561. Technological Revolution
Charlie and Halleha’s laboratory is located on the boat on the sea surface. When we are about to pass, it is still early and there is a complete possibility of experimentation.
After I was in place, I didn't want this new technology to be made public for the time being. In addition, I wanted to see its practical power, so we simply set sail and took a target ship straight to the deep sea.
"Captain, don't be scared!" Charlie rubbed his hands excitedly along the way, looking unbearable. Haleha smiled while not making a sound.
I smiled and replied, "Okay! If you really satisfy me, I will give you one small island each as a benefit!"
"Where is the island?" Charlie clapped his hands and exclaimed: "Then can I transform it into an experimental center? I seem to be afraid of doing the experiment?"
After hearing his cheers, I was speechless. The beach, island, beauty, coconut trees, and my sister were actually thinking about doing an experiment!
But... from my perspective, just do it. I am the happiest to do it seriously, do it well, produce more results, and produce great results.
Haleha was also a confused person. After hearing this, he smiled and replied, "Sir, if the results are satisfied, can I change the island to a small spinnaker?"
I turned my head to look at him, Haleha, shook my head helplessly, pointing at Charlie with a depressed look: "This guy is just a lunatic! I'm with him, and I can't stand it every day, except for experiments, and I can't stand it! If possible, I'll go out and take a walk and recover my ears!"
Everyone in the boat burst into laughter, but Charlie didn't think it was offended and said with a smile: "Successful people are persistent, and I am the one who is the most persistent!"
As soon as these words were said, we could only applaud and express our sincere admiration for his focus on his career.
After driving fifteen nautical miles, we made sure that our experiment would not bring attention to the surrounding fleets and shores, and then we set off and prepared to implement it.
Because the new automatic loader is still in the test stage, and the gun body of the artillery still needs to be strengthened, it is not completely used on the maximum caliber mortar or cannon at once, so our experiment uses a medium caliber curved cannon.
For safety reasons, I stood six or seven meters away from the loading machine, and set up a dedicated bulletproof board in front of me - this was not to prevent the shell from being deviated, but I was afraid that the gun barrel would explode, causing the fragments to fly across and cause accidental injuries.
However, Charlie and Haleha refused to use others to cover up and decided to get started on their own. It seems that they are already fully familiar with this set of operations and are not worried about risky students at all.
As the target ship is a small merchant ship with a displacement of about 200 tons. The target ship as the cannon is definitely enough.
The two pushed the cannon to the port side, and after installing it firmly, they moved a box-like thing to the side of the cannon, and pulled a slide-like thing out of the box. It seemed that they were loading to shoot.
Next to them is another set of the same artillery combination, and the operator is a pair of skilled traditional gunner combinations.
As the commander-in-chief of this test, Zhi Dan glanced at the two combinations, and both sides made a gesture to him that could be started. Zhi raised the musket in his hand and shot a "bang" into the sky!
"Bang!" Two violent cannons immediately came from the side! When I looked back, both cannons completed the first round of strikes!
Charlie and Halleha’s automatic loading machine immediately started to do work. A shell on the slide reached the muzzle in a moment. The booster on the other side stuffed a pair of fire medicine into the barrel in advance. When the metal rod was pulled on the head of the slide, the shell was successfully shot into the bottom of the barrel!
"Bang!" The cannon fired again, but the one over there was still loading the bottom fire!
"Bang!" The third sound here has been fired, and the cannons over there have just been loading and they have started to ignite!
"Bang!" Two loud noises almost rang out! The loading degree of the automatic loader was almost four times that of the original loading method!
If the original artillery could fire two guns in one minute, using this loading machine, each can fire nearly seven to eight guns per minute!
Such a shooting is perfect! The small boat as the target ship was quickly hit by a scattered position near the automatic loading group, and it became a leaking sieve in just three minutes!
The position on the other side is much lighter, which looks like a comparison between a group of artillery and a cannon, and the results are quite amazing!
"Okay!" I couldn't help but shout: "Better than I thought! Good! Good!"
There was a lot of warm applause on the boat, and cheers came one after another!
"Crack!" A harsh sound came from the target ship. When we looked back quickly, the hull that was hit and frustrated began to collapse, and it broke into two parts from the middle!
As we watched, the broken ship was on both ends and the belly was on it, and a large number of bubbles began to sink rapidly!
"Roar!" More intense cheers came from the boats surrounding them! These sailors and sailors were all excited to see such powerful weapons. After all, having such a killer weapon in hand on the battlefield is more reliable than anything else!
Charlie and Halleha loosened the loader, and took two steps to come to me near: "Captain, how? Are you still satisfied?"
I laughed and said, "Of course! The first step of concept has been realized. With this foundation, our firepower can be increased four times! On this basis, almost improved, and the firepower can double again in the short term!"
"Double again?" Haleha asked, "How is that possible? Sir, such a loader is already at its current limit. If you want to improve it again, you may need to make changes in the overall mechanism, which will take a lot of time as the basis."
I held my hands behind my back, looked at the target ship that had already sunk like the bottom of the sea, and said with a smile: "There is no need to change the overall mechanism, just add a group of units, and this purpose can be achieved!"
"How to increase it? Captain, tell me!" Charlie was anxious. After overcoming this difficult problem, he was about to lose the pursuit of further breakthroughs and suddenly received such exciting news. How could he not be impatient?
I asked for a pen and a piece of paper, and soon drew a new sketch on the paper.
After finishing the drawing, I thought about it and added a few more strokes before handing it to Charlie and Halleha.
The two of them took my drawing suspiciously, and after just a few glances, they almost jumped three feet excitedly!
What I drew was not something profound, but I made just one change - changing the current single-barrel cannon into a double-unit!
Yes, no technical innovation is needed. You only need to physically weld the existing artillery together to ensure the same height and direction, and then copy the loading machine as it is, to achieve the requirements I put forward!
"High! This method is certainly possible!" The two looked at each other, and even forgot about the island, ships and other things I promised, and dived into the cabin to improve the drawings.
Looking at the backs of these two people, I didn’t know what to say, but I just felt warm and warm in my heart.
Being overseas, having such a team and such people working with me really makes people feel moved and passionate. Perhaps this is the greatest happiness of being the leader of the leadership team!
On the way back, I called Charlie and Halleha out and gave them a new task - on the one hand, I should hurry up and study the dual-mounted artillery, and on the other hand, I should carry out small-scale mass production of the existing automatic loader as soon as possible.
And step up the application of medium and large caliber artillery to the most core elite fleet.
This matter is really urgent. I don’t know what the old woman Elizabeth I wanted to do, but judging from her performance, she seemed to be quite dissatisfied with me.
This can be seen clearly from the fact that she joined forces with the Spanish and ignored my interests and was infringed upon.
If she still feels grateful to me for joining forces with her, she doesn't need to do more. Just add an additional clause to the contract with the Spaniard to ensure that my interests are not infringed.
Such additional clauses actually do not conflict with their interests, and they even make some progress. Unfortunately, she did not do this, but chose to stab me in the back.
Of course, if she hadn't been so careless, how could I not go back to England after returning to Europe, but instead came to France and Henry to mess with him?
Of course I know that setting up such a powerful enemy to Elizabeth I next to England would definitely displeas her. I also know that the Spanish Invincible Armada was also annoyed Elizabeth I, but so what?
If you are in the first grade of junior high school, don’t blame me for being the fifteenth. I have always been like this.
Either you don’t play cards, except cards, then play to the end.
I can't admit defeat halfway, I don't admit it.
At the same time, I also made up my mind that before officially returning to Britain, I must wait until Charlie and Halleha complete the comprehensive transformation of the elite fleet. During this period, I must go to the Netherlands again.
Yes, the united front, I am exactly this purpose.
The Dutch must be waiting for me too.
I know this very well, and Yoohee has given me relevant information before.
After the British turned against each other, the Dutch's space was hit and compressed sharply, and coupled with the Spanish's rebound, their space was reduced again.
Although Britain and the West have turned against each other again, Britain has almost broken the face with the Netherlands.
The brave ones win when they meet on a narrow road. The Dutch were originally good at sea transportation and weaker than naval warfare. How could the empire supported by commerce withstand the attacks of Britain, which grew up in artillery fire?
William was also looking for me. He was also very clear about my situation, so he was so smart that he had invited me through Youxi, asking me to go to Amsterdam as soon as possible to discuss the next step of advancing and retreating.
Well, this is also a sleepy encounter with a pillow, especially after I got the situation in Spain and had another strong backing.
Chapter completed!