Chapter Seventy-Seven: Testing of New Equipment
After sending away Zhou Jiale, Ye Tianlong went back to the real world, ready to see how the samples of the new weapons designed by Luo Chenguang were made.
To Ye Tianlong's delight, a few samples of these new weapons have basically been made, so Ye Tianlong brought all these samples to the world of riding and slashing, ready to test their actual use effect.
There are some firearms in this, and after they get this side of the riding and slashing world, they have to be assembled, so Ye Tianlong called Ye Da and James to help assemble these firearms.
The first to be assembled was a new type of grenade, the old one was too heavy, and now the new grenade is significantly smaller and lighter.
The reason why the old grenade was so large and heavy was that in order to ensure its lethality, a lot of iron and iron plates were added to its body.
This new type of grenade canceled this design and instead used pig iron to create its shell, which is very brittle, and the surface is scratched by some prefabricated fragments in advance, and after exploding, it will explode into dozens of sharp pieces of iron to kill the surrounding enemies. In fact, this design has been applied in reality for a long time and proved its practicality, so Ye Tianlong specially modified the production line in the acquisition of the factory, so that he could also mass-produce this new type of grenade with a pig iron shell.
Ye Tianlong weighed the new grenade in his hand, which had been reduced by at least one-third, and after observing it for a while, he pulled its lead and threw it out.
After a bang, all the wooden targets around it were blown down, and the power seemed no worse than that of the old grenade.
Ye Tianlong was very satisfied with this effect, so he began to test the next new piece of equipment.
This is the kind of small burst artillery with a caliber of only 60 millimeters, and it is also the field artillery that Luo Chenguang expects his side to be equipped on a large scale in the future, which can move quickly with the troops.
Even small guns must have weighed more than flintlock rifles, so in order to facilitate the transportation of these guns, the workers in the factory also produced some matching gun carriages according to the requirements.
Ye Tianlong observed the gun truck and found that except for the two tires, the rest of this thing was connected by steel pipes, which looked very simple. However, on the surface, there is a thin layer of steel plates that hide all the rudimentary internal structure, and on the outer steel plate armor, there are circular grooves, which can be inserted into sharp spears, so that after these gun carriages can stop, they can be connected end to end, and finally form a steel defense line full of spikes.
The gunner, on the other hand, could hide behind the steel plates and shoot outside through those shots.
In addition, their own long-term sought-after can also rely on these defensive lines composed of artillery carriages to better resist the enemy cavalry, which originally needed to form a phalanx of spears to barely resist the impact of the enemy's heavy cavalry, but with the assistance of the steel defense line composed of these artillery carriages, perhaps only a platoon of pikemen could repel the enemy's heavy cavalry.
Musketeers and bombardiers can also hide behind this steel line and fire and throw grenades, inflicting continuous casualties.
After Ye Tianlong's test, he found that these small-caliber burst guns were really fast, and if they were controlled by a skilled gunner, they would be able to fire these small-caliber guns five or six times in a minute. The only flaw may be that the range is not as good as that of the 100 mm heavy gun. The farthest effective killing distance when firing a solid cannonball is only about 500 meters, and the effective killing distance when firing a scattered projectile is only about 50 meters.
However, Ye Tianlong felt that this flaw was acceptable, after all, where could there be a perfect weapon in this world!
After personally testing this small-caliber artillery, Ye Tianlong picked up a so-called flashbang again. Before testing this thing, Ye Tianlong put on a pair of sunglasses for himself in advance.
After the explosion sounded, the flashbang immediately released a dazzling white light, and Ye Da and James and the others beside Ye Tianlong, who were not wearing sunglasses, immediately let out a burst of screams, their eyes were stinged by the dazzling white light, and tears continued to flow, and it took more than a minute before they finally eased up.
And this was enough for Ye Tianlong, more than a minute, enough for them to kill those enemies who were blinded dozens of times.
After that, Ye Tianlong picked up a rifled flintlock rifle specially designed by Luo Chenguang for those snipers in the army, these rifles not only have a barrel about 20 centimeters longer than ordinary rifles, but also the inside of the barrel is engraved with rifling. And for ease of loading, these rifled guns are designed to be rear-loading rifles, which makes this new rifle reload much faster than ordinary front-loading flintlock rifles.
After Ye Tianlong loaded a bullet into it, he fired a shot at a target a hundred meters away, and found that the accuracy of this new rifle was indeed much higher, and he directly scored a good score of eight rings with this shot.
And the original front-loading flintlock rifles, at such a long distance, can hit that target is good, to hit the result of the eight rings, it is almost impossible.
Therefore, Ye Tianlong felt that although this new rifle was much more complicated and troublesome to manufacture than the front-loading flintlock rifle, it also had production value, and after training more snipers in his own troops, after equipping these 'sniper rifles', it would be completely possible for these snipers to snipe the enemy's generals and officers in battle, causing a huge blow to the enemy's command system and morale.
After putting down the rifled rifle in his hand, Ye Tianlong grabbed the 'shotgun' with a thick barrel again, which is also a flintlock rifle, but the barrel caliber is very large, twenty-three centimeters, if it is in the real world, such a large caliber can definitely be regarded as a small cannon.
After Ye Tianlong finished loading, he held the small cannon and fired a shot, and suddenly a large piece of scattered steel balls was stimulated, making bullet marks one by one on a large number of humanoid targets not far in front of him.
After several test firings, Ye Tianlong found that this super-large caliber flintlock pistol, when firing a scattershot, the farthest effective killing distance is about 20 meters, and because the caliber and charge are very large, the recoil generated when it is fired is also very large, even Ye Tianlong, a master of Ming Jin, felt a little soreness in his wrist after firing a few shots, not to mention those ordinary soldiers, I am afraid that if I fire a shot, I will be shocked by the huge recoil and dislocate directly.
Therefore, Ye Tianlong believes that this new equipment is not suitable for mass production, and this is also the only new equipment that Ye Tianlong has tested so far that he is not satisfied with.
After leaving this new piece of equipment that he was not very satisfied with, Ye Tianlong came to a big guy, and then with the help of Ye Da and James and others, he put it on the specially matched launch frame.
This is a pointed rocket about two meters long and about 40 millimeters thick, or it can also be said to be an oversized skyrocket, but its shell has changed from cardboard to iron.
"Let's light the fire!"
With Ye Tianlong's order, Ye Da held a torch and stepped forward to light the fuse on its tail.
Then a few people quickly retreated to the rear, until they withdrew hundreds of meters away before stopping, after all, such a big Sky Monkey, even if it was filled with black powder, the power of the explosion was definitely not small, if this thing could not successfully rise into the air, but exploded on the spot, Ye Tianlong and they stayed in place Aren't they waiting for death!
Fortunately, the situation that Ye Tianlong was most worried about did not happen, when the lead burned out, the tail of the rocket sprayed a dazzling fire, and then pushed its projectile body to slowly fly into the air, and then its flight speed became faster and faster, and finally flew quickly to a height of hundreds of meters like a cannonball, flying all the way into the distance.
It's just that its flight trajectory is very unstable, twisting and twisting, but fortunately, it is equipped with a tail fin, so it finally turned directly without flying and flew back towards Ye Tianlong and a few of them.
However, the irregular flight trajectory made Ye Tianlong look confused, thinking that this thing seems to have to continue to be improved! Otherwise, it can only be used when the number of enemy troops is large enough, otherwise, with this kind of strike accuracy, I am afraid that nine out of ten shots will hit no one.
At this time, after crossing a distance of nearly three thousand meters, the rocket quickly fell to the ground, and then exploded violently. Because of its huge charge, its explosive power is not bad, Ye Tianlong feels that if this shot is accurate, it will at least be able to take away fifty or sixty enemy soldiers in one wave.
While Ye Tianlong was testing those new weapons, Luo Chenguang was leading those armed men to encircle and suppress a large wild boar, which was discovered by a peasant woman who came out to fetch water this morning.
Because of the deserted reasons here, many of the wild animals here can live to the limit of their lifespan, such as this wild boar that is occasionally found, it should be very old, its body length is already close to four meters, and its weight is definitely more than a thousand catties, and its body surface is covered with a layer of thick mud armor mixed with dried mud and resin, which makes it have extremely strong defensive power, and the two sharp fangs in its mouth that are more than half a meter long give it a powerful attack power.
In the face of this terrifying beast, I am afraid that even if the tiger sees it, there is a high probability that it will retreat.
Perhaps it is also the reason why no one dares to provoke for a long time, which makes this big wild boar extremely bold, even if he finds a large group of humans approaching it quickly, this guy has no intention of dodging, and is still digging there to gnaw on the rhizomes of unknown plants.
And Luo Chenguang was not careless in order to be able to successfully take down this giant beast, and even asked those people to pull a heavy cannon, he didn't believe it, this heavy artillery that even the second-order python dragon could barely break through the defense, would not be able to kill such a wild boar.
However, he didn't want to bombard it with heavy artillery unless he had to, after all, it would inevitably blow the prey to pieces, and the difficulty of collecting its essence blood and flesh would be greatly increased, and even most of it would be wasted in the process.
Under Luo Chenguang's order, the fifty armed men lined up in an extremely dense phalanx with a team of ten, and the soldiers in the front row flattened their flintlock rifles and slowly approached the big wild boar.