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Chapter 1598 The hand after the war

Today's pirates can still win again and again through the number of people and the bravery of hand-to-hand combat, but with the gradual development of hot weapons, the bravery under such cold weapons has gradually become useless.

The two sides engaged in a fierce artillery battle even before the ships touched.

Even the artillery battle directly determined the outcome of the two sides' victory, and there was no need for a side-to-side battle at all, and personal bravery became of little use at this time.

On the contrary, precise artillery operation and aiming techniques, coupled with the sophistication of artillery weapons and the rate of fire, have become the key factors in determining naval battles.

The second is the ship, but in the current era of wooden sailing warships, none of the ships on both sides can really resist the attack of the artillery. As long as the artillery hits the ship, it will be a big hole without accident.

Fortunately, they are all solid cannonballs nowadays, and there is no mature technology of flowering shells, otherwise the pirates will soon face a major blow.

Today's flower bombs are still very primitive. They were actually invented in the Ming Dynasty at the very beginning, but the Qing government didn't pay much attention to them.

Even though the development of weapons in the Central Plains has surpassed the world in the development of this kind of flower bomb technology, the development of firearms in the Qing Dynasty has been interrupted, and the technical level has gradually fallen behind. By the time I realized it, I had fallen behind Europe by hundreds of years.

Of course, today's flower bombs have not played a particularly big role because everyone doesn't pay attention to them.

The so-called initial blooming ammunition is to hide gunpowder and other substances in the body of the ammunition, ignite it with a gunpowder rope, and explode after launch, and hurt people with shrapnel. This is the earliest.

There is no so-called stable recessiveness in this kind of flower bomb, and the later flower bombs gradually have stable fuzes.

The gunpowder rope on the hollow shell is actually a delayed fuze, but it is more primitive, similar to burning incense, and the burning speed is more difficult to control.

Nowadays, in naval battles, most of them still use solid bullets, which are solid and easier to build, while blooming bullets are very dangerous if they can't be blown up on the spot.

This requires a very high level of artillery operation skills. In today's naval battles, these pirates Zeng Yunfeng do not despise them, but their operation of artillery battles is indeed at a relatively low level.

It is good enough for the two sides to hit each other's ships with shells. If you have to calculate the distance to estimate the length of the delay lead used by the explosive bomb, it will be even more troublesome.

For this kind of technology, the pirates under Zeng Yunfeng's command at present, he does not expect them to be able to master it, at least they will not be able to master it in a short period of time.

Not to mention now, when Zeng Yunfeng led some Boxers to fight against foreigners, many of them were holding guns and firing them into the sky, not to mention how speechless they were.

The war situation is developing rapidly, but most people have not realized the true importance of flower bombs, especially the damage caused by flower bombs to ships in naval battles is not as exaggerated as imagined. Instead, solid bullets hit ships. , the power produced by the kinetic energy is not weaker than that of the explosive bullet.

In the first half of the 19th century, when the flowering bombs were really used in history, a Frenchman took the lead in making a bombardment cannon.

In the middle of the 19th century, the Russians equipped this artillery to smash the Ottoman wooden warships to pieces.

This was the first stable first battle of explosive bombs at sea, and a reliable fuze was invented to ensure that the shells were launched on a straight trajectory and were not easy to explode.

When it comes to the fuze of shells, we have to mention the various types of fuzes, and the best fuze used in artillery warfare in this era is undoubtedly the impact fuze.

But nowadays, the time-delay fuze made of gunpowder rope not only needs to estimate the time and the flight distance of the shell, but also the waves on the sea, these are difficult to calculate accurately.

Therefore, when the time-delay fuze is used in artillery battles, especially the fuze made of this kind of gunpowder rope, it is indeed very difficult to operate.

It's just that Zeng Yunfeng had to make arrangements for the fuze in advance. Even if it is not used now, it may not be used in the future.

The form of war is constantly changing. The pirate kingdom established by Zeng Yunfeng has just established itself. After the foundation is established, he still has a lot to develop.

Once these things show results, and even grab a lot of benefits, those other countries may surround him like wolves, and they will definitely attack his pirate kingdom.

Even Zeng Yunfeng and the others might be besieged.

The early South America and North America were initially carved up by Portugal and Spain, but now it seems that countries in the world are obviously not happy.

That's why Britain got involved first, and then France.

It's just that it will take a long time for these situations to appear in Zeng Yunfeng's memory, so there is no rush for now.

At present, Zeng Yunfeng wants to stack equipment and accumulate national strength.

Food, population, science and technology, equipment development, and people's education are all on the agenda.

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. This sentence is not just a simple statement.

Everything has to be started little by little, and there is no rush. As far as Zeng Yunfeng has all the industrial technology foundations, don’t mention the industrial technology foundation. Now there is no industry at present, just drill a gun barrel , are all carried out by manpower, at most with some hydraulic assistance.

But even so, the efficiency is terribly low. Thanks to the hard work of these craftsmen, Zeng Yunfeng can still become the most popular arms dealer in various countries.

The development of the military equipment of the White Iron Pirates, one step ahead, will lead step by step.

But we must always walk in front of the nations, otherwise it will be a disaster.

There are often arms races in later generations, but now Zeng Yunfeng wants all countries to carry out an arms race.

Even if they didn't want to fight, Zeng Yunfeng had to pull them to fight, the harder the fight, the better.

Only in this way can the pirate kingdom be safe, otherwise, once they get over it, they will have to covet the pirate kingdom again.

These guys will never have enough to eat, and only if they are frequently caught in the quagmire of war will they not have the energy to come out to do things.

This has also been verified in later generations. Each of these countries has too many good days and is noisy every day.

This kind of temper belongs to those who don't put on the house for a day, and make trouble every day.

Since they hoped to change the situation through war, Zeng Yunfeng gave them this excuse and helper.

But once the war starts, if you want to stop it, then maybe.

For hundreds of years in modern history, war has always surrounded people.

Today's battle, tomorrow's battle, the fight is continuous, not to mention other countries, that is, the war between Ottoman and Russia has experienced a lot.

The two sides fought back and forth around the Crimea area, until the Ottoman Empire was divided up after World War I, and this situation gradually stopped.

But even so, the Crimea region was still frequently caught in the entanglement of wars in later generations.

People, as long as there is a day, there is no day when you don't think about fighting. This is human nature.

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