"How do you know that?" Seeing that Li Hui was so confident, Liu Buyun finally couldn't help but say this question that had arisen a long time ago, you must know that even the British Royal Navy only knew about the early explosion of armor-piercing blasting shells, but it was never clear how big the impact was

"Of course I know, do you think I gave it to the VC for nothing when I told the VC about the recipe for the silver dynamite? That recipe is worth at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, enough to exchange a lot of information and information with them", Li Hui, who had long known that there would be such a day, said the explanation that he had prepared a long time ago with a straight face, and by the way, he once again "shamelessly" showed his favor to the Beiyang Naval Division. However, a lie is a lie after all, and in order to prevent the admirals from grabbing this topic and causing him to accidentally say the wrong thing, he immediately accepted to talk about the biggest flaw of the 320mm Ghana main gun of the Sanjing ship

"In fact, even if the Ghana main gun of the Sanjing ship can penetrate the armor of Dingzhen, you don't have to worry too much, although this naval gun is very advanced in performance, for large-caliber naval guns extremely high muzzle velocity, up to 30 ゚ maximum elevation angle, and a very high degree of mechanization of the loading method, just looking at the indicators is really scary, but the problem is precisely here. It is too advanced, even if it appears ten years later, it is not backward, and the designer of this artillery is the French Schneider artillery factory, although this artillery factory is famous all over the world, but it has always been the main product of army artillery, do they really have the ability to design such advanced naval artillery? In fact, the biggest disadvantage of this gun is that it is too advanced and precise, and a little bit of damage, or even just a large vibration, can cause it to fail, and its reliability is very problematic. However, the Japanese did not have the money to buy ironclads at that time, so they created a freak like the Sankei ship, and with a mere 4,000-ton hull equipped with a 320 mm Cannon gun that is comparable to the 13.5-inch main gun of the Sovereign-class battleship, you can imagine how bad the stability of this weapon platform is. What's even more speechless is that the Japanese have the money to desperately buy new ships, but they don't have the money to buy more ammunition to test this naval gun, only a small amount of tests have been carried out on the shore, and the more important sea shelling test has not been done so far, if there is no problem in actual combat, my name will be written upside down! Li Hui couldn't help but spread his hands when he said this, "It's really hard for me to understand the thinking logic of the Japanese Navy's top brass, even if I was forced to make careful calculations when I was short of money when I built the Sanjing ship, I should have made up for the test after I had money in the past two years!" Could it be that the top brass of the Japanese Navy, who was responsible for the introduction of this artillery, also realized that there might be a problem, so they did not dare to conduct naval shelling tests because they avoided medical treatment? It seems that the bureaucracy in Japan is also very serious! By the way, there is another problem with this gun, also because of the small boat frame cannon, the Ghanaian main gun of the Sanjing ship cannot shoot at all angles. According to the information I have, there is only a maximum of 60 ゚ angles on the left and right, which should be smaller in actual combat, so even if the factor of failure is not considered, it is estimated that the main guns of the Sanjing ship will not have a few opportunities to open fire in actual combat, and their threat is naturally even less worth mentioning."

Li Hui's analysis of the scary main guns of the Sanjing ship made all the generals present have a great increase in confidence, which made him a little worried that everyone would make the mistake of underestimating the enemy, so he immediately changed his words, "The 320mm Ghana main gun is indeed a waste, but everyone can't overly despise the Sanjing ship, no matter what, these three warships are more than 4000 tons of standard rows there, and each warship is equipped with eleven or twelve 120mm rapid-fire guns, whether it is firepower or defense, It is far superior to any of our warships except Dingzhen. Although the Japanese gunners are not of high level, the rapid-fire guns can be calibrated with short firing intervals, and if the distance is too close, the powerful side-fire fire of the Sankei ship will be a great threat to other warships outside of our Dingzhen."

However, after looking at the sketch diagram of the Sanjing ship drawn by Li Hui, Ye Zugui, the pipe belt of the Jingyuan, keenly noticed a detail, "Wait, the secondary guns of these Sanjing ships are all installed in the gun cages below the sidestring deck, that is to say, the angle of their turning is very limited, and they should not be able to attack the enemy located in the forward and back directions of the warship, and according to what Dongyang just said, the main guns of the Sanjing ship are just decorations, if our warship can go around the back of the Sanjing ship (if the frontal hedge does not last for a few minutes), wouldn't it be able to fight in vain?" ”

"Yes, and not only the Sankei ship, but also the side-chord secondary guns of the four new Japanese dome armored clippers, the Naniwa and Takachiho, also have the same problem, but their main guns are still very powerful, and the situation is much better than that of the Sankei ship." , Li Hui affirmed Ye Zugui's views, but immediately pointed out that it is difficult to form such an idealized combat situation in actual combat, "However, in actual combat, they are all fighting in formation, and the Japanese army must be lined up in columns, unless it can disrupt its ranks, it is difficult to have such an opportunity." What's more, the speed of our warships is generally slow, and even if it is one-on-one, probably only the Zhijing 2nd ship is likely to go around its back and bite it tightly."

Probably suddenly thinking of the situation of his own warship, Qiu Baoren, the pipe band of the Laiyuan, suddenly smiled bitterly, "The Japanese ships are afraid of being rounded behind, but our warships are actually more afraid!" In addition to the Dingzhen two ships, the other eight warships have few cannons that can fire at the rear, Zhijing has 1 210 mm main gun, Jiyuan has 1 150 mm secondary gun, Jinglai Chaoyang and Pingyuan are even more hairy, once the Japanese fleet goes around the back, our army only has 13 ships of 100mm caliber or more that can fire (53 against the frontal enemy), and the Japanese fast fleet also has enough speed to go around our back and waste time thinking about how to go around the back of the Japanese ships, It's better to think more about how to prevent Japanese ships from going around our backs."

The results of the simulation were discouraging, even if the main formation was changed to a double horizontal formation to shorten the length of the horizontal formation, due to the natural unfavorable steering of the horizontal formation, and the speed of the Japanese fast cruiser was too fast, it was still difficult for the Beiyang naval division to avoid being bypassed by it.

Although there is a fixed town, even if it is surrounded by devils, it may not necessarily lose, but the ships on both wings must suffer heavy losses, if this is the case, even if it can win, it will only be a miserable victory, for a "one-time navy" such as the Beiyang Naval Division, this result is no different from losing. For a moment, all the admirals fell silent