Chapter 880: The Road of No Return

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Lin Yiqing originally had a lot of research on explosives, and combined with the technical level that could be achieved in the era and his experience of blowing up a toilet when he was a child, he invented the epoch-making "Lin's gunpowder".

"Lin's gunpowder" is a kind of diatomaceous earth explosives, the main raw materials are sea salt and toilet clay that are very easy to obtain in Qianguo, the processing is simple, no technology is required, only need to pay attention to safe operation, and its power is much greater than the black powder commonly used by the navies of all countries in the world now, it can reach 70% of the picric acid explosive, and the medicinal properties are more stable than bitter acid.

Under Lin Yiqing's arrangement, not only did all the shell charges of the Qianguo Navy be replaced with "Lin's gunpowder," but even the torpedo warhead charges were also updated.

For the existence of "Lin's gunpowder", the Japanese have also heard of it, just because Lin Yiqing has done a good job of secrecy, from production to equipment There are a large number of ninja monitoring in all links, and it is a Japanese spy after many investigations, and only understand that this is a new type of gunpowder that will produce a very unpleasant smell when manufactured (the main process of "Lin's gunpowder" is to mix the sea salt water in the salt pool with a certain proportion of the toilet clay and then dry it naturally, and naturally precipitate translucent white crystals, because it is made of toilet clay as raw material, The taste of the production can be imagined), it is easy to get wet, but it is extremely powerful, but the composition of this gunpowder is unknown.

Today, "Lin's gunpowder" was applied to actual combat for the first time and achieved brilliant results.

At the time when the "Longwei" ship was ramming the "Tsukushi" with shells loaded with "Lin's gunpowder", the other direction. The "Aikawa" was also scarred by the heavy shelling of the "Pingyuan" ship. The officers and men on board suffered heavy casualties.

7:28 a.m. The captain of the cruiser "Aikawa," Sadashi Nomura, saw a dark red flame flash from the muzzle of the "Pingyuan's" main gun, and then a 305-millimeter bomb "flew like a meteor" and hit the starboard side of the "Aikawa." Nomura immediately felt a shock in the ship's hull, followed by a deafening explosion. The explosion produced a large cloud of yellowish-white choking smoke, which is clearly different from the black smoke after the explosion of a traditional artillery shell. Nomura Sada: It immediately understood that the shells of the Qianguo people used a new type of explosives! Because the toxic fumes produced by the explosion can be clearly distinguished from the explosion of black powder.

Nomura described the power of this explosive in "The Battle of Incheon": "The 12-inch main gun of the enemy ship 'Pingwon' hit our ship like a huge thunder. The flames soared into the air, and the left looked at 'Tsukushi' and burned. The explosive power of the gunpowder covering the enemy was so strong that it was hard to extinguish the place where the cannon was hit, and it was immediately shattered. …… This explosive is extremely incendiary, which is completely epoch-making compared with the black powder used in the shells of our navy. ”

"In fact, not only the shell charge, but also the artillery of the Qianguo Navy has used smokeless gunpowder in the firing of gunpowder. This ****** not only has a longer range. After the launch, there was basically no choking smoke from the black powder launch, so there was no need to wait for the smoke to dissipate before firing a second shot. The actual launch speed has been increased. Our warships still use blunted black gunpowder, and each time it is fired, it produces a large amount of white pungent smoke, which affects the sight of the gunner and the gunner's body. ”

"Although the shells of our fleet have hit the enemy ironclad ships many times and caused the enemy ships to catch fire, it is a pity that the power of black powder is too small. Moreover, even if such a blasting shell filled with a sufficient amount of black powder hits the armor of the enemy ship, it will explode immediately after touching the armor of the enemy ship, and it will not be able to penetrate the hull of the ship, so it will not be able to damage the enemy ship, and if you want to penetrate the armor of the enemy ship, you can only use solid shells filled with sand, and this kind of shell cannot explode, and it is difficult to effectively hit the enemy ship. During prolonged shelling, the superiority of the enemy's artillery in terms of rate of fire and explosive power became more and more obvious......

Less than half an hour after the battle, the stern main gun of the "Tsukushi" was also hit by a 140-mm shell fired from the secondary gun of the "Longwei", which was seriously damaged, and many gunners were killedWhen the "Tsukushi" escaped, it also turned to flee, but in the opposite direction to the "Tsukushi".

The reason why such an escape route was adopted was that the commander of the "Aikawa" still hoped to attract the Qianguo warships to pursue and divert the Qianguo warships away from the coast in order to cover the troop convoy in Incheon Bay and the land forces that had already landed, knowing that they could not fight.

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