Artillery officers shouted excitedly. This type of new revolver was still a new weapon in the empire. There was no equipment, and only some wealthy officers or noble officers in the army purchased it themselves, but this even attracted the attention of officers.

The officers immediately commanded the gunners to prepare for firing, and the gunners brought rows of shells and fired medicine from the ammunition truck behind. Although the arsenal had begun to test the fixed-load shells, the Senate, which was responsible for auditing the budget, felt a headache when he heard about the copper shell shells. Based on the theory that the existing technology also had an absolute advantage over the enemy, he did not use expensive fixed-load shells.

The Marine Corps was equipped with a new 75mm artillery, which was also the lightest artillery of the Imperial Army. During the reform of the navy and the army, the army completely adopted metric units. Although the Navy also began to use metric units, because a large number of mechanical tools were British units, there were 178mm, 203mm, and 305mm naval guns, and this tradition continued.

Unlike the Navy who was still using iron cannons and steel chambered iron cannons, the Army used cast steel as gun barrel material from the beginning. The barrel of the 75mm gun weighed 290 kilograms and the gun stand was 360 kilograms. The grenade weighed 4.3 kilograms and the shroud projectile weighed 3.5 kilograms. The former loaded 170 grams of gunpowder, and the latter loaded 48 50 grams of lead shells in addition to gunpowder. These shells are all made of cast iron, but they appear lead gray because the skin of the shell is lead to facilitate the shells to fit the rifle. What really makes the flowering shells the main ammunition for field guns is the improvement and invention of the inertial unlocking mechanical trigger fuses. At this point, the Army Artillery R&D department has made important contributions. Nowadays, the fuses used on the Imperial Armored Cruisers and frigates are all improved and adapted from the Army.

The Imperial Army's mechanical fuze development has a history of more than 20 years, but it has been limited to mechanical processing, reliability and safety, and has not been completely successful. In this process, more than a dozen designs appeared, and the army's requirements have been changed again and again, and once it also swayed between triggering fuses and time fuses. Some fuzes cannot be reliably fired, or even worse than fire signal tubes, metal disc fuzes, and some fuzes are limited by the need for precision processing of parts such as springs. After the invention of the fire hat, fuzes using fire hats as ignition devices generally have unsafe problems. Collisions during transportation and storage may lead to firing.

The new inertial unlocking trigger fuse is installed on the bullet head of the shell. Before use, it depends on the screws adapted to the shell and rotate the fuse into the shell. The core part of the fuze is an eccentric rotor. During the transportation and storage stage, this eccentric rotor is safe, so it is very safe. After the insurance pin is removed, the eccentric rotor is in a state of movement. At this time, the shaking and impact will not be fired. When the shell is stuffed into the barrel and is fired, the shell begins to rotate under the action of the rifle. At this time, the eccentric rotor in the fuze also begins to rotate, and rotates until the position where the internal safety is unblocked.

When the shell hits the target, the detonator is laid on the front of the shell fuse and the detonator explodes to detonate the internal loading artillery. It can be seen that there is also a problem with this kind of fuze, and there is an effective distance. It will explode only after the eccentric rotor is unsealed, otherwise it will not explode. After testing and transformation, this distance is defined as 200 meters. The Army believes that if the distance between 200 meters can be reached, the problem can be solved with shotguns.

At 11:30 am, Li Su issued an order to fire. This was the time he agreed with Belinsky. At this time, Belinsky would act and attack Lighthouse Mountain according to the situation, or at least to a secret maneuver to the position where the enemy's main force could cut off the retreat route. In fact, Belinsky chose both. Before dawn, he moved the cavalry to an ambush position. After dawn, he personally led the infantry, disguised as a militia to support him, and marched from the open land to Lighthouse Mountain. He simply calculated the time. At 11:30, the infantry could reach the foot of the mountain and attack at that time.

At this time Andros was riding a white horse on a slightly higher ground in the front of the Cold Creek Infantry Regiment. He had already handed over command to Sir Philip, but the quarrels a few days ago changed everything. Sir Philip's plan did not meet the requirements of the colonial parliament representatives. Philip had learned from many sources that he had realized the advantages of the expeditionary forces in guns and cannons, and there were many. His plan was to use various fortifications already built to confront the Imperial Expeditionary Force head-on in Lighthouse Mountain and defeat the enemy. If it failed, he would retreat into the jungle and fight guerrilla warfare.

Obviously, this plan that only considers victory or defeat or not does not consider colonial property and life safety is impossible to be recognized by everyone. Everyone wants to resist the enemy from the country. Therefore, the members of the parliament removed Philip's command and gave him Andros, who only brought his New York militia to guard the Lighthouse Hill.

Several members of parliamentarians and merchants followed Andros on horseback. These people were all representatives of Boston. In the past few days, released prisoners have been constantly returning to Boston. Everyone who came back will bring some letters, including written by Prince Yu, and letters from Expeditionary Force Commander Li Su, son of James Fitz James, and others. These letters have shown gentleness and respect for Andros without exception. This makes everyone believe that Governor Andros must have a deep connection on the opposite side, and Li Junwei even bluntly wrote in the letter that he and Fitz James had decided to agree to all of Andros' property, assuming that he could properly resolve the current confrontation, continue to serve as the governor, and protect his friends.

Because of these letters, members of parliamentarians who had direct interests in the battlefield moved closer to Andros, hoping to become his friends, and follow the trend to become friends on the opposite side, bet on both sides, and protect the family business.

"What are they doing, are they mocking us?" said a sharp-eyed merchant pointing to the artillery position of the Expeditionary Force.

Andros looked in the direction he pointed, opened the telescope, and found that next to the artillery position, a group of people were lined up and stretched out their arms in the direction they were in. Fortunately, Andros' telescope was given by Li Su during Cape Verde. It can adjust the focal length and look farther and more detailed. After a simple adjustment, Andros saw the gesture clearly, and a group of people were giving him a thumbs up.

"It's a thumbs up, look." Andros handed over his telescope to those around him.

After looking at it, a MP asked, "What does this mean? Is it provocative? Similar to the fact that our archers raised their middle fingers at the Frenchman hundreds of years ago?"

"No, in Chinese culture, giving someone a thumbs up is to express praise and respect. Thumbs up is also called Thumbs up, which is good. I have been to Cape Town, where loaders and unloaders will give them a thumbs up after they finish loading and unloading," said the young MP.

The merchant immediately said, "I understand, that is the Chinese who are expressing their respect to the Governor. Look, the people who do this move are dressed differently than others, and they all seem to be officers."

When Andros heard this, he continued to observe with a telescope. He suddenly saw a burly man in a leather jacket. He gave him a thumbs up from time to time, so he called a prisoner who was released today and asked, "Do you see that person is King Yu?"

The captive looked at it with a telescope and immediately said, "It was the one who wore black crystal glasses and the three-wheeled car that blew smoke beside them, and it was the car of His Highness."

The young MP immediately said: "That is the honorable Prince of China who greets you. No matter what state we are in, you as a nobleman must respond, otherwise you will lose your demeanor."

Andros nodded slightly, and he grabbed his hat and waved at the artillery position.

On the artillery position, Li Junwei gave a thumbs up in Andros' direction and glanced. Although his movements were the same as those of the artillery officers around him, there were function formulas in his head, and there was nothing in his head. Pan Mingqi introduced Li Junwei the principles and mathematical formulas of this thumb distance measurement method to Li Junwei. Li Junwei could only understand the principle. He read too many little yellow books in mathematics classes in middle school and didn't learn anything. But then he thought about it, Li Junwei did not regret it at all. What if he learned it, he had forgotten it now.

"Your Highness, artillery is ready and can be fired at any time." The artillery company commander came to report.

Li Junwei nodded and was about to order a shelling when he suddenly saw someone waving his hat at him. Li Su said, "That person is Andros."

Li Junwei asked: "Why did he wave his hat at me?"

Li Su shook her head: "I don't know, it might be a provocation."

"Damn, I originally wanted to keep this Andros and be the deputy for Fitz James. Fitz James was not familiar with the colony and could not quickly establish a rule. But this dog dared to provoke me and pissed me off. Second Battalion Commander, your fucking Italian cannon. He aimed directly at him." Li Jun said arrogantly.

The artillery company commander was surprised: "Who...who is the second battalion commander?"

Among these people, Li Su is the one who knows the most about Li Junwei. He waved his hand to the artillery company commander who did not understand the royal culture and said, "The prince means that you can fire a cannon."

The artillery company commander immediately asked to issue an order, but was pulled by Li Su. Li Su asked Li Junwei: "Prince, do you want to give you a chance to shout "fire the cannon."

"Then do I want to give you a chance to take your brothers to fight again?" Li Junwei asked back angrily.
Chapter completed!