"What are you working on?" Alice asked listlessly, looking at Tang Mo who had been sitting there motionless for more than an hour, playing with strange parts in his hands.
"If you insist on giving it a name...you can call it...fuze." Tang Mo said without taking his eyes away from the parts in his hand.
"Fuze? What is that?" Alice had never heard of this word before and continued to ask with doubts on her face.
"Maybe it's a switch for some kind of super weapon in the future." Tang Mo smiled and put a part that Matthews had made for him through the spring and carefully hung it on a device.
What he is working on now is a bump fuse. This thing is the most important device on the artillery shell. With it, a cannon shell can detonate when it needs to explode most.
In fact, Tang Mo began to develop this kind of thing after he developed mercury fulminate. But it was obvious that this thing was too precise and Tang Mo's factory could not mass-produce it.
Matthews and several senior technicians helped make some parts, and then Tang Mo made one by himself every day, barely making dozens of fuses that could probably be used for artillery shells.
This was the cost that Tang Mo started trying to produce cannons in a hurry. He really had the ability to make new cannons, so he hurriedly smelted half of the guns on armed merchant ships and used the steel to make his own cannons.
Tang Mo also knew that he could not eat a fat man in one bite, so the artillery he wanted to make was not actually too advanced.
The drawings he drew were of the famous Krupp first-generation rear-loading artillery, that is, the C64 frame retractable gun.
The retractable gun does have many shortcomings, and it is also an early type of artillery that is not advanced. However, this kind of artillery has the advantages of a relatively simple structure and a relatively light weight.
Of course, for Tang Mo, this kind of artillery has another advantage that cannot be ignored: it has low technical difficulty and is relatively easy to manufacture!
This type of artillery adopts a rear-loading form, which is much more advanced than the widely used front-loading Cyric artillery.
Its main feature is the trapezoidal transverse wedge breech block. The screw drives the trapezoidal transverse wedge in structure. When it retreats, the thickness of the breech block becomes smaller, making it easier to extract. When it moves forward, the thickness of the breech block increases to achieve a tight seal.
There are some differences with modern artillery. This kind of breech is pulled out from the side of the gun body, which looks very strange.
The advantages of using post-loading are very obvious in terms of firing rate and air tightness, so whether it is range, shooting accuracy, or loading speed, Tang Mo's new artillery is far ahead of the times.
According to the paper technical parameters of the Krupp artillery, the caliber of the C64 field frame's retracted gun is only 80 mm, and the caliber excluding the rifling is only 78 mm, which is not too large.
However, the effective range of this artillery actually reached 3500 meters! This can be said to be very amazing. You know, because Cyric's artillery is a front-loading cannon, its air tightness is not good. If you want to achieve a similar range,
The caliber and charge are much larger.
What's more, Tang Mo's new artillery also uses a brand-new shell structure and uses real explosive grenades, which is completely different in terms of power.
If a similar Cyric front-loading gun wants to compete with Tang Mo's new artillery in terms of range and power, it must weigh at least two tons. This level of artillery has extremely poor maneuverability and can basically not keep up with the march of the troops.
speed.
Such artillery is often fixed artillery equipped in castles and fortresses, similar to fortress artillery. The field artillery that follows the infantry cannot achieve the performance of the C64 artillery anyway.
Another reason why Tang Mo chose this kind of artillery was that he valued the transportation and maneuverability of this field gun.
At least, this is the most suitable field artillery in terms of weight and power that he can easily make.
The total field weight of the Krupp C64 artillery is 1.1 tons, which is a more appropriate weight for transportation and towing by horses.
In addition, this kind of artillery is also equipped with a trolley for loading shells, which can be connected for easy transportation. It is considered a relatively successful design of early artillery.
In a new factory building that had just been built, a brand new steam engine was producing brand new gun barrels. Tang Mo was preparing to produce a batch of new artillery before the war came, to give those arrogant enemies a big surprise.
With rear-loading artillery and brand-new grenades, as long as Tang Mo is given another month, he will be able to form a powerful artillery and change the course of the war.
Although the weapon-only theory is incorrect, if there is a difference in weapons, the power of the weapons can really crush the enemy's bravery.
The barrel length of this type of cannon, named Type 1 artillery by Tang Mo, is 1930 mm, which is about 24 times the caliber. The weight of the entire barrel is 285 kilograms. Its high and low shooting angle is between -6.5 degrees and 20 degrees.
The horizontal angle of incidence is 5 degrees.
The high-explosive shells it fired weighed 4.3 kilograms, and the shell charge was 170 grams. As for another type of shrapnel, Tang Mo had no intention of making it, because he was almost exhausted from just making grenades.
The muzzle velocity of the artillery's ammunition is 357m/s. The data is definitely quite satisfactory. Due to the manufacturing accuracy, Tang Mo estimates that the maximum range of this artillery is about 3300 meters, which is not up to Krupp's nominal maximum range of 3500 meters.
Range. Even so, this is a terrifying value of more than three kilometers.
Tang Mo estimated that under the premise of ensuring the production quantity of K1 fast guns and revolvers, he could produce 6 C64 field guns a month.
These artillery pieces allow him to form an artillery battery, which can effectively support his recruit battalion in combat. And with these artillery pieces and the K1 fast-gun revolver, his recruit battalion's combat effectiveness can easily defeat three times the number of opponents.
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"What are you doing again? If you don't want to tell me, just forget it." Alice asked for trouble and said with some resentment.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "It happened to be these messy things that saved your beloved Beiling." Tang Mo still had no intention of accommodating the beauty, and put the assembled fuse
He put it aside and shook his sore fingers.
After saying that, he looked at Alice: "By the way, you've been living here for five days, why haven't you gone back to Beiling?"
John and his four remaining boats had left Bunas for two days, and when they left, one of them was reluctant to leave and burst into tears.
If you didn't know about his relationship with Tang Mo, you would really think that the two of them were close friends who had been through thick and thin together for many years.
Before leaving, John also promised Tang Mo that he would return to Bunas with more gold coins in four months at the latest to settle the debt between them.
Of course, what really made John cry was actually the contents loaded in these four armed merchant ships: parts of two steam engines, a finished steam engine assembled for mining, 100 K1 fast guns, and 200 rotating
Revolvers and the ammunition used in them.
In addition, there are also the most valuable ones, the design drawings of steam engines and related machine tools, the design drawings and material parameters of the K1 fast gun and revolver, and a family of three plenipotentiary technical representatives sent by the Datang Group.
What he took away was his hope of promotion and fortune, and also his hope of revitalizing the Yangmu Kingdom! And the 11 armed merchant ships he left behind, as well as more than 400 elven slave sailors, and all the income from this maritime trade,
It is Tang Mo's hope...
"What? You don't welcome me so much?" Alice has become accustomed to Tang Mo, a straight man, in the past two days, so she is not so angry. On the contrary, she took advantage of a woman's natural advantages and turned from defense to offense.
Tang Mo was already a little overwhelmed by pretending to be stupid and cute.
Seeing that Tang Mo had made up his mind not to speak, she continued: "Actually, I am going back soon. Of the 20 steam engines you promised me, 15 have been shipped out one after another. I have written to my father to tell him
He and I will return to Beiling with the last shipment."
"Are you leaving?" Hearing that this charming and beautiful girl was going back to Beiling, Tang Mo suddenly felt happy that he had been released from prison.
"You sound very happy." His joy was so obvious that after he finished speaking, Alice heard some overtones in his words that annoyed her.
Tang Mo quickly pretended to be depressed: "No, how is that possible? I'm very sorry that I can't see a beautiful girl like you again. I will be very depressed."
"Your acting skills are so poor!" Alice complained dissatisfiedly.
"I didn't act." Tang Mo argued.
Alice bitterly gave evidence: "The corners of your mouth are about to split to the earlobes!"
"How is it possible? I'm not a snake." Tang Mo didn't accept this at all and continued to retort.
"You're still laughing!" Alice pretended to be angry.
Tang Mo continued to refuse to admit that this was one of his tricks to deal with Alice: "No, it's just because I remembered a funny thing."
"Don't be too happy too soon!" Alice showed a wicked smile.
"Why?" Tang Mo was stunned and instinctively felt the danger.
Sure enough, Alice suddenly said proudly: "Because I lied to you! I didn't write a letter to my father! I want to stay here to see what mess you are doing."
Tang Mo slapped his face with his hands and covered his eyes - he knew that the most difficult thing in the world was not the F22 Raptor fighter jet biting behind his fuselage, but the woman.
Before time travel, he had many women, all kinds of beautiful, coquettish, sexy and wild. But there was only one woman who left scars on him that could not be healed for a long time.
Every time he thought of that woman, Tang Mo would feel dazed for a moment. There were not many good women in this world, and even fewer women who were willing to die for a man... Unfortunately, Tang Mo met one and lost her.
Just when Alice reminded Tang Mo of the vague figure of the woman he would never see again, a fast horse galloped through the streets of Bunas Town.
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