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276 Shelling

"Is there a weapon that can solve the current problem?" Yagoda suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Lawrence's shoulder and asked. "Quickly, take it out quickly. All of our commandos just now were injured. If it weren't for the captain who led the team,

If we had retreated quickly after realizing something was wrong, we would probably have all died on the streets by now.”

After speaking, Yagoda looked at Lawrence's face with wide eyes, an eager look in his eyes. This made Lawrence have to use his hand to break away the hand on his shoulder, and at the same time said, "That weapon is now

Put it in my space bag, you must release your hand first before I can go and get it."

After breaking Yagoda's hand, Lawrence gave a few explanations to the medical team members who came up with him and then led Yagoda to the blind spot under the city wall where the enemy was attacking. Then, using the cover of the space bag, he came from the star realm.

Several large boxes were taken out from the plane.

Although some of these boxes weighed about 100 kilograms, Lawrence, as an extraordinary person, could still easily take out those boxes one by one and place them on the ground. After placing all the dozens of boxes, Lawrence found that the surroundings were surrounded by people.

Several judges and trial court staff were attracted.

"Pry them all open." Lawrence said to everyone after seeing so many people gathered around. As soon as he finished speaking, the inquisitors who were watching swarmed up and started to open the boxes. Soon, all the boxes were

Was pried open.

After removing the straw used for shock absorption, some boxes revealed dark metal pipes and metal frames. In other boxes, bombs painted with green paint fixed on wooden shelves were revealed. They were just like ordinary ones.

The difference between the bombs is that these bombs look like water droplets and have a few small wings at the end."

"What is this, an artillery piece?" A senior inquisitor wearing gold-rimmed glasses came closer and asked curiously. "But why are the walls of these artillery pieces so thin? Although they appear to be made of dwarf alloy, they are smaller than

Ordinary metal is much stronger, but it shouldn't be able to withstand the pressure of a cannonball when it's so thin."

"Of course it won't work if it's an ordinary artillery piece." Lawrence explained while he and a few people who volunteered to help took out the barrel and body of the gun to set up, "but this newly invented low-bore compression mortar will be fine.

.”

"Mortar, what is that?" the inquisitor asked confused, because it had only been about a month since the mortar was manufactured by Lawrence. With the current speed of information dissemination, he had no idea about it.

It is also very normal to be ignorant.

"That's an artillery piece used for direct fire, similar to an ancient mortar, but much lighter and easier to use." As he spoke, Lawrence patted a large-caliber mortar that had just been set up next to him and said, "For example, I

Now this mortar has a caliber of 120mm, but after using dwarf metal, it only weighs 280 kilograms. At the same time, it can reach a range of 3,500 meters and has the same power as a heavy gun of the same caliber. The most important thing is that its trajectory is very curved and can

Hit the enemy behind those buildings."

Lawrence's large-caliber mortar was modeled after the Soviet m1938 120mm mortar in World War II. Although he only remembered some sketches circulated on the Internet, with the help of professional dwarves, they finally succeeded.

This thing is manufactured.

Of course, this process was not smooth sailing. For example, the weight was controlled to a normal value with the help of an unscientific metal such as dwarf alloy.

However, due to the insufficient level of the chemical industry in this era, gunpowder could not reach the level of Lawrence during World War II. However, after careful weighing, he had to give up those expensive alchemical explosives and choose propellants that could be mass-produced.

But as a result, the artillery's firing range plummeted from the original 5,700 meters to 3,500 meters. Fortunately, the artillery in this era was relatively poor, so now such mortars are enough.

"You mean this cannon only weighs 280 kilograms?" The judge wearing gold-rimmed glasses who asked the question before seemed to have some knowledge of military affairs, so he naturally had an extremely surprised expression on his face. "If I remember correctly, you guys

Ordinary artillery of the same caliber is at least 30 times this weight, and even if the same dwarf alloy is used, it will be reduced to at most 20 times the weight of this artillery."

"Yes, because my new artillery is very different from those traditional artillery. So in all aspects, the data of traditional artillery cannot be used for analogy." Lawrence explained to the people who gathered around him while commanding

Waiting for others to place the remaining three guns on the designated gun positions.

It has to be said that extraordinary people are much stronger than ordinary people when doing physical work, and their learning speed is also much higher than ordinary people. For example, the seat plate of a mortar needs to be firmly fixed on the ground.

This is because it can withstand the recoil when the artillery is fired.

The heavy mortar that Lawrence is taking out now weighs dozens of kilograms. According to military statistics during World War II, those trained soldiers would have to make a whole piece of metal into a plate.

It would take several minutes to fix it on the ground, even at the fastest speed in combat, but now it doesn't even take a minute for the extraordinary warriors to complete this work.

Not to mention that after just watching Lawrence's operation, the extraordinary people who came to help mastered the correct installation techniques. The other three cannons were all installed by those who came to help without him even having to do anything.

.

Soon, all four heavy mortars that Lawrence took out were placed. Then he began to adjust the angles of the four heavy mortars based on the precise location information of the rebel artillery positions provided by the staff of the tribunal.

"What should we do next?" After watching Lawrence adjust in front of each mortar for a long time and then stand on the edge, a middle-aged platoon member wearing chest plate armor and carrying a two-handed sword was carried behind his back.

Everyone came over. "Is there anything you need our help with? If so, please feel free to ask."

"The next work is very simple." Lawrence was not polite when he saw the middle-aged man who should be the commander of the Inquisitor team coming out, but simply made arrangements. "I have already arranged the positions of these four artillery pieces.

It has been adjusted, and then only three people will need to follow my actions to load the shells."

"No problem." The middle-aged man nodded and then pointed out three people from behind to stand in front of the exit, and then directed the other people to stand next to the shell box and prepare to provide them with shells.

"Look at my actions. We will fire ten shells from each cannon as quickly as possible." After seeing everyone in their positions, Lawrence seriously faced the operators of the other three cannons amidst the sound of rebel artillery fire.

He yelled at the top of his voice, then grabbed the centering part of the cannon with both hands, and slowly inserted the tail fin downward into the cannon bore. He did not stop until the centering part slid into the cannon bore.

"When I shout fire, let's let go." Lawrence shouted one last time and then concentrated on listening to the movement of the rebel heavy artillery position a few hundred meters away. The moment he heard the heavy firing sound of the 203 heavy artillery opposite, Lawrence

He shouted "Fire!" and at the same time let go of his hand holding the shell.

The operators of the other three heavy mortars also released their hands on the shells after hearing Lawrence's order. After the shells were separated from Lawrence's hands, they slid down the smoothbore barrel faster and faster, and finally

The primer struck the firing pin below the muzzle.

In an instant, the propellant at the end of the shell was ignited. Driven by the rapidly expanding gunpowder gas, the shells flew out of the muzzle and toward the distant target.

"Boom -" After the sound of four consecutive mortar shots, the extraordinary people present could even see four shells flying out of the barrel and flying over the city wall into the distance.


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