Chapter Forty-Eight: The Cannon of the Giant Ship

"The Struggle of the Reborn King"

【Introduction】

"The king is not like the king of people, he is not like the king of the king, the pain of old age, the prodigal son of smelting, and the hearts of scattered people to change greatly, all of them are bound to die!" At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji ascended the throne, exhausted the traitors in the world, filled the palace with demons, the building was about to fall, and the prosperous and wealthy Song Dynasty was in turmoil.

The special forces from the modern era possessed the second prince Zhao Tan, in order not to be a prisoner and die in the city of the Five Kingdoms, he had to work hard!

Author: Let you heartwarm.

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Every click you make, every recommendation vote, every collection, every book review is a support for the author. Referral tickets are free, and after registering an account, there will be a referral ticket when the points reach a certain amount, and each account can collect "The Struggle of the Reborn King". After eating early in the morning, Zhao Ta led a group of people to inspect his territory, and the first stop was the workshop. Under the leadership of Feng Xi, they came to the workshop, and took a small boat along the artificially opened waterway to a secluded harbor, where there was a lagoon left by the Bianhe River when the embankment was broken, the water was five or six zhang deep, and the size of the radius was ten or so miles, and a huge shed was surrounded by reed mats on the shore, and two giant Dans were moored in it.

"Second master, one of these two ships has been refitted, and the other is installing the angle of attack and arranging artillery!" Feng Xi invited Zhao Ta to get on the boat and introduced.

"Yes, the project is done very quickly!" Zhao Ta nodded and said to Xu Dao.

"Everything is in accordance with the instructions of the prince, first ask the workers of the Mingzhou shipyard to renovate according to the drawings you provided, rebuild the bridge, divide the bilge, and the follow-up installation of weapons and equipment are all from our workshop, and no outsiders participate!" Feng Xi said.

"Lord Wang, when did you build these two gods?" He Qufei followed Zhao Ta to the boat and asked, these two boats are three times the two official ships they are on, they are the giant ships of the Great Song Dynasty known as the "Divine Pill", more than ten zhang high, five zhang wide, nearly 30 zhang long, according to the current displacement, can reach more than 1,000 tons, carry up to 1,000 people, in this era is the modern "aircraft carrier" giant in the water!

"Teacher, do you still remember the two giant pills that Jiangnan sent to Shigang a few years ago, and demolished a few bridges in order to enter the capital!" Zhao Ta replied with a smile.

"Oh!". He Qufei suddenly remembered that a large stone was quarried in the hail mountain of Taihu Lake where the southeast worship was located, which was more than four zhang long and more than two zhang wide, exquisitely clear, and the hole was natural. In addition, there is a big tree, according to legend, it is planted by Bai Ju in the Tang Dynasty, so it is called Bai Gong Bolt, and it is ready to be dedicated to the emperor together, but these two objects are too big for the general big ship to fit at all, and they have to be sunk to the bottom. Of course, this matter can not help Zhu Bi, he ordered someone to build two Shenzhou, and spent 8,000 freight to send to the Beijing Division, when Judan into Beijing attracted thousands of empty alleys, the people of the capital rushed to see the style of Judan!

"Hehe, the prince watched the two big boats have been thrown in the canal after completing the task, leaving them in the wind and rain, and cherishing heavenly things, so he bought them with Zhu Bi and counted them as waste!" Seeing that he smiled and said.

"That's a lot of money, isn't it?". He Qufei asked again, sighing that the prince was really wealthy, and he would buy such a big ship.

"I didn't spend any money, and the prince also collected 50,000 yuan of garbage disposal fees from Zhu Bi!" Miki said, as if it should be like this.

"Hehe, you settle the account, I don't want much of him, the boat is blocked in the river, there are many boats on the canal like a carp crossing the river, you have to slow down and detour near it, if you don't hit it, the boat will be destroyed and killed, the boat sinks, it's okay, if the big ship sinks, the canal will be blocked, the food and drink in the capital depends on Caoyun, then you have to organize people to salvage, and the cost is more than 50,000 yuan, my price is very fair!". Zhao Ta looked at the strange eyes that shot at him and quickly explained.

"Oh!". Everyone nodded, all of them turned their faces, they had seen shameless, they had never seen such shameless, they were goose pluckers, he plucked his feathers and had to put the geese in the pot to stew!

"Cheng Beishou, have I asked you to recruit all the sailors?" Seeing that everyone was pretending to see the scenery, he had to name him.

"Lord Wang, a total of more than 500 people have been recruited, and now they are all handed over to Commander Zhao to practice!". Cheng Beishou had the least seniority in a group of people, and he didn't dare to throw his face at the prince, so he hurriedly bowed down and replied. …,

"Well, these two big ships will be handed over to you in the future, don't let me down!". Zhao Ta nodded in satisfaction.

"Thank you for your trust!" Cheng Beishou was so happy that he almost didn't go away, sailing in the sea, the bigger the boat, the better, and the farther it runs, with more things, and the safety factor is higher, and only three big ships with 2,000 materials were changed last year, and this year it has taken a big step forward, and I deeply realize that it is right to follow the prince!

"Zhao Xiao, has the test firing of the new artillery been completed?". Zhao Ta walked to the foredeck, pointed to a vacant position and said, he planned to row the ship into a gunboat, two guns were placed on the front and rear decks, and ten Furlong rapid-fire guns were installed on each side of the ship's two strings, although it was not as good as the battleships with hundreds of guns during the Great Voyage, but now it is enough to dominate the sea.

"Second master, it's done, now I'm making a cannon specification, and I can test it after a few rounds!" When Zhao Xiao heard the words of the prince, he hurriedly stepped forward and replied, now he is the head of the artillery team.

"Well, complete the training as soon as possible, you pick out some people from the sailors to train first, and strive to become an army within half a year!". Zhao Ta commanded.

"Yes, mission guaranteed!". Zhao Xiao saluted.

"Second master, there is a difficulty here, the production of artillery is very cumbersome, and our workshop may not be able to complete the task for a while!" Feng Xi estimated and said, now the workshop has only produced a total of ten "Franc machines", and the prince wants to become an army in half a year, and more than 40 cannons alone will not be able to be built anyway.

"I thought about this, this time I brought you experts, they are all experts in the industry, and they should be able to help you solve some problems!" Zhao said.

"Lord Wang, those people hiding in the bilge are the experts you say?". I don't know the origin of this person, and I didn't know how to do it, so I thought about it at this time.

"Of course, they have military supervisors who have equipped fire medicine in the workshop and made firearms: there are those who have cast Jiuding and a ritual vessel in the palace: there are also steelmaking masters who built the Mingtang smelter, and with their help, things will be much faster!" Zhao Tan said with a smile that most of the people in their workshop were "soil experts" trained by themselves, and their knowledge and skills were definitely worse than those from the state-owned factory.

"Hmm!". Seeing that he was silent, no wonder the prince was so concerned about Deng Junjian's concubine, he did not hesitate to turn his face with Wang Shea, forced him to return the concubine, lost a lot of silver, and also transferred Deng Zhigang from the young eunuch to the right before stopping, it turned out that the prince was waiting for him here!

"This ship should be hung with iron armor in the critical parts, and the gun mount should also be fixed, don't fire the cannon, others didn't sink it, and your own ship was knocked out of a big hole, what will happen to these weapons on the ship, I don't know what to do, you have to sum up your experience in use, don't be afraid, and you won't be blamed if something happens!" Zhao Tan turned around and made an important instruction: "We must establish a strong fleet and cultivate the first marine corps in the world!"

Then in the workshop, we saw the cannon in the mouth of the prince, this ancient curved artillery, because the body tube is short and thick like a stone direction and got the name, "now it can not be called ancient, it should be advanced, the earliest artillery found by contemporary archaeology is more than 200 years later than now, but now let Zhao Ta fight), the caliber of the cannon is seven Song inches, the wall thickness accounts for almost one-third of the caliber, the total length is three feet, and the weight of the base has been more than 800 catties. The breech is smoothbore, with a front-loading projectile, firing solid iron bullets or flowering shells, similar to the current mortar, but with a different firing mechanism.

The firing elevation angle of the gun is high, and the dead angle of the projectile impact point is small, but because of the small muzzle velocity, the projectile flight time is long.

"Second master, this cannon has a charge of three catties, and fifteen catties of solid projectiles can hit four hundred paces away at an elevation angle of 45 degrees, and the flowering projectile will bloom." Zhao Xiao was a little vague as he spoke.

"What's wrong with the flowering bomb?". Zhao asked.

"Because the signal tube is not easy to master, sometimes it will explode after landing for a period of time, and some will explode in mid-air, no spectrum!" Zhao Xiao said with a bitter face, his words amused everyone.

"Hehe, this has to go through continuous testing to find the law, and the length of the letter tube depends on the range!" Zhao Ta smiled and said, this kind of "secondary ignition, flowering bomb, is to make a small hole in the cast iron bullet body, use a wooden "letter tube, plug it, and install a slow-burning fire agent in the letter tube to detonate the explosive powder in the bomb body, so it is not easy to find out the law. …,

After the most Lu people, a group of people took a car to the shooting range more than ten miles away from Zhuangzi to watch the shooting report performance of the artillery team, from the artillery into the position to the artillery deployment, loading, ignition shooting, collecting the artillery, and evacuating the position Zhao Ta looked very carefully, after half a year of training, their action specifications, with the orderly operation of the artillery, the artillery team has begun to take shape, and what is lacking in his team is actual combat.

However, even such a drill still shocked many people, and they were stunned by the heavy smoke of gunpowder, the huge explosions, the large stones that turned into strange powder, the collapsed earth walls, the big trees that were shaved bald by shrapnel, and the craters that were as deep as a foot. This powerful firearm is enough to change the situation on the battlefield and change his long-term understanding of the mode of war. And what Zhao Tan wants is this effect, to let his teacher understand the power of firearms, so that his thinking can change, so that he can step from the era of cold weapon warfare into the era of firearms.

"Lord Wang, it seems that I am really old and can't keep up with your footsteps, it's ridiculous that I'm still teaching you, I'm really ashamed to be a teacher!" On the way home, He Qufei, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly smiled bitterly.

"Teacher, no matter how good the weapon is, it depends on people, relying on this sharp weapon may we be able to win a battle, but the victory of a war cannot be achieved by just a few artillery, you know more about the mystery than me, you can see it accurately, I need your help more at this time!" Zhao Ta said sincerely.

"He Xianshan, what the prince said is right, I have watched the prince grow up over the years, although he sometimes does things unreasonably, and even unscrupulous, but I know that everything he does is for our Great Song Dynasty, for the next day to fight a blow and save our Great Song Dynasty from fire and water!" Huang Jingchen also said, but He Qufei didn't talk to him, and fell into deep thought.

"Well, the ancients said that "the scholar dies for the confidant" I can barely count myself as a person who has read the book of sages, and the prince will not abandon worship as a master, and he will follow the prince in his lifetime, and follow the work of dogs and horses! ”。 The carriage returned to Zhuangzi and was about to drive into the palace, He Qufei saluted Zhao Ta and said.

"Thank you!". Zhao Ta held He Qufei's hand, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, this old man finally willingly got on his thief ship. (To be continued.)