Chapter 106: The Red-Coated Cannon
When 9 tracked armoured agricultural vehicles and 6 unarmoured 6-wheeled agricultural vehicles drove into Bremerton, the real war began.
On the town's main road, the patrolmen immediately became overwhelmed after trying to shoot a round.
Bullets on those steel cars don't hurt at all.
This era was not a car without an internal combustion engine or a steam engine.
But no one has ever tried to put steel plates on those cars as weapons.
The reason is simple, that is, the reliability of today's cars is too poor, and if you increase your own weight, you can become a pile of scrap metal without enemy shooting.
At this time, the Henry 1860 rifle currently installed in the Ming Army showed an advantage.
It's not that the Ming soldiers all lay on the overturn of the carriage and shoot.
In order to transport more troops, the bodies were so crowded that some people had to get out of the vehicles during the battle.
Under the protection of armored vehicles, infantry can fire quickly and easily at close range.
In this way, the shortcomings of the Henry 1860 projectile with light projectile and low lethality can be avoided to the greatest extent.
And its advantage of its fast rate of fire is unmistakable.
To put it simply, this gun is a weakened version of a submachine gun.
Although Zhu Fugui knew that the tactical status of submachine guns would be lower and lower in the future.
In particular, after the advent of the AK47 and a series of assault rifles using intermediate-power rounds, such as the AK47 and the Aks74u, a shortened version of the AK47, submachine guns were no longer even qualified as self-defense weapons for second-line soldiers.
But it's still that sentence, for the time being, there is no civilization worth engaging in those high-end goods.
And the submachine gun also has its merits as a popular spicy chicken in urban warfare in World War II.
At least until World War II and before, submachine guns were the true kings of close-quarters combat!
Under the impact of the steel trickle of the "infantry and tank coordination" operation, the resistance of the patrol team was like a grasshopper shaking a tree and was easily disintegrated.
But Bremerton's paramilitary forces are not just patrolling.
There are also the Mounties and Tax Police, and even most of the residents are members of a militia called the Sword of God in the greater Seattle area.
Soon the bells of the Bremerton Church rang.
Just as the Chinese like to build ancestral halls first when they go to Nanyang, European colonists must also build a church everywhere they go.
Even in the whole of Bremerton, the tallest and most solid building is not the town hall or the pub, but the church in the centre of the town.
In the early days when the Indians were still strong, when white strongholds were attacked, they would retreat into churches.
And this time they did the same.
With a population of more than 2,000 in Bremerton, it is clear that the church cannot accommodate all of them.
More than half of the whites closed the door and hid in the corner of the house to resist stubbornly.
Zhu Fugui now has more than 200 combatable soldiers left.
Even if it were to sweep without captives, there would be no shortage of manpower.
After weighing it, Zhu Fugui still ordered Qi Wenchang to concentrate his forces on the attack.
Wait until Zhang Changgui and the others arrive, and then further carpet inventory.
When the crawler farm truck slowly stopped 200 meters away from the church, Qi Wenchang led a team to search the nearby houses.
After all the dangerous factors were removed, the artillery flag of the Ming Army was slowly unfurled.
Due to the weight of the 10 earthen cannons of the Ming Dynasty, there are only 2 of them left, but they are all in good condition.
The so-called earth cannon is naturally a cannon produced by the Ming Dynasty.
Donald can help Zhu Fugui buy a rifle, but he can't buy artillery, this thing is still too sensitive.
However, Wang Jie turned out to be a firearms master under the rule of the puppet Qing Hubei general, and he was proficient in the production of various firearms, including the red-coated cannon.
Speaking of which, Zhu Fugui is also an egg pain.
Now it's 1863, and I still have to use the same cannon as Chongzhen.
Of course, the improvement is huge.
But these two cannons pulled by six-wheeled agricultural vehicles are essentially modified red-coated cannons.
Nowadays, in the puppet Qing military system, there are three types of red-coated cannons: the light cannon "General Shenwei" type, the medium cannon "General Shengong" type, and the heavy cannon "General Wucheng Yonggu" type.
According to the weight calculation, the weight of the red-coated cannon made by the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty is less than one ton, which can only be regarded as the Shenwei General Cannon.
However, its power is much stronger than that of General Wu Cheng Yonggu.
Although due to technical reasons, the Ming Dynasty was unable to make the most fashionable breech-loading cannon today, but as the most powerful cannon of the 17th century, the redcoat cannon was not completely without potential for improvement.
With the addition of industrial-grade high-quality steel and flowering and rifling, this new redcoat cannon is approaching the limit of the power of a recitable front-loading smoothbore gun.
But, after all, from a fundamental point of view, this is still something that has been eliminated by the times.
In terms of power and range, this redcoat cannon may not be inferior to today's Western artillery, especially the British Armstrong cannon that shined in the Second Opium War.
Even because of the relationship between gunpowder and material strength, the improved redcoat cannon is better than the Western cannon in some performance.
But the biggest flaw of the repulsed front-loading smoothbore gun was not solved.
That is, every time it is fired, it will seriously deviate from the original firing position.
It must be followed by the normal operating procedure, which requires the steps of resetting, reloading, and setting the direction and elevation angle again.
This is because even with the drawings, Wang Jie's team still failed to try to produce a closed gun bolt and a retractable retractor.
It even caused an accident to explode during an experiment.
If it weren't for the use of a remote control remote ignition device, the whole department would have been served in one pot.
Zhu Fugui also understands that this cannot be blamed on the Ministry of Works.
An old craftsman like Wang Jie, who doesn't understand modern mathematics and physics, and only relies on ancestral craftsmanship and experience, has a low ceiling.
When it comes to repairing, and even replicating existing machinery, Wang Jie has done the best.
But it's still too difficult to get him to think of something new.
On the contrary, Wang Jie's disciples are much better.
Especially the Geng Gong Department, who is a good seedling who loves new tricks.
In addition, Comrade Xiao Geng took Dr. Xing as his idol in life, painstakingly studied systematic mathematics, physics and chemistry knowledge, and his biggest dream was to go to Shanghai one day to find Dr. Xing and discuss physics with him in person.
Zhu Fugui felt that the future of such a ruthless person was limitless.
And the advent of the breech gun of the Ming Dynasty is still very promising.
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