Chapter 2109 When the artillery falls, the world is afraid, the destination of the thunder
In the past, projectiles were still used to project stone bullets, firearms, and explosives. According to the official history, it may have been invented in the Southern Song Dynasty, and flint cannons were manufactured in the Yuan Dynasty at the latest. Later, in the Ming Dynasty, the Central Plains
The dynasty's application of large artillery and various firearms is second to none in the world... So today, the technological prerequisites for the upgrading of firearms, cannons and other ordnance are basically mature, not to mention Chen Guan, the inventor of fire.
Ling Zhen was able to learn from the inspiration of the wise man and capable minister who was the originator of gunfire, and he soon realized that his brother's fantastic idea could really be developed and put into practice.
Day and night, forgetting to eat and sleep, Ling Zhen devoted himself to the design and development of new artillery. Now Chen Gui, who is now a bachelor of Longtuge and the supervisor of Tiangong Academy, naturally followed the imperial decree of Xiao Tang and went to meet Ling Zhen.
Zhenyi is also engaged in studying hard and micro.
Ling Zhen, who invented the invention of stone-throwing artillery, had the same interests as Chen Gui, the inventor of tubular firearms in the Song Dynasty. They had known each other's deeds for a long time, and now they are working hard for the same goal. Ling Zhen and Chen Gui are naturally working together.
The cooperation was a step-by-step process, and within a few months, the weapons supervisor had created the first completed musket according to the drawings and specifications drawn by the two and based on the bamboo tube firearm invented by Chen Gui.
This type of tubular firearm was originally developed during the Kaiqing period of Emperor Lizong of the Southern Song Dynasty. According to the "History of the Song Dynasty·Bing Zhi": "Use a giant bamboo as a tube, and install a nest inside, which will burn like a flame, and then the nest will emit a fire like a fire.
The sound of cannons can be heard from a distance of more than 150 steps"... The nest is made of porcelain shards, broken iron, stones and other materials. In this way, the world's first "rifle" that can shoot bullets has been created.
Ling Zhen was inspired by this and chose a thick copper tube as the barrel, which was composed of a muzzle, a medicine chamber, a tail and other parts. In this way, small-caliber pipe pile firearms and large-caliber fire guns were used as artillery categories.
Trials were started separately. Although the process inevitably went through several improvements and revisions during the period, one day finally...
"boom!!!"
On the outskirts of Daming Mansion, there was a loud sound of the earth shaking and the mountains shaking. Green smoke was slowly rising from the muzzle of the cannon, and the hillock 300 steps away suddenly exploded, with gravel flying in all directions. Such flint
Although the range and power may not be as good as the giant catapults that the Qi army always has, the wheel-driven artillery loaded with cannon stones and artillery equipment is undoubtedly better than the giant catapults that are too bulky and take a long time to install.
If it is flexible and improved and equipped in large quantities in the military, how powerful will it be?
A group of subordinates who were gunners and worked in Tiangongyuan suddenly burst into cheers, and Ling Zhen danced excitedly and shouted: "Hahahahaha! It's done! It's done!
"Chen Gui, who was watching from the sidelines, also stroked his beard gently, with a happy smile on his face...
Since then, the world's first smoothbore artillery has been produced.
Just like after the first tank came out in World War I, only more than 20 years later, during World War II, various countries developed light tanks, tire-tracked tanks, amphibious tanks, multi-turret tanks, heavy tanks, etc.
General land warfare weapons are already active on various battlefields around the world. The development process of military technology is originally limited by the times. As long as the time is right and this hurdle is passed, the future research and development process will suddenly become clearer. Ling Zhen's
He had already entered the field of artillery research, and within a year, he improved the barrel and shells, and designed a smoothbore artillery that could be used in war with different functions.
However, when he reviewed the names, designs, and functions of the new artillery that Ling Zhen subsequently reported, Xiao Tang was really surprised, because the newly developed artillery pieces developed by Ling Zhen were called wind artillery, golden wheel cannon, and mother-child artillery... This
But aren't they all the artillery tools that he, Hong Tianlei, is good at using in the original work of Water Margin?
As for Chen Gui, who was engaged in the work of improving and developing fire guns at the same time, he no longer had to take care of the court affairs. Xiao Tang gave him high-ranking officials and taught Chen Gui to get an important position in Tiangongyuan. He also had a group of disciples and officials who worked hard to cooperate.
It is a pity that Chen Gu died in the eleventh year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty. Although he lived for a few more years, he inevitably died of illness. However, because he did not transfer between the imperial court and the local government, not only did he have to
Students can get his true biography, and Chen Gui himself wrote works about the selection of firecrackers, creation and even improvement ideas, etc. He also recorded contemporary military strategy and armament matters such as "City Defense Records" and "Offensive and Defensive Strategies".
The classics can be passed down to future generations. And Chen Gui, a master of military technology who has already left his name in history, has even added the title of founder of Huo Gun, making him a celebrity through the ages, and for future generations to admire...
During the Xiao and Tang Dynasties, the fire gun system still had to use cast copper or wrought iron as the barrel, and the gunpowder was loaded into the muzzle of the gun, and then iron bullets, lead bullets and other projectiles were stuffed into the red-hot metal.
Wire or charcoal ignites the gunpowder in the fire door to shoot out the projectiles. Usually, two gunners are responsible for aiming and igniting respectively. This results in relatively low firing efficiency and accuracy. There has not yet been a large-scale military brigade of firecrackers for use in war.
need.
However, due to old rules and the inspiration of Ling Zhen and other ancestors, Qi Dynasty Tiangong Institute continued to vigorously promote the innovation of firecrackers and firearms. Until the middle period of Qi Wen Emperor Xiao Yun's reign, as the application of firecrackers became more professional, the Qi Dynasty established
Several of them were artillery troops equipped with muskets, muskets, and artillery. According to the content of the inscription when the late emperor Xiao Tang established Tiangongyuan, the artillery military brigade directly under the control of the Dianqian Division was named Shenji Camp.
, so compared with the establishment of Spanish musketeers in official history, the Chinese dynasty established a separate branch of guns and artillery not only a century earlier, but more than two hundred years earlier. By the end of Emperor Qi Wen's reign, the performance of the standard was equivalent to that of muskets.
Matchlock guns were also developed and built on a large scale and became the standing firearm equipment of the Shenji Battalion of the Qi Dynasty.
However, during the same period, European countries did not have the opportunity to introduce early firearms to the West through Arab countries during the Mongolian Expedition. Their understanding of guns and gunpowder was too late, and the development and application of firearms were still limited.
In a blank state.
However, the various standard artillery that Ling Zhen successively improved soon began to be mass-produced on a large scale. Not only did they become the standing naval warfare weapons of the Qi Dynasty naval fleet, they were also successively equipped to several main military brigades of the Qi Dynasty. According to the box
It has jurisdiction over ten armies and five battalions. Each military brigade is equipped with at least one battalion of gunners. Tiangongyuan was the first to cooperate with Ling Zhen, and most of the generals who made artillery in the old-fashioned way have been selected and trained for land and sea warfare.
As the instructor of the artillery of the army brigade. As the Liao Empire established by the Qi Dynasty and Yelu Dashi finally launched a national war, all armies entered the Western Territory in a mighty manner. At the same time, a large number of artillery continued to the Western Territory.
Transportation will soon be used in war...
Who was the inventor of artillery in official history? Because it was the accumulation of technology over generations and the brainstorming of many capable people who were good at making firearms that led to the advent of such new artillery. It is difficult to attribute it to just one person.
In the past, it was difficult to have a conclusive answer. But now, Emperor Xiao Tang of the Qi Dynasty specifically reminded and entrusted him with the important task of leading a group of skilled craftsmen to constantly come up with improved ideas and preside over the creation of practical matters. This is also the leading pioneer.
This makes some questions less ambiguous in later generations, and when later generations decide who is the inventor of artillery, there will almost be a unified standard answer: Hongtian Lei Lingzhen.
