Opening game, American Tycoon

Chapter 1086 The age of adults has changed (third update, please subscribe)
The Imperial Navy will assist the US Navy in their expansion.

Without him, it's just a threat.

In the past few years, facing the threat of the imperial navy, the United States ended its naval vacation early and started large-scale shipbuilding, trying to surpass the Ming Empire in terms of strength.

After all, the threat of daimyo is something they can never ignore.

Since the "Los Angeles Incident" in 1871, after more than ten years of maritime expansion, the current Navy of the United States of America is indeed far stronger than in history.Although they are still slightly inferior to Da Ming in terms of strength, they are now able to wrestle with Da Ming in Cuba.

Of course, they still harbor a sliver of ambition.Their ambition is to completely surpass Daming.That's why they're proposing an ambitious naval expansion.

When the battleship "Iowa" arrived, the whistle of welcome echoed off the coast of Havana, and the United States fleet welcomed the joining of this cutting-edge warship with its whistle.

When the whistle sounded on the sea off Havana, the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Caribbean Squadron not far away watched the latest and most powerful warship of the United States with complicated expressions.

Li Pingan, who was on the "Rio de Janeiro", had a complicated expression.

"It's the Iowa."

"So Washington's decision was at any cost!"

It has greatly improved the rate of fire of the artillery through the advancement of the gun mount.Compared with the old-fashioned artillery in the past, the main difference is that the cradle and recoil machine are added.And it is this seemingly inconspicuous small improvement that has set off a revolution in artillery technology.Coupled with the use of metal shell casings, the rate of fire of the Imperial Navy's naval guns has increased several times.

"Haha, what's the point of that?"

Daming, who has always been committed to adopting new military technologies, set off another round of technological changes.However, this change has not been known to the outside world.According to the provisions of the Imperial Military Code and the Criminal Law, "those who disclose state secrets shall be sentenced to death", "those who proceed to obtain state secrets for the purpose of leaking shall be sentenced to death or lifelong heavy punishment", etc., and such clauses made Ming Many of the military secrets have been kept until now.

Facing the news brought by Johnson, Stephen Luce frowned.

"That's the start of the war..."

The ten-year naval gun is a series of the Imperial Navy, and it is also a top secret of the Imperial Navy.The biggest difference from the old guns is that they are barrel retreating rapid-fire guns.

"The Americans only see that they have an overwhelming advantage over us in terms of strength. As for the ten-year style... I don't know, and there is no deterrent effect, no deterrence..."

Let Li Pingan shrug his shoulders and say the words of his friends.

The gun body is directly rigidly connected to the gun frame through the gun trunnion, and the recoil force of the artillery firing is completely borne by the gun frame, which is the so-called "backing gun".When shooting, the recoil force will push the upper gun frame to slide down the gun frame, and use "slide slope" to counteract the recoil force.This not only makes the artillery very heavy as a whole, but also causes a large displacement when firing. After firing, the aiming calculation needs to be re-calculated, resulting in a slow rate of fire.Even the artillery will not return to its original position after "climbing the slope", and must be manually operated to return the artillery to its original firing position.

Li Pingan can recognize it even without a telescope. This 11346-ton battleship was built by the U.S. Navy in 1879 in response to the threat of the Youzhou class. Inferior to the Youzhou class, but it is still a powerful warship.

At least in their eyes!

For the United States Navy, which has gathered 5 battleships in Havana, now is undoubtedly their highlight moment. Compared with them, the Caribbean Squadron of the Imperial Navy is simply not mentioned.

"If you want to go to war, they will regret it when the fight starts! At that time, they will know what a dimensionality reduction strike is. Don't they know that the Imperial Navy has never let the world down technically? First Let them live for a few days! When our main fleet arrives, it won't be their turn to fight!"

Relying on the rate of fire which is obviously superior to that of the navies of other countries, the imperial navy undoubtedly has a great advantage in naval battles.It is also because of the sweetness that after the service of the Nanhua, the Imperial Navy put forward a request for the development of a new type of rapid-fire gun. After several years of hard work, the empire successfully developed a 120mm rapid-fire gun in eight years, followed by 150mm, 210mm and 305mm They were all successfully developed ten years ago.

The corners of Li Pingan's lips raised lightly.

"If the Americans don't know that their guns are falling behind, they're only seeing their own advantages -- as they are now."

Ding Xie laughed loudly.

In order to increase the rate of fire of the artillery, on the main and auxiliary guns of the "Nanhua class", the Nanhua Arsenal designed an original hydraulic recoil device. Although it saves the effort of manual reset, it can only fire one shell every 2 minutes.As for the 1mm secondary gun, it is 150 rounds per minute.But even so, with the extremely slow rate of fire of the artillery of various countries, it can still be called a "rapid-fire gun".

"I said crab, how can you boost up other people's aspirations and destroy your own prestige? The naval guns must be accurate first. Besides, don't forget, our naval guns are different from theirs. Our Youzhou class uses ten Year-style naval guns, and they all use old-fashioned recoil guns!"

Pointing to the American fleet in the distance, he said in a rather helpless tone.

Just when the American naval officers and soldiers were triumphantly overwhelmed by the arrival of the "Iowa", they even thought about how to show off the power of the United States on the belly of a Cuban prostitute after landing.

Staring at the huge American fleet, Ding Xie paused,
"They may take military risks at any time!"

In the Imperial Navy, there was never any mention of "pipe retreating guns" or "rapid-firing guns", but the "decade-style naval guns" was always used to refer to them.

On the USS New York, the flagship of the United States Fleet, Johnson, the special envoy of the President, was having a secret meeting with General Stephen Luce. As the special envoy of the President, he came on the USS Iowa with a special mission. .

Ding Xie, who was holding a binoculars, said with emotion when observing the strongest US warship.

"There are two twin 305mm naval guns on the bow and stern, eight 8mm secondary main guns, and six 203mm secondary guns. In terms of firepower alone, it even surpasses our "Youzhou class", although the speed is slow. It's a bit faster, only 6 knots, but with this firepower, it's second to none..."

The main fleet of the empire has not arrived yet, and without a fleet, there is no right to speak. After all, the principle in this world is simple—start with strength.

"No wonder the U.S. Navy hastily put him into service, and at the same time let him go south to help!"

"Yes, at all costs! Even if it is war, if the Ming Empire dares to choose war!"

When it came to the word "dare", Johnson's tone seemed a bit exaggerated.

"Then, we and our allies will tell them with an extreme response—the civilized world will never accept their barbaric expansion!"

Until now they still think they are civilized world, for the current Anglo-Saxons, they have not adapted to a change until now, times have changed...

(End of this chapter)