At this moment, everyone's heart was extremely complicated.
Zhang Yi shook hands with Xiao Han. Zhang Yi was a little nervous, but Xiao Han had a smile on his face.
No one knows artillery better than Xiao Han. He studied various technical materials, combined with the actual situation, and worked hard with the blacksmiths to build a successful one.
"Brother, be careful!" Zhang Yi warned.
Xiao Liu stood aside and prayed and blessed him, looking extremely nervous.
"Don't worry, sworn brother, sister-in-law." Xiao Han said with a smile.
Xiaolong came and hugged him.
Afterwards, everyone retreated a hundred meters away to watch Xiao Han and two gunners operating the artillery, loading the shells and aiming at the hill a thousand meters away.
Zhang Yi picked up the telescope and saw an armored vehicle parked on the mountainside a thousand meters away!
Xiaoliu also looked through the binoculars. It was the latest armored vehicle. It looked very powerful. It had fully enclosed steel armor and was painted military green.
"Isn't Xiaohan going to bombard the armored vehicle?" Xiaoliu asked in surprise.
"That's right, Liu'er, the target is the armored vehicle," Zhang Yi said, "Use my spear to attack my shield and see what the effect is."
"What a pity!" Xiaoliu said distressedly.
"It's okay, sister-in-law," Xiaolong explained, "That's just an empty vehicle. We can now build many armored vehicles. If we add steam engines, artillery and tires, we can form an invincible armored corps."
"I know, but it's so far away, can it be hit?" Xiaoliu asked doubtfully.
The distance is indeed a bit far.
Thousands of meters are out of reach for people in the cold weapon age.
"It will hit, it must hit." Zhang Yi said, his voice was slightly trembling, and you could feel the tension in his heart, worried about his brother's safety.
Xiaoliu hugged his arm.
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Xiao Han operated a 50mm-caliber artillery and aimed it at the armored vehicle. So far, everything is still in the theoretical stage. He is not sure whether it can hit it.
When he was ready, he turned to look at Zhang Yi and others, smiled slightly, then looked ahead and shouted: "Launch!"
Boom!
There was a loud noise like thunder, the barrel expanded and retracted violently, and the ground beneath his feet shook. Xiao Liu screamed in fright and clutched Zhang Yi's arm tightly.
A blazing flame erupted from the muzzle, and the hot air spread in all directions, kicking up pieces of dust, earth and rocks.
In an instant, Zhang Yi's heartbeat stopped. He stared at the barrel and saw that everything was normal. He couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise, ha, ha, ha, the test was successful!
A miraculous achievement!
Then, he quickly picked up the telescope and looked at the mountains in the distance. It was a little regretful that the shell did not hit the armored vehicle and exploded more than ten meters away.
There was a violent explosion, debris flew, and after the fire and smoke dispersed, a large crater was seen in the mountain.
"Awesome, hahaha, hahaha!" Zhang Yi said ecstatically.
"Wow, it's successful, we have artillery!" Xiaoliu cheered.
Everyone was so surprised that they took off their hats and gloves and threw them into the air.
Zhang Yi ran to Xiao Han, hugged him, and lifted him high.
He is a great hero. With artillery, all his dreams can come true.
"It's amazing, Xiaohan!" Xiaolong ran over and the three brothers hugged each other tightly.
In fact, this was the result of the collaboration between the brothers. Zhang Yi was the leader, Xiaolong developed the gunpowder, and Xiao Han made the artillery.
"I almost hit the armored vehicle. Ha, can you let me fire?" Xiao Liu begged. She saw that firing seemed to be very simple. All she had to do was pull a rope hard.
This firing method uses spring force to cause the firing pin to hit the primer, thereby detonating the propellant in the shell, and the warhead flies out.
"No!" the three brothers said in unison.
Xiaoliu's curiosity is too strong and she wants to try everything, but she is a little unhappy when she hears it.
"For the sake of the children, it's better for my sister-in-law to stay away from the artillery." Xiao Han said with a smile.
What is the relationship between artillery and children?
Xiaoliu thought about it, oh, the violent explosion and the choking smoke might affect her pregnancy. After thinking about it, she gave up the idea of firing. For her, the child is the first priority!
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So, Xiao Liu took the initiative to pull Zhang Yi and stood from a distance to watch.
Zhang Yi almost died laughing, Xiao Liu is so innocent and cute, but Xiao Han's words cannot be said to be completely unreasonable.
After inspection, there is no problem with the quality of the barrel, and so are the cannonballs.
Because they are all built with reference to technical data, there is really no way to compare them in terms of power, but this explosion effect is satisfactory enough!
There was an error in aiming. After Xiao Han calibrated, he fired again.
boom!
This time, the armored vehicle was successfully hit. Nuoda's vehicle was blown into the air. It did not fall apart, but was turned into a pile of scrap metal.
It seems that a strong shield can't stop the sharp spear. Even steel can be beaten like this. After the men and horses were shot, they probably couldn't be found.
Cheers spread.
"This is still a 50mm caliber artillery piece," Xiao Han laughed, "Now, let's try an 88mm caliber artillery piece!"
With experience, the 88mm caliber artillery test fired successfully and hit the armored vehicle.
The poor armored vehicle was knocked into the air again, and even the steel plate was penetrated.
"Pretty good," Zhang Yi observed with a telescope and praised, "The power of the artillery is powerful enough. The armored vehicle did not disintegrate under the impact, which shows that our welding technology is also excellent!"
"So, can we mass-produce artillery and armored vehicles?" Xiaoliu said with a smile.
"We will sum up our experience and further optimize the production process, sister-in-law," Xiao Han ran over and replied after hearing this sentence, "but it won't take long before we can speed up production."
"Don't be anxious, we still have enough time," Zhang Yi said with a smile, "Now, we only have battleships left."
"Based on Yi Ge's idea of running fast ships, we decided to use 500-ton battleships as the main force of the battle. Each battleship is equipped with 4 steam engines and 8 88mm artillery." Xiao Han said.
"Oh my god, 500 tons of steel?" Xiaoliu said in surprise. In her opinion, 500 tons was an astronomical number, and the weight was unbelievable.
"Hahaha," Zhang Yi laughed, "Liu'er, this tonnage is a light warship, mainly because of the water level of the Han River, otherwise it can be larger. However, a 500-ton steel warship is enough to conquer the world.
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Everything is planned.
The plan of Zhang Yi brothers is to build 10 500-ton warships and produce them at Ankang Shipyard.
The Shanghai Shipyard and Xiamen Shipyard produce landing ships, transport ships and logistics supply ships, all weighing more than 1,000 tons.