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Chapter 1471 You Did So Many Things Without Telling Me (Second Update)

Chapter 1480

The emperor Zhao Xu, who was a little too excited, lowered his head. Although the people below were at most the size of ants, the emperor Zhao Xu still felt that his old face was hot, a little bit. It shouldn't be a little bit hot, but boiling.

Facing the bitter wind from the high place, Emperor Zhao Xu pretended not to notice the weird expressions of the others. "Well, what Wang Qing said is reasonable, then you can test fire it and let me see how powerful this weapon is."

Wang Yang nodded, first with Ling Zong's help, he tightened the machine gun, then placed the incendiary bomb into the ejection chute, then lit the fuse, and then pulled the trigger in the direction of the lake. , With a bang, the incendiary bomb that ignited the fuze flew towards the distance.

There were faint shouts from below, but because they were too far from the ground, the people on the hot air balloon couldn't hear what they were shouting clearly.

A group of people gathered together to the edge of the bamboo basket, watched the incendiary bomb fly out for tens of feet, and then slowly began to fall, and in the middle of the fall, a flash of fire suddenly flashed, and then , everyone can see that a large group of flames began to appear in midair and continued to spread downward.

After falling on the water like a cloud of fire, it did not go out, but continued to burn for a while, and the flames and black smoke gradually dissipated.

Seeing this, the emperor couldn't help taking a deep breath. "Okay, good thing, this thing is used to fight the enemy with heart, I am afraid that the enemy will be helpless, there is nothing to do..."

"Your Majesty, we have gone through many tests. At such a height, the only thing that can cause damage to a hot air balloon is a long-range weapon like the Eight Bull Crossbow, or a cannon that shoots directly into the sky. And at such a height, For hot air balloons, this is just the beginning."

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Not to mention a thousand feet, when it reaches a height of 350 feet, even the Yuanyou Shenwei Cannon can hardly cause damage to the hot air balloon, let alone various other cold weapons.

On the hot air balloon, you can dump incendiary bombs wantonly, roasting those helpless enemies into dried meat.

"Currently, Weichen is designing to see if it is possible to make the hot air balloon able to resist the wind direction to a certain extent after reaching a certain height, and to fly freely in the sky to attack the enemy. If it can be done , I believe it will definitely bring greater benefits to the military power of the Great Song Dynasty."

Hearing Wang Yang's words, everyone could not help but take a deep breath.It really achieved the level described by Wang Yang, and everyone seemed to see that the imperial artillery of the Great Song Dynasty was firing hard, and countless shells exploded in the dense enemy formation and above.

And before they rushed forward, the artillery that was replaced with shotguns wiped down the enemy troops like scarecrows.

Farther away, countless huge hot air balloons, like divine soldiers descending from the sky, flew over the enemy camp. The enemy could only run away powerlessly and desperately. The arrows they intended to resist would only fall back to the ground and accidentally injure to one's own people.

And the elites of the Song army in the hot air balloon are happily lighting the fuzes one after another, and then throwing them towards the outside of the bamboo basket. The burning bombs fall in mid-air one after another, and fly away in the sky. , formed an inescapable fire net that could still burn blazingly even when encountering water, and burned the enemy's camp, even forts, and underground pools into ruins...

Su Song, an old driver, stroked his snow-white long beard and stared at the calm lake surface with gradually smoky shadows, and couldn't help feeling full of emotion.

"Why does this old man feel that it has only been less than ten years, and the scenes of fighting directly on the battlefield and arrayed with swords and guns for more than a thousand years seem to have changed all of a sudden..."

"Mr. Su, with the development of time, as the national power of our Great Song Dynasty grows stronger, the future war mode will become more and more beyond our imagination. Maybe in a few years, even artillery can be used Made to be as thick as a spear, it can not only kill enemies like a spear, but also shoot bullets out of the enemy's range to kill enemies."

"It's definitely possible." As soon as Wang Yang finished speaking, Zhao Ji who was beside him immediately took up the words, and winked at Wang Yang in embarrassment.

Wang Yang comprehended three hey hey hey hey hey, the emperor saw the ghostly appearance of the two guys, and at this moment, the emperor's eyeballs suddenly had a tendency to turn green.

Fortunately, there were people waiting here until the hot air balloon slowly landed on the ground before the emperor called Wang Yang and Zhao Ji aside.

"...Your Majesty, in fact, we are already carrying out various improvements and new designs of the Yuanyou Shenwei Cannon. At present, two new types of gunpowder weapons have been derived, one is an extremely lightweight mortar, and There is one kind, which is the individual weapon that the minister just mentioned..."

The emperor couldn't help but gasped. "It's true that you guys have done so many things without telling me..."

"Officials, my brother is not lying to you, it's just that these gunpowder weapons are still in the trial production stage and have not yet been put into use, so I want to wait until the casting technology and usage methods are fully mature before offering them to the officials. .” Zhao Ji explained with some embarrassment.

"Well, there is some truth to what I said, but the next time something like this happens, it's best to let me know as soon as possible. I'm very happy to see that the military strength and weapons of my Song Dynasty are getting better and better, and they are getting better and better. powerful."

After Wang Yang and Zhao Ji looked at each other, they could only greet the emperor with a salute. "The minister obeys the order..."

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The manufacture of the mortar is simpler, but its range and power are really inferior to that of Yuanyou Shenwei Cannon, but after all, the mortar is very light, and it is definitely a good tool to change places with one shot.

As for the musket, after many repeated tests, Da Song's lathe can already use the hook broaching method to pull out a qualified rifled barrel, but the scrap rate is still high.

Even if there are only six riflings, and even if the craftsmen in every link are conscientious and careful, there will not be more than three qualified barrels from the very beginning of casting, to grinding, to drawing out the rifling. Processing and modification, strive to make the yield rate reach [-]%.

The reason why the scrap rate is so high is that the standardization required by Wang Yang is so strict that all craftsmen find it abnormal, that is, the error between each component must not exceed one millimeter.

That is to say, even if a thousand sets of parts are produced, after dismantling these parts, one thousand muskets can still be assembled completely, which is considered a success.

Therefore, the shape, size, and thickness of each part will affect the error of the part.

Thanks to Wang Yang, the old driver, and the new batch of Yuanyou Shenwei cannons, the flintlock mechanism has been successfully used.Therefore, Da Song's musket directly surpassed the matchlock gun, which is bulky and extremely slow, and is seriously disturbed by the weather.

The flint-fired bolt was directly used on the musket. In addition, after further purification of the gunpowder, Wang Yang thought of a way to increase efficiency, that is, pressurization.

The gunpowder is placed on a hydraulic machine and gravity is used to obtain a tighter structure. The gunpowder is then cut into pieces as large as rice grains and then ground. The resulting granular gunpowder is as powerful as the powdered gunpowder of the past. several times.

In addition, the brown gunpowder used as propellant has also been successfully trial-produced. This kind of thing is made of selected bamboo, and then baked into brown. The burning speed of this gunpowder is slower than that of black gunpowder. It is better than black powder, and it can also greatly improve the barrel life of Yuanyou Shenwei Cannon.

(End of this chapter)