Chapter 1,428 Infantry Artillery

This place is simply a treasure house. Bian Guan himself has a good family background and knows medical skills. Everyone exchanged ideas with each other. Bian Guan cured many diseases in the tribe, and the old patriarch cured diarrhea for the crew members.

As a result of the two people's sympathy for each other, Bian Gu directly became a demigod like the elder wizard.

My father is a foodie and my mother is a doctor, so the flat jar pays special attention to collecting crops and medicines.

Among them, there is a kind of fat ginseng, which is ignored by the local people and can be found everywhere in the forest. It was found in a flat jar that it has the same therapeutic effects as ginseng.

So the big ship stayed here for half a month. There were many empty cabins on the ship, and the flat tank took up two cabins.

Because we were going further south, in order to prevent malaria, we also brought a cabin of bark and seeds called cinchona by the locals, which have miraculous effects on malaria.

In exchange, Bian Guan led the crew to build a large wooden house for the tribe as a sacrificial hall. Under the leadership of Atan's hunting team, he used magic guns to eliminate several large brown bears that were causing trouble to the tribe.

In the end, he left large saws, axes and other steel logging tools to the aborigines, and exchanged gifts with Atan, exchanging a dagger for an obsidian ax and a meteorite necklace, before continuing his voyage.

From Atan's gestures, [Pencil Novel www.qbxs.vip] Bian Gu already knew that this was a huge continent, and the chair thought that this was the legendary Dongsheng China.

These people should have come from the Central Plains just like Jizi who entered Goryeo, Taibo who entered Wu, and Zhongyong who entered Yue.

Because he found that the bare-butt children here had the same blue mark on their buttocks as his brother Colander when he was a child. The witchcraft here was also very similar to the original witchcraft of the Erlin Department.

There are also some pictographic patterns, and there are similar textures on Shang and Zhou bronzes.

The flat jar asked the chair to draw all these, and at the same time collected some pottery, fabrics, wood, stone ball throwers, etc. as evidence.

We have to wait until we are lucky enough to go back for detailed research.

The fjord has no exit to the east, so it has to go south.

Another reason that attracted Bian Gu to go south was that he wanted to visit the big cities indicated by the aborigines, although he heard that the people there were not very friendly and it was normal for villages to kill each other.

According to the meaning of the aborigines, the people there call themselves the yellow sticks, because the seeds on the yellow sticks are very similar to jade beads? The flat pot named it "jade beads rice".

Calling yourself "Yuzhumi"? This is the same as the word "Lai" in Laishan No. 1.

Lai is a country named after the wheat called "Lai" in ancient times.

Therefore, corn is probably a crop that can become a country's staple food, and it has been planted on a large scale.

You have to go and see if this is true.

Before setting off, Bian Gu erected a stone monument according to the rules. Because the climate here is mild and the people and customs are like those of ancient China. After everyone voted, they agreed to name this place "Wenhua County".

Back on the boat, Bian Guan said to Zhao Xiaoyi: "Brother, we have to prepare weapons and train everyone."

Zhao Xiaoyi disapproved of the aborigines who were playing with stone weapons: "Do they still dare to attack us?"

Bian Guan said: "Listen to Brother Atang. The further south you go, the bigger the aboriginal city-states will be, and there are still endless battles there. It is a small version of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. We won't stir up trouble, but we must guard against it.

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Zhao Xiaoyi nodded: "Try to prepare as many goods as possible? It is best to solve it through trade. Of course, military training must also be carried out? I found that Atan's sling ropes are still somewhat powerful."

The sling rope is two ropes covered with a piece of leather, with a pebble sandwiched between them. How many times do you swing it? Then let go of one end, the rope opens, and the stone bullet will fly out and hit the target.

The power is still quite good? But it is much worse than the crossbow.

There was a thunderbolt on the Screwtap? But it was too heavy to carry ashore.

It is also equipped with thirty magical muskets and two thousand rounds of muskets, but in order to ensure the future voyage, we dare not use them indiscriminately.

On the other hand, they used flat cans of black powder made from readily available materials, safe nitrate explosives made by adding carbon powder and flour to nitroglycerine, and got some cotton from Atan's tribe, and now they can also make nitrocotton bags. These are not surprising.

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So when the ship was heading south, the science and engineering team met to discuss how to make a portable cannon.

Now that there is thunder silver, the fuse can be made, and the shell of the shell can also be cast and cut from cast iron and brass, and just put on a lead ring.

But the barrel is a bit troublesome.

The chair says it's not troublesome. Aren't the materials for our mast just round tubes? And the tubes are extremely strong and made of forged steel, so they can be used as gun barrels.

Together, everyone thinks it makes sense. The forged steel mast can withstand a high boring pressure and can be used to launch cannonballs.

Just do what you say, so the science and engineering team was divided into two teams, one team designed the artillery, and the other team designed the artillery shells.

The final product looks very weird, like an enlarged magic weapon.

The mast with an inner diameter of 40 mm is used for the gun barrel. In order to strengthen it, some thicker masts are also added to the muzzle and breech position.

The breech block adopts the breech block design of the Thunderbolt gun, and the shell absorbs the design of the Volvo shell, which is similar to the olive shape with tail fins like a mortar.

However, the loading method is similar to the earliest marine thunder cannon. First, load the warhead, then fill the nitrifying charge bag, then fill the brass base with the fuze, close the breech block and then pull the rope to launch.

The only improvement is that the chair is designed with an air inlet hole on the breech block, which uses the high pressure of the gas after the explosion to reset the spring firing pin in the breech block again.

There are two types of artillery shell designs, one is a thick-shelled, pure explosive shell; the other is a thin-shelled, short cylinder cut out of steel bars, placed between the explosive and the shell, as an anti-personnel bomb with a large number of fragments.

To be precise, it should be called shrapnel.

This gun is very light, with a barrel length of 1.5 meters and a gun frame that weighs only three hundred kilograms. It is equipped with a pair of wheels. The legs of the gun frame are very long and can also be used as handles. A sergeant can pull it backwards like a cart.

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But the power is not small. It fires a pound and a half of artillery shells, and the effective range can reach two miles for horizontal fire, three miles for curved fire, and the maximum range is five miles.

The lightness is similar to that of Fulu Cannon, but its power is much stronger than that of Fulu Cannon.

This kind of gun has a very simple body structure and shell structure, and it has a smooth bore. The gun body is much more difficult to process than the Thunderbolt cannon, and the shells are much more difficult to process than the Fulu cannon that comes with its own propellant charge.

And it fills the firepower gap between the Thunderbolt Cannon and the Volupt Cannon.

The flat cans themselves did not expect that their design would fill a gap in the artillery of the Song Dynasty.

Su You was a novice in weapons. In his mind, the word smoothbore gun represented backwardness.

Little did they know that until the 21st century, most tanks actually used smoothbore cannon designs.

For this cannon, they specially found a quiet harbor and stopped for three days to process three new weapons, which the science and engineering team named "infantry cannon."

At the same time, a complete set of molds and about thirty cannonballs were processed.

The artillery sighting system is based on the design of the thunderbolt gun. The brake system is because the gun body and ammunition are not heavy, and the rate of fire is not high. In addition, the hydraulic brake is too difficult to process, so only the simplest spring brake is temporarily used.

"Ahead - 850 meters red flag, put it down!"

"Boom——"

A roar erupted from a rocky beach in the strait, startling the seabirds to fly out and cover the sky.

At the red flag position 850 meters in front of the artillery position, a huge explosion sounded, and the bark of the wooden piles within ten meters of the surrounding area was blown away.

After three rounds, the science and engineering team came forward to check the shooting effect.

Almost all the wooden piles are inlaid with a lot of cylindrical steel balls, and the depth of the nearby wooden piles can reach seven or eight centimeters.

"Awesome! What a divine weapon!" Long Haisheng couldn't help but exclaimed: "This is much more lethal than the Fulu Cannon!"

In fact, it’s not the cannon that’s great, but the breakthrough in the design of anti-personnel shotguns.

The shooting range was designed according to the standard test shooting range. The flat cans and chairs had been hanging out with Ishitomi and Chen Zhaoming in the arsenal for a long time. Just like the children of later generations of military engineers, they were no strangers to test firing of artillery and muskets.

Both the flat can and the chair were a little surprised that their designs could achieve such an effect. If conditions allowed, using copper shells and having the high rate of fire of a thunderbolt cannon, this thing would be much easier to use than the Volucan cannon!

With the infantry cannon, Bian Guan felt that the safety of leaving the ship was guaranteed, and ordered to set sail again.

The further south you go, the more and more aboriginal settlements become larger and larger.

Some settlements are equivalent to a county town in the Song Dynasty, and there are even large markets for exchanging goods.

The arrival of Bian Gu and his team also caused a sensation.

Because this group of people can be identified as "noble people" at a glance.

Even in settlements, most places are still engaged in slash-and-burn cultivation. Here in Bianguan, I finally saw patches of fields of corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, quinoa, pumpkins, and sweet potatoes, and learned about the origins of these crops.
Chapter completed!