Chapter 1021: The Terrifying Cannons

Luojinsi was stunned in an instant.

The steady, accurate, and ruthless cannon fire had, in the blink of an eye, landed almost right beside him.

"Boom—!"

"Boom—!"

In the first moment, the entire Daxi Wharf had been blasted into chaos, with everything churning and overturning everywhere.

"This..."

Luojinsi was startled.

What kind of cannonball was this? They were clearly still two nautical miles away! How could it be so accurate?

What kind of cannon was this?

What kind of warship was this?

Why had he never heard of such things before? Watching the dark, looming fleet begin to accelerate, an incredible guess suddenly flashed through his mind.

"Longyan Army?"

"Yinzhou Warship?"

His expression changed drastically.

He suddenly thought of this incredible guess. Because previously, he had always believed that the battleships of the British Empire were the most powerful in the world; their battleship Victory had always been the most powerful battleship in the world today, and it was also the most famous three-masted, three-deck warship in history, nearly seventy meters long, with a displacement of over three thousand tons and a speed of about ten knots. In the recently concluded Tefalajia Haizhan, the commander of the British navy, Lieutenant General Nalsun, had used this ship to defeat the combined French and Spanish forces, becoming famous in a single battle.

However...

The appearance of these Yinzhou Warships now completely overturned Luojinsi's view of warships.

They were huge!

One could say they were gigantic!

And they were tall!

Looming and dark, they were essentially a war at sea, completely like giant fortresses on the ocean! What he did not know was that the current Yinzhou Warship could be considered the strongest battleship in the world. After several improvements and modifications, the total length of the Yinzhou Warship had exceeded one hundred and thirty meters, equipped with one hundred and fifty cannons, capable of storing 50 tons of gunpowder and one hundred and fifty tons of cannonballs on board, and could sail for a year on a single voyage.

Powerful!

The British Victory was no match for the Yinzhou Warship at all.

Furthermore...

At this moment, there were twenty Yinzhou Warships!

"On guard!"

"On guard!"

Luojinsi, for a moment, could no longer care why the Longyan navy had appeared here; he was already frantic. Soon, under his command, the eighty thousand British troops at Daxi Wharf began to rely on the defensive fortifications they had long since built to stand guard and counterattack.

"Fire!"

Luojinsi was a graduate of the British Royal Military Academy; he possessed strong theoretical knowledge of warfare as well as practical combat experience. Soon, the British side stabilized. The cannons were also pulled out. He quickly judged that this time, the scale of the Longyan Army was too large!

It was estimated to be two hundred thousand people!

Two hundred thousand!

Once they successfully landed, nothing awaited them but death!

The British artillery was currently still sixty-eight-pound smoothbore cannons, which were relatively bulky and had violent recoil; this type of smoothbore cannon was what people called the Red Barbarian Cannon. Regarding the research of cannons, the entire world was still in the smoothbore cannon stage. For this type of cannon, whether it was loading or subsequent maintenance, it was quite troublesome to fire.

However...

What they did not know was.

The cannons equipped on the Yinzhou Warships at this time were already Houtangpao... this kind of advanced Tangxianpao that would only appear almost a hundred years later. Regarding things like cannons, there had always been two types of development: one was the smoothbore cannon, and the other was the Tangxianpao. These two types of cannons had been alternating throughout history. To insist on which one was more advanced would certainly be imprecise. The main difference between smoothbore cannons and Tangxianpao lay in the rifling. And the main function of rifling was the ability to rotate the warhead, so that after the warhead left the muzzle, due to the effect of centripetal force, it could still maintain a set direction,

in order to improve accuracy.

But.

In fact, in order to improve accuracy, smoothbore cannons using fin-stabilized cannonballs could also achieve this effect. Mortar shells were like this. However, the firing chamber pressure and temperature of mortars were relatively low, and the fins of their shells were also relatively convenient to manufacture. But if one were to use them on large-caliber cannons that required higher firing chamber pressure and temperature, one would have to pay a relatively expensive price to manufacture the shell fins.

This would greatly increase the cost of the cannon.

Therefore, in various large-caliber cannons mainly used for long-range fire suppression, Tangxianpao with lower launch costs would still be used.

Only.

Most of the Tangxianpao currently used in the world were still Qiantangpao, which also allowed Qiantangpao to almost dominate wars from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century.

During this period, Houtangpao did of course appear, but due to technical limitations, the problem of gas leakage could not be easily solved.

Speaking of Qiantangpao, the most famous was naturally the Battle of Baliqiao, which brought great humiliation to the Huaxia civilization by the Qing Dynasty in Liu Zheng's previous life. Including the Battle of Dagu Fort, the British army had only twelve Armstrong cannons, and twelve cannons were enough to take down the entire Dagu Fort.

And in the Battle of Baliqiao, the ten-thousand-strong British and French allied forces used this kind of cannon to cause more than half of the thirty thousand Qing troops to be killed or wounded, while the British and French allied forces had only five dead and forty-seven wounded...

Humiliation.

This was absolutely a humiliation for the Huaxia civilization.

In the tasks Liu Zheng assigned to Mo Chen, improving cannons had always been the top priority.

He knew that although the Armstrong cannon had shone brightly several times during the national humiliation wars of that time, in reality, this kind of Houtangpao was not particularly perfect. Because the rifling, lead-coated cannonballs, and the breech-loading sealing design led to poor reliability, and problems occurred repeatedly. In the end, Britain even abandoned this type of cannon and switched back to the ancient Qiantangpao.

Therefore.

Yintan City, under the acceleration of scientific research technology, had already developed a horizontal wedge-type breechblock with excellent airtightness, which also truly allowed the "Liangzhou Cannon," this advanced Houtangpao, to mature.

And, it began to be equipped on the Yinzhou Warships.

This kind of cannon.

How could it be comparable to the Red Barbarian Cannon of this time?

Luojinsi began to discover in despair that his own cannons could not hit the opponent's ships at all, because they were too far away! Yet the opponent, long ago, could accurately land cannonballs on the wharf!

Boom— boom—!

The entire Daxi had been blasted by artillery fire, with dust flying and everything in a mess.

Before coming to Australia, Luojinsi had absolutely never thought of this.

In this world, there could actually be such a powerful navy!

There could actually be such powerful Cannons!

This...

Is this the Dragon Flame?

"Retreat, all of you retreat!"

Before the Yinzhou ships had even landed, Luojinsi was already going mad.

Retreat!

At this moment, they were all exposed within the firing range of the Yinzhou ships' artillery; how could they dare not retreat! Pop-ups are severe recently, you can click to download to avoid pop-ups.