"Happy Highness! Long live the empire! Long live!" The young officers were hoarsely loyal on their faces.

Amid the fanatical shouts, young naval officers boarded the warship without hesitation. The night was as dark as ink, and the ship was rolling in black smoke, like the interweaving of blood and fire. The machine roared, carrying young and hot hearts, cutting through the waves, and illuminating the young and fearless chest to the unknown darkness.

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Lu Dahua was appointed as the second deputy of the Beijing Iron Mansion Service. The captain was his mentor Zheng Youxian. The only thing he was a little dissatisfied with was that Bao Chat was also assigned to the Beijing Iron Mansion, and he was appointed as the second deputy of the driving.

On the Beijing roster, there is a deputy manager, a senior lieutenant, a senior lieutenant, a senior lieutenant of the pilot, a senior lieutenant of the gun, a second lieutenant of the artillery, a third lieutenant of the ship and machinery, a third lieutenant of the sampan, a member of the main gunner, a member of the general manager, a second lieutenant of the first-class fire steer, a second-class fire steer, etc., all of them are interns and officers.

How important is the helmsman in naval battles? It can almost determine the life and death of a ship. I ask? Lu Dahua really has no confidence in him.

Lu Dahua checked the cannons on the Beijing USS. On the main deck, the Beijing USS. installed 8 68-pound front-mounted smoothbore cannons and 2 110-pound breech-mounted cannons. This is its main artillery fire. In addition, the front and rear decks are also equipped with weapons ranging from heavy rear-mounted cannons to 6-pound cannons.

What made Lu Dahua dissatisfied with was that the turret design of the Beijing turret is not as perfect as the Jinling turret, and cannot be rotated in multiple directions. The masts and sails raised will affect the steering of the artillery even if they fall during battle.

The 8 68-pound main gun can fire three types of spherical shells, traditional solid shells, shotguns (carried with 90 iron projectiles, mainly used to kill uncovered personnel), and a grape shell with 15 slightly larger pellets.

In addition, three types of flowering bullets can be fired, including simple flowering bullets filled with black gunpowder, grenades filled with timing leads and hundreds of iron projectiles. The third type is arson bullet, a hollow ball shell, which contains molten metal liquid. After hitting the target, the shell breaks and the metal liquid splashes, which is safer than the thermal bullets burning red shells.

However, the Southern Dynasties had produced a 68-pound cannon with a more powerful smokeless gunpowder explosion bomb, and replaced the outdated black gunpowder blossom bomb purchased by the North. However, Lu Dahua felt that it was a bit wasteful because the steel of its cannons seemed not as reliable as that of the South, and they were afraid of some failures when firing the cannons.

Obviously, the ironclad ships purchased by the North are not excellent products of the Europeans. However, the design of ironclad ships is extremely chaotic nowadays. I heard that the Russians are keen on designing round castle ironclad ships, so it cannot be said that the North has spent money in vain.

Lu Dahua was quite satisfied with the gunners on the Beijing roster. Most of them had received strict training and could basically reach a speed of one round per minute.

Standing on the deck, Lu Dahua looked ahead silently, the passion of youth surged in his body. The daunting Rakshasa giant beast was on the sea front of the evil empire, blood and fire, sword and shield. He was willing to give everything to the empire and His Highness, and always protect this sea front!

Just death!

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Sorry, it’s the Chinese New Year, I wanted to write more, but there are a lot of things, so I can only maintain the 6,000 words a day. However, I didn’t deliberately write 6,000 words to submit the case. Some plots are just right. Whether yesterday or today, it’s over 6,000. In fact, as long as I want to think about it, I can have 7,000 words if I add a few words. Sweat. I won’t talk about this anymore. I find that I love myself more and more bragging, haha.
Chapter completed!