The Thunder gun car was settled like this, but the drawing of another artillery has never seen it.
In fact, this artillery is a famous Napoleon gun in history. It is an absolute classic weapon. With its strong maneuverability, fierce firepower, and very simple and effective manufacturing and use. During the American Civil War, both the war were widely used, so they were famous. Of course, this naming was not the Napoleon of Napoleon, which was known in the later generations, but the name of his nephew Napoleon III. Named it with the M1857 12 pounds.
Napoleon gun is made of bronze instead of iron, so it is extremely strong. It can withstand the explosion of heavy medicine or double medicine without rupture. The maximum range can reach about two kilometers. At the same time Cannons, but also have a high firing accuracy. Napoleon can fire solid artillery shells, blasting bombs, bombs and grenades like most artillery at the same time. , Firepower, mobility and relatively light weight.
A standard twelve -pound Napoleon gun and gun rack, the wheels are all bronze casting, the gun cannon is about one meter and seven, the diameter is 117 millimeters, and the diameter of the left and right wheels is one meter four or five. Body, gun rack plus wheels) 1,100 pounds, but the gun itself is only 557 kilograms. If it is converted into the weight of the Ming Dynasty, it is less than 1,000 kilograms, but the power range is more powerful than two thousand pounds. Hongyi artillery is still slightly better.
The manufacturing Napoleon is not technically difficult, but the material is very troublesome, because the materials for making guns are actually the best for steel, followed by copper or bronze Materials are the worst of cooked iron, and the cast iron is the worst. However, it is unrealistic in a large number of steelmaking casting guns at present. It can only find ways on copper and iron.
Bronze is actually a copper alloy, mainly alloy with copper and tin raw materials. China's tin mine is very rich, ranking second in the world, and it is also very early. There are fewer, ranking worldwide, but the quality of ore in Chinese copper ore is poor, the utilization rate is not high, and the difficulty of opening is also large. In addition, copper is also a circulating currency in China. The casting is much larger. Therefore, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they were made of iron cannons, and there were very few copper guns.
However, although the cost of bronze cannons is much larger than the iron cannon, the performance and service life must also be more excellent in the performance and service life. A red cannon, if it is a cast iron, the general number of usage is about 500 times, cooked cooked, cooked The iron can reach about 600 to 800 times, and the copper or bronze can be used, but it can reach 1,000 to 1,500 times. At the same time, the copper cannon is much lighter than the iron cannon. The difference between iron cannon is not very huge, so Shang Yi also believes that in the merchant army, it is completely necessary to assemble an appropriate proportion of copper guns.
Now Shang Yi's acquisition of more than 30,000 kg of copper mines, at least you can start making several Napoleon guns to see. However, Shang Yi intends to mix with bronze, cannon and wheels. Strive to control the whole guns mostly within 1,200 pounds, and it can also reduce the use of bronze.
Running guns, tube wind guns, Napoleon guns are the three major technical research that needs to be completed in the arsenal. At the same time, Shang Yi also proposed some small improvements and upgrades.
First of all, Shangyi asked the arsenal to create a flowering bullet. At present, the shells used by the Merchant Army are solid bombs and bombs. The former has a long range, but the lethality is small. Although the latter is large, the range is too close.
You can comprehensively integrate the advantages of the two.
The flowering bomb is also called blasting bullets. The principle is very simple, that is, a hollow ball with gunpowder and some iron sheets. After launch, use time quotation to detonate the shells, the explosion of the gunpowder, the splashing iron sheet and the shell are bursting.
The scattered pieces are used to kill the enemy. This not only increases the power of the cannonball, but also does not reduce the range. It can be said that it is done.
Although the flowering bomb fired by the artillery is fired in principle, although the flowers fired in the principle, the technical difficulty is much greater.
The broken shell wall is not lethal, and the result becomes a real solid bomb. If the shell wall is too thin, and the pressure of the artillery can not be held, resulting in the cannon shells still cracks in the cannon bore, but will instead will be cracked, but will instead will be.
The power can only find the most suitable size by trials once and once.
Another technical difficulty is the time queria. The material for the timing of the landscape must not only be flamored, but also keeps burning under the collision of the distance, it is not easy to go out, and the burning speed is uniform.
It is guaranteed that the explosion occurs when the shell is hitting a certain distance.
Therefore, the principle of flowering bullets is easy to say, but it is difficult to do. At the same time, Shang Yi also asked to use this opportunity to unify the caliber of the artillery. It stipulates that seven to ten kinds of diameter, and the length of a caliber artillery must
There is a limit. All the artillery manufactured in the future must be standardized according to the specified size, and it can no longer follow the feeling. The same, the manufacturing cannonball will also implement a unified production according to this standard. At the same time
The diameter size of the top is cast, so as to avoid the cannon caliber in the future, and the shells must be diverse, making it difficult for the gunners to argue.
The second improved technology is to change the ignition method of artillery or grenades to a tape rope, also known as string type. The benefits of using the tape rope type are to use the artillery or throw a grenade. It improves efficiency and is safer.
As a result, in order to improve the efficiency, it usually retains the ignition torch, but because in the war environment, people's thoughts are highly tense, so it is easy to ignite the gunpowder accidents. After changing to a string type, when throwing a grenade, no longer need to cooperate with two people, one person can complete all the action technology. At the same time, the shape of the grenade can also be changed to the most traditional wooden handle.
The third improved technology is to add tail wings and launch cylinders to the Perak Rockets. At the same time, try to increase the size and flight distance of the Thunder Rockets, and strive to increase the flight distance from the Perak Rockets from 300 to 400 steps, improve the current, increase 400 steps, increase the four hundred steps, increase the four hundred steps, and increase the four hundred steps to increase, and increase the three hundred to four hundred steps, improve the four hundred steps, and increase the four hundred steps to increase the four hundred steps, improve the four hundred steps, and increase the four hundred steps, improve the four hundred steps, and increase the four hundred steps to increase the four hundred steps, improve the four hundred steps, and increase the three hundred steps to 400 steps. By 500 to 600 steps, there are more. At the same time, the oil hidden in the Perak Rocket must also be improved. The main use of animal oil was used in the past. The combustion rate was not large. Power expands several times.
Because in this war on the Spanish army, Shang Yi discovered that the Perak Rockets were not only powerful weapons in the land war, but also used in naval battles. It was only required to pay attention to the accuracy and range of the Perak Rockets in naval battles, so it was only that only the only one. Make these improved ranks and increase the range of Perak Rockets. At the same time, it also ensures the stability and accuracy after launch. It can become the original missile used by the navy.
The improvement of these three technologies is not great, but after the successful transformation, it can also greatly improve the performance of these weapons. Under the condition that the weapons cannot be updated, they can fully discover each existing weapon The potential to improve their performance is also a good way to maintain the leading advantage of technology.
Although Shang Yi only put forward his own requirements and a general direction for the improvement of technology, and the implementation of the camp still depends on the efforts and continuous testing of Sun He Ding and the craftsmen. But the innovation and improvement of many technologies is How difficult the technology is, but the change of ideas, and imagination. Of course, Shang Yi has great advantages in this regard. At least he understands that almost all of the technical changes in the next four hundred years will be given. Indicate the correct direction of technical improvement, so that they reduce the detours. Do not slowly explore forward.