Lord of the People: I rely on cheating for hegemony

Chapter 1170

After arranging the affairs of the Kingdom Battlefield, and handing over the requirements and goals to Chafidel, Qu Mao resolutely stopped interfering with the independent decisions of the heroes, and chose to leave at 12 pm on December 6th, the sixth year of Tianxuan, to leave the frontline command of the Kingdom Battlefield So, go in the direction of Wucheng Port.

There are 2000 fifth-tier court guards, and the area where Qu Mao travels is already controlled by Yi Gong's territory troops, so there is no major problem.

In Wucheng Port, there are already naval warships waiting for Qu Mao's arrival.

It's just that there are still a few days to go from the Kingdom Battlefield to Wucheng Port.

After returning to Wucheng Port, Qu Mao will not directly return to the Holy Land of Yigong Territory on board the Shanghai Navy warship. Instead, he will go to Twin Islands midway first to see the development of the Firearms Army and the current research progress of the Firearms Research Institute.

When passing through Twin Islands, Qu Mao even hoped to meet the naval hero Christine Sirian. When patrolling the battlefield in the eastern peninsula of the East China Bay, the commander-in-chief of the navy, Sylvia Oshen, and the deputy commander-in-chief of the navy, Fu Earl Swamp told Qu Mao that the deputy commander-in-chief of the navy, Christine Sirian, was not on the battlefield now, but was commuting between the midway twin islands and outlying islands, supervising the research and development projects of the navy's ironclad ships and new artillery shells.

At noon on December 12th, the sixth year of Tianxuan, the naval warship that Qu Mao was on board was moored at the military pier on the small island of Midway Twin Islands. Now the temporary dock beside the small island of Midway Twin Islands has been demolished and replaced Three military docks and two civilian docks.

These five piers are far away from the coastline and stretch into the depths of the sea, just like a small island stretching out 5 claws towards the sea.

In the office building of the Firearms Research Institute, Qu Mao met Christine Sirian as he wished.

After seeing Qu Mao in the office building of the Firearms Research Institute, the two heroes of the logistics department stepped forward to salute. Qu Mao just dismissed the two of them politely. In Mao's mind, the two naval scientific research projects were far more important than the liaison heroes arranged by the Logistics Department at the Firearms Research Institute.

Pulling Christine Sealian into a small office, Qu Mao asked directly: "Christine, how is the progress of the explosive bomb and chain bomb project that the Navy is currently supervising?"

Christine Sirian said: "My lord, the samples of these two new types of artillery shells have already come out. I believe that the chain bomb may only be a transitional product, because the chain bomb needs old-fashioned artillery that has been installed on naval warships to fire, and The launch has a high failure rate..."

Qu Mao frowned and asked, "Can I go and see the samples?"

Christine Sirian pulled Qu Mao out and said, "My lord, that's natural.

The principle of launching chain bullets is still that the artillery fires solid iron bullets, but in the past it fired one round iron bullet, but now it fires two solid iron bullets, and the iron bullets are connected by iron chains, so that the Both artillery and chain bombs are required.

However, starting from October, the artillery modified by naval warships is a hand-launched artillery with rear loading. The total number of warships equipped with front loading does not exceed 10.

We can't continue to modify the old artillery for naval warships just for a chain bomb that is not too stable..."

While the two were chatting, they came to the shooting range of the Firearms Research Institute. Christine Sirian took out the magic communication crystal and dialed a remote communication, and said a few words.

In less than 5 minutes, the acting director of the Firearms Research Institute brought the experimenters to the shooting range. Only then did Qu Mao discover the so-called chain bullets, in which two iron bullets were connected together by a 50-centimeter-long iron chain.

The acting director of the Firearms Research Institute said to Qu Mao: "My lord, you'd better stand a little farther back, it would be best if you could stand behind the bunker.

Chain bullets are not stable, and their range is much less than normal iron bullets, but they are relatively powerful against wind-powered warships. "

The experimenters erected countless bowl-thick wooden poles 500 meters away from the shooting range, and then ignited the traditional cannon in front of Qu Mao. Three cannons rang out, but only two chain bombs were fired.

The gunpowder pushes the two chain bullets to rotate at high speed and fly towards the target. When one iron bullet hits the target, the other iron bullet will continue to move forward. The iron bullet between the two iron bullets is almost indestructible, 500 meters away The wooden poles were cut off one after another.

Qu Mao, on the other hand, did not pay attention to the cut wooden pole in the distance, but walked up to the chain bomb artillery that failed to fire, because after the first iron bullet was shot out of the gun barrel, the position of the chain in the middle seemed to be incorrect, so The second iron bullet was not successfully fired, and got stuck in the barrel, causing the first iron bullet to fly back backwards, directly smashing the barrel and deforming it.

Looking at the situation with a frown, Qu Mao said: "The chain bomb is really just a transitional product, it doesn't matter if you don't need to develop it, it may destroy our own warship if you are not careful.

Christine, stop working on chain bombs and continue research and development. "

The acting director of the Firearms Research Institute walked over with a shell in his arms and said, "My lord, this subordinate also means the same thing. The research and development of the chain bomb will stop immediately. Now, my lord, let's see the effect of the explosive shell.

On the surface, the blooming bomb is not much different from ordinary shells, but its warhead is made like a grenade, except that the outer surface of the grenade is uneven, but the inner surface of the blooming bullet is uneven.

When the explosive bullet is fired and the bullet hits any target, it will trigger the thunder mercury in the bullet, and then ignite the gunpowder in the bullet, causing the second fragment damage.

Because the warhead explodes a second time, we call it a bloomer. "

Qu Mao nodded and said, "Let's shoot the ships reserved as targets at sea. I'll talk about it after seeing the actual effect."

With the operation of the experimenters, 10 rounds of explosive bombs hit the target ship 5 kilometers away from the coastline one after another. Qu Mao took out the binoculars to observe carefully.

Sure enough, after the flower bomb hit the target ship, a second explosion would occur instantly, and the debris from the explosion would scratch the ship's hull full of holes.

Even for a wooden ship, this damage is negligible, but if there are fighters standing on the ship, the damage to the fighters by the fragments will be fatal.

Qu Mao nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Speed ​​up the progress of refitting naval ships equipped with rear-loading artillery, notify the logistics department to speed up the investment in the production of explosive bombs, and deploy the explosive bombs to the navy on the eastern peninsula battlefield as soon as possible."

Christine Sirian said: "My lord, the production material list and craftsmanship have been handed over to Master Xuande. It is expected that the navy on the peninsula battlefield will be able to use flowering bombs in mid-January of the seventh year of Tianxuan."

Qu Mao said: "The blooming bomb should be enough, let's go and see the development progress of the iron-clad ship."

Christine Sirian said with a smile: "Yes, my lord, this subordinate has exactly the intention."

(End of this chapter)