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The military port was in hand, the title was over, and the surrounding areas were also very shit luck took the initiative to express their submission, and Buchen was suddenly surprised to find that it was no longer meaningful for him to stay in the Hushan Military Port, so he pulled Fei Fei Hu Tianhu for a while, and after the arrival of the people and horses who transported the cannons in Zhenxi Prefecture, he called Zuo Hengyan and other major admirals to the public hall of the former Admiral's Yamen, and planned to resign to them. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's just that what makes Buchen a little crying and laughing is that Zuo Hengyan and others thought that he called them here to let them evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the artillery and the magic cannon, so before Buchen could open his mouth, Zuo Hengyan complained with some disappointment: "Lord, we have already seen your artillery, although it is indeed more durable than the magic cannon, and the range is not worse than the magic cannon, but this accuracy is really incomparable!" I've used the magic cannon, that's really where to hit, as long as it's within the range, there won't be a trace of deviation, and the enemy can't dodge! And your artillery is different, I obviously pointed the muzzle of the gun at the enemy ship, the shell can fly dozens of meters away, and it also takes a process for the shell to fly in front of the enemy, and it is not a big problem for the enemy with good ship performance to dodge! In fact, it's okay not to hide, just that deviation, tsk! ”

While speaking, Zuo Hengyan shook his head, and others, such as Qian Laosi and Yue Shi Niang, also nodded their heads to second.

Buchen's expression was a little embarrassed, and in order to cover it up, he coughed twice and said, "Ahem!" Second brother left, the current artillery is just a transitional product, so the power and accuracy will be unsatisfactory, and it will be much better if some improvements are made in the future! ”

Hearing Buchen say this, Zuo Hengyan immediately became interested, although he was a little disappointed with the current artillery, but since Buchen said that there was a possibility of improvement, he was still willing to put some expectations: "How to change?" ”

Seeing that not only Zuo Hengyan, but even the other admirals were looking at him with hope on their faces, the corners of Buchen's mouth twitched, and he had to explain to them patiently: "The current artillery is only the most basic artillery, and it is a front-loading smoothbore gun that fires solid projectiles, and the later improvements have become rear-loading guns, engraved rifling, and the depth, accuracy and effective range can be greatly improved!" If you can research the flowering shell again, the power of the cannon will be able to go to a big level, and there will be no problem at all in rolling the magic guide cannon! At least it's no problem to crush the current magic cannon! ”

Despite the words of the disobedient ministers, they sounded misty, what rifling. Flowering shells, rear-loading shells don't understand what they are at all, but they all think they are very powerful!

Buchen saw that these people nodded with a smile that they didn't know how to pretend to understand, and felt a little helpless in his heart, in order not to let them keep too high expectations, he had to pour cold water on them: "Don't think about artillery too perfectly, in fact, even if it is developed to the extreme, the accuracy of the artillery still can't be compared with the magic guide cannon, and there will be a process from the cannon discharging to hitting the target!" ”

"Huh?! I can't even do it to the extreme?! A look of disappointment immediately appeared on Zuo Hengyan's face.

"Second brother left!" Buchen smiled bitterly, "You don't always look at the shortcomings of such things as artillery, in fact, it still has a lot of advantages compared to the magic guide cannon!" ”

"For example?" Zuo Heng stared at Buchen with a little suspicion.

Buchen stretched out his hand and gestured to him, "First of all, the range of the artillery is farther than that of the magic guide cannon, and the artillery that has been developed to the extreme will be able to have a range of tens of miles at every turn!" The second is the size, compared to the magic cannon, the size of the cannon is much smaller, which means that a battleship can carry a lot of artillery, unlike the magic cannon battleship, which can only fit two guns on a ship! And finally, you know, artillery is a tough thing and won't break so easily! ”

Zuo Heng nodded, and asked again: "Then how will we fight against the magic guide cannon in the future after we are equipped with artillery warships?" ”

Buchen gave a thumbs up to Zuo Hengyan: "Second Brother Zuo, you asked this question well!" Our artillery has a range beyond the magic cannon, so we can attack from outside the range of the opponent! ”

Qian Laosi interjected, his nose was not his nose, and his eyes were not eyes, and he asked: "But the accuracy is not enough, what is the use if you can't hit?" ”

"It's impossible not to fight!" Buchen shook his head with a smile, "In the future, our warships will be equipped with dozens or hundreds of artillery pieces at every turn, and they will fight in the situation of a large fleet, with so many warships and cannons, as long as they concentrate on one target, even if the accuracy is poor, they can give the enemy a devastating blow!" ”

"That's right!" Zuo Hengyan glared at Qian Laosi, who was a little bit big or small, and said to Buchen in a sincere tone: "Zuo is stupid, if it weren't for the lord's words, I wouldn't have figured out how to use artillery to fight against the magic cannon!" ”

Buchen waved his hand and said, "Second Brother Zuo has said it!" After all, you have just come into contact with artillery, and it is normal to not think far enough, I believe that as long as you have been with artillery for a long time and have enough understanding of it, even if I don't say it, you can understand its usage! ”

Zuo Hengyan smiled and said, "Zuo is ashamed! ”

Buchen looked at his admiral for a while, and sighed: "That's it, in order to give you an intuitive understanding, I'll take you to learn more about artillery now!" ”

After saying that, Buchen stood up and pulled Zuo Heng Yan and walked out, Xue and Fei Fei. Lao You and the other admirals hurriedly followed.

Half an hour later, Buchen took Zuo Hengyan and others to the mountain fort in the Gongwei Port District, where the artillery that had just been transported had been deployed. Buchen casually picked a twenty-four-pounder cannon and explained it to the generals.

He explained in great detail, so that the generals had a specific and intuitive understanding of the artillery, and understood what to improve.

"Lord, that means that as long as the loading place is changed from the mouth to the buttocks, the performance of this cannon can be greatly improved?" Yue Shi Niang asked with a strange expression.

Buchen knew that this female pirate had thought of something inappropriate for children, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he didn't pay attention to the deeper meaning of Yue Shi Niang's words, just nodded, and said seriously: "The breech gun is cumbersome to load, and it is troublesome to clean up after the gun is fired, and the breech gun does not have these problems, not only the loading speed will be much faster, but it is also easy to clean up, but the manufacturing requirements of the breech gun are relatively high, and I am afraid it will be difficult to manufacture in the short term, even if it is made, the caliber is generally not very large, and it cannot be used in a decisive battle at sea, So I hope you're all prepared! ”

"So what can we expect in the short term?" Yue Shi Niang asked with a bitter face, and the other admirals were also staring at Buchen, there was no doubt that this issue was what they were most concerned about at the moment.

Buchen smiled and said, "Front-loading rifled guns!" Although the rifled gun has not increased the loading speed compared to the smoothbore gun, and it is just as troublesome to clean up, it has high accuracy, long effective range, strong penetration, and with the steelmaking technology we have now mastered, a single cannon can be made very small and light, and there is no problem in dealing with the magic guide cannon at this stage! ”

The generals all nodded in agreement, the biggest problem they have now against the Immortal Kingdom fleet is range and accuracy, as long as they can solve these two points, then there will be a fight!

"Ahh By the way, there are also flowering cannonballs! I've been working on this thing for almost two years since I was in Beijing, and although a lot has happened in the past two years, they must have achieved something! Buchen patted his head and added.

"Flowering cannonballs? It's the kind that will explode, like the kind of earth-shattering thunder? Zuo Heng asked in surprise.

Buchen nodded with a smile, and shook his head again: "This kind of cannonball can indeed explode like the Heaven-Shaking Thunder, but it is smaller than the Heaven-Shaking Thunder, and it can be fired with artillery to damage the enemy remotely, unlike the Heaven-Shaking Thunder, which can only be released on the spot!" ”

"This is good!" Yue Shi Niang clapped her hands happily and said, "In this way, you can effectively kill the enemies exposed on the deck!" ”

"Hmm!" Buchen smiled at her and said: "The current magic cannon battleships are not equipped with cannon shields, and the magic cannon is directly placed on the deck, if you attack with a flowering shell, you should be able to receive a very good personnel killing effect!" ”

Everyone was talking and laughing around the artillery, and the sun was about to set, but at this moment, a disappointing thing happened - a battleship with a black background sickle flag suddenly appeared at the junction of the sea and the sky in the distance!

From the moment they saw this black battleship, the faces of everyone on the battery turned gloomy!