Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 447 The times are about to change
The Firearms Bureau is located on the outskirts of Nanjing, a heavily guarded and closely guarded place.

The scale of its security is astonishingly strict. The internal and external security work is all in the charge of the elite soldiers belonging to Jinyiwei, and the senior generals of Beizhen Fusi will personally sit in the town every day. If Chen Yunfu does not leave the capital, Mu Shiqun will Come once a month.

Without Chen Yunfu's warrant, even the King of Kyushu like Lan Yu has no right to enter this place.

"This is where the real heart of our country lies."

Chen Jinghe thought that what Chen Yunfu said was to go out to hunt in the city, but he didn't expect the latter to bring him here.

He once obtained a defective firecracker from the Firearms Bureau, but it was not here, but the discarded defective products were destroyed in a centralized manner. He asked Jin Yiwei to keep one for him. When he really entered the Firearms Bureau, Chen Jinghe Not enough to qualify.

"Since the 12th year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu set up the Firearms Bureau independently of the Bingzhan Bureau. The research and development of firearms has been going on for nearly 30 years, but it has been tepid. It was not until the first year of Yongle that the country's finances began to improve. Big support for Firearms Bureau.

Today, the Firearms Bureau has been transferred to the Academy of National Defense Science and Technology, and is no longer under the jurisdiction of any department. The annual research and development funds are also separately financed, and the amount is as high as 500 million taels. "

Chen Yunfu strode into the factory area of ​​the Firearms Bureau, and then came down to a school yard accompanied by several chief officials.

It is said to be a school ground, but it is actually the foot of a mountain.

Hundreds of feet away from where Chen Yunfu was sitting, dozens of targets were planted.

Chen Jinghe picked up the binoculars to observe, and said in surprise.

"It's so far away, the firecrackers can't hit it."

"Of course you can't hit the firecracker." A chief officer said with a smile: "Prince, this target is not set for the firecracker, but the artillery target."

Cannon target?

Chen Jinghe put down the binoculars and said, "Didn't it mean that the artillery has always been at risk of exploding, so that's why it wasn't used by the army?"

The chief officer did not reply, but looked at Chen Yunfu.

The latter answered.

"The problem of the bombing of the artillery was solved three years ago."

"Three years, isn't that before Chang Mao attacked North Korea? Why didn't the father give Uncle Chang support with firearms?"

Chen Yunfu said: "I didn't give it to him, and I didn't give it to Lan Yu. I won't give it to Feng Cheng when he goes to Yuezhou and Mu Chun to Lingzhou. At least, artillery won't come out before full industrialization."

Chen Jinghe instantly understood Chen Yunfu's reasoning.

Given the Changmao artillery, with Liaodong's now well-established ordnance production base, it is fully capable of mass-producing hundreds or even thousands of heavy artillery within ten years.

With a sharp blade in his body, he will kill himself.

Chen Yunfu always guarded against these foreign entrusted kings.

"These artillery pieces are only the first generation. They were officially mass-produced last year. Our Firearms Bureau named them Type 02 artillery pieces."

Dai Shaoning, supervisor of the Firearms Bureau, explained: "The Type 02 cannon has a caliber of [-] inches, and can shoot a [-]-jin lead shell or cast iron shell to a distance of [-] feet with guaranteed lethality.

At the beginning of the year, we imitated a section of the city wall according to the regulations of the Nanjing city wall. Fifty cannons fired ten rounds to destroy the entire city wall. "

Chen Jinghe was dumbfounded.

"The Nanjing City Wall can only last ten rounds of shelling?"

"This is only fifty cannons. If there are one hundred or two hundred cannons, there will be no strong city in front of the artillery."

Dai Shaoning said with a smile: "In addition, our Firearms Bureau is thinking about how to add gunpowder to the shells to realize the killing method of detonating after firing. This involves the technical problems of delayed detonation and built-in fuze. We have tested more than a dozen It failed again and again, and several co-workers were accidentally injured.”

"People are fine."

"The hospital of surgery has doctors here all the year round, and those who are injured can be treated in a timely manner. There is no problem in removing shrapnel, cleaning up infection, and suturing the wound."

"The protection of the gunpowder store should be especially careful."

Dai Shaoning nodded again and again: "There are thousands of barrels of gunpowder in a warehouse. If it blows up, the entire firearms department will probably be razed to the ground, so more than a dozen lightning protection measures have been made around the entire gunpowder warehouse. The extremely subtle fire prevention measures ensure that not a single spark will enter within fifty meters of the gunpowder warehouse."

Only then did Chen Yunfu feel relieved, he nodded and said, "Let's test the cannon."

"Yes."

Dai Shaoning turned around to prepare. Dozens of cannons were pulled out under the stands, and each cannon had three gunners performing their duties.

Including an observer with a telescope, a loader, and a launcher.

The observer holds the reed in his mouth, observes the distance with his eyes, and measures the wind direction and wind force through the swing of the reed, and then reports the number.

"Target No. 170 at [-] feet, subtract two from the height, and move the muzzle eastward by two points, let it go!"

The loaders are all strong men, and they put a cast iron shell weighing tens of kilograms into the barrel, and then the launcher standing in the powder compartment, which is the tail of the artillery, takes out a fire pocket and ignites the fuze.

With a bang.

Target No. [-] in the far distance, a tile-roofed house made of stone and soil, was blown to pieces.

It is not appropriate to say fried, it should be called, smashed.

The huge propelling force of gunpowder endows cast iron shells with huge kinetic energy. This is the most primitive way of using gunpowder on the battlefield, using huge kinetic energy to kill enemies or destroy city defense facilities.

A total of thirty targets, that is, thirty guns.

The final score was three empty in 27.

The hit rate is as high as [-]%.

Chen Yunfu put down the binoculars and praised in amazement: "Yes, yes, the gun is good, and the gunner is even better!"

Chen Jinghe, who was sitting next to Chen Yunfu, was even more dumbfounded.

Such accurate accuracy, such a long range, and such great lethality.

With this thing, is there any need for ballistas and catapults?

The crossbowmen are probably going to be eliminated.

"In front of the artillery, the military strategies left by our ancestors are destined to withdraw from the stage of history."

The formation method pays attention to orderliness and rigor, and artillery, what I like most is the orderly and strict military formation. Once fired, there will be a mess of casualties.

Dai Shaoning said: "This kind is solid bullets for siege, and there is another one-inch-sized iron bullets for cavalry or infantry formations. You can shoot hundreds of bullets at one time, and within [-] feet, they can wear iron armor. Call this kind of flower bomb."

Penetrating iron armor within [-] feet, people are still crushed into a sieve.

Hundreds of cannons per cannon, what about dozens of cannons, hundreds of cannons?

Chen Jinghe took a deep breath.

With war, isn't human life cheaper than water?

No wonder my father was unwilling to provide Chang Mao with firearms when he was fighting against the dynasty.

This kind of thing can't come out yet.

"Times are about to change."

(End of this chapter)