Mizhou, near the town of Fuping

Located on a plain backed by mountains and water in the south of the glue, various preset horses, trenches, and breastworks have been arranged; Houses and tents, bridges and plank roads, large shield carts, ladders, rushing carts and other equipment, as well as a few stranded boats of various sizes, and even a decent whole city wall, with the attached enemy towers and arrow towers.

It's just that some of them have been completely destroyed, while others are so badly damaged that they've apparently been used many times.

On the edge of this specially designated weapons test site, I stood on a lookout tower and watched with my own eyes the drills of test firing and attacking fortified positions that had been carried out by the artillery regiment.

The person in charge of conducting the field exercise for me was the most senior old man in the artillery regiment, Du Shulang, the deputy general of the artillery battalion directly under Yu Houjun. He is a typical Jiangnan person, and he is quite proud of this background, and often talks about it and is used to calling himself Jiangnan Du Shulang.

He was the leader of the artillery fortress that was coerced by our troops to open artillery to counterattack during the siege of Tiannan City when I took the children of this clan out of battle, and was forced to break away from the system of the Shenji Army, and since then I have been on my boat all the way to the dark.

Therefore, he also participated in the development process from scratch from the original Longzhou Regiment Left, to the later Model New Army Left Wing Guerrilla Division, and even the Imperial Camp Left Army; From a few sampan cannons to the artillery team, the artillery regiment, and even the current artillery battalion with complete size, weight, and length, it can be said to be one of the veterans of artillery construction.

Therefore, compared to his former Shangguan, Guo Yaoshi, who joined me one step later, although his rank and rank are slightly inferior, obviously the potential qualifications and reliability are more profound.

Therefore, while Pharmacist Guo was busy with his daily affairs, as one of his deputies, he could often be competent in some internally arranged and more confidential weapon experiments and tactical drills.

Today, the artillery system under the rule of the Huaidong Army has begun to take shape.

Not only did the three regiments of the artillery battalion directly under the Yuhou Army, but also the commanders directly under the vehicle battalion, the instructor, and the pacesetter, as well as the main battle battalions of the first to fourth orders of the three major armies of the left and right guards, and the front army, gradually equipped with the corresponding trumpet artillery team, as a long-range suppression of firepower and the strengthening of the ability to attack fortifications.

Therefore, one of the biggest differences between the main battle battalion and the garrison battalion is whether there is an exclusive artillery team or artillery group.

If you don't count those small cannons that are like large shotguns, the total number of them can probably reach more than 200.

Although compared with the possession of the dynasty, it is only a fraction of the size and corners, but in terms of the application technology and tactical organization of artillery, we can undoubtedly be quite proud to say that no one can be more adequate and skilled than us.

At present, Huaidong's military industrial system already has a preliminary self-production capacity, although there are only a dozen or so supplements per month, and it is mainly field small artillery and long-barreled light artillery under four inches.

In addition, the wheeled gun carriage with simple buffer effect produced by Huaidong, the gun carriage specially coordinated with the transportation, and the ammunition truck with guard plate are also one of the unique highlights of the artillery sequence.

And even the ancient gunners can be regarded as a primitive technical class. The ability to make simple observations and calculations is the most basic requirement. Therefore, they can also have special service allowances, special military treatment and subsidies than non-commissioned officers.

At present, the artillerymen in the Huaidong Army come from a variety of sources, mainly in several batches.

There are both the old men of the former Shenji Army represented by Du Shulang; also later got endorsement in the Gangcheng Change, and through the local stationed sailors, they successively got a group of veterans who were close to retirement; There are also those who were intercepted in the Battle of Weishan Lake, from the commander of the Shenji Army Guo and even brought artillery to negotiate; and the incorporation of the defeated and scattered friendly soldiers;

Even after rescuing the siege of Xuzhou, the remnants of the artillery team that were abandoned by the commander were obtained from the city, and the gunners obtained from the sailors and marines who were forcibly disarmed and stranded on the coast after staying in Huaidong.

In the case that the scale and structure have temporarily reached a certain upper limit, and it is inconvenient to continue to expand, we can only consider digging deeper into our own potential and power.

Only the rumbling sound of artillery could be heard, and with a dozen thin tracks that were barely visible, clouds of smoke and dust exploded in the distance.

Yes, this batch of shells fired out was not a variety of traditional sputters that smashed into the earth and rocks, but exploded on the ground in the real sense.

Under the training of the normal artillery regiments on the periphery, it is an on-site application experiment of new explosive shells and grenade shotguns.

From the monocular mirror, you can see the sheep and pigs that are fixed near the preset landing point of the shooting range.

Frightened and scurrying around in the wailing, the flesh and blood overturned and fell to the ground.

The strong smell of fireworks blowing in the wind was different from the pungent sulfur smell unique to black powder before, but the scorching and bitter smell unique to nitrocellulose propellant.

Nitrocellulose, known as smokeless gunpowder, has a good performance as a propellant, but the output cannot be increased

The law was introduced to most firearms units, while only partial artillery trials were provided. In addition, it is more potent than black powder

The pressure of the burning chamber is a bit more serious for the ablation and wear of the iron chamber.

In this time and space that was seriously distorted by the predecessors of the traverser, as a firearm for explosion and killing, it actually already existed in the Southern Dynasty Liang

The initial application is based on. These include the grenadiers' current grenadiers, and similar Congreve fires

Arrow-throwing thunderbolts, and sky-blasting thunderbolts thrown with bed crossbows and stone cannons.

Among them, the thunder with the lowest threshold, the application principle is also very simple, it is a small urn or jar filled with gunpowder

The noodles were mixed with a large amount of broken copper and iron, and the fuse of the delay was temporarily inserted, and it was just projected.

Although I tried to improve and dig on this basis, and tried to make explosive shells that could be fired from artillery.

However, the original built-in refined black powder has limited power as an air explosion or a touch explosion, and the number of fragments exploded is not much

Flying not far, compared to the lethal effect of solid bullets in dense queues, it is not particularly prominent, plus fuse processing

The craftsmanship is not up to par, so it has been hidden in the snow.

But now with the option of blunt explosives in small batches, it's completely different, not to mention, I still remember that the Eighth Route Army was there

A pioneering initiative of the Taihang Mountain Soldier Workshop.

The monolithic hollow shell shell cast in white iron is put into an iron box and sealed, and the spheroidization heat treatment is annealed into a black-hearted ductile casting

Iron, thin-shell projectile body strength can be greatly improved. The advantage of this is that the black-hearted toughness of cast iron is increased in addition to

In addition to strength, it also has the characteristics of self-lubricating knives for easy drilling, and can obtain more and finer crushing after the passivation of the flux core

of prefabricated fragments.

Although the dispersion is still a little unsatisfactory, the human targets and ** pigs and sheep around the explosion point have been smashed to pieces by the sputtered fragments.

It's just that the depth of penetration is still insufficient, but if the enemy formation takes a shot at close range, even if it doesn't die, it will lose its succession

Continued combat ability.

This achieves the basic effect of the original flowering bomb, and with the technical preposition of the flowering bomb, the grenade bomb is nothing

There are too many obstacles and barriers.

With rosin and fish gelatin as hundreds of scattered projectile solids, ring prefabricated thin iron shell body and blunt explosive core, plus

Delayed initiation technology of black powder and thundermercury two-stage stroke. It's a little more complicated than the process of flowering bombs.

However, as a limitation of machining accuracy, it can only be applied to projectiles of more than six inches, that is, the largest aperture

A type of application for long-barreled field guns.

As a key breakthrough in the matching, according to the ideas and principles I pointed out, a lot of materials were wasted

After taking many detours, he finally figured out the wooden conical letter tube and wooden elastic butt technology;

The processing difficulty of these two things in contemporary times is not high, and they also belong to a layer of windows for the technical conditions of ancient people

The type of household paper that can be broken as soon as it is stabbed, but the power and accuracy of the cannon shot have not been greatly improved.

When the former is fired, it only needs to be extended according to the distance of the shelling, and the wooden pipe fuse of the hard windproof fuse is extended according to its own

The time gauge is cropped to the length of the corresponding distance, and then ignited and inserted to launch.

And the latter is even simpler, that is, the cylindrical wooden bottom that happens to be inlaid with a spherical projectile body, but it can better seal the fire? divulge

and provide a farther and straighter trajectory.

It's just that the performance of the woodwind fuze is somewhat unstable, and it is very tolerant of humid environments or violent bumps. So much so that it hits

About one or two of the ten rounds that went out were dumb fire things, and two or three were either early or delayed explosions, so

There is still room and prospect for further debugging and improvement......

But even so, with the lethality probability of firepower projection, it is already okay for the level of warfare of this generation

Pinched his nose and accepted. What's more, even if a dud hits the enemy in the queue, it can still cause a solid iron ball

Casualty.

In fact, for me, at the level of most enemies I have been in contact with so far, the scale and power of this firepower has seriously spilled over.

Therefore, without reaching the minimum scale of popularization and application, and the corresponding stable output, it rashly entered the battlefield

In addition to the surprise of frightening the enemy, it does not have an overwhelming deterrent and lethal effect at all.

Therefore, I decided to continue to hide in secret for the time being, as a hole card for skill accumulation and latent concealment.