Super Emperor of the Late Qing Dynasty

Chapter 246: Bombing the East Capital (1)

You can search for the latest chapters in Baidu for "Super Emperors Search Novels of the Late Qing Dynasty (www.soxscc.com)"!On the Dingyuan ship, all the senior navy generals who went to sea gathered together.

"Everyone, the emperor's idea is clear to everyone. We can't give up because of some difficulties. The Neon people have already lost this war."

"But they are still consuming time. If we can reach Dongdu, they can only compromise quickly. They won't do too much bargaining."

"Two hundred million taels of silver. As a dog, we have built 100 Qing-class battleships!"

"Even if we only give 30 million liang to our navy, we can build 15 ships."

Liu Buchan said to the captains' staff.

All the generals had their eyes bright when they heard this. Since it is war reparations, of course, a small part of it will be directly invested in the army and navy, which is still outside the original budget.

"En! Commander Liu is right! Everyone is thinking of ways. The first is to complete the task assigned by the emperor, and the second is to make our navy stronger."

"To hit Dongdu, the question before us first is how to approach him safely."

"To enter Dongduwan, you must go through Uraga Waterway. They have arranged a large number of fortifications and fortifications on both sides. Although these shore defense guns of up to 10 inches 240mm cannot threaten the Qing and Dongfeng classes, they have the power to other warships The threat, Dingyuan may not have much impact, but Guangyuan level is very deadly."

"Moreover, they have at least fifty torpedo boats. The Uraga waterway is very narrow and full of mines. Under such water conditions, it is very possible to rush to the side of the battleship. Large-caliber fish can even penetrate the armor of the Daiqing. "

At this time Lin Taizeng also said.

Since Dingyuan’s ships were heavily injured before, their defenses were also reduced.

"It would be nice if the destroyer of the shipyard could come out earlier. It would be easy to deal with these torpedo boats."

Lin Yongsheng couldn't help but think of Lin Taizeng's words.

Before he was "retreating" at the shipyard, the Ting engineer mentioned that they are improving torpedo boats, one is called submarine, and the other is called destroyer.This destroyer is only more than 1,000 tons, and its speed is extremely fast and can reach more than 30 knots.Equipped with small-caliber artillery and a large number of large-caliber torpedo tubes.

It's just that this destroyer needs to be driven by a diesel engine (internal combustion engine), which is still very unstable and needs to be debugged and improved.

The internal combustion engine is of course Wang Guangxu's masterpiece. Originally, the Dongfeng Battle Cruiser would use an internal combustion engine as the engine, but in order to build it ahead of time, it switched to a steam engine.

The Lishichang internal combustion engine was officially invented in 1897.So there is no experience, and constant testing is required.

And submarines have already appeared now, but because of poor performance, countries do not pay special attention to them, but they have all been invested in research and development.

The generals began to think hard about how to get rid of these nasty torpedo ships. As for the shore defense artillery, it was not a special concern.

"Oh! It would be better if the main gun's firing range was a little farther, no matter what the Uraga Waterway can reach directly outside." Tiantian Book www.tiantianshuba.com

Deng Shichang was a little irritable and couldn't help but complain.

The eyes of the two peninsulas Miura (West) and Boso (East) came out to form the Uraga Waterway, which is more than 30 kilometers away from Dongto City from the mouth of the waterway, exceeding the range of all their artillery.

Dingyuan’s 25-caliber 305, MM’s main gun has a range of 12,000 meters, while the Dongfeng-class’s 28-times 305-caliber cannon reaches more than 17,000 meters, and the 32-times-caliber 340 gun of the Daqing-class battleship reaches a terrifying 25,000 meters. .Just at the farthest range, no matter how good the sale is, there is no way to master the accuracy.

"Yeah!"

"We don't need to enter Uraga Waterway to directly attack the Eastern Capital!"

"We can't increase the range of the cannon, we can shorten the attack distance!"

Deng Shichang, who had been staring at the map suddenly, seemed to be awakened by his own words.

"Oh? How to shorten the distance?"

Everyone was attracted by his words, and they all looked at Deng Shichang.

"Look at the distance between Kamakura and the eastern capital, it's only about 20 kilometers. We have to make the resistance here first, and then fire from here. The range of the main guns of the Qing Dynasty can completely cover most of the eastern capital."

Deng Shichang's finger points to the city of Kamakura on the map.

For example, it’s a straight line from Dongdu to Kamakura, so the Sanpu Peninsula is a thick line extending directly from Kamakura. Different Kamakura is outside the Toto Bay, and the east is only kilometers away from Kamakura inside. Left and right, from the Uraga waterway entrance, Toto, and Kamakura form a right triangle.

The distance from Uraga Waterway to East Capital is the longest side of a right triangle.From Sanpu Peninsula to Kamakura and Kamakura to East are two right-angle sides.

"It is true that coverage can cover most of the eastern capital, but the population rate of the Qing Dynasty over 8 kilometers is very low, and the error may reach 1 kilometers if the distance exceeds 15,000 meters, and there is no accuracy at 25 kilometers."

Lin Yongsheng thought for a while and said.

"We don't have to worry about accuracy at all. Anyway, as long as we control the angle, no matter how we shoot, the shells will fall in the east."

"As long as it reaches their city center, it doesn't matter whether it blows into a commercial street, it hits a school, or even it hits the ground, as long as we use incendiary bombs."

"It will always cause them great losses, of course, the effect is not as good as in other cities, but it is enough."

Deng Shichang said.

"It’s very good to use this method. It’s a big deal. There will be a few volleys, 30 rounds, and 300 incendiary bombs. Even if 100 of them cause a big fire, 10 of them will hit the building gathering area, which is enough for neon people. Yes, know that most of their buildings are made of wood."

Liu Buchan nodded and said.

Other generals also recognized this method. Although this method is a bit stupid, if it comes once a day, no one can bear it...