I don’t know when it started, but the local cannon, which was born in the hands of our army in the 1940s and 1950s, has entered the public eye.

With the descriptions of many self-media adding fuel to the fire, the public seems to have a misunderstanding of this thing - a conscience-free cannon is a civilian cannon that is super useful, powerful, simple and cheap to build.

To create a cannon without conscience, you only need an iron tube, explosive pack and gunpowder. It is economical and easy to use. It is really a good product for killing and setting fires at home.

No matter when and where, you can pick up the cannon without conscience, without any technical difficulty. As long as you set up the cannon without conscience, you can blow all kinds of enemies into pieces and bleed, and then lay a foundation for victory, and you can attack or defend on the battlefield without any disadvantages.

But is this really the case?

If the cannon without conscience is really so useful, it is so magical. Why did it enter the military museum only after a flash in the pan in the 1940s and 1950s?

The answer is obvious.

The cannon without conscience is not that useful, nor is it magical. It is definitely more economical than the real cannon, but its effectiveness... it is hard to say.

The official name of the thunderbolt is the flying cannon. As the name suggests, it is a kind of tube that makes "thunder" fly. To put it bluntly, it is a large earth grenade cannon, or it can also be regarded as a earth mortar.

It was born at some point, but it was completely matured in the War of Liberation.

The enemy army made good use of many permanent or semi-permanent strong fortresses to defend the battlefield, while our army lacked artillery and tanks and other attack weapons. It almost relied on the brave sacrifice of the blasting suicide squad to successively blast the attack, causing huge losses to personnel.

In order to reduce casualties, conscience-free cannons emerged.

Its positioning is that weapons that do not use manpower to deliver explosive packs. They appear on the battlefield to attack and blow up permanent or semi-permanent military bunkers to reduce casualties in our army.

The earliest conscience-free cannon was actually digging a deep cylindrical pit on the ground that was tilted towards the target, and placed gunpowder for pushing explosive packs at the bottom of the pit. On the gunpowder, explosive packs for blasting targets were placed, and the thrust of gunpowder was used to eject the explosive packs to the target point and detonate.

The method of relying solely on the soil pit as the launching cylinder is too soil and it is difficult to grasp the relatively strict diameter of the pit wall, the volume of the medicine chamber, the inclination angle, etc.

This brings great uncertainty to the calculation of the distance to hit the target, the amount of gunpowder used and the size of the explosive pack, so the flying thunderbolt was born.

The diameter of the flying thunderbolt is very different, ranging from 300 mm to 500 mm. The explosive packages used to launch are generally more than ten kilograms, and the large ones are more than twenty kilograms, with a maximum range of two or three hundred meters. However, the lethality within 150 meters is ideal, and it is mainly used to attack enemy basement construction, barbed wire, deer forts and other main and secondary defense facilities. It is basically impossible to deal with infantry in motion.

Some museums have physical objects of flying thunderbolts on display. These flying thunderbolts for tourists are placed in a certain angle and are supported by wooden frames, which looks similar to the mortar display. However, it must be understood that this is only a decoration method for people to visit, and it must not be launched during combat.

Because of the existence of recoil.

The gunpowder explosion produces a huge driving force. This driving force is not to first push the explosive pack, but to the launcher. The launcher is hard enough, and the gunpowder has no place to move, so he can only push the explosive pack away. This is the complete launch.

And the thin gasoline barrel similar to the one in the TV series, there is a thin layer of iron bottom behind it, and there is no other thing to guarantee it. Then it ignites the launching medicine and launches - believe me, this is definitely a self-killer.

Everyone should be familiar with the word "fried" so why does "fried" appear?

To put it bluntly, the quality of the launcher is not up to standard and is not strong enough, so it cannot lock the force generated by the explosion of the gunpowder, and it will explode.

So why did artillery in the past usually have thick barrels and small exports? That is, the iron smelting industry has not developed properly and cannot create iron that can make large-caliber artillery. In order to avoid blowing up the chamber and killing one's own people, the caliber can only be reduced.

To put it bluntly, a conscience-free cannon is just a gasoline barrel and a thin iron sheet. How can it withstand the huge recoil caused by the explosion of gunpowder?

Of course, it is possible, because when it is actually launched, most of its body is buried firmly in the ground, and the gap between the outside of the barrel and the pit wall is filled with soil, and the heavy pressure and recoil generated by the emitter is absorbed with the help of a solid earth, and the safety factor is improved.

This means that the launch of a conscience-free cannon not only requires a cannon barrel, gunpowder and explosive pack, but also requires professional engineers to carry out solid earthwork, which requires a considerable period of preparation.

Generally speaking, this time is between thirty and forty minutes.

It is precisely because it takes too long and is almost unmovable once it is ready for launch, so it can only be used to attack and attack immovable heavy targets.

Moreover, when using it, the army needs to be in a strategic offensive situation, while the enemy is in a strategic defensive situation. Only in this way can one ensure that the conscience-free cannons truly play a role. Otherwise, before you dig the pit, you will have a counterattack and push forward...

The disadvantages of the lack of conscience cannon are not only that, its own performance and operational errors can also lead to heavy accidents.

For example, the problem is that the lead wires used to ignite the emitter and the fuse of the explosive pack. There are many explosive packs thrown by the unconscience gun and the fuse of the explosive pack by manual ignition. Then the problem is, if the fuse of the explosive pack is ignited while the lead wires of the emitter and the lead wires of the emitter, what should I do if the lead wires of the emitter fail and the fuse of the explosive pack does not fail?

It is precisely because of the existence of security problems that professional engineers cannot solve that the conscience-free artillery gradually withdrew from the battlefield and entered the military museum after our army seized more artillery.

The ritual method can indeed create many simple versions of modern firearms, but this is not without its price.

If you want to use the local method to avoid the technical and cost problems required for regular production and take advantage of loopholes, you will inevitably have to bear the backlash brought by the irregular operation of the local method, and the losses caused by this backlash will even exceed the benefits brought by the loopholes themselves.

Otherwise, why should humans pursue standardized large-scale industrial production?

Isn't it good for everyone to get dirt together?

Speaking of this, I have to talk about the plots of many historical authors and readers, one is the plot of famous officials and generals, and the other is the plot of firearms.

Both appeared with the gradual rise of online novels, and of course I have them too.

I feel that famous officials and generals are in my hands and beauties are mine, and I also feel that traveling back time can create a powerful firearm in just a minute, without any technical difficulty, and beat the natives in minutes.

However, the more books I write, the more information I check, and the older I get, the more unacceptable it is to say this.

I won’t talk about the former, but the latter will be briefly mentioned.

Perhaps it was because China was too humiliated in modern times, and everyone was holding a breath of revenge in their hearts. In the early years, the Internet was full of turmoil, which was strong ships and powerful cannons defeated the Qing army's big swords and spears, so that we finally went to defeat.

Therefore, people believe that China's failure is purely because of the inadequate development of firearms. As long as the inadequate development of firearms, we can instantly turn over, become the great powers, and be proud.

Readers and authors are all influenced by this and believe that it is absolutely correct to develop firearms in historical novels. It is absolutely wrong to not develop firearms or to immediately develop firearms once they travel back.

Going back in the past, don’t develop firearms immediately to beat everything? Are you having a brain problem?

No matter how powerful the enemy you face, as long as you develop a firearm, you can win immediately. If you can't win - then develop a more advanced firearm, you are a time traveler!

Actually, to be honest, how many normal people can hand-made even a clamp or flintlock gun?

Maybe there is, I can't, so the protagonist I wrote can't either.

He has no system or gold brain, he has only a vague historical technology trend, knowing a few firearm knowledge, and being able to draw a few decent pictures is considered a technology I have opened for him.

Speaking of which, how many people can know that early gunpowder is not even powder but paste, which is quite insufficient to burn and contains a lot of impurities?

How many people know how to pelletize gunpowder?

The most powerful one is never a time traveler in the Celestial Empire, but a Baidu that can connect to the Internet (so when I wrote the first Zhenguan guide, I brought a Baidu to the protagonist).

Of course, firearms are good, of course I know, but I regard novels as my career. Every novel is my hard work. I don’t want to create a clamp gun in three chapters and six chapters to create a flintlock gun, and even a tank in three hundred chapters.

I am not a professional either. I will definitely make jokes when I go to the profession. And many things can only be superficial. I will just talk about them in one sentence. If I go into it in depth, I will have problems.

I can only say that within my ability, I want to try my best to pursue rationality.

Of course, I can't do it completely reasonable. I also have to open the cheats I should open. For example, there are no crossbowmen who can be trained in three months. Basically, they can only be proficient in two to three years...

So why was the success rate of rebellion so low in ancient times?

If you can't come up with a reliable crossbowman, the court often has a large army of crossbows to shoot you in a row, and basically you will hit GG.

If you really want to be rigorous, it requires the professionalism of the author himself. I remember when I was in high school, I saw a book called Xinsong. It was quite rigorous and left a deep impression on me.

However, most of the time, the author cannot be rational and rigorous in everything, and can only balance and make a choice between reason and cheating.

Gunpowder improvement takes time, and firearm manufacturing and improvement also takes time. The training of firearm troops takes time, and forming combat power takes time.

Making firearms requires money, a lot of manpower and material resources, sufficient raw materials, and enough time to make craftsmen try and make mistakes. They need to go through trial production before they can go to mass production.

Where is saltpeter, where is sulfur, where is iron ore, where is copper ore.

What should I do if the iron smelting capacity is insufficient, and the firearms produced are always blown up?

There are always individual differences in craftsmen’s handmade manufacturing, so what should I do if I find it difficult to standardize production?

It’s not a good time to see the smoothbore, and if you want a rifle, how should you rifle?

What should I do if I don’t feel good about the flintlock when I want to see the flintlock?

I feel uncomfortable seeing the solid bullet and want to bloom bullets, what should I do?

These are the problems that arise when I write a book. I can't convince myself to skip it and act like these problems do not exist at all.

I couldn't convince myself to ignore the protagonist's survival crisis and economic crisis. I insisted that he spend money on technological innovation while surviving and instantly turned the cold weapon army into a hot weapon for all members. With each person, Gatlin swept across the army.

So every time I see the saying "I have been traveling through many years but I have not used firearms" and "using firearms to fight against cavalrymen", I am really amused and crying.

Whenever I see this statement, I feel that the fire-making machine is like Nuwa creating a human, and it is instantly formed. It is also a series of technical problems that do not exist.

Moreover, the firearm itself has become a Dali Pill. As long as one is used to cure all diseases, all problems will be solved. Modern firearms can use native methods to create a simple version and then kill all the parties...

Speaking of this, I will briefly explain my attitude. I warmly welcome those who agree with me. I can’t help but disagree with me. Let’s just think that we get to know each other and make a familiar look.

Let me also say that the firearms troops will inevitably go online in the future, and tactical innovation will inevitably appear.

Because even the ancient version of the Fire Gate Gun can cause heavy armor to be hit by the heavy armor of the Jin and Song dynasties, ending the heavy armor era in a sense.

The kinetic energy generated by gunpowder and the kinetic energy of crossbows are not on the same level. Within the effective range, the projectile can do things that the crossbows will never be able to do.

But I don't know how long it will take.

Sincerely, salute.
Chapter completed!