The celebration was recommended, and there is a double shift today, and a shift in the evening

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When the Aztec Imperial Mission of Kuohtemok appeared on the outskirts of Hopeport. Wang Qiu and Wen Desi, the two main travelers, were on the wide beach of Hope Harbor, watching the target training of the new army of the Hongxiu Tizgan Kingdom.

Well, to be exact, a rocket test launch of an RPG unit of the Women's Army.

-- The 600,000 "Drill Monkey" rockets and fireworks and tens of thousands of sets of fireworks ordered from the Liuyang Flower Cannon Factory in Hunan Province have finally arrived.

Originally, according to the production speed of the firecracker factory, it would take at least ten days to a month or two to complete a large order of hundreds of thousands of pieces like this. But perhaps God is blessing Wang Qiu, because of an explosion accident that killed many people not long ago, just like the Shanxi fake wine case that killed Fenjiu back then, it stinked the reputation of Liuyang firecrackers, causing many customers to cancel orders to the firecracker factory, and a lot of inventory was backlogged for a while and could not be sold, which made the boss so anxious. Now that such a generous patron suddenly appeared, he was naturally overjoyed and responded.

After Wang Qiu heard that there was so much "backlog of munitions" there, he originally only planned to order 200,000 "Drill Sky Monkeys", and immediately replaced Ma Tong, who was ill, and Professor Yang, who was far away in Beijing, as the main decision, increasing the number of orders by three times, and sweeping away the stocks of several fireworks factories.

Then, in one breath, he placed an additional order of 2 million "Drill Sky Monkeys" and 40,000 sets of fireworks bombs to the relevant fireworks manufacturers, and demanded that the other side deliver them within half a month as much as possible, so as to prepare for the consumption of large-scale operations in the future...... If you want to come to Liuyang, you must have to work overtime for a while.

On the other hand, the first batch of 600,000 "Drill Monkey" rocket fireworks were all transported in just five days.

As for the possible quality and safety problems of these firecrackers, Wang Qiu did not think much about it at all -- even if there are hidden quality hazards in the firecrackers produced by the industrialized assembly line in the 21st century, they are at least much safer than the guns and cannons that they have fumbled to build by themselves.

For them who have a space-time gate, it is really better to play with rockets and fireworks than to play with muskets and artillery - all the troubles of raw materials, processing, assembly, commissioning, personnel training, gun maintenance, etc., especially the problem of how to draw rifling in the barrel, can all be solved!

There is also the issue of RPG launch tubes, even less so.

Anyway, this thing is to put a wooden grip on the bottom of a water pipe with an iron hoop, and then use red paint to draw a front end as a crosshair, just find a small hardware processing factory to do it, and guarantee that it will be shipped within three days.

Because of its simple structure, no one associated it with a weapon at all. When Wang Qiu ordered these 10,000 launch tubes, he only said that it was a prop for the school to perform large-scale group exercises, and the people in the small hardware processing factory believed it ignorantly.

When this "civilian version of RPG" is actually launched, it is usually a team of two, one person is responsible for carrying the "barrel" to aim at the target, and the other person stuffs the "drill monkey" from behind the tube, and draws a match to light it, and Zuihou holds the barrel with his hand to fix the direction to prevent it from deviating when firing.

Obviously, in order to prevent burns, the person who carried the barrel had to put a woolen scarf around his neck and a shoulder guard on his shoulder. The loader standing in the back should also be equipped with thick gloves to prevent scalding...... However, the source of these labor protection equipment is even less worrying. Anyway, textiles are not worth much in the future, otherwise how could our great motherland export hundreds of millions of clothes and pants in order to exchange for a Boeing 747? In short, Wang Qiu just went to the city's wholesale market for a turn, and then someone drove a truck and transported all the above things. …,

Therefore, the 7,000 women's army, which is regarded as the meat of Mr. Wen's heart, can currently issue an average of ten pairs of gloves, five scarves, four pairs of socks, two pairs of plastic slippers, a pair of liberation shoes and a pair of iron-headed labor protection shoes, as well as some water bottles, lunch boxes, soap, laundry detergent and other daily necessities

According to Wang Qiu and Wen Desi's estimates, if you want to produce the above-mentioned equipment in Hope Port on your own, even if you mobilize all the people in the city, even if you don't consider the bottleneck of jishu, you won't be able to complete it in a few years -- the production capacity of modern shijie, especially in China, which provides half of the world's finished products, is simply not something that the ancients could compete!

Mmmm, it's nice to have a space-time gate that connects two shijies!

Of course, the premise is that there must be Wang Qiu, a super porter with unlimited capacity.

So, Wang Qiu and Wen Desi sat side by side next to the shooting range on the beach, watching the heroic female soldiers, wearing old grass-green military uniforms, lined up in a horizontal line amid the sound of whistles, and cast the "Drill Monkey" at a projectile angle -- choking gunsmoke, orange firelight, piercing screams, and roaring explosions...... Well, after overcoming their fear of firearms through various educational means, once they practice decently, they really have the style of "lining up to shoot" of musketeers in this era!

Although, if they are strictly classified as a type of troops, it seems that they should be regarded as a strategic rocket force......

The only thing that is a bit of an eye-catching thing is that these women's scouts are not wearing camouflage steel helmets on their heads, but orange and yellow hard hats.

-- Although military steel helmets are not strictly controlled products in China, it is really not easy to get thousands of military steel helmets at once; Motorcycle helmets are good for protection, but in the hot and humid rainforest, they can be bulky and uncomfortable to wear, and they can be a bit expensive. Zuihou, Wang Qiu had to go to the wholesale market to buy a truckload of hard hats, which was not only money-saving, lightweight, but also could arrive quickly.

In this way, the final image of Mr. Wen's 7,000 women's army is a big waist and a round waist, a face full of meat (most of the women who can fight are like this), a yellow hard hat, an old-fashioned green military uniform that can be scummed, and rubber liberation shoes that are also slag, and then tied with an armed belt of artificial leather, a water pipe (launch tube) and an aluminum alloy lunch box, a simple and extremely simple turtle temperament suddenly emerged, which made people think that they had entered the labor market at first glance.

As for the other 2,000 male samurai, they also showed a military appearance that made people want to complain - beach pants, small tank tops, plastic slippers, colorful tattoos, strange hairstyles, colorful feathers inserted on the top of their heads, steel pipes, axes, nail sticks on their shoulders, and a standard watermelon knife in each person's hand...... No matter how you look at it, it looks like an old boy under Brother Haonan, or the kind of rookie Xiao Qisan who is the worst.

In short, the entire current army under the command of General Wen is these 7,000 female migrant workers and 2,000 old boys -- not that he does not want to continue to expand the army, but that the human resources of Hope Hong Kong are about to be squeezed to the limit: the total population of the country is only about 80,000, of which less than 8,000 are men...... That's why the traversers had to use the Women's Army as the main force, because the men of the Hongshutizgans were too scarce to afford to die.

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According to the results of the test launch, the sound and light effects of this "Drill Monkey" rocket fireworks are absolutely first-class, and the sound of the explosion after thousands of salvos is also called terrifying, but the biggest problem is that the lethality is not enough -- after all, this thing is based on gorgeous sound and light effects as the first requirement, not designed to fight wars. Even if it can penetrate into a person's chest and explode, it will generally only cause skin burns and scalds, and it is difficult to kill the target directly. …,

In order to enhance the lethality of the "Drill Sky Monkey", Wen Desi and Wang Qiu pondered many methods, and Wang Qiu even returned to modern times to discuss with weapon enthusiasts on the Internet. After some brainstorming, they finally finalized the following simple modification method: when the war was about to start, they would wrap several circles of lead wire around the warhead of the "Drill Sky Monkey", and then sharpen the lead wire with a file every other section until it was about to break.

In this way, when the "Drill Monkey" explodes, these lead wires can be blown into fine pieces of miniature lead bullets, which can penetrate deep into the flesh of the enemy to make up for the lack of direct lethality - in the Age of Discovery, if you are hit by lead bullets, it is basically a matter of losing most of your life. It's not that you will die on the spot, but because lead is highly toxic, and if it is directly embedded in the body by lead bullets and there is no time to take it out, then it is almost safe to die of lead poisoning.

(PS: Thanks to the "Deboro God" book friends for their creativity)

On the other hand, even if the bullet is only grazed and does not remain in the body, the poor sanitary conditions on the battlefield are likely to cause infection and inflammation of the wound - this is not a big problem nowadays, just a shot of antibiotics. But in those days, once the wound became infected and inflamed, there was basically nothing to do but ask a pastor to recite a few verses and pray for God's blessing.

Some people who are lucky and hard-fated will naturally be able to survive. As for the rest, all they had to do was wrap them in sackcloth and throw them into the pit, and then erect a cross and carve their names. If you can save more trouble at sea, tie a stone to your leg and throw it into the sea, and you can call it a day.

The second major defect of the fireworks of the "Drill Sky Monkey" rocket is the instability of the trajectory -- this is almost a common problem of all rocket weapons before the appearance of missiles, and it is also an important reason why the early rocket Zuihou was eliminated by artillery in the history of weapon development.

After conducting field tests, Wang Qiu was not without frustration to find that the flight trajectory of this "Drill Sky Monkey" can only be described as unpredictable. It seems a bit too much to say that it is doing Brownian motion (also called irregular motion), but it is absolutely not an exaggeration to say that the distance between the actual landing point and the target can be compared with the "Agni" missile of the Indians, which claims to be able to launch the International Space Station by mistake.

Fortunately, the Spanish muskets of this year were also tragic in terms of accuracy - because there was no rifling, the barrel was also knocked out by hand, and the propellant needed to be prepared and filled by the soldiers themselves. Most of the bullets are also made by soldiers who melt lead on the battlefield and make them themselves, and the shape is even more irregular due to the different skills of each person......

Therefore, the musket used by the Spanish expedition in this era may be more strange in terms of ballistics than the "Drill Monkey" of the Liuyang Flower Cannon Factory. If you try to calculate it accurately, you may be able to overheat Einstein's brain cells......

Someone once did some research and statistics, in the early 16th century, the arquebus was only 10 meters away on average, and the rifle could hit about 40 or 50 meters. As for the theoretical range of more than 100 meters, the bullet can indeed fly so far, but no one knows where it will fly......

Therefore, Westerners could only practice the method of lining up and placing guns, and make up for the lack of shooting accuracy by lining up to shoot -- the musketeers at that time did not aim when shooting, because gunpowder often leaked from the tail of the barrel, and if the eyes were too close, there was a danger of being blinded.

Therefore, Mr. Wen's women's army can naturally learn from the Western experience and line up to play RPG, uh, or the added version of "Drill Sky Monkey".