"Once this casserole cannon is built, it will be very powerful... It doesn't need to be more. Four of them are enough for one general. The infantry will have these four casserole cannons, and then they encounter the gold thief's cavalry. If you are not afraid of an attack, first set up a hollow phalanx, and then place four casserole cannons at the four corners of the phalanx. In this way, no matter which direction the gold thief's cavalry attacks from, they will be bombarded by two casserole cannons at the same time! Although the clay pot cannon can't hit very far, the arrows fired by the cavalry can't hit very far either. However, the power of the iron sand and lead bullets fired by the clay pot cannon cannot be compared with arrowheads..."
"If a cavalry general has four casserole cannons, it will be even more powerful... The casserole cannons assigned to the cavalry generals must be made lighter. The artillery carts must also be specially reinforced so that they can keep up with the cavalry. Action. In this way, before our cavalry launches a charge, they can fire a few rounds with clay pot cannons to scatter the Jin people's formation, and then charge forward to fight. Then we will definitely win!"
"It would be great if we could build some more small pots and cannons for individual soldiers... One person has one small pot, how convenient! In the future, when fighting, you can use hot pots and cannons first, and then use casseroles to bombard them. Then throw the frying pot, then use a single small pot to fight, and finally charge on foot and cavalry..."
"Brother, what do you think of my younger brother's thoughts? Brother, brother, you are..."
Zhao Kai was stunned after hearing Yue Fei and Yue Pengju's conjecture about the war model of the "hot pot era". Sitting there like a stone man, I was thinking: Has this Yue Fei also played "Total War"? He also traveled through time? No, how could someone who wants to travel back in time call artillery "hot pot" or "casserole", and still have a small pot for each person... Could it be that in the future, rifles will be called small hot pots, and queuing up to be shot will be queuing up for shabu-shabu?
"Ah," Zhao Kai thought for a while and felt that something was wrong and needed to correct it as soon as possible. "Pengju, your idea is a good one! But you have to do it step by step, the road needs to be walked step by step, and the cannons need to be fired one by one." Cast!
Hmm...that hotpot cannon really cannot be used in field battles. I have long wanted to ask someone to forge some lightweight and easy-to-use field artillery. Our next step is to find a way to build a lightweight field cannon that can be used. "
"What the official said is very good," Huang Wubing smiled and pushed the drawing towards Zhao Kai, "Guan, what do you think of this casserole cannon?"
Zhao Kai glanced at it and said to himself: This is just a painting. There is no mark on the performance or anything like that. Who knows?
"How much does the bullet weigh? What's the caliber? How much does the gun weigh? What's the length of the barrel?" Zhao Kai asked a series of questions.
"When we return to the official house," Wu Meiniang, a little girl, actually took over Zhao Kai's question, "When Yue Tongzhi and Huang Zheng asked their slave to draw this picture, they said they wanted to reduce the weight of the bullet to five kilograms, the caliber and barrel The ratio is increased to one to twelve...Based on the ratio of the shell weight to the gun weight of the twenty-five-pound hotpot cannon, I have estimated the ratio of the caliber to the barrel. This five-pound cannon is larger because of the The ratio of caliber to barrel is reduced, so the ratio of shells to gun weight must be multiplied by at least two, from the original 1:12 to 1:24. If you want to add some margin, 1:30 should be about the same. .
That is to say, the bullet weighs five kilograms, the muzzle diameter is two inches, the gun length is two feet four inches, and the gun body weighs one hundred and fifty kilograms... Official, do you think this is feasible? "
It’s really designed!
Zhao Kai looked at the little girl Wu Meiniang and thought to himself: This girl is really smart as ice and snow. In future generations, she will be a beautiful schoolmaster, but she has not received modern education! Although I was already teaching her, the teaching time was too short and she didn't learn much.
Besides, how good is Zhao Kai himself? It doesn’t seem like you’re good enough to design a cannon, right? This is really messing around with your eyes closed! But then again, the person who designed the first artillery piece in human history probably never went to college, right?
"The cannon body will be twice as heavy!" Zhao Kai said, "Just 300 kilograms... I'd rather have a little more margin than let the cannon explode."
"It's better to go to the official family." The little girl Wu Meiniang smiled. "The official family, there are no good coppersmiths in Lingzhou, and it's not convenient for experiments. When we return to Luoyang, we will go find some good coppersmiths. Let’s open a cannon foundry in Xuanwu City!”
Zhao Kai nodded, "I also have the same intention! When I went back to Fucai to supervise the casting of cannons, I selected ten groups of gunsmiths... When I return to Luoyang, I will find them all and then find another one." These are good coppersmiths who specialize in casting cannons. The same five-pound cannon can be remade dozens of times with different gun commanders and cannons. By experimenting one by one, you can always find a good one. As the saying goes, this is good. You won’t know if a cannon is bad until you shoot it! This is the only criterion for testing a good cannon!"
Although this method is somewhat stupid, it is currently the most feasible. Because there are so many things that need to be explored, including not only the gun commander, gun weight, and thickness of the barrel wall, but also the amount of propellant and experimenting with various ammunition...
In short, if you don't destroy dozens or hundreds of bronze cannons, you won't be able to find the real thing.
Fortunately, bronze cannons can still be recycled and reused if broken, so tens of thousands of kilograms of copper can be made by a group of craftsmen over and over again.
Zhao Kai paused and then said: "The cannon can be studied slowly, but the explosive pot and gunpowder must be produced quickly! Later, we will open a gunpowder factory in Xijia City of the Imperial City to mass-produce granulated black gunpowder. The annual production must be at least 200,000 kilograms!
As for the copper pot... let Fu Caijian make it! They can produce 200,000 copper coins a year. If the money is converted into a pot, it will be 200,000 copper pots a year! With 20 bombing pots and 200,000 kilograms of black powder, things really changed today! "
Yue Fei and Huang Wubing beside them both nodded. Yue Fei said: "Brother, it would be great if the golden thieves could start a war with us in Hebei and Hedong later. As long as it is delayed by one year, we can have tens of thousands of pot-throwing soldiers. And hundreds of large pot-crackers and casserole-crackers!”
Huang Wubing smiled and said: "Xiao Zhonggong, the gold thief, has probably gone to Yanjing with the bombing pot given by the government... Should he be able to scare Wu from begging to buy it, right?"
It turns out that Zhao Kai arranged for Cao Mian to do what Xiao Zhonggong reported back with the explosive pot!
He doesn't care about leaks or anything like that... He just wants to buy time now!
Zhao Kai breathed out, "I hope...it will be fine in one year! By next year, not only will we have enough firearms, we will even be short of horses!"
Just as he was saying this, Guo Tiannv came quickly from outside. When she saw Zhao Kai, she saluted and said with a smile: "Guan family, Cao Mian is here again. He is waiting outside Zichen Hall now."
This time Cao Mian came to discuss business with Zhao Kai... He had to redeem Li Qianshun!
At least 100,000 party members are still in Zhao Kai's hands!
To exchange one person for one horse, Li Qianshun would have to come up with 100,000 horses!
Li Qianshun was so distressed that he cried when he heard Zhao Kai's quotation!
He couldn't part with 100,000 horses, and he couldn't part with 100,000 nations. It was really difficult for both sides.
Cao Mian had no choice but to come back to discuss with Zhao Kai - could he take it a little less for the sake of "Rere" (Zhao Kai's nickname for Cao Yuniang)? Give me 50,000 or 80,000 horses, right? Don’t be too demanding. It’s not enough to have both males and females of breeding age. Old, young, and castrated ones should be matched more or less together. Anyway, there is still an enemy in Jinling who is willing to spend a lot of money to take over...
...
While Zhao Kai and Li Qianshun, the good brothers-in-law, were bargaining back and forth through Cao Mian, the father-in-law, Xiao Zhonggong had already rushed to Nanjing Road and met Zheng Zheng at Yehuling in the north area of Nanjing Road Mountain. Emperor Wu of Jin prepares to meet with Hebule.
"What? What did you say? The Dangxiang people have been defeated? They... they don't want the land of Yinxia anymore? They don't want the city of Lingzhou? Their ancestors won this after hundreds of battles, why? Are you giving up like this?"
Wu Qimai heard Xiao Zhonggong's report and was simply unbelievable!
He had heard that Zhao Kai was marching west to fight Xixia before, and he was very happy. He always felt that Xixia could be delayed for a few months... This way he could take advantage of the opportunity and kill the people on Hebei West Road. Several state capitals were all captured!
Cizhou, Xiangzhou, and Xinde Prefecture are said to be important iron smelting towns in the Song Dynasty. The army that captured Zhao Kai did not have enough good iron tools to use.
But who would have thought that the majestic Dabai Gaoguo would suddenly get "instantly scared"! He lost half of his country and even paid tribute to the Song Dynasty.
"Your Majesty doesn't know something," Xiao Zhonggong explained with a wry smile. "The land of Yinxia was not won by Qian Shun's ancestors through hundreds of battles, but was given to Li Jiqian by Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty for a moment. As for Lingzhou, it was Li Jiqian's betrayal. , first stole Lingzhou’s grain route, and then captured the city.”
"Then we can't just give up!" Wu Qimai noticed that Xiao Zhonggong was holding the fried pot, so he asked, "Xiao Zhonggong, what do you mean by bringing a chamber pot to my tent?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Zhonggong quickly raised the frying pot over his head and held it in front of Wu Qimai, "Your Majesty, this is not a chamber pot."
Not a chamber pot? Wu Qimai squinted his eyes. The more he looked at the pot, the more it looked like a chamber pot... It was similar to the one he used at night, but a little smaller.
"Your Majesty, this is the explosive pot that caused the party members to be defeated!" Xiao Zhonggong said, "If this explosive pot is lit on fire, it will be powerful!"
"How powerful is it?" Guolun Bojilie Wanyan Zongqian was also in the big tent. Hearing Xiao Zhonggong say that the bombing pot is powerful, he was a little unconvinced. No matter how powerful it is, can it be as powerful as the Dajin Heavenly Soldier?
Xiao Zhonggong said: "If this thing explodes, everyone in our tent will be injured..."
He originally wanted to say that everyone would die, but he thought it was unlucky, so he changed his mind.
"Everyone is injured? What is this?" Wanyan Zongwang was also there. His health was better, so he came to Yehuling to discuss the deployment of going south with Wu Qimai and others.
"There is a pound of gunpowder in this pot!" Xiao Zhonggong said, "It turns out that when this gunpowder meets copper, its power will be greatly increased! The Dangxiang people suffered a big loss from this! We must be careful and must not compete with Dangxiang. Everyone will suffer again."
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