Chapter 13 The man who looks down on the king of war
The monkey saw Yun Zheng stopped next to three strange large iron pipes, holding the iron pipes up and down and looking left and right. His expression was very excited, just like a bride who almost shed tears when she saw her husband who had returned from afar.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, he quickly lifted up the handsome man's feet and put on the slip-on shoes. Forget about the socks. There were too many people and it would be bad for the handsome man to change his socks with everyone staring at him.
Yun Zheng put his hand into the cannon barrel and stroked it, and found that the inside was very smooth and not as rough as he imagined.
The roundness of the gun barrel is also very good. There is not a single trachoma on the gun body which is more than one foot long. You can pat the barrel of the gun with your hand and make a snapping sound. The wall of the tube, which is more than an inch thick, is very thick. You can tell this thing at a glance.
Very strong.
"Have you tried it?" Yun Zheng turned around and glanced at Sun Jie, who came specifically to deliver the cannon.
Sun Jie is from Jiazi Camp and one of the first batch of old people to go to the Eagle's Nest. In the past, he had been responsible for the placement of the family members of Jiazi Camp and would not leave the Eagle's Nest easily. This time he came to Yanmen Pass because he really couldn't find the right person.
I came to escort these three things, so I had to take them with me.
"I haven't heard from the general yet."
Yun Zheng frowned and said, "Why don't you try it? I remember that matching projectiles have been developed a long time ago."
Sun Jie waited for a long time before saying: "Second Young Master..."
Yun Zheng suddenly realized: "You mean Yun Yue didn't let you test it?"
Sun Jie said in embarrassment: "Our iron smelting plant has cast a total of five cannons like this. After the second young master went to the Eagle's Nest, he took all five cannons to the mountains. After he came back, he asked the younger one to
These three cannons were sent to the general, and he took the other two cannons to Dengzhou."
Yun Zheng raised his head and looked around, and found that the people around him were all old men from Jiazi Camp. They were not worried about leaking secrets, so he smiled and said: "Since Yun Yue won't let you experiment, it's for your own good, so as not to avoid that person in the Eagle's Nest."
The garrulous place leaked the military plane.
Sun Jie, tell me, was it troublesome to cast this thing? Was it cast as I asked? Did something go wrong along the way?"
Sun Jie laughed miserably and said: "To tell you what the general said, for these five cannons, four people were injured and disabled in the iron smelting plant. Because they were cast in a solid clay mold, more than 1,100 kilograms of molten iron had to be poured into the clay mold at one time.
It is common for the molten iron to explode if there is a slight deviation.
Since receiving the military order from the general, the iron smelter has done nothing else for more than a year. Just casting these things has produced sixty-three clay models. In the end, only thirty-four were successful. After screening, they were eliminated.
Among the scraps with trachoma bubbles, these are the only five that can barely be seen.
The casting masters from the capital and more than 300 master craftsmen from our iron smelting factory worked hard and could only make five gun barrels..."
After hearing Sun Jie's complaint, Yun Zheng said with a smile: "It's very good. It's nothing to waste some money. As long as you can make these things, it is a great achievement. I will naturally reward you based on your merit. I just need you."
We will make more of these things in the future.”
Sun Jie looked around and whispered in Yun Zheng's ear: "It can't be done. The second master also moved the iron smelting factory to Dengzhou. Not a single one of the master craftsmen from Yingchao and the casting masters from Tokyo will be left behind."
He took it away and said he wanted to rebuild the workshop on Wild Donkey Island."
Yun Zheng shook his head and smiled, not caring. The current Yun Yue is different from the previous Yun Yue. He now pays more attention to the construction of the sea. The Yun family will settle down on the sea in the future. There is no sharper weapon than artillery in sea combat.
Thinking about it, this is the case. While other pirates are still in the stage of chasing each other and then jumping off the ship to fight with knives in their mouths, the Yun family's fleet can already start attacking others from a distance of one or two miles.
, with the weapon of artillery, the Yun family cannot have any opponents at sea.
China is the hometown of artillery. Yun Zheng knew this very well. It was the emergence of gunpowder that gave birth to this thing. There were many gunpowder weapons in the Song Dynasty, but in Yun Zheng's eyes, they were all messy things that were meant to scare people.
More than practical applications.
Yunzheng had seen the sudden fire gun. This thing was used by many soldiers as a hidden weapon. It was like a large firework. The sparks it sprayed out had no purpose at all. Because the casting process could not keep up, it would injure one's own body.
The number of times is far more than the number of times it burns the enemy.
In the Great Song Army, many people have some secret weapons inherited from their families, and the musket is one of them. The guys who use this kind of thing only take it out when the war is most tense. When the treasure is taken out, it is disrupted.
The structure of the military formation, not to mention the fact that this thing sometimes explodes in the hand, not only cannot hurt the enemy, but sometimes it can also harm one's own brothers, so the Yunzheng army strictly prohibits sergeants from arming themselves.
Many times, Yun Zheng couldn't figure out why no one made great efforts to study this thing, even though the most crude front-loaded smoothbore cannon, such as the tug-of-war, had already appeared, so that later people would still use the so-called red barbarian cannon.
cannon.
Later, some cannons were mounted on the coast and the country was easily opened.
Yun Zheng thought that this kind of thing where flowers bloom inside the wall and fragrant outside the wall should be strictly prohibited.
Modern artillery developed from the trebuchet invented in ancient China.
The trebuchet is also called a trebuchet. Its structure is very simple. A horizontal axis is made on a wooden frame, and a long rod is inserted between the axis and the horizontal axis. One end of the rod is tied with a leather box for holding stones.
, there are dozens or more than a hundred ropes tied to the other end. When using it, stones are put into the leather nest. With a command, everyone pulls the ropes, and the stones from the leather nest are thrown out like flying.
The earliest use of trebuchets in warfare was during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. According to the "Three Kingdoms. Book of Wei" records, during the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao used a trebuchet to break through Yuan Shao's camp, thus winning a complete victory.
From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, although the use of trebuchets in combat gradually increased, the scale was generally small. During the Tang Dynasty, trebuchets became larger and larger, and some required one or two hundred people to pull the rope to throw the huge boulder.
, each stone can kill several people.
In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the invention of gunpowder led to a qualitative leap in the development of trebuchets.
It was not until the beginning of the Song Dynasty that gunpowder was used in the military field on a large scale.
The trebuchet then changed from throwing rocks to throwing fireballs. Fireballs are also called gunpowder bombs. The main purpose is not to kill people, but to burn them to death. The efficiency is appalling.
It wasn't until Yunzheng improved the formula of gunpowder that the way gunpowder hurt people changed from combustion to explosion, and the killing efficiency increased by more than ten times.
Of course, the breech-loaded cannon is advanced and the bombardment efficiency is also high, but Yunzheng does not have the ability to build that kind of cannon now. He can only take out the oldest Hongyi cannon to recharge. Now it can only fire solid bullets, iron sand, or chain bullets.
, It is nonsense to use this kind of cannon to deal with the cavalry. When the two armies are facing each other, the cavalry will kill them in a few breaths, and this kind of cannon can only fire one shell in about two minutes. If you expect this thing to deal with the Liao Kingdom or the
The Xixia cavalry are simply looking for death.
After a cannonball flies out, the artilleryman must quickly fill the barrel with water, then use something like a mop to clean the barrel, then fill it with gunpowder, stuff the matchlock in the hole, pound it firmly, and then stuff the solid projectile into it, and finally
Then light the gunpowder rope and slowly wait for the gunpowder to finish burning... By the time all this is done, the cavalry's blade will have already hit his head.
The reason why Yunzheng wanted to build such a thing was simply to attack the city. As long as he pushed the thing to the edge of the city gate and took aim, the projectile weighing more than ten kilograms hit the city gate with overwhelming force. No matter how strong it was,
Even the city gates could not withstand a few such shells.
Chen Lin also put on her clothes and came out. Facing these three heavy and ridiculous things, she really couldn't think of any use for them. This time, after Yunzheng's army came out of Yanmen Pass in Dai County, what they wanted was to quickly cut off the Liao Kingdom.
The connection between the east and the west, captured Xijing of the Liao Kingdom with lightning speed, then marched all the way eastward, and finally intercepted the reinforcements coming from the Zhongjing Road of the Liao Kingdom in the Gubeikou area. What if they had to carry such heavy iron lumps?
Keep marching fast?
Yun Zheng's white teeth stood out in the night. Before Chen Lin could ask, he smiled and said to Chen Lin: "This thing may not look bulky, but it is a sharp weapon for attacking cities and demolishing strongholds. Even if it is brought along on the road,
It will be a little slower, but we have to conquer at least seven fortified cities along the way. With this thing, it will be a piece of cake to conquer the city."
Chen Lin also looked at the things in front of her up and down. She really couldn't figure out how to use this thing. Seeing that Yun Zheng didn't seem to introduce the use of this thing to herself, she frowned and said: "Military planes are fleeting. If
Because carrying this thing will slow down your journey, I won’t help you explain it to the center and His Majesty.”
It was the first time that Yun Zheng saw someone who dared to despise the God of War. He smiled and said to Chen Lin: "After you see the power of this thing, I guarantee that you will want to hug him while sleeping."
Chen Lin chuckled and said: "If that's true, I'll wait and see. This battle is a confrontation between upright divisions. I don't want you to cause the army to fail because of these little tricks!"
Yun Zheng laughed loudly and said: "Old Chen Lin, you are just a military supervisor. You have never been on the battlefield in your life. Now you have a military aircraft on your left and a military strategist on your right. Are you sure you understand what you are talking about now? As long as I
Instead of running away on the battlefield, you just stood aside and watched me attack the city and bring such nonsense!"
Yun Zheng's words were very rude, but Chen Lin was not angry. The old guy didn't care at all that Yun Zheng always wanted to anger him. In his opinion, as long as Yun Zheng went to the battlefield honestly and helped everyone
Song Dynasty won this century-old war, and he didn't care about the rest. For a man who risked his life for the Song Dynasty, except for victory, everything else was trivial. (To be continued)