Boom-"

With a loud bang, a blazing wave rushed out of the open space one hundred and seventy steps away, accompanied by an earth-shattering loud noise, billowing gunpowder smoke mixed with dust like an overwhelming sandstorm, soaring into the air, accompanied by scarlet flames blooming, as if it was a bewitching and gorgeous flower on the other side of the river!

This earth-shattering sound announced the advent of a new era!

Age of Cannons!

When the heat wave dissipates, the smoke and dust dissipate, and the flames dissipate, leaving only a radius of twenty paces of blackened scorched earth!

Fang Zi walked to the side of the artillery, carefully looked at the state of the artillery, and found that everything in the artillery was intact, only the barrel was a little hot, and the position of the artillery was not shaken back because of the huge rear thrust.

However, Fang Zi was not so happy, and the rest of the armorers were not so happy, the reason why they were unhappy was because the range did not reach the expectation, the original expectation was that the range was three hundred steps, but it only hit about one hundred and seventy steps, which was nearly half the expected range.

"A full inspection of the whole body of Gun Zero One!" Fang Zi said with a serious expression.

As the words fell, twenty armorers, including Zheng Yue, stepped forward to inspect the Zero No. 1 gun.

"The gun carriage is slightly bent, and a fixed iron plate needs to be added!"

"There is no anomalous change in the barrel, but the heat is severe, and it needs to be cooled, and continuous shelling is not possible!"

"The first explosion of the shell leaves residue inside the barrel, which needs to be cleaned up, otherwise it will reduce the life of the barrel and will also reduce the range of the gun!"

While inspecting, the armorers said the problems and solutions they found, Zheng Yue was responsible for the record, and after everything was checked, Fang Zi ordered with a solemn expression: "Start the second zero No. 1 gun test, extend the barrel upwards by one finger!" ”

The barrel can be extended upwards, a total of four fingers, in the original expectation, the range of flat fire is 300 steps, the barrel of the gun extends upwards with a range of 350 steps, two fingers 400 steps, three fingers 500 steps, and four fingers 700 steps!

It can be proved by tests that the maximum range of flat fire is 170 steps!

"Yes!"

After the order was issued, the armorer turned the gears and extended the barrel to the height of one finger, and after the barrel was extended, everyone began to wait for the barrel to cool down, and the barrel could not be directly poured with cold water to cool down, otherwise it would be easy to break, and it was necessary to wait for the barrel to cool down confidently.

After waiting for about a stick of incense, the barrel cooled down and the second Zero One gun test began!

"Boom!"

"Boom-"

Another earth-shattering loud bang announced the end of the second Zero One gun test!

The results of the second Zero One gun test were as follows:

The distortion of the gun carriage reaches 20%!

The barrel is heating up again!

One finger extends the actual range of artillery fire to 200 steps!

After a stick of incense, the third Zero One gun test began!

The results of the third test of the Zero One gun are as follows:

The distortion of the gun carriage reaches 30%!

The barrel is seriously heated and slightly distorted!

The actual firing range of the two-finger extension artillery shelling is 240 paces!

Another incense stick time passed, and Fang Zi began the fourth Zero One artillery test!

The results of the fourth Zero One gun test were as follows:

The distortion of the gun carriage reaches sixty percent!

The gun mount fixing plate is seriously loose!

The barrel is badly heated and slightly distorted!

The three-finger extension artillery bombardment has an actual firing range of 300 steps, hits a target with a 300-step three-foot thick wall, and instantly shatters the three-foot thick wall!

Another incense stick time has passed, and the fifth Zero One gun test begins!

The gun carriage is broken!

The fixing plate broke, and the rear thrust generated by the gun body when the gun was fired was taken back three steps!

The barrel is badly heated and badly distorted!

The actual firing range of the four-finger extension shelling is 370 steps!

After five rounds of shelling tests, the Zero One gun was completely scrapped and no longer usable!

The results of this test were completely unacceptable to Fang Zi and even to the twenty armorers involved in the development of artillery.

The expectation is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

"Zero One Gun Test Failed!" Fang Zi announced the results of the test with an expressionless face!

"Alas~"

Everyone sighed softly, all feeling lost and disappointed.

"The maximum withstand force of the Zero No. 1 gun is five shells, and the reason is probably that the rear thrust and heat generated when the gun is fired are too high, and the gun carriage barrel can withstand it limitedly, so it is necessary to install a heat absorption device and strengthen the gun mount to fix!"

"The Zero One gun has a recent range of 170 paces, and the highest range is 370 steps, and the reason why the range is not up to standard is probably that the thrust of the shells is insufficient, and the shells need to be improved again to increase the thrust of the shells; The Zero One gun is within two hundred steps, the hit deviation is between twenty paces, between two hundred and three hundred steps, the hit deviation is between forty paces, and above three hundred steps, the hit deviation is between fifty paces! ”

"Since there were only five shellings, the accuracy of the hit deviation was not particularly accurate, it was only an approximate calculation, which can only be used as a reference, and more shelling tests are needed to get an accurate hit accuracy, but all in all, the accuracy of the Zero One gun is not ideal, and the barrel and shells need to be improved!"

Fang Zi blurted out the overall performance of the Zero One Gun with a serious expression, and Zheng Yue on the side was holding a brush and a book and was carefully recording all the words Fang Zi said in the record book.

"Whew!" Fang Zi took a deep breath, looked around at the armorers in front of him, and saw that the armorers were all a little disappointed, so he said to everyone in a serious voice: "Everyone, this super killing weapon of artillery is by no means something that can be developed overnight!" ”

As the saying goes, failure is the mother of success, this sentence is used in our ordnance department, it is the most suitable for us, which weapon success is not based on tens of millions of failures?"

"We have to learn a lesson, discard its dross and extract its essence, and constantly improve and upgrade, this order believes that one day, the Ordnance Department will develop a real steel giant beast, this steel giant beast, will roar at my Great Qin's enemies, crush all enemies, and this day will not be too far away!"

"All gentlemen!" Fang Zi bowed down to everyone with a solemn expression!

"Encouragement!!"

Everyone bent over impassionedly and shouted in unison!

In the following time, twenty armor divisions, led by Fang Zi, began to improve the artillery day and night.

Time passes slowly, nine days in a flash!

On the 15th day of July in the 25th year of the Holy Qin, the hour of the hour!

Imperial Palace, Fengtian Palace!

The lights in the Fengtian Hall are bright, like daytime, and there are a large number of banquet tables on both sides of the main hall, and on each banquet table, there are chickens, ducks, fish and wine, as if a gluttonous feast.

PS: "Order it all!" ”

(End of chapter)