms weapons is not high is because black powder was used at that time, and at the same time, it was not perfect black powder, and the power of the explosion was very low.
With the deepening of research, along with Zhao Xin's popularization of mechanics and materials science, especially the in-depth research on explosives, some more potent explosives appeared.
As long as it is explosives, it is basically inseparable from nitrate, different nitrate compounds, bringing the huge power of explosion, as long as this continuous research, the power of explosives, will gradually increase, the difference between different compounds, 10 times, or even 100 times.
The materials of the navy, for the development of these weapons, plugged in the weapons, the navy in the material, comparable to the quality of steel in the 21st century, that is to say, as long as there is a certain improvement in explosives, the power of the weapon has also been greatly improved, and Zhao Xin, who knows this well, directly in the research of weapons, increased the research on explosives, after the determination of the branch of chemistry, the speed of development began to increase rapidly.
Yellow, picric acid, and even later more advanced explosives, these materials have promoted the increase in the power of weapons, and at the same time made the power of firearms more and more improved, but with the improvement of explosives, artillery is the most profitable.
Firearms, even from the beginning of the 20th century, after establishing the foundation of modern firearms, until the 21st century, the improvement of firearms is not much, the reason is that the power of the guns themselves, even if the power of explosives is increased by 10 times, the power of firearms cannot be increased to 10 times, perhaps, firearms in the 21st century, compared with those in the 20th century, are crushed, but this crushing is not simply in terms of power, reliability, speed, and range, etc., is their power show.
Dingjun, now the development of all aspects, almost all under Zhao Xin's promotion, leapfrog development, the same is true of firearms, so far, the materials are the peak, so are explosives, but the understanding of the foundation and theory of firearms is not deep, which restricts the development of firearms.
To make the most of the power and materials, it is not only necessary to understand the firearm to a very high level, but also to understand the mechanism of the firearm, which takes time to consolidate, but another weapon, the enlarged firearm artillery, then there is no need to be so troublesome, as long as the explosives are good enough, as long as the material is harder, the power will also change dramatically.
Dinghai artillery, in the initial difficult birth, when the iron cannon was blocked, or through the copper cannon, the side crossed this level, made the first artillery, began to understand what the artillery is, and then along this aspect of artillery, development by leaps and bounds.
Firearms must be concentrated, reduced, and even automatic and weight-based, all need to be considered, but for artillery, the earliest artillery is just in a closed barrel, put explosives, and then ignite the explosives, and the power of the explosives pushes the cannonballs, pushes forward, and produces destructive power.
In principle, if the material is not good, you can use the weight and use other things to kick and beat, big deal, make this bigger.
Like firearms, artillery has developed at a rapid pace, and has been improved several times over the past few years.
The structure, the design scheme, and even the materials themselves have undergone a sea change, gradually reaching the level of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Don't underestimate this change, at the end of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century, it was an important point in time, that era, it was already the peak of strong ships and artillery, before the First World War, during the First World War, the world's largest confrontation of capital ships, the birth of larger caliber artillery, from the dreadnought class to the super dreadnought.
Blue water navy, this is probably the pain of China in later generations, in order to break through the first island chain, China has made great efforts and suffered a certain amount of damage, that is, after the first aircraft carrier appeared, it can be regarded as having the ability to fight in the ocean.
The advantages of the Dingjun Navy in steel, once the performance problem of explosives is solved and large-caliber artillery is produced, there is almost no problem, not to mention, the Dingjun Navy also took out a series of materials such as self-tightening of the pipe body, outer hoop, and material quenching, as well as strengthening layers, these materials, together, not to mention that the Dinghai Navy is still very good at materials, even if it is not impossible, it can make artillery beyond this level.
To put it bluntly, the self-tightening of the pipe body is the treatment after the production is completed, and the pressure is increased for the inner hall, so that the material is relatively combined under pressure, and such a surface has a strong ability to resist the impact of the explosion.
The outer hoop is even simpler, just like the wooden barrel, the cylinder formed by wood, if there is no outer hoop, the bucket cannot be fixed and support enough weight.
The same is true for artillery, and sometimes, the strength of the cannon can be increased by having an outer hoop, or even easier to achieve.
Metal coating, which may have gone through countless attempts, was finally made in this era, but also Zhao Xin first put forward, not to mention, the concept of gold plating, in later generations, is a rotten street reconstruction, some metal with insufficient strength, with the method of gold plating, to strengthen the strength of the surface, so as to play a role in wear resistance and weight reduction.
In later generations, some high-precision equipment, in order to reduce weight, most of them are gold-plated, and some plastic materials, with gold-plated methods, increase the performance of the surface, but the overall quality has a huge reduction, which is quite widely used in airplanes and other aircraft.
The difficulty of this problem lies in finding the right metal as a coating, and applying the coating to the metal reasonably, temporarily in the form of spraying, the watering can made by Zhao Xin can can be sprayed simply, even if the improvement is not high, but it is much higher than the original.
The problem of artillery, compared to the problem of machine guns, is easier to solve, as long as the materials and explosives are solved, it is not difficult to make them, the navy has enough materials and artillery, began to continue to enlarge, the era of its own front-loading guns, basically more than 150 mm, and later iron guns and rear-loading guns, along with the improvement of the power of explosives, reduced the caliber, after digestion and absorption, after understanding the basic principles of artillery, and then to large-scale development, large-caliber artillery began to emerge in endlessly.
From 200 mm, 250, 300, 350, and even 400, the caliber of artillery is getting larger and larger, and with the impetus of modern artillery, the power is, of course, multiplied.
There are too many things that the Dinghai Navy has, whether it is from the accumulation of technology or from the foresight, the Dinghai Navy should surpass the world powers at the beginning of the 20th century.
However, the army is good to say, a lot of things are just an idea, not a big thing, with the advantages of the navy in materials, polishing, experimenting, you can make it, even those super artillery, can be made, because of Zhao Xin's like, as well as the efforts of artillery researchers, large-caliber artillery has been gradually improved, starting from 200, now it is close to the level of 400 mm, such artillery, even in the 21st century, is called a terrible cannon, Not to mention that in this era, in the 11th century, it was simply a black technology-like existence.
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