Chapter 520 The gap in science and technology began to produce everyone has their own things, for example, Helena, she needs to meet her old department, when Quan Xu sold him a front-loading smoothbore gun, one of the additional conditions, that is, to send more than a dozen naval commanders in Venice to serve as instructors in the whole family army.The Whole Family Army is an army that started out as an army and is very new to naval warfare, although Quan Xu has a bit of a crooked idea, he can use the Japanese dwarf as a suicide ship to attack the Dutch warship and the Zheng fleet.However, the problem is that this is not the mainstream, nor is it the correct way to open naval warfare, poor will change, change will make sense, when the strength reaches a certain level, naval warfare should return to the mainstream.The Venetian naval officers, mainly the naval lieutenants of the navy, Saraño, did a very good job at the Liaoning Naval Military Academy, although now Spain has the invincible armada known as the world, in fact, the king of the navy, in fact, it is still the Venetians, followed by the Portuguese, then the Spaniards, and then it can be the turn of Britain and France.The greatest disadvantage of the Venetians was that they were too few in number, and they were mainly engaged in business, and in the Age of Discovery, they had been completely surpassed by the great powers.When Helena came to the Naval Military Academy, a dozen Venetian naval instructors, led by Saragno, lined up in a neat formation and saluted Helena."
Meet Her Highness the Princess!"
Helena was the youngest daughter of the Venetian consul Trevis Dandoro, a Venice population that was too small and the Ottoman Empire was a behemoth.The work of foreign exploration and trade could only fall to Helena, who was fifteen years old at the time."
Knight Saraño, you're doing a great job!"
Helena was the first to recognize Saraño's work, because because of his efforts, Helena finally got a powerful naval gun, as well as a large amount of cement, cement and steel to build a strong fortress.This took a lot of pressure off Venice, and her father Trevis publicly praised Helena for her dedication and hard work, which made her very proud.The devilish training in Saragno made the young unit of the whole navy quickly form a strong fighting force, and although the first battle had the advantage of being few enemies and outnumbering, it beat Spain, a veteran who had been across the sea for a hundred years, to the ground.Helena found that the ground of the entire Naval Military Academy was paved with cement, and she sighed with emotion: "The Ming people are so extravagant that they actually use precious cement to build roads!"
”Speaking of this, Saraño was even more emotional: "Your Royal Highness Princess, do you know how many main warships His Excellency Marquis built at one time?
”"How many?""
There are sixteen of them already in the habitat, all of them are of the third class warship, and sixteen more are already under construction, as for the Exocet-class warship, it will completely replace the old warship, if we Venetians have a strong fleet, how good it would be!"
What made Saraño even more jealous was the population of the Ming Dynasty.He was very strict in naval training, his physical fitness was not up to standard, or his reaction was not agile enough, and his learning speed was not fast enough, such a person would be eliminated, and his original intention was to delay the development scale of the Liaodong Fleet.However, the problem is that if he eliminates one person, Quanxu will send ten people and a hundred people for him to train.Helena and Saraño hadn't seen each other for more than a year, so naturally they had a lot to say.Saraño's treatment at the Liaodong Military Academy was at the rank of professor.In this era, the professor is actually the kind of department head level in later generations, which is both a title and a position, and he has an independent villa.There were also four beautiful Silla maidservants to serve him, two cooks, two coachmen, a professional butler, and twelve soldiers of the family army to keep him safe.Coming to Saraño's villa, Helena was stunned, this is simply a small castle, yes, it is also a reinforced concrete building, even the courtyard wall has a thickness of more than a foot, even if it is shelled, as long as it is not a large-caliber artillery, it can be resisted.This kind of Chinese-style garden building has rockeries, flowing water, and the front yard, the middle hall, and the area is not too large, about three or four acres of land.Helena is very fond of Chinese food, and of course, the supplies here are more abundant, and Saraño has prepared a lot of dishes for Helena to treat Her Royal Highness the princess who has come from afar.While tasting the food and a few glasses of wine, the Netherlands were fine, but Helena couldn't hold it anymore.Her snow-white cheeks were stained with a seductive crimson, and her nose was dusty with beads of sweat, a little dizzy.Helena put down her glass and shook her head, making her head clearer: "Chinese wine is good at everything, but it is too domineering, even if it is a relatively low degree of wine, I can't bear it, I think barley beer or wine is more suitable for me." ”Saraño smiled: "Your Royal Highness, you should drink more Chinese wine to make your drinking better, the Chinese have a bad habit, like to be down to business at the wine table, it seems that the more you drink, the deeper the friendship, without a good amount of alcohol you are difficult to really integrate into them." ”Thinking of the tragic situation of letting a group of heroic sailors fall unconscious every time on the ship, and his stomach was about to vomit, he shivered with palpitations."
It seems that you are doing well in China, and the more you speak Chinese, the more fluent you become."
Helena glanced around, and seeing that no one was paying attention to this side, she lowered her voice and asked, "You have been serving in the Chinese Navy for so long, have you gathered the information we urgently need?"
”Saraño also lowered his voice: "Of course!
”With that, he took out a few drawings and handed them to Helena.This is the drawings and data of the naval guns, judging from the data, the caliber of the main naval guns of the whole army is 130 mm, which is 28 times the diameter, and the firing range is very long.Some of the Clipper Exocet are only equipped with rocket launchers.Saraño sighed: "It is not difficult to see that the Chinese's cannon casting technology is indeed very powerful, and no country in Europe dares to adopt such a ratio of times to diameter, which is generally twenty-one times the diameter, and very few can achieve twenty-three times."
A longer barrel increases range and accuracy, but it also puts the barrel under more pressure, which will only blow up if the metallurgical technology is not up to par. ”Hearing this, Helena was very frustrated: "I proposed to His Excellency the Marquis to buy this new type of naval gun, but unfortunately they don't sell it at all, do you know the principle of this cannon?"
Can we imitate it?
”"This kind of cannon is cast by molten steel, and a barrel is cast, which is far more reliable and lightweight than bronze guns, and the cost is also lower, which is worth imitating.The shells they used were designed in the shape of a jujube core, and a copper cartridge case was used to stuff the warhead and propellant together, and when it was fired, the projectile was detonated, and the warhead flew out at high speed, and then the bolt was opened and the cartridge case was withdrawn, and it could be reloaded, which was very fast, so the firepower of one cannon was more powerful than seven or eight ordinary bronze cannons. ”Saraño said with a regretful face: "It's not that I poured cold water on you, and it is basically impossible to imitate the Chinese man-ship artillery!"
”"Why?"
Helena looked puzzled: "Don't you have a thorough understanding of the performance and technical details of their naval guns, even if we can't imitate a 130 mm 28 times the diameter of the naval gun, we can lower the standard and reduce the caliber and double diameter of the gun!"
”"We in Venice lack more than just cannon casting skills!""
You can't do it yourself?""
No way!"
Saraño said with a gloomy expression: "Your Royal Highness Princess, do you know that the Chinese cast artillery is not ordinary steel, but alloy steel, to be precise, they classify high-carbon steel, that is, Damascus steel as a kind of alloy steel, that is, a variety of substances, smelted together, produced steel, this steel is not only strong, but also wear-resistant, high-temperature resistant, this is their strictly secret thing, the entire Liaodong knows people can count on one hand!"
”"We can use our more mature bronze cannon casting technology to cast their cannon......"
"Your Royal Highness, even if we imitate this cannon, we can't imitate that powerful explosive!"
Without explosives, the cannon we created at great cost was nothing more than a pile of waste, and it was not as good as the original bronze cannon!
”Saraño looked desperate: "Your Royal Highness Princess, you also know that it was the Chinese who invented gunpowder, they began to use gunpowder as early as a thousand years ago, when the Greeks still used Greek fire, and now their gunpowder is no longer the original black powder, but a new type of gunpowder that we have never seen, this gunpowder is huge, and there will hardly be any residue left after the explosion, so their gunners can bury their heads in the battle and fight fiercely, without cleaning the gun chamber at all, One artillery can exert the power of seven or eight guns, we don't have such a projectile!
”Helena frowned: "What should I do?"
”"We should be glad that we and the Chinese are not enemies!"
Saraño smiled a little gloatingly: "I've seen their Exocet warships launch, they call it that kind of rocket artillery, a salvo can fire up to fifteen rockets, no less powerful than a thirty-two-pound cannonball, can you imagine?"
Fifteen shells, it only takes ten breaths, and they have one cannon, which is no less than the density of fire strike of one artillery battalion of the Spaniards!
”"New gunpowder, and rockets, can you get your hands on them?""
It's their core secret, and it's hard for outsiders to get their hands on...
It is said that there are many factories that specialize in making this type of gunpowder for them, but as for the process, it is a top secret, and only a few people know about it, and it is estimated that even the people who produce this type of gunpowder do not know what they are used for. ”Saraño is not lying, Liaodong is an industrial base built by Quanxu, and if you want to industrialize, such as unifying standards, such as power cord jacks in later generations, any electrical appliance can be plugged into any socket.