New Ming Empire mixed in America

Among the transport ships that came with the Pacific Fleet this time, there was an even stranger transport ship.

Because the ship's deck is only equipped with dozens of large launch racks.

They have an adjuster that can control the launch frame to rotate 360 ​​degrees, and an adjuster that can adjust the launch angle.

Moreover, this transport ship also has an observation helium balloon similar to a hot air balloon, which is used for battlefield observation.

In addition, the outer armor of this transport ship is thicker than that of ordinary transport ships. There are no artillery on the side of the ship, and it is only equipped with some large rotating machine guns.

To be honest, the current rotary machine guns have already caused trouble for the Royal Academy.

The largest rotary machine gun is equipped in Jinling's defense system. The muzzles of three enlarged versions of the rotary machine guns are placed side by side and are uniformly activated by a firing switch.

This is used to deal with cavalry or infantry who are charging in groups. Combined with other defensive weapons, even the National Defense Forces cannot easily take it down.

The smaller one is the ship-based rotary machine gun. This kind of machine gun has a special bulletproof steel plate and a double-jointed structure.

The smaller one is a rotary machine gun equipped to the platoon. This is a normal size and can not only be installed with a bracket for positional warfare.

The National Defense Forces even installed machine guns on tricycles, which looked like tricycles but were just bicycles.

There is a machine gunner sitting on the side truck, and next to it is the car body with two pedals, and two soldiers provide power at the same time.

Of course, this type is for patrolling, and is only used for patrolling on the highways along the empire's borders.

To this end, the Vehicle Research Institute is designing a new version of the tricycle for the border patrol, powered by an engine.

This time the Pacific Fleet was dispatched, Li Mingqi brought out all these concept warships, preparing to test whether these weird things created by the warship design bureau were useful.

When shooting new warships, the talents of the warship design bureau will always have various ideas.

Of course, we can't produce warships specifically for these weird ideas, but there is still no problem in modifying a few merchant ships.

At worst, if the idea of ​​these weird warships doesn't work, just take these merchant ships back and continue to modify them into something else.

For example, the mine-laying ship was one of their attempts. Li Mingqi had never thought of this kind of thing before. If the battleship design bureau had not come up with a prototype ship, Li Mingqi would have definitely ignored this kind of ship.

The same goes for the transport ship that is currently preparing for shooting. The launcher on it is used to launch long-range rockets.

Learn about the marine version of Katyusha!

This kind of ship is useless when traveling alone. It can sink any gunboat it encounters.

But relying on the rocket's longer range than the current naval guns of various countries, it should be effective against coastal defense guns or battleship groups.

But if the other party is on guard, it's hard to tell. Anyway, this thing is just an attempt.

If aircraft carriers appear in the future, Li Mingqi is also planning to design several ships about the same size as aircraft carriers, loaded with anti-aircraft weapons.

When the two sides go to war, Li Mingqi's fleet will be equivalent to having an air defense firepower network.

Or if it's too big, just build a bunch of small boats, and then each ship will carry several anti-aircraft weapons, which will then be mixed with the warships to act as an air defense line.

Li Mingqi didn't believe that the opponent's aircraft could outnumber his anti-aircraft boats at that time.

Of course, these are all assumptions. Li Mingqi only shared this idea with the people in the battleship design bureau.

But now it seems that the people in the battleship design bureau have taken it seriously and are planning to modify some small ocean-going merchant ships so that they can deal with enemy airships in the future.

There are even imaginative designers who plan to install shore defense guns on such small boats. Even if they can only install one, they will be able to move these small boats forward before the war begins.

No one cares about its small size, but it will definitely surprise the other party when it is fired.

During the report, Li Mingqi was stunned for a while. He really didn't know what to say to these designers who were so imaginative.

The sky was gradually getting darker, but the Katyusha ship was brightly lit, with some lights extending from the chimney of the steam engine, illuminating the entire ship as if it were daytime.

In fact, the Pacific Fleet has special marine searchlights. The oversized lampshade and dense LED lights make the range of the searchlight very far.

As the searchlight scanned the sea surface again and again, observers sat in front of professional marine telescopes to observe.

The two-meter-long rockets are installed one by one into the slots of the launcher.

Although this thing looks scary, it is actually a big cast iron shell with propellant underneath, and the warhead is filled with explosives invented by Nobel.

The cost is not even as expensive as a naval gun shell. This thing does not pursue accuracy. As long as it does not deviate too far from the impact point, an error of tens of meters is still acceptable.

After all, there are dozens of missiles fired in one salvo. Unless the idea is particularly good, two or three missiles will always hit the target.

The target of a battleship is very large, and under its coverage, even if the opponent dodges, it can still hit a few hits based on its numbers.

Maybe they won't be able to explode if they stop where they are, but they will be hit by two as soon as they dodge. After this thing is launched, even the launch personnel don't know where these rockets can land within the range.

Just like a bombing zone, whether you hit or not depends entirely on your face.

More than half an hour later, all the rockets were installed and the launchers were adjusted in place.

After this launch, the next reloading will be much faster. The preparation time just now includes the assembly time of the ammunition compartment, transmission mechanism, rocket, etc.

Before this crude rocket is launched, the propellant is not loaded into the rocket, and the same goes for the detonating device of the warhead.

"Long live Lord, everything is ready. Can we start?"

Liu Erhe rubbed his hands with some excitement. He strongly requested to take this boat with him. Ever since the last "fireworks" were set off in Peru, Liu Erhe has never forgotten that scene.

"Let's start setting off fireworks for that city called Honolulu!"

After Li Mingqi put down the telescope, he nodded to Liu Erhe.

After receiving the reply, Liu Erhe excitedly picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Your Majesty has ordered, launch!"

As his voice reached the ears of the rocket launch team members through the intercom, dozens of launch team leaders pulled heavily on the traction rope representing the launch at the same time.

A few seconds later, the tail of the rocket on the launcher began to spray flames, and the last rockets took off and flew towards the city a few kilometers away.

One kilometer is also one thousand meters. Not to mention unreliable, the hand-made version of a certain class of towers in later generations can fly nearly ten kilometers. Now the Xinming Empire has devoted its entire country to making a monkey version.

The long tail flame drew an arc in the air and fell towards the city a few seconds later.

Because the impact points were too scattered, two rockets even flew over the target area and flew towards the mountains behind the city.

There were also a few rockets that vibrated a little while flying in the air due to some small flaws in their tails. The tail flames were dragged into circles of springs and flew forward, and finally landed in a port some distance away from the city.

This kind of scene in the Xinming Empire's Pacific Fleet shocked the naval soldiers who had been cruising near the port with British warships in mind.

This was the first time they saw how beautifully cannonballs flew.