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Chapter 161 Preliminary Test of the Gunship Machine

Probably because Zhou Changfeng didn't put on airs, the captain purposely kept it a secret, saying that he would know about it when the meeting was over.

Zhou Changfeng was amazed at the elegant and delicate decoration of the battleship’s living quarters—the floor was covered with vermilion or orange-yellow felt or blankets, the bulkheads were painted with off-white paint, and the dado was made of teak wood with swastika patterns or water ripples. Every few steps, you can see a hanging calligraphy and painting.

"This time, Grandma Liu really entered the Grand View Garden." The dazzled Zhou Changfeng couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Who is Grandma Liu?Where is the Grand View Garden?

The breadth and depth of Chinese is vividly reflected at this moment. Although the captain doesn't know this allegory, he can understand his meaning accurately.

"The country's most important weapon often has to patrol all over the world for a long time, and a more elegant decoration will also help maintain morale."

"Besides, the guns and engines on this ship are all expensive. Compared with them, these decorations are not worth much."

"It does make sense." Zhou Changfeng, who was looking at a landscape painting, nodded in agreement.

Interestingly, there was no Tales of Stones and Dream of Red Mansions in the later Ming Dynasty, but there was a "Red Mansions", which is also a literary classic. The content of the two is not the same, but because they also depict wealthy families, they are also named "Red Mansions".

In Bai Juyi's "Ten Poems of Qin Zhongyin", there is a sentence "Red Mansion, a rich girl, embroidered Luo Ru with golden thread", so people use "Red Mansion" to represent the attic where the ladies live.

Six o'clock in the evening is the theoretical dinner time, and it's almost a pinch. Before that, every kitchen cabin has already prepared a sumptuous dinner.

But because there are more than [-] people on board, the kitchen cabin can't feed so many people at once, so the soldiers take turns to eat, and each shift takes two quarters of an hour, and they leave after taking their meals. .

However, there must be a queue to pick up the meal, and it takes time to return the tableware when leaving, so in fact, it takes more than a quarter of an hour to eat.Although it is impossible to enjoy the meal time leisurely, it is not too hasty.

The number of officers is small, so there is no need to do so.

"It's time, ring the bell and serve dinner!"

The ding ding ding ding resounded throughout the ship, but compared to the battle alarm, this bell was much gentler.

Zhou Changfeng, who came to the officer's dining room, was mentally prepared, but he was still shocked by the superior conditions here.

The officer’s dining room uses ebony carved tables, chairs engraved with various patterns, white-glazed porcelain plates and bowls, and chopsticks are made of silver-copper alloy; appetite.

There are six immortal tables in a row, and each table has six dishes and two soups.

Beef tribute balls, spicy chicken, red knuckles, mapo tofu, braised bamboo shoots, boiled chicken, as well as winter melon and corn soup and tofu pork ribs soup.

Yes, it's true that they are just common dishes, not delicacies from mountains and seas, but any dinner with this kind of specification is too embarrassing.

Not to mention that there are snacks and fruits after dinner, at least Zhou Changfeng ate strawberries.

"To store so many fruits and vegetables, the ship's cold storage should be very large, right?"

In fact, the cold storage volume of Longshuo is more than 150m, which stores all kinds of pre-cut meat, eggs, fish, dairy products, and various vegetables and fruits; in addition, it also stores a large amount of wine , It is said that there are dozens of tons, Mianzhu Daqu, Guilin Xiaoqu, rice wine, beer, wine, whiskey, and rum.

The officers who ate together did not dislike Zhou Changfeng, a country bumpkin who went to the city. On the contrary, everyone deliberately directed the topic to related aspects.

For example, how to effectively support battleships during landing operations, how to choose when to stop and stop far away, how to communicate more smoothly with landing units, and so on.

Before leaving that night, Zhou Changfeng stamped it at the ship's post office, and then went to the commissary to buy a commemorative medal before leaving the ship.

Because it is a base with sufficient manpower and equipment, the efficiency of the ground crew and engineers is quite high.

By the end of the evening, the cutting of the left bulkhead had been completed, and the reserved tracks and welding spots had been marked inside the engine room.

On the left side of the [-]-type seaplane, a rectangular opening with a height of [-] centimeters and a width of [-] centimeters was neatly cut; there was another opening with a height of about [-] centimeters and a width of [-] centimeters beside it.

In order to reinforce the opening, a thin steel sheet is riveted to the edge of the cut, like a window frame.

The 80mm mountain cannon has cut off the 480mm barrel in the repair shop, and the multiple diameter has been reduced from 16 times to 10 times.

After actual measurement, when the propellant package is not attached, the travel of the rear seat fully meets the requirements.

The next day, we started to arrange the weapons. In the morning, we drew a line on the tripod of the mountain cannon with chalk, and cut off the auxiliary hoe and part of the tripod with an acetylene gas torch.

After that, the tripod is fixed on the floor of the cabin by twelve arc-shaped steel sheets, and the front is reinforced with a steel frame, so that the mountain cannon is firmly fixed in the cabin, and only the barrel protrudes a little from the cabin.

The other small opening is used to arrange machine guns. A 12.7-type 500mm aviation machine gun was chosen. It is the same mother as the 700-type anti-aircraft machine gun, but the rate of fire has been increased from [-] rounds per minute to [-] rounds per minute.

The speed of the aircraft is fast, and the shooting window is shorter, so the rate of fire of the aviation machine gun is naturally faster, firing a large number of bullets in a short time.

It took just over two days before and after, and the modification work of this aircraft was basically over.

Aircraft these days are not too sophisticated for the time being, and their aerodynamics are still in the exploratory stage, immature, and there is not much demand for strict aerodynamic shapes, so this level of modification is completely acceptable.

Ever since, on the sixth day of February, this hastily refitted world's first gunboat taxied and took off on runway No. [-] of the Daming Hangzhou Naval Base.

It circled twice in the sky, testing its flight performance and the vision of the deployed weapons.

During the landing process, there was a left tilt visible to the naked eye, but fortunately, the pilot was experienced and finally landed smoothly.Pilots also reported that they could feel a significant left-heaviness and right-heaviness during level flight and circling.

"There is a few hundred catties more on the left side, so it must be out of balance."

"It's okay. If you need to carry shells in actual combat, wouldn't it be good to put the ammunition on the right side?"

"If it's over, won't it be unbalanced again?"

"Put a few hundred catties of counterweight on the middle aisle in the middle and rear. When the ammunition is finished, move the counterweight."

After solving the minor problem simply and rudely, the gunship machine was tested with live ammunition.

The shooting range is ready-made, and it is convenient to borrow it. It just so happens that HNA has no training missions these days, so it borrowed it openly.

Although the time is limited, the measured performance of this hastily launched gunboat is still quite impressive.

The first time the gunner fired at the ground target from the plane, he hardly achieved accurate hits at the beginning, but after he became proficient, he quickly achieved a good hit rate.

Because of the huge ammunition load and exaggerated voyage, in actual combat, I may be able to hover over the enemy's head for several hours, work in different shifts, and even cook with a group of people and fire at the ground with a group of people.

A string of machine gun bullets mixed with tracer bullets was poured on the ground, like lasers, with dust flying and debris flying around, and the sudden explosion of the shells swept across a large area. The scene was not small.

Seeing this scene, the satisfied Zhou Changfeng couldn't help sighing, "What is death from heaven?"

After the plane landed, he said bluntly to the crew members: "It is not too late, let's go directly to Wuhan, and then go to familiarize yourself with the local terrain and environment."

(End of this chapter)