kingnovel Chapter 464 Rifled Cannon and Smoothbore Cannon
Chapter 464 Rifled Cannon and Smoothbore Cannon
Chapter 464 Rifled Cannon and Smoothbore Cannon
Qian Fei'er stood behind the large-caliber rifled gun, and with deerskin gloves on both hands, opened the breech of the rifled gun from behind.
She stuffed the cannonball into the barrel, picked up a slightly larger primer with one hand, and pushed it behind the cannonball.
Plugged in, she closed the breech magazine and inserted the fuses in the fire holes above the barrel.
The fire hole designed by Qianfeier is very characteristic. In addition to inserting the lead wire, there is a sliding cover beside it, which can cover the fire hole after the lead wire is ignited, making the space airtight.
She lit the fuse, then closed the slide and pulled.
"Hey...!"
The sound of the fuse burning can be clearly heard even standing outside.
Immediately after...
"boom--!"
The entire cannon shook violently backwards, and the two supports that offset the recoil vibrated violently. Even the entire cannon jumped upwards, and the ground seemed to tremble violently.
The gun barrel shrank back violently, an invisible object flew out, and a puff of gunpowder smoke spewed out from the mouth of the gun barrel.
The reason why the barrel is retracted is that Qianfeier installed a sliding air pump and a brake on both sides of the barrel, which can further reduce the recoil and prepare for the subsequent automatic shelling gun.
People always want to think about the distance and the future. Qian Feier is not satisfied with the external ignition artillery. She still wants to make shelled shells with electric primer and ignition.
"Ugh...!"
There was a sharp piercing sound in the air, Qian Fei'er and Ge Long stood in place, raised their heads slightly, and looked into the distance.
In the extreme distance, the shells flew over a very long distance. After a period of time, there was only a sound of "bang!", and on the ground in the distance, a large cloud of smoke and fire exploded from the snow field, and at the same time A large cloud of snow and fog exploded.
Ge Long took out a telescope from his soul tool and looked into the distance.
After reading it, he estimated the distance and was taken aback.
"My good fellow, the distance is probably seventeen or eight miles away. The enemy is probably already blown out of their wits before they see it. Empress, this cannon you built is simply too powerful!"
The telescope used by Ge Long was actually made by Qian Feier.
Douluo Continent already knows how to make glass, and making concave and convex lenses is simple. Qian Feier only ordered craftsmen to make several different lenses. After repeated assembly tests, the telescope was easily made.
As soon as the telescope was manufactured, Qian Fei'er used it for military use and sold it, and at the same time, she had deep doubts about the so-called spiritually condensed wisdom soul bone held by Tang San.
In her mind, if Tang San was really a world-shattering genius with extraordinary intelligence, he wouldn't be able to make such simple equipment as a telescope.
There are also cannons, you know, the Tang Dynasty invented the black gunpowder as soon as it was invented, and then developed cannons for strategic military sieges.
If Tang San is really smart, the cannon just needs a little brainstorming to understand its principle and make it.
From this point of view, it is not a wisdom skull at all, but a real "sperm on the brain" spirit bone. Since using it, Tang San has been on the brain all day long, addicted to women, and flirting with all kinds of beauties. Um……
Qian Fei'er was thinking back, and next to him, Ge Long asked respectfully: "Your Highness? Your Highness?"
"Ah? Oh! What's the matter?"
Qian Fei'er came to her senses and turned to ask.
Ge Long looked at it and reminded, "Empress Empress, it's time to test this armor-piercing cannon. Look, can I let Weichen have a try?"
Ge Long's eyes were a little fiery. This kind of military equipment was irresistible to him, or to all men.
Qian Fei'er smiled lightly and nodded.
"Yes, General Gelong. The operation method is the same as what I did just now. Remember to wear leather gloves. Don't touch it directly with your hands, for fear of sweat."
"Yes, I obey!"
Ge Long responded respectfully, then turned around excitedly, and operated the small cannon brought by Qian Fei'er.
This smaller caliber gun made by Qian Feier, because it is a smoothbore gun, can be loaded from the breech or the front, and it is very convenient for one gun to be used for two purposes.
Of course, due to the length of the barrel, if the elevation angle of the small-caliber armor-piercing gun is slightly larger, it will be very inconvenient to load the front breech. In most cases, it is better to load the breech.
What Gelong used was to open the breech bomb compartment according to the breech loading method demonstrated by Qian Feier, insert the shells, and then insert the cylindrical fixed primer, then close the breech, and insert the gun barrel into the fire hole. lead.
After inserting it, he lit the fuse with a torch, and closed the sliding cover smoothly to seal the fire hole.
"Huh..."
The smaller caliber steel cannon made the same burning sound as Qian Feier used before, and after a while...
"boom--!"
The barrel of the smaller caliber steel gun retracted violently, and the entire gun carriage jumped up and off the ground violently, and then fell again. The two supports behind it supported the ground, causing the whole ground to shake violently.
An invisible shadow spewed out from the mouth of the gun barrel, followed by a thick puff of gunpowder smoke.
In the air, there was a sharp piercing sound of "Woo...!", and after a while, there was only a soft sound, and a large white snow flower jumped from a very far away.
Ge Long took a look through the binoculars, and estimated visually, it was also about seventeen or eight miles away, not farther than a large-caliber steel cannon.
He observed it here, and Qian Feier also had a telescope in his hand, and he also observed it. At the same time, Qian Feier still had some thoughts in his heart.
This smaller caliber steel gun has reduced the caliber, and the shell has become more slender, but the range has not increased significantly. It seems that it should be the reason for the rifling.
The thread and rifling of the rifled gun shell are perfectly closed, so that all the thrust generated by the primer acts on the bottom of the shell, making it fly farther.
The smoothbore gun has more or less gaps, and the thrust is a bit wasted. Therefore, compared with the rifled gun, even if the initial velocity is significantly increased, the range cannot be effectively improved.
Well, in addition to the short-distance armor-piercing requirements of future firearms, the barrel must be equipped with rifling.
Qian Fei'er thought in this way and made a decision.
And just as she was making a decision, Ge Long sent a proposal next to her.
Ge Long looked at Qian Fei'er and bowed respectfully.
"Empress, since large-caliber high-explosive guns and smaller-caliber armor-piercing guns have been manufactured, and the rate of fire and firing cost are far lower than the three-bow bed crossbow, can you directly replace the three-bow bed crossbow troops?"
Qian Fei'er also joined the Three-Bow Crossbow Troop during the reform of units before, and the training was specially used to snipe and kill the enemy Titled Douluo.
Hearing Ge Long's suggestion, she thought about it for a while and felt right, so she nodded.
"Okay, General Ge Long, pass on my order. From now on, the three-bow bed crossbow troops will keep part of the three-bow bed crossbows for commemoration and cultural heritage, and remove all the rest and replace them with armor-piercing guns.
In addition, each infantry team is based on a centurion, and each hundred is equipped with seven vehicles, including four large-caliber artillery and three small-caliber armor-piercing guns.
Except for the artillery operator, the rest of the personnel remained unchanged. They were still crossbowmen, longbowmen, and heavy armored infantry, with a four-to-three-to-three ratio. "
Hearing this, Ge Long frowned a little and asked suspiciously.
"Empress, don't you want to miniaturize these firearms? If we manufacture these miniaturized firearms, we can greatly reduce the physical fitness requirements of soldiers, thereby obtaining more soldiers and greatly improving combat effectiveness in a short period of time."
The miniaturization of firearms, that is, muskets?Qian Fei'er didn't think about it.
She also thought about transforming the matchlock gun, making its projectile into a similar conical shape, adding rifling, loading from the breech at the same time, and fixing the primer gunpowder in advance to shoot quickly.
However, even if the bullet fired by the musket is a conical warhead, because its mass is smaller than that of the arrow, the penetrating power will decrease instead.
In the current Douluo Continent, whether it is heavy armored infantry or cavalry, they all wear heavy plate armor with a thickness of more than one centimeter.
This kind of plate armor, relying solely on the penetrating power of bullets, is difficult to cause effective damage at a distance of 450 meters. Only the god arm crossbow can hurt its life.
So, she shook her head.
"No, Marshal Ge Long, it remains the same. These small firearms are difficult to effectively kill heavily armored targets at a long distance. We still need the God Arm Crossbow, the Yew Longbow, and the Recurve Compound Bow."
Upon hearing this, Ge Long bowed respectfully and responded.
"Yes, I will obey the Queen's order."
Afterwards, Qian Fei'er ordered Ge Long to manufacture two types of cannons side by side on a large scale, and then returned to the harem of Heaven Dou Palace, Xuelin Palace.
Back in Xuelin Palace, Qian Fei'er entered the front hall of the main hall of her palace.
Beside the kotatsu in the front hall, a large circle of traversers sat around, including Qian Linjue, Qian Nawei, Hua Ning, Zi Jin and others.
After Qian Fei'er entered, she smiled lightly, sat upright in her seat, crossed her legs, closed her eyes slightly, and began to practice.
Ling Lu, who had a dull hair on her head, saw it, blinked her eyes twice, and asked suspiciously: "Sister Fei'er, why did you practice so early? It's only in the morning."
Normally, people's cultivation is carried out at night, which can be used to replace sleep. The night time is very long and quiet, which is the best time for cultivation.
If it was normal, Qian Fei'er would definitely respond to Linglu with a smile and explain the reason when she heard it.
But today, she didn't do this, but still closed her eyes slightly, as if she was going to enter a state of meditation.
Sitting next to Ling Lu, Qian Linjue frowned when she realized that Qian Fei'er was ignoring her wife.
He really wanted to ask his sister Fei'er why she ignored Ling Lu, but he was afraid of shocking Qian Fei'er, so in the end he could only snort angrily, turn his face away, and vent his dissatisfaction in his heart.
Qian Fei'er heard the snort, and Liu Mei, who was optimistic, frowned slightly.
This snort is from Lin Jue, are you dissatisfied with my attitude just now?
With this thought in her mind, she opened her eyes, let go of her practice posture, turned her head to Linglu, and smiled softly.
"Linglu, I have a little problem with my mental state, so I need to use my practice to divert my attention. I didn't mean to neglect you on purpose, I'm sorry."
In fact, Ling Lu was not angry, nor did she feel that Qian Fei'er was neglecting her, but Qian Fei'er said this obviously not for Ling Lu, but for Qian Linjue.
(End of this chapter)