The reason why the lightning drill was placed before the artillery drill was mainly because after the content of the drill was changed according to Li Hui's suggestion, the artillery drill took too long, and those "VIPs" who were invited to watch it might not be able to stick to the whole thing.

For the same reason, the procedures of the artillery drill have also been greatly adjusted, and the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, which were supposed to be the finale, were transferred to the first round, which made the officers and men of the two ships feel all the pressure, and even Liu Buyun, who has always been bold and magnificent, also tightened his expression, and after the first round of shelling of the Dingyuan did not hit, he looked even more nervous.

Seeing Liu Buyun's expression, Li Hui, who was also on the bridge at this time, comforted him and said, "It's normal to miss, it's normal to hit a high-speed enemy ship at this distance, even if it is the current British Royal Navy, the hit rate is difficult to exceed 10% (this is already said to Gao Li, otherwise I'm afraid that Liu Buyun won't believe it.) What's more, the size of our target ship is much smaller than that of warship cruisers, so the hit rate is even lower, and if you want to hit the first shot, the probability is almost like hitting a big luck. Even if there is such a **** luck, I would rather it appear in actual combat than during the review! ”

"Are you comforting people, or are you pouring cold water?" , Liu Buyun glared at Li Hui angrily, and casually spit out a new word "invented" by Li Hui, "When this kind of attention is in the limelight, you let us save character?" When the time comes, you will be counted down by the middle hall, are you happy? ”

"Don't worry, you can't save it even if you want to, 25 rounds, 4 main guns are 100 rounds, such a large sample, even if there is a luck factor, the impact is very limited." , Li Hui shook his head slightly, and then said something that made Liu Buyun even more angry, "Actually, you are lucky, if you are in the final round according to the original plan, then Lord Zhongtang will be full of expectations to see Dingzhen's results countdown, what will he be in mood at that time?" ”

"You!" , even if Liu Buyun got along well with Li Hui before, he couldn't help but be angry now, Li Hui was simply a slap in the face!

"I know that you will be unhappy when you hear this, but I really don't look at Dingzhen's performance in this big review, the reason is very simple, in the past few years, all ships in the navy have been short of ammunition, but to say that the most lacking, in addition to Pingyuan and Chaoyang, that is Dingzhen. And Chaoyang at least had a good life before, and the gunners are more experienced, so they will definitely be better than you. After all, a good gunner is fed with shells, and without enough shell training, it will not help you to be strict. Another point is that the main gun of Dingzhen is only 25 times the diameter, and except for Chaoyang, the main guns of other ships are 35 times, what does this mean, Zixiang You should know very well", Li Hui said this, he couldn't help but look down on the current Japanese Navy more and more, the military expenditure is far more than that of the Beiyang Naval Division, but the actual combat performance in history is a little worse, which is really his own reason

Liu Buyun was silent after hearing this, and only after a long time did he sigh and said, "Why are you saying these words, don't you know that the truth is the most hurtful?" ”

"Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated, if you feel that the truth is unpleasant, you will not want to listen, and it will be even more difficult to win. Although the Japanese Navy has a lot of problems, after all, there is a modern government behind them that is close to the level of the Western powers, even if the initial battle is unfavorable, it is easy to rise up and improve themselves, but we are only dragging behind our backs, if we can't win this battle", Li Hui's voice became lower and lower, but the content of the words made Liu Buyun's face more and more solemn, so that the cheers of the officers and soldiers after the shell hit did not make him smile

In the end, in the first round of test guns, both Dingyuan and Zhenyuan scored 100 rounds and 4 hits, which is enough to explain even in the British Royal Navy.

However, as Li Hui predicted, the Beiyang warships that appeared later performed even better, with 5 of the 100 shells of the Laiyuan hitting, and the Jingyuan hitting 7 hits, which made Lao Li can't help but shout good.

Jiyuan and Pingyuan do not have the same type of warship, so the two ships were put together into the third round, Jiyuan is an old ship, the sailors on the ship are more experienced, and because Fang Boqian is more favored, the ship's ammunition supply has always been the most sufficient, it stands to reason that the gunner level on the Jiyuan should be much stronger than the Pingyuan, which finally had enough ammunition for training until the second half of last year, but the result made everyone, including Li Hui, stunned.

To say that the Jiyuan 100 rounds of 6 results are actually quite outstanding, but as a comparison of the Pingyuan released a satellite, the only main gun of 260mm caliber in the exercise, if there is divine help, there are 6 shells hit the target ship, and this naval gun only fired a total of 35 shells in the test, the actual hit rate reached almost three times that of the Jiyuan!

Li Hongzhang is just a layman, he believes in the so-called "common sense" more than Li Hui's more trusted data, in his opinion, the long-term undertrained Pingyuan gunners cannot have a high level, then it can only be the poor gunnery of other ships, which highlights it, so Lao Li's face sank immediately

But Li Hui is different, he knows very well that the performance of the Jiyuan is not bad, but the shelling accuracy of the Pingyuan is too amazing, and then thinking of the amazing hit rate of 2 out of 10 shots of the 260mm main gun in the naval battle of Dadonggou in history, Li Hui quickly ruled out the possibility that "the Pingyuan hit accurately only because of good luck", and fell into deep thought, "There is such a lack of ammunition, there is such an amazing hit rate, how did the Pingyuan do it?" Could it be that they have mastered the trick of artillery training? ”

Li Hui, who was anxious to find the answer, didn't wait for the end of today's drill, so he took a small boat to the Pingyuan, but for his question, Li He, the pipe leader of the Pingyuan, was obviously a little confused, "Our training is the same as other warships!" It's nothing special, the reason why it hits more accurately than other warships, I think it may be because everyone knows that this batch of ammunition is not easy to come by, and they are very serious when they train, right? ”

"It can't be so simple, if their previous artillery skills are a mess, they won't be able to strengthen to their current level in just this half a year or so. What's more, the hit rate of the Pingyuan during the Battle of Dadonggou in history was also the highest among all the warships participating in the battle, and the Pingyuan at that time did not even have qualified training ammunition", Li Hui shook his head, did not believe Li He's words at all, and was about to continue to ask, when he suddenly thought of what Li He said just now, "this batch of ammunition", and suddenly his heart moved, and asked Li Hedao, "After this batch of ammunition arrives, the training of each ship is indeed similar, but what about before that?" How do you train when you don't have shells? ”