Although Qin Chuan stood far away and couldn't see the structure of this Krupp cannon clearly, he could still see from the movements of the soldiers in the Martial Arts Academy that he was using the direct-aim test firing calibration method. www.biquge.info Because at this time, there were no circumferential sights, let alone any goniometers. In this case, it is not easy to directly blow up a red flag with three shots, which shows that the teaching level of the Martial Arts Academy is still very high.

The three gunners of the Beiyang Naval Division were not polite, and the three of them first tried to fire two rounds, one of which exploded far over the dirt slope and behind the slope, and the other fell down the slope. The distance between the landing points of the two test-fired shells is too large, and it is not easy to accurately find the target landing point.

Although the people of the Beiyang Naval Division used mountain cannons that they were not familiar with, Qin Chuan was still secretly helpless in his heart, it seemed that this Beiyang Naval Division still had to strengthen training.

Sure enough, none of the three shells fired by the Beiyang Naval Division hit the target, and even because the landing point was too far away from the flag, the shock wave of the explosion did not knock the flag down.

The gunners of the Beiyang Naval Division did not shoot satisfactorily, and it can even be said that they were a little embarrassed, and there was a faint sound of low boos on the school ground, and the three of them hurried back to their ranks with their heads down.

After the Beiyang Navy Division was launched, it should be Qin Chuan's turn, Qin Chuan was about to step to the mountain artillery, but he felt some movement behind him, and when he looked back, he saw Shi Feng, Chu Yunfei, Xu Tong, Zhou Dajing and others Everyone had strong worry in their eyes, and Chu Yunfei, who was anxious, opened his mouth, looking like he wanted to say something, but looking at Qin Chuan, who was calm, he still didn't say anything.

Qin Chuan knew the thoughts of his subordinates, so he just smiled and turned his head, striding towards the big stride mountain cannon alone.

There were three people firing mountain artillery, one artillery commander was responsible for commanding, one was a gunner, and one was responsible for carrying the shells, but Qin Chuan only came out alone, which made everyone a little confused. For a while, whether it was the foreign envoys on the viewing platform, the Beiyang civil and military officials headed by Li Hongzhang and Zhou Fu, or the thousands of officers and soldiers in the shooting range, they were all breathless, looking at Qin Chuan nervously, and the shooting range of more than 1,000 people suddenly became quiet.

The closer Qin Chuan got to the mountain cannon, the closer he was to the viewing platform, and the more he could see the expression of an official above, and Qin Chuan, whose eyesight had become very sharp after crossing, could even see the subtle expressions on the faces of many people. Qin Chuan turned a blind eye to everyone's surprise, surprise or doubt, but the fighting spirit in his heart became more and more vigorous.

Qin Chuan didn't do too much, picked up a box of shells weighing more than 30 catties and put it next to the Krupp mountain cannon, and bowed down to look at the German-made mountain cannon carefully.

The Krupp mountain cannon in front of Qin Chuan adopts the form of liquid spring retreat and re-advancement, horizontal wedge running bolt, two-wheeled monopod gun mount, the elevation is only 20 degrees from the ruler, the high and low firing boundary is only -8 degrees to 15 degrees, and the directional firing boundary is only four degrees.

When Qin Chuan moved the box of shells just now, it was basically clear that a box of six shells, according to the weight of more than 30 catties, each shell was only more than 5 kilograms, so Qin Chuan's estimate that the maximum range was 3,000 to 4,000 meters.

Although Qin Chuan has never played this kind of old-fashioned mountain artillery, and even saw it for the first time, he only saw it in the learning materials of the military academy, but in addition to the workmanship of the mountain cannon in front of him is slightly rough compared with the later generations, there is no observation device of later generations, but the other parts are no different from later generations, it can be said that this is a modern mountain cannon, it is said that the **** is still in use during the Anti-Japanese War.

For the use of this kind of old-fashioned mountain artillery, which does not have any sighting device, it is necessary to test the shooting of the shooter's eye, and if you want to accurately shell with such a mountain artillery, it is simply impossible to use curved fire, and basically you can only aim directly. If you want to shoot in a curved way, you can only fire multiple guns in a group, and it is possible to cause damage to the target. Fortunately, the target is not far away, and the distance of a thousand meters is far below its effective range.

Qin Chuan had been carefully observing the adjustment of the barrel height of the two groups of gunners in the Martial Arts Academy and the Beiyang Fleet when they were firing, and he had already predicted this.

Because Qin Chuan did not fire the cannon for a long time, but only bowed his body to check the mountain artillery for a while, and then observed the flags on the dirt slope in the distance from a distance, the officers and soldiers of Beiyang on the school field gradually talked in a low voice, and the sound became louder and louder.

Qin Chuan didn't seem to hear the gradually rising discussion on the school field, stretched out his arm and raised his thumb, squinted his eyes to estimate the direction of the firing angle and wind speed, and then held the handle to control the firing angle and shook it slowly, lowering the barrel to about ten degrees, turning around and handling a cannonball that was only about five kilograms from the shell box with one hand, pulling the running bolt and pushing the cannonball into the barrel with one hand, and quickly locking the bolt door with a quick "bang", reaching out and quickly pulling the cannon rope.

As Qin Chuan pulled the cannon rope, the shells in the barrel rushed out of the cannon muzzle with a whistling sound.

A flag stretched and fluttered in the wind on the breakthrough in the distance was suddenly held up by a puff of smoke, and the flagpole was long gone, leaving only a few pieces of broken cloth flying away in the wind. As the smoke and dust rose, the roar of the shell explosion reached the eardrums of everyone on the shooting range.

Qin Chuan didn't need to test fire, he directly hit the target with one cannon alone, and his almost magical action suddenly stunned everyone.

Only one cannon allowed Qin Chuan to understand the performance of this 75mm caliber Krupp mountain gun, and then Qin Chuan did not hesitate, adjusted the firing boundary and firing angle, pushed the bullet into the rifled gun, and fired six shells one after another, blowing up the remaining seven flags on the soil slope one by one, and they were all direct hits.

Just when the more than 2,000 Huai officers and soldiers on the school field and the officials on the school review platform who were already stunned had not yet reacted, Jia Qisheng shouted loudly without any scruples.

"Good!"

With Jia Qisheng's cheers, thousands of people on the shooting range also came back to their senses, and almost everyone cheered loudly。。。。。。

Half an hour later, the Beiyang Grand Review, which had not been seen for several years, finally ended, but the originally scheduled shooting competition between Hannagan and Qin Chuan was not held as scheduled, because after Hannagen checked Qin Chuan's shooting results and checked Qin Chuan's target paper, he saw that Qin Chuan not only hit fifty rings with five shots, but the bullet holes of the five bullets actually circled a uniform pentagonal plum blossom in the center of the target paper.

Originally, he didn't pay much attention to the competition with Hannagan, Qin Chuan, what he cared about was the performance of his salt group in the school parade, and he wanted to give Li Hongzhang, the head of Beiyang, an unforgettable deep impression.