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Chapter 208 The Krupp Cannon (First update, please subscribe)
To build bigger warships, you need bigger guns.

In fact, in the arsenal of Nanhua, large-scale artillery has been manufactured for a long time, and an 11-inch Dahlgren cannon was even cast as early as half a year ago. Foreign trade goods - except for 15700 inland "mosquito gun boats".The Taiping Army ordered as many as 10 at a time for use in forts in Nanjing and other places.

At the end of 1863, under the scorching sun in midsummer, on the Nanhua Bay Fort, on the steel sliding gun mount, a giant gun with a black and shiny body pointed directly at the sea.

Staring at the 10-inch cannon with multiple layers of casing, Zhu Xianhai looked a little complacent.

"Okay, from now on, the Nanhua Arsenal will be called... the Krupp Arsenal!"

The reason why it is called Krupp, but not Bo, is because the gun body of this gun uses a Krupp-style multi-layer sleeve-type gun body, but unlike the famous Krupp cannon, it does not use a horizontal gun. Type slider breech block, but switch to partition screw breech bolt.

This mushroom head type partition threaded breech breech invented by the French officer Du Turtledove has superior tightness. It has an intermittent screw locking mechanism at the rear, an annular oil-impregnated asbestos pad that seals the breech, and a circular movable "nose" at the front. cone".When fired, the steel nose was driven backwards under the pressure of the gunpowder, compressing the asbestos pad, squeezing it and causing it to expand outward to seal the breech.Thereby solving the problem of air leakage in the breech.

"let's start!"

With an order, the gunner of the 110-pound Armstrong gun and the gunner of the ten-inch cannon got busy at the same time. When the Armstrong gunner put on the hammer and smashed the breech bolt of the gun, and then twisted the screw bolt of the Armstrong gun with all his strength.

The 10" gunner simply lifts the handle mounted vertically on the right side of the breech.When the handle is raised, it operates a cam that forces the breech to rotate counterclockwise, unlocking the interrupted threads.Then the gunner used the same handle to pull the entire breech back, and the partition screw bolt was pulled to the left, revealing the black hole of the breech.

"My lord, this gun is amazing. The Armstrong cannon needs to be screwed more than a dozen turns to remove the bolt, but it only needs half a turn to open the bolt, and then it can be rotated so that it does not interfere with the loading. The position of the ammunition... You see, the albino gun has not yet been reloaded."

Ding Wentao said excitedly, pointing at the 10-inch cannon.

"Last time, if we used this kind of giant cannon, the Argentines would have no chance of escaping at all. They could fire at least two shells a minute! It's a pity that we only have such a good cannon until now."

Neither the Albanian gun nor the new type of artillery has a retreating structure. They are all sliding gun mounts. Although it is a bit primitive, until the 1890s, naval guns and shore guns did not have retreating mechanisms.

"It's not a pity, you know, all countries in the world are still using muzzle-loading guns? I heard that the British ordered the re-development of muzzle-loading guns because Armstrong's cannons were easy to blow up. Yes, we are alone."

Faced with the problem that the Armstrong cannons were easy to explode, the British were so clever that they thought it was caused by the rear-loading guns, so they directly reversed the car-manufactured a large number of front-mounted Armstrong cannons, and even made a A 450-ton Armstrong heavy gun with a caliber of [-] mm was launched.

British!

It was not until 1880 that the Armstrong gun was improved through the introduction of the partition threaded breech breech technology created by France, making rapid loading possible, and the British army once again equipped the breech-loading gun in the army.

This kind of history is driven backwards... OK!
With a "boom", accompanied by the deafening roar of the 500-inch cannon, the [-]-pound shell roared out of the muzzle. Ten seconds later, a huge water column exploded on the sea eight or nine kilometers away.

Looking at the water column rising from the sea, Zhu Xianhai couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief. From now on, he no longer has to worry about threats from the sea!

With such a giant cannon, all warships today, even ironclad ships, are useless in front of it.

"Well, inform the arsenal, the 10-inch shore gun, let's finalize it..."

After thinking about it, Zhu Xianhai said.

"It's called the 1864-style 10-inch breech-loading rifle. In the future, the arsenal will also be renamed "Krud Arsenal."

Although Krupp has no uncle!
As soon as Zhu Xianhai's words fell, someone stood up and flattered him immediately.

"Oh, Marshal, this name sounds auspicious. It is also a barbarian, but not only this gun is specially designed for the Krupp to suppress the barbarians. In the future, the guns we will use will be specially used for the Krupp to suppress the barbarians. I have this in Da Nanhua Divine weapon, why not become a king and overlord in South America..."

It wasn't Fang Zhanbo who was flattering. Now that kid is leading Nanhua's "new house construction", he has no time to follow the lord and flatter him at any time.

The flattering Liu Baoyuan was also born in Zuo Zongtang's shogunate. Although he was born in donated, he is quite talented.It has to be said that Zuo Zongtang's accidental capture not only made Zhu Xianhai a capable minister, but also many of the captured staff were quite talented, otherwise they would not have entered his shogunate, no, in his shogunate There is Lin Congyi, the son of Lin Zexu.It is a pity that the kid was preparing food and grass for him in other places at that time.

Unfortunately not.

"Come here, give the Lord a name and take a picture!"

In the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, flattery is the basic rule. Although he failed to become an official, Liu Baoyuan was also a good hand, and even learned to flatter in a more modern way.

One of them is photography.

And the glass dry-plate camera with a wooden case carried by the photographer is even a “domestic product”—it is an imitation of the dry-plate camera that Zhu Xianhai bought from the system mall. In 1871, the British doctor Mardux successfully developed the glass dry plate. A few years later, through the improvement of others, by heating the gelatin bromide, the photosensitive speed of silver bromide was increased, and the exposure time of the glass dry plate was greatly shortened. , requiring only a fraction of a second to complete the exposure.And the method for making glass dry plates with this technology is also very suitable for industrialized production.

Although this kind of dry plate camera and glass dry plate are just beginning to be imitated, Nanhua has established "Phoenix Camera Company" to invest in research and development and manufacture of glass dry plate and dry plate camera.

Although it is under development, Liu Baoyuan is keenly aware of the benefits of the "Phoenix Camera". Every time he follows the lord, he will take a few photos. According to him, it is to let future generations remember the heroic appearance of the lord.

Of course, Zhu Xianhai enjoyed it quite a bit. After taking a picture of "Traveling Here" with Da Pao while traveling to future generations, he pointed to the Pao Gunners and said.

"Everyone come, let's take a picture together!"

When the hundreds of officers and soldiers on the fort heard the news, they were all overjoyed. They crowded around the gun mount and took a group photo with the Krupp 10-inch cannon as the background.

Of course, in the end, Zhu Xianhai did not forget to order the photographer to give each officer and soldier a photo—even with the extremely cumbersome wet plate photography, an unlimited number of permanent photos can be printed on albumen photo paper.

In this regard, the officers and soldiers immediately shouted "Long live".

After all, taking pictures is an extremely extravagant thing, and taking pictures with the emperor Laozi is not only a matter of honoring the ancestors, but even when you are old, you can tell your children and grandchildren for a lifetime...

(End of this chapter)