Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

In the dark night, the Qing army retreated, a large amount of ammunition was dropped, and almost all the tents were discarded. At dawn, Lin Yuan led the Qing army back to Zhangyi Station, counted the number of people, and found that there were more than 100 people. People were killed in the shelling and more than 300 people were injured. This was also the biggest defeat since the Dingwu Army set off.

Lin Yuan originally wanted to use the Dingwu Army as a suspicious army to feign an attack, and secretly went to the Kaizi Army and the Tiezi Army, but in this way, he couldn't leave. After the failure, the coach left, which was a fatal blow to the army's morale .

What worries Lin Yuan even more is the artillery used by the Japanese army in night bombardment. The rate of fire of this artillery is likely to be 25 rounds per minute, which is three times the rate of fire of the original Japanese artillery!And the range and power are much higher than the previous artillery!

A thermal imaging picture taken by a drone was placed in front of Lin Yuan. From the picture, he could clearly see that the Japanese army used only twenty artillery shells last night, and the number of shells delivered by the twenty artillery pieces was Due to the increased rate of fire, it is equivalent to sixty artillery pieces.

How did the Japanese increase the rate of fire of their artillery?Lin Yuan remembered the kind of forward-shooting artillery that he deliberately asked Luo Chaoying to talk about at that time, that is, the barrel of the gun rushes forward for a section before firing to offset part of the recoil momentum, so that the artillery can achieve a much higher rate of fire than before. However, the development of this kind of artillery is very difficult. Is it possible for the Japanese to develop it?

After thinking about it, Lin Yuan contacted Luo Chaoying from the Tianjin Machinery Bureau. He asked, "Old Luo, now the Japanese have developed a new type of artillery with a rate of fire three times that of the original one. What do you think is going on?"

Without even thinking about it, Luo Chaoying said, "Then they must have come up with a pneumatic liquid recoil system."

Lin Yuan asked: "What is that?"

Luo Chaoying said: "At the beginning, the artillery was a rigid gun mount, and it had to be re-aimed after firing a shot. Later, a simple elastic gun mount appeared, but the rate of fire was limited. In our era, in 1897, France developed An epoch-making cannon, m1897, was released. This kind of cannon was equipped with a gas-hydraulic anti-recoil system. Since then, until the 21st century, although there are still improvements in various parts, the general structure is similar to that of the m1897. With this system, the rate of fire of this gun has reached 25 rounds per minute, which is three times that of the original gun."

"The so-called gas-hydraulic anti-recoil system, simply put, is that there is a rod on the barrel of the gun, and the rod recoils with the barrel. Yes, the barrel is filled with gas or liquid. When the gun barrel recoils, the rod moves in the barrel. However, if there is gas or liquid in the barrel, it can block the rod, which is equivalent to blocking the barrel. This has the effect of anti-recoil, and the principle of the re-entry machine is similar to this."

Luo Chaoying went on to say: "I think the Japanese army's method of increasing the rate of fire of artillery is just like this. As for other anti-recoil methods, such as curved recoil, forward barrel, etc., the technology is very difficult, and it is very difficult to do in our era. Come out, I don’t think the Japanese can do it.”

After Luo Chaoying's explanation, Lin Yuan also understood, but he still has a question in his mind, isn't this technology developed by the French?How did it get into the hands of the Japanese? Could it be that the French are also secretly helping the Japanese?

Lin Yuan's guess was correct. It turned out that when Ito Hirobumi was visiting Western countries, in order to obtain more assistance, he revealed the photos of the aircraft carrier to Western countries. Research and development, France is no exception. The focus of the French national defense strategy has always been the land direction, especially the neighboring Germany.

France and Germany have fought more than 1000 wars over the past 200 years since the Frankish Kingdom was divided into three until World War II. At this time, France had just lost the Franco-Prussian War and ceded Alsace and Lorraine Therefore, the great French writer Daudet wrote the famous "Last Lesson" through the ages.

So France developed the M1897 75mm artillery two years in advance, and affectionately called it "Miss 75". In order to test its combat effectiveness, it sold 50 of them to the Japanese at a price of 25 francs each. He left five doors for imitation research, and put the remaining [-] doors into the battlefield.

In the era of Lin Yuan, the French regarded this kind of artillery as a killer weapon and kept it secret until the Germans knew about the existence of this kind of artillery. Now, the French are obviously not satisfied with the power of this kind of artillery , So they secretly set up a variety of weapons, so they sold this artillery to the Japanese.

After thinking about it, Lin Yuan suddenly slapped the table and said, "Not good! I missed a key point!" He suddenly thought that he had put all his energy on the principle of increasing the rate of fire, but ignored one point: the unknown Originally there was no artillery on the high ground, but the Japanese transported [-] artillery pieces up overnight, which shows that this kind of artillery is very convenient to transport. In this way, it is entirely possible for the Japanese army to use this kind of artillery to launch a counterattack against Zhangyi Station !

At this moment, a soldier came to report: "Commander Lin, the Japanese counterattacked our first defensive position. Their artillery fire was so fierce that we couldn't breathe!"

Lin Yuan hurriedly led his men to the defensive position, and from a distance he heard the sound of cannons like raindrops. When Lin Yuan entered the trench, Liu Biao hurried over and said, "Why do you..."

Before Liu Biao finished speaking, Lin Yuan interrupted him and said, "How about the casualties?"

Liu Biao said: "The devil's artillery is too fierce. There are already hundreds of brothers casualties."

Lin Yuan saw the soldiers of the Qing army in the trenches, all of them were ashamed, as if they had been fished out of the mud. Many people dressed as civilians carried the door panels and carried the wounded, who were covered in blood and had missing arms and legs.

Liu Biao waved his hand and said, "Which one is not afraid of death? Go and copy the devil's artillery positions with me!" The Dingwu army had never fought such a useless battle since they set foot on the battlefield. At these words, several whistle chiefs responded loudly!

Lin Yuan frowned and said, "Do you know where the artillery positions of the Japanese army are? I just want to copy them!"

Liu Biao pointed to the northeast direction with his hand and said, "That's where the shells came from."

The Japanese army in front of Lin Yuan's position, who was about to charge, said: "Look at the formation of the devils, how far you have to go around to reach their artillery positions. When you arrive, our positions may be completely occupied by the devils!"

At this moment, the sound of artillery stopped, and the Japanese army in the distance pulled the skirmisher line, and at a distance of 200 meters, they braved their waists and walked quickly towards the Qing army's position.

Prepare at 200 meters and charge at 100 meters. This is a common method used by various countries to attack positions. The Japanese army fired while marching. The Japanese army’s shooting skills are excellent. go down.

Liu Biao asked anxiously, "Shuai Lin, what should we do?"

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said firmly: "Order all the soldiers in the first defensive circle to retreat to the second defensive circle."

Seeing that Lin Yuan was so resolute, Liu Biao had no choice but to send the order. Lin Yuan turned on the communicator and thought, "It's time to call for an air strike."