Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 185 Good News

   consecutive days

  The guests in the Red Fort are like clouds and the crowd is full of friends.

  The Lord Earl of Queensland held a grand welcome banquet for his cousin Gu Zhiwen, which really gave a lot of face, and made the Gu mansion and his party particularly satisfied.

  Li Fushou's doing this also has another meaning, that is, to calm the internal house turmoil.

  A more courtesy to the mother’s family, as long as Mrs. Gu Liuyan's heart is okay, then the house will naturally be clear.

  A few days later

  The young talent Tang Shaoyi accepted the Red River Valley solicitation, and was the first to enter the Secretariat to familiarize himself with government affairs and use it as a personal first-level secretary. This is a symptom before all the young talents in Red River Valley are ready to use them.

  Ma Xiangbo, a master of Chinese studies, accepted a large sum of money and was pleased to take up the post of president of Red River Valley University. His profound knowledge of Chinese studies will surely bring a strong Chinese cultural atmosphere to this institution of higher learning.

  Chen Shiheng, who is proficient in the business of the bank, accepted courtesy as the treasurer of the accounts in the Red Fort, responsible for some private account transactions, investment dividends, the income of the Red River Valley Reservoir and the payment of money.

  Other young talents who should be full of poems and books enter the Red River Valley University to teach, or enter the affiliated high schools to teach, and select their outstanding ones to join the secretariat to supplement the low-level secretarial team. They all have their own places.

  Other talents of all kinds who came with the Taishan wheel soon integrated into the society unhappily, and played their role imperceptibly.

  The wandering monk hangs up on the Dan Zen Temple, and the Taoist people in Youfang are missing. After a few years, they can find an aura of immortal mountain and build a new Taoist temple to spread the words of the Dao.

  No matter whether there is a family of Liyuan, or artisans of all colors, there are three ways to survive.

  In the flourishing hot land of Red River Valley, everyone can find their own destination and position, and quickly integrate into social life.

  Li Fushou has no time to take care of other things now, because the deep blue alchemy workshop has amazingly good news;

  The new fast gun that has been painstakingly developed for nearly two years has finally overcome many technical difficulties and came out shiningly.

  Dark Blue Alchemy Workshop

  A new type of artillery with a cold steel color was placed quietly in the courtyard. A group of people gathered around it and pointed, talking excitedly.

  This new type of artillery uses the barrel of the French Mle187595mm field cannon, the screw-type breech bolt improved by French engineer Raitolle, the sturdy base wheel and the **** structure, but it is very different.

  Under the original barrel, there is an extra large retreat structure, just like two barrels are stacked upright, except that the steel barrel below is shorter.

  This is the world's first flexible gun mount artillery. Its rate of fire, firing accuracy and maneuverability are greatly improved compared to the rigid mount structure of the same caliber gun.

  It is an epoch-making weapon that can pour a large amount of firepower to a precise target in a short period of time, and cause major damage to the enemy.

  Li Fushou stroked the cold barrel and seemed to be able to feel the terrifying explosive power contained in this new 95mm artillery. Waves of excitement in his heart came and filled his heart.

  Owning this big killer that has been ahead of the time for more than ten years has added a huge confidence to him, but no wealth can be exchanged.

  Li Fushou himself did not understand mechanical design. His advanced concept and a group of pragmatic German experts actually made this epoch-making invention.

  From here to that

  Since this road of scientific and technological research and development can work, we must increase scientific and technological research and development in the future, hoping to incubate more advanced technology products such as tanks, cars, airplanes and so on.

   will undoubtedly play a huge role in the future development of the Red River Valley, and the transformation of science and technology into advanced productivity will have a far-reaching impact.

  Look around

  Full of sense of accomplishment, everyone in the German R&D expert group present can feel the different excitement on their faces, and they are very excited.

"Mr. Grezka, congratulations on your achievement that can be called an epoch-making achievement. The successful development of new artillery changes not only the artillery tactics popular in the world today, but also changes the course of war and the development of artillery in the world. It will be recorded in the annals of history and become the eternal glory of the family."

  In the face of success, Li Fushou did not hesitate to praise, and his encouragement made the German expert group present more excited, and the scene was filled with joy.

In today's world

Rifles and artillery are the kings who dominate the land, and they are also the most important weights in the war. The shining appearance of the new 95mm artillery has a huge advantage over the old rigid artillery. There is no doubt that it will soon become the warfare. main character.

"Thank you for your beautiful words, Honorable Earl, the new type of artillery can achieve such a great achievement, derived from your genius, we just realized it." Baron Grezka was very humble. , But the excitement on his face couldn't be concealed.

   "In that case, we have to thank the Da Vinci manuscript." Li Fushou smiled and waved his hand. This honor is like a breeze for him, don't worry.

  He changed the front and said; "I am very interested to know how do you solve the problems in the R&D process?"

  When talking about his mechanical design expertise, Baron Grezka was much more talkative, and he answered by touching the retreat mechanism under the 95mm barrel with his hand;

  "Your Honorable Earl;

  Two major problems that plague us, one is the problem of sealing rubber material, and the other is the problem of eliminating the huge instantaneous kinetic energy after the artillery is launched.

  The first problem, we finally found a solution by comparing special rubber products for heavy steam hydraulic machinery around the world.

  That is the special rubber produced by DuPont of the United States that is resistant to high temperature, high pressure and instantaneous pressure, which can fully meet the demanding requirements of artillery launching. It has now been applied to our retreating machine design.

  After using DuPont’s special rubber gaskets, the new artillery has been completely transformed and has become the unquestioned king of the times.

  Compared with the mainstream artillery of the current era;

The average rate of fire of the British Armstrong breech gun is two rounds per minute, and the rate of fire of the legal Mle187595mm field cannon is three rounds per minute.

  The new 95mm rapid-fire gun equipped with a retreat machine does not need to be pushed back to the gun position. It can fire nine shells per minute, and the explosive state can reach an amazing firepower of fifteen rounds, which is almost 5 times the former.

  This is an unprecedented achievement in military history. The new type of artillery can destroy all enemies with dense projectiles, just like platoon guns.

  The second difficulty is the huge instantaneous kinetic energy when the artillery is launched.

Through accurate calculations, we improved the design dozens of times, extended the stroke of the hydraulic parking machine, used high-viscosity hydraulic oil, gradual internal cavity structure and other technical measures, and finally solved this big problem and achieved perfect results. .

without any exaggeration

  Even if thousands of shells are fired in a short time, the retractor structure of the new artillery is reliable and trustworthy.

If you want to really test the limit state of the new artillery, I am afraid that Lord Earl will have to approve a large sum of money for the purchase of no less than 3000 rounds for testing purposes. This is only the cost of a test artillery. If data is needed To be accurate, there should be at least 6 to 8 guns for testing. "

  3000 shells?

  Li Fushou rolled his eyes when he heard that, a shell using high-explosive ammunition is worth two pounds, 12 shillings and 5 pence. How much is 3,000 shells?

  A gun is tested for almost 8,000 pounds, and a few cannons can be purchased for a light cruiser only for the cost of testing, and other losses have not been calculated.

  Sure enough, the military industry is a big money-burner, and it costs so much to have a definite R&D goal. If you don’t mind a test to explore possible technical paths, the money spent can be lost.

"Ahem, for the time being, three cannons will be produced for testing. Does it save some use? Each test cannon is equipped with 500 rounds of ammunition to test the reliability and other performance of the artillery. As for the mass production conditions, it is temporarily unavailable. Let's talk about the next step when the technology is mature." Li Fushou bit the bullet and agreed.

The manufacturing cost of the existing parking machine is staggering. It was produced by the Hongshan Shipyard with dozens of experienced workers, one part and one part, and it took more than two months to produce a qualified one. Machine, the cost is completely incalculable.

  If mass production is required, relevant industrial production equipment must be imported, which is almost the same as the previous new artillery production line.

  Because of the precise structure of the booster and the performance requirements of the high-quality steel used for forging, it is not at all lower than the production of artillery barrels, and it is more complicated and trivial.

  There is no ready-made equipment in today's world. It can only be improved with advanced artillery production lines, and self-developed equipment for deficiencies is used for large-scale industrial production.

During this process

  There will be countless technical problems that need to be overcome, ranging from two to three years as short as four to five years as long as they are not accomplished overnight.

  Small-scale laboratory products that spare no expense are different from large-scale industrial production.

  New artillery products must have performance advantages, but also have a potential broad market, a certain cost-effective advantage, and the price cannot be as high as the sky.

  All these have restricted the introduction of artillery production lines. Australia itself has little demand. Without a large number of external orders, it is not worth introducing new artillery production lines. The artillery production lines are not even cost-sufficient to operate, not to mention huge R&D investment.

  Li Fushou stood next to the new artillery with his hands in his hand, listening to the introduction of related technologies.

   While introducing, Baron Grezka gently stroked the cold steel creation with his hand, just like touching the skin of a lover, his eyes were full of obsession.

A layman can never understand the feelings in the heart of a man of science and engineering. It can be pinned on boring numbers, on cold steel machinery, or even on the curve of research on ship wave resistance, day in and day out. Dedicated youth and endless energy, exploring the unknown mystery, this is a mysterious straight male feeling.

  But Baron Grezka was so affectionate, still a little bit spicy.

  Li Fushou retracted his gaze, looked around the new type of artillery, and then suddenly asked; “Mr. Grezka, I think it’s solid enough, how heavy is this beautiful baby?”

   "Uh...It weighs 12,700 pounds now, which is indeed heavier." Grezka replied hesitantly.

  After adding a heavy retreating machine structure, the weight of the new artillery has increased by almost 2/5 compared to the prototype, and it looks exceptionally solid.

   "Oh, so heavy?"

  Li Fushou quickly converted it in his mind. The weight is almost 5.2 tons. Two horses can't be pulled. They must be mounted behind a heavy four-horse cart.

  The heavy four-horse cart can only run on hard roads because of its heavy weight. It is difficult to enter the wild, which greatly affects the mobility of this type of artillery.

  The new type of artillery is too heavy to be used as a naval gun, fortress gun or line gun, but it can’t be used as a field gun.

  Once such a heavy artillery gets stuck in the muddy grass, even 20 people cannot move it. This is a fatal flaw.

   Then drag and drop will work?

The answer is no, because dragging is not a problem of 5.2 tons. For every centimeter of the artillery sinking into the mud, the resistance becomes greater, and the required dragging force increases sharply. This is the same for field artillery. Disaster.

   "The 95mm gun is too heavy, is there any way to reduce the weight?" Li Fushou asked thinking.

  Baron Grezka showed a look of embarrassment, and looked back at the members of the German expert group around him, saw that they all shook their heads without saying a word, hesitated and replied;

  "Honorable Earl, it is very difficult to realize your request, and it is almost impossible with the existing technical capabilities of our research group.

  Among the four major components that make up the weight of the new artillery, they are the barrel, the parking machine, the gun mount and the gun wheel.

First of all, the new type of artillery uses the legal Mle187595mm field cannon barrel. Red River Valley has no manufacturing capabilities. We also cannot know the physical design limits of this type of barrel. There are also many secret manufacturing performance indicators. The expert team does not have the ability to modify it. design.

  Secondly, the retreating machine is a product that has been carefully designed and rigorously demonstrated by us. Any reduction in weight will inevitably affect its rigid structure and performance. It is difficult to cope with frequent and severe working conditions, which will inevitably lead to a greatly reduced artillery life and performance.

  The third item is the gun mount. We can optimize the design for it, but the weight reduction effect may not be obvious.

  The fourth item is hard steel gun wheels. Nowadays, solid rubber wheels are widely used. This is the direction that can be improved and can save a lot of weight.

  To sum up; the weight reduction design can reduce part of the weight, but the effect is not obvious.

  Please forgive my outspokenness. Science is a rigorous work. You cannot lose weight because you need to lose weight. This is against the laws of science. "

"Well, it's better to optimize the design as much as possible. If you can reduce some weight, reduce some." Li Fushou also felt a headache, and went around the artillery circle and circle, thinking of something in a trance, and couldn't remember it eagerly. This makes him quite depressed.

  Every day is so busy that it is difficult to have time to calm down and think.

  (End of this chapter)