Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

The Old Max's reminder was correct. Knight Molière was not an stubborn old man who followed the rules. Under his arrangements, the expedition fleet's materials and tactics were the most advanced.

Firstly, these ten Battleships were equipped with cannons when they were in India. Molière, as the close official of the Emperor, searched all the cannons and exploding cannons in the colony.

In that era, sail battleship s were still outdated due to their ideas or costs. Although the new type of rifled cannon had all sorts of technical specifications, it was not fully promoted.

There were only two reasons behind it, one was money, which was easy to understand. Changing equipment required money, just like the Poo War s, it was not that the Austria could not produce beam-gun, but it was because the empire did not allow it.

The other reason was that the metallurgy industry was still not very mature at that time, and the rifling in the muskets could not help but be worn out. This was also an important reason for the disapproval of the traditional militarists.

The vast sea sailed for tens of thousands of miles at a time. The wet salt water was extremely corrosive to metals, and the rifled wire in the rifled cannon was always worn out at the fastest speed. Without the rifled cannon, its reliability was not even comparable to musket's.

It was for this reason that most of the navy in this era, especially the colonial navy, chose the old but reliable musket.

But he never would have thought that Molière was actually a very forward Military experts. Even if there were ten thousand shortcomings with a rifled cannon in his eyes, as long as his firepower, accuracy, and firing range were high, as long as there were these three points, it would be enough.

Molière held high the power of the envoy given to him by the Emperor, arrogantly suppressing the colonial governor and generals, and looted all the muskets in the continent of India. By the time the expedition fleet set sail, half of the cannons in the fleet had already become the most advanced muskets.

Not only that, but the individual weapons of the Marines and Marines had also allowed him to equip them in a big new set. All the soldiers were equipped with after- loading rifles used for the purpose of fighting the barbarians in East Asia, and although their performance was not as good as Mauser's, it was enough to deal with the barbarians in East Asia.

"Maintain a distance of five nautical miles from the coastline …" Focus on the enemy's lookout post at the top of the mountain... "Knock on the door one by one, dig out the eyes of the enemy and make Ba become blind …"

"Sir!" The standard-bearer quickly spread out Molière's orders, and the various Captain s started to choose their own mountains, whether or not he had dates or not.

Boom! Boom! Boom! The sound of gunfire on the sea was like thunder, the surrounding highlands of Naha Harbor was completely baptized by the gunfire, all the light and dark sentries had suffered a destructive blow this time.

"Damn it!" Damn it! If I knew it earlier, I would have used reinforced concrete to build permanent structures on every mountain! " Cai Mao angrily shouted at the Shouli City's cannon emplacement.

"Old Max! How far is the enemy fleet from us now? Can we shoot down our cannons? Hurry up and fire. We can't let the enemy continue to blast us away like this. Hurry up and retaliate! "

Old Max nervously used his binoculars to determine the distance. This was the basic artillery skill, even without a military telescope, they could still use a few fingers to determine the distance between each target.

Old Max was extremely nervous, he was afraid that he would make any mistakes, so at this time, he did not care about being inferior anymore.

"Shut up! This is the gunner, this cannon will listen to my command... "Those who are noisy, it's still mine if you miss!" The roar from the hot-tempered old black man stopped General Cai Mao from speaking any further.

It was as if the Old Max had completely fallen into his own world, his mouth muttering, "The one closest to the coastline is a frigate? Five nautical miles from the beach... "Ten miles from the head cannon emplacement …"

"This distance is too far. Even if the cannons are within reach, the aim is gone …" "Closer, it would be best to get closer …"

Just as Mai Kesi was hesitating, thick smoke suddenly rose into the air from the south coast. The soldiers inside the cannons were in an uproar. In the direction of the village! Why did the damnable French explode even in the fishing villages!? Mai Kesi, don't forget, you drank wine at the Cai Family Village last month! "

With a muffled bang, Old Max punched the cannon support, his fist dripping with blood. "Oh my god, these bunch of bastards who massacred civilians! "I can't take it anymore …"

"Fire direction of artillery … 7 o'clock …" Shoot up to 45 degrees... Number of Gunpowder Packs Three... Choose Heavy flowering bomb … "This is our first shot at the battle. In Chinese words, it is a profit market!"

The Chinese artillery soldiers surrounding Old Max were all his disciples, after a few months of intensive training, they had long familiarized themselves with the process of firing the cannons.

The cannons of that era, especially the large caliber shore defense cannons, were basically all fired using ammunition separation method. The heavy bullet was first stuffed into the barrel, and then stuffed into the firing bag which had been meticulously calculated by the gunner.

The military textile cloth bundled the high explosive gunpowder into a round and flat medicine bag. Each medicine bag had a fixed amount of gunpowder inside. How could artillery be considered a highly skilled weapon? Just based on this skill of tying gunpowder, without a year and a half of training, one wouldn't be able to learn this skill.

Old Max put the earplugs in his ears, his mouth was wide open, his hand tightly gripped the firing rope, his heart begging God to help him win.

"Go to hell!" Mai Kesi suddenly pulled on the flint rope, causing a string of sparks to ignite the medicine bag. With a loud bang, the turret on top of the cannon seemed to have been contaminated by the steam locomotive's jet vents, and dense white smoke surged out of all the cracks, looking like a giant mouth spitting white mist from far away.

The 280 caliber giant cannon's firing was truly earth-shattering. The recent Shouli City felt as if he had experienced an earthquake as dust, which hadn't moved for hundreds of years, fell from the roof beam.

On top of the city wall, Shang Tai was so scared that he had to take half a step back. His ears were filled with the sound of a loud explosion, but the young king was extremely excited.

"Fire …" Our cannon has returned fire... Satisfying, satisfying! This is power, this is the power to protect the life of our Ryukyu … "

At this time, in the French fleet, the one closest to the coastline was not the two normal light cruisers, but a frigate.

Amongst the navy of the middle leaf of nineteenth century, this type of battleship was second only to the battleships in terms of weight. If the Glory was not here, then his name would not be frigate, but instead should be called heavy cruiser.

Gauls was the main culprit behind the explosion that just exploded onto the fishing village. Of course, they would not feel any guilt, Molière had already promised that he would massacre the entire village, so how would they care about a few fishing villages that would be flattened by the explosion? In any case, the ammunition was well-prepared this time.

What was a journey of revenge? What was a war for revenge? To put it bluntly, he was giving vent to His Majesty's anger. The more pain the Expeditionary forces inflicted on Xiao Letian, the happier Napoleon would be. Only when the emperor was happy would the military officers and soldiers be rewarded.

"Come on, boys..." Another volley of fire, and the ruined village was razed to the ground … Chief mate, you must record our battle results well, just say that there is a company hidden in this village … "Oh no no no, just say that there is a hidden battalion of troops, and it is us who destroyed this battalion …"

"Yes!" Captain... " The first mate was excitedly writing on the ship's log. The surrounding officers and soldiers who heard the captain's words all had a brilliant smile on their faces.

Everyone was smart, although Special Envoy Molière was a little abnormal, his words revealed a lot of information. As long as the Special Envoy won, he would not interfere in the process, and would even give everyone a push at crucial moments to make them more daring.

Forget about the fact that there was a battalion hidden in this village, even if the reported victory was the destruction of a brigade, everyone still believed that the His Excellency the Special Envoy would sign his name on the merit list in the end.

"This is great, after all these years of not fighting, I never thought that I would be able to gain such a great opportunity in the colonies. This is truly a gift from God.

At this moment, the second mate, who was leading the soldiers on the deck, and the countless sailors raised their heads to look at the sky in astonishment. Everyone could hear a strange sound coming from the distance.

Rumble, rumble. It was as if a train was passing through the sky.

Of course the train couldn't fly in the sky, that was common knowledge. The veterans realized that things were not going well with just a single thought.

"Oh God! Heavy Cannon... "It's the sound of a shore defense heavy cannon …" Before the shouts stopped, they heard the sound of seawater twenty meters on the starboard side of the battleship suddenly turning into a violent explosion of air waves that pounced towards the Gauls.

The 280 caliber heavy high explosive projectile did not hit the Gauls, but hit the sea surface twenty meters to the starboard side. However, when such a powerful artillery shell exploded, the shockwave would sweep across an area of fifty meters.

The broken pieces of the fire powder were mixed with the sea water, which was flying in the air. The energy generated by the gunpowder had turned into countless of seawater, and the place where the explosion took place was covered in white fog.

At this time, the Gauls s had just started firing from the starboard side, and the cannons had yet to close. This rain of bullets followed the cannons into the ship's body, causing the busy gunner s to feel cold.

Sou sou sou … Bang Bang Bang... The shrapnel flew across the air and instantly hit the starboard side of the warship, turning it into a pockmarked face. The most horrifying part was on the deck, where the captain who had just laughed the most was stabbed in the forehead by a bullet.

"Captain sacrificed … Captain sacrificed... And the medical soldier? "Hurry up and save them …"

This was the power of the shore defense cannon. The cannon had a large caliber and was full of firepower. If this cannon could hit the ship's hull, it could blast the entire ship to smithereens, even if it exploded on the surface of the sea, it would still be able to kill the enemy.

The Gauls cried as blood flowed all over the deck, corpses littered the ground, and even the cabin was shaking.

"My God! Our intelligence is wrong! Ryukyu actually has the most advanced shore defense cannons? " Molière rushed to the right side of the Glory and looked at it with the binoculars. His face was extremely gloomy, and the bad premonition in his heart was growing stronger.