Nani? ? ?
That group of scoundrels almost invaded the inner city. Wouldn't my little chair in the palace be at risk?
After listening to Fang Zhenghua's statement, Yaoji couldn't help but be secretly surprised. It seemed that the Yongwei camp was still under-strength.
If Huang Degong, who was supervising the battle at the top of the city, made a mistake, it would be equivalent to losing two generals overnight.
For the money in the imperial city, the gangsters in the capital camp risked their lives.
Even my own "failure in the East" was spattered with blood, and both sides had to "slap" until dawn.
Since those people in Beijing were suffering from many diseases such as greed, cruelty, cold-bloodedness, etc., facing such sickly patients, Yaoji felt it was necessary to perform amputation surgery below the eyebrows. Let’s do an immediate surgery first. "Heart and brain communication" diagnosis and treatment method...
Give the rebels in Jingying some delicious dynamite bags. This level of enjoyment is comparable to girls buying authentic donkey brand bags that they have been coveting for a long time.
First of all, we need to build the famous "heartless cannon". Using this weapon to deal with those "heartless people" outside the city is really suitable.
Yaoji originally wanted to postpone the research and development time, but the troops were already approaching the city. If Sun Chuanting's Qin soldiers were slow to move, or if the group of Qin soldiers in the Beijing camp were as fierce as chicken blood, he would have to prepare early.
Once the inner city is breached, the imperial city will be their next target. Without the protection of the inner city, the imperial city will be in danger. Yaoji is afraid that the rebels will transport the cannon to Jingshan Mountain and give themselves a chance of good luck. The bloody disaster.
Furthermore, now is also a rare opportunity for actual military exercises. Faced with so many moving targets, it is also necessary to test the true lethality of the Ming Dynasty version of the heartless cannon and make adjustments based on actual combat experience.
This thing can't wait until the pigtails enter the customs before being thrown into the battlefield. If something goes wrong, it can kill the artillerymen. Yaoji can't afford the pensions caused by the large number of casualties.
For the first actual combat, it is better to choose the city defense mode, so that the artillery can get effective cover. As long as you do not play straight up and down, you should not experience the "bags" thrown by your own cannon.
Moreover, the range of the Heartless Cannon is very short. During the field battle, the artillery can only be reloaded once. The opponent has to rush to the distance where they can engage in hand-to-hand combat. It is safer to hide behind the city wall and fire the cannon secretly.
The artillery trajectories of this era were relatively straight and their direct fire capabilities were not strong, so quasi-large-caliber mortars like the Heartless Cannon were very suitable for sneak attacks on enemy siege troops.
Theoretically speaking, as long as the explosive package can be thrown over the city wall, it will definitely hit people when it falls on the other side. In fact, it is also possible to throw it directly from the top of the city, but then there is no way to test the performance of the artillery, especially It is the ratio of range to projectile.
"After entering the court, within half an hour, we mobilized some craftsmen from the Military and War Bureau, mainly blacksmiths and carpenters, and transported two carts of iron sheet and wooden cubes, and then transported 500 kilograms of gunpowder from Anmin Factory. All personnel and All the materials were gathered in front of the Wenhua Hall to get started immediately. Dongchang and Jinyiwei could all be mobilized, and all craftsmen living in the inner city were found. The gunpowder was transported in five carts, and the distance between the carts was kept to avoid ignition. Then a chain of explosions occurred!”
Soldiers are so expensive and so fast that it is almost imminent. We can no longer enjoy the blockage caused by the onset of laziness. We must develop the heartless cannon as soon as possible and put it into the battlefield for testing.
As time goes by, it is a question whether Huang Degong can withstand it. Even if they can repel the group of enemies, if the Yongwei battalion suffers too many casualties, it will be a serious loss. There are only so many true direct descendants left in the imperial army. One.
If he was crippled during the merger with Jingyinghuo, it would take him three or four years to recover, and I'm afraid it would be more than that.
"Slave, let's do it now!"
Yang Jinchao did not dare to neglect at all, because the prince's instructions were spoken very quickly, which was the most obvious sign. Whenever there was something urgent, the prince would naturally speak faster. Yang Jinchao knew this very well and listened to the little master's speaking speed. It can determine whether the order is urgent or not, and this time there is a time limit. If you don't want to make the prince angry, you have to complete it within the specified time.
"Zhenghua, send capable personnel to protect Anmin Factory as soon as possible. Don't let unscrupulous people detonate the gunpowder inside. If there are too many, they will be moved to various city walls for the use of the Yongwei camp!"
In May of the sixth year of Tianqi, the Wanggong Factory exploded, and after the relocation, the Anmin Factory exploded in June last year.
An Min Factory is located in the north of Xizhimen Street, in the area of Tieshizi Lane and Huabichang Alley. Although it is further away from the Forbidden City than Wang Gong Factory, the loss is not small.
It is said that at the time of the explosion, "thunder shook the sky, beams of dust flew up, roof tiles shattered, and in the northwest corner of the city, white clouds filled the sky..." Moreover, both factory eunuch Wang Fu and bureau officer Zhang Zhixiu died on the spot.
Therefore, in extraordinary times, Yaoji cannot allow this to happen again, and once the Anmin Factory explodes, the gunpowder supply for the defenders will become a problem.
The armor factory located in Dongcheng District specializes in manufacturing armor, bows and arrows, and fire guns. Unlike Anmin Factory, the gunpowder in the armor factory is only a sideline business and its reserves are not large.
Huang Degong and Zhou Yuji successively ordered the sergeants to carry out the weapons and gunpowder inside. There was nothing left in the factory, and the danger level was greatly reduced.
"yes!"
The imperial city is temporarily protected by the inner factory, and most of the active forces in the east factory have been deployed by Founder to key locations. Firstly, they must ensure the safety of the transportation of military supplies, and secondly, they must monitor the conditions of the main roads in the inner city.
Yaoji is taking advantage of this time to draw up the drawings of the Heartless Cannon, at least so that the craftsmen can understand how to build it just by looking at the drawings. Although the structure of this weapon is not complicated, if any part is made wrong, You have to rework it, which is even more time consuming.
First, draw three large, medium and small models, 80×30cm, 100×40cm, and 120×50cm. The first number is the barrel length, and the last number is the diameter. This caliber exceeds the main gun on the Yamato-class battleship. .
If the weights of the explosive packages and propellants loaded in these three cannons are the same, it will be easy to see which one has the best performance. In the early stage, just choose to mass-produce a heartless cannon.
The manuscript must be made in duplicate, one copy sent to the blacksmith to build the cannon body, and the other to the carpenter to make the bracket.
This tested the skills of the craftsmen, especially the carpenters, who had to create a bracket of suitable size without the actual gun body.
If these carpenters can make a hundred mahjong tiles of similar sizes, then making artillery brackets will not be too head-scratching.
The only difficulty is that the outer city is a gathering place for craftsmen. There are very few craftsmen living in the inner city. It is unknown how many people can be found. At least there must be three blacksmiths and carpenters, right? Otherwise, I would be really sorry for my purely hand-drawn drawings.
After the work was completed, Yaoji's pioneers moved four barrels of gunpowder from Zhou Yuji and began to try to make explosive bags. They would replenish them for him after they were shipped from outside.
The only thing that pleased a certain prince was that there were dozens of gunpowder formulas in the late Ming Dynasty, based on the proportions and actual uses of nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal. Both "The Essentials of Fire Attack" and "The Divine Machine of Western France" introduced more than twenty There are more than fifty kinds of formulas mentioned in "Bing Lu".
More importantly, gunpowder has been granulated. "The Essentials of Fire Attack" records the process of testing the quality of gunpowder - "Take a small amount of gunpowder and put it in the palm of your hand. It will not burn hot. Or use a wooden board to test it, and there will be no trace." , the smoke rises white, and the one who is quick and straight is the winner."
This kind of gunpowder is a qualified product, and its burning rate and effect are very similar to those of gunpowder a hundred or two hundred years later.
If you find that your palms are hot, the wood board is burnt, and black smoke is igniting, it is a poor quality product and needs to be remade.
The tools for pounding gunpowder are copper-clad wooden pestles and copper-inlaid wooden mortars. When pounding manually, in order to avoid fire, the gunpowder must be kept moist, and water must be continuously sprinkled during the pounding process.
The finished gunpowder will be made into granules of different sizes according to the type of weapon. "The Essentials of Fire Attack" records that "the medicine has been pounded, that is, using a thick and thin bamboo sieve, a coarse sieve for large gunpowder medicine, and a coarse sieve for millet beads. The wolf machine is used for medicine." Sieve it into sumi beads, and use a fine sieve to sieve the shotgun medicine into corn beads. However, the fire door medicine does not need to be turned into beads, and is put into a small jar for later use."
Yaoji didn't know which kind of gunpowder was most suitable for the explosive package. There was a barrel of each kind of gunpowder in front of him, so he just tried it one by one.
And you can't really throw explosive packets in the imperial city for a while. You have to use ballast of equal weight as a substitute for the explosive packets.
Hearing that the prince was planning to tinker with gunpowder, Zhou Yuji, who was patrolling Duanmen, was horrified and rushed over to try to stop him. However, when he arrived at the scene, he discovered that the prince had placed four barrels of gunpowder far away, almost fifty steps away. In such a place, even if it explodes there will be no serious consequences.
"Zhou Aiqing is here. It just so happens that I am considering what kind of gunpowder to use for the medicine package. I wonder if Zhou Aiqing has any experience?"
Yaoji mentioned his simple version of the artillery by the way. With this adviser, he would stop many brain cells from working.
"Based on the fire blunderbuss made by His Highness, I think that the wolf machine medicine is more suitable. This is a foolish opinion. I hope His Highness will judge it!"
Zhou Yuji could only make one suggestion. After all, after seeing the drawings drawn by the prince, this firecracker was too crude. It was just a circle of iron. It was hard to say whether it would be lethal or not.
The eunuchs and guards were also confused. It didn't matter that the insect-catching magic weapon in the fairy world was crude. Now this fire gun is so crude. Is it really used to defend against enemies and kill thieves?
Zhou Yuji had never seen a blunderbuss that used gunpowder. The artillery and shotguns of this era all fired iron bullets or lead bullets.
This fire gun developed by His Highness the Prince is really like eating rice and rice porridge. It really makes him a little confused~!
When Yaoji saw everyone's confused expressions, he thought to himself: I'm planning to add ashes to my face. You won't be able to understand this trick for a while, so just watch it closely.
But in the absence of electric lights, the light was illuminated by torches, and they were extremely afraid that if the wind blew, sparks would fall on the gunpowder. As a result, Yaoji could only make the first "dark cuisine-style explosive package" of the Great Dynasty. .
Anyway, you won’t be able to eat this stuff yourself. If anyone dares to leave a negative review after eating it, I will give you a few more portions for free. I will definitely keep you full and you will not be allowed to leave if you can’t eat it!
First, wrap the explosive in thick paper, but to avoid igniting it when igniting, wrap the thick paper in a non-drip damp cloth, and then tie it with a rope into a shoe box-like mass.
The appearance looks like that, but I don't know how lethal it can actually be when fired. Yaoji couldn't help but feel lonely, so he sent someone to open an open space for testing.
There were five kilograms of gunpowder inside, which was about six kilograms equivalent to the market pound. Zhou Yuji asked a soldier to light the fuse, while Yaoji hid in a corner fifty meters away and watched.
"Boom~!"
After a loud noise, when the smoke and dust dissipated, Yaoji, escorted by many guards, went over to check the situation.
Judging from the traces left at the scene, with the explosion point as the center of the circle, targets within a radius of ten meters will be affected.
But I can't guess how lethal it is, and I don't have any steel balls on hand. If I did, I wouldn't dare to use them in such a blind situation.
The long-awaited craftsmen finally arrived, but Yang Jinchao tried his best and only found four blacksmiths and five carpenters in a short period of time.
How much can a person like this accomplish?
I also want to take advantage of the situation and create an "Imperial City Krupp Arms Company"!
Well, it’s better than nothing, at least three styles of heartless cannons can be built.
Zhou Yuji stood aside and stared blankly. He really couldn't believe that less than ten craftsmen could make artillery pieces with hammers and planes...
Could this be the legendary fairyland gameplay from complexity to simplicity?
How incredible!
Yaoji actually has no idea. Do you think I want to do this?
I also want to use CNC machine tools, but they are not available. I am also in a dilemma!
The state of the empire is so miserable that it has reached the point where it has used nets to catch locusts and heartless cannons to blast rebellious people.
Zhou Yuji still felt a little embarrassed not being able to help, so he simply said: "Your Highness, this magical weapon has not been named yet. Why don't you give it a name so that the soldiers can become familiar with it?"
Carl?
Too vulgar!
Heartless?
NO~!
Justice from heaven?
NO+NO~!
Doraemon?
NO+NO+NO~!
Kalashniko?
This name directly reminded a certain prince of black uncles...
Yamato?
N...huh? This famous paper is great~!
Make a triple-pack version and call it a land battleship!
The six-unit version is called "Super Land Battleship", and the nine-unit version is called "Ultimate Land Battleship"!
Although the barrel is not that long, the caliber can definitely scare people to death.
If anyone refuses to accept it, as long as he opens his mouth, a ten-pound medicine bag will fall from the sky!
From now on, the artillery of our great war will have individual cannons - RP Yamato!
I don’t know what Warlock Tang would think when he saw a hand-made cannon, or whether it was made by a blacksmith...
The productivity of our great war is so advanced that artillery can be manufactured by one craftsman, and loading and firing can also be completed by one soldier.
If you don’t have large livestock, you can lead pigs to transport artillery!
The "transport truck" itself can also be used as rations for the artillery. Even thinking about this strategy makes Yaoji feel that he is wise and powerful!
The "tank engines" of the North Korean armored forces can be eaten, and the "transport vehicles" of the artillery units can also be eaten, which greatly reduces the logistical burden. It is really a wise move!
