On the fort of Monk Island in Dalian Bay, Xiao Ziyuan was watching the Qing army's artillery live-fire training with these British military attaches in red uniforms. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"All right, gentlemen. Standing in front of you is the artillery of the Great Fresh Recruitment, which has only been raised for eight months. Due to the lack of military knowledge of the high-ranking generals of the Qing army, the artillery units originally stationed here were sent to the Korean battlefield as field troops, and it seemed that those well-trained artillery could not return. We were commissioned by the Qing garrison here to train these newly recruited artillerymen, and believe me, gentlemen, two months ago, they could not even hit a cruiser a nautical mile away. Xiao Ziyuan began to talk nonsense in a serious manner again.

There is a time for Lord Zhongtang to send artillery to North Korea, and it is right that these artillery pieces are newly recruited, and it is true that they could not hit a cruiser a nautical mile away two months ago, but to say that Zhao Huaiye entrusted them to train these artillerymen would be really a special nonsense. Zhao Huaiye was placed under house arrest in his barracks by the Qing soldiers who surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty, and waited for the surrender of the Qing Dynasty to the Japanese every day.

"Which gentleman is interested in stopping the dinghy that is cruising irregularly, and when the personnel are evacuated, the dinghy will become our target ship. Interested gentlemen can always ask the herald to signal the boat to stop moving. Xiao Ziyuan looked like a showman.

British Royal Navy Persey. Colonel Scott was the highest-ranking member of the military attaché delegation, and it was only natural that he should give the order to the herald to stop the target ship from moving. Finally Colonel Percy felt that the target ship had reached a position where it should not be the preset elements of these people, and he asked the herald to give the target ship a flag order to stop the ship and anchor. Soon the target ship stopped, and a sampan that received them pulled all the people on the target ship back to shore.

The Qing artillery on the battery began their actual training with live ammunition, and Colonel Percy found a group of people who should be observers fiddling with some optical instruments that he could not name, and began to observe the position of the target ship, and after a while, these people reported a set of data in English, probably the distance and bearing of the target ship relative to the battery.

The artillerymen quickly turned the 12-inch Krupp heavy defense gun, skillfully cleared and loaded the ammunition, and the first test shot was quickly fired, and the landing point of the shell was about 200 meters away from the target ship.

Is this the artillery that the Great Song trained for two months? This kind of firing speed and the accuracy of the first test shot are above the level, is this the reason for using the kind of scientific artillery shooting science they mentioned? After watching the starting shots, a bunch of questions welled up in Colonel Percy's mind.

But what surprised him even more was that after the observer reported the corrected data, the group of rookie artillery shot more and more accurately, and by the time of the fourth launch, they had accurately hit the target ship.

The position of the target ship was chosen by himself, and there should be no suspicion of cheating. The size of this target ship was much smaller than that of the capital ship, and it took the rookies four times to hit her, and God, this kind of artillery shooting is amazing, Colonel Percy thought to himself.

When he received an order to inspect this artillery shooting, Colonel Percy was very resistant. What scientific artillery shooting can the Orientals have? Wouldn't it be burning incense and praying to their gods to improve the accuracy of their shelling, Colonel Percy, who led the fleet in Hong Kong, was very disdainful of many oriental customs.

However, the live-fire training just now made him understand that this artillery shooting technology is a technology based on mathematical calculations, and it is obvious that the Great Song people calculated the distance from the target ship to the battery by using the data collected by those special instruments. It's not sorcery, it's real science!

The British Imperial Navy had to get this technique, and the shooting accuracy brought by this technique was so terrible that it was no wonder that the Japanese could only find a way to attack these fortifications from land. It would have been a suicide for their warships to fire at the shore defense guns here, and if the other batteries were of this level, the combined fleet of the Japanese would definitely not be able to withstand ten rounds of shelling.

Of course, this is Colonel Persi's wishful thinking, the shells used in these rounds of live firing are all imported shells from Germany that Master Li treasured as a treasure, if you use those shells with different tolerances produced in Beiyang's own factory, the gods can't guess where the landing point will be after firing. And these original imported shells, not to mention that this sustains ten rounds of fire from these batteries, it is estimated that the top and five rounds are very reluctant.

Xiao Ziyuan introduced to Colonel Percy the heliometer-optical clock ranging system used by the artillery observation group, and then gave a general demonstration of this ballistic calculation method based on trigonometric functions.

Colonel Percy, an expert in British Royal Navy artillery, quickly discovered the problem, and in order to correct the exact location of the shells tested, the accurate shelling used in this method of accurate shelling had to be corrected.

Now they are at least 100 meters above sea level on the Monk Island Fort, from which you can clearly see the landing point of this Krupp heavy coastal defense gun. But when this technique is used to direct the firing of naval guns, the observer on the warship cannot reach a place more than 100 meters above sea level, and even if he climbs to the top of the mainmast, it is impossible to reach that height.

Could it be that this technique could really only be used for the artillery of such a battery, which was located in a high place? Obviously not, if there were such big flaws, the Imperial Navy would not have let him come from Hong Kong in such a hurry to this place located in the war zone to investigate.

"In the early years, the Great Song Navy placed its observer hand on a hot air balloon to observe the distant artillery shell landing point. The observer on the hot air balloon then transmits the location information of the shell landing point to the artillery on the ground through the flag. Xiao Ziyuan shamelessly took the actions of the Europeans a few years later onto the Great Song Dynasty.

"However, this kind of rope-held heater has too many limitations, such as the telescope is too low to see the location of the shell, or the target is behind a wooded mountain, even if you are in a hot air balloon, you can't see where the shell lands. Later, we sent the observer to the plane, and these problems were solved. "See you in the picture, to put it bluntly, it's just to sell the drawings of the plane that crosses the public.

"Rather than being held in a hot air balloon with a rope, an airplane is a machine that can move freely in the sky. It is possible to observe the landing point of the shell closely, and it is not affected by the magnification of the telescope and the occlusion at all. As long as you can make more powerful artillery, you can use this technology to attack targets farther away, and you are not affected by the boundaries of vision at all. As a science student, Xiao Ziyuan's sales pitch is not bloody enough, but this is enough, and Persey has already surged blood.

This Percy. Colonel Percy Scott was the one who invented a similar technique a few years later, but with a lower configuration, scientific artillery shooting, and he was the pioneer of this technique of artillery firing based on trigonometric functions. In fact, he had now begun to study accurate artillery firing techniques, and had already achieved some research results, otherwise the British Royal Navy would not have sent him to investigate this kind of artillery firing technology that the Great Song intended to sell to the British.

Xiao Ziyuan looked at Colonel Percy, who was carefully studying the rangefinder, and obviously felt that the Britishmen should enter the pit.