“臼炮?有点像水桶.”

In the Military and Military Affairs Office, Wang Ying carefully looked at the short and thick cannons on the drawings.

"Well, I can also say that, why don't I need to teach you?" Zhao Xu said.

臼炮需要的技术不高.

He personally developed the cannon, and for Wang Ying, the mortar cannon is the same as the middle school students doing elementary school problems.

"You can deal with it." Wang Ying had confidence on his face.

The height of this mortar is only about 60 cm, the muzzle is about 150 mm, and the wall is five cm thick.

在尾端有个孔,是引火孔.

整个炮身固定在一块铁板上.

The estimated weight is about 100 kilograms, and two soldiers can carry it away.

赵煦点点头,翻过一页,指着第二页.

"Also, the shells of the mortar cannon are different from the solid shells of the artillery. They are hollow and have the same principle as firecrackers." Zhao Xu said.

滑膛炮是无法使用空心弹的.

The strong explosion of high chamber pressure will damage the hollow bomb in the barrel.

所以要专门配置专弹.

He would not let Wang Ying explore this problem by himself. After all, Dasong's situation is complicated now and there is not so much time wasted.

尤其是在关于战争的武器上.

Wang Ying stared at the pattern of the drawings. Like solid bullets, the shells of the mortars were also spherical.

However, the inside of the ball is required to be hollow, but there is a mouth as thick as a finger on the ball.

Then he saw that King Yan painted something like a block.

A complete flowering bullet is to stuff the plug into this hole.

"Your Highness, what is the use of this plug? It seems to be the key to this shell." Wang Ying asked.

Zhao Xu looked relieved, but Wang Ying could still see some tricks.

He said: "This kind of shell is called a flowering bullet. Just as it takes a lead to ignite the gunpowder in the gun chamber, this flowering bullet also needs a lead."

"It's just that, how can I ensure that this flowering bullet explodes at the required position?" Wang Ying said in confusion, and then he suddenly realized, "The official understands, this block is..."

Zhao Xu smiled, "Yes," there is a small hole in the middle of this plug that can be inserted into the lead. If the explosion takes a short time, stuff the plug into the inside. If the explosion takes a long time, pull the plug outward to control the length of the lead."

王应了然,“原来如此.”

Zhao Xu continued: "However, how much the cork can be pulled out or stuffed into, and at what distance it can explode, it still needs to be tested, and then the results will be engraved on the production cork."

After pausing, he said, "For example, an explosion of 100 meters requires one centimeter to be stuffed into it, and then mark it when creating a cork in the future to form a standard, so that the artillery battlefield can directly control the distance of the explosion according to the mark."

王应频频点头,“下官懂了.”

赵煦轻轻吐出口气,这就是木塞引信.

Compared to a long fuse directly on the shell, it is much more reliable to rely on soldiers to judge the distance based on their feelings during war and use scissors to cut the leads.

Simply put, this is fool-like, and the error is much stronger than that of a soldier himself.

This kind of fuse appeared in the late eighteenth century in the contemporary era and was used in the original howitzer of that time.

However, because black gunpowder was still being used at that time, the power of the flowering bullet was insufficient and did not attract attention.

交代了此事,赵煦回了王府.

In just over nine days, Wang Ying built the first mortar, as well as several hollow shells and corks.

The mortar was transported to the artillery schoolyard, and Zhao Xu ordered Chang Wei to bring artillery generals to visit.

After all, this will be one of the cannons they use in the future.

"Why is this artillery gun facing the sky? Is it necessary to hit the shells into the sky and then fall down and kill people?" An artillery general thought he was very humorous and laughed.

Turning his head, he saw that everyone else was pursing his lips, and he suddenly shut up.

"Tang Qing, you are smiling very happily. Come on, come and load some cannons yourself." Zhao Xu waved to Tang Qing.

Tang Qing was an artillery lieutenant, responsible for the artillery under the command of the commander, and in charge of seventy-two artillery pieces.

He often saw him in the military school, but he was a little slight about running the train.

"Yes, Your Highness." Tang Qing moved to the mortar in front of the other generals' gloating eyes.

Looking at the shells on the ground, he didn't know how to use them, so he looked at Zhao Xu.

"What do you think of this cannon is used for?" Zhao Xu ignored him and asked first.

Tang Qing scratched his ears and foreheads. He looked at the mortars up and down, observed the shells, and hesitated: "It seems that he can attack the enemy hiding behind the wall."

"That's right, now the loading is in the same order as the artillery." Zhao Xu said.

Tang Qing cleaned the cannon chamber as he said, filling the gunpowder, finally loading the bullet, and then igniting the lead.

"boom!"

一声闷雷似的响声过后,炮弹飞出.

在飞出一百米后,炮弹下落.

But at this time, there was another "boom", and the shells exploded in the air, shining with flames and smoke.

The generals were originally calm, but when they saw this scene, they trembled slightly.

空中这团火焰可比爆竹大多了.

"This is a flowering bullet, which is many times more powerful than a firecracker. If a marble like a flintlock rifle is stuffed into it, it can kill and injure a small piece of enemy." Zhao Xu explained, "Putting lime inside is a lime bomb. This explosion can form at least ten meters of lime dance, causing trouble to the enemy infantry and cavalry."

炸弹的威力在于火药性能.

Even in modern times, the research and development of high-energy gunpowder has never stopped, and they are pursuing the same size and greater power.

During the period when smoothbore guns and mortars coexist, the power of smoothbore guns is better than that of mortars.

The reason is that the black gunpowder explosion is not powerful, at most it is only a large number of firecrackers.

But what he wants is not how powerful the mortar is.

而是其不同于滑膛炮的功用.

之与战斗机与直升机的区别.

"So this is possible." Tang Qing's eyes suddenly lit up.

The soldiers were still firecrackers only thirty or forty meters, and using this thing, they could throw lime bombs directly on the battlefield.

"Your Highness, what is the maximum range of this mortar?" Chang Wei and other generals naturally realized the important role of the mortar and asked hurriedly.

"This has to be tested, but it will not exceed 500 meters." Zhao Xu gave Wang Ying a look.

Wang Ying understood and immediately changed the largest medicine bag and pulled the cork to the longest.

“轰!”又是一次试射.

This time the sound was louder than the first time. The shells flew out loud, drew a long parabola, and finally landed on a position of more than 400 meters. After rolling for several meters, it exploded.

The craftsman immediately measured the distance and came back and said, "Your Highness, about 462 meters."

Zhao Xu nodded. This is the biggest distance, after all, he has changed the largest medicine bag.

"Enough." Chang Wei laughed, "This is more than enough to torture the enemy."

Then he held Wang Ying's hand and said, "Master Wang, create a hundred and eighty sects for the army as soon as possible."
Chapter completed!