No barrel, just a launcher?
Concubine Wuliangha was not disappointed after hearing Sun Yuanhua's words. Where was the cannon that she had promised? Why is there no cannon barrel and only a broken launcher? Are we cutting corners here? Does Long Live Lord know?
Also, what is a launch pad?
"Your Majesty," Sun Yuanhua said with a smile knowing that Wu Liangha didn't understand, "the firearm I brought this time is called a rocket launcher. Although it has the word "gun", it is not actually a real cannon. It is a kind of fire weapon. The gunpowder spray serves as thrust, propelling a large arrow-shaped explosive projectile to fly hundreds, thousands or even two thousand steps into the air, becoming a powerful weapon to kill the enemy!"
What? Flying 2000 steps in the air? Does your Sun Dapao know how far is 2,000 steps? It’s almost 6 miles!
What is the range at which the Hongyi cannon can hit? What kind of cannon of yours can really shoot that far? Why do you need the Hongyi Cannon? You Sun Dapao are not bragging to deceive this noble concubine, are you?
Concubine Wuliangha was doubtful and asked: "Counsellor Sun, since your rocket launcher is so powerful...can it be used to bombard Huang Taiji's camp?"
"Of course you can!" Sun Yuanhua thought for a moment, then frowned, "It's just..."
"Just what?" Imperial Concubine Wu Liangha asked, "Are you not sure?"
"No," Sun Yuanhua said with a smile, "When the rocket launcher comes out, of course it can defeat Huang Taiji... It's just that this rocket launcher looks very scary, but it's actually not very powerful. So the effect of the first use is excellent. , it can definitely make the enemy frightened and fearless, and they will be afraid of fighting. But if you use it too much, the enemy will know the truth and the truth, and they will no longer be afraid.
Long Live the Lord asked me to bring a rocket launcher to help the noble concubine. He naturally hoped that the noble concubine could perform extraordinary feats. This opportunity is rare, don't waste it.
Therefore, I would like to ask the imperial concubine to prepare for a strong attack by the whole army first, and then I will use rocket launchers to disturb the enemy.
At that time, the imperial concubine will take advantage of the enemy's chaos and order the entire army to attack. She should be able to achieve a complete victory, and maybe even be able to kill Huang Taiji among the rebels! "
What does it mean to look very scary but not actually very powerful?
After listening to Sun Yuanhua's introduction, Wu Liangha lost even more confidence in the rocket launcher... This seemed to be a frightening thing!
But this time the opponent is Da Jin Tiancong Khan Huang Taiji!
What is Huang Taiji's background? Coming from a rebel background, how brave he must be! How could he be frightened by some kind of rocket launcher and become so frightened and fearless that he would not want to fight?
Sun Yuanhua, however, was confident and said to Concubine Wu Liangha: "My Majesty, there is no need to doubt. When I ask someone to set up the rocket launchers, Concubine will know how scary they are!"
Imperial Concubine Wu Liangha nodded, "That's right. Whether it's a mule or a horse, it must be taken out for a walk! So... where should this rocket launcher be set up?"
Sun Yuanhua said with a smile: "Don't be too far away. Although the maximum range of the rocket launcher can reach two thousand steps, the accuracy is poor when shooting that far, and it wastes gunpowder. So the rocket launcher was placed three hundred steps outside the Hou Jin Army's camp. Just take a step away."
The distance of three hundred steps was enough to avoid the cowhide cannons of the Hou Jin Army. It was also a very short distance for the rocket launcher. The rocket launcher has high accuracy and is not easy to detonate in advance.
This time Sun Yuanhua brought a total of three rocket launcher teams - according to Zhu Youjian's plan, in the future each artillery battalion should have a rocket launcher team (company).
Each rocket launcher team is equipped with eighteen launchers, and the three rocket launcher teams have a total of fifty-four launchers - the kind of strangely long four-wheeled carriage that Imperial Concubine Wu Liangha saw.
Like a four-wheeled sports car, such a four-wheeled carriage can be disassembled and turned into a two-wheeled carriage and a triangular stand with two wheels. The triangular stand can be adjusted to form different shooting angles. Then by adjusting the amount of charge and measuring the wind speed and direction of the day, the impact point of the rocket and the time it takes to fly in the air can be calculated theoretically using formulas. Of course, you can set the landing point in advance, and then reverse the launch angle and charge.
However, this kind of calculation is too difficult. Even top academics like Wei Zaode and Sun Yuanhua have not mastered this skill yet, so the calculation is not good no matter what. Therefore, Zhu Youjian had no choice but to give up the long-range shooting capability of the rocket launcher, and set two fixed short-range shooting distances of 200 steps and 300 steps for the rocket launcher.
Once the shooting distance is fixed, the rocket charge, shooting angle and fuse length are naturally fixed - at a distance of 200 steps and 300 steps, there is no need to consider the wind speed. You just need to test fire a few rounds during the fight and adjust the shooting angle, and you'll be good to go.
In order to see with her own eyes how scary rocket launchers are, Concubine Wu Liangha moved her own formation to the front less than 30 steps away from the rocket launcher position. 54 rocket launcher mounts were quickly placed in front of her.
There are 54 rocket launcher brackets arranged in a nine-by-six rectangular array. However, only the bracket in the middle of the first row is equipped with a rocket that looks a bit like a spear with a huge gun head - the huge gun head is the main part of the rocket, and the propellant and explosive charges are all installed in it. Inside. So this "big gun head" is actually made of two parts. The upper part is a cast iron piece filled with gunpowder. There is only a small hole sealed with grease, which is used to insert the wooden tube fuse.
The lower part of the "big gun head" is a cylinder rolled out of copper. The bottom of the cylinder can be opened, so the amount of charge can be adjusted. The black powder used as propellant was contained in a silk powder bag. The copper rolled cylinder also has small holes for inserting leads...
When he saw Concubine Wu Liangha arriving at his new headquarters with his soldiers and staff, Sun Yuanhua ordered the gunner to light the fuse of the rocket used for test firing.
The fuse that ignited the propellant was not long, and the flames quickly followed the thread and entered the "body" of the rocket, igniting the black powder inside.
The gunpowder was quickly ignited, and hot flames spurted out from a wax-sealed hole at the end of the cylinder. The thrust generated quickly pushed the large rocket like a big-headed spear into the sky.
The rocket rose up from the ground with thick smoke, and then flew into the air. Because the propellant burned out and lost the source of power, it began to turn downward again, dragging its tail flame and thick smoke, and roared towards the rear of the Jin Army. Camp.
At this time, the fighting on the ground was still continuing, and it had not reached a climax. Neither side launched a charge, and both were still shooting at each other with gunpowder weapons and bows and arrows.
In addition to using camel gunmen to play "mounted shooting", the Ming army also brought in 3-pound cannons and fired shells desperately to bombard the Jin army's camp.
Then the rate of fire of the Jin Army's cowhide cannons has slowed down - the gun cores cannot be dissipated with cowhide covering them!
Therefore, after the cowhide cannons fired a few rounds, they were not very useful, and they could no longer be used to resist the approaching camel soldiers' firecrackers. Therefore, the Jin army had to send out archers again to confront the camel soldiers' firecrackers.
The Eight Banners Soldiers' archery skills are absolutely world-class!
The Ming army's camel and fire musket soldiers were also very powerful, but they were not as good as those shotgun soldiers who used exploding muskets. But they are still incomparable to the fire rifle soldiers in front of the Ming army's tent and in front of the palace...
The Eight Banners soldiers also had an advantage. They always had a camp wall to rely on, so they actually had a slight advantage in this battle between firecrackers and bows.
When the sound of guns and artillery on the front line became more and more intense, Huang Taiji could not sit still. He personally rode a horse on the front line to supervise the battle and patrol to boost morale.
Just when Huang Taiji saw another group of camel soldiers from the Ming army retreating without a trace, he didn't know who roared.
"Look at the sky, Khan, the stars in the sky have fallen!"
What? Are the stars in the sky falling? Isn't this a sign of the death of a big shot in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? Huang Taiji was startled, and quickly looked up at the sky, and saw a meteor dragging its long tail flame across the sky, falling towards him. Before the meteor hit the ground, he heard a boom, and the meteor was right there. It exploded in mid-air and turned into a ball of fire...
