The Rise of the Empire

The Boers are rich, really rich, and they are very willing to spend money on armaments! Bang bang, you know? It is the kind of 37MM large-caliber Maxine machine gun! Six shillings and sixpence a shell! The theoretical rate of fire of one minute can knock down a 90-pound master! The Boers bought it! The Boers also have machine guns. Let's put it this way, except for heavy artillery, the Boers' equipment level is no less than that of the British army.

It is one of the common problems of human beings to like cheap goods, but this Mr. Kruger pays more attention to cost performance. He knows that the Boer army has a limited number of people, so he needs an elite army, an army that can be as good as ten! And if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools! When Kruger heard that there were better weapons, he naturally left the old ones behind and looked at the new ones first!

After receiving Prince Ruprecht's order, Sir Anadon immediately patted his chest and assured that there would be no problems this time. Several months have passed, and the incident of the chain dropping on the training ground made him still terrified. But this time, the newly modified artillery has solved the problem of hydraulic system leakage. And the rate of fire has reached the standard of at least 10 rounds per minute!

In addition to the rapid-fire cannon, Sir Anadon, whose knife has been sharpened quickly, also prepared several kinds of stuff that Kruger would be addicted to at the sight of it! This will be a systematic product promotion! As long as you work hard, from now on the Boer army will be Bavarian weapons!

"This is our newly improved rapid-fire artillery. It can pour 10 rounds of shells on the opponent's position in one minute, and the elevation angle and left and right shooting circles are very large. If your gunner is experienced enough, you can attack the enemy behind the obstacle. It is by no means impossible. With just one cannon, you can easily suppress a 4-battery battery!" Sir Anadon said with a smile.

This artillery named M1890 75MM rapid-fire artillery is the first mass-produced artillery produced by the Southern Design Bureau. The Bavarian First Army sent it to the test site before it got it. The trajectory of this 75MML30 artillery is slightly more curved than that of the Miss 75 in history. It is a kind of howitzer, which has a certain armor-piercing ability when it is fired directly, and it is a suppression artillery with a longer range when it is fired.

With the help of Ruprecht, this artillery with a maximum elevation angle of 40 degrees has a maximum range of about 9 kilometers, which can completely suppress all artillery of the same level currently appearing! With the German-style howitzer and the high rate of fire of the French-style artillery, this weapon is definitely the most terrifying among the artillery of the same level at the same time!

In front of Kruger, accompanied by dazzling loading, locking, shooting and shelling, the gunners under Anadon fired all 20 shells in less than 2 minutes! Accompanied by the flames and gunpowder smoke of the artillery again and again, accompanied by the brass eggshells constantly jumping out from the tail of the gun, the shells weighing more than ten kilograms flew towards the distant target!

The target area 3 kilometers away was covered by a series of smoke columns, and the straw man used as a target was reduced to ashes under the fierce shelling! As the gunpowder smoke dissipated, the area of ​​thousands of square meters turned into a piece of white land! The smoke and residual flames in the air make people shudder!

"In just one minute, you can blow up two platoons of enemy troops into ashes! And at this distance, no matter if it's a machine gun or an old-fashioned artillery, they can't do anything to your artillery!" Jazz looked at the surprised Crewe Ge said with some pride.

"In addition to the powerful artillery, the mobility of this heavy artillery is also his great advantage!" Jazz said, pointing to the hollow gun mount and low gun barrel. The traverser is not a direct copy of Miss 75 in history. In addition to increasing the elevation angle of the artillery and the left and right firing range, the gun mount is redesigned, and the smaller inflatable rubber tires are used to compress the height of the artillery as much as possible. The two-legged gun mount, but still compressed the weight of the artillery to about 1150 kg! And the gun mantlet with limited meaning was removed.

This weight can be pushed by manpower when necessary. And in order to make it easier to tow by horse.

Engineers have optimized the front car carrying ammunition. When traveling, the front car equipped with ammunition is connected to the artillery, and it can be maneuvered with 6 strong military horses.

Looking at the wisp of gunpowder smoke that has not dissipated from the muzzle of the gun, Kruger nodded, his calm expression was filled with excitement, as long as one cannon can easily suppress 4 old-style cannons, for the few Boers It just fits so well. For a behemoth like the UK, there will never be enough problems, so he quietly replaced the 36 75MM Krupp camp guns he originally purchased with 24 M1890 rapid-fire guns, although the total price of the latter is the former. More than 1.5 times of that! But also to re-purchase shells.

"This artillery can be used as a division-level artillery, but if the troops are based on a battalion or company, they will lack corresponding artillery support firepower. For this reason, our Southern Design Bureau has withdrawn a new type of curved-fire artillery. Even The infantry can be easily disassembled and carried!" Then Sir Arnadon put Krueglar next to a small mortar. "This is a brand new weapon, which is fundamentally different from the previous mortars!"

"We call it the 1888 60MM mortar! Although the range is limited, only about 1200 meters, it can throw 1.5 kilograms of shells to the opponent's position at a speed of 12 rounds per minute! The weight of this launch system Only 27 kg! It can be disassembled into four parts and carried by infantry!"

As Sir Anadon introduced, he directed the staff next to him to perform a simulated operation. He put the shells with two additional launch pockets into the muzzle. With the sound of the shells sliding down, in just 2 seconds, the firing pin at the bottom of the gun tail The fuse of the cannonball was activated, and with a roar, the cannonball flew out of the muzzle at a speed of 100 meters per second, drew a curved arc in the air and landed in the distance! Then a column of smoke exploded!

"It's that simple?" Kruger rubbed his eyes and said.

"It's as simple as that, so a Boer child can be promoted to be a gunner! After dismantling the cannon, the maximum weight cannot exceed 9 kilograms! A Boer family can take it away." Krueger's expression made Sir feel very satisfaction.

"And the biggest advantage of this weapon is that the shells are very cheap, and the processing difficulty is very small. The cheap shells made of cast iron can still easily harvest the opponent's life!"

"Simple, practical, and powerful!" This is Kruger's evaluation of this weapon. Although the accuracy is a little worse, in the defensive state, the rate of fire of this artillery is higher than that of the rapid-fire gun. Opponents of firepower are deflated! And it's so small, so convenient! Ballistics are weird! A small bunker can cover the entire artillery group! Then easily kill the opponent in the blind spot of the opponent's field of vision!

"The shooting range is a little closer." When Kruger said these words, even he himself felt that it was too much. The 27KG artillery can hit 1 km. What are you not satisfied with? The sole purpose of saying this is to lower the price!

"It doesn't matter, whether you want a lighter weight or a longer range, we can satisfy you?" Jazz grinned, revealing a slightly sinister smile. Then he handed Kruger something like a steel pipe. Anyone who has read anti-(Japanese) works probably knows this thing, isn’t it just a Japanese grenadier?

Although the prince hates Japan deeply, he has to admit that the theoretical range of this kind of grenade developed by imitating the historical grenades is more than 500 meters. Dongdong, which is not as good as a rifle, is indeed the favorite of the ** silk army! Although in fact, the general effective range is only about 100 meters, but after all, it is farther than a grenade!

As for the one that hits farther and is more powerful, it is naturally the 82MM mortar! This 1889 82MM artillery shell is the backbone of the Bavarian Army's battalion-level firepower in the future. This complete set of mortars weighing 78 kg can fire six 3 kg shells to a distance of 2,000 meters in one minute.

If calculated by the direct firing distance of the artillery, this artillery can completely deal with direct firepower such as Miss 75. You know, in the tactical drills before World War I, the French could emphasize suffocating the opponent with a violent projection at a short distance of 1,000 meters.

In addition to artillery, the copycat version of the Vickers machine gun is naturally the top priority! When Kruger saw that the machine gun, which was originally similar to a small artillery, could be disassembled and carried by the infantry, he immediately decided to buy at least 30 to arm the Boer army. The Zulus massacred by machine guns are their neighbors! Kruger said that this thing has the highest priority!

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