Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Man in the Suit

The first is that its accuracy is too poor, but in fact, the main research goal of the scientific research group is to figure out how the rocket can not deviate from the direction during the flight.

Unfortunately, this issue is indeed very complicated, involving aerodynamic issues, the counterweight of the rocket, and the direction and position of the explosive gas ejected by the rocket.

These problems are difficult to solve, the scientific research team has not been able to produce results for a long time, and in the end Liu Hou can't see it, he relied on his memory, drew a map of the outline of the rocket in later generations and handed it to the research team. The research team added four tail fins to the tail of the rocket, which greatly improved the stability of the rocket during flight and improved the accuracy to an acceptable range.

Even so, the accuracy of the current "Keqiu kill" is still much inferior to that of artillery. In the end, it is just a firework, and without a guidance system, it can only hit a general range.

Within the range of one mile, the error is within a dozen or even dozens of steps, and if it exceeds one mile, the error is likely to exceed 100 steps. It is no problem to deal with the enemy's large forces, and in this era of war, where there are more than tens of thousands of people at every turn, it is possible for the army to line up for several miles or even dozens of miles, and an error of several tens of meters is really nothing.

Its second disadvantage is that it is bulky, which is mainly caused by Liu Hou's blind greed, a cannon has to get fifty barrels, one barrel is very light, and fifty is terrifyingly heavy.

The third disadvantage is that it is too wasteful of ammunition, firing fifty rounds at a time, and these ammunition is not so easy to make, as I just said, in order to ensure accuracy, the manufacturing accuracy is very high, in the final analysis, it is a matter of money, these things are very expensive.

The second problem caused by the waste of ammunition is that the pressure of the baggage is very high, there is no mobile power at this time, and the transportation depends entirely on manpower and animal power, and if there is a big battle, there are more rockets to be transported, and it is really not easy to solve the transportation problem.

You must know that in the great wars of later generations, the use of thousands or even tens of thousands of rockets was common. Such a usage, both in terms of use cost and transportation cost, is not something that the current Shu State can afford. Fortunately, now it is only necessary to use this mass killing weapon as a deterrent, and it does not matter if there are fewer of them.

At that time, the "Keqiu Kill" and 10 bronze artillery pieces had been pushed 500 meters outside the barracks, and at this distance, the threat of the opponent's fire # guns was almost zero, but the artillery and rocket artillery were within range. Although there is no problem with rocket artillery firing a mile or two, however, within a range of five hundred meters, the accuracy can be greatly improved.

The artillery also uses flowering shells, because the shells fly so far away, the kinetic energy is also consumed, if you use solid shells, the lethality will be weaker, but the lethality of flowering shells depends on the fragments and shock waves generated by the explosion of the shells themselves, and the distance has nothing to do with the distance.

At this historic moment of testing new weapons, Liu Hou naturally wanted to follow him, so Liu Hou ordered to drive into the city. At this time, most of the entire city was under the control of the Hong army, and the danger was already very small. Even so, Liu Hou still did not forget to do a good job of guarding, after all, he is now an emperor, and his golden body cannot be lightly risked.

There were light and dark sentinels moving around the emperor's carriage for several miles, and the soldiers in the open drove all the people and idlers away, and the sentry in the dark monitored whether there were any assassins who had infiltrated in the shadows. On the inner layer was the guard battalion led by Zhao Tong, who crowded around the emperor's chariot and surrounded the emperor's carriage.

The carriage in which the emperor rode was not lavishly decorated, on the contrary, it looked like a large black iron box, which in fact was indeed an iron box.

The four walls of this carriage, including the roof and the ground, are all made of thick iron plates, not to mention the use of fire # guns, even if they are bombarded with the most advanced thunderbolts, mines and even shipborne cannons of the Hong Army, don't want to hurt the people in the carriage.

The exterior of the carriage is unpretentious, but the interior of the carriage is comfortable and soft. Why put so much emphasis on softness? It turned out that the four walls of the carriage, the roof, and the ground were all equipped with soft linings, which was not Liu Hou's special preference, but completely to prevent the people inside from being injured.

In the event of a rollover accident, for example, if it is bombarded by a cannon of the level of the ship's gun, although the wall of the carriage will not be blown up, the huge momentum of the shell may overturn the carriage, and at this time, the soft wall will reduce the damage suffered by the passengers.

It looks like a tightly wrapped carriage, but it doesn't feel stuffy when you sit inside. Because the carriage is well ventilated. There are sieve-like ventilation windows on the roof and four walls, and these tiny ventilation holes are exposed when the iron plate that blocks the windows is pulled open.

These ventilation windows are drilled into the thick iron plate with countless small holes slightly smaller than the # bullet, and the bullet cannot penetrate through it. As long as he is attacked, the people inside can dodge the first wave of blows, and then quickly pull the iron plate up, completely sealing the carriage, then the follow-up blows will not help him.

Another important component of the ventilation system is artificial ventilation, which is a blower. The blower is actually something unusual, because this is not an electric blower, it is a human blower.

Originally, Liu Hou also wanted to imitate the fans of later generations, get three fan blades, and then get a device to drive the fan blades to rotate, who knew that those craftsmen heard that it was to blow the wind into the carriage, so they directly dismantled two airbags used by blacksmiths to make iron and installed them on the front of the car.

The air bag used for striking iron is used to drum air into the furnace to make the furnace fire burn more vigorously. Now it's just a matter of installing the air outlet on the car, and it's not technically difficult.

In fact, now the iron industry is also gradually phasing out this kind of airbag and switching to a bellows with a larger air outlet. However, the carriage does not require much airflow, and two airbags are sufficient.

This kind of airbag is still voice-controlled, the switch only needs to say a word, and the air volume adjustment is also a matter of one sentence, which is very convenient.

Correspondingly, the disadvantage is that it is a waste of manpower, and each airbag needs a big man to be responsible for inflating, and it must be rotated every once in a while to avoid them being too tired.

Therefore, there are many people standing or sitting on Liu Hou's car, and the carriage is only in the middle of the entire carriage, and there is a platform with only a roof in the front and rear of the carriage, and various auxiliary personnel are on these two platforms.

On the platform in front of the carriage, there are two royals in the front, which are the only two people who are sitting, their duty is to drive the carriage, which is equivalent to the captain and co-captain, they drive a total of eight horses, for an emperor Eight horses is not much, Liu Hou does not care about the pomp and circumstance, just because these two cars are too heavy, and they have to use more horses to pull it.

Behind them were two halberd-wielding samurai, then two samurai with towers and shields, and finally two sharpshooters with muskets and crossbows.

The deployment of troops on the platform at the back of the carriage is the same as the previous one, except that there are two less emperors. Under such strict protection, if there is still an assassin who can break through the defense line and enter the carriage, he will find that the emperor inside is still wearing full-body armor, which is difficult to break with a knife and axe, even if it is with fire # guns.

Why is this armor so powerful? Because this set of armor is different from the ordinary Chinese-style fish scale armor, but the kind of plate armor used by Western knights.

This kind of plate armor is stamped by a hydraulic press, each part is a whole steel plate, there is no gap in between, for example, the chest is protected by a whole semi-curved breastplate, and the back is a back armor, and the two pieces together can protect the entire upper body.

The protective ability of this armor is naturally more than a little stronger than ordinary armor, but the problem is that it is a bit bulky, and non-strong people cannot wear it to the battlefield.

However, Liu Hou didn't need to wear it to the battlefield, he just wore it and sat in the carriage, and even if he came out, he was just standing there giving orders, at most he was just walking around a few times, and he could withstand it.

He usually practices martial arts, and his body is not bad, he can still withstand the weight of this armor, and when he goes out on patrol, he wears it as exercise.

Liu Hou sometimes feels like the person in a suit that Chekov wrote, but there is no way, it is still an extraordinary period, the four countries are fighting, the domestic and foreign situations are very complicated, and there are more people who want his life, and there may be a slight relaxation of security measures, and assassins will rush over to kill him.

It doesn't matter if he dies, the key is that he knows that after he dies, the Shu Han regime is estimated to be unable to be saved, and he knows the final outcome of the Three Kingdoms era.

Shu Han does not exist zài, so the fate of these people who follow him will definitely not be much better. There is another reason, Liu Hou once read some articles commenting that the root cause of the later Wuhu chaos in China was the warlord melee in the Three Kingdoms era, and the Han people died too much, and the number of Han people left was too small, so that there was not enough strength to resist the invasion of the nomads.

Liu Hou didn't know if this statement was right, but if there was really such a reason, he would definitely try his best to prevent this from happening. If that is the case, the phrase that he is tied to tens of millions of people at dawn is not a cliché used by others to pat himself on the back, but a very real and realistic description of the future of this country and this nation.

Liu Hou got out of the car outside the barracks, several shield bearers with tower shields surrounded him, and the artillery battalion commander came over to report that the artillery and the "Keqiu Kill" rocket launcher were ready to be fired at any time, waiting for His Majesty's order.

Liu Hou was about to give the order to fire the rebellion in the # barracks that refused to surrender to pieces, when he suddenly heard a herald running over to report to him. Liu Hou thought to himself, anyway, it's still early, so let's not be busy firing the cannon first, let's hear what the situation is, so he asked the pro-soldier to let the herald come over.

The herald trotted to Liu Hou, knelt down on one knee, held an account book high with both hands, and said: "Report, the Third Regiment of the Fourth Division was ordered to count the weapons depot, and the inventory has now been completed. ”

The Fourth Division is Zhu Bao's troops, which is actually a reserve division, and its main task in peacetime is to protect the baggage troops and protect the logistics supply routes. Chengdu City is too big, the first, second, and third divisions of the combat units have been put into it, and the strength is still insufficient, so Liu Hou handed over the inventory of various government treasury in Chengdu and some work to maintain law and order in the city.