Chapter 90 Artillery
The queue training has ended, and the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guards have now possessed the most basic sense of discipline, obedience and collectivism.
The focus below is physical training. Physical training is already underway. Training of all kinds of individual soldiers' most basic skills, including jungle travel, fighting, wrestling, horseback riding, and weight-bearing running, has also begun.
In other words, the comprehensive training of the Imperial Guards is about to end, and the next step is to divide these ten temporary battalions, and reorganize them according to the five categories of cavalry, infantry (firearms), artillery, baggage, and engineering. After reorganization, special training for each army must be carried out.
Of course, before this, it was not said that cavalry only needed to learn to ride horses, infantry only needed to learn to fire firearms, and artillery only needed to know how to fire artillery.
Before the reorganization, Zhu Youxiao and Lu Xiangsheng planned to ask the soldiers to conduct certain basic training on the skills of various types of troops first, so that soldiers will not ignore the omnipotence while being more professional.
"Time is very tight, and the newly made firearms and artillery must be delivered to the Imperial Guards as soon as possible. The Ordnance Department cannot be neglected." Zhu Youxiao said to Xu Guangqi and walked into the Ordnance Department.
The Nuoda Ordnance Department was like a big steamer at this time. As soon as Zhu Youxiao came in, he felt that summer suddenly entered. However, when he looked up, he saw that a blast furnace like a pavilion was standing in the courtyard of the Ordnance Department.
The iron-smelting blast furnace with a wider bottom and narrower the thinner the bottom is Song Yingxing's masterpiece, and it is also the stirred iron-smelting blast furnace developed by Zhu Youxiao, who asked the Royal Academy of Engineering to step up.
At this moment, a raging fire was spewing out from the huge furnace bed. Under the operation of the iron rod stirrer developed by Song Yingxing that requires human power to push, the sound of molten pig iron flipping can be heard, and soon, the fiery red cracked iron can be seen falling out from the other port.
As soon as the iron was cooled, a special craftsman quickly made it with iron slats. With the clanging sound of thumping, you could soon see someone transporting the rolled barrels into another workshop responsible for the firearm manufacturing.
Zhu Youxiao did not go to this workshop. Before the rifle was successfully pulled, the Ordnance Department's gun manufacturing would not have much technical improvements, and he is more concerned about artillery now.
It is difficult to resist large-scale cavalry sprints with good firearms alone. Even if it is theoretically possible, it is difficult for people to organize decent resistance once people experience the striking momentum of cavalry on the spot.
Although it is possible to restrict soldiers from fearing death and not retreating through discipline, Zhu Youxiao is unwilling to take this risk.
The last time he was attacked, he had seen Jianlu's combat power, so he felt it was more reliable to let better artillery disrupt the cavalry formation first and then sweep the weapons and weapons.
Johnson Chan and Sun Yuanhua didn't know that Zhu Youxiao was already standing behind them at this time. One of them was holding an iron bullet and putting a new type of artillery that looked larger than the Ming cannon but much smaller than the red cannon. The other was carefully measuring it with the new and improved sight on the cannon with his thumb, and said to another auxiliary gunner who helped: "Rotate twenty degrees in the northeast and adjust the elevation angle for fifteen degrees."
"What kind of cannon is this?"
When Zhu Youxiao asked, Sun Yuanhua quickly put down the iron bullet: "Reply to Your Majesty, this is our newly developed six-pound Ming cannon. We are testing it and intend to see the effect. Dozens of gun barrels have been scrapped, look there."
Zhu Youxiao was happy to see that there were mountains of scrapped gun barrels, and he could tell at a glance that many of them were blown up, and even iron bullets were stuck at the mouth of the gun barrel and could not come out.
"The main reason is that the gun barrel is not good. We invited several first-class craftsmen to discuss with Song Yingxing and others, and then we re-adopted the alloy steel technology newly proposed by Song Langzhong and are now preparing for the experiment."
After hearing what Sun Yuanhua said, Zhu Youxiao became interested, put his hands into the pocket of the white coat and pushed an arrow.
Lu Xiangsheng and Liu Ruoyu, who were visiting together, hurriedly stood in front of Zhu Youxiao, fearing that something would go wrong in a while. Last time, His Majesty also wanted to see what continuous gun tests Mao Yuanyi, who had just entered the Royal Academy of Engineering, did. As a result, the musket exploded directly as soon as it hit. Zhu Youxiao, who was close to him, was also slightly injured. Although he did not punish anyone later, it still made them worried that the king of a country would face such a danger.
"With a rumbling sound, a shell quickly disappeared into the distance with a sound, but there was no sound of cannon sound in front of you!"
"Huh?" Sun Yuanfang and Tang Ruowang were both stunned and ran away. They saw that the straw pile in front of them was still there, and the shell was also landing on the straw pile and did not explode.
"It seems that the range and accuracy have reached the expected value, and the artillery has not exploded. The barrel temperature of the wedge boldly touched it with our hands just now. Fortunately, I didn't expect that there was another problem with the shell."
As Sun Yuanhua was talking, Tang Ruowang said with blood-red eyes: "It must be the one named Song! Every time he is responsible for the part that has problems. Either the gun barrel explodes or the shells cannot explode. That guy must cut corners. Your Majesty, I want to participate in him!"
"How can I blame me? You Western manga obviously changed the gun rules on purpose and caused the resistance to increase. I think you still don't want to take out your Western real things."
Song Yingxing, who accompanied Zhu Youxiao, hurriedly defended himself, but at this time Sun Yuanhua interrupted: "This gun rule was newly transformed by Sun. It uses eight-li and four-wire wire, which is a little narrower than before, but the effect is still good."
"Okay, no need to argue, I'll try it." Zhu Youxiao said and walked towards the shell.
At this time, Lu Xiangsheng, Xu Guangqi and others hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty, no!"
Everyone was afraid that the mute shell would suddenly explode again, wouldn't it be very dangerous for His Majesty to do so?
Song Yingxing was even stronger and ran directly in front of Zhu Youxiao to stop him. He knew that although his new flowering bullet could not be killed on a large scale like modern artillery shells, it was still possible to blow a person up.
"Get out!"
Zhu Youxiao shouted loudly and pushed Song Yingxing away. After visually measuring the distance, he lay on the ground and shouted to Bi Maokang: "Give me a handful of the Apocalypse."
Bi Maokang ran over and handed the musket to Zhu Youxiao, and personally fed Zhu Youxiao a new and improved paper shell bullet.
Zhu Youxiao took the musket and aimed at the shell.
A thunderous sound!
The shells in the straw pile in front suddenly burst into dozens of iron sheets and flew up directly, and the straw also ignited.
Zhu Youxiao spitted out straw ash that had just been blown by the wind and stood up, walked towards everyone, and said to Sun Yuanhua: "The shell is too thick, change the material again, and you have to make it for me within three days. The officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guard are waiting, but the gun barrel should be fine. You can mass-produce the gun barrel first, and tell Mao Yuanyi that his improved four-wheeled carriage must be stepped up, and at least one hundred cars must be built for me."
Chapter completed!