Bang - poof, la, la-

This was accompanied by a cannon shot, followed by a very scattered collision sound compared to the shattering of shells and the landing.

I saw small iron beads with a diameter of half an inch, which "sprayed" out of the barrel of the cannon.

Ruler and inch, in the end, I chose three feet and one meter, ten inches and one foot, and did not continue to choose the decimal system between rulers and meters, after all, the concept of ruler is more deep-rooted.

The firing range of the artillery "shotgun" is far inferior to that of solid bullets, but after the fine shotgun is sprayed, it directly beats the enemy 100 meters in front of him into a sieve.

Similarly, under elastic force, the shotgun can also exert a "splash" effect, increasing the striking area......

I saw that the cavalry commanded by Gao Shun was ruthlessly stripped of their skin before approaching the "safety line"!

If it is commanded by a normal general, even if there are five people and one commander, and the grassroots generals are complete, they will definitely be completely defeated now, and only Gao Shun's restraining ability can forcibly perform micro-manipulation and stop the chaos - after three shellings, the experimental cavalry has been reduced by more than half, and at the same time, Gao Shun's micro-manipulation has been greatly improved......

Under Gao Shun's forcible control, the experimental cavalry entered the safe range in a hurry, and this round of experiments was over!

Bai Tu said at this time: "Actually, there is another kind of cannonball, Zhong Da was too decisive just now, and he didn't give Yuan Zhi a chance to use it at all, so he could try it in the air." Saying that, Bai Tu asked the herald to send an order to Xu Shu.

Then I saw Xu Shu demonstrate to the open space again, the same small projectiles, but this time in a thin iron bucket the size of a cannonball, and the elevation angle was larger than that of a shotgun when fired.

This is also known as "grapeshot".

Compared to shotguns, grapeshots are still a whole when they are fired out of the breech, and will disperse after a certain distance, or even after hitting the target.

Therefore, although the range is shorter than that of a solid bullet, it is far farther than a shotgun, but the attack range is also much smaller than that of a shotgun, and the nature is in between.

However, Gao Shun did not hesitate to charge before, and there was no sign of the army revolving under strong constraints, so this medium-range attack grapeball was not used......

As for the high-explosive bomb, or the flowering bomb, the Ministry of Industry has been trying before, but unfortunately because the difficulty of twisting has not been solved, the stability is too poor, and the current cost performance is not high.

The traditional "flowering bomb" in history is actually similar to the birth period of the solid bullet, not only in the West, but also in the Ming Dynasty in the East.

However, the principle of this kind of primitive flowering shell is that in front of the shell, a twist is also inserted, and after the shell is loaded, the twist of the shell is ignited from the muzzle, and then the gunpowder of the shell is ignited from the back......

If the timing is not right, it will either not explode or explode, and this kind of flowering bomb can now be made by the Ministry of Works, but the explosion rate is as high as 1%.

Don't underestimate 1%, for an individual, a thing with a 1% casualty rate, no one will do it all the time, and the artillery fires shells not once or twice, but must be done continuously.

The explosion rate of up to 1% was enough to demoralize the artillerymen, even when firing ordinary shells.

Historically, neither the Ming Dynasty nor the West relied heavily on traditional flowering shells, and it was not until the advent of the woodwind fuze, a delayed fuse that can be ignited by the heat of the shell when fired, that the high-explosive bomb returned to the vision of the great powers and quickly became the mainstream.

However, the advanced armor-piercing bullets of solid bullets have not been outdated, after all, even if the anti-personnel soldiers are weaker, their damage to fortifications and armor is irreplaceable.

During World War II, the Chinese army suffered the loss of more flowering bullets and fewer armor-piercing shells, which led to the sigh of looking at the wall, and it was obviously the invaded side, but it could only tear down the city wall.

The reason why high-explosive shells quickly became popular was not to kill and injure infantry, but because some powers at that time did not have a full set of armored ships, and there were still a large number of wooden warships.

Solid bullets are enough to penetrate wooden ships, but in naval battles, it is necessary to destroy the sealed cabin of the lower part of the ship in order to completely sink the opponent, otherwise even if the upper cabin part is worn poorly and the deck is smashed through, as long as the sealed cabin does not enter the water, there is a chance to regroup and fight again.

Hitting the part below the surface of the sea with a solid bullet will be blocked by the seawater and will not be effective, and only if it hits just above the waterline and low enough, it is considered a "critical hit".

The high-explosive bomb can explode after falling on the deck, which has a chance to blow up the sealed cabin below, and suddenly becomes a sharp weapon for harvesting wooden warships.

It was also the only stage in which high-explosive shells completely outperformed armor-piercing shells, and soon countries discovered this and replaced armored ships one after another.

And if the armored ship bombarded, with the firepower of the high-explosive bombs at that time, it seemed to be scratching the boots, and it was more aimed at sailors.

So everyone changed back to the situation of solid bullets, that is, armor-piercing shells firing at each other, until later there were torpedoes, and there was a riotous operation of directly attacking the underwater part, which occupied half of the naval battle......

Bai Tu probably knows the principle of delayed twisting, but he doesn't know what material or thing it is, so he just provided ideas for the Ministry of Industry, which is still experimenting.

At this time, it can also be seen that there is still a big gap between the science and technology of Chu and the top powers in the 18th century - not only there are many shortcomings, but also ...... The cognition of all kinds of material properties, or the "information" mastered, is far less than that of the era when steamships went to sea.

After all, one is the accumulation of talents in all aspects, and the other is constantly jumping technology by hard disks......

Especially now, Pang Tong's energy is still in the true qi machine, delaying the twisting and improving the gunpowder, which Yu Ji is doing, so the efficiency will be worse.

Yu Ji's trick "drawing talismans" can be extracted, and "alchemy" can efficiently chemical reactions and analyze the properties of substances, so in this regard, it does have unique advantages.

But...... Compared with Pang Tong, even if they are both SSRs, they are the difference between T5 and T0!

Yu Ji also thought about it, jumping out of the perspective of delayed twisting, for example, he could use true qi sensitive substances to detonate it in the future.

For this reason, I went to discuss with Huang Yueying, who was in charge of the True Qi weapon, and the result was ...... was directly denied by Huang Yueying.

Detonate with real gas?

It's really convenient, but the problem is that as long as the opposing battleman sweeps away his true qi, the cannonball will explode directly halfway!

Therefore, at present, the flowering shell has not been used in the Ministry of Industry, and the artillery of the Chu State is also suitable for mobile black long straight "mountain guns", and the bulky short and thick "mortar cannons" have also not been put into use.

Seeing the performance of the artillery, except for Lu Bu, who had seen it before and even stretched out his hand to take it, the other generals were surprised at the same time, but also showed a complicated look of excitement and anxiety.

Naturally, I was excited when I thought that Chu had such a sharp weapon and then equipped it in the army...... Plate armor? What plate armor?

I was also uneasy because I thought that Chu had this sharp weapon......

Their fear is not that the artillery will hurt themselves, but that ...... After the artillery changes the tactical environment too violently, will it make the familiar battlefield become unfamiliar?

That loud bang seemed to be the sound of the shackles of the times shattering......

Can what you have learned before really support future battles?

Fortunately, the white cannon was also very effective before, so it is not that no one has thought of using catapults for ordinary engagements, so these artillery, although they have been better than catapults in all aspects, can still be adapted in advance!

As for the direct threat of artillery, among the people present, except for a few people who were not military generals, it was nothing to the others.

Even in the midst of a chaotic army, it is easy to dodge, and the threat is much less than that of a cold arrow shot by a master, and even ...... As a Jinyu general, it is only "uncomfortable" to take one or two solid bullets, and Lu Bu, Sun Ce and other transcendent generals at the head, can be connected with their faces in a state of divine power!

After everyone's gossip questions, Lu Bu also specially explained: "I tried before, artillery, like other weapons, has little effect on the state of divine power. ”

Transcending the divine power of the god generals, whether it is Lu Bu's "ghost god" or Zhao Yun's "gentian", they will be further immune to the damage of non-war generals.

Unlike the Golden Jade Warlord's "own defense is higher than that of the Gilded Warlord", in the Shenwei state, it is more like his own immunity to ordinary damage, and he has additional immunity.

The heavy arrows shot by Huang Zhong with similar power to the solid bullets had to be cared about for Lu Bu, but the solid bullets fired by the artillery, Lu Bu could really catch them with his face......

However, for Lu Bu's "experience", only Sun Ce, Zhao Yun, and Huang Zhong nodded slightly, and the others completely ignored it-Divine General? What does it have to do with us?

Which general can be invited to be evaluated, which one is not experienced in a hundred battles?

Even Sun Ce has battlefield intuition that is comparable to that of any famous general......

Although they were in shock, the questions asked by everyone were also very professional, from the cost of artillery or the equipment rate, durability, mobility, manufacturing cycle, to safety, the difficulty of artillery training, one by one to the point of the questions were asked.

And Yu Ji, who was in charge of artillery, was also on the whiteboard at this time, using information and schematic diagrams, and began to answer everyone's questions.

As long as it is not operated in violation of regulations and does not exceed the time limit of service, the explosion rate of artillery is less than 1% - one percent here is not the probability of shell explosion, but the barrel explosion, that is, the proportion of artillery reaching the limit of use and successfully decommissioning, more than 99%!

Of course, if you operate in violation of the law, do not have a qualified cleaning of the gun chamber after firing, or overfill the gunpowder, or have poor daily maintenance, the probability of exploding the chamber will naturally soar.

According to the recommendation of the Ministry of Industry, the new gun can fire 5,000 solid shells from the time it is put into service......

Shotguns are fired once and are punished with 20 solid rounds, and grapeshottens are punished with 5 solid rounds.

The shotgun is already scattered in the chamber, so the wear and tear on the chamber is very serious, of course...... The artillery phalanx itself should not be so often close as to need to use shotgun attacks!