Chapter 1170 Explosive Bullets and Chain Bullets

After arranging the affairs of the Kingdom Battlefield and handing over the requirements and goals to Chaifedel, Qu Mao decisively stopped interfering in the independent decision-making of the heroes and chose to leave at 4 pm on December 6, the sixth year of Tianxuan, to leave the frontline command of the Kingdom Battlefield.

So, head towards Wucheng Port.

There were 2,000 fifth-level palace guards guarding the area, and the area Qu Mao traveled to was territory already controlled by Yi Gong's territorial troops, so there was no big problem.

At Wucheng Port, there are already navy warships waiting for Qu Mao's arrival.

It's just that we still have to walk for a few days from the Kingdom Battlefield to Wucheng Port.

After returning to Wucheng Port and boarding a naval warship, Qu Mao would not return directly to the holy land of Yigong territory. Instead, he would first go to Midway Twin Islands to see the development of the firearms army and the current research progress of the firearms research institute.

When passing through the Twin Islands, Qu Mao even hoped to meet the naval hero Christian Slian. While inspecting the battlefield on the eastern peninsula of the East Continent Bay, Navy Commander-in-Chief Sylvia Ocean and Navy Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fu

Er. Swanpe told Qu Mao that Christine Silian, who is also the deputy commander-in-chief of the Navy, is not on the battlefield now, but is traveling to and from the Twin Islands and outlying islands to supervise the research and development projects of the navy's ironclad ships and new artillery shells.

At noon on December 9th, the sixth year of Tianxuan, the naval warship Qu Mao was on was moored at the military dock on the small island of Midway Twin Islands. Now the temporary dock beside the small island of Midway Twin Islands has been dismantled and replaced by

Three military docks and two civilian docks.

These five piers are far away from the coastline and stretch into the depths of the sea, just like the island stretching out its five paws towards the sea.

In the office building of the Firearms Research Institute, Qu Mao met Christine Silian as he wished.

After the two heroes of the Logistics Department saw Qu Mao in the office building of the Firearms Research Institute, they all stepped forward to salute. Qu Mao just politely sent the two away, but instead found Christine Silian with great interest.

In Mao's mind, the Navy's two scientific research projects were far more important than the liaison heroes assigned by the Logistics Department to the Firearms Research Institute.

Pulling Kristen Silian into a small office, Qu Mao asked directly: "Kristin, how is the progress of the project of blooming bombs and chain bombs that the Navy is currently supervising?"

Christine Silian said: "Sir, the samples of these two new types of artillery shells have been released. I think the chain bomb may be just a transitional product, because the chain bomb requires old-fashioned artillery that has been installed on naval warships to be fired, and

The launch failure rate is very high..."

Qu Mao frowned and asked, "Can I go see the sample?"

Christine Sillian said as she pulled Qu Mao out, "Sir, that's natural.

The principle of firing chain bullets is still that the artillery fires solid iron bullets, but in the past it fired one round iron bullet, now it fires two solid iron bullets, and the iron bullets are connected with iron chains, so that the launcher

Both artillery and chain ammunition are required.

However, starting from October, the artillery modified by navy warships will be breech-loading hand-fired artillery. The total number of warships equipped with front-loading ammunition does not exceed 500.

We can’t continue to modify old-style artillery for naval warships just for the sake of a chain bomb that is not very stable..."

While the two were chatting, they came to the shooting range of the Firearms Research Institute. Christine Silian took out the magic communication crystal and dialed out a remote communication and spoke a few words.

Less than five minutes later, the acting director of the Firearms Research Institute came to the shooting range with the experimenters. Only then did Qu Mao discover the so-called chain bullets, which were two iron bullets connected together with a 50 cm long iron chain.

The acting director of the Firearms Research Institute said to Qu Mao: "Sir, you'd better stand farther back. It's best if you can stand behind the bunker.

Chain bullets are not stable, and their range is much shorter than normal iron bullets, but they are relatively powerful against wind-powered warships."

The experimenters erected countless wooden poles as thick as bowls 500 meters away from the shooting range, and then lit the traditional artillery in front of Qu Mao. There were three "Boom, Boom, Boom" blasts, but only two chain bombs were fired.

The gunpowder pushes the two chain bullets to rotate at high speed and fly towards the target. When one iron bullet hits the target, the other iron bullet will continue to move forward. The iron bullet between the two iron bullets is almost indestructible, even 500 meters away.

The wooden poles were cut off one after another.

Qu Mao did not pay attention to the chopped wooden pole in the distance, but walked to the chain bullet artillery that failed to fire. Because after the first iron bullet shot out of the barrel, the position of the chain in the middle did not seem to be correct, so

The second iron bullet was not successfully launched and got stuck in the barrel, causing the first iron bullet to fly back and directly deform the barrel.

Looking at the situation with a frown, Qu Mao said: "The chain bomb is indeed just a transitional product. It doesn't need to be developed. If you are not careful, it may destroy our own warships.

Christine, stop the chain bomb development and continue the research and development.”

The acting director of the Firearms Research Institute came over with a cannonball in his arms and said, "Sir, my subordinates also mean the same thing. The research and development of chain bombs will be stopped immediately. Now, sir, let's take a look at the effect of the explosive shells.

On the surface, the shells are not much different from ordinary artillery shells, but their warheads are modeled after grenades, except that the outer surface of the grenade is uneven, but the inner surface of the shells is uneven.

When the explosive bullet is launched and the warhead hits any target, the mercury fulminate in the warhead will be triggered, which will then ignite the gunpowder in the warhead, causing a second fragmentation damage.

Because the warhead explodes a second time, we call it a detonation bomb."

Qu Mao nodded and said, "Let's shoot at the ships reserved as targets at sea. I'll see the actual effect before talking."

As the experimenters operated, 10 rounds of explosive shells hit the target ship 5 kilometers away from the coastline. Qu Mao took out his monocular and observed carefully.

Sure enough, after the explosive bomb hits the target ship, a secondary explosion will occur instantly, and the fragments generated by the explosion will scratch the hull full of holes.

Even for a wooden ship, this kind of damage is insignificant, but if there are soldiers standing on the ship, the damage caused by the fragments to the soldiers will be fatal.

Qu Mao nodded with satisfaction and said: "Speed ​​up the progress of modifying naval warships to carry breech-loading artillery, notify the logistics department to speed up the investment in the production of explosive bombs, and deploy the explosive bombs to the navy on the eastern peninsula battlefield as soon as possible."

Christine Silian said: "Sir, the production bill of materials and process have been handed over to Lord Xuande. It is expected that the navy on the peninsula battlefield will be able to use explosive bombs in mid-January of the seventh year of Tianxuan."

Qu Mao said: "The blooming ammunition should be barely enough. Let's go and see the development progress of the ironclad ship."

Kristine Silian smiled and said: "Yes, sir, this is exactly what I mean."
Chapter completed!