In the early morning of the mountain forest, some faint mist has not yet dispersed, from a distance it looks like nothing, like a fairy dancing light veil soft sunlight sprinkled in the mountain forest, lush leaves have a deep and shallow green hillside grass, clusters, clusters of unknown wildflowers, bathed in the sun, blooming smiling faces, the dew on the petals in the morning light, flashing colorful light.
Cao Chong stood on the wall of Zhaoxian Village, but his eyes narrowed, and in front of Cao Chong, there was a team ready to go.
There are not many people in this team, but there are a lot of them, standing among them, but there is a bit of a mighty appearance, it is the two hundred tiger warriors that Cao Cao gave to Cao Chong.
Before Hushi, there were a series of dark iron bumps, this iron bump is not small, one person may not be able to hold it, it looks like an iron pass, but it is not.
This is the prototype of the mortar Mortar, English name is ortar, is a kind of short barrel, large angle of fire, high ballistic arc, seat plate to bear recoil, muzzle loading, fire with tail shells of the curved smoothbore artillery.
The firing principle of the mortar is to use the mortar cartridge and the recoil force generated by the ignition of the mortar tube and the additional cartridge to fire the mortar shell.
This sentence is difficult to say, simple is simple, Cao Chong vaguely saw a similar mortar in his previous life, and also saw its assembly, among which there are many types of mortars.
The simplest is the mortar in the Republic of China, which was directly modified from an iron barrel.
When the mortar shell slides from the mouth of the mortar barrel to the bottom of the barrel, this thimble-like part will push itself against the detonator of the shell, and then the fired gunpowder on the shell will explode, and the shell will fly out under the recoil force of the fired gunpowder.
Of course, with the production technology of the Three Kingdoms period, it is difficult to produce even a thinner needle, so Cao Chong roughly used the Tietong mortar during the Republic of China, and under the encouragement of a group of craftsmen, it finally became this iron lump.
This iron pimple was dark all over, and in front of the tiger warrior, it seemed to be a mysterious object, which aroused the curious eyes of many people, and for a while, there were a lot of whispers.
Of course, it is not yet known whether this iron lump can be made in the end, but according to the general principle, it is still very possible.
Even if it may succeed, this iron barrel mortar has its shortcomings, the biggest disadvantage is that it is heavy, and secondly, the purity of the iron products at this time is not enough, and the lumen is very likely to be melted by the high temperature of gunpowder burning, so that the iron barrel mortar will be scrapped, or even explode during blasting, hurting its own people.
There are good and bad, these shortcomings are not a problem, as long as there is such a thing as a mortar, even if there are these shortcomings, it can be regarded as the progress of the times.
The usefulness of gunpowder will increase significantly As for the guns, Cao Chong basically didn't study them, he played a few games, and had some research on the 54-type, 59-type, and 64-type pistols, but the research is research, and Cao Chong also roughly knows the components inside, but the people of this era can't make that kind of fine accessories at all, so the gun is still difficult to complete.
Since it was difficult to study, Cao Chong simply didn't want to think about it, and as for the rest, Cao Chong didn't have any other achievements except for making a grenade.
Ordinary gunpowder, if the amount is not large, is actually not powerful, like the gunpowder in a firecracker, if you pour it down and ignite it, it is just a snort.
Packets of gunpowder have a certain power, and those grenades with iron pieces and gravel are naturally more than ten times more powerful than simple gunpowder.
A grenade goes down and kills, in addition to the impact of a blow explosion, more is the damage caused by flying pieces of iron and rubble.
And today, Cao Chong is going to train his soldiers and try the power of this new object.
Whether it's a mule or a horse, they all have to be taken out for a walk Cao Chong sighed deeply in the direction of Jingzhou, but there was not much sadness in his eyes, and in those eyes, there was a strange light, this light, was high-spirited The reason for Cao Chong's high morale was naturally because of the war in Jingzhou Half a month has passed since Cao Ren defeated Wuling Xiaodao, and the time has slowly reached October.
In the battle of Wuling, although Cao Ren escaped, but because of the reason of Jin Xuan's surrender, Cao Chun and his party were also ambushed outside Wuling City, and suffered heavy losses.
After Cao Ren's defeat, Cao Cao personally led his troops forward, but he couldn't gnaw off Liu Bei's bone.
And Liu Bei, who got the time, began to increase his strength little by little, at least, Liu Bei's control over the four counties of Jingnan was greatly enhanced.
Of course, this is only the most superficial reason, and the deeper reason, as well as Cao Cao's failures in many battles, has already set off a chain reaction.
Cao Cao's southern expedition was unfavorable, and there were huge obstacles in Cao Cao's southern expedition, firstly, many defeats were hindered by the morale of the southern expedition, and secondly, the people of the Jingzhou faction who surrendered, such as Cai Mao and others, were worried and worried, and they could no longer drive for Cao Cao wholeheartedly as before, after all, the matter of Jin Xuan was on the side.
For the Jiangdong side, Cao Cao's defeat is tantamount to enhancing Sun Quan Zhou Yu's confidence in resisting Cao, and hitting the arrogance of Jiangdong's Cao faction, Jiangdong may unite in advance, which is naturally unfavorable to Cao Cao.
At the same time, the victory of these battles may accelerate the emergence of the Sun-Liu Alliance.
Of course, in Cao Cao's stronghold, in the north, the situation is not optimistic.
Cao Cao's southern expedition was unfavorable, which made Ma Chao Han Sui of Liangzhou have other thoughts in his heart, and now he is a little restless.
And Liu Zhang in Shuzhou and Zhang Lu in Hanzhong have some small moves.
To put it simply, if Cao Cao can't quickly win a battle, then the foundation of the north will be a little unstable, you know, Ma Chao Han Sui is stationed in Sanfu, is in the Chang'an area, away from Xudu, but two days of horse journey, if Ma Chao Han Sui is really bold, he can step on Xudu.
Because Cao Cao stayed behind in Xudu, there were less than 10,000 people, and most of them were veterans, which could not be compared with the bravery of the Xiliang soldiers.
Secondly, Cao Cao's southern expedition was unfavorable, which directly led to the instability of the internal forces, and it must be known that among all the forces, Cao Cao's internal forces were the most complex and the most dangerous.
Zhuge Liang can go out of Qishan seven times and fight a battle for several years, but Cao Cao can't, once the army has been away from Emperor Han Xian for a long time, the ghost knows what will happen.
The situation is becoming more and more dangerous, and Cao Chong's opportunity is slowly emerging. call Cao Chong took a deep breath and waved at the soldiers on the field. drink The queue of two hundred people, pushing off a few huge iron bumps, marched slowly but firmly on the outskirts of the north of Xudu City {Military training is tiring, it's hard to imagine that I can still squeeze out time}: