The characteristics of the Qin people's boat division are the same as those of the Qin army, that is, there are many. There are many Qin soldiers, and the boat division is a lot of boats, and the Qin warboat that covers Daze rushed over, Xiong Jing thought that the Chaos-class gunboats could deal with the rapid artillery bombardment of battle, but a dozen thirty-two pound guns are also two holes, which is not easy to do. IN A TAILWIND STATE, THE SPRINT SPEED OF THE FIVE-OARED WARBOAT CAN REACH A TERRIFYING THIRTEEN KNOTS (24KM/H), AND ONE CANNON AND TWO HOLES CANNOT PREVENT THE SPRINT AND COLLISION OF THE QIN ARMY'S WARBOAT.

The Operations Division has not done a collision test between the Chaos class gunboat and the five-oared warship, and it is not clear whether the ninety-degree impact of the five-oared warship can break the ribs of the Chaos class, but whether it is broken or not, the Chaos class gunplate will definitely be broken and cause water ingress. The 35-meter-long Chaos class could be ferociously rammed by three five-oared warships when facing the enemy laterally according to the length of its 35-meter hull. No one knows what the consequences will be after three impacts.

"When will the Chaos class be launched?" Xiong Jing asked about the Haizhou gunboat.

"Your Majesty, you have gone into the water." Gong Yi replied. "Outfitting is happening at this point."

"Don't outfit for the time being, choose a fake Qin warboat to collide with it, and know the damage." Xiong Jing ignored the surprise of his courtiers and commanded.

The Haizhou gunboat is different from the gluttony-class cargo boat, the glutton-class cost only a little more than one gold per ton, and the chaos class needs about two gold per ton. This is not deadweight tonnage, but displacement tonnage, so excluding artillery gunpowder, the cost of a Chaos class gunboat is one thousand and fifty gold. Take 1,000 and 50 gold to do the impact test, Gong Yijian and the others are all stupid.

"Choose a shallow place, the water is not sinking, it's just a replacement of ribs." Of course, Xiong Jing is not reluctant, this is a new ship.

"Dare to ask the king, how can I sink the Qin people's war boat?" After giving the order, Bu Liangju asked the question he had always wanted to ask. The war boats and artillery were all conceived and built by the king, and the king knew everything and would be able to solve his doubts.

"Good." Bu Liangju's question surprised Xiong Jing, and he thought it was a good question. Everything was complicated, and even if he had seen one shot and two holes, he couldn't calm down and think about why there were two shots.

The king said good, and everyone looked at it respectfully, hoping that he would solve the problem. It's a pity that Xiong Jing understands ships but doesn't know artillery, he knows a lot of sail naval artillery, but he doesn't know the development of naval artillery in the sail era. Just as he did not understand the development of muskets and the key technologies.

Under the gaze of the courtier, he thought for a long time, and in order not to disappoint everyone, he could only say: "This matter has been written down, and I have time to think about countermeasures." Seeing that the courtiers were disappointed, he added: "In terms of close combat, thirty-two catties is still too light." ”

"Too light?" Yigan people were confused, in their opinion, thirty-two catties was already a heavy artillery.

"It takes sixty-four pounds." Xiong Jing remembered the Caron cannon of the British. The Caron cannon had thirty-six pounds and sixty-eight pounds. The British pound and the French pound used by the Chu army are different, but it doesn't matter. "One hundred and twenty-eight pounds."

"One hundred and twenty-eight pounds?!" Gong Yi Jian, Gong Yi Ling and others almost fell. The weight of the shells of the artillery is proportional to the weight of the barrel, and this ratio is one to two hundred. According to this ratio, the weight of a 120-kilogram shell should be 24,000 kilograms, or 6,000 kilograms. This weight, combined with the weight of the gun carriage, will definitely crush the gun deck for a full eight tons, and there will be no way to cushion the recoil, and the keel wrapped in the huge iron plate will definitely be displaced by the breaking of the gun.

"No, no." Gong Yijian waved his hand again and again, "Such a cannon weighs more than eight tons, and it is absolutely unusable." ”

"Then make it thin and light." Xiong Jing only then remembered that the Caron cannon was originally a short-range artillery, and many people thought that the appearance of the Caron cannon was epoch-making, but he never understood why the appearance of the Caron cannon was epoch-making?

He didn't understand, but he was slowly understanding now—in fact, the eighteen-pounder cannon could penetrate the bulwarks of most sail battleships at close range, and there was no bulwark that the twenty-pounder cannon could not penetrate, however, it was only a penetration, exactly like what he saw now. If it is a chaotic battle or a flanking attack, the shell will have one hole or two holes, and after penetrating the enemy ship, it may also accidentally damage the friendly ship.

This is similar to the principle of light arrows and heavy arrows, the shells are too light, the speed is too fast, and the bulwarks pass through as soon as they pass; The shells are extremely heavy, the speed is slow, and the range is short, but the storage potential is very large, and it can bring a good damage effect. The Caron cannon is a product of this need, and its role is not to break through the bulwark, but to destroy all obstacles as much as possible, and to make big holes in the bulwark, and anything else.

But it doesn't have to be a caron. The Caron cannon was invented because the boring machine had already been invented, and the French, who could not make the Caron cannon, could only continue to build long cannons, and could not use the Wilkinson boring machine to bore the Caron cannon like the British. Before the advent of the Caron, the Royal Navy's melee tactics worked, in addition to relying on trained gunners, and one of the lesser-known secrets was that in close combat, gunners would stuff two or even three shells into the chamber of the gun, so as to achieve a higher rate of shelling and a greater destruction effect.

Xiong Jing didn't expect that the damage effect of the Caron cannon by stuffing two shells into the barrel could also get the damage effect of the Caron cannon, and after thinking of the Caron cannon, he had already focused on the Caron cannon, and decided that this was the final solution. Gong Yijian and Ou Chou couldn't help but look at each other, and the Great Sima Mansion has always had a requirement for reducing the weight of artillery, which can be reduced from six tons to two or three tons that the deck and buffer devices can accept, which is really incredible.

"King, make thin and light, if it is a bombardment, what can I do?" Ou Chou's face was serious. The cannons made by Jutiefu rarely blow up the bore, and even if they do, they won't blow up like those fake cannons, just the cannon body is cracked.

"Then try it! In the case of a bore, the weight of the shell can be reduced as appropriate. "Xiong Jing knows that there is a sixty-eight-pounder Caron cannon, and he does not retract his opinion." If you want to destroy the Qin warboat, the cannonball needs to be heavy, the heavier the cannonball, the bigger the hole, and the warboat will be more than sinking. ”

"Indeed, as the king said, the shells need to be heavy." Nao Wei agreed with Xiong Jing's view. "Jutie Mansion can be tried, remember to be fast."

"Respectfully obey the order!" Both the king and the great Sima asked themselves to give it a try, and then thinking of the current situation, although Ou Chou was unwilling, he immediately agreed. If you can really build a usable sunken cannon, it will undoubtedly be a huge boost to the battle situation.

Ou Chou was ordered, and seeing that the gunboat test was basically completed, Xiong Jing said again: "The tonnage of the big wing gunboat is too small, which is not conducive to the arrangement of artillery. Although Shao Si Ming is a sea boat, the tonnage is still not large, and in the future, the gunboats should be dominated by the gluttonous class and the chaos class. ”

His statement was once again surprising, but fortunately, Nao was clear about this, he added: "Next year to avoid relocation, the Qin people's boat division or out of the big river, Jishui, from the sea, at that time the war boat and the war, the sea boat also fight." ”

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