The officer said again: "Is that Luo Rongguang too arrogant, do you want your subordinates to teach him a lesson!" ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly shook his head and said, "I'm fine." Everyone then walked up the hillside, this is a not high mountain, and soon reached the top of the mountain, Luo Rongguang pointed to the surrounding mountains, and said: "Lin Shuai, please see, we have forts on these mountains, forming a dog-tooth interlacing trend, which can form a cross-fire network against the enemy, this fort is located on the top of the mountain, so it will not be blown up by the enemy's cannonballs that fall after hitting the mountain." ”

Luo Rongguang led Lin Yuan into the gun position again, and as soon as he entered, Luo Rongguang said: "The cannon here is a ground cannon, which can be lowered below the launch port when it is not fired, and then raised when it is fired, and after a shell is fired, it will fall down again, and it can be raised and fired again after the reloading, avoiding the danger of being hit by the enemy's artillery." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Then where are your shells and propellants?" ”

Luo Rongguang said: "There is a cellar under the fort, cannonballs and propellants are placed underneath, our soldiers have been strictly trained, and the speed of transporting cannonballs is very fast, please let me show Lin Shuai." ”

After Luo Rongguang finished speaking, he said to the soldiers in the fort: "Load the shells!" ”

The soldiers moved when they heard the sound, a soldier quickly opened the door of the cellar, only to see that there was a slope under the cellar, two soldiers were as fast as a spirit monkey, rushing into the cellar, four soldiers followed, two by two, standing two meters apart, the first two soldiers lifted the cannonballs and handed them to the soldiers behind, several people handed the cannonballs to the gunners, and the two gunners gently put the cannonballs in front of Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan nodded lightly, thinking, "The delivery speed of this cannonball is fast enough!" At this moment, the soldier handed over a propellant kit and placed it next to the cannonball.

Lin Yuan squatted down, looked at the shell, opened the propellant bag again, twisted a little propellant with his hand, looked at it in his hand, then clapped his hands and stood up, and said: "Very good, I will see here first today, Mr. Luo, your troops are very good, they can be called elite!" ”

Luo Rongguang was praised by Lin Yuan for a few words, his face was bright, and he was very happy, Lin Yuan said again: "I want to see some information, I hope to go to your headquarters." After speaking, Lin Yuan turned around and said to the accompanying military attaché, "You don't have to follow. ”

Luo Rongguang then took Lin Yuan to the headquarters, and Lin Yuan read all kinds of information before he said goodbye and left.

As soon as Lin Yuan came out of the barracks, he came directly to the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, and as soon as he entered the door, he asked, "Is Luo Lao here?" ”

The man inside said, "It's at the shooting range." ”

Lin Yuan then came to the shooting range, and saw a group of people setting up targets from a distance, unlike the usual targets, this time the targets were not lined up, and they looked irregular, Luo Chaoying stood aside and commanded: "Xiao Liu, you go back a little further, Xiao Wang, you come a little further......"

Lin Yuan walked over and asked, "Old Luo, what are you busy with?" ”

Luo Chaoying smiled: "Of course it's a target." Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "But your target looks very messy." ”

Luo Chaoying said: "At this time, the fan-shaped target commonly used to test the lethality of the artillery shell takes the explosion point as the center of the circle, and the target is located on different radii, so that the lethality of the artillery shell at different distances can be analyzed with fewer targets." ”

Lin Yuan nodded and asked, "How long will it take to finish erection?" ”

Luo Chaoying said: "It's almost ten minutes in another ten minutes, what's the matter, do you have something?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Today I went to Tianjin Dagukou Fort to see. ”

Luo Chaoying asked, "Where are you going to do something?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "The Russian fleet is coming, I'll go and see the defense there." Luo Chaoying said: "I heard that this Luo Rongguang is a fierce general, who governs the army well, and the defenders of the fort can be called elite. ”

Lin Yuan said helplessly: "Alas, this Dagukou Fort seems to be as solid as a rock, but it is actually vulnerable. ”

Luo Chaoying was stunned when he heard this, and asked, "What's going on?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "If they are solid, I won't have to look for you, I can't say a word or two, let's go to the house and talk in detail." ”

Luo Chaoying quickly commanded everyone to finish setting up the target, followed Lin Yuan to the house, and as soon as he entered the room, Luo Chaoying asked, "Is their defense level so poor?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Their soldiers are indeed good, strict military discipline, excellent style, but their training is problematic, when I went I saw that they were measuring the distance and bearing, controlling the artillery aiming, but I don't know how they measure the speed of the enemy's ship, I didn't see the timekeeping tool in the house." ”

Luo Chaoying said: "Maybe they have it, but they didn't take it out." ”

Lin Yuan said: "I hope so, but the root of their problem is in the design of the fort. As he spoke, Lin Yuan took out a gun emplacement layout map from his arms and spread it on the table.

Lin Yuan pointed to the layout plan and said: "The distance setting of these gun emplacements is not very reasonable, the back gun emplacements are too far away from the front, and when the enemy ships come, they will definitely attack one gun position at a time, so although there are dozens of artillery pieces, only the ones in front are used to meet the enemy." ”

"And I also looked at the information of their artillery in detail, combined with the height of their artillery installation position, I found that the adjustable pitch angle of their artillery is relatively small, which creates an embarrassing situation that the artillery at the height cannot hit the enemy ships at the distance, and the artillery at the low place cannot hit the enemy ships at the distance, so they can fight the enemy's artillery at the same time with very few guns, and the enemy can easily form a force advantage."

Luo Chaoying nodded and said, "Their guns are all of a large caliber, and these heavy guns can also cause great damage to enemy ships." ”

Lin Yuan said: "I took a closer look at the propellant and found that the propellant is still the maroon propellant produced by the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, but the shape of this propellant is solid, and the shape of the gunpowder has a great impact on the burning speed, the faster the burning speed, the farther the range of the shell, I believe you know this better than me." ”

Luo Chaoying nodded and said: "Of course, there is also a problem of insufficient combustion of such gunpowder, that is, there will be gunpowder residues, so they must clean the chamber after a certain number of shells, so that the rate of fire will be slow." ”

Lin Yuan said: "In this way, their rate of fire is not fast, and the power of their shells is not optimistic!" ”

Luo Chaoying said: "The power of the shell mainly depends on the number of charges and the type of explosives, I have heard that their shells are made of solidified nitroglycerin, and the explosion power is still very strong." ”

Lin Yuan said: "I carefully read their purchase list, they did buy some shells when they bought artillery, but these shells are no longer used because they have been stored for too long, so they use imitation shells from Tianjin Machinery Bureau, Tianjin Machinery Bureau does not have the strength to manufacture nitroglycerin, so they have to use black powder, and the explosion power is naturally a little worse." ”

Lin Yuan said: "I also heard that the armor on the Russian warships has adopted the latest heat treatment process, which is relatively hard, and the fragments of artillery shells are not easy to penetrate. Luo Chaoying asked, "Then do we have any solution?" Make a new batch of shells for them? ”

Lin Yuan said helplessly: "That's just a change of soup and not a change of medicine, what we need to do is some radical changes." ”