After hearing this explanation, the audience realized that the Haihan people were deliberately trying to compare the shooting results to highlight the performance advantages of the new artillery. But can this strange-looking cannonball really accurately hit a target so far? And even if it can hit, how much lethality it can retain after flying such a long distance is also a point of curiosity among everyone.

Zheng Bai and Dong Yanyun both raised similar questions about Yan Chujie, but Yan Chujie was full of confidence in this, and just let them watch it with peace of mind. In fact, Haihan had already done a lot of preparatory work before this, not only did he repeatedly test fire and calibrate the firing position, but also carefully calculated the position and solidity of the target, so as to achieve the most ideal shooting effect during the demonstration.

After the artillerymen finished aiming at the position, the starter next to him raised a small red flag indicating readiness. The audience immediately raised their binoculars and stared at the target in the distance, lest they miss a single detail.

Yan Chujie bowed slightly, and the guards beside him immediately raised a small red flag, signaling that they could start shooting. Immediately after a cannon rang out, the audience saw from the field of view of the telescope that the target frame erected at a distance of 800 meters trembled slightly, and it was obvious that it had hit a shot, and the audience suddenly let out a sound of amazement. After all, when the twelve-pounder cannon was fired just now, it took five shells to hit the target, and this was still the operation of the Haihan artillery, and if it was replaced by its own artillery, maybe ten rounds might not be able to hit one of them.

Of course, this may also be due to luck, as long as the cannon is aimed in that direction, isn't it itself possible to hit? If you can hit every shot, then it is really powerful.

The vast majority of the audience soon had such a thought in their hearts, but it is impossible to think about it, although Haihan artillery and artillery are very powerful, how can it be possible to achieve 100 shots at this distance. Even if a blind cat touches a dead mouse, it can't be lucky enough to run into a string of dead rats in a row.

However, the results of the next shooting of the Haihan artillery stunned all of them, and all five shots in a row hit the target, which probably cannot be explained by luck. Either the combat effectiveness of the Haihan artillery is already superb, or the shooting accuracy of this artillery is far better than all the long-range weapons they know. And when you think of the purpose of Haihan's special display of this weapon, the conclusion is self-evident.

The audience was looking forward to seeing how many shots would have to be fired before they missed the target, but unfortunately this wish was not fulfilled, and the gun was fired only five times before the shooting demonstration ended. During the period when the soldiers brought the target back from a distance, Yan Chujie briefly explained the situation about the cannon.

"This cannon is the latest achievement of Haihan's military industry, and as for the accuracy of shooting, everyone has seen it just now. In fact, its effective range is much greater than the distance we have shown today, but this involves military secrets, and it is not convenient for us to directly release specific data to you. Yan Chujie looked at the complicated expressions on the faces of the audience and continued: "This kind of artillery is still in the technical testing stage, so we will not put it in the army in the short term, let alone sell it to the outside world, so you don't have to worry that the appearance of this weapon will affect the existing peace situation in the South China Sea." ”

Yan Chujie's words were naturally very beautiful, but most of the people present could hear the overtones in his words. Even Liu Shang, who does not have a thorough understanding of the international situation in the South China Sea, can understand that half of his words are reassuring, and the other half is threat.

Yan Chujie claimed that this kind of advanced artillery would not be equipped in the Haihan army in the short term, but he probably believed this kind of thing himself. Although what he said is indeed true, with Haihan's operating methods in the field of armaments, the outside world will not believe that Haihan's military will really put this kind of good thing on the shelf and not make full use of it. What's more, this thing has already produced a finished product that can be used in actual combat, and it is not a fantasy thing that stays on paper, Haihan really feels at ease to make it in batches, so I'm afraid it won't be made?

As for Yan Chujie's statement that he would not sell it to the outside world, everyone believed it, after all, Haihan never took out the active weapons of the Haihan Army for sale, not to mention this kind of unheard of, even the Haihan Army's own new artillery has not yet been installed.

And Yan Chujie claimed that the test firing just now did not bring out the true power of this artillery, and how large its effective range is will also be a mystery to the outside world, and if you want to solve this mystery, you can probably only act as an enemy of the Haihan army on the battlefield. As for the various artillery currently listed in various countries, it is probably difficult to match this new type of artillery in terms of accuracy, and the only question is what kind of lethality the new shells used in this kind of artillery will be.

The answer came when the soldiers pulled the target back on a flatbed trailer, and there were five clearly visible perforations on the target, and the edges were relatively smooth, and there were no obvious fragments. However, just now when a twelve-pounder cannon was used to shoot a target of the same material thickness at the same distance, the shell only left a pit on the target, and the difference in power between the two was immediately apparent.

Since it can easily penetrate the iron target at this distance, it has already proved that the effective range claimed by Yan Chujie is not boasting, even if the target is moved farther away, it should have the same breakdown effect. The officers of each family secretly weighed their existing artillery in their hearts, and if they wanted to hit the opponent at this distance, they basically had to follow fate, not to mention that there was no precision lethality at all. If you encounter an opponent equipped with this kind of artillery on the battlefield, plus the other two binoculars and sniper rifles in Haihan's hand, then your own gun position and senior officers will be named one by one.

Even if Liu Shang doesn't know much, but after sitting here and watching for so long, and listening to the discussions of the people next to him, he can already realize the horror of this weapon in actual combat. The huge advantage of the Haihan in terms of weapons can undoubtedly dispel the hidden ambitions of other countries in the region to a large extent, and anyone who wants to make a move against the Haihan must first weigh whether they have enough weight to challenge the powerful Haihan army.

And the horror of the Haihan Army is actually not limited to the part that everyone recognizes, and what is even worse is that no one can imagine how many secret weapons that have never appeared at all hidden in the Haihan arsenal. Is the weapon on display today already Hai Han's entire family background? I'm afraid no one will think so, even Liu Shang thinks that Hai Han must still have some reservations, and the real weapon of Zhenguo probably won't give the outside world a chance to see the real face.

After displaying the results of artillery target shooting, Yan Chujie announced that the content of today's military exercise would end here, and that he would later invite the guests to board a ship and go to Weizhou Island, which is close to this place, to rest for one night, and then continue the naval exercise tomorrow. Although everyone was slightly disappointed with such an abrupt arrangement, there was a faint hint of inexplicable joy in their hearts, perhaps because Haihan did not come up with more new weapons to display, and finally kept his mentality from collapsing.

However, the few field artillery pieces displayed just now did attract the attention of the vast majority of guests who were tasked with military procurement, and as soon as Yan Chujie's words fell, several people had already surrounded him and asked him about the sale of relevant weapons. These people have been dealing with Haihan for many years, and they all know that this kind of military purchase order is slow step by step, and it is best to place an order in front of it so that they can get a relatively early delivery date. Even if Haihan still wants to engage in the trick of limited bidding, he must first understand it clearly, and then plan how to arrange his own bidding strategy.

It was the first time for Liu Shang to see such a scene, the title of the No. 1 arms dealer in the South China Sea was indeed well deserved, and the high price of Haihan artillery was notoriously, but so many countries still flocked to it, presumably it also made the Haihan people make a lot of money from it. Although he didn't know people, several of them were obviously dressed in the service of the Ming gentry, and most of them were from Liangguang, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places where the Haihan had already set foot in. And there are several other blonde and blue-eyed Westerners in the middle, and it seems that Haihan's arms are not just sold in the South China Sea.

On such an occasion, Liu Shang's status is humble, so naturally he can't get over, so he can only watch from afar. However, soon Yu Xiaobao asked everyone in the inspection team to gather and leave the exercise ground to return to the ship. These arms purchase and trade negotiations will involve some international affairs and Haihan's foreign attitude, and Yu Xiaobao does not want his gang to pay attention to such information that is not related to the current work.

Liu Shang really wanted to stay and watch the scene of the military attachés bargaining with Yan Chujie, but he couldn't disobey Xiaobao's instructions, so he could only honestly follow the team back to the ship. The patrol team also arranged the same arrangement as the others, first taking a boat to the nearby Weizhou Island for the night.

Weizhou Island has been included in the jurisdiction of the Central Dynasty in the Han Dynasty, and during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Weizhou Island immigrated from Leizhou to the island for reclamation, and it was originally the jurisdiction of Lianzhou Hepu County, which became the place under the dual jurisdiction of Leizhou and Lianzhou. But because of this, and because there was nothing special on the island, the island, which was only twenty nautical miles from the mainland coastline, quickly became an abandoned place that no one wanted to take care of.

When Haihan took over a few years ago, the Lianzhou Mansion and the Leizhou Mansion pretended not to know about the change of sovereignty over Weizhou Island, and they didn't even ask Haihan for an explanation. The residents of the island did not have much resistance to the arrival of the Haihan people, because before that, most of the island's residents had been hired by the Haihan merchant ships that traveled between Hainan Island and the coast of Guangxi, and many of them had gone to Danzhou and other places with the ship to see the "peaceful and prosperous era" under the rule of the Executive Committee, and there was no lack of precedent for changing the court and naturalizing the Haihan. After dealing with and expelling a handful of recalcitrant landlords, Weizhou Island and the neighboring island of Xieyang were placed under the Danzhou Administrative Committee and became part of the legal territory of Haihan.

As the largest island off the coast of Guangxi, Weizhou Island does not have much value for agricultural development, and its traditional industries are fishing and related basic handicrafts such as shipbuilding and net weaving. After Haihan took over here, he did not try to carry out large-scale renovation and development here, but only used it as a logistics base for Xieyang Island. In addition to all kinds of shooting ranges and large and small arms depots on Xieyang Island, there are only barracks for the troops stationed on the island, so Yan Chujie can only arrange for the guests visiting the military exercise to stay on Weizhou Island for one night. Although the accommodation on the island is also very basic, it is better than a night at sea.

The living conditions here are far worse than the previous stops that the patrol team has visited, and although there is still no shortage of seafood on the table, the recipe is mainly boiled, not as rich as the Haihan dishes eaten in the town.

The amount of information that Liu Shang was exposed to on this day was too great to digest for a while, which also caused him to have little appetite to enjoy seafood. He really wanted to discuss with Yu Xiaobao and Lu Ting about the weapons he saw today, but the hateful Zhang Qianzhi appeared at the dinner table at this time to have dinner with them, so Liu Shang had to dispel his original thoughts and obediently shut his mouth to eat.

Regarding the content of the next day's military exercise, the accompanying officers did not reveal much information to them, and Liu Shang was too lazy to guess at the moment, because he found that Haihan had mastered far more than he imagined, and he didn't know much about military affairs, so most of his guesses were in vain. Tomorrow, everything will be revealed.

The next day, everyone still got up early and had breakfast, and then took a boat out to sea again. Yesterday, the military's combat fleet was all docked on the side of Xieyang Island, so it took some time for the ships on which the guests were traveling to rejoin the fleet after going to sea.

Only then did the accompanying officers reveal to them the content of today's exercise, which was to simulate an attack on enemy ships at sea. Liu Shangxin said in his heart: With the intensity of artillery fire that was used in yesterday's attack on the port, how many ships in this world can withstand a round of shelling by this fleet? If a few wooden target ships are dragged out to fight, I am afraid that they will be sunk and finished in three or two blows.

However, it turns out that Liu Shang is overthinking, and what he can think of, Haihan has naturally thought of it. The Haihan Navy did not set up target ships on the sea, but painted several eye-catching targets with paint on the steep shores of Xieyang Island. At first glance, this may seem like the same as yesterday's assault on the Haihan fortress, but today's shooting requirements are different, each ship must complete the fire hit of all targets by the ship's guns individually, and the time limit is limited, and the shortest time is preferred. If there is a missed target during the shooting, the corresponding time is added to the final timing result as a penalty.

(End of chapter)