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Volume 1 Chapter 658 The newly developed gunpowder weapons of the Chinese Empire

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    The only regret about the beautiful military uniform is that it only carries the rank of lieutenant, because Liu Hongji's identity still needs to be kept secret, so he can only wear it like this to ensure that no one will see anything.  After Liu Hongji put it on, he liked to twist it left and right, with a typical monkey-like look, which was very annoying to watch.  "I said, brother, you are embarrassed. I have to be in a hurry. If you don't want to go, then you can continue to be embarrassed here." "I said, Your Majesty, what do you want me to see, Liu?"  After Liu Hongji moved his arms for a while, he followed me out of the door and asked curiously.  "Brother, you must know that our Chinese Renaissance Army has a secret weapon, right?" I turned over and jumped on the horse and smiled at Liu Hongji.  Liu Hongji nodded and replied seriously: "Of course I know this. Not to mention me, which powerful person in the world is not interested in your majesty's secret weapon? That Wang Shichong even issued a list, willing to give ten  To get our gunpowder formula." "One hundred thousand? Haha, it seems that old guy Wang Shichong is quite knowledgeable, but if his price goes up ten times more" "More than ten thousand dollars.  Your Majesty, do you want to sell it?" Li Yuanfang couldn't help but asked curiously.  "I can just sell him a few explosive packs." I said angrily to this guy, "I am trying to sell my reputation, not my showmanship."  Li Yuanfang almost fell under the horse, quickly stopped the reins, smiled disgraced, and continued to ride the horse forward.  "Brother, you must not know that our Firearms Research Institute has developed many long-range weapons using gunpowder." I continued to show off to Liu Hongji proudly.  "Long-range weapon?" Liu Hongji blinked and said disapprovingly.  "Can it be farther than a crossbow? "Nonsense, if it's not as far as these two, you will be my little brother and I will use the money to make troubles, right?  "I glared at this guy with dissatisfaction. He deserves to have so many girls. "Can that be farther than a crossbow?  "Liu Hongji asked curiously. "The crossbow can only shoot three hundred steps at most, but the heavy-duty firearm we have developed can project iron pellets weighing twenty kilograms to two and a half miles.  at.  " "Wait a minute, you said two and a half miles, not two hundred and a half steps, right?  "Liu Hongji's eyes were as wide as two sixteen-watt lights. "That's natural. I won't say more. When you get there, brother, you can appreciate it yourself and you will know the authenticity. "" First row  Aim, shoot and retreat to reload, the second row aims, shoot and retreat to reload" With the roar, smoke rose from the weapon testing ground of the Firearms Research Institute, and rows of guns were as dense as firecrackers.  And the grass targets one hundred and fifty steps away were blown up by the lead bullets with strong kinetic energy, sending grass clippings flying everywhere.  Not far away, a cannon installed on the recovery machine suddenly spurted out a burst of white flames, followed by a roar like the roar of a thunder god, and a projectile hit hard in the blink of an eye.  Three hundred and fifty steps away, a deep hole was dug into the thick mud wall.  Liu Hongji, who had changed into a uniform of the Royal Guards, seemed to have seen a group of African elephants running past wearing grass skirts and holding chrysanthemums.  The grin was like a hippopotamus with a big winter melon stuffed in its throat, and the two eyes were as wide as the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and the Small Wild Goose Pagoda.  The rate of fire of the artillery is extremely fast, or in other words, the rate of fire of the artillery has been greatly improved due to the adoption of the form of mother-and-child cannons.  After each sub-cannon is stuffed into the barrel and the bolt is closed, you only need to light the fuse to ignite the gunpowder in the sub-cannon, which is like a bullet shell, and then eject the shell.  Immediately after, someone will clean the barrel with a stick, and a sub-cannon will be inserted from the breech. The whole process will not take more than half a minute.  In other words, the rate of fire of artillery is not much slower than that of flintlock gunners.  Especially after the artillery loaded with shotshells was aimed at the erected grass targets, with just one shot, nearly three hundred shotshells were sprayed out, like raindrops, hitting the erected grass targets like  Plantains look like bananas in the rain.  "When the smoke cleared, there were only a few grass targets erected, and they were swaying gently with the gentle breeze blowing from a distance.  Then, the soldiers who were firing volley here stopped shooting. Five people walked out of the first row. They took out a handle with an oval head from their waists. They reached into the back handle and pulled hard.  , you can see a faint green smoke coming out of the handle, and then they took two steps and threw it out.  Then all the soldiers immediately fell to the ground.  Then there were five explosions in a row, blasting out five overlapping shallow craters in the open space dozens of steps away.  "Brother, how are you? What do you think after seeing these weapons?" Seeing this scene, Liu Hongji's expression finally changed. I secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He is worthy of being a military general, unlike those  Civil servants are generally fragile, remember last timeWhen a group of important ministers came to see him, several civil servants were so frightened that they fell to the ground, which was really embarrassing.  "The lethality is so powerful that it has never been seen before. If the opponent is not hundreds of grass targets, but hundreds of sergeants, the one shot just now is enough to reduce the damage by more than half. However, the speed is not as fast as the crossbow, and since this thing uses gunpowder  I'm afraid it will be useless due to moisture, right?" Liu Hongji, who had regained his composure, thought for a while and then said.  I nodded with satisfaction.  "Brother, what you said is true. However, brother, you are wrong. These firearms are not afraid of rain. Of course, if it rains heavily, it will indeed have an impact. However, these things will not be affected." I looked back and pointed.  Referring to the squatting cannon, there are also some grenades placed next to it.  Walking to the squatting cannon weighing a thousand kilograms, Liu Hongji couldn't help but sigh like this when he looked at the shiny black gun barrel.  "If we really have these ferocious weapons, they will really be put to good use against the prairie cavalry or the alien city walls." "This is natural. These are what I have prepared for these alien enemies."  This young master nodded with satisfaction and smiled.  "Your Majesty, how about getting two artillery pieces like this for me when my Chinese army attacks Luoyang?" Liu Hongji couldn't put it down and walked around the artillery several times before asking.  "Brother Acer, it's not that I don't want to give it to you, but it's that only one such cannon has been built so far, and it's just a sample cannon." I rolled my eyes helplessly and explained in a dumbfounded way,  When this guy saw the cannon, it was like seeing his mother. No, it was like seeing the most popular lady in the brothel, with a greedy expression that he wanted to take off his pants and get on it.  "Of course, it's just a description, it doesn't mean that the Acer brother would take off his pants and stuff his thing into the barrel. If he did that, he would not only be a psychopath, but also a mentally ill person who is a habitual rapist.  "Such a cannon? I said, Your Majesty, why don't you get more of such a good thing?" Liu Hongji reluctantly pulled his eyes away from the cannon and said with a puzzled look on his face.  "We have trial-produced various artillery before, and this prototype is our final prototype." I said with a long sigh.  "No fewer than fifteen prototype cannons were cast. You can imagine how difficult it was." "The most important thing is that although this type of prototype cannon is good, it does not have enough shells." Liu Hongji couldn't help but think.  I rolled my eyes and said, "What are you talking about, Your Majesty? If you don't have enough shells, just make them." "It would be nice if it was that easy. You don't even have to look at what these shells are made of." I turned over angrily.  He rolled his eyes and picked up the shell casings that he had thrown aside after firing.  It's quite heavy, and although it has been smoked black, the shell still looks very bright.  "Copper? Darling, this cannonball, the copper consumed in its shell alone, is probably five or six kilograms, right?" After Liu Hongji took it, he picked it up in his hand and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.  "Then do you know how many kilograms of copper the barrel of this cannon consumed?" I asked, patting the lukewarm barrel without raising my eyelids.  This ten centimeter-caliber cannon consumed nearly one thousand kilograms of copper. In addition to the recovery equipment and gun mount, it also consumed more than six hundred kilograms of fine steel.  "Based on the fact that this kind of artillery can fire two to three shells per minute, it is estimated that one hour of combat will consume 120 to 180 shells, and each shell will consume several hundred kilograms of copper.  This is all money, real money. Calculated based on a pound of copper as a pound of money. Just one artillery and a base amount of ammunition will cost two thousand pounds of copper. This does not include labor and other costs.  Cost In short, compared to the cost of a horizontal sword that does not exceed five guans, and the cost of plate armor that does not exceed 15 guans, this kind of weapon is indeed shockingly expensive.  In order to achieve scale, one artillery battalion is responsible for eighteen guns. If you want the artillery to cause terrible damage and huge damage coverage to the enemy, for example, if you want to conduct a war with about 10,000 people on the grassland, at least three  Only with five artillery battalions can we form sufficient fire coverage.  Think about the wars of later generations. The overwhelming artillery fire could almost submerge the entire earth. The number of artillery used was completely calculated in thousands. Of course, it refers to the Ximanzi side. What we here are promoting all day long is Xiaomi Plus.  Rifles and everything else seem to be just floating clouds, so it¡¯s better to be more harmonious.  But the amount of copper that needs to be consumed in this way gives me a headache just hearing it. You must know that currently, after Steel found those giant iron mines in Cochin, the demand for steel can already meet the needs.  But copper has been in short supply in China since ancient times, because the copper coins of all dynasties, especially those of the Tang and Song dynasties, were used as the currency of their countries by the countries surrounding China.  Even if the country does not create currency, everything is based on the five baht of the Tang Dynasty or the money of the Song Dynasty.  ??Our copper production is inherently insufficient, which is why iron money and even paper money have been used in China since the Han Dynasty.
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