Lu Ming

Chapter 125 The Treasure of the Town House
The Italian cannon in "Bright Sword" is not actually made in Italy, it is a standard French Miss 75.During the First World War, France half-sold and half-sent a group of 75 ladies to Italy to fight against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. However, the romantic Italians looked down on the French ladies, so they were kept in the warehouse.After World War II, Italy gave the ladies to the book, and finally these girls were used in the Chinese battlefield. One of the girls was captured by the second battalion commander. Therefore, the tattoos on the girls are in French, not Italian.

Today, the cannon standing on the playground of the Dayuan Commercial Building is made in Italy, and the cannon is engraved with Italian codes.This is a son of Bofors Italian descendants, more brutal than its parents, the full name is "Bofors L/70 40mm anti-aircraft gun".

The first Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun was successfully designed in 1933. Just in time for World War II, it became popular all over the world. At that time, the United States alone copied 6 guns.

However, after more than 20 years, the former star has become old, so Bofors began to develop an upgraded version of the 70mm gun in the 40s; the final product began to equip the army in the late 70s, and was gradually adopted by some countries. Imitation, which includes Italy.

Therefore, the shiny silver-gray door in front of me, the brand new Bofors, which has never been fired, is actually a person born in the 90s—an old gun that has been out of the factory for more than 20 years.

After the Italians obtained authorization in the late 80s, they successively built many new versions of Bofors to arm their own destroyers.However, time is passing by, and more than 20 years have passed by accident. Even on the boat of the soil turtle, there are fake phalanxes and sea sparrows playing. Therefore, the imitation Bofors of various countries lost their jobs again.
The obsolete ones were sold to some low-intensity conflict areas by arms dealers. During this process, a local tyrant surnamed Cao didn’t want to deal with the British and American emperors, and he didn’t have confidence in Yinsan’s products, so he bought a few Italians for fun. Anyway, Otto Melara is also a veteran artillery company.

The original Bofors has a caliber of 60 times, while the upgraded version in front of it has a caliber of 70 times. The barrel length is 2.8 meters, which coincides with the length of Cao Chuan's space.This gun has an effective range of 3.7 kilometers and a maximum flat shot of 12.5 kilometers. It can be called the daddy of the 17th century. Please note that 3.7 kilometers refers to the huge sailing warship with almost zero speed relative to the aircraft. , then within 10 kilometers, once the sailboat is caught by the photoelectric sighting system attached to the Italian gun, it will be unimaginable.

Chairman Cao brought a total of two boxes this time, one of which contained the bases of two Italian guns, barrels, some spare parts and ammunition; the other box was full of 40mm high-explosive incendiary bombs—the only Those who need to invite Italian masters must be sailing boats, and this is the most powerful one for wood shells, and no other ammunition is needed.

Of these two single-barreled Italian cannons, one will be placed on the fort at the northwest corner of the commercial hall. It can completely control Jiangneihai, Dayuanwaihai and even the Chikan coast.In a few days, after the old commercial building is demolished, a gun tower will be built in the dock area to suppress the situation.

The other door will be arranged in the future imperial city, forming a crossfire with the gun tower.Cao Chuan still has two spare tires in Africa’s warehouse. After the crossing forces can produce diesel, there will be two propeller-powered capital ships equipped with Italian guns, as a magic weapon to suppress luck and protect the crossing industrial empires.

Taoist Duobao, Cao Chuan, was sitting triumphantly on the playground, surrounded by many people, and several army and navy leaders were trying their best to praise the Great Immortal.However, when the phrases of howitzer and six-barreled cannon came out of these people's mouths one after another, Taoist Duobao immediately knelt down.

Cao Dong, who was getting more and more wrong the more he listened, stood up quickly at this moment, with one palm upright: "Stop, stop, let me tell you, are you pretending that I am buying spicy sticks in the supermarket?"

Glancing left and right, Cao Chuan said angrily: "Let's put it this way, in the CIA's supercomputer, I must be on the list now, but the priority is not high. Anyone who buys so many weapons will be punished." People build files, which arms dealers have no organization behind them these days? Don’t think that they can find out after changing hands several times, but they can’t be bothered to check me because there are so many old-fashioned weapons.”

"Now everyone is on their feet." Cao Chuan said solemnly: "Let me announce here: In the future, I will not buy anti-thief special items like RPG, including guns and heavy machine guns. At most, I will buy light weapons and ammunition , take it easy and use it, if you want a howitzer, you can rely on yourself, I will see if I can find some blueprints for you."

The military chiefs of Delong Wangshu got a little turtle this time, and went back to play with their new toys in despair.The original Italian cannon, the entire system weighed a full 5 tons, and a force that was extremely short of import quotas naturally did not need such a complete mechanism.

The first thing to be canceled is the heavy "X" type gun bed. According to the design, this gun is towed and maneuvered by a car. When it is in combat, it is like a tank in the interstellar. support.Now the cannon bed and the tires on the four corners are left in Africa: it is not necessary for the cross-travelers to maneuver, just hold the town house there.

The second thing to cancel is the heavy gun mantlet: if one day the red cannon on a certain sailing ship can fire iron balls from several kilometers away and threaten the fort, it will not be too late to temporarily install self-produced iron plates.

The third cancellation is the motor assist system and radar fire control.The cool quadruple-mounted anti-aircraft guns in the movie would not appear in the 17th century, and the time travelers are very sure: their opponents will not have Zero Type.So, just use the manual wheel to adjust the parameters of the muzzle slowly. In addition, the electric shock is an evil way, and we don’t need it either. The pedal trigger has passed the test of history and is stable. Just use it. Don’t worry, there is plenty of time.
Imagine that it takes an hour for a sailing warship to travel from 4 kilometers away to the sea off Dayuan at a standard speed of 7 knots.At this time, the gunner went to take a nap, and within 2 minutes after getting up, he could lock the incoming ship.

Then fire the cannon and shoot it one, two or three times. If the sailboat is lucky enough not to sink or be burned through by the fire caused by the high-energy explosives, then it must be turning around with difficulty—when the tactical action is completed, the gunner finishes his coffee and draws a cigarette After Yan went to WC, he returned to the gun position, and the sailboat Chrysanthemum was targeted again.
Well, this is indeed the war of the 17th century, the pace is so slow, and the war is usually calculated in "months".

After all the weight reduction work was completed, the total weight of the core combat components left by the Italian artillery was only 1.6 tons, so the next morning, there was a roar on Dayuan Island, with the commercial hall as the center, and the surrounding areas were bombed regardless of land or sea. —The gunner began to measure the firing table.

(End of this chapter)