540 Improved artillery
The two sons have a great ability to do things, and the two daughters are no longer talking.
However, unlike them who do damage, the two daughters like to play with mud and roll on the ground, and they have no idea what dirty is.
This made Ning Yuelu and Qiao Qingya, who helped them take a bath, almost out of menopause.
So much so that later, some fragile items such as vases at home were either taken away, or put out of their reach, or hidden.
It's not that Chen Mo feels sorry for money...
Well, it's a bit distressing.
That's not the main thing, though.
The main thing is that hygiene is difficult to do and difficult to clean up.
Especially a vase shattered on the ground, porcelain tiles everywhere, and some small fragments, which are difficult to clean.
And Chen Mo and the girls all like to play exciting.
Walking barefoot is even more commonplace.
If you are not careful, you are likely to step on a broken piece of porcelain and get cut.
After all, if you haven't entered the grandmaster, it's all mortal flesh and blood.
To be honest, after taking it for a few days in a row, Chen Mo didn't want to take the child anymore, it was too torturous.
To say another bad thing, raising children is the same as raising Erha, only when you watch others take others to raise you, you can feel happy.
Fortunately, Chen Mo doesn't have much, but there are many women.
Even if Chen Mo doesn't want to take the child, he doesn't have to worry about no one to take him.
Towards the end of the year, Chen Mo went to the Shenji Camp and the Gunpowder Factory more frequently.
Under his supervision and urging again and again.
Finally, when Chen Mo was having lunch with the women in the backyard, Ye Yiren came over to report: "Husband, didn't you leave a few scrolls of drawings in the Shenji Camp before, two months ago, the skilled craftsmen of the Shenji Camp have been pondering, and today, those things have finally been figured out by them, so please go over and take a look at it to see if it can be used."
When Chen Mo heard this, his eyes were slightly happy, the few volumes of drawings he left in the Shenji Battalion before were all artillery drawings drawn by him.
Although the state of Chu itself had artillery, Chen Mo made drawings for improving the existing artillery based on the experience of his previous life.
And he also proposed to add sugar to the gunpowder in the shells.
So that the power of the explosion will be greater.
Unexpectedly, in just two months, the Shenji Battalion was developed.
Sure enough, it is still useful to force it.
"Let's go, let's take a look."
Chen Mo did not hesitate, took Ye Yiren and Chu Lechan also followed, went out of the palace together, and took a carriage to the Shenji camp outside the city.
The headquarters of the Shenji Battalion is in the city, and the Shenji Battalion outside the city, Chen Mo ordered someone to build it alone, and the things studied inside are classified and few people know about it.
The Shenji Battalion has been established for hundreds of years, and it has its own arsenal, workers, materials, and technology, plus Chen Mo's artillery is only an improvement on the original technology, so the newly built Shenji Battalion, the things and workers used are all from the original Shenji Battalion.
Usually, the main things made by the Shenji Battalion are strong crossbows, car crossbows, and catapults.
There are fewer firecrackers.
Because the firing distance of the gun is short, it is troublesome to fill ammunition, and the manufacturing process is cumbersome and expensive.
So only a small part of the army is equipped.
Even some armies still dislike firearms, thinking that they are not as effective as bows and arrows and crossbow arrows.
Several people came to the Shenji Camp workshop outside the city, and the chief engineer came out to greet them, and took Chen Mo and a few people back and forth in the workshop.
Inside the workshop, hundreds of craftsmen rushed back and forth, equipment such as trucks and vehicles were piled up, smoke billowed from several blast furnaces, and the sound of striking iron almost overpowered the noise of human voices.
Although the technology of the Chu State is not as good as Chen Mo's previous life, it does not mean that the craftsmen of this world are much dumber than the craftsmen of his previous life, and in terms of true qi cultivation, metallurgical technology is not inferior to his previous life.
Of course, some high-tech ones are certainly incomparable.
Under the leadership of the chief engineer, several people came to the rear warehouse.
There are not many craftsmen in the storeroom, and there is a huge mud film outside, which is being dried
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"Lord, two princesses, please inside." General Road.
Chu Lechan walked in first, glanced around inside, and saw the artillery piled up in the corner:
"Husband, isn't this the same as the previous cannon?"
"Whether it has changed or not, it depends on its power."
Chen Mo walked over, the appearance of the cannon did not change much from before, that is, the barrel was longer, the whole was larger, and the others were no different.
Chu Lechan walked to the front of the cannon, touched the body of the cannon, and then knocked: "The materials are solid."
Chen Mo ignored her, but lay on the muzzle, looked at the rifling drawn inside, and nodded slightly: "Have you tried it, how powerful is it?"
The chief engineer pointed to the potholed hillside outside the storehouse, and said, "I tried, but the sound was quite loud, and a big pit was blown up directly, and it was definitely a hole in the city gate to break through."
Chen Mo raised his eyebrows: "How many doors have been built now?"
"At present, there are three doors in the storeroom." General Road.
Chen Mo didn't express his opinion for the time being, and planned to take a few shots and see before he spoke.
Under Chen Mo's orders, several craftsmen pushed all three cannons out of the warehouse and faced the hillside in the distance.
Under the command of the chief engineer, the craftsman fixed the cannon with an iron rod on the gun carriage nailed into the ground, and the cannon had sights on it, and after a certain period of experiments, he had some experience in distance, elevation angle, charge, etc.
The craftsman brought the cannonballs, and Chen Mo loaded them himself.
Then the chief engineer brought torches.
Chu Lechan had been following behind, and when she saw the appearance of the artillery battle, she suddenly came to her senses and said, "Husband, I'll do something, I'll do something."
Chen Mo gave it to her.
"It's a bit loud, please cover your ears with the princess and princess." The chief engineer reminded on the side.
"It doesn't matter." Chen Mo is a strong grandmaster, and this voice does not deaf him.
Chu Lechan happily took the torch and lit the fuse at the end of the cannon.
"Zizi..."
As the line of fire burned to the end, a tongue of fire erupted from the barrel.
Bang!
After a few breaths, the shell landed on the hillside in the distance and exploded violently, sending dirt flying. net
As the earth fell into the sky, a large pit with hot ash smoke appeared in front of several people.
Chu Lechan opened her mouth, and then applauded: "It's fun, it's fun."
Subsequently, Chen Mo and Ye Yiren tried the other two artillery pieces in turn.
The power after the explosion, Chen Mo was very satisfied.
After reloading a cannon again, Chen Mo flew to the hillside in the distance and said to Ye Yiren, "Yiren, fire at me!"
Chen Mo planned to personally test the specific power of the artillery.
Several of the Ye people were stunned.
Even though Ye Yi people understood that artillery could not hurt the strong grandmaster, they still hesitated when they fired at their husband.
"Come on, shoot at me, it'll be fine." Chen Mo urged.
"I'll come." Chu Lechan snatched the torch from Ye Yiren's hand.