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Everyone understands the truth, but it is very difficult to fall into reality, Wen Xian was stunned for a while, and said weakly: "Although the Hermes is not the latest scientific and technological achievement of our British Empire, it has the most practical and mature technology at present, compared to Wang Feng, this is a treasure!"

I remember that there were 1,000 Mini guns on the ship, with 2,000 barrels and 100,000 bullets, if he salvaged, I am afraid that before the arrival of our expeditionary force, his power would have developed to an unimaginable level, alas~~ At that time, the guns should have been transported back to the concession, just considering that the ship was safer, but who would have expected that the Hermes would be blown and sunk, and Wang Feng would go to salvage it, I only hope that the explosion will blow up every qiē on the ship to pieces! ”

Wen Xian was like being possessed by Xianglin's sister-in-law, chattering non-stop, but the other three collectively fell into silence!

Everyone understands that the steam engine with a relatively complete structure has already indicated that this beautiful wish is destined not to come true!

"Alas~~" For a long time, Wen Xian sighed again: "He's here!" ”

More than twenty meters away, Wang Feng called from afar: "Gentlemen, I am surprised to see you here, may I ask why you came down from the upstream?" ”

Wen Xian said quietly: "We have just returned from Nanjing, and we have discussed the establishment of diplomatic relations with His Royal Highness the Eastern King of your army, may I ask Mr. Wang Feng, why are you here again?" ”

Ali Guo and the others secretly gave a thumbs up, although they guessed that Wang Feng would definitely ask questions, but they secretly ran to complain to their superiors, and were arrested again on the way back, always feeling short-hearted and empty-hearted, and Wen Xian dissolved it lightly, he really deserved to be an old fox who had served the colonial authorities for decades!

Wang Feng also pointed behind him casually: "While there is nothing to do for the time being, I will take the brothers to salvage the wreckage of the Hermes." ”

"Oh?" Wen Xian's face sank suddenly: "Mr. Wang Feng, the Hermes belongs to my British Empire, it is reasonable, you should return the salvage items, of course, we will also pay you the corresponding salvage fees." ”

"Hehe~~" Wang Feng chuckled: "Mr. Wen Xian, are you joking, the Hermes was sunk by me, and of course it has become my trophy, I have the indisputable right to dispose of all the items on the ship, there is no need for us to argue on this issue!" As he spoke, he put on a rushing posture and stretched out his hand to signal: "Gentlemen, I won't delay you, I hope that our next meeting can have a pleasant topic, please." ”

Wang Feng gestured to turn the bow of the boat, and the boat slowly sailed towards the shore of the sandbank, Wen Xian originally planned to go to Baoshan to see Alice, but at this time, he was completely out of the mood, and after a flickering of his eyes, he let the boat continue to move forward

Wang Feng's original plan was to end the salvage before dark, but in fact, it was busy until the next day, in addition to the steam engine, as well as all the unfolded Minnie guns, barrels and their bullets, two cannons were salvaged, and more than 40 unexploded shells were also salvaged!

Towards evening, everything was transported back to Baoshan Wharf, and unlike Wang Feng, who valued the steam engine the most, the crowd of onlookers was amazed by the two cannons.

"Smack!" Wang Feng clapped his hands at the right time and introduced: "Everyone, this is dismantled from the wreckage of the British battleship, it is called cannon, which is a transliteration of English, and it translates to a pipe cannon.

According to the international standard scale, these two guns are 220 mm caliber and 25 times the barrel, that is, the barrel reaches a length of 5.5 meters, which is completely different from China's short-barrel artillery with mortars as the mainstay.

You look at the barrel, the inside is engraved with rifling, which can increase the stability of the shell during the flight, and then look at the tail of the gun, its loading method is rear-loading, the rear-loading gun is not much different from the front-loading gun in the manufacturing process, only need to pay attention to the sealing of the medicine chamber and improve the anti-explosion strength, after all, the rear-loading gun is to open the breech to load the shell, which makes in order to avoid the bolt cracking and exploding, it is necessary to strictly limit the number of consecutive shots, and the weight of the bolt is more than 200 catties, and it takes two adult strong men to open. ”

These two cannons are not the largest cannons, historically, the cannon installed on the British battleship has a maximum caliber of more than 400 millimeters and a dead weight of 200 tons, while the dead weight of these two cannons is more than 20 tons. ”

Although Wang Feng affirmed that this was not the largest, it was still the largest artillery that the Chinese could observe at close range at that time, and the crowd could not help but burst into admiration, and even blacksmiths put their eyes on the barrel to observe the structure inside.

Wang Feng picked up another shell, which was still a round shell, and after roughly figuring out the structure, he said: "The shell refers to the principle of Mini bullets, and a layer of soft lead is smeared on the outside of the bullet body in order to rotate the rifling wire, and the shell and charge are separated, and the charge is fixed, not the usual gunpowder pestle into the barrel."

When the cleaning hand inserts the cleaning rod into the gun chamber to remove the gunpowder residue, use the ejection lever to push the shell, the plugging device and the charge from the hole in the tail bolt in turn, and then install the fire door, that is, the thunder ~~ tube on the vertical bolt, and then insert the bolt back into the gun body, rotate the tail bolt to lock the gun chamber, a small hole between the handles on both sides of the bolt is the ignition port, the fire door will be exposed from it, the gunner fires the fire door, the flame goes directly to the gun chamber, ignites the charge, and fires the shell!

Of course, it's only salvaged now, and after it dries tomorrow, you'll know its power when you fire a shot! ”

Lu Dayou leaned up and said: "It's this guy who knocked down the city wall of Baoshan, and it's really mighty, right the commander, what is the use of the stopper?" ”

Wang Feng picked up something similar to a tin bowl and said lightly: "Its only function is to prevent the leakage of chamber pressure." ”

"Oh~~" Lu Dayou scratched his head as if he didn't understand.

After saying it thousands of times, it is better to get started with the operation, so Wang Feng did not explain too much, and asked the dozens of blacksmiths: "Everyone, can you imitate the cannon?" The size is as small as possible, at least two horses can pull it away, now the range of this cannon is about seven miles, even if the range can be reduced a little, I suggest a point, it is the chamber pressure that determines the range of the artillery, the chamber pressure is related to the seal, but the chamber pressure will be too large and there is a danger of exploding, the degree of which needs to be tested repeatedly. ”

"This" blacksmiths looked at each other, one of them was embarrassed: "My lord, I'm afraid this can't be completed in October, we have to get our hands on it to explore, and the foreigners' iron casting technology is better than ours, I looked at the barrel carefully, smooth and neat, there is no trachoma, so we don't dare to boast of Haikou now, in addition, you also let us repair the imitation steam engine, but we only have such a few people, I am afraid that if we start at the same time, we will not be able to do anything in the end, and delay your big event!" ”

"Hehe~~" Wang Feng smiled dumbly and said: "It's because I'm anxious, after a while, I will set up an arms manufacturing bureau, and the treatment will be favorable, once a new weapon is developed, it can be regarded as a military merit, are you willing to join?" ”

"Yes!" The blacksmiths nodded without thinking.

Zhou Xiuying also pulled Wang Feng: "In the final analysis, we still have too few manpower, so we have to attack Taicang quickly, Taicang is a state city, there are about 300,000 people, and Baoshan and Jiading together are less than 100,000!" ”