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The plan was set, and the question about Weiyuan Qu's family was dealt with first, and then there was nothing to say all the way, and Buchen and his partners quickly rushed to the arsenal, which was also outside the city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because the arms trade was so prosperous, in order to expand its production capacity, the arsenal had been separated from the steel plant and became an independent organization. The original steel plant has also been expanded to a certain extent, and the current scale is no smaller than that of the Jingshi, and even in terms of output!

They did not go to the hot processing workshop, but followed the road in the factory area directly to the shooting range located in the depths of the arsenal.

At this time, I heard that Buchen was going to come to inspect, and many people had gathered in the shooting range, such as Lu Tongjiang, the director of the arsenal, and the former director of the iron and steel factory, and now Li Blacksmith, the minister of industry who is not subordinate, were all impressively listed.

Buchen simply exchanged pleasantries with them, and then went straight to the two weapons that needed to be tested this time.

At this time, after more than a year of in-depth research and experiments on the black materials provided by Buchen, the arsenal has basically overcome the technical difficulties in manufacturing steel rifled guns, and recently produced a sample cannon, so there is no suspense that one of the two weapons to be tested this time is a rifled gun.

As for the other one, it can actually be called the original version of the missile, but this kind of "missile" has no guidance ability, and the warhead charge is less than that of the missiles of the previous life, so it is actually more appropriate to call it a rocket......

This kind of rocket is actually a complete imitation of the "Congreve rocket" during the Napoleonic Wars in the previous life, and it is the ancestor of modern rockets.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon tried to land on the British mainland, and because the British army was insufficient and needed to destroy the enemy at sea, he was in urgent need of weapons that could effectively attack the French landing ships. On the basis of the rocket data brought back from India by British soldiers, Congreve researched and improved the speed and range of the rocket.

Graduated from Cambridge University in 1793 with a degree in liberal arts, Congreef, an Englishman, was interested in ordnance machinery due to his father's management of the Royal Arsenal.

In 1805, Congreve used a new type of gunpowder (harmony) to create a practical rocket, weighing 14.5 kilograms, with a length of 1.06 meters, a diameter of 0.1 meters, and a 4.6-meter-long balance rod with a range of up to 1,800 meters.

Congreve rockets have warheads ranging from 5 to 32 pounds, but the field warheads adopted by the British Army are basically 6 pounds and 9 pounds. Warhead types include the aforementioned solid and grenade shells, in addition to rockets can also carry incendiary ~ incendiary bombs, signal flares and flare flares. The advantage is that it does not need to be fired with a gun, the rate of fire is much faster than that of an artillery, and the manufacturing process is not more complicated than that of a shell. The disadvantage is that the accuracy is too poor.

This kind of rocket can be equipped with both the navy and the army, and is generally equipped with highly mobile troops, because the rocket has the characteristics of fast rate of fire, long range, and flexibility compared to the artillery of the early 19th century, and it is this characteristic that makes the Congreve rocket stand out before the emergence of new artillery, and Congreve proudly calls it the soul of artillery without a cannon body.

In 1806, in Brun, the British Army used the Congreve Navy rocket for the first time. As a result, all the rockets that were originally aimed at the ships in the harbor hit the dock. Later, under the command of Congreve himself, the Royal Navy fired about 25,000 rockets at Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, and the indiscriminate fire nearly flattened the city.

At the Battle of Lepzig in 1812, the British rocket artillery unit of the Swedish army "scattered like a pile of ants" with a single heavy fire. The Duke of Wellington, who also contributed greatly to the Indian invasion, was too accurate with Congreve rockets at that time, and Wellington refused to use rockets for a time. However, rockets can have a certain intimidating effect on enemy recruits and horses, so the Battle of Waterloo has rockets in battle.

Regarding the effect of the rockets in the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington once commented: Compared with Napoleon's artillery fire, our rockets are more threatening to me!

To sum up, the "Congreve rocket" trial-produced by the Buchen Arsenal is actually a weapon that is not very reliable, but in fact, the combat significance is not particularly great, and it is almost the same as a technical reserve. However, it is not certain whether this otherworldly version of the "Congreve rocket" will be equipped with troops, it all depends on the performance of another weapon, that is, a steel rifled gun!

If the steel rifled cannon is still not very perfect and cannot be put into actual combat, then the ministers who are in urgent need of various new weapons to strengthen their strength can only pinch their noses and install Congreve rockets.

"Lord, let's test that weapon first?" Seeing Buchen staring at the two new weapons in a daze, Lu Coppersmith, the director of the arsenal, hurriedly came over and asked for instructions.

"Uh......" Buchen thought about it, and decided to try the rocket first, after all, if the rifled gun is very powerful, the rocket will not be necessary to test fire at all, right? Even if it's just for freshness, you have to see what this rocket looks like!

"Let's rocket first!" Bu Chen commanded.

"Understood." Coppersmith Lu, oh no, it's time to change his name to Director Lu, Director Lu agreed, and then made a gesture of resignation, signaling Buchen to go to the west of the arsenal.

When Buchen looked to the west, he saw that it was a low hut made entirely of cement concrete, which had almost no windows, and only a few observation holes less than a foot square in the direction of the shooting range.

I said...... As for such an exaggeration? Buchen asked with a dry smile - the hut looked like a bunker.

Unexpectedly, Director Lu nodded with a serious face: "Lord, I don't know where this thing will fly after it is released, but it is powerful and scary, let's be cautious!" ”

Hearing that this thing would fly around, Fei Fei on the side shrank her neck in fright, tugged at Buchen's sleeve and said, "Henry, if it doesn't work, don't try it!" It's dangerous, let's just try that rifled gun?! ”

Buchen rolled his eyes when he heard this, turned back to her and said, "Feifei, this rocket was built with money, wouldn't it be too wasteful not to test it?" It's not easy to make money, let's save a little! ”

Fei Fei scolded when she heard the words, jokingly, how much does it cost to build a broken rocket? As for this, even take your life?!

But without waiting for her to say anything more, he took the lead and walked towards the bunker hut.

Xue was not as timid as Fei Fei, and when he saw that Buchen insisted on test-firing the rocket, he looked very interested, and when he saw that Buchen was walking towards the hut first, he hurriedly followed.

"Henry, you ...... A sucker! Fei Fei watched the backs of the dog man and woman from behind and bit her teeth for a long time, but now that the rocket test launch was completed, she didn't have the courage to stay outside, and in desperation, she had to walk into the bunker hut with a bitter face.

At this time, You Chengzong had already followed the footsteps of Buchen and Xue into the hut, he looked at the wall of the hut that was almost one meter thick, and then looked at the open steel gate, his heart was a little calmer, and said to Buchen in a somewhat self-deprecating tone: "The more you tinker with these gunpowder weapons, the more I feel useless. ”

"I feel the same way!" Snow echoed.

"Blame me?" Buchen shrugged helplessly.

"Don't blame you?! We gods are the biggest victims! Fei Fei walked into the hut and grunted angrily.

In this regard, Buchen can only smile bitterly, why is the elf clan so dominant in the world? Isn't it because of the strong superhuman physique that Xiaoxi gave them? Right now, he's concocted a gunpowder weapon, and as long as any human person has been trained for a short time, he can pull the trigger and knock down the awesome elves, so how can the elves live?!

Also very seriously affected are the masters of the East and West Continents and the Blood Clan, the Orcs, or something. It can be said that the appearance of gunpowder completely removed them from the altar of the past!

"Okay, okay, stop complaining! Am I the same? If you get shot, you're done! ”

At this time, the other people watching the test had already entered the other bunker houses, and when they saw that the test was about to start, they hurriedly reassured their companions.

"The test is almost underway! Let's take a look at the performance of the rocket first! ”