C390 Large-scale Gun for Coastal Defense (1/2)

The Old Max's reminder was correct. Knight Molière was not an stubborn old man who followed the rules. Under his arrangements, the expedition fleet's materials and tactics were the most advanced.

Firstly, these ten Battleships were equipped with cannons when they were in India. Molière, as the close official of the Emperor, searched all the cannons and exploding cannons in the colony.

In that era, sail battleship s were still outdated due to their ideas or costs. Although the new type of rifled cannon had all sorts of technical specifications, it was not fully promoted.

There were only two reasons behind it, one was money, which was easy to understand. Changing equipment required money, just like the Poo War s, it was not that the Austria could not produce beam-gun, but it was because the empire did not allow it.

The other reason was that the metallurgy industry was still not very mature at that time, and the rifling in the muskets could not help but be worn out. This was also an important reason for the disapproval of the traditional militarists.

The vast sea sailed for tens of thousands of miles at a time. The wet salt water was extremely corrosive to metals, and the rifled wire in the rifled cannon was always worn out at the fastest speed. Without the rifled cannon, its reliability was not even comparable to musket's.

It was for this reason that most of the navy in this era, especially the colonial navy, chose the old but reliable musket.

But he never would have thought that Molière was actually a very forward Military experts. Even if there were ten thousand shortcomings with a rifled cannon in his eyes, as long as his firepower, accuracy, and firing range were high, as long as there were these three points, it would be enough.

Molière held high the power of the envoy given to him by the Emperor, arrogantly suppressing the colonial governor and generals, and looted all the muskets in the continent of India. By the time the expedition fleet set sail, half of the cannons in the fleet had already become the most advanced muskets.

Not only that, but the individual weapons of the Marines and Marines had also allowed him to equip them in a big new set. All the soldiers were equipped with after- loading rifles used for the purpose of fighting the barbarians in East Asia, and although their performance was not as good as Mauser's, it was enough to deal with the barbarians in East Asia.

”Maintain a distance of five nautical miles from the coastline …” Focus on the enemy's lookout post at the top of the mountain... ”Knock on the door one by one, dig out the eyes of the enemy and make Ba become blind …”

”Sir!” The standard-bearer quickly spread out Molière's orders, and the various Captain s started to choose their own mountains, whether or not he had dates or not.

Boom! Boom! Boom! The sound of gunfire on the sea was like thunder, the surrounding highlands of Naha Harbor was completely baptized by the gunfire, all the light and dark sentries had suffered a destructive blow this time.

”Damn it!” Damn it! If I knew it earlier, I would have used reinforced concrete to build permanent structures on every mountain! ” Cai Mao angrily shouted at the Shouli City's cannon emplacement.

”Old Max! How far is the enemy fleet from us now? Can we shoot down our cannons? Hurry up and fire. We can't let the enemy continue to blast us away like this. Hurry up and retaliate! ”

Old Max nervously used his binoculars to determine the distance. This was the basic artillery skill, even without a military telescope, they could still use a few fingers to determine the distance between each target.

Old Max was extremely nervous, he was afraid that he would make any mistakes, so at this time, he did not care about being inferior anymore.

”Shut up! This is the gunner, this cannon will listen to my command... ”Those who are noisy, it's still mine if you miss!” The roar from the hot-tempered old black man stopped General Cai Mao from speaking any further.

It was as if the Old Max had completely fallen into his own world, his mouth muttering, ”The one closest to the coastline is a frigate? Five nautical miles from the beach... ”Ten miles from the head cannon emplacement …”

”This distance is too far. Even if the cannons are within reach, the aim is gone …” ”Closer, it would be best to get closer …”

Just as Mai Kesi was hesitating, thick smoke suddenly rose into the air from the south coast. The soldiers inside the cannons were in an uproar. In the direction of the village! Why did the damnable French explode even in the fishing villages!? Mai Kesi, don't forget, you drank wine at the Cai Family Village last month! ”

With a muffled bang, Old Max punched the cannon support, his fist dripping with blood. ”Oh my god, these bunch of bastards who massacred civilians! ”I can't take it anymore …”

”Fire direction of artillery … 7 o'clock …” Shoot up to 45 degrees... Number of Gunpowder Packs Three... Choose Heavy flowering bomb … ”This is our first shot at the battle. In Chinese words, it is a profit market!”

The Chinese artillery soldiers surrounding Old Max were all his disciples, after a few months of intensive training, they had long familiarized themselves with the process of firing the cannons.

The cannons of that era, especially the large caliber shore defense cannons, were basically all fired using ammunition separation method. The heavy bullet was first stuffed into the barrel, and then stuffed into the firing bag which had been meticulously calculated by the gunner.

The military textile cloth bundled the high explosive gunpowder into a round and flat medicine bag. Each medicine bag had a fixed amount of gunpowder inside. How could artillery be considered a highly skilled weapon? Just based on this skill of tying gunpowder, without a year and a half of training, one wouldn't be able to learn this skill.