Chapter 435: The shelling competition!

After Mao Huihui, Huang Shijun, Zhang Shenggao and Zhang Xuehai were almost tied with each other. Judging from Tian Hengdao's perspective, it was almost impossible to tell which of the three ships was first and which one after. Therefore, the final ranking was Mao Huihui first, Huang Shijun, Zhang Xuehai and Zhang Shenggao tied with each other. The others could only be ranked fifth and fifth.

Huang Shijun and the others were quite satisfied with such achievements. They were indeed not very familiar with the details of Cangshan Boat and could not fully display its performance. They were able to accept it by Mao Huihui in front of them. After all, Mao Huihui did have real skills. In fact, being able to squeeze into the top three among these proud guys has already completed the task smoothly.

"You guys are pretty!"

Sure enough, after the game, Mao Huihui rarely stretched out his hand to Huang Shijun, which was a sign of accepting them. Zhang Xuehai and Zhang Shenggao and others, and then congratulated Huang Shijun and others. Huang Shijun and others naturally stretched out their hand and shook hands with Mao Huihui and others. At this point, Huang Shijun and others were officially recognized by the Hu Ben Army Navy.

Huang Shijun and the others were very moved about this. Even if they were old people from the Tianjin Navy, they had to keep working hard to gain a foothold in the Huben Navy! In the Huben Navy, what they needed is a real person who did things. There was no market for eating and waiting to die here. If you were not careful, you would be abandoned by everyone. Many people are desperately trying to improve their abilities. If you are not careful, you may be squeezed down by others. Mao Huihui and the others have only been trained for a year, at most, and they have such skills. They have been immersed in the Tianjin Navy for many years.

Of course, what Zhang Zhun studied this time was mainly about his ability to navigate near-sea, not including long-sea navigation. Relatively speaking, Huang Shijun and his ability to navigate far-sea should be better than Mao Huihui and others. Mao Huihui and others have not had the chance to really enter the depths of the sea.

"very good!"

"I am very satisfied with your performance!"

Zhang Zhun was very satisfied with the results of the competition just now, so he naturally did not hesitate to praise him.

The Navy invested a lot of money, so naturally the stronger the better, and the more talents the better. He planned all of them. Every year, the Navy would hold such a sailing competition, just like a military competition of the Army. It would form regulations to constantly stimulate every soldier and actively improve his strength.

"Now, we're going to play the second level."

After pondering for a while, Zhang Zhun continued.

What is the content of the second level?

Of course it was a shelling.

For warships, besides controlling ships, the most important thing is artillery bombardment.

As the artillery technology continues to mature, the status of artillery bombardment becomes more and more important in large-scale naval battles. Fighting methods such as jumping gangs and platoon battles will gradually withdraw from the stage of history. The strength of the British Navy is to rely on powerful artillery to overthrow the world and the ocean. Zhang Zhun wants to vigorously develop artillery in front of the British Navy.

There are three flying dragon cannons on both sides of each Cangshan boat. Each Cangshan boat shoots five rounds of fire at the target area, that is, fifteen solid bullets. Then calculate the results according to the number of solid bullets hits. The shooting distance is about one hundred feet (about 330 meters). The target area is set on the flat ground west of Tianheng Island, where there is a puddle of three or four feet in radius. The solid bullet falls into the puddle and splashes, even if it hits.

"Do you have any questions?" Zhang Zhun asked Huang Shijun and others.

"Not yet." Huang Shijun and others answered cautiously.

Zhang Zhun nodded gently.

From Huang Shijun's answer, Zhang Zhun heard that they were not very confident about artillery. Obviously, when they were in the Tianjin Navy, they should not be able to train artillery regularly. Considering that even the cannons were removed and sold, I believe that the situation of the Tianjin Navy would not be much better. In other words, they should not have enough resources to conduct artillery training. Fortunately, the overall structure of the flying dragon cannon is no essential difference from the ordinary Folang machine cannons, and it is not difficult for Huang Shijun and others to operate.

Zhang Zhun gave each ship half an hour to prepare.

After the contest just now, everyone became more enthusiastic. Mao Huihui and others even rolled up their sleeves and prepared to do a big fight. Although Zhang Zhun announced that this shelling match was just a friendly match, they still had the intention of competing with Huang Shijun and others.

Half an hour later, Zhang Zhun said in a deep voice: "Are you ready?"

Everyone replied in unison: "It's ready."

Zhang Zhun nodded, waved the pennant in his hand, and shouted decisively: "Start!"

According to the results of drawing lots, the first one to get up was Zhang Shenggao's No. 007 ship.

The Cangshan boat slowly entered the shooting position and aimed its starboard position at the target area.

"Bang!"

In a moment, the first flying dragon cannon was fired.

Unfortunately, I didn't hit it.

"Bang!"

After a while, the flying dragon cannon continued to fire.

"Plop!"

The water splashed and hit.

This solid bullet landed on the left side of the puddle.

Then, other flying dragon cannons continued to shoot based on this flying dragon cannon.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Three consecutive shots, all hit.

"good!"

"good!"

Zhang Zhun applauded and applauded with satisfaction.

Zhang Zhun has done a special study on artillery techniques in naval combat. There are two types of artillery methods in naval combat. One is the most common one, with each flying dragon cannon aiming, and each gunner is manipulated by its own gunners, commonly known as free shooting. The second one is relatively rare, which is aiming one cannon, and other cannons are fired with reference to this cannon, commonly known as quasi-volley. Because there is no electrical control equipment, it is impossible to fire at the same time, so it can only be called quasi-volley.

Free shooting requires all gunners to have high requirements, and all gunners are required to master the various parameters of shooting and be able to adjust them in time according to the target. The requirements for quasi-volley fire are relatively low. As long as an excellent gunner sets the shooting parameters, other gunners can handle them according to this parameter. This greatly reduces the technical requirements for gunners, helps to expand the fleet in a short time and enhance the artillery power of warships. Generally speaking, as long as a warship has three skilled gunners, it basically meets the needs.

In 1588 AD, in the battle between the British fleet and the Spanish Invincible Fleet, Spain had much more skilled gunners than the British fleet, but in the end it failed to the British fleet. One of the important reasons was that the British fleet adopted this quasi-volley method, which effectively made up for the defects in the number of gunners. When the battle was stalemate, the gunners of the Spanish Invincible Fleet lost part of the gunners, the shelling effect was greatly reduced, while the skilled gunners of the British fleet did not suffer much loss. One of them grew and the other was declining, and the British fleet gradually gained the upper hand.

Therefore, after careful research, Zhang Zhun decided to implement a quasi-volley shooting method, and a most wise gunner was responsible for determining the parameters, and the other gunners all fired according to the parameters of this gunner. In other words, the other gunners no longer had autonomy. What they had to do was mechanical actions, set the cannon according to the shooting parameters sent, and then shoot blindly.

Zhang Shenggao's first two cannons were calibrating the landing point. As long as you find the landing point and form the basic parameters, other cannons can use this parameter to shoot. Generally speaking, as long as you find the appropriate parameters, the hit rate can be greatly improved.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Sure enough, in the subsequent shooting, four solid bullets hit.

Among the fifteen shells, eight shots hits are already a very high hit rate. Other solid bullets that did not hit either make an error when setting parameters, or the parameters are incorrect due to the recoil influence of other cannons when firing. But overall, Zhang Zhun is already very satisfied with such hit rate.

"good!"

“Good!”

Zhang Zhun is also not stingy with his praise.

The next one to appear is Huang Shijun's ship No. 004.

The Cangshan boat slowly entered the shooting position.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

After a moment, three flying dragon cannons were fired one after another.

Only one shot hit, and the other two shots missed.

It turned out that Huang Shijun and others used traditional free shooting, with each gunner mastering the parameters themselves. As a result, the landing points of the shooting were uneven, and some were even hundreds of meters away from the target area, almost landing in the sea next to them.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Soon after, three flying dragon cannons continued to fire.

Still, only one shot hit, and the others missed.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Then, three flying dragon cannons were continuously fired.

However, their shooting effect was obviously not satisfactory. In the end, only four of the fifteen shells hit. Compared with Zhang Shenggao's eight rounds, the hit rate was half lower. The error was quite large. There were actually three shells that fell into the sea next to them, with a difference of more than 100 meters. Huang Shijun and others were ashamed of such a result. But there was no way, they had already worked hard. The original Tianjin Navy did not have enough resources at all, nor did they have the conditions to train their artillery technology.

Because the results of the shelling were really not good, after the arrival, Huang Shijun and others felt ashamed. They all lowered their heads and felt embarrassed to meet people. Fortunately, Zhang Zhun encouraged them and their mood was a little better. Zhang Zhun asked them to train more shelling techniques in the future, and of course they could not ask for it.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Then, warships continued to step forward and shoot.

They all use quasi-volley shooting methods. As long as the landing point is calibrated, the hit rate is basically stable at about 40% to 50%. Among them, the best score is nine hits, and the worst one is six hits. Overall, the difference is not very big.

The main reason for the error is that the Cangshan hull is small in size and the recoil has a great impact on the ship. In other words, if you change to a larger sword-tooth ship or a Black Dragon ship in the future, the recoil has a reduced impact on the ship and there is still room for improvement in the hit rate.

Amid the rumbling cannons, someone sent emergency information.

Zhang Zhun read the information and said to himself: "Da Songwei?"

Zhou Zhengyu immediately leaned over and said expectantly: "Sir, do you have a task?"
Chapter completed!