Valley Emperor

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Major General Lu Yuze muttered as he spoke, there was no chance for Colonel Ge Chengbin to interject at all!

Watching him fumbling around, Ge Chengbin reckoned that if the battleship hadn't been moored at the dock, he would have tried to fire a shot!

"Let's go, let's go and look at the 100mm gun. I heard that it is made of metal fixed-load bullets, and even the shells are brass!"

At this time, Ge Chengbin finally had a chance to speak: "Yes, that new gun uses metal fixed-load ammunition, and the rate of fire is extremely fast!"

There is one more thing he didn't say: it's quite expensive!

In just a few minutes, they looked at the rear-mounted gun with a 100mm and 35 times the size. After taking a closer look, Major General Lu Yuze said, "The gun is a good gun, but the tube is a little smaller!"

Ge Chengbin said: "Although the caliber is smaller, the firepower is still considerable, especially when dealing with unprotected targets!"

Lu Yuze looked up and down and saw these two main artillery pieces. He also looked at the 75mm secondary artillery and the 40mm artillery piece. These two artillery pieces were used for close-range self-defense missions, not for attacking ships. task.

But Lu Yuze was obviously very interested in the 40mm artillery, and while watching it, he said that the people in the ordnance department were really lazy and used a big gun as a close-up gun.

Because the design of this thing is so weird!

The 40mm gun that the Datang Navy is currently equipped with is not strictly a traditional artillery gun, but more like a breech-loading rifled gun with a large caliber.

And it uses a bolt-action loading similar to the Army's rear-loading rifle, and the way of feeding the magazine from the magazine, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a gun, not an artillery.

In order to resist the recoil, they adopted a simple method of eliminating violence, directly fixing the gun mount to the hull, and relying on the hull of the steel structure to resist the recoil.

After the recoil is resisted by the hull, naturally there is no problem of artillery reset.

This thing is actually enlarged by the Navy based on the bolt-action rifle under development, but it uses a metal fixed-loading ammunition and a magazine feeding structure.

It's not the same thing as the various small-caliber rapid-fire guns in the original time and space.

However, this 40mm artillery can still shoot more than ten shells per minute, and it fires grenades. Although the accuracy is a little worse, the rate of fire is fast, and the power of the grenades is not bad.

For those unprotected targets of small tonnage, the lethality is quite good.

At least it is much stronger than 75mm, 100mm and other artillery.

The Datang Navy also held the mentality of this kind of simple and crude artillery, which was cheap anyway, used if it could be used, and used as a display if it couldn’t be used. Basically, it was equipped on many battleships.

The only pity for the Navy is that only this small-caliber artillery can do this. If the caliber is too large, even a steel hull can hardly resist recoil.

As for the gun mount reset technology and even the gun barrel reset technology that is being developed, that thing is still extremely immature, and the Navy dare not equip it with a thing that will fall apart after one hit.

The naval guns on the Colombo were the focus of Rear Admiral Lu Yuze's visit. As for other things, he didn't bother to look at them, because they were not very different from other battleships.

Speaking of power, it’s not that fast. It’s only 16 knots. Although the endurance is good, in order to save coal during sailing, the Datang Navy generally requires sail-powered warships to use low power for daily sailing. Running the engine and sailing together with the sails, although the speed is only seven or eight knots, it is enough.

The Colombo set off from the mainland to Ceylon, and its sails are not small, but the coal consumption is not too much.

After seeing Colombo, he ran to see two new frigates.

For these two frigates, Major General Lu Yuze focused more on the hulls themselves.

Because the two Xinnan-class frigates, in a sense, can be regarded as the second new type of warships in the Datang Navy, except for the Luzon, which were designed to install rear-mounted naval guns from the very beginning.

Its hull design greatly refers to the Luzon, and like the same new generation of armored cruisers, a large number of watertight compartments increase reserve buoyancy, and begin to use coal bunkers as a means of protection, and the deployment between ammunition compartments and naval guns is also Very reasonable, and much more perfect than a halfway refit like the Colombo.

Although its power is weak and its protection is more slag, its hull design, cabin layout and naval gun layout are quite reasonable.

To be honest, these two Xinnan-class frigates, which are only 1,200 tons and are not expensive, can reflect the huge industrial production capacity of the Datang Navy.

Because this thing the Navy is planning to produce dozens of dozens of ships.

There is a voice within the Navy, that is, to increase the number of ocean-going warships of the Navy to more than 200 to meet the needs of controlling global sea dominance.

The ocean-going warships here refer to the four major types of ships: battleships, armored cruisers, cruisers, and frigates, because only these warships in the Datang Navy can travel across the oceans to fight.

Among them, the cost of the battleship is extremely expensive, and a cost of more than 2.5 million is destined to be impossible to build.

Armored cruisers are cheaper than battleships, but they cost millions.

This also means that the Datang Navy cannot rely on battleships and armored cruisers to maintain its fleet size, but can only rely on a large number of cruisers and frigates.

In fact, even cruisers are not cheap. A cruiser of more than 2,000 tons costs about 400,000 yuan. Therefore, the Datang Navy has always used cruisers as the avant-garde fleet of the main fleet, or as the flagship of the frigate fleet. It's not actually too many.

The only ocean-going warship that can support the huge scale of the Datang Navy is the frigate, and it must be a cheap frigate. This is the foundation of the Datang Navy's successive development, construction and large-scale service of Qinzhou-class frigates, Haizhou-class frigates, and Xinnan-class frigates. reason.

For frigates with dozens of ships built at every turn, how to reduce costs as much as possible while maintaining a certain combat effectiveness and nautical performance is a huge challenge, and it will not be simpler than building battleships.

The Xinnan-class frigate, to some extent, reflects the most advanced industrial base of Datang.

Don't look at other people's weak firepower and performance scum, but it is a serious high-tech product.

As one of the senior generals in the navy, Rear Admiral Lu Yuze naturally knew the importance of frigates, so even though the two Xinnan-class frigates were inferior to the Colombo cruiser in every aspect, he still looked at Jingjing with interest.

Naturally, Ge Chenbin and the others didn't know about Lu Yuze's thoughts. Anyway, they accompanied Lu Yuze to visit everywhere, but Lu Yuze's visit was not the last one.

The next day, many admirals who heard the news came to visit these three new warships. Even the commander-in-chief of the Indian Ocean Fleet, Admiral Chang Zhilan, and the fourth fleet commander, Lieutenant General Jiang Rongfa, came to see them. .

After all, these three battleships are the first batch of cruisers and frigates equipped with rear-mounted guns in the Datang Navy, except for battleships and armored cruisers, and there are not many of them. Except for these three ships, the others are still in the country. .

Today, in the entire Indian Ocean, including the Atlantic Ocean, and even all the overseas territories of the Tang Empire, there are only three warships equipped with rear-mounted guns, so everyone is quite curious.

At the same time, I also want to get familiar with it in advance, so as to accumulate experience for the large-scale acceptance and use of rear-mounted naval guns in the future.

This turned Ge Chenbin into a tour guide, explaining the various equipment on the Colombo, especially the rear-mounted guns, to the naval colleagues who were visiting the ship.

The large number of senior generals of the navy continued to visit the Colombo, but in the eyes of the generals on the army side, they all showed contempt.

"A group of navy turtles who have never seen the world, they are just rear-mounted guns, so what?"

Major General Gu Zhen, the commander of the 18th Division, did not hide his contempt for the navy in the slightest.

On the side, Major General Ji Guicai, the commander of the 53rd Division, snorted and did not answer.

But this does not mean that he disagrees with Gu Zhen's statement, on the contrary, he quite agrees: These navies are just a bunch of unseen idiots~www.wuxiaspot.com~ hillbilly!

The reason why he didn't say it was because his 53rd Division was a unit stationed on Ceylon Island for a long time and had to deal with the navy every day. .

However, the contempt in my heart still exists, but I just don't say it.

However, Major General Gu Zhen has no such scruples. His 18th Division was dispatched from the mainland to support the Indian operations. He only stayed on the island of Ceylon for a while to rest, and after a while, he would take a boat together to go there. Tomo Prefecture, make preparations, and then launch a large-scale military operation.

It doesn't take long to stay in Ceylon, and it can't be used to give face to those in the Navy!

As for relying on the navy to maintain supplies, the army is really not afraid of the navy not cooperating.

I thought that it was not the Navy but the Joint Logistics Command that was currently responsible for transporting supplies to the overseas territories and garrisoned troops. The Army did not say that it came by the Navy's transport ships, but the transport fleet of the Joint Logistics Command.

On the navy's side, at best, it's just a escort.

But Gu Zhen believes that the **** of the navy is not necessary, because the armed force of the combined transport fleet itself is enough to crush any indigenous people.

These transport ships also have a small amount of guns. This small amount is small for naval warships, but it is much larger for indigenous sampans.

Even if **** is really needed, the army itself has maritime **** divisions, so there is no need for naval escort.

In addition to the first marine transport division established by the army in the past, in recent years it has also established a so-called second marine **** division. As the name suggests, this **** division is not a pure transport ship, but a battleship.

Of course, the Army doesn't call it a warship, the Army calls it a 'maritime chariot'.