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Chapter 434 The United Kingdom Plays the French Card (Second Update, please subscribe)
Military weapon!

There has never been any kind of gun that has been so admired. In a naval or river battle in Paraná, the performance of the 68-type 20mm Gatling cannon simply blinded everyone's eyes.

In this era of retreating guns with a rate of fire of only 1 to 3 rounds per minute, the rate of fire of the hand-cranked Gatling cannon is as high as 150 to 200 rounds. Although the 20mm shells are not powerful, they are used to fight The wooden hull boat is definitely handy.

Because of this, after the Paraná naval battle, after realizing the amazing power of the Gatling cannon, the Navy immediately placed a new order with the arsenal to develop a more powerful Gatling cannon.The caliber is about 40 mm, the range is 2500 meters, and it can penetrate 300 mm to 40 mm thick steel plates at a distance of 50 meters...

Although the requirements put forward by the navy seem to be very harsh, everyone knows what changes such weapons will bring to naval warfare once they appear on the sea.

In fact, after the Parana water battle, the Type 68 Gatling machine gun became famous in the first battle. Nanhua's big gunboat attracted the attention of navies of various countries almost immediately.

"Its speed is extremely fast. It is said that it can reach more than 20 knots. The speed itself is its weapon. This kind of high-speed boat is very difficult to hit. Even if it is hit with a shotgun, it is difficult to cause a fatal blow. But it also has an extremely deadly weapon - the Gatling cannon!"

"We have reason to believe that Nanhua's Gatling cannon has a caliber of about 20mm, and its shell should weigh more than 150 grams. Source!"

"With the help of the released Brazilian naval officer, we learned that this large shell uses a percussion fuze, which can easily blow up a gap the size of a book under a wooden warship. The most deadly is , it can fire hundreds of shells in one minute!"

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Almost immediately, naval attaches stationed in Brazil or Buenos Aires from Britain, France and other countries learned about this weak artillery through various channels.

They understand it is okay!

In 1870, the total tonnage of the Royal Navy ships was 63 tons, but the unarmored ships were as little as 30 tons.The French Navy has 45.7 tons of ships without ships, half of which are non-armored ships.As for the Russian Navy, less than 80% of its warships are unarmored.

What is an unarmored ship?

Well, it's a wooden warship.

The Paraná naval battle proved that wooden warships are vulnerable to Gatling cannons!

However, the navies of various countries do not have a small number of wooden warships, as many as half, and as few as [-] to [-]%. How can they care about this kind of "undersea assassin" who can easily send wooden warships back to the bottom of the sea?

In those naval yearbooks in Europe, when a small amount of text was used to describe that magical weapon, the naval attachés of European countries in Nanhua.There is an effort to learn about that weapon through various channels.

Of course, it would be better if you can buy that kind of weapon.However, this is clearly possible.How can it be easy to show off a military weapon?
Philip's Restaurant in Buenos Aires is a low-end French restaurant. The officials of the small embassy have always been regular customers here. After all, the British and French small embassies are far away, and this is where the private affairs of diplomatic officials of the two countries are located. A place for external communication.

"Want to taste the wine of failure?"

Yan Yi looked at the menu and asked.

"I heard that it is the spirit that South China people hate the most."

"Still drinking red wine, the taste of failed wine is much worse than cheap corn whiskey, and it is difficult for Europeans to adapt to that taste."

Yan Yi shook her head and said that he once tasted that kind of wine at the reception held by the South China Army, until now he wanted to understand why the South China people would hate that kind of strong wine.

Although they represent two countries respectively, when they are sitting at the dinner table and chatting, they are like friends. In fact, they are really friends, and their status as soldiers does not hinder their friendship.

Marty craned his neck to look out before he finished ordering, then he said.

"Bell, you must have come to me this time for that thing!"

"That's for sure. We all know that it, like a spaceship, has fundamentally changed the rules of warfare. Of course, it may have no effect on armored ships, but both the Royal Navy and the French Navy have There are not a small number of wooden warships, especially in other countries."

"It's true. Before the appearance of the armored ship, all the wooden-hulled ships became obsolete overnight, but before it came out, all the wooden-hulled ships were eliminated!"

Yan Yi repeatedly nodded in agreement.At this moment the waiter brought over the wine and poured it for them.They toasted each other and sipped the wine, and Bell gave him a serious look.

"I asked you to come this time. In fact, you also know what I think. I hope that we can jointly make a request to Nanhua,"

Bell continued,

"We can all make it, but we're all very vague. They only have a new type of fuze for large shells, and they have some kind of weaker explosive."

As the British naval attache in Buenos Aires, Bell made this judgment based entirely on some kind of guesswork.

"We all know that Nanhua's chemical industry is very developed. As early as ten years later, they have produced new explosives. It is very unusual to be able to produce new explosives now."

Marty ate his steak, then went on.

"However, we all know that this is just speculation! They are very secretive!"

"Yes, Nanhua is a place that pays attention to secrecy. I have been to that place. In that place, they will only show you what they let you see. You know the rest. What is it called? Even you I want to understand through some people, and I also understand that the level of confidentiality? Is this what you mean? It means that everyone can have access to those secrets, just like airships. Even if we purchase airships, we can send our engineers Supervising manufacturing is also because of the level of confidentiality, at least you can only understand the degree of degradation."

While complaining about Nanhua's secrecy system, Bell was complaining in his heart. Originally, according to the practice of various countries, before customizing weapons, people could be sent to the factory to observe the manufacturing process. The side is the same.It's just for you to see.

At least it is to visit several times after inviting the buyer during the manufacturing period, that is, to see the manufacturing progress of the ordered airship.

As far as visiting other places is simply possible.Of course, what is the manufacturing process and what is the supervision of the whole process, that is also a matter of shadow.

"But yes, it's the same for us."

In this regard, Nanhua is still very fair, regardless of whether it treats the French or the British equally.

"However, you can easily buy what you need from them!"

Bell couldn't help complaining.Compared with France, their awareness of prevention against the United Kingdom is weaker.Few things are shared with Britain at all.

"Yes,"

Marty leaned against the chair, the chair was very comfortable, and he looked at Bell with a smile on his face and said.

"After all, we're closer to them."

"So, I want to ask you a favor."

Bell looked at him and said,
"You know, we all need that guy, but you can get it more difficult, I hope, before you get it, you can share some with us, of course, I will definitely repay your friendship, after all, this is For our friendship."

When saying the word "friendship", Bell deliberately emphasized his tone.Ren is very vague as to what his friendship refers to.

"Is it for our friendship?"

Yan Yi said with a smile.

"Yes, how much do you think our friendship is worth?"

Everyone is realistic, and Marty is no exception.Afraid he was a French officer, but so what?He also felt that it was no small thing to sell some things. Besides, this was not to sell some French secrets, but to take out some of the things France bought from Nanhua.

This is not a betrayal of France.At the very least, it's just a betrayal of Shang Nanhua.Of course, this kind of betrayal must be free, and the British must pay for what they get.

"Sixty million pounds!"

Bell directly made an offer that no one could agree to.

"Ten thousand..."

Marty looked at Bell in surprise, and he was silent for a while.just said.

"Yes, but I need time, time to convince the South China people to sell us those weapons."

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