You should know that An Jun’s previous wonderful achievements are worthy of a first-level pine-patterned iron sword! However, because he is too young and has a godfather and godson with Shen Mo, Shen Mo deliberately suppresses his contributions and gives him only a second-level pine-patterned golden sword.

If we talk about this, An Jun did something earth-shaking before... He designed an infantry weapon with his hand, and even Shen Mo was very surprised!... The cause of the incident was this. After Shen Mo took the Shandong Legion to Dongxia, Dongxia, he and the Mongolian army had a real fight.

Although the Shandong Army did not use muskets and cannons during that battle.

However, the best version of the steel arm crossbow is equipped with the Shandong Legion.

It can be said that in this era, this steel-arm crossbow has reached the peak of long-range weapons.

However, under this circumstance, Shen Mo still found that there was actually a very serious problem in firepower configuration in his army.

...In Shen Mo's army, the range of grenades throwing was too close, far lower than the enemy's bows and arrows, and even less than half the range of the bows and arrows.

Therefore, when the firepower is insufficient, the enemy can use bows and arrows to kill them from fifty or sixty meters away from the grenades.

In other words, as long as the opponent has an absolute advantage in number of people, he can continuously launch an attack on Shen Mo's military formation from all directions on the vast plain.

Once the enemy rushed to the range of his bow and arrows with casualties, Shen Mo's soldiers could only bear it with their armor.

So in this case, they urgently need an explosive weapon that is farther than the opponent's bow and arrow and can kill the enemy on a large scale.

At the same time, this weapon must be light and small, so heavy artillery and rockets cannot be replaced.

...In the process of Shen Mo and his team fighting the Mongols, the first thing they need to solve is always the problem of mobility.

Any weapon that cannot be carried on the war horse is of little significance to the Mongolian army.

Because when fighting, no matter what secret weapon appears, the enemy will have no mystery after suffering one loss.

In Shen Mo's heart, the equipment that could pour out a lot of firepower to restrain the Mongolian cavalry, whether it was the hand-cranked Gatling machine gun that was called "Green Quick Cannon" at the time, or the Thor-style rocket with a very long range, were heavy and huge, and they were inseparable from carriages.

Not to mention the heavy artillery.

So when fighting with the Mongols, especially when pursuing battles.

Such heavy weapons can only achieve a surprising victory, but they will never catch up with the Mongols' maneuver speed.

Because after the Mongols were shot by hand by Gatlin, they would definitely avoid it from a distance a few miles away.

So even if these weapons are equipped with troops, they will be like the Western Xia iron kites that Shen Mo saw last time in Yinzhou of Xixia.

Since their movement speed is not as fast as that of the cavalry, they will be led around by the Mongolian cavalry and will not catch up with other people's war horses at all.

Now Shen Mo urgently needs a killing weapon with a range beyond the opponent's bow and arrow, and it is light and small, so it can carry a killing weapon that can be maneuvered on the war horse.

So at this moment, An Jun, who knew his godfather's distress, became secretly concerned about this matter.

...The answer to solving this problem is actually in Shen Mo's own mind.

For this mission, the most suitable weapon is actually a mortar.

Whether it is a 60-caliber or an 85-caliber, the mortar can be broken down into several large parts and maneuver quickly on the war horse.

Moreover, the shooting distance of this weapon is very long and can be used to shoot in a curve, which is used to siege cities or kill enemy troops behind obstacles.

Not only that, Shen Mo even drew drawings of mortars two years ago.

However, the security of the fuse could not be solved without any help, so this army killer has not been equipped with Shen Mo's army.

Some may say that the mortar's fuze is not very complicated either.

Some people even say that these things can be processed and produced by a small street factory.

But in fact, such shells are not made for three or two hundred rounds for experiments, or for a small-scale battle.

Once a mortar starts to be equipped with Shen Mo's troops, the number of shells will definitely be hundreds of thousands! As a fuze for mortar shells, the first thing it first must withstand the huge overload when the cannon is out of the bore, so that the fuse will not be fired.

If such a thing really happens, it will be like the shell exploded in the barrel.

At the same time, the fuze of the mortar shell is still triggered.

In other words, it will hit the ground and explode when it hits the ground, so it also needs to meet the sensitivity of triggering the explosion.

Therefore, in this small fuse, it actually focuses on basic materials science, large-scale production of chemical reagents, and various production technologies such as mechanical metal processing. In fact, it is not simple at all.

If you want to talk about this kind of shell, it is not like a hot air balloon or a steamboat, and there are not many in total.

As long as it is carefully crafted, it can be used on the battlefield even if it is made by hand.

If the security issue is not solved, as long as one or two of the 10,000 shells have problems, it will not be able to be used on the battlefield at all.

If Shen Mo had to force the production of mortar shells now, he wouldn't have to think about what would happen.

Perhaps in a chemical factory, a worker's mistake will cause the entire arms factory to be blown up.

Perhaps in a team of carriages carrying shells, the entire convoy would explode into a rolling fire dragon due to a violent bump.

What's more, an unqualified fuse on the battlefield may cause the shells on the entire artillery position to explode collectively.

This caused the failure of a key battle and even caused the entire army to be wiped out.

Shen Mo knew very well that his troops now adopt the policy of elite troops, so the number of soldiers on his own side on the battlefield is usually less than that of the enemy.

Under such circumstances, the soldiers of the Tongzhou Army still dared to fight and charge forward because the soldiers trusted the weapons in their hands.

Whether it is a rifle or a grenade, it is very popular among soldiers.

It can even allow them to fight tenaciously even if they are under the enemy and are few.

However, as long as your shells are in a chain of death in your own position, they will explode.

Just once, it is enough to destroy the soldiers' confidence in weapons! So while Shen Mo was organizing technical research and desperately trying to solve the problem of shell fuses.
Chapter completed!