Seriously, the Qin army surpassed the French army in terms of explosives, and the European Office has been staring at Nobel all these years.

Thien and Ladder were invented more than ten years ago. It has also been ten years since the advent of explosives in Da and Na. In 1872, Nobel added nitrate and chemical fibers to nitrate, glycan, and oil to make a gum-like gum and explosive - gum dana and explosive, which was the world's first bibase and explosive.

In 1875, Nobel successfully developed explosives and glue. It is more resistant to water and has higher explosive power, and has become another important new type of explosive to replace black powder.

Unfortunately, the cost of these new gunpowders was too high. Not to mention the current Qin army, there is no country in the entire Western world that replaces black powder with yellow and colored explosives on a large scale.

The cost cannot be reduced, and even the best things cannot be widely implemented. Therefore, the special ammunition refills now used by the Qin Army's sailors are still bitter and sour.

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The so-called special bullet is literally 'special'. Whether it is production and storage, or transshipment, it is a special treatment.

There has never been a special bullet in the live-fire exercise. Only when it is time for combat will they be sent to the warship by a special security unit.

After hearing this, Fang Boqian pondered for a moment and said in a low voice, "Brother Mengmei is right. The French warship is not much bigger than our Jiyuan ship. If it's one-on-one, the little brother will definitely have the courage to fight. One against two, {Don't have hope of winning, but you can always maneuver.} ”

"I'm afraid the French will come too quickly. The Triumph can run twelve knots. ”

When both warships on the sea can spot each other, then the time between them and each other is very short.

"Attention the whole ship! Attention all ships! We're about to be within range of enemy ships! Engineer note: Wait for my order to prepare to accelerate. All gun emplacements are ready-" Fang Boqian shouted loudly.

The fists were clenched tightly, and the joints on the fingers were clenched white. Fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

"Attention Pipe Wheel! Our ship went into the enemy's range and listened to my orders. When I count to ten, I immediately accelerate to the right full rudder; Attention to the front main gun. Get ready to fire! One! Two! Three ......" Fang Boqian's eyes were firmly fixed on the French warship that was already close at hand, and every time he counted, it seemed to be roaring desperately.

"Boom!" With a bang, a huge water orchid rose on the sea surface one hundred and ten meters to the left of the Jiyuan ship, and at this time, Fang Boqian had just shouted 'eight'. Through the telescope, he saw the green smoke from the muzzle of the terrible 240 mm main gun on the cruiser Fellers, and subconsciously looked at the watch on his wrist, which was very unpopular in Western countries, but was widely circulated in China, especially in the sphere of influence of the new Qin, at 8:12 a.m. The Battle of Guangzhou began.

"Aim at the enemy ship, Major William grasps the moment and prepares to open fire!" Fang Boqian yelled. As he said earlier, he completely entrusted the command of the artillery to William.

So the cannon did not immediately become louder as he spoke. The distance between the two sides is more than two kilometers, and the artillery is really inaccurate at this time.

Ten years ago, in the Battle of Lisa, when the distance between the two sides was close to 900 meters, the Italian ships opened fire first, but it did not work. The Austrian ship reached a distance of about 270 meters and began to shoot back. Although the ranging technology is a little better than it was a decade ago, there is no substantial progress. This is true even in Germany, which has the most advanced optical instruments.

So. Firing at a distance of two kilometres was a matter of complete chance.

Cannonballs continued to fall around the Jiyuan ship. The nearest one was only twenty or thirty meters, and the vibration caused by the explosion of the shell made Fang Boqian on the bridge feel it clearly.

1,500 meters, 1,200 meters, 1,000 meters --

The ship's guns have not moved. And the six guns that the two enemy ships could fire head-on had already fired two rounds at the Jiyuan ship.

With a "boom", Fang Boqian and Ye Fu felt the battleship under their feet tremble violently in the sound of cannons. It's already within a kilometer. The chance of a cannonball hitting a battleship has increased dramatically. This shot exploded 10 meters outboard of the Jiyuan ship, and it was completely a near-miss.

Fang Boqian seemed to hear the sound of the wooden shell cracking in the loud explosion.

"Check the damage, is there water on the side of the ship?"

against the brass pipe in the bridge. Fang Boqian shouted anxiously.

"Report to the captain, there are only two cracks. It has been patched. The voice of the chief of the pipe only sounded for a moment before it sounded in Fang Boqian's ears. Fang Boqian and Ye Fu's nervous expressions immediately relaxed, and they just wanted to shout 'good'.

But there was a loud bang. Immediately, Fang Boqian and Ye Fu felt a shock under their feet. I saw a cloud of green smoke rising from the twin-mounted main turret in front of me, and through the green smoke Fang Boqian's telescope, the fire on the Fellers, which was moving fast, flashed twice in succession!

"Hit!?" Luck so good? The first shot came to a second company?

Fang Boqian and Ye Fu glanced at each other, and they could both see the smiles and endless surprises in each other's eyes.

"Attention Pipe Wheel! Full right rudder and accelerate to the northeast! "The main gun in front has already fired, pull the oblique direction, and the main gun in the back will be able to hit. Fang Boqian yelled, and now he was yelling at everything.

At this time, another shell fell around the Jiyuan. The French were too anxious, the 249mm shells were very powerful, but they were still more than thirty meters away from the battleship, and there was no damage except for taking a bath on Jiyuan's body.

Fang Boqian commanded the Jiyuan ship to suddenly accelerate the right full rudder, and saw that more than a dozen large splashes were made by the cannonballs fired by the French warships in front of the original channel -- these were all shells fired by the machine guns of the two battleships, the Ferrers and the Destein.

Although these machine guns are only twenty or thirty millimeters in caliber, they can only be described as excellent heavy machine guns. But seeing these splashes, Fang Boqian and Ye Fu couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, if so many shells fell on the Jiyuan ship, even if it was a small-caliber shell, it would be able to make a mess of the bow of the ship.

The main turret has a thick wooden shell and two-inch-thick iron armor, and of course the machine gun can't move. But what about the sailors who are other than it?

However, what made Fang Boqian very annoyed was that he clearly saw that the Fellers was hit by two bullets, and its front main gun was still firing, only a puff of black smoke appeared, and the fire was extinguished not long after it started. I really don't know which part of Ferrers was hit by the shell just now?!

The rumbling sound of the cannon gave Fang Boqian little time to think carefully about the part where Ferrers was hit, and the sound of the booming shell explosion had already sounded around the Jiyuan ship.

However, before Jiyuan could pass through the waters on the left side of the French battleship, there was a bang, and Jiyuan's side was finally hit by a cannonball, and Fang Boqian felt that his body directly hit the bulkhead of the command platform like a thrown ball.

When Fang Boqian got up again, he glanced at the command platform, and couldn't help but be a little glad in his heart, the bridge was not directly hit, and he and Ye Fu were only shocked by the impact of the shell just now. On the deck, two mutilated bodies of sailors lay around, and the front main turret was still steering the sailors.

"Boom-" The Jiyuan ship, which had just been hit, immediately returned the color. The rear main turret roared. Fang Boqian stared at the Fellers from the telescope, but unfortunately he didn't see any reaction, and he was annoyed in his heart. But when he heard a cheer from the sailors on the Jiyuan ship, he was suspicious, and he put down his binoculars and wanted to ask what happened to be so happy in the big war, but the naked eye directly saw a raging fire near the bridge of the Desdan and a burst of smoke rising.

"Damn, I didn't expect to have the intention to plant flowers and flowers, and I didn't intend to plant willows and willows. Didn't hit Fellers, but hit Destan instead! Fang Boqian said with a laugh.

"William really has a hand." Ye Fu exclaimed. Four shells hit three times, this is simply god!

All the people on the Jiyuan ship were started to fight, which hit Ferrers and Destein respectively, and the three cannons greatly boosted morale.

Everyone is aware of the mission of the Jiyuan today. It is basically impossible to find a way out of the opponent's guns unscathed, and they can only fight hard with the French to survive.

Under the threat of survival or death, the gunners of the Jiyuan ship worked hard to manipulate the front main gun, loaded the huge shells into the gun chamber respectively, and rotated the turret as fast as possible to aim the muzzle of the Ferres, which was about to pass by, and strive to prepare for launch in the shortest possible time.

Now the distance between the two sides is less than 500 meters.

Just as the front main gun turret of the Jiyuan ship was ready to be fired, Fang Boqian was extremely excited to wait for William's performance again. In the explosion of "boom ......", Fang Boqian's body was once again lifted up by the shock wave generated by the explosion of the powerful cannonball, and the whole person fell back and hit the bulkhead. In the entire bridge command platform, Ye Fu was the first to recover from the explosion, and the first thing he saw when his forehead was bleeding was the command platform that had been destroyed by a storm.

The helmsman, Fang Boqian and the others were swept into the corner like garbage.

Fang Boqian's arm was swept by a piece of broken wood in the explosion just now, fortunately, the flesh was not very deep, and when Ye Fu even rolled and crawled over, Fang Boqian, who had only regained consciousness, was still in a state of dizziness, and he was very unfocused. And his left leg was scratched like nothing, and the blood stained his pants black and red.

Fang Boqian didn't know where the strength came from after seeing Ye Fu, and staggered to the window with Ye Fu's support, and what appeared in front of them was thick black smoke.

The bow of the Jiyuan was hit, and the bow of the triangle was like a bite. Thick black smoke rose, and there was a faint flame in it.

The sailors on the Jiyuan were already pumping seawater from steam pumps to fight the fire.

Busyness and black smoke became the theme of the foredeck at this moment.

Fang Boqian did not feel sad about the loss, he was only glad that the front and rear main guns of the Jiyuan were turret structures. If it is the battleship built by the shipmaster and sailor, after this gun, the gunners of the entire main gun platform can all be replaced.

Although the turret structure is ugly, the overall layout of the warship also looks stiff, and the battleship weighs hundreds of tons, affecting the speed, coal storage and other performance, but now this result is enough to prove the wisdom of this choice. (To be continued......) R1292