"SIR, WE JUST WANT TO BUY YOUR COUNTRY'S 240MM GUNS, AND MOST OF YOUR TEST CONTENT TODAY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR BUSINESS." Admiral Diano, the representative of Argentina, said euphemistically.

"But wouldn't it be nice to know more about things? You're not the only one here today. "With a sign of a senior Krupp engineer on his chest, our Baron Vittorio began to fool his potential customers, after all, with his current status, it is not too easy to make a name for the Krupp company!

"Look there, that's the Admiralty's personnel, a little north is the Austro-Hungarian representatives, on the flanks are the Russian representatives, and today, we will witness the miracle of rapid-fire artillery and new charges, and we will completely destroy this target ship with high-explosive shells!" The baron first introduced the audience, and then pointed to the target ship that was more than 40 meters long on the river.

"But I think it's hard to destroy this target ship with just 4 light guns!" Colonel Diano glanced at the artillery and then at the target in the distance, and said unceremoniously.

"Light artillery? How can it be? What we're using today: When Mr. Baron glanced at the guns on the gun emplacement, his face immediately turned green.

"DIDN'T YOU SAY A GOOD 150MM NAVAL GUN? HOW DID YOU GET ME A 105MM NAVAL GUN? The baron asked the personnel of the Krupp factory next to him.

"It's too heavy, the cannon body alone is more than 4 tons! SO ABOVE LET'S USE THE 105MM GUN. The other party wiped a cold sweat and said, any naval gun on land is a big guy. It's not that Krupp didn't do his best, it was because the time was too rushed and the artillery was too heavy.

"Well, hopefully it won't be too bad today." At this point, it was useless to complain, originally the baron thought that 3 guns with picric acid high-explosive grenades could destroy this target in a very short time. But the current firepower seems to him to be a little insufficient?

The purpose of his planning of this experiment was to make the Argentines realize how terrible the asphyxiating attack of high-explosive shells and rapid-fire guns was, and then to tell the other side that the armored cruisers and dome cruisers with insufficient defense area were outdated, and when the other side fell into despair and panic, he would come up with his own work - the 7,500-ton Munich-class armored cruiser! Brand new armor, full-rapid-fire guns, and a speed of more than 20 knots, whether it is MT, spell output, or running away, it is an expert!

But today. Something seems to have happened! Just as Mr. Baron was cursing the Krupp factory for cutting corners and wondering whether his order would be in vain, a series of loud noises came from the gun emplacements to tell everyone that the tests had begun!

4 guns spewed deadly tongues of fire at a stationary target in the distance! 18KG of high-explosive shells are firing at a rate of about 8 rounds per minute! IN JUST ONE MINUTE, 4 105MM GUNS CAN THEORETICALLY TILT MORE THAN 30 ROUNDS TOWARDS THE TARGET, WHICH IS ABOUT 600KG OF AMMUNITION!

Because of the use of new smokeless gunpowder, the artillery did not have to wait for the smoke to clear before firing, orange fireballs jumped at the muzzle, and a series of shells fell on the targets that had already been calibrated. The explosive power and burning effect of the picric high-explosive shell are really outstanding, and every hit shell will cause a local fire!

The yellow-green flames spread rapidly across the hull, flowing down the deck and metal supports like a dragon of flames, leaving only a scorched wreckage in its wake, and even a thinner steel plate could ignite! In just three minutes from the start of the shooting, the surface of the target ship had turned into a sea of fire! The raging fire made the ship look more like a giant torch!

The roar of the flames and the twisting of the hull structure made a heart-pounding sound, and the Krupp company, which had planned to smash 200 shells, found that the target was so unmissive! However, after using up 4 percent of ammunition, it is almost burned! The target boats that stayed on the riverside began to change and sink, and finally broke into two and ran aground at the shallow talk.

However, this also made experts from various countries proudly observe this burned battleship at close range, in order to deeply understand the threat of high-explosive bombs to warships with insufficient protection area! With the muffled sound of the spotlight, the personnel of all parties recorded the last appearance of this sad target ship.

"We have just witnessed the end of an era and the beginning of a new one!" Vittorio said to the somewhat stunned Argentine next to him. "The rapid-fire guns and high-explosive shells of the German Empire were enough to sweep those old battleships into the dustbin of history! And the new armor and the new armor layout are enough to withstand the rapid-fire guns and high-explosive shells of the Chileans! ”

The affair did not end when all the onlookers left the test site in shock, disbelief and even fear, and some of the details of the experiment were revealed in the press, intentionally or unintentionally, and the burnt photographs in the Brasssi Almanac, the twisted steel beams and keels, and the almost burned hull surprised and frightened all the naval personnel.

In another subsequent experiment, the 10-inch Bavarian hardened armor easily blocked the 240KG shells fired from the 11-inch gun fired from 1,000 meters away! And this result frightened the Russians and Germans present! By the standards of the past, a battleship was too embarrassed to go out without a 14-inch armor belt? And this 14 inches is the thickness of pure steel iron armor, and if you count the teak back plate at the back, the thickness will be even greater!

In an instant, the Russians were stunned! The new armor is more defensive than they imagined. If the Russians were skeptical at first that the new German hardened armor would be able to achieve the performance of the report, now they are convinced! The whistling shells left nothing more than a 3-inch pit in the steel plate. When this photo was sent to the Russian Admiralty, the next day, the Russians made a decision to accept the offer from the Bavarian side!

And after learning through various channels about the tight supply of hardened armor in Bavaria and the possible expansion of production capacity by German shipyards, the Russian Admiralty immediately began to discuss whether to open an official office in Bavaria to guarantee the supply of Russian hardened armor! After all, now the Russians have already begun to build largely! The artillery, power, and hull are fine, but there really is only one armor for this!

"Almost overnight, the cruisers of the British Empire have almost become obsolete, and all the new dome cruisers have come to the end of their lives, and even if they have not yet disembarked from the slipway, the outcome on the battlefield is certain!" Colonel Diano reported to his home country what he had seen in Germany, and finally advised the Argentine Navy not to buy any more dominary ships. Because these things are useless in the face of the rapid-fire guns of the Chileans!

And then this report was sent to the Argentine delegation to Britain to buy protective cruisers, when the head of the delegation asked Sir Watts if he could design a cruiser that could withstand rapid-fire guns, Watts wilted, after all, he had so far all the dome armor protection cruisers in his hands, and the armored ones had not been done!

"I'll do my best, wait for me in 2 weeks!" The honest Sir Watts admitted that he could not produce the relevant design at the moment, but he did not want to give up the order. So he said.

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