"Just fight?" Scheer was stunned, this thing can be placed on a rifle, it can be placed on a machine gun, no matter how much it is hit, it is no problem, but on the cannon, especially on the main gun of the battleship, is this something that can be shot casually? The reason why the navy is called a money-burning machine, not to mention the high cost of warships at sea, the price of each battleship is between 40 million and 50 million marks, such a price, gritting your teeth is also passable, but to maintain a battleship, you will invest between 15 million and 20 million every year, almost two or three years of maintenance costs, it is a battleship, in today's battlefleet is getting bigger and bigger, let alone Germany, even the traditional world hegemon Britain, can not support.

"It's okay, it's really okay, this is the order of the artillery command system team, and it has also been recognized by Yang Yuanzhao, you can continue to test, it's no problem if the barrel is scrapped, just hit it, shoot it at will." Fabian's atmosphere made Scheer stunned, he asked again and again as if he hadn't heard, and after getting Fabian's affirmative answer, he let out a long breath.

A barrel, even if it is strong, is only about 200 rounds, I heard that the life of this barrel is a little longer, about 400 rounds, a battleship 10 guns, if you want to completely scrap the barrel, you need more than 4000 excitation, no matter any battleship, the main gun 400 rounds out, this is not an ordinary cost, the main gun of the battleship is definitely the most expensive on the battleship, in addition to the barrel, the main gun firing is the same, every shot is a huge wealth.

Take Jutland as an example, a naval battle involving more than 300 ships of various types, including dozens of capital ships. Large-caliber artillery was fired more than 4400 rounds by the British, and more than 3600 by the Germans. The two add up to only 8,000 rounds, and there are two ships at the moment. If you want to scrap it, it is also more than 8,000 rounds, which is a treatment that the gunners, and even the captain, have never enjoyed.

Battleships are always attacking troops, only attacks can really run in, 8000 shells, this is probably the price of a small ship. Not to mention the wear and tear of 20 gun barrels, this money is still borne by the Northwest, which was discussed before.

Will Yang Yuanzhao be so generous, of course, it is not a casual squander, in his opinion, such a launch, even if the main gun is scrapped, there is nothing small. On the one hand. After mass production, the price of large-caliber gun barrels was only a fraction of that of the British and Germans, and such a price was acceptable. On the other hand, only the entire process of firing large-caliber artillery is tested. Only then can the fire control system be perfected, for this fire control system. In order for the Chinese Navy to take a few years to go through the road of other navies for decades, or even hundreds of years. Such consumption is inevitable. With Yang Yuanzhao's current strength, as long as money can solve the problem, there is no problem.

This requirement, of course, is in line with the wishes of the German soldiers, no matter what the circumstances, when they see a powerful warship and a naval officer, the first idea is, of course, to test and shoot a few shots, but if they are open to fight, no one will be treated.

Even in the extremely strict training of the German Navy, the main guns of the battleship are not open and casual, and they must do countless tests, countless realities before it is possible to shoot a cannon, some elite shooters, may only have one or two hundred rounds of excitation experience, not that the commander of the battleship does not know, continuous repetitive actions can make the soldiers form tacit understanding and inertia, and have stronger combat effectiveness, but the battleship is not something that anyone can afford to fight, it is not in **, it is in money, Take the shells of the German 12-inch main gun as an example, fully loaded with high-explosive shells, the price of one shot is equivalent to 1200 marks, that is, 600 US dollars, this is not the dollar after a large depreciation, this dollar is almost equivalent to gold, taking 20 US dollars an ounce of gold as an example, the price of a shell is equal to 30 ounces of gold, which is equivalent to 850 grams of gold, in exchange for the price of later generations, a cannonball down, a Tiguan is gone, two rounds down, a high-end Audi Q5 is gone.

This is a battleship, 10 main guns, a salvo, is eight or nine kilograms of gold, this is a veritable money, but even so, the northwest group cares, open to fight, a gun average of 400 shells, can be finished, hit until the barrel is scrapped, maybe a few days later, an elite gunner is born, which is equivalent to the most direct enhancement of the strength of the fleet.

Scheer was very happy and cherished this opportunity, although it was an open fight, it was not like a machine gun, and he was fighting non-stop, as the chief superintendent of the Admiralty, he had been involved in some strategic and tactical training before, and he had just given some radical and expensive methods to the real thing. In the beginning, it was a few simulations before one round of live ammunition, and later, it simply became a single battery salvo, then a double, and finally, after 2 days, the process of salvo fire began, and the faster it was fired, the interval between firing became smaller and smaller.

A steel giant ship of almost 50,000 tons, 10 excellent guns of more than 15 inches are fired, and it is not a training shell, it is a real excitation, this feeling is exciting, especially when firing a salvo at a large elevation angle, the artillery reasonably configured together, actually at a distance of more than 30 kilometers, still did not separate the bullet points much, and it can barely be said to be combined into a certain range, Scheer knew that this battleship was definitely a powerful battleship, in the range of 15 to 20 kilometers, This battleship is definitely a big killer.

This kind of sea is really yàn, a total of 10 days, this test sea area, absolutely the rumbling of artillery, I don't know how many fish and shrimp, were hit by such artillery, there is a joke in later generations, called anti-aircraft guns to fight mosquitoes, but this time, it is really a battleship to blow up fish, or with hundreds of kilograms of main artillery shells to blow up.

In the end, the two ships fired a total of more than 8,200 shells, the 15-inch gun manufactured by Baotou was definitely in the test, withstood the test, the most one gun, played 507 rounds, this is still a special request of Scheer, the limit test, if you don't consider the safety problem, you can even continue to fire, it seems that it should be no problem to hit another twenty or thirty rounds of the main gun.

The life of the main gun, which is more important for the battleship, a main gun, without more than 150 rounds of life, basically there is no practical possibility, once damaged, it needs to be replaced, if several high-intensity battles, maybe the main gun will be scrapped, in this case, the power of the main gun is useless, really if the main gun wear occurs in the war, this battleship, almost all scrapped.

Accustomed to Germany's reliable products, instinctively thought that the naval guns in the northwest, but they looked good from the outside, but they didn't expect that the naval guns were really good, the king-level 13.5-inch guns, 200 rounds is already the limit, in their opinion, 200 rounds of the main gun, can actually reach 500 rounds of life, so that it can be used for a long time without replacing the barrel or overhaul, and has a very good role in the battle, continuously active in the battle line, a ship can almost be used as two or three.

In 10 days, Scheer's sailors were almost run-in, in such almost the same as actual combat, in the high-intensity training, it was drawn from the elite, calculated as the German level of the leader in all aspects, and entered the state very quickly, and the salvo behind was also played in a decent way, and the synchronization was extremely high, and the benefits of some naval guns were also mastered by the German sailors, and when firing a salvo, they cooperated with each other, 30 kilometers away, and even hit the previous 25 kilometers, or even 20 kilometers, and the bullet points were evenly distributed, the lethality only increases.

Not only the German sailors have gained a lot, but also the sailors from the northwest have gained a lot, they have never served on the capital ship, unqualified sailors, and gradually become qualified sailors, among these soldiers, most of them are the Beiyang Naval Division, or the Qing Dynasty Naval Division, some of the elderly, even participated in the Dadonggou more than 20 years ago, 20 years of years of change, so that they have changed from young and strong youth, to middle-aged, and even into old age, but their hearts are full of fire.

China has not had capital ships for many years, although these ships, not belonging to China, but produced by the Chinese, looking at the appearance that the Germans like, they know that the strength of this battleship is strong, it used to be a ship, sometimes money can't buy it, now they can make it themselves, as long as they are skilled in manipulating the battleship, are they afraid that there will be no battleship, when they think of such a powerful warship, they are about to crisscross the sea under their control, they all tremble with excitement, Not only does it complete the task with quality and quantity, but sometimes it also over-trains.

The German and Chinese sailors are not of the same color, but they promote each other's promotion, and the two sides have moved from strangers to tacit understanding, especially the Chinese sailors, under the premise of passing the language barrier at the beginning, the orders of the German commanders, they can basically understand and know what to do according to the orders.

If there is a run-in rate here, it will change from 0 at the beginning to about 60% now, it seems, it is just a passing line, but how long has it been, these people come from different places, and the time they have come into contact with the battleship is only 10 days, so quickly they have run into this kind of process, and the efforts of Scheer and others are inseparable, it is in such a short period of time, Scheer and other German officers have completely fallen in love with such a battleship with strong German blood, and said unceremoniously, This is a good ship, if other warships can basically reach the level of this ship, the Fantasy class and Orion will become the most powerful battleship of the High Seas Fleet, and the fleet composed of this core is extremely powerful, it is a huge support for the High Seas Fleet, and it will also be the most powerful battleship sub-fleet of the High Seas Fleet. (To be continued......)