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Liu Mingqi is a very pragmatic person.
Scientists are generally very pragmatic, while liars talk eloquently.
For example, in the 1980s and 1990s, for the famous "hydration oil" scam, the most profound scholar was Uncle Zheng, the fairy tale king, who cheered for it, not to mention those officials, scholars, and entrepreneurs.
Precisely because of pragmatism, what Liu Mingqi wants to make is not a tall Armstrong cannon, but a very traditional front-loading smoothbore cannon!
Yes.
It is a front-loading smoothbore gun.
From a modern perspective, front-loading smoothbore guns are garbage.
Not only is it very troublesome to launch, for example, after each launch, a cloth broom must be used to clean out the gunpowder residue inside, and then the explosives and projectiles can be loaded again and launched.
And the key is that its power is too small!
This front-loading smoothbore gun usually has solid bullets, blooming bullets, shotgun shells, shrapnel shells, etc.
But because the power of the front-loaded smoothbore cannon is insufficient, that is, the propelling force of the gunpowder is not enough, so if it is to launch a strike from a long distance, it can only rely on solid bullets-that is, iron balls!
The boy created the front-loading smoothbore cannon, of course for maritime combat.
Maritime operations are generally long-range operations, and often if you want to attack other people¡¯s fleets, they will run away.
This inherently requires a long-range attack weapon.
At this time, in this era, in the era of front-loading smoothbore guns, solid bullets are really the most practical.
The greatest destructive power of solid bullets comes from the crushing and impact of the iron ball, rather than the "boom" explosion we imagined in the TV series.
It can be said that this method of killing enemies is very primitive and not modern at all.
Then the accuracy of the front-loading smoothbore gun is not high.
It¡¯s a little better on land. For example, when you¡¯re at sea, because of the turbulence of the ship and the distance, if you can hit an enemy ship with one shot out of twenty, you¡¯re lucky.
Otherwise, why do you think that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Great Britain's gunboats had thirty, forty, sixty or seventy cannons on each side?
It all depends on quantity to win.
They were all happy if one shell in one salvo hit an enemy ship.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? out of World War II when gunboats had developed to a terrifying level, when the Americans and Japanese pirates were fighting a decisive battle in the Pacific, if one out of ten guns could hit the enemy, it would be God's blessing.
What was the solution in the end?
Isn¡¯t it just a matter of approaching the enemy ship by airplane, dropping bombs and firing machine gun bullets?
So you see, this is the most important reason why aircraft carriers are the most threatening weapon.
Because only the aircraft it carries can accurately hit and sink enemy ships after approaching them in a swarm!
Relying on gunboats alone, both sides will completely use up their artillery shells, and there may not be any major casualties. Then everyone will go back to their homes and find their own mothers.
The biggest reason why the Japanese pirates suffered a disastrous defeat in the life-and-death naval battle in the Pacific was that their carrier-based aircraft were not advanced enough and too many pilots were lost without effective and timely replacement.
Later, even if there was a plane, the pilot flying the plane was a novice, so he was blown up by the US military plane as soon as he got on.
In the end, the Japanese pirates had no air supremacy. Even if their aircraft carriers and battleships were stronger than the U.S. military on the battlefield, they could only be beaten to pieces and ended in a disastrous defeat.
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I¡¯m talking about the Battle of Midway.
Come back to the front.
When we discuss and consider things, we must focus on the present.
Solve the current problem first, and then have a chance to talk about the future.
Even if we know that one day unfriendly aliens will fly over, will you stop living because of this?
Will not.
So the most correct attitude is to take it step by step.
So you can figure out why Liu Mingqi wanted to make a front-loading smoothbore cannon.
The biggest reason is that according to the current status of technological development, even Europeans outside the Strait of Malacca have developed gunboat navies, but their gunboats and cannons are not of high quality.
¡°Otherwise, they would have rushed over and swept across the entire Southeast Asian waters, thus threatening Dakang, wanting to destroy Dakang, and turn the people here into their slaves.
To know.
?Then it generates a huge driving force, pushing out the solid bullets, explosive bullets, etc. in front, to attack the enemy and enemy ships.
When the firing was completed, the soldiers waiting nearby quickly took the cloth sticks and cleaned all the gunpowder residue and other residues inside the gun body.
Next, the previous loading process is repeated and the second round is fired again.
According to legend, the navy that has developed to its extreme and the sun never sets can fire such broadsides five times in five minutes! !
In other European countries during the same time period, the standard is once every five minutes!
It can be seen that after hundreds of years of development, the British Navy was really a bug in that era, and no one can stop it!
Not to mention their most ferocious super gunboat, which can carry seventy artillery pieces on one side!
With so many cannons and such high-speed bombardment, it is simply a mobile super fort. It is completely unimaginable that there was anything more ferocious and invincible than this in that era.
Only later carrier-based aircraft can swoop down from the air and defeat the gunboats, otherwise there will always be no solution.
There is so much nonsense, but it actually has one purpose.
That is to tell everyone that if you want to rely on gunboats to gain hegemony on the sea, it is actually a very long and arduous task.
But because there is a long way to go, Liu Mingqi must prepare early.
"You haven't gone to sea to fight with the enemy and make progress in the battle, how can you talk about future development?"
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Note: After checking the information for a whole day, I am very serious about using the knowledge I have digested to write it. I hope it can be easy to understand for the gentlemen~~~
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