Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

The barrel is too short and the gun is heartless. The short range can be tolerated by two people. However, the impact point of the bullet is uncertain...

From the perspective of the two weapons masters, this was something that was difficult to accept.

The two tried to fire it more than a dozen times, and they became more and more disgusted with this big killer weapon with unstable bullet impact point!

The two white-haired old men studied for three days and immediately decided to transform the heartless cannon!

The two adopted the method of casting the Hongyi cannon, dividing the barrel into several parts, and then connected them together after they were cast separately.

The internal, external, and middle parts are all covered by a dislocation method. The front end is covered with as many as three layers. The farther toward the rear of the gun, the more layers are covered.

At the end, the cannon wall was an inch thick!

Then, it was sent to the heating plant to be red-hot, and the gun body was forged together.

A new type of heartless cannon was born in the hands of two white-haired old men!

The two retained the caliber of the heartless cannon, but lengthened the barrel.

After the improvement of the two people, the original heartless cannon with a caliber ratio of only three to one has become a powerful weapon with a caliber ratio of nearly nine to one!

Perhaps, this can already be called a large mortar...

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Amid the chattering introductions of the two old men, Zhu Youjian arrived at the last workshop.

I saw craftsmen tying red-hot wrought iron rods to the cannon body to form cannon hoops.

Then a craftsman used a constantly rotating grindstone to smooth out the inner wall.

The barrel of a cannon is just like this.

"Your Majesty, we tested it with the craftsmen. Your Majesty's previous heartless artillery had a shorter barrel because the wall was too thin. As a result, the range was short and the bullets were scattered, and the durability of the artillery was reduced. Only a few dozen times.”

"We adopted the method of forging the red barbarian cannon, and after dozens of tests, we extended the barrel to eight feet in length.

The veteran has long discovered that the most likely place for a gun to blow up is at the rear.

In the direction of the muzzle, there has never been a case of explosion.

Therefore, we adopted the method of gradually thickening from the muzzle to the breech.

The artillery produced in this way has a longer range and greater power.

At the same time, the weight will be reduced by as much as one-third!

Moreover, even if the artillery produced in this way is used hundreds of times, it can still be used as long as the inner wall is leveled again! "

Zhu Youjian said happily: "With this change, how far can the two Qing family's unscrupulous shooting range reach?"

Bi Maokang stretched out a finger:

"Your Majesty, this thing can hit one and a half miles, but...the impact point has spread to a radius of thirty feet.

I wanted to continue to increase the accuracy, but found that apart from extending the gun body, it could no longer be accurate.

Because the gun body is extended, the gun wall needs to be thickened, which makes it too heavy and not suitable for maneuverability.

However, the conscienceless gun we improved has a radius of only ten feet at a distance of one mile.

In other words, the best range of this gun is one mile, and the maximum range is one and a half miles. "

(In the Ming Dynasty, five feet was one step, three hundred steps per mile, totaling 576 meters. Ten feet was 33.3 meters.)

Bi Maoliang continued: "If it is within 250 steps, the spread of the bullet points will only be five feet in radius.

If it's within half a mile, it can be said to be anywhere to hit! "

Zhu Youjian was greatly shocked!

The two old men gave him such a big surprise in less than ten days.

Just as he was about to express his emotion that the two of them had easily solved the biggest problem of having no conscience, Bi Maoliang, who grabbed the conversation, once again exposed his brother's background:

"Your Majesty, don't listen to this little old man. There is still a margin of error. Half a mile away, it's a foot off!

However, this is heartless. There is too much gunpowder and the explosion is very powerful!

The old man followed His Majesty's method and fired nearly a hundred times with live ammunition.

I found that unless it was hidden in an iron can, otherwise, if the fragments were scattered, it would be two feet away from the impact point, and there would be no bones left, and even five feet away, it would definitely be dead! "

Zhu Youjian laughed.

Does this mean that regardless of whether the bomb goes off or not, my cannon, even if it hits, will still hit a hole of [-] square meters?

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Bi Maoliang reached out and stroked the still warm cannon body, and said with emotion:

“Because it’s made of hundred-forged steel, our heartless cannon has a wall that’s not that thick even though it contains so much gunpowder.

In this way, the weight is controlled within [-] kilograms!

It is similar to the Hongyi Cannon, but its power is several times that of the Hongyi Cannon!

Of course, the range is shorter.

But, we are powerful!

The muzzle of our cannon is three times that of the Hongyi cannon, and the gunpowder loaded is several times that of the Hongyi cannon!

Moreover, with our weight, we can still maneuver.

As long as His Majesty's artillery carriage is reinforced, it can be used even on rugged roads! "

Zhu Youjian opened his mouth in disbelief and looked at the new version of the heartless cannon, which was large enough to accommodate a child.

I was so shocked that I didn’t know what to say.

Bi Maoliang's hand gently stroked the slightly blue gun hoop, and his face was filled with the kind of fatherly look that an old father would have on his son...

(The artillery hoops of the Ming Dynasty were used to strengthen the stress between different plates, and they existed as reinforcements.

To put it bluntly, it is a cannon that is forged in separate areas. The joints cannot bear the force and need to be reinforced with gun hoops.

And the cast iron cannons of the Qing Dynasty also had a few hoops, which were nondescript imitations...

You are a cast iron cannon, the hoop is of no use.

Oh, no, it’s useful. There are dozens of kilograms more iron, and two more manpower are needed to pull the cart...)

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How did Zhu Youjian know that due to the corruption and incompetence of the Qing government, the segmented "cannon forging method" that had been implemented in the Ming Dynasty had turned into a "cannon casting method" poured with molten iron.

(Casting a cannon is like pouring bronze, making a mold and pouring red-hot molten iron into it.)

It can be said that the short few decades from the [-]th century until the demise of the Ming Dynasty were the pinnacle of firearms technology in the Chinese feudal era! (Not counting the Westernization Movement)

As for the Qing Dynasty...

What's more than a toy? ——60 general cannons were cast, and 10 of them exploded on the spot during the test firing. After a quick inspection, they were surprised to find that the remaining doors had trachoma, among which “one had a hole inside, which could hold four bowls of water” (Guan Tianpei’s original words) – —Zhenzhen Daqing high-tech technology...

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Wangfuzhou Island is very big.

Although Erbi built factories here, there are still open areas that are several miles long.

(For something you don’t know, some of the artillery pieces were test-fired here during self-defense.)

Zhu Youjian immediately prepared ten artillery pieces, set up targets, and started test firing.

After a burst of gunfire, Zhu Youjian grinned.

"I am very pleased with the great contribution you have made to your family. You should be rewarded!"

Zhu Youjian said loudly:

"The two noble families are gentry who are not short of money. They are even richer than me, the emperor."