In order to win over the water pirates, and not affect the cooperation between the two sides, and at the same time eliminate the vigilance of the other party, the Chu State Water Army adopted an independent name for adaptation. In this way, both sides have achieved their goals. The power of the Chu naval army has grown to a certain extent. This will provide a powerful help for curbing the surface ship power of the Qin State in the future.

Just when the surface forces of the south are quietly changing. The situation in the north is once again in a bad mood.

"Two and a half miles ahead of the target, the grenade is ready, put." A Qi artilleryman commanded loudly. The Qin system and the Qi system are two different units of length, and the system of the Qi state is relatively small. It is equivalent to two miles of Qin. However, when the artillery of the Yan State taught the artillery of the Qi State, it adopted the system of the Qin State, but the people of the Qi State seemed to be very stubborn, and they even insisted on asking for it to be converted into the length unit of the Qi State itself, and then study. In this way, the artillery of the Qi people calculated according to their own rulers.

"Bang dang." The shell is stuffed into the chamber. Artillery shells are installed.

"Put." The loud shouts of the artillerymen gave an order.

"Ignition." The artillery igniter quickly ignited. The artillery of the State of Qi used the captured artillery of the Yan State, and the artillery of the State of Yan came from the artillery of the State of Qin. Qin's artillery underwent some modifications before it was exported, that is, the original detonator ignition method, that is, the pressure pull type, a detonator was installed behind the barrel, and then a spring mechanism was used to pull it and the gravity device hit hard. Hit the detonator, which produces a spark that ignites the propellant inside. This was the firing method used by all bronze artillery before the Qin state. However, due to the internal technical restrictions of the Qin State and the problem of the money used by the Yan people, the Yan people could not afford that part of the money, and the cost of using a detonator to launch was very expensive. One detonator costs the equivalent of five rounds, which is too expensive for them. Therefore, the Yan people did not purchase. Of course, the Qin people were not willing to make a loss-making deal, so they converted all these guns back. It became a traditional ignition type and was resold to the Yan people.

And after the Yan people experienced a huge defeat, these cannons were in the hands of the Qi people. The people of Qi didn't know that there was such an ignition method, so they still used the traditional ignition method.

The people of Qin themselves said that this traditional ignition method has drawbacks, but they can't say any drawbacks, it seems that it is relatively slow in time, and there is not much difference in specificity, but the people of Qi don't think there is any harm when they use it themselves. On the contrary, it prefers to use such artillery.

However, the Qin army looked down on this kind of artillery with backward firing methods, and they thought that this kind of artillery was bulky and slow. Unfortunately, this type of artillery is the most dangerous in the way it is fired quickly, especially by artillerymen, who can cause a danger of exploding if they are not careful. When this artillery was used before, the life of Qin's artillery could not be guaranteed. This changed dramatically with the use of a custom-mounted metal barrel and a rear-mounted gun.

"Boom. Rumble. Rumble. "The Qi army gathered all the artillery they could collect. In total, there were only twenty-six guns. But these artillery pieces were enough to deal with the Qin State's airfield, which only had more than three hundred people.

"Whistling." A whistling of shells was heard.

"Boom." A huge explosion rang out. The shells landed accurately on the positions of the Qin army. The shells did not hit any targets at first. But it frightened the Qin soldiers.

"Shelling. Shelling. The Qin soldiers shouted nervously.

"Whoosh. Sou. "The shells kept whistling.

"Boom. Rumble. "Shells continued to explode on the positions of the Qin army.

"Phew." The dirt from the shell entered the mouth of a second lieutenant in the Qin army.

"Damn the people of Qi, where did the artillery come from." The lieutenant scolded loudly in dissatisfaction.

"Whoosh. Sou. "The artillery of the Qi people fired continuously, trying to rely on this uninterrupted artillery to suppress the machine guns of the Qin State.

"I'll see." After hearing the sound of artillery, the captain who attacked the Qi army hurriedly ran to the outpost observation post to observe. Through a concealed observation opening. The captain saw his target in the binoculars.

In the footage, the gunpowder smoke from a Qi artillery gun covered the artillery position of the Qi army, and the captain could only see part of the artillery firing through the blowing of the wind.

This old bronze cannon still uses black powder. If the granular gunpowder of the Qin State is used, the Qin State has a deep research on the particle gunpowder, and the Qin State adds some animal and plant glue to the gunpowder to make the particles of the gunpowder larger, so that the emission reaction speed of the gunpowder is greatly accelerated, and the power is much greater than the power after using water drying, and the most important thing is that the storage time is relatively long. The difference is that the gunpowder used by the Qi people themselves was imported from Chu and exported by Qin, which had been greatly reduced. The power of these gunpowders was originally less than that of the industrial gunpowder produced by the Qin State itself. Not only that, but these powders used powder gunpowder, not granular gunpowder.

However, the Yan artillery pointed out the necessity of using this gunpowder, because only the use of granular gunpowder, combined with conical shells, and rifling in the chamber of the gun, could give the shells a greater range. In this way, Qi Guo knew the particle gunpowder in disguise, but the problem was that after they knew, they couldn't make particle gunpowder at all. But they were able to get some natural granular gunpowder. These granular gunpowder comes from damp gunpowder. The southern part of the state of Chu is humid. Gunpowder is susceptible to moisture during storage and transportation. When these damp gunpowder were transported to the Qi country, the Qi people needed to air dry it naturally. This process happened to be the initial stage of the Qin state's manufacture of granular gunpowder. Therefore, the Qi artillery preferred to use this damp gunpowder. Because they were able to accidentally get some granular gunpowder, the use of which could greatly increase the range of the shells. Granular gunpowder is no less than high explosives.

But the Qi people still couldn't get good granular gunpowder. Because they haven't been well aware of the problem, and at the same time, they are missing one thing, and that is the process of graphite polishing, which is essential to maintain the power of the granules. But the people of Qi have not yet recognized the role of graphite. For the Qin people have begun to use graphite on a large scale, in all aspects of industry and in daily life. The most remarkable thing is that the battery in the flashlight used by the Qin State is a carbon rod made of graphite material.

"Hmph." The captain looked at the artillery position where the Qi people fired shells and smiled disdainfully.

"Can this old gun still hit accurately?" The captain asked in a muttered voice.

"Whew." A cannonball flew directly over, interrupting a banner set up by the Qin army. Flags fell on the positions. In fact, this gun was still capable of firing in fine gear at a range of two miles. In particular, the Qin State once exported a cannon made of practical steel. The accuracy of this artillery was no less than that of those shells that were ordered to be mounted using metal. Because that kind of steel artillery is the ancestor of the later use of artillery. And the Qin people just exported this kind of artillery,

Because, the people of the Qin State thought that this kind of grandfather-level artillery was useless. In particular, the Qin army was once equipped with a large number of such artillery. But soon new artillery was created. In terms of range, rate of fire, and ease of use, it far surpasses that steel cannon. Therefore, the Qin State quickly eliminated this kind of steel artillery and sold it to the Yan people.

"Damn it. How can the artillery of the Qi people be accurate. The captain scolded angrily at this time.

He had no idea that the arms dealers in Qin, especially the army, were involved. A large number of such artillery pieces were piled up in their warehouses. In order not to rust these iron guys. Also in order to be able to replace it with new artillery as soon as possible. Therefore, the military resold these artillery pieces to the Yan people, and then the Yan people gave them to the Qi people. In this way, the artillery produced by the Qin people themselves was finally able to be used on their own people.

"We don't know either, but looking at the model, it seems to be an artillery of our own production." A firearms sergeant major observed through a telescope.

"That's right. The damned Yan people gave the artillery to these damn Qi people. The captain scolded loudly.

However, the people of Qin should be happy. Because, these artillery Yan people don't buy much by themselves, because the price is too expensive. So these cannons went into the houses of those nobles, or into the hands of the Chu army in the south. Only a small number entered the Yan army. The Qi army only received a small number of such artillery. The Qi army still got a large number of bronze artillery. The accuracy of these bronze guns was relatively accurate at a distance of 500 paces, but after a critical point, the shells began to become inaccurate, plus the maintenance of the guns and the reuse of rifling. The life of these guns has been reduced considerably. Because the Yan artillery rarely took the initiative to maintain their artillery, and because of the battlefield, their artillery was used for a lot of time. This invisibly gave the Qin people another advantage, the life of these cannons was greatly discounted because of the relationship between the Yan people.

"These guns look very old, but the current situation is that we still exist within the effective range of these guns, especially since these guns can hit four miles. When firing at a fifteen-degree angle. Our machine guns simply could not effectively touch the enemy at this distance. We are in a very passive situation. We can only be beaten passively. And we don't have anything to do about it. A Qin officer wrote in a telegram in reply to the Xianyang Staff Headquarters of the Qin State.

The addition of artillery made the staff officers of the General Staff of the Qin State feel the seriousness of the matter.