"Tom!"

With the sound of a cannon, the fiery red cannon flame instantly reflected the entire shooting range, the cannon spewed out the cannon flame at the same time, the barrel recoiled violently, and the gun carriage was not moving, which was obviously different from the old artillery, the recoil of the old gun when firing was all borne by the gun, so its gun mount inevitably retreated backwards when the gun was fired. Except for a very small number www.biquge.info of small-caliber guns, which do not require much attention because of the small recoil, other larger-caliber guns must use a movable gun carriage, that is, a shot, and the entire gun must be able to move backwards to relieve recoil.

As a result, not only was the rate of fire very low, but also because of the need to constantly push the gun back to its original position. Every time it was pushed back, it was obvious that the position of the gun changed, and the previous aiming parameters could no longer be used, so they had to be recalibrated, resulting in low accuracy, and more importantly, the recoil also had some damage to the gun itself.

However, when the gun was fired, its gun carriage did not move at all, but only the barrel recoil, and when the reseat reached its limit, it was violently and automatically pushed back into place, so that there was no need to manually push the heavy gun back into place.

"The 237th shot!"

Standing in the distance in the Hausen record book in the concrete fort, a new number was recorded, and this shell had equaled the previous gun's record of 237 rounds.

After taking note of the number, Hausen looked nervously at the gunners outside the fort, who were busy checking the retractor to see if it could continue firing.

"Mr. Hausenne, there is no problem with the reinstatement machine, I think I can shoot ten more rounds to see!"

Ten more shots. That's almost 250 rounds!

The report from there made Hausen's heart tighten, but he finally nodded, as an artillery expert. He worked for the Krupp company, but his invention was not accepted by the company, and was even regarded as unrealistic by the company, and knowing that this technology would bring revolutionary changes to artillery, he sold it to Germany's enemies, the French, in order to promote his own technology, which caused him trouble.

Because Germany at this time did not recognize private patents. It can only be declared in the name of the company, and the patent for the retractor in Haosen is applied for in the name of the company, and his unauthorized sale violates German patent law. Therefore, he was judged to be imprisoned, and in the end, it was Beiyang Company who paid a fine of up to 50,000 marks on his behalf that he was spared from prison and in return. Hausen came to the northeast. Became an artillery engineer at the arsenal of the three eastern provinces.

The arrival of Haosen brought the most advanced artillery production technology in Germany to the East Three Provinces Arsenal, and the same water pressure gas type regression machine technology invented by it was also brought to the East Three Provinces Arsenal, although the technology of the water pressure gas type regression and reentry machine invented by Hausen was not mature, but after investing a lot of manpower and financial resources to carry out the test, it is maturing little by little.

"A gun with a restrictive retraction device is called a tube retreat, and this kind of gun carriage is called an elastic gun mount. The biggest feature of the elastic gun mount is that when the gun is fired, the gun as a whole no longer moves backwards. The strong recoil is borne by this elastic gun carriage, which relieves a huge part of the recoil through the brake and retreat machine. Intuitively. When the gun fires, the gun does not move, only the barrel recoil backwards, and then returns to the same position forward. ”

On the way to the artillery range, he conducted an "artillery literacy" on the horse-drawn carriage for the marshal, and at this time he obviously ignored one point -- it was the marshal who strongly advocated the introduction of rapid-fire guns, and even refused to produce the guns that were withdrawn.

"Since the entire gun does not shift, the firing speed and accuracy are greatly improved, and the weight of the gun is greatly reduced. The use of elastic gun mounts alleviates the contradiction between increasing the power of the gun and improving the mobility, and makes the basic structure of the gun tend to be perfect. And now the engineer Hauneson invented this kind of water pressure gas system retreat and re-entry machine is divided into two parts: system retreat and re-advancement. When the gun is fired, the gun body drives the brake and retreat tube to retreat, and the liquid at one end of the piston flows from the leak to the other end due to pressure, and the liquid occurs at this time to prevent the gun from recoiling.

The reentry system uses gas to absorb a part of the recoil force, and when the recoil ends, the compressed gas pushes the recoil into place due to its extension. In this way, through the intermediary of the retraction and retractor, the barrel and the gun carriage are elastically connected, which is conducive to reducing the weight of the gun and creating conditions for increasing the firing speed. ”

The words paused slightly, and even said a little proudly when mentioning the rate of fire.

"The most advanced tube-annealed artillery -- the 75-millimeter rapid-fire gun that we made with reference to the Armstrong rapid-fire gun -- generally fired 3 to 4 rounds per minute is considered very good, while the rate of fire of the field gun using the hydro-gas retractor has increased to more than 15 rounds per minute, which is nearly four times the increase, and if compared with the rate of fire of the Krupp camp gun of 2 rounds per minute, it is a five-fold increase...... In other words, a new 75-mm field gun can deal with five guns, and in terms of accuracy, because there is no need to return to the calibration after each shelling, it can be corrected with reference to the previous drop point, and its accuracy is greatly improved, which is absolutely incomparable with the previous artillery. ”

His words made Tang Haoran's mind involuntarily think of a famous historical cannon - the French 75 Miss Cannon! An epoch-making army field artillery, it can be said that it changed the war as soon as it came out of reality, and the hydraulic brake and retreat machine it adopted was a very advanced scientific achievement at that time, which solved the problem of the recoiler of the artillery and greatly improved the rate of fire and accuracy. Compared with the installation of over-controlled retractors and the uninstalled artillery, almost the latter cannot be confronted head-on! After its invention, all previous field artillery became obsolete.

It is precisely because of this that Tang Haoran will insist on the development of rapid-fire guns, the Navy is like this, and the same is true for the Army, but as early as 3 years ago, Armstrong invented a mature 4.2-inch tube retreat rapid-fire gun, while the research and development of rapid-fire guns used by the armies of various countries is extremely backward.

If later generations have given Tang Haoran any experience, it is probably the importance of new technologies. He believed that the use of new technologies could bridge the gap between China and the great powers in all respects, in industrial production, and even more so militarily! War after war in history tells Tang Haoran. Whoever seizes the advantage of technological change has the possibility of winning the war.

Now that he heard that they had solved the problem of rapid-fire guns, Tang Haoran would not be happy, so he rushed towards the shooting range in the middle of the night in the face of the wind and snow, and as he got closer and closer to the shooting range, the rumbling sound of the cannon could already be faintly heard in the distance.

The night sky was lit up by a dazzling cannon flame, in the cannon flames that spewed out from the muzzles. Tang Haoran and his entourage came to the shooting range, which was not a special artillery range, but a test range. It can only be used for artillery to be tested here with high-bore pressure bullets like rifle targets, just like the roaring field artillery now, although it spits out cannon flames from time to time, but the fireworks do not explode at the parapet wall as high as ten meters high in the distance - the shells fired by it are solid shells. It is only used for the acceptance or testing of artillery.

“415……”

People have not yet entered the bunker. Tang Haoran and his entourage heard some excited words coming from the bunker, and the moment they entered the bunker, they saw several technicians counting excitedly there.

Hoonesen was not so proud that 415 shells had been fired in a row, and that the artillery retractor had not leaked for months, and that even the barrel had not broken, and he could even imagine the impact this artillery had on the whole world. I am afraid that the impact will not be inferior to the Krupp steel cannon of that year.

"The retractor is normal? What the? No more shells? ”

In addition to the excitement, a phone call from the gun position made Haonesson and the others stunned. In particular, Haonesen said excitedly.

"Quickly, immediately find a way to solve the problem of shells, now the production is definitely not enough......"

Hoonethan, who was annoyed by the interruption of the experiment, pondered for a moment before continuing.

"Aren't there a lot of solid ammunition in the warehouses of the army? Instead of letting them shoot targets, it is better to conduct experiments here, first ask the army to come over, and then collect the empty shells, replace them with new primers, and load them with new propellants......"

The solid bullet in its mouth is actually a steel solid bullet captured from the Qing army, which is an "armor-piercing bullet" used to attack city walls and other objects, but in the Northeast Army, it is more used for artillery training. Now Hoonesen naturally thought of the artillery shells in the army's quartermaster warehouses, at least the warheads of which could be used for experiments.

"Let's go to the gun emplacements now and look at ......"

Turning around and wanting to go to the gun emplacement, Honeson just turned around, and saw Tang Haoranhe at the entrance of the bunker, although he was extremely unfamiliar with the marshal, he still recognized the marshal in front of him, after all, the portrait of the marshal can be seen in many places in the northeast.

"Your Excellency, Marshal!"

Like other Europeans, Honesen also referred to Tang Haoran as a marshal, and when he bowed, Tang Haoran had already walked in front of him.

"Mr. Hauneson, are you going to the gun emplacement? Okay, let's go over together! ”

In this era when indirect shooting was just born, field artillery was still mainly based on direct fire, and the combat distance was within 4,000 meters, field artillery was actually a large "rifle", and its role was to use grenade shots to bombard the enemy, so as to cover the attack. Even the artillery tactics of the Northeast Army were not much better than those of the great powers, and even in the use of mortars, similar tactics were used - during the "Northeast Campaign", the mortars of the New Army repeatedly used the "Tempest" tactic, and the mortars must be able to fire 3-6 shells at the highest rate of fire to "suffocate" the enemy at the moment of detection - whether the opponent is a group of infantry or an artillery position. The generals of the New Army, including Tang Haoran, believed that such a fierce and rapid fire could soften the will of any enemy to resist, so that the infantry that swarmed in succession could easily occupy the position. And it turned out that the "rainstorm" composed of cast-iron mortar shells was enough to break the will of the enemy army, and although the mortar units could not fire "instantaneously" when they were discovered, during the Northeast Campaign, when the mortars roared at their maximum rate of fire, it often meant the collapse of the Qing army, which was blown up by mortar shells.

This is true in the use of mortars, and in the use of field artillery, the same is true, like other European powers at that time, the new army deeply implanted the lessons of the Franco-Prussian War in their hearts, in the daily teachings, the Northeast Army taught officers of all levels to concentrate the artillery in their hands as much as possible, and at the same time use the latest wired telephone technology to link each artillery company together, the commander of the artillery regiment can control the firepower of his six artillery companies through the telephone, although during the "Northeast Campaign", the field artillery performance was not excellent, However, after the reorganization of the Northeast Army by the New Army, the artillery commander was already able to concentrate about 60 artillery pieces for centralized use.

The most brilliant coordination of the new army's firepower appeared in several artillery companies scattered in different areas, firing at the same target in the same case of telephone communication; And two or three artillery companies of the new army deployed in different positions were even more common for them to fire at a single Qing target. When grenade bombs were used, crossfire nets traveled from multiple angles could effectively reduce the effectiveness of multiple covers, and even forced thousands of Qing troops to surrender in a bombardment that lasted 10 minutes.

Although for the outside world, during the entire Northeast Campaign, the artillery of the new army performed extremely well, but in fact, as the supreme commander of the new army, Tang Haoran did not know that the so-called excellence completely depends on the number and rate of fire of mortars, coupled with the power of new explosives, after such a multifaceted advantage is superimposed, it is naturally not something that the Qing army can confront in the future, but the enemy of the Northeast Army in the future is the Russians, and the mortars with a range of only 3,000 meters are far from meeting the needs of the army, and the new rapid-fire guns will undoubtedly be the guarantee of victory in future wars.

"Your Excellency, according to the current tests, the No.24 rapid-fire gun can dump shells at a rate of about 15 rounds per minute, 7000 meters away, and its rate of fire is almost not inferior to that of an 82-mm mortar, but its power is much greater than its ......"

When Honathan introduced the field gun to Tang Haoran in a proud tone, by the light of the electric light, Tang Haoran was stunned by the artillery in front of him, he looked at this artillery that was not much different from the artillery in appearance, and he always felt a little "familiar", this is ...... 75 Miss Cannon?

That's right, the cannon in front of me is too similar to Miss 75's gun, at least in its appearance, similar gun wheels, similar gun carriages, and even the gun bolt is Miss 75's kind of rotating bolt, is this her own "Miss 75"! Tang Haoran, who was aware of this problem, only then remembered that the famous "Miss Seventy-Five" rapid-fire gun in history was imported from Germany, could it be purchased from Haonesen?

Or is the actual inventor of "Miss Seventy-Five" a German? But now none of this matters! The important thing is that "Miss 75" has become China's "Miss 75"! That's all that matters!

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