The protagonist has been extremely excited these days.
In the age of gunpowder, firearms, and firearms, there were many reasons to be happy for him.
Although the Divine Envoy King's army now has iron weapons, iron armor and long-range weapons, it already has the advantage of crushing most of the ant forces' armies that still use flesh as weapons.
However, once faced with the siege of an extremely large number of enemy troops, the Army of the Divine Envoy King, which takes the elite route, will still be in crisis.
When the number of enemies reaches ten times or even dozens of times, the generation difference of only one generation of weapons can even be smoothed out, but the generation difference of more than two generations cannot be easily filled by quantity alone!
The firearms that the Divine Envoy Army can master in the short term are certainly not as nearly as blind as machine guns. Although crude and primitive firearms may not completely solve the shortcomings of every elite army, they can also greatly fill in the shortcomings. .
The research and development and manufacturing of firearms became the most important thing in [Xinyangcheng] in the coming winter.
Only three days after the performance of gunpowder charcoal was confirmed, the blast furnace had begun to cast the first iron cannon of the Angel King's Army.
After adding fluxes such as silicon, the molten iron from the blast furnace in [Xinyangcheng] has very good fluidity and can even be used to cast thin jaw knives and cannons.
When the volume of a substance is smaller, its solidity is often higher, just like a chopstick is easy to break, but when there is only a small section of the chopstick left, it is difficult to break it.
Ants cast cannons, unlike humans who cast cannons. When the material is not up to standard, they can only make the cannon wall extremely thick.
The first cast barrel was a relatively large gun, with a caliber the size of a dried soybean. The gun wall was about 2mm thick. The tail was closed, but there was a hole reserved for ignition. This is a typical muzzleloader gun.
The size and weight of this gun make it difficult for the soldiers of the God's Envoy King to carry it on the march, and it is more suitable as a city defense gun.
But big cannons have their own advantages, the most important of which is that they are easy to cast.
When mankind first entered the age of firearms, cannons could be cast due to defects in casting technology, but individual firearms, such as matchlocks and early flintlock guns, could only be made by rolling iron sheets. Later, a more advanced technology of drilling iron rods was invented to make gun barrels.
However, the Legion of the God Envoy King did not follow this technical route. Their casting technology is relatively more mature. However, for making iron tools and drilling iron rods, they have no technical reserves and lack of appropriate power (even the power of a blacksmith to make iron by hand). , it is difficult for ants to do it), it is really too difficult for ants!
Although the barrels of ants are much smaller than those of humans, the Angel King Legion still uses casting technology.
The biggest hidden danger in cast iron cannons is that if there are cavitations in them, or deep cavitations that are difficult to see with the naked eye, they will have a significant impact on the strength and life of the casting.
With the current casting level of the Divine Envoy King Legion, large and small cavitations are unavoidable. If the cavitations are on the surface, you can also evaluate based on the size whether they can be filled and continued to be used, or you can simply remanufacture them. If the cavitation bubble is invisible inside, then whether there is any risk in using it depends on God's will.
This first cast soybean-caliber muzzle-loading gun had invisible cavitations inside, but no one knew it at the time.
The test cannon was arranged in a temporarily excavated underground chamber, also far away from the main city. The test chamber is long and narrow, only 3 centimeters wide and about 20 centimeters long.
The iron cannon was placed at one end of the test room, and the protagonist and some male ants who came to watch the cannon hid outside the nest to watch.
The trained gun crew consisted of 18 soldier ants. They were divided into several groups. The cleaning group was responsible for cleaning the gun barrel with tools. Since it was the first time to test the gun, there was actually no debris in the gun barrel, but the process was still done meticulously; then the loading group First, a certain amount of gunpowder charcoal is loaded into the chamber, without adding ammunition, but directly compacted.
Then all the ants stayed away from the gun muzzle, and the protagonist and the others hid in the safe house outside. Two soldier ants from the firing group stuffed a flying knight's fire bomb sling into the hole in the rear of the gun, and used their jaw knives to pierce the oil film on the surface.
There are small particles of charcoal soaked in gunpowder liquid in the fire bomb sling. The air is isolated by the oil film on weekdays, so it can be stored for a long time.
At this time, the oil film was punctured, and a few seconds later, the fire bomb sling began to oxidize and spontaneously ignite, and ignited the gunpowder charcoal.
There was only a loud noise, which was particularly violent in a narrow underground environment. The male ants, magic soldier ants, and magic worker ants behind the protagonist were frightened and ran around one by one, even if they knew there would be movement in advance.
After finally being comforted, the protagonist quickly took them to check them out.
In the gun test room, the gun crew was so scared that they ran away just now. The protagonist asked the guards to chase them back.
The protagonist looked at the iron cannon. It was intact. The pungent smell of gunpowder smoke still lingered in the test cannon room. It seemed that an exhaust vent was needed here, otherwise it would be impossible to stay there.
Today's cannon test is over. When the smoke has almost cleared, the pavement ants and worker ants will come here to drill an exhaust port directly to the ground.
Although the top brass of the Divine Envoy King's Army did not directly observe the cannon test at close range for safety reasons, they also knew from the deafening noise that a new era was coming.
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8 days later, it’s a new year.
The Legion of the God Envoy King celebrated the New Year as usual, had a big meal, and the protagonist also drew a new calendar.
The ventilation project of the gun test room has been completed, and the protagonist decided to conduct a second test gun.
This time, he did not bring senior officials to watch, but only brought four young male ants, who were going to be trained as artillery experts.
The original gun crew continued to operate the cannon, cleaning and loading it. This time, a stone was added as ammunition.
Subsequently, the test gun was successful, and the stone directly made a deep dent in the soil opposite the test gun room.
The protagonist came from the safe room with the young male ant. After checking it, he was very satisfied and ordered to try a few more shots.
After trying three more cannons, the gun crew found that the cannon was too hot to get close to.
The protagonist then remembered that the firearm would have an overheating problem after being used. It was okay. In addition to waiting for it to cool down naturally, there was also water cooling technology.
So he ordered the artillery crew to find a ball of silk soaked in water and wipe it on the cannon to cool it down.
As a result, just as he started wiping to cool down, a crisp sound like ice cubes breaking came out, and the protagonist was about to look back at the iron cannon in shock.
A huge noise no less than that of an iron cannon was heard, and before the protagonist could turn his head away, he felt something hit him hard on his back.
It exploded! ! !
The protagonist only felt that his vision went dark, and he didn't know anything anymore!
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End! ? Of course it’s fake!
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