Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

To be able to get the most stubborn Kevin to join their fleet's' pirates' cause, this was a landmark event. This proved that the last thorn in the fleet had also surrendered, and both the Chinese and Prussian had become one entity.

It was extremely difficult to gather the morale of the troops during a war, not to mention the military temporarily put together by the soldiers of the distant fleet. Their language, culture, and national attributes were all different, so their understanding towards this mission was also different.

The Prussian only treated this mission as one mission, but the Chinese people treated this journey as a test of their skills in the field of battle.

However, Kevin was not a soldier, so it was easier for him to have differences with Xiang Ying and the others. After starting a war in the Marshall Islands, he had been creaking and squirming all the way, but in fact, most of the Prussian soldier had a common thought in their minds.

Everything was fine when they fought in the wind. There would be no problems if the conflicts were hidden under the water, but if the battles did not go well, these hidden differences could very well be fatal.

The series of psychological warfare that Xiang Ying and the others had against Kevin was not only directed towards him alone. In fact, those words were meant for the Prussian Navy soldiers, if they couldn't get everyone to truly share the same thoughts and interests as soon as possible, then it would be really hard to travel the remaining tens of thousands of miles.

Xiang Ying and the others did not let Xiao Letian down, they had relied on their own intelligence and eloquence to solve this problem. To be able to make the old-fashioned Kevin scream and fight, this was truly worthy of being a miracle.

It was a light British merchant ship that was sent to the altar. The merchant ship that had its rudder blown up by the Zhiyuan Warship had hung up a white flag. The surrendered British sailors wanted to use the three chests of gold to protect their lives, but unfortunately, they did not meet a normal level of pirates.

After the sound of the gun, the sea surface turned into a sea of blood. The sharks in the deep ocean of the Atlantic came swimming over while smelling the blood from all directions. The merchant boat slowly sank into the sea, creating a huge whirlpool.

The pious Protestantism Disciple Kevin knelt in front of the ship, placed her hands together and held onto the silver cross as she muttered, "May God guide your soul to heaven … "Although I'm very sorry, I don't regret it at all. In the process of rejuvenating any race, there will always be people who die. There will always be people who go to hell …"

"There will always be people who will be sacrificed on the altar. Unfortunately, I do not wish for our Prussian to become a sacrifice and these Chinese do not wish for their own people to become a sacrifice … "Since you've already fallen in the midst of the nation's war, life and death should be less of a concern. May God bless you!"

Beside Kevin was Sun Chujian who had just come from the scissor boat to participate in the night memory training. He did not expect this German engineer to carry the compassion of a few religious people and the temperament of a poet.

"What a complicated Prussian! He could actually speak such words with a clear conscience and a strict sense of justice … If you Prussia do not unite the Germany, and do not defeat the English and French, then the heavens will not open their eyes! "

Kevin did not care about Sun Chujian's teasing at all. "Thank you for your praise, but we do not believe in God. What we believe in is God … We believe more in God's fairness, why is it that all the wealth in this world belongs to the English and French? Prussia also has to survive and rise, and we have to live a happier life. I believe God can hear the voice of our people, because we pray for our people day and night! "

"Well, God bless Prussia..." Sun Chujian did not dare to talk too much about religion with a devout believer and quickly changed the topic.

"Dear Mr. Kevin, after these few days of fighting, the 210 caliber main cannon of the Zhiyuan Warship had demonstrated its great power. But I have a question, why don't we produce a larger one? like 310 or 410... "

"Oh my God!" Kevin quickly drew a cross on his chest. "Another believer that valued firepower more than anything else? "Young man, please don't always dream so much. This 210-caliber cannon can already be considered as the pinnacle of metallurgy at the moment. How can it be so easy to increase it?"

"First of all, you have to solve the problem of the material used. It's not good if the hardness of the steel used for artillery is not enough, especially the hardness of the internal rifled wire. Do you know how severe the abrasion of the rifled wire is for high-speed rotating artillery shells?" If the rifling is damaged, what will be reduced is the range and accuracy of the cannonball! "

"The more powerful the main cannon, the greater the charge, the greater the kinetic energy and the greater the pressure on the cannon. Do you think that can be improved so easily?"

"Secondly, the structure of the battleship. After all, the battleship is the moving shooting platform of the cannon. He has to bear the full recoil of the cannon's firing … You should have seen sail battleship's naval gun s fire at the same time, but never fire at the same time.

"That's even more so for the Zhiyuan Warship. 210 main cannons is the limit of the battleship's structure now, and if the diameter is larger, the entire battleship's structure will be strengthened. The 310 caliber cannons you mentioned, without more than 10,000 tons of discharge water, it's impossible to install them …"

"As for 410 caliber …" I don't think we'll be able to create 560,000 tons of giant steel ships until we do! "Forgive me for speaking bluntly, but I'm afraid I won't be able to see a battleship like in science fiction for the rest of my life …"

Kevin patted Sun Chujian's arm. "The most important point is that your Prime Minister strongly requests that the caliber of the cannons be around 200 mm, if it's too big, he would not want it. If it's too small, he wouldn't want it.

"Since Prime Minister Dongfang is the one who paid for it, then of course we have to do our work according to the customer's request. God knows why he has such a request …" Alright, the meeting is about to start. The dinner afterwards was very sumptuous, our Chief Internal Affairs Officer is really too outstanding, having excellent beer and red wine! "

As night fell in the Atlantic Ocean, innocent ghosts that had died were staring at them with hatred in the sky and even cursing them with the most malicious of curses. However, this group of soldiers did not care, as they were a group of warriors who would rather go to hell to revive their nation.

Some questions were destined to not be answered. Xiao Letian couldn't tell everyone that the naval gun's development limit was 400 mm, and would only appear at the end of the second world war.

Furthermore, the naval gun's performance was not only dependent on the thickness of the cannon. There was also an important indicator, which was the length of the cannon, which was also known as how many times the caliber. It was also an important indicator of the artillery's performance.

Was Xiao Letian rich? To ordinary people, he was very rich, so was the huge power that Xiao Letian had established. However, compared to the naval arms races in the future, this little money was not worth mentioning.

In the world until the 20th century, the navy burned as much money as the Star Wars program of later generations.

In the end, even the Treaty of Washington Navy was needed to limit the number and properties of warships. It was evident that the arms race was a bottomless pit no matter what era it was in.