Chapter 107 Second Artillery and Dongfeng Type 1

After three rounds of rocket launches, Ma Jun and others accompanied Liu Hou and the three queens to personally go to the three target areas to watch the results of the shelling.

The first target area, needless to say, the dozens of scarecrows inside had long been blown to pieces. The ground was pitted, there were signs of burning everywhere, and many of the scarecrow's remains were on fire.

The second target area was similar, the ground was pitted and potred, and the wooden plank target was all broken into small pieces of wood chips, some wood chips were also ignited, and scattered flames scattered all over the target area.

The ground in the third target area is the same, but the stakes that are used as targets are mostly not shattered because they are protected by armor on the outside. However, the armor that was blocked outside looked extremely miserable, all of it was charred black, and many places had been deformed, some of the armor pieces were simply lifted away, and the wooden stakes exposed below were also charred black.

It is conceivable that if these armors were covered with human # bodies instead of wooden stakes, these people would probably not survive. Sure enough, several craftsmen came up to peel off the armor on some wooden stakes, and found that the wooden stakes inside were also terribly damaged.

In such a dense explosive environment, even if these armors can block most of the damage, so that the flesh # body in the armor will not be fatally damaged, however, the armor is not wrapped all over the body, and the neck, face, hands and feet and other places are exposed, and these places will definitely be bombarded into slag under the intensive bombardment of rockets, which can be seen from the fate of the planks and scarecrows in the first two target areas.

Liu Hou was very satisfied with the result, and constantly nodded his head to praise the R&D team, and encouraged them to develop better and more advanced weapons to contribute to the Great Han Dragon. He also plagiarized the name of the later missile#bomb, named this individual rocket launcher Dongfeng 1, and encouraged the research and development personnel to develop a larger caliber and higher accuracy Dongfeng 2.

Liu Hou immediately issued an edict to form a rocket artillery unit. The rocket artillery unit was named the Second Artillery Corps to distinguish it from the original artillery unit.

The establishment of the unit is as follows: three people are an artillery group, one artillery group is equipped with a rocket launcher, one is the main gunner, who is responsible for carrying the launcher on the march and is responsible for aiming, igniting and firing the cannon during the battle, and the other two are the deputy gunner and observer, responsible for transporting rockets, changing ammunition, measuring distances, observing targets, and so on.

Three rocket artillery guns are a squad, 9 guns are a platoon, 27 guns are a company, a rocket artillery battalion has 81 rocket artillery, that is, 243 gunners, and a regiment has 243 rocket artillery guns, 729 gunners.

Of course, these 729 people are just gunners, and a regiment needs to be equipped with other personnel, among which # will have a large number of logistics baggage personnel. After all, the biggest problem of the Second Artillery Corps is the problem of logistical pressure. Therefore, it is necessary to allocate more logistics and transportation personnel and livestock and vehicles for transportation.

The Hong army attacked all the way and took countless prisoners, many of whom were filled into the logistics baggage team, so now the Hong army has a huge baggage team, and some personnel can be drawn from it to fill the Second Artillery unit. As for the gunners, they could only be drawn from the existing artillery units.

The Second Artillery Corps had a huge demand for artillery, which suddenly made the artillery appear insufficient. In order to cope with the upcoming big battle, Liu Hou ordered to immediately start recruiting a large number of new artillerymen, and then intensify training, hoping to catch up with the expedition in a few months.

On the surface, the firepower of the 50-gun Dongfeng 1 type looks equivalent to a "Keqiu kill", but since each bazooka is loaded by three people, the reloading speed of this individual rocket launcher is much faster than that of the "Keqiu kill". In actual combat, the firepower they can exert is far stronger than that of "Keqiu Killing".

In addition to the convenience of transportation, these individual rocket artillery are much more flexible than the "Keqiu Kill" in actual combat, and the rocket artillery team can be split and combined at will, and can attack multiple directions at the same time, unlike the "Keqiu Kill", which can only aim in one direction.

Liu Hou immediately ordered to increase the production of these rocket launchers, preparing them to show their skills in the upcoming war.

The production of bazookas is actually quite simple, the difficulty lies in the rockets. Liu Hou deliberately approved the establishment of three assembly lines and used standardized methods to produce rockets with all his might, and he decided to use rocket artillery to kill Wei and Wu at that time.

As for the "Keqiu killing", he didn't plan to take it with the army to fight, that thing was too bulky and inconvenient to transport, but it was not useless.

Liu Hou decided to produce a few doors, and when the time came, a gate would be placed on the tower of each city gate to show off there. Fifty cannon barrels pointed diagonally at the sky, such a hideous war beast, I believe it must be very deterrent, and the effect of using it to deter Xiaoxiao is definitely good.

Liu Hou didn't expect that his decision made "Keqiu Killing" later become a symbol of Chengdu City, and became one of the new eight views of Chengdu, many tourists will go to the city gate to watch this strange weapon, although they can't get close to watch, but it is also good to be able to see the majestic figure from afar.

"Keqiu killing" appeared in various cities, but also played a role in calming people's hearts, every time the people passed by the city gate, saw these big killers, their hearts felt very stable, the war beast is a threat to the enemy, but it can bring a sense of security to their own people.

And those with bad intentions, spies of enemy forces, and die-hard loyalists, every time they see these terrifying weapons, they feel terrified, and at the same time there is a sense of despair rising from the soles of their feet.

Compared with the development of rocket artillery, the research and development of the new fire # gun is not so easy, Liu Hou went to the new fire # gun research room after watching the test launch of the rocket artillery, to understand the research process of the new fire # gun.

Before Xu Jing and Wu Yi seized power, new models of guns were constantly sent to Liu Houjun, and after Liu Hou retrieved the "Ministry of Industry", he resumed the research work of new guns and weapons for the first time.

Liu Hou's ultimate goal is to make an automatic rifle # gun or even a machine gun for later generations, and the short-term goal is to develop a gun that can stuff bullets from the back of the butt, that is, the so-called rear-loading gun.

The rear-loading gun has many advantages, it is more convenient than the front-loading gun to reload bullets, the firing process is greatly simplified, its firing rate is also four or five times higher than the front-loading gun, and it can also be reloaded while running or lying down and kneeling to shoot.

And now the Hong army commonly used the sui pistol or the front loading gun, that is, the bullet and gunpowder from the muzzle of the gun with a strip or other tools to stab people in the chamber, because the bullet to be loaded from the muzzle, the loading route is long, the speed is slow, when loading, the range of human movement is large, the barrel needs to be erected on the ground, the operation intensity is large, and the target is easy to be exposed.

This is one of the reasons why in the early days when the fire# gunners faced each other, they often used a gun-to-death style of fighting, in which the two sides stood in a neat queue and shot at each other.

The reason for this was not that those people did not understand that lying down could reduce the probability of being hit, but that the front-loading guns used at that time had to stand up and reload ammunition, and in order to speed up the fire, they simply stood all the time, so there was this way of fighting.

The rear loading gun only needs to operate the handle of the gun, so that the bolt slides back and forth, it can be loaded and unloaded, and can fire 6~7 rounds per minute, and can be reloaded and fired in a variety of postures in lying, kneeling, standing or marching.

The front-loading gun has too many advantages over the rear-loading gun, and now that the firearms manufacturing technology of Shu has been leaked, Liu Hou urgently needs to have a new firearm with greater advantages to replace the original Suifa gun, so as to ensure that he can be invincible in the future against Wei and Wu.

But it is not an easy thing to achieve reloading ammunition, first of all, it is necessary to use the fixed metal cartridge gun # cartridge, only the fixed gun # cartridge can be loaded from the tail of the gun, and secondly, there must be a reliable locking device on the rear loading gun to prevent the weapon from firing, the burning fire # powder gas runs out from the tail end of the barrel, if the gas escapes, there is no pressure and can not push the warhead forward.

There are still ways to solve these problems, with the superb skills of masters such as Ma Jun, Pu Yuan, and Huang Yueying, these things are not a problem, but the cost is relatively high. After Liu Hou stammered and described to them the concept of the future generations of copper-shelled bullets, they have successfully designed the structure of the bottom of the bullet shell #fire.

The biggest problem now is the generation of gunpowder, which can only be achieved by the progress of chemical industry, and these masters of mechanism and smelting and casting cannot help no matter how skilled they are.

Now the bottom # fire used by the Shu army is made of thunder # mercury to make gunpowder, the manufacture of thunder # mercury is very simple, and the raw materials can also be obtained at this time, Zuo Ci and Zhang Xingcai have already synthesized thunder # mercury under Liu Hou's prompt.

At present, there are only more than 200 rear-loading guns that use copper-shelled bullets, all of which are #revolver # guns for Liu Hou and the guards. The bullets of these revolver # guns use thunder # mercury as gunpowder, but thunder # mercury as gunpowder has a big disadvantage.

Thunder # Mercury is toxic and similar to mercury. Thunder # Mercury can be detonated when it is dried by slight friction, impact or heat, so it must be stored at a low temperature. In other words, the nature of thunder # mercury is too unstable and sensitive, so it is dangerous to use.

This also made Liu Hou and the guards always cautious and even trembling when using the revolver #手# gun. In peacetime, the ammunition is stored in the cellar with a relatively low temperature, and the cellar is dug relatively deep, which has the effect of explosion protection, and even if the ammunition explodes, it will not have much impact on the ground.

All ammunition is wrapped in a material that is very shock-resistant to prevent accidental detonation of thunder # mercury due to excessive vibration.

When it is time to go out on a mission, everyone temporarily takes out these precious ammunition, and they are handled with care when they are used to minimize collision and vibration, and everyone has developed the habit of pointing the muzzle of the gun to the ground when not fighting, so as not to fire and injure people when the muzzle of the gun is pointed at people.

In addition, Thunder # Mercury also has a disadvantage that cannot be ignored, that is, it has a certain corrosiveness to copper, and it is easy to damage the cartridge case. Moreover, mercury is used as a raw material to make thunder # mercury, which is also a very valuable mineral in this era, which makes the cost of thunder # mercury very high.

Due to the many unsatisfactory places of Lei # Mercury, Liu Hou has always been dissatisfied with Lei # Mercury and has been urging the research institute to do its best to develop better gunpowder. However, the development of chemistry is not something that can be accomplished at once, and it is difficult to form a perfect chemical system just by relying on Liu Hou's oral teaching and the research of those people in the Institute of Chemistry.

New guns and weapons have not been able to make major breakthroughs, and in the final analysis, the research and development of new gunpowder is lagging behind. After visiting the firearms research room, Liu Hou turned into the chemical laboratory by the way. Zuo Ci has also returned to the "Ministry of Industry" at this time, and is now doing real yàn in the real yàn room, it seems that his real yàn has reached a critical place, otherwise he would not have come out to greet his master and emperor.