Chapter 689: Firearms and Ironclad Ships (Part I)
"Yi'er likes it, Yi'er is going to make trouble, and it depends on how powerful her horse looks."
Liu Yi stared at Chen Fang, looking at his cheeks carefully.
"That's Megatron, it's just a bed."
Liu Yi was deeply in Chen Fang's arms at this time, and Chen Fang picked out her soft long hair, picked a strand and wrapped it around her fingers. Finger wrapping soft, Sauvignon Blanc.
"This woman doesn't have any jealousy, and it's not good, she calls the maid to serve her at every turn, and she has to see it with her own eyes, what kind of hobby is this?"
The carriage left the castle and drove on the neat roads of the North Harbor, where the snow had been cleared and swept away, and the road surface was somewhat wet. The horse's hooves trampled on it, making a clanging sound.
Chen Fang saw very few pedestrians and vehicles on the road, and some were scattered.
The occasional passerby is also in a hurry.
The carriage stopped at a warehouse, and after getting out of the carriage, Liu Yi pulled Chen Fang directly to the warehouse management office.
These warehouses should be filled with the things that Liu Yi said had just been shipped from the Americas.
Chen Fang guessed that it was a weapon, and when the warehouse was opened, Chen Fang saw rows and rows of neatly placed wooden boxes, and several warehouse managers worked together to lift a wooden box down, which was obviously extremely heavy.
The wooden box was opened, and Chen Fang saw that it was covered with something, which was anti-collision and moisture-proof.
Uncovering the layer, Chen Fang saw a single-barrel gun, which was a pre-charge flint gun, which belonged to the early product of the development of firearms.
But the problem is that these most common pre-charge flint guns are not the cold weapons of Datang and Western Qin at this time.
And in this warehouse, this kind of flint gun is full of one warehouse, and in other warehouses, it may also be this kind of big killer for this era.
Liu Yi took a flint gun, and the manager over there had already respectfully handed over the stabbing rod and gunpowder packed with horn barrels, and the projectile was an ordinary round steel core bullet, which was a steel ball.
Liu Yi took the flint gun and walked out of the warehouse, and someone had already put the scarecrow there, and the scarecrow was wearing the Mingguang armor of the Tang Dynasty.
, this is even the Mingguang armor ready.
Liu Yi charged the drug, stabbed it with a stabbing rod, and then loaded a round steel core bullet.
The muzzle of the flint gun was aimed at the armored scarecrow, and Liu Yi pulled the trigger.
The compacted gunpowder in the flint gun ignited instantly, and a huge amount of chemical energy was quickly released in the chamber, pushing the round steel core bullet to spray out from the muzzle.
The scarecrow shook a few times with the sound of a gunshot, and the bright light armor on it had shattered a small hole.
This kind of flint gun is actually not advanced, and there is no way to fire continuously, and there is even a danger of dumb fire and explosion at any time.
However, in this era, this is definitely the existence ahead of this era.
Although its rate of fire, range and trajectory are extremely limited, and there is no stable trajectory to speak of, it is this kind of thing that once made the whole world tremble in the Age of Discovery.
Chen Fang looked at the Mingguang armor that had been broken by the projectile, and the whole person stayed there, the ambitions of the Northern Han Dynasty could not be clearer at this time, they would make a move, and the soldiers were directed at the Tang Dynasty.
"Xiao Mo, you try it too."
Chen Fang took the flint gun in Liu Yi's hand, and his hand trembled unconsciously.
"Your Highness, I won't try it, my hands are a little shaky, I just saw the power of this gun, and I was a little afraid."
"Our army will soon be equipped with a large number of such firearms, and when we complete the basic training, we will be able to use it against Nantang."
Liu Yi said it extremely casually, took the gun from Chen Fang's hand, and threw it to the manager of the warehouse.
"Let's go and see the artillery, this is the weapon we use to press the bottom of the box."
Chen Fang's footsteps were heavy, in an open area, the cannon with wooden wheels was pushed over by a few Beigang soldiers, there are many classifications of artillery, the most primitive is as long as the projectile can be pushed out of the breech, and the flint gun has a principle, the front charge, compacted, put into the solid projectile, such a gun is like an enlarged version of the flint gun.
However, this kind of artillery, at this time, any city gate of Datang will be useless in the shell bombardment, it is definitely a sharp weapon to break the city, and it is also very easy to use to bombard and kill cavalry and infantry arrays.
However, the artillery of the Northern Han Dynasty has surpassed this level, Chen Fang saw the medicine bag and saw the cannonball with a long fuse, which can be simply regarded as the fuse of firecrackers.
That is to say, at this time, the artillery used by the Northern Han Dynasty used flowering shells, and after the shells were fired out of the barrel, the lead burned, and the shells would basically explode when they hit the ground or hit the attacker.
Cutting the lead short or extending it can control the time of the shell's explosion, which is equivalent to a time fuse.
And the appearance of the medicine bag means that the artillery no longer needs the process of charging and stabbing it, and only needs to put the rear medicine bag, the front shell, and ignite the fuse.
This is obviously more than a little bit higher than the most primitive artillery, first of all, the flowering shell, and secondly, the preparation time, that is, the power and rate of fire have been increased.
Several soldiers had already put the medicine bags from the chambers and loaded the shells into them.
The fuse of the breech was ignited by the torch, and with a roar, a cloud of flame smoke erupted from the muzzle, and the huge recoil caused the gun to retreat several meters.
Chen Fang looked in the direction where the shell was fired, and a wooden house in the distance exploded directly and shattered.
At this time, the artillery was charged again, filled with shells, Chen Fang saw that the muzzle of the cannon was aimed at the mountain peak in the distance, and there was another roar, and a flame burst on the mountain, the mountain stone splashed, and the area covered by the flames, the smoke of gunpowder billowed and drifted away in the cold wind.
"Xiao Mo, how's it going?"
Chen Fang took a deep breath to calm his mood, the artillery of the Northern Han Dynasty had passed the stage of solid shells, and the flowering shells used, although there were no conical shells, but the power of the flowering shells was not comparable to that of solid bullets.
Such flowering shells were enough to inflict heavy damage on any cavalry formation and infantry phalanx, and if used for siege, the gates of the city walls, which were originally used as defense against cold weapons, were almost as papier-mâché.
"Your Highness, this thing is too powerful!"
"Well, this kind of artillery has been used in real combat in the South Seas, and a disobedient tribe of the South Seas was attacked by our sea ships with this kind of artillery, and without a single tea effort, they sent an envoy to surrender to us. Xiao Mo, do you think the Shanhaiguan in the Southern Tang Dynasty can block us from a round of shelling? ”
Liu Yi looked at Chen Fang with a smile, waiting for his answer.
Chen Fang shook his head, the history of later generations has long proved that in the face of absolute strength, all the barriers will be useless.
"Xiao Mo, let's go and see the ironclad ship, that is the most powerful weapon of our Han Dynasty, in front of it, whether it is the Southern Tang Dynasty or the Western Qin, there will be no coastal defense to speak of."
Liu Yi took Chen Fang's hand again, feeling that his hand was a little cold.