Chapter Seventy-Eight: Keqiu Kills

After Liu Hou heard Guo Youzhi's return, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Mr. Guo, you were calculated by Xu Jing. ”

Guo Youzhi was taken aback and asked, "Your Majesty, do you mean ......?"

"Hehe," Liu Hou chuckled, "Don't be too nervous, it's just a trivial matter." Xu Jing is inviting people to buy people's hearts. After hearing the report of the guards just now, the demoted officials rushed to persuade them to make meritorious contributions, in order to be exempted from their crimes and keep their official positions. But there are only a few opportunities to persuade him to surrender, and there are too many monks and few porridges, so he can't save many people.

Xu Jing took the opportunity to propose to let the hundred officials go together to persuade everyone to surrender, and give everyone the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, in an attempt to exonerate everyone at that time. This is his careful thinking, if they succeed in persuading the mother and son to surrender, then everyone will have merit, and I will have to reward the merit, and then everyone will be saved.

Originally, after everyone was forgiven, the person they should be most grateful to was me, and it was my forgiveness that saved them, and they would be loyal to me in the future. But now it is different, because this opportunity for meritorious service was fought for by Xu Jing for them, and in that way, the person they are most grateful to will become Xu Jing.

Xu Jing wanted to make all the officials owe him favors, and after he was demoted to a civilian in the future, these people would still remember him, be grateful to him, take care of him, and at least not embarrass him. He's planning for the future. ”

Guo Youzhi was anxious after hearing this, and said: "It turns out that this old thief still has such a mind, and even dares to deceive and use a certain family, which is really hateful, no, we can't let him succeed in his conspiracy." ”

Liu Hou shook his head and said, "Forget it, it's too late to say anything now, they should have already entered the palace." In fact, I didn't want to do anything to these officials, there was no excuse to forgive their sins, and now that Xu Jing is stirring up, I can find a reason to pardon them.

He can be regarded as doing a good deed for us, but he is a little unhappy to let this old thief share some credit and share the gratitude of these officials. ”

"yes, why did you cheapen this old thief for nothing. Hum! I must find a reason to rectify this old thief. Guo Youzhi gritted his teeth and said. In this matter, he is the most unhappy, because he is the pig's foot who has been deceived and used, which makes him feel like a wronged man, like a fool who has been played with and applauded.

"Let's talk about this later, let's deal with the current matter first. There are still two places that cannot be resolved peacefully, and it is time to think about these two places. Liu Hou said, and paced to the sand table, and Guo Youzhi also followed quickly.

Now the sand table is almost everywhere with red flags, only the barracks, the imperial city's Jiangqiao Gate and the palace city are still green flags. After Guo Youzhi followed, Liu Hou pointed to the sand table and said:

"Miyagi shouldn't be a problem, with Xu Jing and the ministers going to force the palace, there is no other choice for the mother and son. Jiangqiaomen, this Niu Dan, is just a tenacious guy, from another point of view, this is also a loyal person, let's think of a way and try to fight for it.

The rest is the barracks, this is Wu Yu's territory, after we killed Wu Yi, we actually closed the door to negotiations, not to mention that he also killed the officials we sent to persuade him to surrender, which is already a complete indication of attitude.

The two armies are fighting, and if we don't kill him, and since he killed the messenger we sent and broke the rules, then we can't tolerate him. Even if he wants to surrender now, we can't accept it, so there is only one way to storm this place. ”

"But the people in the barracks have now built fortifications with sandbags, and there are at least 1,500 fire# guns in them, and there are countless thunderbolts, and if we want to storm it, the losses of our army will be incalculable." Guo Youzhi frowned and said worriedly.

"I have made it clear just now that a strong attack is the only option at present, and now it is not a question of whether to fight or not, but a discussion of how to play in order to minimize our losses." Liu Hou said unhappily.

"Yes, Your Majesty, if you want to reduce your losses, you must use long-range weapons as much as possible." Seeing that Liu Hou was displeased, Guo Youzhi no longer dwelled on the issue of whether to attack or not, and began to turn the topic to specific matters.

"Okay, you mobilize all the long-range strike weapons for me, and I'm going to blow this class of turtle grandsons to pieces." Liu Hou said fiercely.

After following Liu Hou for a long time, Guo Youzhi was obviously accustomed to this little emperor's foul language, and now he didn't think much when he heard Liu Hou say vulgar words, he thought for a moment and said, "Our ships transporting heavy weapons are all behind, and it is expected that they will arrive at least tomorrow." So, if you want to use a ranged weapon, you'll have to wait another day.

There are not many long-range weapons that we can use now, and the cannon still only has 10 small-caliber copper cannons, and as for the mortar cannon, the range is too close, and it is estimated that it is useless. The hot air balloons were damaged last time, and they have not had time to repair them, and they are estimated to not be able to take them off.

However, the 'Keqiu Killing' that His Majesty had ordered to develop had recently made a breakthrough, and a prototype had been made, which could be used to test the effect. But also on the baggage boat behind, it will also have to wait until tomorrow. ”

Liu Hou was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "Okay, good, then wait until tomorrow, I must make these rebellious ministers and thieves who refuse to surrender look good." ”

At that time, the people in the research group asked Liu Hou to name this new weapon, and Liu Hou casually said "Katyusha", but those people heard it wrong, thinking that he was talking about "Keqiu killing".

Although everyone thinks this name is very strange, but if you think about it carefully, it seems to really mean something, spring is born and autumn kills, autumn is a very murderous season, and in ancient times, prisoners killed their heads until after autumn.

Now this weapon can be restrained even in autumn killing, which can be seen to be very powerful, so the name was set like this, after Liu Hou knew about it, he didn't think so, anyway, the name is a code name, and everyone should get used to it.

The fireworks used by the Hong Army to transmit messages before were the kind of things commonly known as "two kicks", "cupola cannons", and "sky-piercing monkeys" that were launched into the sky and then exploded, which were by-products of rocket artillery research.

The day passed in waiting, waiting for news from the palace, waiting for the arrival of long-range weapons. Of course, Liu Hou did not forget to send heavy troops to surround several places that refused to surrender to prevent them from making any trouble.

The next day, Liu Hou saw the prototype of "Keqiu Killing" that was sent day and night. This newly developed rocket launcher is really not a high-tech product, to put it bluntly, it is still a firework, but it is a little bigger, and the tail is sticky with some tail fins.

However, the launch canister is indeed a bit scary, there are a total of 50 canisters, arranged in five rows, ten in each row, so that fifty iron canisters are neatly arranged together, pointing obliquely to the sky, naturally it is very powerful, compared to a single cannon barrel artillery, this behemoth looks like a frightening feeling.

The fifty iron barrels were mounted on a base, which, like the base of the cannon, could be adjusted left and right, up and down. Six wheels are also installed under the base, and as long as the cow and horse are attached, they can pull this bulky thing and walk freely.

The "Keqiu Kill" loading is very simple, the artillerymen insert the tail of the rocket into the barrel with the tail of the rocket backward and forward, and there is an opening in the rear of the barrel, and the lead of the tail of the rocket is exposed from this opening. After all the barrels were inserted, the artillerymen then mixed together the leads of all the rockets and twisted them into a bundle.

Two artillerymen climbed to the sides of the barrel to load the shells with herringbone ladders, and two artillerymen under each herringbone ladder were responsible for passing rockets up. A total of six artillery men were responsible for loading, and the entire reloading time took more than two minutes to five minutes.

After loading the shells, there is naturally another artillery responsible for turning the handle, adjusting the angle, and then lighting the bundle of leads with torches, and the rockets in the barrel will be fired out "whizzing", but unfortunately the burning length of the bundled leads will be different, and the time difference between the firing time of each rocket is relatively large, but it can finally be launched within 30 seconds.

This rocket launcher has many advantages, first of all, it is very fast to load, because there is no need to fill the gunpowder in the barrel, there is no need to clear the chamber, just throw a rocket into the barrel and it's over. Although it took more than two minutes to five minutes to reload each time, it was 50 rockets. In fact, on average, each rocket only takes 5 to 10 seconds.

This also makes this firearm very powerful, and can give a covering blow within a certain area in a very short time. This dense strike is best suited against enemies in dense formations.

Cold-weapon units pay the most attention to formation, and well-trained troops, lined up in specific formations, can often bring into play the combat effectiveness of the same number of troops who are not lined up in formations several times greater. After the "Keqiu killing" comes out, I believe it will definitely be a nightmare for these troops who have lined up in dense formations.

The second advantage is that the barrel is made with low requirements and is lightweight. Because there is no need to explode gunpowder in the chamber, the chamber pressure is used to push the shell out, so the barrel can be made very thin and light without worrying about the explosion of the chamber.

The thrust of the rocket depends on the fire # of the rocket itself, the rocket is divided into two squares, the fire # of the tail is ignited first, the gas produced by the explosion is sprayed out from the hole in the tail, and the rocket flies forward under the impetus of the reaction force.

The fire# that is sealed in the warhead is the real bomb, which is controlled by a time-delayed lead to explode, and when the rocket flies to the target, it is almost time to explode.

It is precisely because when the rocket is launched, a large amount of scorching gas and flames will be spewed out from the tail, so the artillery responsible for ignition must be agile and run away quickly after a fire to avoid being burned by these gases and flames.

The "Keqiu Kill" also has an advantage that the artillery does not have, that is, the firing range is very long, and it can be easily done in two or three miles, and it is not impossible to go even further, but the accuracy cannot be guaranteed.

In fact, in order to achieve a longer range, Liu Hou also proposed the concept of a three-stage rocket, that is, to divide the gunpowder with jet propulsion into three grids, so that the gunpowder in these three grids burns in turn, and provides thrust in three times, so as to propel the rocket to a farther place.

The reason for this is that after the gunpowder is ignited, it will burn out in a very short time, that is, the gunpowder can only provide a short time of propulsion to the rocket, and cannot give it a continuous thrust, so that the distance of flight is very limited.

After separating the three compartments of gunpowder, the three compartments of gunpowder are controlled by the lead and burned in turn, so that the rocket can get two additional thrusts during the flight, making the flight distance longer. However, the test found that accelerating in the middle of the process would make the rocket's accuracy worse.

Because it is difficult to control the posture of the rocket when it accelerates in the middle of the flight, it is also difficult to control the direction of its flight. Therefore, this three-stage rocket is still in the actual stage, and there is no finished product that can be applied to actual combat.

Liu Hou also proposed another concept to the research and development team, that is, a bundled rocket, that is, several jet canisters are bundled at the tail of the main body of the rocket, which are also filled with gunpowder to supply propulsion. This can also greatly increase the propulsion of the rocket, so that the range of the rocket is greatly increased.

Unfortunately, the biggest problem with this is accuracy, because it is difficult to achieve the simultaneous combustion of several jet canisters, and the slightest difference will lead to the deflection angle of the rocket, which is a thousand miles away, and a little bit off when taking off, and a lot of difference when flying to the target. So, this is also a conceptual product, and it is still in the process of being developed.