Chapter 495: Shelling

'Good, good performance, reward', Wang Shaoding clapped his hands and loudly praised this troupe for its good performance, and let people reward the troupe owner and the protagonist. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

However, said that the acting was good, Wang Shaoding's mind was not on the stage, his eyes were frequently on the side of the room, he knew that the people in the room liked to watch the play the most, especially this Liang Zhu, however, at this moment, the climax of the end, the butterfly, there was still no movement in the room, he couldn't help but be disappointed, but he was not discouraged, let the troupe continue to perform the next play, the West Chamber.

'Young marshal, your great cause has not yet been accomplished, and it is not yet time to enjoy it. Wang Shaoding watched the play, Ma Yuanwu looked distressed, hated that iron could not become steel, and persuaded Zhang Shaoding, "At present, the young marshal has not yet grasped the real power, and the young marshal still needs to be restrained a little, and he can't let the great cause collapse halfway." ’

'Alas, isn't this just hoarding grain and grass? Didn't you say that I will definitely come to crusade against the imperial court as soon as I raise the banner,

Can't you rush things? Zhang Shaoding looked impatient, he had more troublesome things, "Besides, isn't Zhang Shuai ready yet?" I can't rush this too much. ’

"But, young marshal, you are not prepared at all. Ma Yuanwu is extremely angry, what is the matter, these second generations of officials, one is less enterprising than the other, Youzhou is like this, Chengde is like this.

finally let Wang Shaoding make up his mind to put Wang Yuankui down. As a result, he immediately reverted to his old ways. He used a poison secretly prepared by the Prosecutor's Office, which could not be detected by a silver needle (in fact, there were really not many poisons that could be detected by a silver needle.) It's not as effective as it is on TV. The disadvantage is that it will not poison people to death at once, but will only poison them half to death, like Wang Yuankui, half-dead and dragging them half-dead.

This is a bit similar to heavy metal poisoning in modern times, it's not that it can't be better, it must be dosed a lot, or it has to be poisoned continuously for a long time, otherwise it's a great thing like Wang Yuankui, who didn't die, but he couldn't be a director. Fortunately, this is how Wang Shaoding can make up his mind, otherwise the procuratorate is not a good man and a woman, how can there be no poison to death.

However, who would have thought that this Wang Shaoding, just a few days after the director, would relapse into his old ways, beat his subordinates with a slingshot at every turn, and even intensified, and planned to use a bow and arrow. Let a cadre of sergeants be very angry, and it is very likely that another mutiny will occur.

At the same time, he was also glad that he didn't really put Wang Yuankui down. Otherwise, according to the personality of this gentleman, he will definitely be expelled for about half a year, or at most a year. At present, it is just to see that the old man is not dead, so everyone should bear with it.

The most angry thing is that this immature guy has no consciousness at all, he is like sitting on the crater, not vigilant, he knows what he cares about, and said angrily at the moment, "Shaolangjun, but just a woman, if Shaolangjun can win the world, what woman can't get, even if he divides one party and establishes himself as the king, he can also collect the world's best, why bother to love a woman." ’

In one sentence, Wang Shaoding's face sank, and he waved his hand to let the troupe retreat, "You are a eunuch, how can you understand the general trend of the world, I plan and then move, I have become a small general of the German army, and I have not accumulated grain and grass, how to fight with the court for a long time, there is no need to say more, give me a retreat." ’

After speaking, he was very unhappy and left, leaving only one Ma Yuanwu messy in the wind, trembling with anger, he didn't understand, these second generations of officials, **** one is more ambitious than the other, Youzhou is also a fan of hunting and amusement all day long, and often skinned pregnant cows, sheep, pigs, and dogs alive, and ate their embryos.

If these are not tight, it is said that he intends to try to live people, and if this matter is reported, it will inevitably cause an uproar.

If this is not important, it is more serious, he often abuses the soldiers after drinking, and if the first two are not enough to shake his position, the last point is the most serious, and he is nothing without the support of the nobles. In vain, he tried his best to use his previous connections to contact several tribes outside the Saiwai, but now it seems that his efforts have been in vain.

"Hmph, deal with the affairs of Youzhou first, after all, Youzhou is connected to the outside of the Saiwai, the stakes are very high, and our family has no strength there, Zhang Zhongwu died of illness by himself, and our family can't manage it." However, this year... Ma Yuanwu's face was full of cruelty, "In these years, it is difficult to find sheep with two legs, and there are many people who want to be used as a festival with two legs, depending on our means." ’

But this time, it's time to pick the right one. Ma Yuanwu walked while thinking about who in Youzhou could top Zhang Zhifang. I think of the gains and losses now, next time I shouldn't choose this kind of gentleman, I should be elected as an aspiring person, anyway, we are not trying to do anything, we just want to make a mess in the world, the more ambitious, the better.

I have to speed up the pace, Ma Yuanwu's heart is tight, after the dog emperor came to power, his power is growing, although many moves, such as the world's wide collection of commercial taxes, offended many people, but the military prestige is getting stronger and stronger, Longxi defeated Tubo, which has reinvigorated the prestige of the imperial court. Some time ago, the entrance ceremony shook many feudal towns, and if he didn't step up his actions, any revenge he would have become empty talk.

Li Chen visited the cannon to shoot, this was renamed the big four-style artillery, which was originally a Napoleonic cannon in history, but it was made of stainless steel and used iron molds as a production model.

Not only that, if it's just like this, it's not worth calling it a change, the weight of this cannon has increased a lot compared to what I saw before, but it's still light and can be pulled by a horse.

The gun carriage was made of metal, which was much heavier than wood, but more robust and could withstand the recoil of the gun without retreating. In addition, the design is more optimized, the front is thin and the back is thick, and it is no longer as round as it was at the beginning. In addition, there is another major change, which is the withdrawal machine.

Because of the great power of the cannon, the recoil is also amazing. The cannon body is cast so heavily, except that the material is not up to par. On the one hand, it is also to reduce recoil.

At the earliest, they tried to tie up, tie up, and try to fix the cannon so that it wouldn't move. Later, there was a gun mount, and I worked on the gun mount. The brake is another major invention.

The brake, taking the Japanese artillery during World War II as an example, there is a cylinder under the barrel, that is, the brake, and there is a piston inside, half of which is oil, and half of which is high-pressure air. When the cannon is ejected, the cannon retreats, the recoil will be transmitted to the brake, with the movement of the piston, the high-pressure air will be compressed, when the compression reaches the limit, it will rebound, and the piston and the oil in it will be pushed back, and then transmitted to the barrel, so that the barrel resets.

Of course, Li Chen does not use this, to produce the kind of full sealing, the size of the piston and the brake is completely consistent, tight without leaving gaps, and a very high degree of precision processing is required, otherwise the high-pressure air will be mixed into the oil along the piston gap, which is equivalent to directly pushing the piston to the end, and it will not return. Datang does not have such productivity today.

Li Chen uses springs. I saw that around the barrel, there are four thick springs, whenever the cannon is fired, relying on the elastic force, absorbing the recoil, and when the spring reaches the limit, it will return to the original state, driving the barrel to reset.

Frankly speaking, this kind of shooting skills can only be excessive, and the spring will soon become tired after a long time. Loss of elasticity. In fact, Li Chen has considered manufacturing that kind of oil press ejector, as for the problem of precision, it completely depends on the master, slowly grinding little by little, and slowly fitting. It's just that this kind of production is too slow, although the court craftsmen can get it, but it is not urgent, and there is no way to install all the artillery in this way.

Perhaps, try a small amount of assembly? While watching the cannon shooting training, Li Chen thought, no matter how much is produced, there is one anyway? However, if the brake is broken, it is made by hand, there is no way to replace it, although the manual can play the kind of precision that fits perfectly, but everyone has different skills, can it be universal?

Time did not stand still because Li Chen was thinking, and after the shot, the four gunners were busy. Observe to observe, brush to reload, reload ammunition to reload.

I saw a chief observer in the high place, holding a telescope in his hand, and a protractor-like winter Xi, after measuring, grabbed a microphone on the high platform, and loudly reported the next data, and someone immediately reported the data below.

Upon hearing the data, the observers of each gun immediately calculated and adjusted according to the direction of their own gun positions. Cannons, the first weight of measurement, the distance is long, and the slightest difference is very different. Fortunately, Li Chen started sailing very early, and he has a lot of experience in surveying, and there is no shortage of tools and methods.

And what about the chief observer? However, it is not easy to train the observer hand who can calculate it accurately. Most of these observers are students from the nursing home, that is, they have received a complete mathematics education, but even so, observation depends on talent. Not everyone can be a good observer. So, there will be some gaps in each shot.

The hit rate of the cannon is still a test of probability, so don't talk about the ages, even if it is modern, the accuracy of the cannon is very high, and the shelling still needs to be intensive. Dense is used to increase accuracy, especially at sea, especially when shelling is needed.

A student named Li Fangyuan came up with a solution. He is very good at mathematics, and he is an excellent observer, who is responsible for observing the distance to the target, and then letting the observers of each gun, based on his observations, calculate their own gun positions on their own.

This method is very good, this observation method is very effective, you can concentrate your strength, and the requirements for the observer can also be slightly reduced, you don't need to use every gun, you need an excellent observer, you can play a great accuracy.

This method made Li Chen pat his head, why didn't he think of it. When he heard this method, he thought that in World War II, there would be an observation tower on the American battleship, which would be responsible for observing and depicting, and the observation tower would report the data, and then each ship would adjust itself and carry out unified shelling. He should have thought of it.

In fact, Li Chen didn't know that this method was not original to the US Navy, and it was done by the British Navy very early on. Unlike Spain, they have a big family and can train gunners in large numbers, and this method only requires a few observers to bring up a bunch of artillery.

The observer calculates the data, and a aiming hand responsible for adjusting begins to adjust, but this gun carriage has added a handle, which can be rotated to adjust the height and height.

Brush the rifper, quickly clean the chamber, the loader, first pick up a gun ruler, check how much ammunition should be loaded, and then grab a fixed ammunition pack, first puncture a little medicine bag, as a primer, throw into the bubble tube. Each medicine bag has a certain amount of it, and there are Arabic numerals written on it, just take it.

Gun ruler. Li Chen's artillery, however, has undergone a large number of live-fire tests to test what distance, how many angles, and how much ammunition is needed, on the one hand, to test the durability of the cannon, and on the other hand, to make a standard, so that the launch can be fast.

And that standard is to make a cannon ruler, even if the cannon may be a little inaccurate because of long-term use, but at least it is a reference. And with the newly manufactured gun, this data is still very accurate.

Everything is loaded, just aim at the hand, take out a chicken feather, insert it into the fire door, and then listen to the order of the gun commander, and fire.

Chicken feathers are responsible for igniting the fire. Li Chen appreciated this ignition method. A heavy reward was given to the gunner who came up with this method.

How to ignite the fire is a big trouble. When Li Chen first developed the musket, he also encountered this problem. Because there was no thunder mercury as a firing agent in this era, it usually required some exposure of gunpowder to facilitate firing. However, in this way, when the wind and rain are blowing, it is easy to fail to shoot.

This serious problem existed when the flintlock pistol was first studied. Li Chen was very puzzled, didn't he say that the flintlock pistol could overcome the problem of weather? Finally, a craftsman came up with a way to add a self-closing lid above the medicine pool, so that the weather problem could be overcome.

It's the same with cannons, which were originally fused. The fuse is inserted into the fire door and the gunpowder is ignited. Later, a gunner, who didn't know if it was a prank or thought it was really okay, used chicken feathers to start the fire, and found that the effect was also good, more convenient and cheaper. At the moment, Li Chen rewarded him and vigorously promoted it, as for the reason, he didn't care.

After watching the gunners train for a while, they moved forward again, and there was a cavalry battalion in front of them. It's a lot quieter here. Not only because there was no sound of gunpowder, but also because there were no people. There were only a few cavalrymen, who were practicing. Because, most of them have to be cavalry, and they are still on the way back. So it looks like it's empty.

The cavalry school yard and the artillery training ground were very close, and in fact the stables were still some distance away. It will be arranged in this way, it is necessary to get the horses used to it. Horses are very spiritual, very sensitive animals, and can be easily frightened. Now Li Chen wants to promote a large number of firearms, and he didn't scare others, but his own horses panicked first, which is a big joke.

After watching the overall training of the new army, Li Chen, accompanied by Shi Xiong, left the school and went to his newly established military academy to visit. (To be continued.) )