The gun body is cylindrical, and the whole gun body is placed on a thick wooden frame and fixed.
Because the gun is very heavy, it is close to two thousand kilograms, and it is even more necessary to transport a very large and heavy vehicle.
When Su Yonglin heard the news and came to inspect, he saw craftsmen preparing to test fire.
According to the previous experience, it is necessary to dig a pit when launching because of the huge recoil, and put the gun in the pit to absorb the recoil with the help of the earth.
At the most experimental time, Su Yonglin didn’t say that the craftsmen didn’t care to pull a gun barrel bare, and the horrible recoil almost killed the craftsmen responsible for launching.
Now they understand that when testing, they must dig a hole to bury the gun body and reinforce it, so as to be safe.
They put five guns into the muzzle of the iron bullet and aimed at it about 200 meters away. They set up a test wall and lit the fuse, then hid.
Then everyone blocked their ears together
Su Yonglin’s long-awaited picture finally appeared.
With a deafening sound, five iron bullets crashed out and flew towards the distant wall, smashing it hard.
Su Yonglin took a clairvoyance and looked over there. Boy, it was instantaneous to dry out five big pits and the dust was flying.
It was a solid and hard blow. Generally, the city wall is estimated to collapse after several bombardments. Only a small part of it can be used against such terrible weapons of war unless it is a particularly strong Tianjian City.
But if you shoot enough times, the final victory must belong to the artillery.
Su Yonglin clenched his fist and shouted a good one.
The craftsmen and their entourage were overjoyed and hugged each other to celebrate.
It’s really not easy along the way. It took them a lot of effort to finally complete such a powerful weapon of war.
As far as Su Yonglin is concerned, if this gun body can be lengthened a little longer, it will almost be a red cannon for the artifact of the last war.
Although the artillery is very primary at this time, its poor stability and shooting accuracy enable it to shoot large-scale immovable targets such as cities.
Compared with the strong recoil, the pit is shaken out, and a lot of soil is biased in the original shooting direction. After each shooting, the design angle needs to be corrected again, which is very time-consuming to launch.
These problems are big problems in early artillery.
However, compared with the single pure iron gun, the explosion problem may occur, and the copper structure of the iron core enhances the safety of the gun a lot.
And it’s really powerful.
Its direct way makes the impact kinetic energy greatly increased, and the explosion kinetic energy produced by gunpowder explosion is far from being compared with the elastic kinetic energy of wooden structures.
The structure of the unified city wall is very effective in dealing with general kinetic energy bombardment and trebuchet-type drop bombardment, and it is difficult for trebuchet to destroy the city wall.
However, in the face of direct artillery bombardment, the unification of the city wall will face great challenges. In a certain period, the unification of the city wall will be defeated like a mountain, and it will not be able to confront the outstanding artillery.
The present experiment is the proof.
Despite many problems and difficulties, Su Yonglin decided to continue the experiment to determine the maximum number of shots at one time and try to improve the recoil problem
Then calculate its farthest range and maximum effective range.
After these are confirmed, good soldier can be selected to practice. After good soldier is familiar with the artillery, he can bring the artillery to the battlefield.
The artillery mass production plan has also confirmed that the Ministry of Finance will allocate special funds to the Firearms Division. Although the large financial resources are far from affluent, the Firearms Division does not need to worry about money.
They need to worry about whether they can finish Su Yonglin’s work on time and in quality.
In order to reward craftsmen and officials of the Firearms Department, Su Yonglin decided to upgrade the level of the Firearms Department, and the Firearms Bureau was directly under the Ministry of Industry and not tied with other departments.
Qiu Yuan, the head of the Firearms Division, was promoted to the position of Firearms Bureau. He went around all channels and directly presented it to Su Yonglin and asked for Su Yonglin’s benefits and qualifications.
Artisans will also get promotion opportunities and rich material rewards according to their contributions.
This is Su Yonglin’s reward mechanism for craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry. This emperor is not poor. Su Yonglin knows the importance of science and engineering to the country. There are both science and engineering examinations in the imperial examinations.
Students who pass the examination will also enter the Ministry of Industry in large numbers to study new technologies. More than 30% of the craftsmen in the Department of Eye and Firearms are from the imperial examination, and the rest are all craftsmen.
With the passage of time, in the future, the craftsmen of the whole Ministry of Industry will have higher quality, the ability to arrange and inherit, and scientific thinking, not just relying on experience accumulation to promote scientific progress.
China has treated artisans fairly well. Since the earliest establishment, they have already been officials, and will be promoted according to their respective contributions and achievements in the future, relying on their technology to become new technical officials.
If you have a good creative ability and have made great contributions, you can get a normal state reward like civil servants and military commanders.
Su Yonglin walked over and encouraged them to make persistent efforts.
However, Su Yonglin will not be satisfied with this situation.
Since the quality of steel has barely reached the standard and has made a leap in quality, it is necessary to continue to promote the production of qualified steel and the quality of steel to continue to rise, and to promote the production of more types of artillery.
Su Yonglin felt that he could start to promote the weaponization of the army.
"This kind of artillery is powerful, but it is shorter than maneuver and rapid fire, and the way is not very big except for fighting hard. I hope you can develop a lighter artillery with high firing rate, such as this."
Su Yonglin took out a pen and paper and drew a picture according to the style of the remembered Fran machine gun, focusing on the setting of the mother spear and introducing the concept of fixed ammunition to inform the craftsmen of the concepts of the spear and the mother spear.
Su Yonglin hopes that this type of artillery can move with the large troops and can also be used in field operations.
The weight is relatively light, and the wooden wheelbarrow can be relatively quickly loaded and fired in a certain range to strike the enemy’s army.
"At present, the main mode of military warfare is that the attacking army and the army form an army array to impact and kill each other, so although the artillery can’t fire the explosion Raytheon gun, it can destroy the enemy army array like a solid iron bullet. Think about that picture."
Su Yonglin described the way in which a gun fired a solid iron bullet to destroy a tight military array.
An iron bullet roared and rushed to the enemy’s army array. The scorching breath and powerful explosion kinetic energy will tear everything and stop the flesh and blood in front of it.
It takes one hit to destroy a secret army.
This is the exclusive ability of artillery, but the existing powerful long-range weapon trebuchet can’t do this
If the trebuchet could have done this, perhaps the army array would not have developed to this day, perhaps the heart phalanx would have been born long ago.
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The ancient army array maintained a solid phalanx for a long time because the trebuchet was as clumsy and heavy as the heavy artillery, and it was extremely difficult to move.
It takes too long to load and launch, and it is also necessary to deal with large unmovable targets in order to give full play to the impossible battlefield.
The battlefield is still dominated by crossbows and military formations.
It is necessary to produce light artillery that can follow the actions of the army and can be used in the field battlefield, which will help the battlefield directly destroy the enemy’s army array and destroy their fighting will with confidence.
Maybe it can directly change the form of war.
Although Su Yonglin wants to make it most, he can still shoot a bullet gun. Unfortunately, at present, explosive firearms such as Raytheon guns can be fired by heavy artillery.
The ultra-high bore pressure of heavy artillery will directly destroy the general Raytheon gun, and it will hurt yourself first and hurt yourself seven times.
If you want to thicken the shell of Raytheon gun to the point where it can be launched, it is estimated that it will either be a squib or split into three or five pieces. Don’t say anything, it will be a lonely explosion
It’s better to throw Raytheon guns or big rockets with trebuchets when shooting explosive bombs.
However, it is the best choice to use solid ammunition for artillery unless the iron smelting technology continues to improve or the technical points of breech gun and primer are highlighted.
But it doesn’t mean that you can’t shoot bullets with artillery.
Su Yonglin knew that an ancient mortar had a short barrel and a large muzzle, which was like a big bronze bell. By reducing the bore pressure, it was possible to hit the bullet, but the range and accuracy were …
Just a little chicken ribs. It’s not as good as the army’s proficiency in using trebuchets nowadays.
At present, the concept of real light artillery or Fran machine gun represents the mother spear, which reduces the range and power, but makes it possible to maneuver quickly, load quickly and launch at high frequency, making it a field gun to cooperate with field troops
The craftsmen watched Su Yonglin paint more vivid artillery styles, listened to Su Yonglin’s explanation, read each other, looked at each other and silently nodded. Qiu Yuan, the owner of the new firearms bureau, said that they would definitely complete Su Yonglin’s delivery.