Old Max's reminder was correct, the knight Molière was really not an old stubborn old stubborn, and under his arrangement, the materials and tactics of the expeditionary fleet were the most advanced.

First of all, these ten warships were reequipped with guns when they were in India, and Molière, as a close minister of the emperor, collected all the rifled guns and flowering shells in the colony, and even smokeless gunpowder was loaded with many young and old.

At that time, due to conceptual or cost reasons, a large number of sail battleships were still equipped with old smoothbore guns, and although the new rear-loading rifled guns had good technical indicators, they were not fully promoted.

There are only two reasons for this, one is money, which is easy to understand, it costs money to change clothes, just like in the Austro-Prussian War, Austria was not unable to produce breech-loading rifled guns, but because the imperial finances did not allow it.

Another reason was that the metallurgical industry was not very mature at that time, and the rifling inside the rifled gun was too grinding. This is really an important reason for the opposition of traditional military experts.

A voyage in the vast sea is tens of thousands of miles, and the corrosive force of the damp salt water on the metal is very strong, and the rifling in the rifled gun is always worn out at the fastest speed. And without rifling, his reliability is even inferior to that of a smoothbore gun.

It is for this reason that most of the navies of this era, especially those of the colonies, still use old but reliable smoothbore guns.

But he never thought that Molière was actually a very avant-garde military expert, and in his eyes, even if the rifled gun had 10,000 shortcomings, as long as he had strong firepower, high accuracy, and long range, as long as he had these three points, it was enough.

Molière held high the power of the envoy given to him by His Majesty the Emperor, and brutally and unreasonably oppressed the colonial governors and generals, and ransacked the rifled guns of the Indian continent, and by the time the expeditionary fleet set sail, half of the fleet's guns had become the most advanced rifled guns.

Not only that, but the individual weapons of the marines and sailors also gave him a big change, and all the soldiers were equipped with breech-loading rifled guns for skirmishers, although the performance was much worse than that of the Mauser, but it was enough to deal with the barbarians of East Asia.

"Maintain a distance of five nautical miles from the coastline...... Focus on the lookout tower at the top of the enemy's hill...... Knock me slowly one by one, gouge out all the eyes of the enemy, and make Naha completely blind......"

"It's sir—" The standard-bearer quickly took Molière's order out, and the captains of the ships began to choose their own hills, whether he had dates or not.

Boom Boom Boom ...... The sea was thundering with cannons, and the heights around Naha Port were completely baptized by artillery fire, and all the light and dark watchtowers were destroyed this time.

"Damn... Damn it... I knew that I would build permanent fortifications with reinforced concrete on every mountain..."Cai Mao angrily scolded in the Shurijo Castle Fort.

"Old Max... How far is the enemy's fleet from us now? Can our giant artillery hit us? Hurry up and fire the cannons, we can't let the enemy blow up like this, and return fire...... Shoot back..."

Old Max nervously used a telescope to measure the distance, which is the basic skill of artillery, even without a military telescope, they can use a few fingers to measure the distance between the target positions.

Old Max was now highly nervous, he was afraid that he would make any mistakes, and at this time, where did he care about any superiority and inferiority, and he didn't look back and yelled.

"Shut up... Here I am an artilleryman, and this cannon is under my command...... Noisy and shouting, it's still yours or mine..."The hot-tempered old black man roared all the time, and blocked back General Cai Mao's words.

Old Max seemed to be completely immersed in his own world, and his mouth was muttering, "The closest to the coastline is a frigate?, five nautical miles from the beach...... It's 10 nautical miles straight from Shuri Fort......"

"It's too far away, even if the cannonballs are enough, but the target is missing...... Closer, better ......"

Just as Max hesitated, a cloud of smoke suddenly rose from the south coast, and the soldiers inside the fort were in an uproar, "It's a fishing village south of the shipyard... It's the direction of Caijia Village... Damn the French, why did they even blow up a fishing village... Don't forget, Max, you drank in Caijia Village last month..."

There was a muffled bang, and it was Old Max who smashed his fist on the artillery mount, and his fist was bloodied "Oh God, these bastards who slaughter civilians... I can't take it anymore......"

"Seven o'clock southeast in the direction of artillery fire...... Shooting at an elevation angle of forty-five degrees...... The number of gunpowder packs is three...... Choose a heavy flowering bullet...... This is our first shot in the battle, in the words of you Chinese, that is Fa Fa Li City..."

The Chinese artillerymen around Max Sr. were all his apprentices, and after months of intensive training, they had long been familiar with all the processes of cannon firing.

The artillery of that era, especially the large-caliber coastal defense guns, was basically fired with separate ammunition, and the heavy warhead was first stuffed into the chamber, and then stuffed into the firing bag after careful calculation by the gunner.

Military textiles bundle high-explosive gunpowder into round and flat packets, and the number of charges in each pack is fixed. Otherwise, how can we say that artillery is a high-tech branch of the army, and with this technical work of tying gunpowder by hand, I would not have thought of learning it without a year and a half of training.

Old Max plugged his earbuds, his mouth wide open, his hand clutching the launch drawstring, and he was begging God to bless him with victory.

"Let's go to hell..."Max suddenly pulled the flintlock rope, and a string of sparks ignited the medicine pack, only to hear a loud bang, the Shuri Fort seemed to be contaminated by the vent of a steam locomotive, and thick white smoke gushed out along all the gaps, looking from a distance like a giant spitting white mist.

The launch of the 280-caliber cannon was earth-shattering, and the nearest Shurijo Castle was like an earthquake, and the dust on the beams of the house that had not been touched for hundreds of years fell straight down.

The king of Shangtai on the city wall was half a step in fright, and his whole ears were filled with the sound of tinnitus after a loud bang, but the young king was extremely excited.

"It's fired...... Our artillery returned fire...... It's enjoyable, it's enjoyable... This is power, this is the power that protects our Ryukyu ......"

At this time, the French fleet, closest to the coastline, was not the two light cruisers that normally covered the flanks, but a frigate named the Gaul.

This is a double-deck frigate with 60 guns, and in the naval sequence of the mid-XIX century, such a battleship was second only to battleships of the heavy navy, and if the Glory was not here, then his name would not have been called a frigate, but a heavy cruiser.

The Gauls were the culprits who had just opened fire on the fishing village, of course, they would not have any guilt, Molière had already promised to slaughter the city, would they still care about a few fishing villages that were easily blown up? Anyway, this time the ammunition was well prepared.

What is a journey of revenge? What is a war of revenge? To put it bluntly, it is to give His Majesty an outrage, the more painful Xiao Lotian of the expeditionary force became, the happier Napoleon III became, and only when the emperor was happy, the officers and soldiers would be rewarded.

"Keep it up, boys...... One more salvo to raze that broken village to the ground...... First mate, we must record our results, and say that there is a company hidden in this village...... Oh no, no, no, let's just say that there is a battalion of troops hidden, and we have defeated this battalion......"

"It's... The captain ...... "The first mate was enthusiastically writing down the navigation record, and all the officers and men around him who heard the captain's words smiled brightly.

The big guys are all clear-eyed people, although the Molière envoy is a bit perverted and eccentric, but the amount of information revealed in and out of the words is a lot, as long as the envoy wins this result, the process will not be questioned at all, and even at the critical moment he will push everyone, so that everyone is a little bolder.

Not to mention that there is a battalion hidden in this village, even if the reported result is that a brigade was killed, everyone believes that the envoy will eventually sign the battle merit sheet.

"Great, I haven't fought a war for so many years, and I didn't expect to get such a good opportunity for meritorious service in the colonies and in East Asia, this is really a gift from God, and I am afraid that everyone here will encounter such an opportunity in their lifetime.

At this moment, the second officer commanding the soldiers on the deck, and countless sailors looked up at the sky in surprise, and everyone heard a strange sound in the sky flying quickly from far and near.

Boom, boom, like a train flying through the sky.

Of course, trains can't fly in the sky, it's common sense. The veterans have already realized that it is not good just by a change of thought.

"Oh God... It's heavy artillery...... It was the sound of the heavy artillery of the shore defense...... "The shouting continued, only to hear the sea water twenty meters from the starboard side of the battleship suddenly bang and turn into a frenzied wave of air and rush straight towards the Gaul."

The 280-caliber heavy high-explosive shell did not hit the Gaul, but hit the sea twenty meters to starboard. But with the explosion of such a powerful shell, the shock wave alone can sweep across a radius of fifty meters.

Fragments mixed with seawater whizzed in the air, and the energy generated by the gunpowder instantly vaporized countless seawater, and a white mist was near the explosion point.

At this time, the starboard side of the Gaul had just finished firing a salvo, and the gun door had not had time to close, and this rain of fragments rushed down the gun door into the hull of the ship, piercing the busy gunners.

Whoosh ...... Bang bang bang...... The shrapnel flew sideways in the air, instantly turning the starboard side of the battleship into a pockmarked face. The most terrifying thing was on the deck, where the most arrogant captain who had just laughed was pierced into his eyebrows by a piece of shrapnel, and his body smashed on the deck with a bang, causing a round of exclamations around him.

"The captain sacrificed...... The captain sacrificed ...... What about the medics, save people......"

This is the power of the shore defense artillery, the caliber is large, the firepower is sufficient, if this cannon can hit the hull enough to blow up the entire ship, even if it is the power of exploding fragments on the sea surface, it can kill and injure the enemy.

The Gauls burst into a cry, blood flowed on the deck, corpses were strewn all over the floor, and even the cabins were crying.

"Oh God... Our intelligence is wrong... There are actually the most advanced coastal defense guns in the Ryukyus?" Molière rushed to the starboard side of the Glory, holding a telescope and looking at the Gauls in a mess, his face was extremely gloomy, and the ominous premonition in his heart became more and more intense.

Note: It's the beginning of the month again, and the heart is pure for a monthly pass, thank you...

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