Chapter 421 Copper-Iron Alloy Cannon 4 Kong Sheng did not involve the craftsmen in the test-firing operation.
The craftsmen only know how to cast according to orders, but they do not know what it is, and it is best to keep their mystery alive.
Wu Xianwu led more than 100 forbidden soldiers to push the artillery cart and slowly walked into the mountains with the corresponding equipment.
These more than 100 soldiers were more than 100 guards given to him by Li Xuan, the lord of Fengyang County, and they followed him for a long time, and they can be called the henchmen of the henchmen.
If these people can no longer be trusted, there will be no more credible people around him.
As soon as you enter the mountain, you will feel refreshed and isolated from the hustle and bustle outside.
The stone peaks on both sides of the road opened and closed, the wild birds chirped in the stream, the mountain wind was full of water, and Kong Sheng's people pulled the gun carriage all the way into the circle, walked around the mountain, and gradually entered the hinterland of the valley of Zhongnan Mountain.
Zhongnan Mountain is a hidden mountain, which has a hidden atmosphere since ancient times It is vast and deep, it is easy to find a pure place, suitable for cultivation, and has become a rare "hermit paradise" in the world.
It has always been a famous monastic resort, and it has always been recognized as the source of Buddhism, the birthplace of Taoism, and the gathering place of hermits.
Poetic dwelling and living, in fact, has always been what Kong Sheng has dreamed of.
He even had a very strong urge to resign and give up everything he had, and go into seclusion in the mountains to live in seclusion for the rest of his life, accompanied by the breeze and the bright moon.
Kong Sheng dismounted and walked slowly, staring at the beautiful scenery of the layers of mountain ridges, the mountain wind whistling in his ears, and whispering: "Taiyi is close to the sky, and even the mountains are connected to the sea."
The white clouds look back, and the blue mist enters to see nothing.
The peaks in the field change, and the clouds and sunshines are different.
If you want to stay with someone, ask the woodcutter across the water. ” Wu Xian exclaimed on the side: "The general was born with a literary and opera star, and the export is a chapter, and it is a peerless sentence at your fingertips, and I am really blessed today." ” Some of the soldiers in front of him also echoed in unison, and they complimented him with all his might.
Kong Sheng couldn't help laughing: "Wu Xian, where is this my masterpiece of export, this is from Lord Wang Youcheng, I just feel it and chant out of vassal elegance."
Wang Youcheng's poem writes the grandeur and ever-changing rhyme of Zhongnan Mountain, showing a sense of seclusion, which can be called the highest level of landscape poetry in the past hundred years, and no one in the dynasty can stand out. ” In fact, Kong Sheng originally wanted to say that in the hundreds of years before and after, no one could surpass Wang Wei's work in landscape poetry alone.
It's just that he knows that if he is like this, he is afraid that Wu Xianwu will think of himself as a psychopath.
Wu Xian sighed, smiled, and said no more.
Wang Wei is also an important minister of the court, since Kong Sheng said that it is Wang Wei's poem.
The procession continued to march along the foothills of the mountain into the depths, and after more than an hour it was completely on the flat ground between the two valleys.
Kong Sheng looked back and saw that Chang'an City had already disappeared into the vast sea of clouds, and he groaned slightly, knowing that it was almost okay here, and it should not alarm Chang'an City.
"Wu Xian, stop the gun carriage, stand up the cannon, and prepare" Kong Sheng waved his hand and said in a deep voice.
Wu Xian Wujie immediately ordered people to park the gun truck in this mountain glade in accordance with the methods and steps explained by Kong Sheng in advance, fix the gun car, install the fuse, prepare the shells, and keep busy.
These more than 100 henchmen were the first batch of artillery selected by Kong Sheng.
For the entire process of artillery firing, he wrote detailed copywriting, of course, he is not an expert in munitions, these operating methods need to be continuously improved, enriched and revised in subsequent experiments.
Because he was worried about exploding, the first cannon cast by Kong Sheng adopted a thickened breech, which gradually thickened from the front to the back, and in Kong Sheng's opinion, the possibility of exploding the bore should be unlikely.
However, due to the limitation of the technical level, the arc of the cannon chamber is not enough, and the firing range should not reach the range of the cannons of later generations, and Kong Sheng estimates that it is one or two hundred meters.
Then there is the consideration of the power of artillery.
Because this kind of artillery requires a long time to cool down and reload ammunition at a time, the power of each shot must be enhanced, otherwise, the value of the gun will be greatly reduced, and it will not meet Kong Sheng's expectations.
Therefore, for artillery shells, Kong Sheng also racked his brains and designed three kinds of artillery shells.
One is a hard solid bullet, cast in iron.
This kind of solid bullet can be used to siege the city and ram the city wall, and it should be very powerful.
However, solid shells will not explode after being fired, and the long-range lethality is not enough, so when the two armies face each other, they will not play a big role.
The second type of Kong Sheng called it a hollow burst bomb.
Round, with an outer skin cast in iron sheets, containing gunpowder and a large number of small buckshot bullets, with an external firing fuse.
When the shell is fired, it ignites the fuse of the shell itself, and then explodes and cracks when the range is about to arrive, killing and injuring enemy troops in a large area.
The third type is poison bombs, which are chemical weapons.
To put it bluntly, poison is added to the foundation of the hollow burst bomb, and this recipe is an ancient recipe contributed by one of the craftsmen The ball weighs five catties, with sulfur fifteen taels, grass bird head five taels, flame nitrate one catty fourteen taels, croton five taels, wolf poison five taels, tung oil two halves, small oil two halves, charcoal powder five taels, asphalt two halves, arsenic two taels, yellow wax one tael, bamboo ru one tael, Ma ru one tael, pounded into a ball.
This kind of poison bomb is exploded and poison gas is scattered, and in addition to the physical attack, there is a chemical attack, which is a relatively rudimentary chemical weapon.
Kong Sheng is just prepared for research and development, and he doesn't plan to really come in handy.
At least, the fact that he can't use this inhumane chemical weapon against his own people can only be regarded as something developed by Kong Sheng at present, and he can't use it unless he has to.
In order to ensure its power, the cannon cast by Kong Sheng can be called a heavyweight large cannon in terms of scale, which is larger than the red-coated cannon used in the Ming Dynasty in later generations, whether it is the length of the cannon body, or the caliber, as well as the loading space of the gun carriage.
And the thickness of the barrel is at least thirty percent thicker than that of the redcoat cannon.
The reloading and firing methods are similar to those of the Redcoat Cannon.
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Loading on the side, first put gunpowder and then the shell, then the gunpowder, put the lead, the gunpowder pushes down the shell, there is also a lead on the shell, the gunpowder ignites the lead, and the long-range explosion is carried out.
Everything is ready.
Because of the strong recoil force when firing, the gun carriage is characteristic and can be fixed on the ground; And because it is a test launch, it mainly depends on whether the launch is successful and the specific power, so there is no problem of aiming, Kong Sheng asked the soldiers to aim the muzzle of the cannon at the open field in the distance, this grass is about four or five hundred meters away, and at the end of the grass is a half-armed mountain cliff, but Kong Sheng estimates that the range will not reach that far at all.
As long as the range can reach one or two hundred meters, he will meet his expectations.
Because in this era, the two armies are fighting against each other, and the distance between camps is about 200 meters.
Late-firing artillery can produce a one-time huge lethality to the enemy camp, and of course, a deterrent that shocks the enemy's mind.
Of course, these can only be auxiliary to the war.
The real battle is still to be completed in the group rush and kill attack. oshow7 t1706231537: