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Northern Arsenal of Gukou
"Bearing 18, deviation 43, fire!"
Commander Shi Rongchun personally stuffed the 400 kg colossal cannonball into the cannon's chamber and ordered to fire.
With a dull, thunderous boom, the entire battery shuddered, the cannonball roared out of the barrel with a terrifying howl, splitting a distant ship on the sea surface into two, before detonating into a fiery ink-like explosion.
Shi Rongchun was extremely pleased with the giant cannon before him! These were not the old and deceitful types of the past but the latest models purchased from the Kingdom of Jiade—"Krupp 305MM cannon."
Its power was immense, a single hit could obliterate any ship under 3000 tons of displacement, and there were more than a hundred of them!
Accompanying them, there were also "military observers" from the Kingdom of Jiade.