Chapter 225: Puzzles

Zhao Xinling found that in the city that was breached by the Kraken, it was the gunners of the Juyuan Cannon who ran out of mana before they were rushed to the city by the Kraken. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In this world, all cannons rely on the gunner's own cultivation to activate the magic circle and fire spiritual cannonballs. Zhao Xinling couldn't help but think of his rear-loading artillery in his previous life. Make a cannonball, place it in the chamber, and activate it with very little mana.

If this is the case, we can not only liberate a large number of gunners to enrich the front-line combat units, but also train the old, weak, sick and disabled people whose strength is low and difficult to survive on the battlefield into gunners. In this way, the combat power of the entire human race can almost be doubled.

Take the Han Empire as an example, the standing army was about 13 million, of which there were more than 1 million gunners in the artillery units of Juyuan Cannon and Juling Cannon, close to 2 million.

And the strength of these gunners is all above and below the secret law realm, no matter which unit they are placed in, they are the most elite troops. Among the thirteen million troops of the Han Empire, there are only about three million above the strength of the Secret Law Realm, of which artillery units account for more than half. If this half of the troops are added to the front-line units, and the weaker personnel of the front-line units are trained as artillery, it can be said that the combat effectiveness of the army will be doubled under the condition that the total number of troops remains unchanged.

But there are also a lot of drawbacks, the previous gunner was strong, one person could run around with a huge gun body on his back, and dozens of people could form an artillery position, which was extremely flexible.

There is also logistical pressure, if it is replaced with artillery shells, the consumption of dozens of shells in a battle is too great for logistics. It is common to dispatch tens of thousands of cannons at a time in battles with the Kraken, which is too logistically stressful and an unavoidable problem.

Zhao Xinling decided to make the finished product by himself first, and then discuss with the military what the prospects of the rear-loading cannon are.

So Zhao Xinling found a few spirit gathering cannons and gradually dismantled the cannons. The structure of this Juyuan cannon is very simple, it is a huge cannon body, a simple base, and a simple crosshair.

After the base and crosshair were removed, only a thick steel cannon body remained. Of course, the steel that can withstand the high pressure of the Juyuan cannonball is not a simple steel, it is a special alloy, and only this alloy can withstand the high pressure of the cannonball transformed by the aura of heaven and earth. In a word, the formula of this alloy has not been cracked by the Kraken clan for more than 30,000 years.

Zhao Xinling knew all the formations depicted on the cannon body, and there were several simple combinations of formations such as the Gathering Yuan Array, the Gathering Spirit Array, the Transformation Array, and the Sky Breaking Array.

The principle of the Juyuan Cannon is also relatively simple, the gunner uses his own mana to activate the Gathering Spirit Array on the cannon's body to gather the aura of heaven and earth. The aura of heaven and earth began to compress under the blessing of the Juyuan Array, and then was elongated from a circle to an oval shape through the transformation array, and after the blessing of the Void Breaking Array, various resistances in the air were reduced, so after the cannon was ejected, it all rotated violently and flew towards the target in a straight line.

In other words, these spiritual artillery pieces are all flat-fire guns, with a relatively short range, and they hit targets within the line of sight. After studying this, Zhao Xinling found a reason for himself to develop a rear-loading cannon, that is, after-loading artillery and warhead can achieve over-the-horizon strikes.

Zhao Xinling dismantled five cannons in a row, melted down the cannon body, and obtained a large piece of stainless steel alloy. Later, the structure of a Gathering Yuan Cannon was adjusted, and all the Gathering Yuan Array, Gathering Spirit Array, and transforming the Formation Array were canceled. Zhao Xinling carved the Sky Breaking Array, the Sharp Array, the Qingfeng Array, and the Eternal Solid Array on the cannon body, and also reserved a vacancy for the depiction of attribute formations.

In Zhao Xinling's plan, after the cannonball was blessed by the formation of the cannon body, it turned into an attribute cannonball, and after hitting the target, the power should be increased by more than five layers compared to the simple scattered heaven and earth aura.

The cannon body is easy to solve, and the most difficult thing is the shell, which must be easy to transport, and can be encapsulated in the shell, and the stability must be good.

The first problem Zhao Xinling faced was the problem of mana storage. Because the cannonballs need to be transported and so on, Zhao Xinling's idea is to use the formation as an introduction, and after the gunner uses very little mana or true yuan to stimulate the formation on the cannonball, he uses the formation to stimulate the stored mana to activate the formation to turn the cannonball into a cannonball, and hit the target after being blessed by the cannon body.

Preparing to study the shell, Zhao Xinling found that he was thinking too simply, and the more urgent question than mana storage was what material to use to make the shell and warhead of the shell.

Zhao Xinling first used stainless steel alloy to store mana and use it as a bullet case, so Zhao Xinling successfully carved a series of formations on the stainless steel alloy, and then Zhao Xinling used the alloy to create a warhead and once again depicted various formations.

Zhao Xinling connected the warhead and the shell together, and the connection parts were tightly sealed, and Zhao Xinling thought happily in his heart: Lao Tzu is really a genius, and he succeeded the first time.

Then Zhao Xinling used a trace of mana to activate the formation, only to hear a bang, and the huge sound startled the entire palace.

Zhao Xinling sat in place, looking at the bullet casings and warheads scattered on the ground with a dejected expression. The stability of the alloy is too high, and after the shell is excited, it makes a loud noise, but the warhead has just been fired a few meters away.

Most of the power of the mana explosion activated by the mana was absorbed by the bullet shell, and under the impact of the explosion, the formation on the warhead was destroyed, leaving only a piece of alloy on the ground, and not even a pit on the ground was smashed.

It seems that the steel alloy left warhead and the bullet case are not good, so Zhao Xinling had to choose another material again.

Over the next month, Zhao Xinling experimented with more than 500 materials to make warheads. Zhao Xinling found that there were many materials for the shells that could withstand the power of the explosion, but there were no materials that could withstand the impact of the explosion and protect the formation.

If the power of the formation on the bullet casing is reduced, the range will not meet the requirements, and the power of the range will be too great, and Zhao Xinling will rack his brains and have no way.

After more than a month of experiments, several palaces in the imperial palace of the Han Dynasty were destroyed by Zhao Xinling, and the more fortunate thing is that there were only some injured guards, and no one died.

Zhao Xinling didn't even care about the government during this time, but because Zhao Xinling's foundation was relatively good in the previous ten years, no one slacked off the officials, which saved Zhao Xinling a lot of heart.

On this day, Lin Ruohan came to visit Zhao Xinling, the two of them sat in front of the coffee table and drank tea, Zhao Xinling looked at the bamboo teacup that Lin Ruohan was holding in his hand, and immediately jumped up from the chair, and ran out of his legs.