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Gao Su bowed down and said to Xiao Tianjian: "I am willing to listen to the general's orders!" Please rest assured, the general will start casting iron fan tomorrow!

However, the general, there is still a word I want to tell the general that at present, this three-pounder cannon is still too small, and it cannot gain a great advantage on the battlefield, after all, this kind of three-pounder cannon shell is too light and has limited power. ”

After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian asked Gao Su: "How much does the six-pounder cannon weigh with the gun mount?" ”

"General Qiyu! If the six-pounder cannon is equipped with this kind of gun carriage, the weight will be calculated according to the weight of you Orientals, which should be about 700 catties to 800 catties! Gao Su replied immediately.

After thinking about it for a while, Xiao Tianjian nodded and said, "Yes!" But I want this three-pounder cannon too! After all, this kind of light artillery is still relatively convenient to use in this area, even against the enemy's heavy artillery, we have a fight! But for the next step in casting cannons, I'm afraid I won't be able to provide you with enough copper, and if you cast a six-pounder cannon, you'll have to switch to iron to cast cannons, can you do that? ”

Gao Su nodded and said, "It's totally possible!" I have already understood that the local area is a place where iron is produced, and the supply of fine iron should not be a problem, and there is no problem at all in casting a six-pounder cannon with iron, please rest assured that the general is! ”

Xiao Tianjian nodded with satisfaction and agreed, and said to Gao Su: "I am very satisfied with your work, I hope you can continue to do a good job!" And you're very experienced in using artillery, and I hope you can additionally help me train some good gunners! ”

Gao Su immediately replied: "Obey the general!" I can do this job! ”

"Good! That's it, I'll take this cannon away this time, these two three-pounder cannons that have been cast, you and your subordinates will work overtime, it's best to be able to make them within five days, and send them to Lotus Village, if I go to war this time, I want to bring these three cannons with me. When Xiao Tianjian was about to go out, he turned his head and commanded Gao Su.

Gao Su hurriedly bowed down and agreed, as for what Gao Su should do next, Xiao Tianjian didn't care, after all, he was just the method of casting the cannon from the book, if he was really asked to do it, it would be difficult for him to complete it, and the principle he adhered to was that professional things should be done by professionals, and this kind of thing should be done by Yang Changshou and Gao Su!

After watching the gunpowder, Xiao Tianjian went to Gao Cheng's gunpowder workshop to take a look, and now they are basically self-sufficient in gunpowder after collecting soil nitrate, so now the Xingtianjun is no longer as short of gunpowder as it was before the end of last year.

And the gunpowder workshop here, is also a busy scene, many female workers sit in the workshop, are making paper shell bullets, and the paper shell bullets are immediately encapsulated, and then packed and transferred to the Lotus Village, for military use, in addition to the paper shell bullets used in the bird, even the ammunition used in artillery, also completed the packaging here, and delivered to the artillery team for use.

As soon as Gao Cheng saw Xiao Tianjian coming, he hurried out to greet Xiao Tianjian and the generals, Xiao Tianjian nodded and walked around the gunpowder workshop, feeling very satisfied with the progress of the work here, and couldn't help but praise Gao Cheng again.

Thinking that there were still things waiting for him to deal with, Xiao Tianjian didn't want to see anything more here, and after a brief inspection, he planned to leave here, but Gao Cheng stopped Xiao Tianjian and said to Xiao Tianjian: "General, please stay!" There are still small things I want to report to the general! ”

"Oh? What else? You just say it! Xiao Tianjian thought that Gao Cheng had encountered some trouble, so he immediately stopped and asked him.

"General Qiyu, now that the gunpowder workshop is arranged, the paper shell ammunition can also be used in the army, I was thinking about it for a small time, the official army is equipped with a lot of flying guns and arrows, why can't we make some of them ourselves?

Now we don't have a shortage of gunpowder, and the guns and arrows that the general captured before have also seen the small ones, and there is nothing difficult about them! As long as the general agrees, the small one can do it, and as long as the carpentry workshop gives me help, and the iron is used to supply arrows, we can also make this thing!

General, please see, the small ones are not too busy these days, so they made some first, not the small ones blow with the general, and the small ones make these rockets, which can fly much farther than the ones used by the officers and the military! It's just a little heavier! ”

As he spoke, Gao Cheng took out a few rockets that had been made from the next room like a treasure and presented them to Xiao Tianjian and the generals.

Xiao Tianjian looked at it and said, "Good guy, Gao Cheng, this guy must be a gunpowder controller, and the things he makes are all large!" ’

Sure enough, after everyone saw it, they were immediately taken aback, this kind of rocket made by Gao Cheng, the gunpowder cartridge tied to the arrow shaft is at least twice as large as the rocket cartridge used by the officers and soldiers they have seen in the past, as thick as a child's arm, and the arrow tied is also large, no wonder this guy said that the rocket he made can fly very far, just look at the size of this gunpowder cartridge and know that it contains a lot of gunpowder, and it is strange that it does not fly far!

Xiao Tianjian and his subordinates immediately took these rockets with great interest and watched, anyway, they are here today, you might as well see the power of Gao Cheng's rockets.

So everyone returned to the shooting range together, and Gao Cheng was busy putting these rockets on the shelf, and then lit the medicine twist on the rocket.

Xiao Tianjian and everyone saw that the cartridge of the rocket spewed out a stream of flames, and then these rockets swished into the air and took off, after crossing an arc in the air, the cartridge burned out before falling, everyone immediately smacked their tongues when they saw it, these rockets actually flew out of a mile away, before falling on the ground, it was really as Gao Cheng blows, the range is very scary.

The generals are naturally very interested in this kind of thing, after all, they have not installed this kind of thing before, and occasionally they will capture some from some enemies, but they will soon be consumed by them, so at present, the Xingtian Army is not equipped with this kind of rocket, when they saw that the rocket made by Gao Cheng could fly such a long distance, so everyone was happy, and asked Xiao Tianjian to let Gao Cheng also make more of this kind of thing and equip it for use in the army.

Although Xiao Tianjian is very satisfied with Gao Cheng's craftsmanship, he is not very interested in this kind of rocket, after all, to make this thing, it consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, and a swarm of rockets is large and inconvenient to transport, whether it is three or hundred, it is very staffed, and he does not value the role of these things on the battlefield, so even if Gao Cheng makes this kind of rocket has a long range, but the accuracy is too low and it only kills the enemy with arrows, can it hit the enemy, Basically, it all depends on luck, many times even ten shots can't hit one, if the enemy is wearing armor, sometimes even if it is shot, it may not cause much damage to the enemy, and if there are no 18,000 rockets released together, it is difficult to give the enemy a deterrent kill.

Besides, this kind of swarm rocket is basically a disposable, and it will be discarded after use, so even if the range of this rocket made by Gao Cheng is not short, Xiao Tianjian still doesn't value this thing very much.

So Xiao Tianjian shook his head and said: "Although the rocket made by Gao Cheng is really not close, but it is different from our army's equipment thinking, I think this thing should not be mass-produced, after all, the amount of gunpowder consumed is very large, in my opinion, it is better to use our bird gun!" ”

The high cost came to offer treasures, but Xiao Tianjian was not interested in this kind of rocket, so he was immediately discouraged, so he had to nod and obey the order, and after telling Xiao Tianjian to retreat, he turned around and wanted to go back to his gunpowder workshop.

Xiao Tianjian still had one such rocket in his hand, playing with this rocket, looking at the medicine cartridge tied to it, he suddenly had an idea, and shouted to Gao Cheng, who was about to leave: "Gao Cheng and slow!" ”

Gao Cheng heard Xiao Tianjian call him back again, so he hurriedly ran in front of Xiao Tianjian in three steps and two steps, and bowed down to listen to Xiao Tianjian's orders.

"I've heard that there is also something called the Divine Fire Flying Crow in the official army, do you know?" Xiao Tianjian asked Gao Cheng.

After thinking for a while, Gao Cheng nodded and said: "I heard my father say this thing, my father was requisitioned by the government to Xi'an Mansion in his early years, and made rockets for the government, and after returning home, he mentioned this thing to the little one, and the government also made a kind of flying air thief earth-shaking thunder cannon thing, which is roughly the same, that is, use a few flowers to push the flying crow out, and after flying to the top of the enemy's head, the flying crow will explode, so as to hit the enemy!"

However, according to my father, these two things are not very reliable, and sometimes after ignition, they will fly half a circle and then fly back again, and land on their own heads, which is not very useful! ”

Xiao Tianjian suddenly laughed, and then asked Gao Cheng: "Then how big can you do this kind of fire?" Could it be bigger than this? ”

Gao Cheng scratched his head and said: "The medicine in this cartridge is not the same as the gun medicine, and the ingredient ratio is different!" As long as the medicine is well dispensed, it doesn't matter how big it is!

I remember when I was a child, my father made a big fire that was two or three times bigger than this, and when it was lit, it flew far and wide! I couldn't find where I flew! ”

Xiao Tianjian immediately laughed, and suddenly came to his senses, waved his hand and asked his generals to take a look in the village first, and then pulled Gao Cheng back to his residence, Ling Tietou found a pen and paper, and wrote and drew on the table.

After a short time, Xiao Tianjian drew a very simple drawing, on which a rocket of later generations was drawn, and then pointed to this picture and said to Gao Cheng: "Come on, come on!" Since you like to make this thing, this time I'll give you an idea to make it a good time! Come and see! This is actually a large fire, with a paper mine you made before in front, and the fire is connected to this paper mine, and after it flies out, you have to find a way to make it hit the ground and explode! If you can make this thing, it will be amazing! Ha ha! Fly into the enemy crowd and blow it up! Isn't it much more powerful than the kind of rocket you made? ”

In fact, the rocket is very simple, it is a large fire, but the ancients only used the propulsion of gunpowder to make a swarm of rockets, but it was not combined with the explosive warhead, the divine fire crow and the kind of flying thief earth-shaking thunder cannon mentioned by Gao Cheng is actually the prototype of a rocket, but the ancients did not understand aerodynamics, but deliberately imitated the shape of the bird, using a few fires as propellers, and at the same time igniting it to push it out, so as to hit the enemy.

And the quality of gunpowder in ancient rockets is unstable, coupled with the different combustion speeds of several rockets, it would be really strange if the things made in this way can be accurate, no wonder Gao Cheng said that this thing will turn around and fly back, but blow up the user, in fact, it is not strange at all.

As long as it can be made into a large rocket, the front end is combined with an explosive, and after adding a reasonable tail, it can basically ensure the flight direction and a certain accuracy of the rocket, and after landing, it will be able to hit the enemy by explosion, so that it is no problem to say that it will come up with modern rocket artillery in later generations, at least fly out two or three miles away, there is no problem, this kind of range is much farther than the range of the artillery made by the current official army and the Xingtian army, once it is used in the war, Giving the enemy a surprise attack must have worked quite well.

And think about the Palestinian guerrillas in later generations who can use chemical fertilizer and sugar to make earthen rockets with a range of up to 10 kilometers, and now he wants people and materials, and there should be no problem in making this kind of earthen rockets.

Gao Cheng held the simple drawing drawn by Xiao Tianjian for him, looked at it for a while, scratched his head and said, "Can this thing fly?" And what are these three pieces of this thing's ass? ”

Xiao Tianjian patiently explained to him: "The three pieces behind this are called the stable tail, which can be made of iron pieces and mounted on the rocket, and after the ignition flies, whether it can hit the enemy's head depends on these three tails!" Without it, there's no way it'll fly anywhere! ”

General Gao Cheng nodded suspiciously, and after pondering for a while, he asked Xiao Tianjian: "Then what do you need to make this kind of rocket?" ”

After Xiao Tianjian scratched his head, he thought for a while, this is a problem, the Hamas guerrillas in later generations used steel pipes to make rockets, where is there such a thing as steel pipes now! But this should also be solvable, after pondering for a while, he said to Gao Cheng: "You start small first, try to take your time!" You might as well try it with a bamboo tube, and if that doesn't work, find a blacksmith shop and wrap a thin layer of iron! Don't fly too far, as long as you can fly two or three miles away, you can still have a certain amount of accuracy! ”

Anyway, rocket artillery is a surface kill weapon even in later generations, and it can't be too demanding on accuracy, so it doesn't matter if it's crude, Xiao Tianjian then said to Gao Cheng.

Gao Cheng saw that Xiao Tianjian was very interested, so he nodded and said, "Little obey, general!" I'll give it a try! If you can put the paper thunder in front, you really can't guarantee that you can blow up the enemy army and turn it over! ”

(Celebrating the collection of 8,000, let's start with a 4,000-word chapter!) In addition, I also celebrated the successful launch of Tiangong-1, which I think many people are as happy as I am! As for the rockets mentioned in this chapter, it's a coincidence! Let's not argue about whether it is feasible or not, and I will explain this later! Thank you brothers for your support! ）