Chapter 336: Bombardment at a Long Distance
After the British Marines took some of the negotiators, Ito sent troops to take the Russian and French representatives who had chosen to stay behind from the original British delegation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis place is more than ten nautical miles from the fort, and the foot basin chicken, who can't figure out the draft of BB63, is still worried that the Great Song people will come to the coastline to bombard Maguan, and Ito Hirobumi plans to move the negotiation delegation to a city closer to the interior for the sake of safety.
"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, you are still too cautious about the blackmail of the Great Song people, there is no naval gun in this world that can bombard targets more than ten nautical miles away from the coastline. Even if all your batteries are destroyed, you don't have to worry about the Great Song people going to land and fight, a warship will not be able to accommodate enough soldiers to deal with military operations on land, no matter how large its displacement is. "The French don't know where they got their confidence.
"Yes, Your Excellency Prime Minister, I very much agree with the representative of France. In fact, I still have doubts about whether your batteries were destroyed by naval guns, after all, the mob chose to revolt at such a coincidental time! Maybe your batteries were infiltrated, and they were blown up by explosives, not by naval guns, as the soldiers who fled from the desert described. "The Russians are also cheering up Hirobumi Ito.
"Perhaps it was the mismanagement of ammunition by your country's coastal defense forces that caused the loss of the fort due to the detonation of ammunition." The French added that they were convinced that the Song people were mere liars.
Kill your sister! It's a group of batteries composed of multiple batteries, okay, if the luck of the Great Song people is against the sky to the extent that they can hit the ammunition depots on all the batteries, then we don't have to struggle, they can give whatever they want, Ito Hirobumi complained in his heart.
Although the terrible firepower of the giant ship of the Great Song Imperial Navy has been confirmed, Ito Hirobumi's appeal to MissFox can only be rejected for no other reason, as the British said, whoever dares to agree to such a condition Emperor Meiji will definitely hang him.
However, Ito Hirobumi is really not worried about what tricks this sea monster will do, after all, with the range of its naval guns of more than ten nautical miles, the damage it can cause is still limited. The retaliation of the Great Song people is most likely to be aimed at the Japanese army in Shandong and the Liaohe Plain, but the Great Song people are also waiting to share the dividends of this Sino-Qing War, even if they retaliate against the Japanese army in the above areas, there will be a bottom line, who will fight with the Manchus after killing the Japanese army!
Based on the above ideas, Ito Hirofumi chose to stalemate with the Great Song people, and he only refused but did not bargain for the greedy demands made by the Great Song people.
Seeing Lieutenant Rann returning to the British warship with the men, the rough embryos on the BB63 couldn't wait to adjust the three 406mm main guns in the A main turret, ready to fire high-explosive shells to surprise the unbelieving Oriental dwarves and whiteskins.
"Damn, I don't even pay back the price, this is looking down on us! Sister, let's not do the ultimatum, let's shoot directly! Luo Can said irritably.
"Do you want to wait any longer? It is said that neither the Russians nor the French have left. Said the interim first officer.
"Neither of these is a fuel-efficient lamp, just one can be cleaned up, and pure love adds to our blockage. Anyway, it's not the first time that the Russians have scolded them, so let's get ready to fire! MissFox remembered that the things she ordered in the personal belongings system of D+255 had already arrived in the green paint area, and she really didn't have the heart to waste it with the foot basin when she rushed back to dismantle the express.
Just as Colonel Percy Scott and his lieutenant, Captain Rann, thought that BB63 would anchor closer to shore in order to shell targets inland at Maseki, the three main guns in its bow began to fire in a salvo again, and the earth-shattering sound of the cannon fire almost caused Hans's negotiators, who were climbing rope nets on the side of the British warship, to fall overboard.
"God! It has a range of far more than fifteen nautical miles we estimated, sir! Captain Rann said that as a fan of the Great Song Dynasty, he did not believe that the Royal Navy of the Great Song Dynasty would fire indiscriminately.
"Yes, so the Imperial Navy also wants to have battleships of greater displacement!" Colonel Percy Scott's mind was on how to assemble the Grand Fleet of the Empire on which the sun never sets.
The Germans, who had stabilized themselves on the rope net, settled down and thought of the terrible things about the Great Song people who produced these huge cannons. Hmph, that Frenchman swore that the joint metallurgical project we invested on the Liaodong Peninsula was deceived by the Great Song people! Look at these three 16-inch guns, can you build a barrel that can withstand this kind of bore pressure without top-notch metallurgy? A fox who can't eat grapes and says that grapes are sour, pure love fanned the flames everywhere! It is hoped that the arrival of the Royal Navy of the Great Song Dynasty in the Far East will not affect the Empire's claims on the Shandong Peninsula, and it seems that it will have to be more inclined to the Great Song people at the negotiating table.
With the special whistle of a heavy artillery shell across the sky, three huge flames exploded in the city of Maguan. The island nation is an earthquake-prone country, and most of the buildings are made of wood. In the face of the powerful shock wave brought by the explosion of the 406-mm high-explosive bomb, those wooden houses were pushed into a large area in an instant.
Needless to say, there were clean huge pits again, and the collapsed wooden buildings outside those pits were quickly ignited by the high temperature and air waves, and the entire shelling scene was a Shura purgatory, with cries and skyrocketing fires intertwined with an apocalyptic scene.
The French and Russians, who had not yet left the city of Shimonoseki, had the privilege of seeing the scene up close, and although they were all in a state of tinnitus and vertigo due to the shock wave, the peculiar howling sound in the sky before the explosion made it clear to them that they were under shelling.
The Japanese soldiers, who were in charge of the security of the French and Russians, under the command of the officers, set up these white skins, who were still in a state of confusion, and ran out of the city. Targeted by this terrible artillery, you can only pray that your legs are faster than the opponent's reloading, its powerful firepower has subverted the perception of artillery bombardment by humans outside the world, and all the anti-artillery measures in this era are not worth mentioning in the face of this earth-destroying force.
"It's almost there, wait for Hirobumi Ito to beg for mercy." MissFox said to Luo Can.
"Sister, it's only two rounds of salvos, those rough embryos have just eaten enough, and some of them have strength!" Luo Fatzi replied.
"The purpose of the shelling is to force the other side to compromise, not to kill! There were no Japanese garrisons left in Shimonoseki, and any further bombardment would only increase civilian casualties. MissFox said.
"Sister, don't follow me in this Virgin, what kind of civilian casualties will there be in Jinling! Let's not talk about it far away, if you hadn't landed on the Liaodong Peninsula, then Lushun would have been a sea of corpses and bones! "As a standard angry youth, when it comes to the reason for beating the foot basin chicken, Luo Can can blow with you for three days and three nights.
"Look at the big picture! Even if you shoot all the shells on the ship, you won't be able to destroy this island nation. Remember that MI also has a plan to recreate the next Syria! A divided island country is a good island country, don't make an incident that makes the foot basin chicken hate the same enemy, it will be a big loss because of a small one! MissFox said to Luo Can.
In the end, Luo Can still couldn't resist the temptation of the so-called "next Syria" and chose to suspend the shelling, a fragmented situation that made the island country unable to turn over for decades, it was really a perfect scene for Luo Yanqing.