Chapter 670

The 68 pound mortar gun, the full name of the ship borne 68 pound short tube meander carlonades gun, has a caliber of 8.12 inches (206 mm), can launch 34 pound solid ammunition and chain ammunition specially equipped, and can load up to 68 pound loose ammunition bags.

The mortar gun is a curved gun, which is far inferior to the straight bore cannon in range and speed. On the gunship without a stable base, its maximum firing angle is 8 degrees, the theoretical range is 500 meters, the effective range is 350 meters, and the best range is 150 meters.

But even if it has one deficiency or another, the 68 mortar is still a sea killer for the Royal Navy.

Because in today's shipborne artillery field, it is the only naval gun capable of penetrating the hull of class III battleships with one shot, and it is also the only super heavy gun that can pose a threat to the British Queen class (110), the Spanish Saint Trinity class (120) and the French ocean class (120) in short frequency battles.

Lorraine's valkiri is the most mainstream main warship at sea today, 70 door class III battleship.

The 32 pound main gun and 48 pound bow mortar installed on the ship are enough to effectively kill ships of this level, but when it comes to turning defeat into victory and Jedi survival, the calibres of these two types still have the defect of insufficient firepower.

Once, for some reason, the battle turns into a fixed and locked rhythm of shooting, valkiri is at a disadvantage in both the side height and the number of guns. Even if he doesn't fall on one side, his hard power will fall to the absolute disadvantage.

However, after 68 pounds of reinforcement and fully reaching the design strength, this disadvantage does not exist.

In long-distance combat, valkiri has similar strength with the target, with weak firepower and slightly higher defense. In the middle distance battle, valkiri took an all-round lead at both ends of attack and defense with 68 pounds.

Once you turn to short-range blade or docking, the advantage of 68 pounds is almost obvious. Valkiri's high-level Stormtrooper team is also better than the docking strength of most battleship groups.

The only advantage of the class III ship over walkiri is the side height, but in the eyes of Bell and acharin, there are countless ways to smooth out this insignificant gap.

This is really perfect.

Lorraine carefully read the document handed over by Emmons.

The 68 pound mortars he sent were a group of two. The two guns were cast at the Royal Military foundry in Greenwich in July 1783. All tests were completed in October and put into storage in Dartmouth and included in the Royal Navy equipment list.

In September 1786, the two guns were handed over to the American fleet for replenishment and servicing of the nipton. The HMS Sun Star brig frigate undertook the transportation task. As a result, an accident occurred on the way and sank in the sea area near Greenland. There was no trace of search and rescue.

On the end of October 1787, Shaq organized a high-level inventory of the inventory of the American fleet, led by major general Emmons of the fleet staff, confirmed the vacancy of this group of supplies, officially cancelled its arms registration, and copied it to the equipment department of the Ministry of the Navy for the record.

Now they lie quietly in the belly of an American merchant ship in Miami Beach.

Lorraine held back her excitement and called Monica.

"Monica, please ask Karen to go to Miami Beach to receive an American merchant ship named the old bacon. There are a batch of high-precision parts required by the fearless plan on board. Let him go in person and directly collect them into dock 1 for unloading."

Monica looked strangely at Lorraine, whose voice trembled, but wisely didn't ask anything, just nodded: "OK, sir."

Foolproof

Lorraine breathed a sigh of relief as Monica walked out the door.

The excitement in his heart gradually calmed down with this long breath. He crossed his fingers and looked at Emmons. Confusion and confusion prevailed.

"Emmons... Major general." he licked his lips. "Tell Shaq that I'm satisfied with this Christmas gift."

Emmons pretended to be strange: "Your Excellency? Your Excellency always thought that these two guns sank into the sea with the sun star. Why do you thank him?"

Lorraine rolled his eyes: "is the sun star really sinking?"

"It's really heavy."

"Ha?" the unexpected answer, "what is the search and rescue missing in the document?"

Emmons sat upright: "this happened on September 19 last year. The sun star ran aground on an iceberg. 27 hours later, the news was sent back to chanar Basque. It has been five days since I organized the search and rescue team."

"After suffering on the cold iceberg for five days, those crew members were at the end of their strength. The rescue team worked hard for four hours and rescued only 69 people. Finally, the iceberg suddenly collapsed and pushed the remaining 100 people into the sea together with the ship. There were no bones left. Rescuers and survivors on that day were witnesses."

Lorraine frowned and thought, "did the people who died find your people moving guns?"

"A chief mate and a boatman, it was their superfluous curiosity that killed the whole ship."

"Shaq didn't give advice on this, did he?" according to Lorraine's understanding of Shaq, he would never murder a naval officer in order to hide two guns.

Emmons smiled contemptuously and said, "Mr. President, the reason why I have been able to make progress all the time is to make a quick decision, accurately meet the needs of my master, and never ask for credit and report in any way."

"There are nine people who know the whole thing, all of whom are my absolute confidants. These nine families rely on me to enjoy a superior life. Hanging is the luckiest outcome for anything they have done."

"So, Mr. President." Emmons spread out a hand to Lorraine. "If you are satisfied with your Christmas gift, I only accept cash for ￡ 9000."

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According to the purchase price of the Royal Navy, nine thousand pounds can buy ten groups of 68 pound mortar, but Lorraine thinks it's worth it, because even if he buys 20 groups and 50 groups for the Royal Navy, no one will give him one and a half groups.

Sixty eight pounds can be met but not requested. Each door has a unique inscription corresponding to a special file. In this era, its tracking is much more rigorous than a country's supervision of its citizens.

It can be seen that this business is lucky for Lorraine and Emmons. It may be unfortunate for the sun star and those sailors who died in accidents, but they have the poor pension and comfort of the Royal Navy. If Lorraine doesn't worry, Emmons doesn't seem to care much.

By chance, the two guns finally boarded valkiri.

On the morning of December 5, for the first time, varkiri, full of the most distinguished families of Drake chamber of Commerce, sailed out of the dock and went to New York, the temporary capital of the United States of America.

Little Pierce is getting married.

His wedding with little Sharon will be held at St. Mark's Community Church, which represents the opening of New York, and will be presided over by Bishop finlanci of the holy Diocese of New York.

Bishop finch is the most prestigious Protestant saint in the United States.

Considering that the communication between the Pan American diocese and the Vatican has entered a substantive stage, the American Episcopal Church will be established at any time, and he is also very likely to become the first red dress in the history of the new world, which is very important to him and the devout Attis family.

Lorraine enjoys pure freedom in front of religion. He won't care too much whether he is facing Protestant saints or Catholic saints.

His energy is in the back. After Pierce's wedding, the revolving goalkeeper of the United States will rumble. Every grain of dust spilled on the door track is worth more than ten thousand gold. How much Drake can harvest and Lorraine's allies can harvest will be decided in Hamilton's private house secret room.

The sun is rising.

In the calm sea of Biscay Bay, the sun rises slowly from Miami Beach.

Lorraine heard the child's laughter. Perhaps Leff's third son was bullying count St. Brett.

The first successor of viscount Desai was fighting around the little crazy soldier. His fierce look looked very much like the scene of Normans entering Britain.

Flourishing weather

Lorraine laughed.

"Carmen, how about taking 12.4?"

Carmen, who was feeding Jenny and McCarthy on the side, was stunned. After a while, he immediately understood what Lorraine meant.

"In recent years, the land price in Miami has risen steadily, our bonds in London have also been bullish, and the cash flow of the asset management company is very abundant. Considering the profit expectation of the Asian branch next year, it is no problem for us to spend 240000 pounds more."

She rubbed McCarthy's little head.

"But the total amount promised by the United States to the association is only 48.6%, and we have monopolized 10%. Is it difficult for those old foxes to squeeze out another 2.4%?"

"Then don't think about allies." Lorraine was confident. "51% is the established goal of forming associations to control American finance, and our allies will support us. And Hamilton... In his heart, are those American consortia really more credible than us?"