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Chapter 248

If some judge opened the perspective of a false god and heard Shen Shuren and Huang Degong mention "a kind of artillery shell that can still maintain a huge area of ​​lethality at a long distance", then most of them would think that this shell is a flowering shell, or an explosive shell .

After all, in many time-traveling novels, after returning to ancient times, the protagonist's mouth will be touched, and a flower will be created.

But Shen Shuren has no system and no supernatural powers. As a humanities student in his previous life, at the beginning of this year, he had a whim and briefly tried to make explosives, and even had a deep chat with Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing.

It's a pity that Shen Shuren immediately understood the complexity of the problem as soon as he started.

In particular, the fuze of the flowering bomb cannot be solved by the technology of this era, so he can only give up decisively - the flowering bomb is not as simple as putting explosives into the hollow shell, the key is to ensure that the explosive detonates at the right time .

How do you ensure that the internal charge of the shell explodes when it is hit by the impact of the landing?What if it exploded directly in the barrel before it was fired?

The shell suffered an impact when it was pushed out of the chamber, but it was stronger than when it finally fell to the ground.

After all, energy is conserved. The kinetic energy of the shell when it hits the ground must be less than the kinetic energy when it exits the muzzle, and the work done by air resistance during flight must be subtracted.

The high-explosive bombs that triggered the fuze in history were basically not considered technically stable in the Western world until the eve of the 1870s and the Franco-Prussian War, which was already the product of the second industrial revolution.

Even during the Napoleonic Wars, there were no highly effective explosive bombs. The only primitive grenades at that time required manual ignition of the lead wire connected to the internal charge on the shell before firing, and then ignited the propellant charge lead wire, which was very dangerous.

To put it bluntly, it is launching a time bomb, and if there is an error in the speed of ignition, it may lead to early or late detonation or duds.

Shen Shuren resolutely gave up on such a dangerous thing, and tried another route.

Then, a few months ago, when he was working with Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing on the "Follow-up Application of Deep Digging Shotgun", he came up with an idea.

The source of this idea, coincidentally, should be thanks to the two Sega strategy games played by Shen Shuren in his previous life - "Total War of Empire" and "Total War of Napoleon".

Because he has repeatedly played the battles of those two games, even after crossing, he still has a fresh memory of the technology tree settings in the game, and then remembered that there was a transitional product between ordinary shotgun and flowering bullets in the game, named It's called "primitive shrapnel".

It is said to be "shrapnel", but it is actually just a kind of shotgun with a support that diverges relatively late, and it does not have the attribute of "shrapnel".And what was made following that train of thought was what Shen Shuren was going to show Huang Degong at this moment.

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"This kind of ammunition, I named it the shrapnel, is based on the wooden barrel, and the bottom of the bullet holder is thickened, so that the flight in the first hundred steps after being released from the chamber is a little more stable.

At the same time, this bullet holder is lined with a layer of iron sheet more than the bottom plate of ordinary wooden barrels, which can ensure that it will not be exploded when it is ejected.The front side partition of the wooden barrel is thinner than ordinary wooden barrel ammunition, which ensures that it will be broken when it comes out of the chamber, exposing the contents of the barrel to the wind.

There is also no need to worry that the bullet holder will affect the flight when the projectile is rolling, because after the barrel is released, the wind force in front of the barrel is very strong, and the wind resistance received by the finely divided projectile inside is relatively small compared to its own weight, and the deceleration is also small.The wind resistance decelerated by the wooden barrel and the bottom bracket is large, and they will fall off naturally.

Such a base protects the shotgun pellets inside, and if they condense into a ball, they can fly dozens of steps or even a few steps in vain before they disperse.Not only has the killing effect of the shotgun, but it can also fly a hundred steps longer before showing 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 stunned by the fantastic ideas in it.

Shen Shuren's idea is very real, if he can't solve the problem of triggering the fuze, then he simply doesn't solve it, and he doesn't pursue the self-detonation of the cannonball, he just needs to fly a certain distance, then scatter the contents, and delay the scatter action.

Relying on wind resistance to deshell is technically much easier than triggering a fuze. If you can’t understand it, you can imagine the shell-piercing armor-piercing shells of later generations of tank guns. The wind resistance is small, and the wind force naturally blows the casing lagging behind the bullet core, and it comes out.

Shen Shuren's action can be regarded as the end of the troll.

He has been in Daming for three years and has been dealing with firearms for three years. He has never been able to create a mainstream time-traveling artifact like other great science and engineering time-travelers. In this respect, it is a shame for the time-travelers.

But he knows how to use waste, and he can do whatever he can, and finally he became a troll expert.Whether it's a bird gun, a turtle dove gun or a Franji red cannon, all the guns that can be sprayed are magic weapons for dealing with light armored thieves, and they can be called spraying gods.

After Huang Degong thought about it carefully, he was overjoyed and asked eagerly, "Have you tried this thing? Can you have a shot?"

Shen Shuren looked contemptuous: "Of course I tried it. Is there any reason to go to the battlefield without trying the weapon that I have asked about! But I can't try it here. In case the rogue scouts outside the city see it, it will lose its suddenness. It's a pity that I have to try it in the school field in the city.

Besides, the artillerymen of our army are all old people brought by me from Wuchang, and the backbone of them has participated in the previous Dongting Lake battle. "

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In the afternoon of that day, Huang Degong followed Shen Shuren to the temporary school yard in the city, and had a live ammunition test to get used to it.

At the same time, Shen Shuren also started to temporarily re-optimize the city walls of Shangcai City, and remodeled the four horse faces on each side of the city walls, as well as the turrets.

Shangcai City is not big, so there are only [-] horse faces and four turrets in the whole city, and a total of [-] city wall ancillary buildings need to be upgraded.

It’s just that the outer wall is slightly curved and sloped, and the workload is not too big.

Yesterday's bloody battle left thousands of corpses on each side of the thieves, which needed to be buried to prevent them from rotting and contagious diseases, so the Ming army directly piled the dead under the city wall, and then transported the cannon fodder of the thieves to fill them up. The soil on the slope of the trench can be slightly trimmed and shaped into the desired shape, and there is no need to dig and transport it from other places.

The bandit scouts also noticed these little tricks, but the guards actually buried the dead at the foot of the city wall and piled up the soil.

They all thought: This guard is really stupid!Wouldn't the pile of dead people and soil under the horse-faced wall make the slope more gentle and easier to climb up when attacked in the future?

The two sides were making their own preparations, one was building new siege weapons, the other was burying corpses and repairing them hastily, two or three days passed quickly.

And on the second night of the stalemate, Huang Degong reported to Shen Shuren a news, saying that he found that the bandit soldiers and horses had lit torches overnight, along the north bank of Rushui, and penetrated to the southwest sides of the city, as if they were encircling The defenders retreat.

After Shen Shuren heard this, he was not surprised, and said calmly: "Don't panic, our army has enough food and grass in the city, even if we are completely besieged by Li Zicheng and cut off the food road, Li Zicheng's people must be the first to starve to death.

However, we have to beware of their ghost tricks such as reducing troops and increasing stoves, increasing troops and reducing stoves.They have people carry torches around the city every night, most likely hoping that our army will be paralyzed, and then one of the nine fakes will be entrained to sneak attack and attack the city. "

Shen Shuren couldn't guess what the enemy was trying to do, and he was not a god, but there was no big mistake in being careful, the general direction could still be figured out, it was just that he didn't know which time it was the real thing.

So, both parties seemed to wait for the second boot to hit the ground after hearing the first boot hit the floor upstairs, and they were so tense and exhausted for a while until the early morning of the fourth day. The second wave of offensive was finally fully launched under seemingly complete preparations.

Before dawn that day, the bandit army patrolled with torches as usual.But at dawn, when Huang Degong was patrolling the city, he discovered that there were a large number of bandit soldiers from all directions in Ruyang County, and they had prepared siege equipment. All out assault.

Looking at the size of the soldiers, it is definitely not as simple as Tian Jianxiu and Liu Fangliang. It is estimated that the main force of the Chinese army led by Li Zicheng has participated, and it is estimated that there will be 10,000+ in total.

More importantly, Huang Degong saw that the thieves had dispatched a siege vehicle that was taller and stronger than the ladder vehicle, the Lugong vehicle invented since the Song Dynasty!
"It's actually Lu Gong's car! Is this intended to let soldiers with long weapons go directly to the city from inside the car! Let the guards disperse everywhere on horseback, ready to fight hand-to-hand with guns at any time!" Huang Degong took a look, and immediately He saw through the plot of the thief.

People who don't know ancient history may not have heard of such things as 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 planks and raw cowhide poured mud. There is a ladder like a spiral staircase inside, allowing soldiers to go around in circles and go up the ladder, and then open it. The front part of Lv Gong's car is built on the same board as the suspension bridge, which is directly erected on the city wall, so that soldiers can walk directly on the city wall on flat ground.

The city wall of Shangcai County is only one foot seven or eight feet high, so there is a solid wooden building with a height of two feet. Lu Gongcart can rush up directly. It is not difficult to manufacture. The difficulty of manufacturing Lu Gongcart is very related to height , the higher the construction difficulty is.

The disadvantage of this weapon is that its maneuverability is slower than that of the ladder car, and it needs a lot of people and cows and horses at the bottom to drag it slowly close to the city wall. The advantage is that when soldiers climb the ladder, they are under the cover of wooden boards and leather mud, so they don't have to dodge. Yaishi doesn't need to hold the ladder with his hands either.

Therefore, they are no longer limited to short weapons such as swords and shield soldiers. Soldiers who fight in arrays with spears, halberds and axes can also go directly to the city in Lu public vehicles.

Obviously, Tian Jianxiu was killed by Huang Degong's personal guard battalion a few days ago and killed him from the horse's face again, killing him out of the psychological shadow.In order to prevent the rogue soldiers from suffering from the disadvantage that their weapons were too short in hand-to-hand combat, they frantically enslaved the captured civilian cannon fodder and rushed to build such a heavy wooden building cart.

There were 10,000+ people in the army, and dozens of Lvgong cars were held up in four days. At least every horse face on the city wall could be divided into two or three or more, and even if one was broken, there would be a substitute.

From the perspective of the Chuangjun generals, Shen Gouguan likes to place the Frang machine sideways to provide side firepower, which is obviously very unfavorable in today's battle situation.

Because originally, if the cannons were fired forward, the heavy artillery could directly aim at Lu Gong's car when they saw Lu Gong's car rushing up.

Although Lu Gong's car is invulnerable to swords and guns, arrows and stones are ineffective, and it is difficult to burn it down if it is set on fire.But if it is directly hit by heavy artillery, no matter how thick the wooden boards are for protection, after all, Hongyi cannons can even penetrate wooden battleships, and the wooden boards of cars are nothing.

But Shen Shuren used the cannon sword to take the slant, of course he will have to pay the price!

In the distance of the battlefield, Li Zicheng's expression relaxed when he saw his troops unfolding smoothly, chatting and laughing with Song Xiance.

"Let's see how Officer Shen Dog will deal with our heavenly soldiers! Even if he has a small amount of cannons, he can adjust the deployment temporarily, or use it as a reserve team to bombard the front outside, but he will definitely not be able to deal with so many Lugong vehicles! It is impossible to adjust the deployment angle in time. ! We attack from all directions, we must find out where the weak gap is as soon as possible!"

On the other side of the battlefield, as Huang Degong was intensively preparing for defense, Shen Shuren, who heard about the new developments in the battle situation, couldn't sleep and rushed to the city to observe.

He was a little shocked when he saw the Lügong formation, and quickly ordered: "Change all the shrapnel shells! First reload the slug shells, and the shells still need to be added! Increase the stability of the projectiles! All the French machine guns Adjust the crossfire and aim at the bus Lu!

Don't worry!Get closer and hit again!Let the thieves see hope!Let them be almost on the horse's face before firing!Don't scare the intruders away in advance! "

(End of this chapter)