Max and his gunners had a good rest, because it would take some time to count the situation on the other side, so they could find a place to sit down, drink some black tea or something, and then spread out a newspaper and read it for a long time.

After a long time, the record over there was finally over. However, Max and his gunners can continue to drink tea and chat, because the range will have to be rearranged over there, which will take some time.

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Keynes, the weapons engineer, closed his notebook, and judging by the results of the shelling, the power of the shells was quite satisfactory. A crater greater than 12 inches (about 3o centimeters) deep had been blown into the ground, and ordinary covered fortifications for shrapnel would never have been able to withstand such a blow. Several wooden stakes near the impact point were blown off, and traces of shrapnel could be found on the stakes as far as 30 meters away, and almost all the stakes within 15 meters had shrapnel marks. If this shell exploded in the crowd, I am afraid that one shell can knock over more than a dozen people. Even if the enemy army were to spread out in a skirmish formation, such a kill would cost them a lot of money. If you take into account its terrible fireload, the damage that this kind of artillery can bring is simply madness.

Keynes knew, however, that this artillery was not the most dangerous weapon. It is simply not ranked among dangerous weapons. Not so long ago, the guys in the Navy were bidding for the guns on their new ironclad ships, and the company also came up with a 39-caliber 8-inch gun to participate in the bidding. Compared to the guns of its competitors, the company offered the highest price, which is not good, because the United States has always been reluctant to spend too much money on the military. However, the company lobbied to convince the Navy that its guns could be used for several guns, and on the other hand, they were also trying to convince Congress that because of the performance advantage of the company's guns, the Navy would need fewer ships to defend the security of the United States -- it would save money by cutting off one cannon, but wouldn't it be cheaper to cut more warships with one cannon?

Of course, blowing on the mouth is absolutely not enough. Therefore, it is necessary to come up with a sample cannon for the Navy to see.

For this purpose, the company built two prototypes using different processes.

This gun uses a double-barrel process. The barrel consists of two layers of barrels, and at room temperature, the inner diameter of the outer barrel is slightly larger than that of the inner barrel. Through guò heating, using the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction, the inner diameter of the outer barrel can be passed through the outer diameter of the inner barrel, so that after the outer barrel is naturally cooled, it will be firmly set on the outer barrel. In this way, the outer barrel exerts an inward squeeze force on the inner barrel, allowing the gun to withstand higher chamber pressure with thinner walls.

Of course, there is a price to be paid for this, that is, two barrels need to be drilled to build a cannon, which naturally greatly increases the cost of producing this cannon. But the sacrifice paid off, and although it had a longer barrel than the cannons offered by other manufacturers, the barrel weight of the cannon was not as heavy as that of the competition.

Weight is not the most important thing, the most important thing is power and shooting. Because the barrel is longer and the chamber pressure can withstand is higher, when firing a semi-armor-piercing projectile (an armor-piercing projectile loaded with explosives), the initial height of the shell is 75o meters per second, and it can easily penetrate the armor of any British ironclad ship at a distance of 30,000 feet, and the power of its high-explosive shell is also crazy, the shrapnel produced when the shell explodes, even if it is 5o meters away, still has a huge lethality, and within 35 meters, the shock wave of the explosion of Chancheng is enough to finish the exposed enemy.

"With this, any open battery is no match for us!" After witnessing the performance of this cannon again, the representative of the US Navy said so.

In addition to its power, in terms of shooting and accuracy, this cannon also has an overwhelming advantage over his opponents. With a little machinery, this gun is capable of firing two to three times per minute, while its competitors need two to three minutes to shoot once. In terms of accuracy, this gun body has a long barrel and a high initial height, and it naturally has obvious advantages in accuracy. Dr. Boole, the person in charge of the development of this cannon, proudly declared that our cannon was superior to their ten cannons. And this statement was also recognized by representatives of the Navy.

Now the navy has fallen madly in love with the 8-inch gun, and they have declared to the Diet that only by equipping it will they be able to effectively defend the country against the British threat.

For many years, the U.S. Navy has regarded the British Royal Navy on the other side of the ocean as its greatest threat, and in the Second U.S.-British War, the Royal Navy rampaged along the U.S. coastline, but the U.S. Navy could only hide and fight guerrillas. During the Civil War, when the U.S. Navy was carrying out blockade missions, it was also provoked more than once by the warships of the nosy British Royal Navy. Sometimes, even if it was just a small sail cruiser, these British dared to show their teeth and claws in front of the American fleet.

"If our warships are equipped with such advanced artillery, then when we face the British Navy, one ship can hit several of them." The people of the Navy said this to the congressmen in Congress.

In fact, Congress is not opposed to ordering more of this artillery, but Congress will always be the enemy of the navy, and they immediately proposed, since you can fight ten of each, can you reduce the number of troops? Oh, by the way, if we replace all the guns in the coastal batteries with this, will it be possible to build a few fewer ships?

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By this time, the shooting range had been cleaned up, and now people had brought cages to the shooting range, and those cages were filled with animals such as turkeys and piglets. They will become the victims of the next real yàn.

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At this time, on the side of the artillery position, Max had received instructions to prepare to shoot, and the soldiers of Blackwater wore a special so-called gas suit. This one-piece garment is made of vulcanized rubber, which is quite thick and airtight. The soldiers also wore gas masks on their heads. Then someone carefully pulled out a cannonball. It was a porcelain cannonball, painted in black and yellow, like a bumblebee's code. On the first side of the shell was a large skull symbol - it was a poison gas bomb!

The loader carefully filled the shell into the chamber and carefully closed the bolt. Then signal to the others that you're ready.

The gunner calibrated again, and then, after getting approval, fired the gun.

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Keynes had already put on a full set of anti-gas suits, which were airtight, and he was in the desert again, and almost as soon as he put on this, big beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. He held up his binoculars and quietly looked at the shooting range in the distance.

The explosion of this shell was not violent, and the little bit of dynamite prayer only served to scatter the liquid in the shell. So just looking at the explosion, it's like a big firecracker.

But Keynes knew that the power of this thing was not here. He continued to look through the binoculars, observing the animals in the cages. A minute later, the animals in the cages near the blast area began to have uncontrollable convulsions and began to vomit. At the same time, a large number of tears began to flow from the eyes of these animals. It's as if they're grieving what happened to them. After another minute, the animals farther away began to show the symptoms of the previous ones, while the animals in the center area had already shrunk into a ball and died in their cages.

A few minutes later, hundreds of animals had all died on the shooting range the size of several football fields. When they died, they all shrunk into a ball.

"The power of this thing is amazing! The entire range is so large, even the shells of an eight-inch cannon can't kill and injure a living target in such a large range. Gas bombs are truly terrifying! Keynes thought so, and couldn't help but think of what he thought the chemist had told him not long ago.

"It's a nerve gas that causes a person's muscles to contract without being unable to expand, whether it's an active muscle or a passive muscle (such as the heart muscle), so the poisoner has convulsions all over the body. After a few minutes, breathing and heartbeat stop (the heart muscle and diaphragm muscles are unable to expand, and the heart and breathing cannot continue). And die. It only takes a few minutes to inhale 55~1oo mg of poison gas, or 1.7 grams of poison gas in contact with the skin, and it can cause death. ”

"It's terrible, if this is used in a lot in the future war, how many people will die. As long as there are so many cannonballs equipped with such shells, no matter how many people there are, they will not be enough to die. God forbid, it was we who had this technology first, the United States. ”

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"Scrooge, if you transfer the technology of the weapons you originally gave to the Prussians to the French, and sell them radio stations, will this not affect the outcome of the war you envisioned and their war with France?" Dorothea asked.

"No," Scrooge smiled, "I naturally have a way for Prussia to win the war." Scrooge said.

"Well, first make a fortune from the French, and then let the Prussians blow up France with tube guns and high-explosive shells, and when the last world war comes, first do business on both sides, and finally when it comes to entering the war, use sarin or something, and solve Germany with one book. At that time, Germany was dead, France and England were crippled, and their colonial markets had to be opened to us. Scrooge thought.

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