The sixty-ninth octopus is powerful The first 'shell' hit the amidships of the nearest ship after just a few breaths, and then ......
The space seemed to be slowed down, everything became extremely slow, and everyone saw with their own eyes that the enemy ship that had been invincible before was hit by that strange cannonball, the whole ship seemed to be lifted by a huge force, and actually jumped into the air as a whole, and then slowly dismembered at a speed visible to the naked eye, from the beginning you could still see the outline, to the time it fell into the water, it had become a piece of pieces, and then fell and withered like leaves, giving people a poignant feeling......
It wasn't until the end that everyone saw the burst red light.
"Boom~" It was only at this time that the sound of the explosion came into Cheng Chuliang's ears, and when he looked at it again, the enemy ship that belonged to the Black Shark Ship Group before had disappeared, if it weren't for the scattered debris on the sea surface that had not been dispersed by the waves, he really thought that he had seen his eyes, there was no ship there just now, everything was just his hallucination......
"Shhh Cheng Chuliang, who reacted, could only let out a sharp hiss, but he couldn't say anything else, and his previous suspicions disappeared like smoke.
However, before his hiss could reach the ears of the nearby Li Daoyun, he heard two earth-shattering explosions from behind him - the enemy trapped the fleet in the middle, so Li Zhen's killer weapon was also scattered around the fleet.
"Boom~" "Boom~" "Boom~" “……” Following these two explosions, the successive explosions sounded almost at the same time, and the earth-shattering roar even scattered the clouds in the sky and the wind in the sky, as if afraid of this might, even the wind became faintly smaller, and the clouds in the sky seemed to be thinner, and the sky actually faintly felt a little shiny.
When everything was quiet, only a small half of the enemy's ships remained, and the other half had become sea garbage, no longer with the same high spirits......
Seeing this, everyone should have almost guessed that these 'shells' that were stretched out in Cheng Chuliang's mouth were actually torpedoes, and those hundred-ton boats were torpedo launchers, and of course they could also be arranged with mines.
The torpedo program was launched by Li Zhen a long time ago, and even he had already begun to design it when he established the navy, after all, the torpedo is also an important member of the naval war, and it is one of the main combat methods in the future naval battle.
It's just that Li Zhen underestimates the technology of the torpedo, although the technology of the torpedo is still very simple in terms of structure, after all, this thing is really similar to the artillery shell in structure, that is, it uses gunpowder technology to push the torpedo forward, and then hits the target, and it may even be a little simpler than the artillery shell in technology.
Li Zhen thought so at first, but when he actually practiced it, he found that things were not so simple at all, and the first problem he encountered was that the torpedo could not float because the torpedo was ......
It's iron......
It's iron......
Ferric......
Target......
How does iron float on the water?
The torpedo is not the shape of a ship, to put it bluntly, it is an iron pillar, how to float up?
There's no way to float up at all, even if it's hollow inside, but the inside has to be filled with explosives, and it's not much lighter than a solid one.
Hundreds of pounds of round iron pillars, it is really difficult to float, even in the future generations have not solved this problem.
In the end, it was a young craftsman who made the suggestion that if iron would sink, it would be better not to use iron at all.
Everyone suddenly woke up: yes, since the iron can't float, then simply don't use iron, after all, the explosive lethality of the torpedo does not depend on the surface of the iron sheet, but on the internal explosives, as long as the amount of explosives is sufficient, let alone wood, even if it is wrapped in paper, it can also blow everything up - isn't the explosive package made in this way?
I didn't see anything less powerful than the cannon.
It's just that bamboo and wood alone still can't provide enough buoyancy for the torpedo, and there are hundreds of catties of explosives in it, how much buoyancy can a bamboo and wood shell provide?
When the buoyancy problem of the torpedo was finally solved, Li Zhen and the craftsmen were worried about the power of the torpedo, because the main power of the shell was gunpowder, so at first they also used gunpowder as fuel, but soon the problem appeared, that is, gunpowder is a mixed explosive after all, and the main components in it, carbon, sulfur and nitrate have different densities, and they will be separated after a long time, and the denser ones will begin to sink, while the smaller ones will come to the upper layer, resulting in uneven mixing......
Although such explosives can still explode, their power will be much reduced, and they will not be able to be used as propellants.
Fortunately, although it was a feudal society at this time, the quantity and quality of talents were still very fine, and after research, granular explosives with egg whites as the main binder were born......
However, although particle explosives solve the problem of insufficient explosive power caused by shells being shelved for a long time, they obviously cannot be used as propellants, after all, propellants need to burn slowly for a long time, and this particle explosives seem to be unable to do - the explosion of particle explosives is a matter of moments, while the propellant of torpedoes requires a long time to burn for one to two minutes, and the energy generated is used to drive the tail propeller to rotate, after all, torpedoes require a certain amount of time to endurance, Instead of being thrown out instantaneously like a cannonball.
So Li Zhen ordered the craftsmen to continue the research, and the craftsmen also gave up the plan to use gunpowder as a propellant, and at this time, the first batch of distilled gasoline appeared, and the craftsmen immediately targeted this new fuel, but they were soon disappointed, although gasoline can be burned for a long time, but it cannot be fully burned, and the mass proportion is relatively large, not the most qualified fuel.
Later, they experimented with high-concentration alcohol, vegetable oil, bio-oil, etc., but either they could not burn enough, or the ignition point was too high.
Fortunately, the wisdom of the craftsmen is endless, and after years of hard work, at the cost of 18 people killed, more than 50 disabled, two warehouses destroyed, and four laboratories on fire, they finally developed a fuel mixture.
Li Zhen didn't know what the specific fuel composition was, after all, he couldn't keep his eyes on one thing, but what Li Zhen knew was that his torpedo finally succeeded.