The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 178 Plagiarism of Military Technology

Because of this, howitzers had already been flying all over the European battlefield, causing unimaginably tragic casualties to the dense line phalanx, but the navy was still conservative and did not dare to put flower bombs, that is, grenades, on it.

At most, put a few bombardment guns on the low-cost inland river and offshore gunboats, or the ships with the smallest tonnage...

After all, only this kind of ship will not feel too distressed if it sinks in a mistake.

Moreover, the wind and waves in the river are far lower than the sea, and the probability of accidents with bombardment guns will be much lower.

You know, on a turbulent ocean battleship, the probability of bombardment bombing is many times higher than that of land howitzers!
Fortunately, Yuri was considered a pseudo-military fan in his previous life. He had seen some tricks about stabilizing flower bombs, so he told the craftsmen the idea.

This is actually a question of the direction of thinking. If you understand it, you will understand it, and there is no technical pressure to imitate it!
Therefore, the technology of the Mutuo flower bomb was strictly kept secret by the newly established Imperial Academy of Sciences in the American Empire, and it was secretly improved and produced.

At this time, a usable maritime bombardment gun has been developed. This is all plagiarized technology and not worth showing off. In this era, various howitzers have long been on the streets...

And the American Empire was once the British colony with the most advanced military technology in the world, so it naturally inherited a small amount of scientific research heritage. The top technology may not be available, but the howitzers that have been flooding the European battlefield are not difficult.

However, the range of the howitzer is not as good as the 6-pound field gun due to the instability of the flowering bomb, let alone the 12-pound field gun, so these two types of field guns have not been eliminated by various countries.

After standing on the shoulders of giants and solving the problem of wooden support shells, it is naturally easy to develop a special naval bombardment gun. In fact, it is just to take the howitzer sample and slightly improve it...

Yuri knows very well that once the bombardment guns are on board and the explosive shells become stable, the situation on the ocean battlefield will undergo revolutionary changes!
Only small boats dare to use the originally unstable flower bombs, and the small boats cannot go out to sea, otherwise it is easy to capsize...

Now large ships can also be equipped with explosive shells. Battleships in this era are all made of wood. Even a British first-class battleship will instantly turn into a large sea torch if it is hit by two or three large-caliber explosive shells!

If you are lucky and just hit the fatal point of the ammunition depot, the whole ship will be blown up to the sky!

In other words, once this kind of stable wooden support pops up, the British Royal Navy and even the navies of the European powers will be eliminated overnight and become a big target!

What about the first, second and third-tier battleships, the huge size and the large number of artillery will not only become an advantage, but will become a fatal weakness.

Large size means that it is easier to be hit by explosive bullets. More artillery means more igniters and a large ammunition depot. It is easy to be hit by explosive bullets and become monkeys on the sea...

Therefore, it is undoubtedly the small and medium-sized naval warships that are most suitable for using wooden shells, which can be equipped with a large number of bombardment guns while taking into account speed and flexibility.

The wooden shells turned the battleship duel into a brutal battlefield like lining up to be shot. The last shell fired by any ship would kill him. A country like the American Empire that was rebuilding its navy would naturally get a big deal!

Of course, it is very easy to imitate this kind of wooden shell, as long as one is captured by the enemy country, it can be imitated.

Thanks to the dud rate of this era, as long as a large-scale naval battle breaks out, the captured samples are almost a certainty...

And even if it is not seized, Britain, which has suffered a loss, may not be able to develop it by itself as long as it changes its thinking.

Yuri even suspects that the UK has already developed a stable explosive bomb technology, and did not use it because it is unnecessary. After all, the British Royal Navy has the largest number of large battleships at sea. Once the naval explosive bomb revolution breaks out, the British will suffer the most!

It is equivalent to the naval superiority of the British equal to that of other countries overnight!

Therefore, as long as the British have not developed an ironclad ship that can effectively defend against explosive bombs, they will throw out this stable explosive bomb technology if they have a hole in their brains.

In fact, in the history of Yuri's previous life, the stable naval ammunition did not appear until after the ironclad ship appeared, and the timing of its appearance was really too late.

Because the naval power at that time had already turned on the iron-clad ship mode, no matter how stable the flower bomb was, there was no way to sink the iron shell with one or two rounds...

Therefore, Yuri's technology of splitting bombs is regarded by Yuri as his trump card, his trump card for seizing the dominance of the sea!
As long as the British did not complete a breakthrough in ironclad ship technology for a day, this hole card would remain valid until the first bombardment gunship of the American Empire was born to compete with the British for sea power.

It's a pity that Yuri has too few technological memories in his mind, and very few useful ones. He doesn't even know how to get a breech-loading gun...

The Minie rifle only knows that the bullet is conical, and nothing else...

Everything depends on the efforts of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. There are not many powerful people in the Imperial Academy of Sciences. God knows how long it will take to achieve real results.

Compared with the development of new weapons, the American Empire has been very successful in stealing the scientific and technological achievements of the existing weapons on the Europa continent.

The weapon technology of this era is not very high, and it is very easy to imitate, and I don’t know how many ready-made samples have been left on the European battlefield...

What's more, as long as weapons are on the battlefield, they basically don't want to keep them secret, unless they are high-precision big guys during World War II.

In addition, European countries in this era are not very aware of weapon secrecy (mainly because the price/performance ratio is too low to be worthwhile), so as long as the American Empire is willing to spend money, it is easy to get a large number of samples.

For example, the American Empire has the ability to imitate weapons such as howitzers and advanced 12-pound field guns from various countries.

Of course, having the ability does not mean that the product can be produced immediately, there is no other reason, the financial constraints of the American Empire...

Since Yuri came to power, this region of the United States has been fighting almost every year, a large number of young and strong populations have been lost, and the land and factories have been destroyed by the war. At this time, the American Empire has not even recovered its economic strength during the British rule.

Maintaining four legions is already the limit of the American Empire, and the military expenses of these four legions are as frugal as possible, and it is impossible to support them with high salaries.

Except for the first legion whose salary is barely in line with European standards, the other three legions are all stepmothers...

Naturally, Yuri did not expect them to become the main force in foreign wars, and mainly relied on them to suppress places.

This was one of the reasons why the Legion of Justice was able to cause so much trouble under Napoleon.

(End of this chapter)