The minister pressed Wilhelm II's hand, lowered his voice and said, "This thing can't be shown to Lin Yuan!" ”

Wilhelm II said: "Why can't he see it? ”

The minister said: "This is the latest artillery shell equipped by our German Navy, as far as we know, even the British are not equipped with such shells, what if this artillery shell is seen by Lin Yuan, what if he tells these things?" ”

Wilhelm II said to the minister, "Didn't you see Lin Yuan what he is today?" Look at his unstoppable expression, as if there is nothing in our German Empire that he can look at, is it not as good as their Chinese things? ”

The minister hurriedly said: "Which of the Chinese officials is not like this, they think they are the center of the world, so it is not surprising that they don't look down on our things, then again, what can they do if they don't look down on us?" There is a chance that we will go to the battlefield and teach them a hard lesson. ”

Wilhelm II said angrily: "Haven't you seen that this Lin Yuan is different from other Chinese ministers? Other ministers don't know how to pretend to understand, but Lin Yuan really understands, none of our things today can stump him! ”

The minister said, "Then we can't show him our secrets!" ”

William II said nonchalantly: "It's okay, I know a lot about weapons and equipment, even if he sees these things, he doesn't have anything, anyway, he can't learn the exquisite skills in them!" ”

Lin Yuan looked at the appearance of Wilhelm II and the minister, and guessed what they were doing: it must be Wilhelm II who wanted to take out the contents of the box and show it to Lin Yuan, but the minister refused to let him, and after a while, he saw that the minister shook his head helplessly.

Wilhelm II smiled contentedly and smiled at Lin Yuan: "Mr. Lin Yuan, please come here, I have something good for you to see." ”

Lin Yuan walked to the side of Wilhelm II, Wilhelm II opened the box, only to see a cannonball lying quietly on the shelf, the body and tail of this cannonball are similar to other cannonballs, but its head is very different from other cannonballs.

Although the head of this cannonball is also cylindrical, it shows two stepped shapes, as if the cylindrical shape of the shell has two hats on its body, Wilhelm II smiled confidently and said: "Mr. Lin Yuan, do you know what this thing is?" ”

Lin Yuan looked at the shell for a long time, and suddenly his heart moved, and he thought: "Is this an armor-piercing shell?" Although this kind of armor-piercing shell appeared in the Russian Navy in 1894, the navies of various countries have not paid much attention to it, so this kind of shell has been silent, and it is known that around 1906, countries learned from the experience of the naval war between Japan and Russia before they were widely equipped with this kind of shell. ”

Lin Yuan wasn't sure, so he asked tentatively, "This should be a type of armor-piercing bullet, right?" And the power of this armor-piercing bullet is stronger than the blunt-nosed armor-piercing bullet and the pointed armor-piercing bullet just now. ”

Wilhelm II smiled and said, "What are you talking about?" No, guess again! ”

Lin Yuan has been staring at Wilhelm II's eyes after asking the sentence just now, although Wilhelm II denied Lin Yuan's guess, but the surprise that flashed in his eyes still did not escape Lin Yuan's eyes, Lin Yuan thought: "It seems that I guessed right!" So Lin Yuan smiled faintly and said, "Don't lie to me, I'm sure this is an armor-piercing bullet, and the power of this armor-piercing bullet is stronger than before." ”

Lin Yuan said and pointed to the second bulge on the head of the shell with his hand, and said: "There is a bulge here, because the part before this is not one with the shell, we call this thing 'quilt cap', the power of this armor-piercing projectile is that when the projectile body hits the deck, the quilt cap in front of the warhead is broken first, although the cap is broken, but the rear shell body is not affected, so the quilt cap protects the shell body." ”

"After the cap in front of the projectile body hits the armor, it will have a certain penetration effect and reduce the armor's ability to resist strikes, so the rear projectile body is in the place where it is penetrated, penetrating this armor, I don't know if what I said is right?"

Wilhelm II couldn't believe his ears, and he muttered: "How is it possible that you know even this?" Wilhelm II suddenly looked at him, pointed to the first protrusion on the head of the cannonball, and said: "Then tell me, what is this protrusion for?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "The previous bomb body and the back quilt cap here are not one, this part is called 'hood', this hood is generally made of light and thin materials, it is immediately broken when it comes into contact with the armor, neither jumping nor affecting the follow-up process, its only role is to give the shell a streamlined body, reduce its resistance when flying, and ensure the speed of the shell!" ”

Wilhelm II was stunned on the spot, Lin Yuan thought to himself: "The performance parameters of this kind of shell are very important to us, it determines how thick the armor needs to be installed on our warship, so I must get the detailed information of this shell, but depending on the meaning of the minister, the production process and performance parameters of this kind of shell must be kept strictly secret, is there any way to get the performance parameters of this kind of cap-piercing shell?" ”

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan raised his head and looked at Shen Wanqing in the distance, she was also interested in all kinds of shells, so she sat bored on the shelf on the side, blowing the hair on her forehead and playing, while the Germans on the side stared at her greedily.

Lin Yuan smiled at Wilhelm II and said, "I'm sorry, I'm out of company, go and say a few words to my companion." Wilhelm II just wanted to get rid of the embarrassment just now, so he smiled and agreed.

Lin Yuan came to Shen Wanqing and whispered to her, "I have finally found something good, and I need you to scout it properly." ”

Shen Wanqing asked, "What good things have you found?" ”

Lin Yuan gestured with his eyes in the direction of the cap-piercing bullet he had just seen, and then said: "That thing is a cap-piercing bullet, if we rank the armor-piercing bullet on a level, the lowest is the pointed and blunt armor-piercing bullet, the top is the cap-piercing bullet, and the highest level is the shell-out rod armor-piercing bullet." Although that shell can't catch up with our shell-piercing shell, it's pretty good in this era, and I need to get information on it. ”

Shen Wanqing said: "I don't know anything about shells, what do you need to know about Lu Dao?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "I first need to know the dimensions of this armor-piercing projectile, so that I can analyze its force in the air and roughly calculate its range; Second, I need to know the material of this kind of shell, and with the material information, I can know how strong the armor-piercing effect of this kind of shell is; Finally, I want to know if this kind of shell has explosives installed in it. ”

Shen Wanqing said: "Okay, just tell me what I should do." ”

Lin Yuan said: "Let's first find a way to get that shell out of the box, now it's inside the box, and the box blocks its tail, and I can't see the parts in many places." ”

Shen Wanqing thought for a while, nodded and said, "I have a way, you can give it a try." As he spoke, he was about to walk in the direction of the shelf, but Lin Yuan hurriedly grabbed her and said, "You can't go over!" ”