Chapter 158 The thief is also a blood mold for eight lifetimes
If any reader opens the pseudo-God perspective and listens to Chen Shuren and Huang Degong mentioning "a kind of artillery shell that can still maintain a huge area of lethality at a long distance", then most of them will think that this kind of artillery shell is a bursting bomb, or in other words
Explosive bombs.
After all, in many time travels, after returning to ancient times, the protagonist created explosive bombs just by talking.
But Shen Shuren has no system and no powers. As a liberal arts student in his previous life, he had a whim at the beginning of this year and briefly tried to make explosives. He also slapped his forehead and had a deep chat with Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing.
Fan.
Unfortunately, Shen Shuren immediately understood the complexity of the problem as soon as he started.
Especially the fuze of the explosive bomb cannot be solved by the technology of this era, so he can only give up decisively - the explosive bomb is not as simple as loading the explosive into the hollow shell. The key is to ensure that the explosive detonates at the right time.
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How do you ensure that the internal charge of the cannonball explodes when it is impacted by the impact of landing? What if it explodes directly in the barrel before it is discharged?
The cannonball suffered an impact when it was pushed out of the chamber, but it was greater than when it finally hit the ground.
After all, energy is conserved. The kinetic energy of the cannonball when it hits the ground must be less than the kinetic energy when it exits the muzzle, and the work done by the air resistance during flight must be subtracted.
Historically, high-explosive bombs with trigger fuses were technically stable in the Western world until the eve of the 1870s, during the Franco-Prussian War. They were already the product of the second industrial revolution.
Even during the Napoleonic Wars, there were no highly efficient explosive shells. The only primitive grenades at that time required manually igniting the fuse connecting the internal charge to the shell before firing, and then igniting the propellant fuse, which was very dangerous.
To put it bluntly, it is launching a time bomb. If there is an error in the ignition speed, it may cause early or late detonation or a dumb bomb.
Shen Shuren decisively gave up on such a dangerous thing and tried another route.
Then, a few months ago, when he was tinkering with Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing to "dig into the follow-up application of shotguns," he came up with an idea.
The origin of this idea, coincidentally, should be thanks to two Sega strategy games that Shen Shuren had played in his previous life - "Empire Total War" and "Napoleon Total War".
Because he had repeatedly played the battles of those two games, even after time travel, he still had a clear memory of the technology tree settings in the game, and then he remembered that there was a transitional product between ordinary shotguns and explosive shells in the game, named
It's called "primitive shrapnel."
It is said to be a "shrapnel", but in fact it is just a kind of shotshell with a shrapnel that disperses relatively late, and does not have the property of "explosive". And what is made following that idea, that is, at this moment, Shen Shuren wants to show it to
This is what Huang Degong saw.
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"This kind of ammunition, I named it shrapnel, is based on the wooden barrel shotshell, and the bottom of the bullet holder is thickened to make the flight more stable within the first hundred or ten steps after it is released from the chamber.
At the same time, this cartridge holder is lined with an extra layer of iron sheets than the bottom plate of the ordinary wooden barrel, which can ensure that it will not be exploded when it is discharged. The front partition of the wooden barrel is thinner than that of ordinary wooden barrels, which ensures that it will not be exploded when it is discharged.
It shattered, exposing the contents of the tube to the wind.
There is no need to worry about the projectile carrying a bullet support that will affect its flight when it rolls, because after exiting the chamber, the wind in front of the barrel is very strong, and the finely divided projectiles inside receive less wind resistance relative to their own weight, so there is less deceleration. Wooden barrel
The wind resistance on the bottom bracket decelerates it greatly, and it naturally falls off.
Such a bottom support protects the shotgun pellets inside. If they form a ball, they can fly dozens of more steps or even in vain, and then disperse. Not only does the shotgun have the killing effect, but it can also fly an extra hundred steps before unleashing its power. In this way,
When it hits the horse next door, it can still maintain a high power."
Shen Shuren explained it very carefully, and Huang Degong was soon stunned by the fantastic ideas in it.
Chen Shuren's idea is very practical. If he can't solve the problem of triggering the fuse, then he won't solve it at all. He doesn't pursue the self-destruction of the cannon. He just needs to fly a certain distance and then release the contents, delaying the release action.
Relying on wind resistance for shelling is technically much easier to achieve than triggering fuzes. If you don't understand, you can imagine the shelling and armor-piercing projectiles of later tank guns. The physical principle is that the outer shell is light but the wind resistance is large, and the core inside is dense and dense.
The wind resistance is small, and the wind force will naturally blow the outer shell behind the core of the bullet and come out.
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguoyuedu to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. Yeguoyuedu is available for Android and Apple.]
Chen Shuren's move can be regarded as the end of the trolling.
He came to the Ming Dynasty for three years and worked with firearms for three years, but he has never been able to create a mainstream time-travel artifact like other awesome science and engineering cheats. In this regard, it can be regarded as a shame for time-travelers.
But he knew how to recycle waste, and he would make whatever he could under any conditions. In the end, he became an expert in trolling. Whether it was a bird, a gun, a turtle dove, a cannon, or a cannon, all those who could be trolled were transformed into trolls.
It is a magical weapon for dealing with light-armored thieves. It can be called a magic weapon.
After Huang Degong carefully thought about it, he was overjoyed and asked eagerly: "Have you tried this thing? Can you give it a try?"
Shen Shuren looked disdainful: "Of course I have tried it. The weapons I am asking about should be put on the battlefield without being tried! But we can't try it here. If it is seen by the bandit scouts outside the city, it will be lost suddenly.
It's a pity that I have to take the test at the school in the city.
Besides, the artillerymen of our army are all old men brought by me from Wuchang, and the key members among them have participated in the previous battle of Dongting Lake. They are confident in their proficiency in practicing weapons, so there is no need to worry."
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In the afternoon of that day, Huang Degong followed Shen Shuren to the temporary school field in the city, and ran in some live ammunition tests.
At the same time, Chen Shuren also began to temporarily optimize the city wall of Shangcaicheng, and renovated the four horse faces on each side of the city wall, plus the turrets.
The city of Shangcai is not big, so there are only sixteen horse faces and four corner towers in the whole city. A total of twenty city wall ancillary buildings need to be upgraded.
It’s not a lot of work just to make a slight arc and slope on the outer wall.
Yesterday's bloody battle with the bandits left thousands of corpses on each side. They originally needed to be buried to prevent rot and disease from spreading over time, so the Ming army directly piled the dead under the city wall and then transported the bandits' cannon fodder to fill them.
The soil on the slope of the trench can be trimmed a little and made into the desired shape. There is no need to dig soil from other places and transport it.
The bandit scouts also noticed these small actions, but the guard army actually buried the dead people directly at the foot of the city wall and piled dirt on them. The bandit generals laughed when they heard the news and did not send troops to stop them.
They all thought: This guard is really stupid! Piling the dead and soil under the horse-facing wall will make the slope gentler, making it easier to climb up when attacked in the future!
Both sides were making preparations on their own. One side was building new siege weapons, and the other was burying corpses and making hasty repairs. Two or three days passed quickly.
On the second night of the stalemate, Huang Degong reported a piece of news to Chen Shuren, saying that he had discovered that bandits and soldiers were holding torches all night along the north bank of Ru River and infiltrated into the southwest sides of the city.
Block the defenders' retreat route.
After hearing this, Chen Shuren was not surprised and said calmly: "There is no need to panic. Our army has sufficient food and grass in the city. Even if we are completely surrounded by Li Zicheng and the food route is cut off, Li Zicheng's people will definitely be the first to starve to death."
However, we have to be wary of any shenanigans they pull out, such as reducing troops and increasing kitchens, or increasing troops and reducing kitchens. They patrol around the city every night with torches, most likely hoping that our troops will be paralyzed, and then some of them will be included in the nine-day holiday.
Really, sneak attack and siege the city."
Shen Shuren could not guess what the enemy wanted to do, and he was not a god, but he was careful and could figure out the general direction. He just didn't know which time it was true.
So, both sides seemed to have heard the first boot falling to the ground upstairs and were waiting for the second boot to fall. They stayed in a tense and exhausted stalemate for a while until the early morning of the fourth day, when the thieves' side's first
The second wave of offensive was finally fully launched with seemingly complete preparations.
Before dawn that day, the bandit army patrolled as usual with torches. But at dawn, when the sky dimmed, Huang Degong patrolled the city. In the dim light, he discovered that there were a large number of bandit soldiers, coming from all directions in Ruyang County.
They surrounded the city and prepared siege equipment, and were about to attack with all their strength.
Looking at the size of these soldiers, it is definitely not as simple as Tian Jianxiu and Liu Fangliang. It is estimated that the main force of the direct line of the Chinese army led by Li Zicheng personally participated, and the total number is estimated to be hundreds of thousands.
More importantly, Huang Degong saw the bandits dispatching a siege vehicle that was taller and stronger than the ladder truck, the Lugong vehicle that had been invented since the Song Dynasty!
"It's actually Lu Gong's chariot! Are we planning to let the soldiers with long weapons board the city directly from the chariot? Let the guard battalions be dispersed everywhere, ready to form gun formations for hand-to-hand combat at any time!" Huang Degong took a look and immediately
He saw through the thieves' plans.
People who don’t know ancient history may have never heard of things like Lu Gongche, but in fact, it is easy to understand with an analogy.
This thing is similar to the "siege tower" in the West. It is surrounded by wooden boards and rawhide poured with mud. There is a ladder like a spiral staircase inside, which allows soldiers to go up the ladder in circles and then open it.
The front part of Lu Gong's chariot was built like a suspension bridge and was directly mounted on the city wall, so the soldiers could walk directly onto the city wall on the ground.
The city wall in Shangcai County is only one to seven or eight feet high, so with a solid wooden building two feet high, Lu Gongcha can rush up directly. The manufacturing difficulty of Lugong's chariot is not very difficult. The difficulty of manufacturing Lugong's chariot is very related to the height.
, the higher the height, the more difficult the construction will be.
The disadvantage of this weapon is that it is slower to maneuver than a ladder truck and requires many people and oxen and horses at the bottom to drag it slowly closer to the city wall. The advantage is that when the soldiers climb the ladder, they are under the cover of wooden boards and leather mud, and do not have to dodge.
If you lose a stone, you don’t hold up the ladder with your hands.
Therefore, soldiers who were no longer limited to short weapons such as swords and shields, and fought in formations with spears, halberds, and axes, could also ride Lu Gong's chariot directly to the city.
Obviously, Tian Jianxiu was killed a few days ago by Huang Degong's personal guard battalion in a gun formation, killing him from the horse again, and fighting out the psychological shadow. In order to prevent the thieves soldiers from suffering the disadvantages of too short weapons during hand-to-hand combat.
, they frantically enslaved the captured cannon fodder to build such a heavy wooden truck.
The army of more than 100,000 people held back dozens of Lu Gong's chariots in four days. At least every horse seat on the city wall could be divided into two, three or more seats. Even if one was damaged, there would always be a replacement.
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In the view of the generals of the Chuang Army, Shen Gouguan liked to place the Fo Lang machine sideways to provide side firepower. This layout was obviously very disadvantageous in today's battle situation.
Because originally, if the cannon was fired forward and saw Lu Gong's car rushing up, the heavy artillery could directly aim at Lu Gong's car and blast it.
Although Lu Gong's car is invulnerable, it is ineffective if it is lost by stones, and it is difficult to burn if set on fire. But if it is directly hit by a heavy artillery, no matter how thick the wooden plank protection is, it is useless. After all, the Hongyi cannon can penetrate even the wooden-hulled warships, and the wooden planks of the car are nothing.
fart.
But Chen Shuren took the wrong approach with his cannon and sword, so of course he will have to pay the price!
Far away on the battlefield, Li Zicheng relaxed when he saw his troops deploying smoothly, and he talked and laughed with Song Xiance.
"Let's see how Officer Shen Gou copes with our heavenly troops! Even if he has a small number of cannons that can temporarily adjust his deployment, or as a reserve force to bombard the front, he will never be able to cope with so many Lu Gong's vehicles! It is impossible to adjust the deployment angle in time.
!We attack from all sides and must find out where the weak points are as soon as possible!"
On the other side of the battlefield, as Huang Degong was busy preparing for defense, Shen Shuren, who heard about the new developments in the battle situation, could not sleep and hurried to the city to observe.
When he saw the Lu Gong car formation, he was slightly shocked, and quickly ordered: "Replace all the shrapnel shells! First, reload the single-headed bullets, and the bullet holder still needs to be added! Increase the stability of the projectiles! All the Folang machines rely on the cannon
Adjust the crossfire and aim at Lu Gong's car!
Don’t be impatient! Get closer before firing! Let the thieves see hope! Let them almost get on top of the horse before firing! Don’t scare the intruders in advance so that they dare not come!”