Li Huamei knew that at this moment, she had become a real polished commander. Although Li Ying had only been with her for a short time and was not yet a confidant, he was still someone she had conquered. Now he has a smiling face.
When the "female orderlies" come, it goes without saying that they are Australians who come to monitor us.
Then he thought about his crew members entering the "quarantine camp" - according to the Australians' ability to confuse people, will they still be loyal to you when they come out?
Li Huamei suddenly felt the terrible feeling that she had just been watched while taking a bath, naked and exposed to the gaze, with no way to hide.
At this point, she could only take it as it came. She comforted herself that she had to pay a price to be believed.
She was assigned to a double dormitory for single officers in the Zuoying base. Since she was the only female officer, she had the right to occupy the room to herself, which was more convenient.
But her freedom is limited to this area of less than 8 square meters. When she opens the window, she can see the sentries swimming in the base and the forest of masts in the bay. Although she can move freely in most parts of the base
, but she was not allowed to leave the Zuoying base without asking for leave, and there were many rules for asking for leave, so she simply gave up this thought.
This is almost like going to jail. Li Huamei thought to herself.
However, there is some good news amid this helplessness. The first is that the Hangzhou's modification plan, which was rejected in Lingao, was approved in Kaohsiung, including improvements in ship handling performance and enhanced firepower - except that the installation of the steering wheel is slightly complicated.
Except for some, they are all relatively simple modifications. The ship repair yards in Kaohsiung can undertake them.
Secondly, as if to relieve her boredom, on the third day after she entered the camp, someone came to inform her to participate in "surface ship officer training."
The training was conducted at the Zuoying base, and all participants were naturalized naval officers from the First Fleet. At first, Li Huamei scorned the training. She had been floating on the sea for many years. What kind of people are there?
I have encountered all kinds of things, but I have never heard that naval battles can be won by sitting in front of a table and moving a few small models around on a sand table. Not to mention that they also have to teach navigation theory - some Australians
Is there anyone better at sailing than her?
But this was a great opportunity to find out the inside story of Australians. She was very active in this regard. She was the first to come to class every day. Soon, she was attracted by something: it was a picture album. It was beautifully decorated.
Place it on a dedicated reading table in the classroom, and you must wear gloves when browsing.
The paper of the picture album was hard and thick, and it felt heavy in her arms. It contained pictures of various ships that she had never seen or heard of before. Each ship was marked with the name of the ship in detail.
, the country it belongs to and the detailed data, including tonnage, sail type, speed, weapon configuration, and manning, are densely packed and well-proportioned.
What shocked her the most were the large three-dimensional and perspective views of the ship, which detailed the structure and internal details of each ship. Li Huamei couldn't believe that the Australians could describe all the details of a ship in such detail.
They are all intuitively depicted on paper. She knows that European man-made ships have very detailed drawings, but these are the secrets of shipbuilders and ship owners, and ordinary people have no access to them.
Since this book was not allowed to be taken out of the conference room, every class day, she would come early and look through this picture album. She was mesmerized by the pictures, looking at the ships, big or small, of all kinds.
ship. I am looking forward to having a ship of my own in the future.
Later, what shocked her was not just a picture album. The Australian on the podium used a lot of difficult terminology, graphics drawn on a black board and a few simple small models.
She entered a world she had never seen before. And she never thought that in the near future, what she heard in this classroom would draw a completely different trajectory for her life.
Every day when I was giving lectures in class, I would occasionally hear the roar of cannons. No one took it seriously: Kaohsiung had already assembled many warships. There were originally a lot of ships coming and going here, but the flow was constant, and ships were constantly coming in and people were leaving the port.
Now, although ships entering and exiting the port are still frequent, Lichun and several steam-powered gunboats have never been out again. They only occasionally go to sea to go to the coast of Kaohsiung for live-fire training. They will come back the next day at most.
But on this day, the instructor in charge of the class announced that all trainees were going to observe the Navy's amphibious landing exercise today.
The amphibious landing exercise was held on a beach outside Zuoying Base. In addition to several warships of the First Fleet, there were also many large-engine, medium-engine and small-engine boats.
Standard beach landing mode: the special reconnaissance team marks the target and landing point on the shore, destroys the command center; each ship approaches the beach for shelling, transfers personnel, seizes the beach landing, controls the port, unloads artillery... Each link is linked one by one.
It's so dazzling to watch.
For someone like Li Huamei, although she came with the purpose of collecting intelligence, the gap in knowledge made her sensitivity to intelligence gathering too low. As a result, she could only watch the entire exercise as a lively event. Although she was
During the exercise, she saw a lot of new things and special tactics that she didn't usually see, which made her feel very fresh and shocked, but she didn't see any clues from them.
However, observing the landing drills still allowed her to draw a clear conclusion: the Australians will launch a landing battle in the near future: the target is likely to be Zheng Zhilong.
This information is very important. But she can't pass it on to her sister. Besides, the life and death of the Zheng family is not important to her. And looking at the strength of the Australian navy and army to conquer the mountains and rivers, it is not a big suspense about who will win. Even if
Even a young lady would not bet on a force that was about to be destroyed.
I remembered that a few months earlier, the lady had said to herself: "Liu Xiang is finished. Sooner or later he will be destroyed in the hands of Zheng Zhilong and the Australians. We don't need to do business with them anymore." So now she can also say the same:
"The Zheng family is finished. They will be destroyed by the Australians sooner or later. There is no need for us to do business with them anymore."
For the veterans in Kaohsiung, this landing exercise means that a full-scale war against the Zheng family is imminent. The two special reconnaissance teams transferred in before summer were for early intelligence collection, so this time they were transferred from Hong Kong
The Marine Corps is the official combat force.
Shi Zhiqi came to Kaohsiung in a low-key manner, and with him there was a newly formed naval unit in Hong Kong. The public name to the outside world is "Shi Detachment", and the official name is the First Marine Expeditionary Team - this expeditionary team.
The organization is new, not only the organization is new, the weapons are also new.
All members of the Marine Corps are no longer equipped with the Mini rifle, the standard equipment of the Fubo Army, but a new and more powerful rifle: the Hall-type barrel rifle.
The Hall-type barrel rifle is the primary version of the breech-loading rifle: this gun has a liftable breech. When loading, put the whole paper bag bullet into the breech and then close it. The flash cap is placed on
The fire door is actually a metal cartridge case fixed to the gun.
The barrel-type rifle fires much faster than a muzzle-loading gun. The disadvantage is that the breech is leaking, and the range and power are reduced. It is not as good as the theoretically backward muzzle-loading rifle. In fact, before the invention of metal cartridges,
All breech-loading rifles have this problem. However, facing enemies who lacked effective long-range penetration weapons in the 17th century, this problem was not a big problem. Secondly, the machinery factory said that it can be improved by improving the processing accuracy, brass wedge-shaped joint surfaces and curved
Locking parts are used to alleviate this problem - after all, mechanical enthusiasts are tired of always making the same Mini rifles. Those who work in this industry have the urge to make their own weapons and want to get some higher-end equipment.
But the idea of enjoying the speed of a breech-loading gun without metal fixed-loading ammunition is very tempting: Although the Mini bullet solves the problem of difficulty in loading, the loading method of the front-loading rifled rifle is still the same as in the past: insert the paper cartridge case
Tear off the bottom, pour the propellant into the paper cartridge case from the muzzle, insert the warhead with a purge bar, press the hammer, place the flash cap on the fire door, aim, and pull the trigger. 2 to 3 rounds per muzzleloader.
The rate of fire refers to this method. In an emergency, you can also stuff the entire paper cartridge case into the gun chamber, install the flash cap and fire directly. Since the propellant is wrapped in the paper case, it increases the risk of slow fire or misfire.
rate. This often happens in training and actual combat. In comparison, the rate of fire of a barrel-type rifle using paper shells can reach 7 to 10 rounds/minute. If higher quality granular black powder is used, Hall
The rifle can even fire more than thirty rounds continuously without cleaning the chamber. This is also an advantage over the Mini rifle.
Of course, the biggest advantage is that the Mini guns currently widely equipped by the army and navy can be easily converted into Hall-type rifles by modifying the tail of the bolt, and the production line does not need to be adjusted much - except for a few more Mini-type rifles.
Except for parts that require slightly higher processing accuracy, the basic production performance is close.
Although the technological leap of the Hall rifle is not large and can only be regarded as a small step in the development of the military industry, the cost of taking this small step is not large, but the power can be doubled. It is in line with the low-cost improvement of the Executive Committee
ideas.
After Lin Shenhe’s continuous activities and advocacy, this small-scale improvement measure was finally implemented before Operation Engine, and a batch of rifles were modified on a small scale: all of them were equipped with the Navy. Shi Zhiqi used the Hong Kong detachment as a model and proposed
An experimental naval force with independent amphibious strike capabilities coincides with Lin Shenhe's proposal to establish a new standard model test force.