Qiming 1158

Chapter 91: The Extraordinary

I don't know when it started, the heartless cannon, which was born in the hands of our army in the 50s and [-]s, entered the public eye.

With many self-media descriptions of it, the public seems to have a misunderstanding of this thing - the conscientious cannon is a super easy to use, powerful, simple and very cheap civilian cannon.

To build a cannon without a conscience, all you need is an iron cylinder, explosive packs and gunpowder. It is economical and easy to use.

No matter when and where, the unconscionable cannon can be easily obtained without technical difficulty, and as long as the unconscionable cannon is set up, it can blow up all kinds of enemies and bleed, and then establish a victory, which can be attacked or defended on the battlefield. often unfavorable.

But is it really so?

If the unconscionable cannon is so easy to use and so amazing, why did it enter the military museum only after a short-lived flash in the 50s and [-]s?
The answer is obvious.

Cannons with no conscience are not so easy to use, and they are not magical. It is definitely more economical to say that they are more economical than real cannons, but the utility... It is hard to say.

Conscienceless Cannon, the official name is Flying Thunder Cannon. As the name suggests, it is a cannon that makes "thunder" fly. To put it bluntly, it is a large-scale home-made grenade cannon, or it can also be regarded as a home-made mortar.

Its birth has not been known when, but its full maturity is in the war of liberation.

The enemy army makes good use of many permanent or semi-permanent strong fortresses to guard the battlefield, while our army lacks artillery tanks and other offensive weapons, and almost relies on the brave sacrifice of blasting death squads to blast the fortresses one by one, resulting in huge loss of personnel.

In order to reduce casualties, the unconscionable gun came into being.

It is positioned as a weapon that does not use manpower to deliver explosive packs. It appears on the battlefield to attack fortifications, blow up permanent or semi-permanent military bunkers, and reduce casualties of our army.

The earliest unconscionable guns were actually digging a deep cylindrical pit on the ground inclined towards the target, placing gunpowder for pushing explosive packs at the bottom of the pit, placing explosive packs on top of the gunpowder for blasting the target, and using the thrust of the gunpowder to push the explosives. The bag is thrown to the target point to detonate.

The method of relying solely on the soil pit as the launch tube is, after all, too earthy, and it is difficult to grasp the relatively strict requirements of the pit wall diameter, the volume of the medicine chamber, and the inclination angle of the temporarily excavated soil pit.

This brings great uncertainty to the calculation of the distance to the target, the amount of gunpowder and the size of the explosive pack, so the flying thunderbolt was born.

The caliber of the fly mine tube is very different, ranging from 300mm to 500mm. The explosive package used to launch is generally more than ten kilograms, and the large one is more than 300 kilograms. The lethality is relatively ideal, and it is mainly used to attack the main and auxiliary defense facilities such as enemy fortifications, barbed wire, and deer villages, but it is basically unable to deal with infantry in motion.

In some museums, there are physical displays of flying thunderbolts. These flying thunderbolts for tourists are placed at a certain angle, and the front end is supported by a wooden frame, which is similar to the arrangement of mortars, but it must be It is clear that this is only a display method for people to visit, and it must not be a launch state during combat.

because of the recoil.

The explosion of gunpowder produces a huge driving force. This driving force is not the first force against the explosive pack, but the first force against the launcher. The launcher is hard enough, and the gunpowder has nowhere to go, but it has to go. You can only push the explosive pack away, and this is the complete launch.

And similar to the thin gasoline cans in the TV series, with a thin layer of iron backing on the back, and nothing else to cover the bottom, and then ignite the propellant to launch - believe me, this is definitely used for suicide.

Everyone should be familiar with the word bombing. Why does bombing occur?
To put it bluntly, the quality of the launch tube is not good enough, and it is not hard enough to lock the power of the gunpowder explosion, and it will explode.

So why are guns in the past generally thick barrels with small outlets?That is, the development of the iron smelting industry is not in place, and it is impossible to make iron that can make large-caliber artillery.

To put it bluntly, the unscrupulous cannon is just a gasoline barrel, a thin iron sheet, how can it withstand the huge recoil caused by the explosion of gunpowder?
Of course it can, because when it is actually launched, most of its body is firmly buried in the ground, and the gap between the outside of the cylinder and the pit wall is filled with soil, and the solid ground is used to absorb the heavy pressure and recoil generated by the propellant, and Improve safety factor.

This means that the firing of the unscrupulous gun requires not only the barrel, gunpowder and explosive packs, but also professional engineers to carry out solid soil work, which requires a considerable period of preparation.

Generally speaking, this time is between thirty and four ten minutes.

It is precisely because it takes too long and is almost immobile once it is ready to launch, so it can only be used to attack, attacking immovable heavy targets.

And when using, the army as a whole needs to be in a strategic offensive position, and the enemy is in a strategic defensive position, so as to ensure that the unconscionable cannon can really play a role, otherwise you will have a wave of counterattacks before you dig the enemy well...

The shortcomings of the unscrupulous cannon are not only that, its own performance and operation mistakes will also bring about heavy accidents.

For example, the lead used to ignite the propellant and the fuse of the explosive pack, many of the explosive packs thrown by the unconscionable gun still use manual ignition to ignite the fuse of the explosive pack, then the problem is, if the explosive pack is ignited The fuse also ignites the lead of the propellant, but what if the lead of the propellant fails but the fuse of the explosive pack does not fail?
It is precisely because of the existence of this security problem that even professional engineers cannot solve, the unscrupulous artillery gradually withdrew from the battlefield after our army captured more artillery pieces and entered the military museum.

It's true that native methods can create simplified versions of many modern firearms, but this is not without cost.

If you want to use the native method to avoid the technical and cost issues required for regular production, and to exploit the loophole, you must bear the backlash caused by the irregular operation of the native method, and the loss caused by this backlash will even exceed the profit brought by the loophole itself.

Otherwise, why do human beings pursue standardized large-scale industrial production?
Isn't it good for everyone to be together?
Having said that, I have to talk about the plots of many historical writers and readers. One is the plot of famous officials, famous generals and beauties, and the other is the plot of firearms.

Both emerged with the rise of web novels, and of course I have them too.

I feel that famous officials and generals are in my arms and beautiful women are in my arms, and the world is mine. I also feel that if you travel back to the past, you can make powerful firearms in minutes without any technical difficulty.

But the more books you write, the more information you check, and the older you get, the more unacceptable this statement is.

The former will not be said, and the latter will be said a little.

Perhaps it is China's modern times too humiliating, everyone is holding back a breath of revenge, and in the early years of the Internet, it was the big sword and spear that defeated the Qing army with sharp boats and sharp guns, so that we finally went to defeat.

So people think that China's failure is purely because the development of firearms is not in place. As long as the development of firearms is in place, we can turn over in an instant, become a foreign power, and raise our eyebrows.

Readers and authors are affected by this, and think that the development of firearms in historical novels is absolutely correct, and it is absolutely wrong not to develop firearms or to develop firearms immediately after crossing back.

Go back in time and not immediately develop firearms to hang everything?Are you out of your mind?
No matter how powerful the enemy is, as long as you develop firearms, you can win immediately. If you can't win - then develop more advanced firearms, you are a traveler!

Seriously, how many normal people can make even an arquebus or flintlock by hand?
Maybe, but I can't anyway, so neither can the protagonist I wrote.

He has no system, no golden brain, and some are just vague historical and technological trends. He knows a little knowledge of firearms and can draw a few decent pictures.

Speaking of which, how many people would normally know that the early gunpowder was not even a powder but a paste, which was not sufficiently burned and had a lot of impurities?
How many people know how to granulate gunpowder?

The most powerful is never the celestial traverser, but the Baidu that can connect to the Internet (so I brought a Baidu to the protagonist when I wrote the first Zhenguan strategy).

Of course firearms are good, of course I know, but I regard novels as my career, every novel is my hard work, I don’t want three chapters to make arquebuses and six to make flintlock guns, and three hundred chapters to even come out with tanks .

I'm not a professional either, so it would be a joke if I insist on being professional, and a lot of things can only be superficial.

I can only say that within the scope of my ability, I want to pursue reasonableness as much as possible.

Of course, I can't do it if it's completely reasonable. I also have to open the hanger that should be opened. For example, a bowman who can be trained in three months is basically skilled in two to three years...

So why is the success rate of ancient rebellions so low?
You can't come up with a reliable bowman, and the imperial court will always have an army of bows and crossbows that will give you a burst of shots, basically hitting GG.

To be rigorous, it requires the author's own professionalism. I remember reading a book called Xin Song in high school. It was quite rigorous, and it has left a deep impression on me to this day.

But most of the time, the author cannot be reasonable and rigorous in all aspects, and can only make a balance and trade-off between reasonable and open.

It takes time to improve gunpowder, and it takes time to manufacture and improve firearms. It takes time to train firearms troops, and it takes time to form combat effectiveness.

Manufacturing firearms requires money, a lot of manpower and material resources, enough raw materials, enough time for craftsmen to make trial and error, and it requires trial production before mass production.

Where is saltpeter, where is sulphur, where is iron ore, and where is copper ore.

The iron smelting ability is not in place, and the firearms produced always explode.

There are always individual differences in the manual manufacturing of artisans, and it is difficult to standardize production.

Looking at the smoothbore is unhappy, and if you want a rifled firearm, how should you pull the rifle?

Looking at the matchlock is unhappy, and I want to fluff my hair, what should I do?

I'm not happy with the solid bullet, and I want to open the bullet, what should I do?

These are all questions that arise when I write a book, and I can't convince myself to skip one step and pretend they don't exist at all.

I couldn't convince myself to ignore the protagonist's existential crisis and economic crisis. I just wanted him to spend money on technological innovation while surviving, and instantly turn the cold-weapon army into a hot-weapon for all members, and a Gatling manpower swept the entire army.

So every time I see the sayings like "I've been traveling for so many years, I still don't use firearms" and "Use firearms to fight against cavalry", I really don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Every time I see this statement, it makes me feel that making firearms is like throwing a mass of soil into an instant shape like Nuwa makes a human. The maintenance beforehand and a series of technical problems do not exist.

Moreover, the firearm itself has become like a powerful pill. As long as one piece is used to cure all diseases, all problems will be solved. Modern firearms can use local methods to create a simple version and then kill the Quartet...

Having said that, I will briefly explain my attitude. I warmly welcome those who agree, and I can't help those who disagree. Let's get to know each other and become familiar with each other.

In addition, after the firearms force will inevitably go online, tactical innovation will inevitably appear.

Because even the early version of the fire door gun can deal a heavy blow to the heavy armor of the Jin Song era, ending the era of heavy armor in a sense.

The kinetic energy generated by gunpowder and the kinetic energy of the bow and crossbow are not on the same level. Within the effective range, the projectile can do things that the crossbow arrow can never do.

But how long after that, I don't know.

Sincerely, salute.

I'm going to bed.

(End of this chapter)