New Ming Empire mixed in America

The acceptance of the new warship was very successful. Although Li Mingqi was a little dissatisfied with the shells, it was enough now.

And now Li Mingqi has asked the Heavy Weapons Design Bureau to conduct research on new armor-piercing projectiles.

It can't be like the naval battles during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, where soldiers can attack enemy ironclads with solid armor-piercing projectiles, right?

The Xinming Empire is not a pseudo-Qing Dynasty that can divert military expenditures to build gardens. It must pay what is due.

Otherwise, Li Mingqi would still not have a decent palace to live in, and would have to live in a fortress that is not even as good as a castle.

But with the caliber of current artillery, it is still very easy to defeat those wooden warships with only thin iron sheets.

The pointed cannonball can easily penetrate the thin hull of the opponent's ship, and then detonate the special gunpowder in the warhead to cause greater damage. (Added some aluminum powder and phosphorus)

What's more, the steel ramming angle can also give wooden battleships huge lethality, making breakout and other tactics very easy.

But it's not that useful against an ironclad ship. If you rely on a corner collision, it's easy for both sides to suffer damage.

However, now that the Xinming Empire has crude torpedoes, it is not difficult to win against the current ironclads.

Speaking of torpedoes, the torpedo launched just now completely refreshed Li Mingqi's outlook on life.

The reliability of the collision torpedo made Li Mingqi once wonder if he was blind.

After the torpedoes were launched, none of them missed the target and all hit the target ship. However, six of the ten torpedoes were bounced a long distance due to the reaction force after the impact before exploding.

The two torpedoes were not bounced off after impact. Instead, they skidded and continued to move in a direction parallel to the ship's side. Where they ended up going was not something Li Mingqi could know.

A torpedo did not explode after impact, but directly changed direction and drilled into the seabed.

Only one torpedo achieved the desired effect and successfully opened a hole below the waterline of the target ship.

"Your Majesty, we already have a plan to deal with this situation. We are going to add a hollow tip like a syringe to the head of the torpedo, and let it pierce into the enemy warship after launching..."

The researcher responsible for the torpedo design is now covered in sweat. He did not expect this situation to occur in the laboratory.

But it has already happened, so we can only remedy it immediately.

Li Mingqi nodded and said nothing more.

Originally, he wanted to customize the ceramic plate-type torpedo structure in the system.

But after the design drawing was sent, Li Mingqi saw that the other party had directly blocked him.

(It’s not that I don’t want to continue writing about using common items on Taobao to make weapons, but because I know how to seal the book after writing it...)

There is still time to improve the torpedoes, so Li Mingqi is not in a hurry.

After all, torpedoes rely on batteries to drive propellers as power. If compressed air or other mature torpedoes could be produced, this situation would not occur.

After all, the power of the Xinming Empire's torpedoes is now a little small, and it is not enough to directly penetrate the shell of wooden battleships like the torpedoes of later generations.

On the way back, Li Mingqi called Song He over and asked about some information about the battleship. After all, he was a professional.

"It's great! I think this kind of warship is simply invincible. If we face the Peruvian fleet again, I am confident that I can knock them all into the bottom of the sea without firing a single shot!"

Song He's face was full of smiles, and his mouth had not been closed since he went to sea. Everyone he saw was smiling.

Originally he was still a smiling tiger, but now he has evolved directly into a husky.

"I'm asking you if there is anything that needs improvement, such as if there are any flaws in this artillery layout."

Li Mingqi looked at Song Heguang and Shale but didn't understand what he meant, so he could only ask straightforwardly in front of the people from the battleship design bureau.

Now Song He finally understood what Li Mingqi meant, but after thinking about it for a while, he showed that silly smile again and said:

"There is nothing to be dissatisfied with. This kind of turret is very reasonable. Not only can it fire on the side, but it can also fire shells towards the bow of the ship. It has no shortcomings!"

Rubbing his temples, Li Mingqi turned back to the head of the battleship design bureau and said:

"Don't take his words seriously. You should think more about placing the turrets in the middle of the deck in a stepped arrangement."

"In that case, the gun body can be replaced with a caliber of 30 times or greater."

"There is no need for sails as long as you have them. You should think more about how to increase the horsepower of the steam turbine to make the ship run faster!"

What Li Mingqi said has actually been written on the appearance of the battleship he gave.

And what he was talking about was the layout of the later dreadnoughts.

The current battleships are intended to be used as frigates in the future, and the main force in the future will have to be dreadnoughts.

As long as the whole world is dragged into the big pit of dreadnoughts in advance, the New Ming Empire can secretly develop aircraft. When the time comes, after all countries have drained their finances to build a bunch of dreadnoughts, the New Ming Empire can send them a flight of aircraft.

Procedure.

It is estimated that the Xinming Empire at that time already had the strength to colonize the British mainland and Europe. As long as there were enough people, it could arm enough armies.

When the time comes, go to the British mainland and let those so-called gentlemen know what the real 'yellow peril' is!

Provincial people are clamoring in newspapers every day that the Xinming Empire is the initiator of another "Yellow Peril".

"By the way, is there any information coming back from Hawaii?"

Li Mingqi turned to Lu Weiming, who had become somewhat taciturn since joining Jinyiwei.

"Your Majesty, the King of Hawaii is very uncooperative with the empire's recruitment, and most of the local nobles and chiefs are believers in the church..."

After hesitating for a moment, Lu Weiming said directly: "If any country in Europe can annex them, only the Empire cannot, because we are devils in the eyes of the other party..."

"I believe that the only possibility is to regain it by force, and we must eradicate it!"

Li Mingqi knew very well the method of church infiltration mentioned by Lu Weiming.

Because this is a common method in Europe, as long as the church has a firm foothold there, it will start to destroy the original order like a cancer.

The church is not a group of religious men and women. They are an important source of intelligence for European countries.

And using this kind of soft invasion will make local people feel that joining them is a matter of course.

Similar methods were used in later generations such as movies, novels, animations, songs and other cultural invasion methods.

For example, when a small number of people born in the 1990s and 2000s mentioned the Japanese country, they had a longing or other impression, but there was no anger about the crimes committed by the other country in China.

In later generations, there may even be bullshit like fans sending condolences to a certain war criminal unit in Bangzi Country that is fighting against China.

Although it is only a small part, it is enough to illustrate the horror of cultural invasion.

Therefore, Li Mingqi was not particularly surprised by the reaction of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

"Then let the intelligence department take more action, try to figure out the local intelligence before the Royal Fleet arrives in Hawaii, and prepare for the landing of the National Defense Forces."

After giving instructions to Lu Weiming, Li Mingqi turned his attention to the sea.

Since the other party is ignorant, don't blame Li Mingqi for being cruel.

Hawaii is one of the places where the Chinese were persecuted in later generations, and it is as famous as Peru, Cuba and other places, which are all famous for persecuting the Chinese.

Taking a deep breath, Li Mingqi suppressed the nameless anger in his heart. Since he is here, he will definitely take revenge one by one.

Those bloody things cannot be brushed aside with a few insincere apologies.

Moreover, the apology is only mentioned when it concerns one's own interests. This is simply playing tricks on fools.

Is Li Mingqi a fool?

Therefore, he would rather hope that it is the Xinming Empire that pretends to apologize in the future, and does not want history to repeat itself again!