Chapter 330 Under the heavy reward, the brain must be enlightened, and the second mother wanted to ask what Quan Xu meant, after all, Quanjiazhuang Town poured a lot of effort into Quan Xu.What's more, whether it is Erniang or Sanniang, they all have feelings for the whole family.Quanjiazhuang Town was built from a barren wasteland, from scratch, bit by bit, slowly, and they are all witnesses and witnesses.The most important thing is that the whole family fort city has been built, this is a castle covering an area of more than 1,400 acres, tall and strong reinforced concrete city walls, up to five stories of buildings, it looks very spectacular, of course, this reinforced concrete, can also give people a sense of security.In Erniang's heart, the new daimyo prefect Nan Juyi guaranteed that everything in Quanjiazhuang Town would be as usual, and only tax payments would be paid as before, and no one would interfere with the development of Quanjiazhuang Town.Sanniang is also a little strange, what did Quan Xu do?
At this time, Quan Xu was in the Acropolis of Jinzhou, in the artillery research institute of the family military weapons factory.After fumbling for more than a year, this artillery finally came out.The 105 field artillery equipped by the whole family army, from the perspective of the division of elevation angles, actually belongs to the category of cannons, including flying thunder cannons and tiger squat cannons.At the beginning of the manufacture of this kind of cannon, the whole family military arsenal transferred more than 100 senior craftsmen, who received a minimum of five taels per month from Quanxu, and the highest master was paid thirty taels per month.They are groping for the manufacture of rear-loading artillery in Quan Xu's mouth.After their unremitting efforts, the artillery was finally manufactured in the town of Quanjiazhuang, and then the arsenal was relocated, and they arrived in Jinzhouwei by boat.After seven or eight days of recovery and factory construction, today this new gun was finally pulled out for Quan Xu's debut.When Quan Xu and Shen Mingze arrived, Yan Ming, the chief technician of the Artillery Research Institute, was leading a group of testers to push the new gun to the launch site.Shen Mingze was very surprised to see that the caliber of this new smoothbore gun was significantly thicker than that of the 105 field gun.Quan Xu said with a smile: "The caliber of this new gun reaches one hundred and thirty millimeters, twenty-eight times the diameter, and it is made of special bearing steel.The artillery of the Ming Dynasty had a very short barrel, the longest was about 105 field guns, and the barrel length was about 1.5 meters.However, the new cannon in front of me is a 28 times 130 mm smoothbore gun, that is to say, the length of the barrel is 3,640 mm, and such a length of artillery is very rare.Due to the use of bearing steel, the surface of the barrel has a silver gloss, which, of course, is also noticeably different from ordinary guns.Others, however, are similar to ordinary guns, with a garrison hoe, and the entire cannon is fixed, so you don't have to worry about it moving far back after firing.Of course, there is still displacement, and the relegated artillery is so urine, and if you want to overcome the old problem of displacement, you have to wait until the retractable artillery comes out.Yan Ming and other craftsmen saluted Quan Xu: "Meet Quan Ye!"
”"Have you tried the cannon?""
It's not started yet!""
Can I try it now?""
Yes!"
With Quan Xu's order, the tester stuffed a packet of granular gunpowder packed in silk into the chamber, and then a soldier loaded a cylindrical shell with a semi-circular warhead, inserted it through the fire hole, and ignited."
Boom" spewed out a ball of fire from the muzzle of the cannon, and the shell whistled out and smashed 600 meters away, exploding a ball of red fireball."
Not bad!"
Tester, hurry up and clear the chamber, reload, and hit again!
The whole process was very fast, much faster than the rate of fire of the 105 field gun.No way, who called it a rear-loading smoothbore gun?
The rear-loading smoothbore gun has too obvious advantages in terms of loading compared to the front-loading smoothbore gun.The second shot hit a wooden building made of thick planks and steel bars, and the wood was blown to pieces.Not only that, but after the shell hit, it also ignited a fire, which burned until thick smoke billowed and tongues of fire rose seven or eight meters high.Quan Xu could conclude at a glance that this kind of artillery had taken flowering shells.The sail battleship, which is mainly wooden, will definitely lose its combat effectiveness if it is hit by such a shot, and if the heat spreads to the warehouse where the ammunition is stored, the unlucky battleship will be blown up on the spot!
Quan Xu became excited: "This is exactly what I want!"
Ten salvos of cannons of the same caliber will not have such an effect!
Yan Ming, how the hell did you do it?
”As he spoke, Quan Xu rushed towards the burning wooden layer, wanting to see the shooting effect closely.Yan Ming hurriedly grabbed Quan Xu: "Master Quan, don't go over, it's poisonous there!"
”"Yes, when we were making cannonballs in Quanjiazhuang Town, seven people died!""
Seven dead?
Why didn't anyone report it?
”Yan Ming was a little embarrassed: "I reported it!"
”Quan Xu patted his head, he was fighting with the whole family army before, and the affairs of the army involved most of his energy, so he gave up power in this regard.Yuan Shiqing gave each of the seven gun-making craftsmen who died unexpectedly a pension of 120 taels of silver according to the pension standard of the whole family's military family Ding Bing.The craftsman's family asked for ten acres of land and twenty taels of silver in cash, and the matter was settled."
How can it be poisonous?"
Quan Xu waved his hand and said, "Show me the shells!"
”Yan Ming raised his hand, and a tester handed over a cannonball.Quan Xu found that this cannonball was no longer like the shell of the 105 field cannon, the 105 cannonball was a round iron ball, and the current cannonball was a cylindrical cannonball, and the head part of the cannon was just a lead bullet cut in half, and he really couldn't believe that this thing would be so powerful."
Take it apart and I'll see what's going on!"
When the technician disassembled the shell, Quan Xu realized that it was not so simple.A hole was drilled in the center of the half of the buckshot, and the cylindrical shell was actually the tinplate used by Quan Ji to make cans.When tin is added to the molten iron, the iron becomes extremely soft and moldable, and the outer shell is a cylinder wrapped with tinplate, and the outermost layer of the cylinder is a thin refractory layer, like the furnace of a briquette furnace.In the middle position, a short and thick column of medicine was stuffed, weighing at least three or four kilograms, to put it bluntly, this round column support is a high-explosive bomb!
Then I opened the silk that wrapped the medicine column, and ouch, it was yellow, with a strong smell of sulfur!
A slender hole through the center of the lead bullet is inserted into the center of the column, and after hitting the target, it explodes immediately after being violently impacted, thus detonating the cylindrical shell.The reason why the warhead is solid and not hollowed out to reload more is because it still has to be used to smash through walls, or bricks.The technician introduced: "This kind of shell will explode violently after hitting the target, and accompanied by violent burning, it will produce highly toxic poisonous smoke, which can poison people!"
”Sulfur fuels combustion, and of course emits highly toxic gases.Quan Xu thought to himself, if this kind of cannonball doubled the power in the enclosed space.Who said that the ancients were not smart?
The principle of this artillery shell was searched by Quan Xu on the iron-blooded military forum of later generations, and it is said that it was an exclusive information pasted by a military expert.Quan Xu is also based on the principle of crossing the river by feeling the stones, and let Yan Ming and others study and play.What they didn't expect was that they actually made something so quickly, but it was an incendiary high-explosive bomb.In fact, these craftsmen are aiming for Quanxu's silver.The invention of a new type of hull, although it is also Quan Xu's idea, since the manufacture, the main person in charge has rewarded 1,000 taels of silver, and the participants have received 500 to 50 taels of silver.Such a heavy reward can make a poor egg craftsman live a middle-class life immediately, can this be too exciting?
Quan Xu smiled: "One more shot, aimed at the house in front of you." ”"Master Quan, such a cannonball is a bit expensive!""
How expensive?""
Each cannonball costs thirty taels of silver" "Thirty taels of silver, it's a bit expensive!"
”"If it is mass-produced in the future, the cost will be reduced!"
This kind of shell adopts the method of screw combination, and the shell is reloaded and screwed on.The gun was lit in the chamber of the loader, and it was aimed at a masonry house about eight or nine hundred paces ahead.With a bang, a large hole was punched in the wall of that house, and there was a loud bang from inside, and suffocating sulfur gas gushed out with the flames, and if there were people inside, it was basically a death sentence."
Haha!"
Quan Xu said excitedly: "Yan Ming, you have done a good job, I am very satisfied with this kind of artillery and shells, you report the participants, the person in charge of the research and development of artillery and shells, each person will be rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver, and 1,000 acres of land in Liaodong, and other personnel, 500 taels of silver and 300 acres of land."
However, let them cultivate it themselves!
”Quanxu has more silver and more land.The area he now controls is almost half of Liaoning Province, with 70,000 square kilometers of land."
As long as you follow me and work hard, I will let everyone be the owner and live the life of a landlord!"
Quan Xu patted Yan Ming's shoulder and said, "As for you, the reward is three thousand taels of silver!"
”With a wave of his hand, Quan Xu was rewarded with tens of thousands of acres of land and tens of thousands of taels of silver.At the same time, it also set an excellent example for the craftsmen.What Jeon Wook didn't know was that he was responsible for a heavy price for this.In just a few months, those red-eyed craftsmen discovered more than 40 iron mines of various sizes, more than 20 coal mines, and a gold mine in the four prefectures of southern Liaoning.It's on the Jinshi Mountain where Jeon Wook lives.For this kind of artillery, Quan Xu gave the arsenal the production task of 300 artillery pieces and 60,000 shells at that time, and at the same time, the first batch of 200,000 taels of silver was directly transferred to the arsenal, so that the arsenal immediately started to operate at full capacity.Once this kind of artillery appears on the battlefield, the 105 field artillery is scum.However, the 130-millimeter 28-caliber artillery is not light, and the weight of the whole gun is about 570 kilograms, which is more than five times that of the 105 field gun.However, every time the power of the artillery increases tenfold, especially in the face of the opponent's phalanx charge, it is simply a cannon, it is impossible to reimburse a battalion, and it is not an exaggeration to reimburse a flag.