Chapter 1135 The shock of the new grenade
At 9 am on July 26th, the sixth year of Tianxuan, Qu Mao, Xuande, Kong Ming, 10 musketeers, and 10 artillerymen were already waiting at the firearms research site.
Qu Mao looked at Kong Ming with two dark circles under his eyes, then at Xuande with an eager face, but did not speak.
Although Kong Ming had two dark circles under his eyes, he was obviously in a good state of mind, and the smile on his face was not concealed at all. The goose feather fan in his hand swayed even more slowly.
Qu Mao couldn't hold back, looked around, and said to Kong Ming: "Kong Ming, don't you invite 50 freshmen from Huoqi University to observe it? I think it will be very helpful for students to understand their majors."
Qu Mao waved the goose feather fan slowly, and said lightly: "My lord, thank you for your dedication to the education of the Firearms University, because this drill will also drill the 10 optimized grenade samples just produced, so the subordinates have sent The soldiers are invited to invite researchers from the Firearms Research Institute, faculty and staff from the Firearms University, and 50 freshmen from the Firearms University, all of these people can come and observe, and they should be here soon.”
Sure enough, in less than 10 minutes, the people Kong Ming said came to the firearms research site one after another. 10 Musketeers saluted Kong Ming, then lined up and walked to the end 200 meters away. A 3-meter-high and 1-meter-wide plank was laid on top of each other, and 10 buckets of water were poured on the straw mat under the plank.
At the actual shooting site, 10 members of the artillery team are installing a cannon with a barrel length of 2 meters and a muzzle diameter of 10 centimeters.
When the artillery was installed, Kong Ming said: "Soldiers of the artillery team, your new comrades-in-arms have not yet arrived at the Midway Twin Islands. As the best of the first batch of artillery soldiers, it is up to you to demonstrate this to our lord." The power of artillery."
"Yes!" After the loud answer, the 10 artillery soldiers began to divide and cooperate. Some adjusted the muzzle, some aimed, and some prepared the shells. Although the shells were still front-loaded, the shells had been replaced with metal shells.
After all preparations were completed, all 10 artillery soldiers retreated to the side and rear of the artillery. One artillery soldier pulled the rope suddenly, and there was a "boom", and wisps of blue smoke floated from the mouth of the gun barrel.
Qu Mao took out his binoculars and took a look. There was a hole the size of a bowl in the middle of several layers of wood 200 meters away, but the shells were nowhere to be found.
Soon the Musketeer soldiers who were watching at the other end came back carrying the wooden planks and said, "My lords, the shell has fallen into the bottom of the sea. The point of impact is about 200 meters from the coastline. The target is about 600 meters from the coastline. The target is about 600 meters away from the artillery." 200 meters, with a total range of 1,000 meters."
Qu Mao pointed to the hole in the wooden board, and said to Xuande: "Xuande, look for yourself, one shell can penetrate 10 layers of wooden boards with a thickness of 1 cm, and the total range reaches 1 km, and this is only a solid shell." Just shells.
Think about it for yourself, what kind of warship can possibly block such shells? If the blooming shells I told Kong Ming were developed, the damage would be even greater..."
Seeing Xuande's dumbfounded look, Kong Ming waved his hand, and the 10 artillery soldiers immediately removed the artillery that had rushed out of the edge of the shooting site due to the recoil, ran to the other side of the shooting site in a row, and erected 10 yuan. A wooden plank 3 meters high, 1 meter wide, and 1 cm thick is used as a target.
The 10 musketeers stood at this end of the actual shooting place, holding the muskets on their backs in their hands, leaning all the wooden butts on their right shoulders, and squinting one eye to aim.
Wait until the artillery soldiers on the other side found a cover, Kong Ming waved the goose feather fan in his hand, and the sound of "ba ba ba" sounded like fried beans.
Xuande also checked the 10 wooden boards one by one, and after finding a small bullet hole in each board, the expression on his face was wonderful.
Qu Mao smiled and said: "Xuande, obviously you have also discovered that it is not a single firearm that is lucky enough to cause such lethality, but our firearms have been able to achieve this performance stably.
This is already a rear-loading flintlock gun, see for yourself, how does it compare with our third-tier marksman? "
Xuande took a breath, recovered from the shock, and said: "My lord, muskets are much more powerful. None of the 10 musketeers missed the target at a distance of 200 meters. It can be seen that the shooting accuracy of muskets has increased many times.
Not to mention that bows and crossbows cannot reach this range, even if they can barely reach this range, I am afraid that the intensive reading of shooting cannot keep up, and the lethality may be even less. "
Kong Ming waved his goose feather fan and said, "Go ahead, since you want to shock Master Xuande, then just shock to the end."
The subsequent mine test explosion was unremarkable, and one of the few war horses on Midway Twin Islands was lost.
After throwing the fist-sized cast iron grenade into the circle surrounded by wooden boards, Xuande narrowed his eyes suddenly, asked Kong Ming for a sample grenade, and threw it out himself under Kong Ming's guidance.
After inspecting the damage caused by the grenade explosion, Xuande was stunned for a while, and then said: "My lord, if this thing can be mass-produced quickly, we can directly equip traditional troops, which will definitely greatly improve the combat effectiveness of traditional troops.
Let’s not talk about fifth-level cavalry, even a seventh-level senior magician, if they suddenly encounter this kind of grenade, they can only be enraged on the spot, even if the grenade was thrown by a zero-level militia. "
Qu Mao sneered, and said: "A soldier is equipped with a grenade, of course not, grenade is a consumable.
My idea is that a soldier is assigned at least four grenades on the battlefield. We now have 150 million soldiers. The number of soldiers who are often active on the battlefield is calculated as 10 million. You can see how many grenades you need to produce.
From now on, assuming you have ten grenade factories, how long do you think you will be able to produce enough grenades for each of our front-line soldiers to distribute 4 grenades? As far as this is concerned, I haven't mentioned the preconditions such as iron casting factory and gunpowder factory. "
Xuande said: "My lord, you don't need to say anything, my subordinates will return to Jidao immediately, and immediately start the construction of the new military factory industrial chain.
The subordinates will set up a special organization in the logistics department, resident in the firearms research institute, ready to quantify and produce the scientific research results of the firearms research institute anytime and anywhere. "
Kong Ming has already stood in front of the observation team of the Firearms University, introducing the power and technical points of the new weapons to the teachers and students.
Qu Mao looked at it and said, "Xuande, I won't keep you for lunch, go back early and prepare."
(end of this chapter)