Hearing Li Hui talk about the previous incident, Li He's eyes suddenly turned red, and he really didn't want to recall that unbearable time.

However, he finally controlled his emotions and replied truthfully, "At that time, the main gun was only available for a dozen shells, and it had to be kept just in case, and the live-fire training was almost completely stopped, and a few shots were fired when people came from above." Seeing that the gunners on the ship were about to be abandoned, I had no choice but to put a small cannon (37mm caliber) into the bore of the main gun, and let the gunners hit the small cannon to find a feeling, but how could such a simulated training effect compare to real live shelling? ”

"I see, I see! Master Li, you are such a genius! After hearing this, Li Hui's suspicions suddenly disappeared, and he laughed, "But the significance of this method should not be limited to emergency response, although the effect is not as good as artillery live-fire training, but a small-caliber shell only costs a few taels of silver?" And how many taels is a large-caliber shell? In other words, unconsciously, the gunners on the Pingyuan have completed dozens of times the amount of training of their counterparts on other warships, even if the quality is poor, such a large number is enough to make up for it. In other words, before obtaining that batch of ammunition, the artillery level of the Pingyuan was already the first in the navy. I'll just say, just train more seriously, how can it be possible to open such a big gap in just over half a year! ”

However, it may be the reason for being excluded for a long time, even if Li Hui said it so clearly, Li He still didn't seem confident enough in addition to being surprised, "Is this method really so powerful?" ”

"Yes, and there is room for further improvement in this method, and the use is by no means limited to saving shells", Li Hui subconsciously punched Li He in the chest, venting the excitement in his heart.

What are you kidding, the method of using coaxial small-caliber guns to conduct simulated shooting training of naval guns is an indispensable key part of the "naval gunnery revolution" initiated by British Navy Captain Scott in 1898.

However, after the excitement calmed down, Li Hui's face quickly sank again. Pride is pride, but the early appearance of this method is actually not a good thing in a sense, because it is just an idea, there is no threshold, once it is promoted in the Beiyang Navy, it will definitely be noticed by the foreigners and quickly leaked, and then imitated by the navies of various countries.

Originally, this was nothing, after all, sooner or later there would have to be such a day, but the problem was that this training method and the accompanying continuous aiming method increased the hit rate of small and medium-caliber rapid-fire guns much more than large-caliber old naval guns.

Therefore, once this training method is learned by the Japanese Navy, which is equipped with a large number of rapid-fire guns, the gap in strength between the two sides will inevitably widen sharply again, which is not what Li Hui wants to see.

In fact, it was precisely because he was worried about such a situation that Li Hui never thought of teaching them the simulation training method even when the Beiyang Naval Division was most short of ammunition before.

Therefore, although he has always been deeply criticized for the ancient Chinese who were good at creating but not good at summarizing laws and popularizing them, after learning of this incident, Li Hui immediately decided to prevent this method from being promoted to other warships.

The Pingyuan has never been treated well by Lao Li, so there has never been a resident foreigner on the ship, and the foreigners on other ships almost never set foot on this warship, so that this method has not been leaked so far, but if it is extended to other warships, then the leakage is inevitable, and the consequences will be very serious.

Hearing Li Hui say this, Li He's face also became solemn, he nodded heavily, and promised that he would not use the simulation training method before the Beiyang Naval Division was fully equipped with rapid-fire guns in the future, anyway, now that there are a lot of live ammunition, it is no longer necessary to rely on this method as it was at the beginning.

And although Li Hui was still a little worried in his heart, since he was excited to tell the power of this training method, he could only believe in Li He's personal integrity, after all, Li Hui was not Li He's boss, even if Li He said it with a big mouth, he couldn't do anything at all

After the Pingyuan made a big splash, Lao Li wanted to reprimand the other ships of the Beiyang Naval Division at first, but he was a mature bureaucrat after all, even if he thought that the training of the other ships of the Beiyang Naval Division was lax, but after watching all the gunnery drills, he found that the gunnery of the other Beiyang warships except the Pingyuan was basically on the same level (Chaoyang had the highest hit rate, but it was still a cut worse than the Pingyuan, not to mention other warships. After that, he finally swallowed all the curses back into his stomach.

Because if he did this, he would offend almost all the middle and senior officers of the Beiyang Naval Division, and in case this caused the Beiyang Naval Division to be centrifuged and dug up by political enemies, Lao Li would not be able to cry at that time. So in the end, Lao Li only gave Pingyuan a rare commendation, and Li He was also promoted to a level because of his merits, and he could straighten his waist a little.

However, even so, Lao Li's worries about the combat strength of the Beiyang Naval Division were not eliminated, so as in history, he managed to keep the three warships of the Guangdong Naval Division that came to participate in this parade, and the number of warships of the Beiyang Naval Division increased to thirteen.

Although the Guang C is very ineffective, one more warship can always increase its combat power a little, and it is specially responsible for lightning strikes, so the second ship of Zhijing does not need to carry torpedoes, and can avoid being hit by enemy artillery fire in battle, which can lead to fatal consequences.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that Cheng Biguang, the Guang Bing pipe band, is a native of Guangdong and a fellow countryman with Deng Shichang, and Li Hongzhang seems to be planning to use this to support a Cantonese family in the Beiyang Naval Division to balance the Fujian family

The current speed of Guangyi is only 14 knots, and the Guangjia is only the maximum speed of 12 knots, so the second ship can only be incorporated into the Beiyang Naval Division, and in addition, considering the needs of other tasks such as patrol and escort, the two ships are respectively organized into a team with Jiyuan and Jinglai, and the Jiyuan, which could not find a warship to match because of the embarrassment of speed, finally does not have to stay at the base all the time.

However, after Li Hui's analysis at the beginning, the senior generals of the Beiyang Naval Division now already know that the decisive battle of the main force is not terrible, and the escort mission is dangerous, especially for the weakest detachment of the Jiyuan/Guangyi squad