Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 627

[Chapter 627 Severe]

“Your Highness is talking about mortars?”

Wang Ying suddenly said before Zhao Xu opened his mouth.

Then, he continued: “Actually, during this period of time, I also had this idea. Now that yellow gunpowder appears, it is even more necessary to recast mortars. I think that mortars will be the main force on the battlefield in the future, and smoothbore guns are more suitable for the future.” Battleship.”

Zhao Xu looked at Wang Ying, a little surprised, just like when he was facing Chen Shou in Jinghai County.

If Chen Shou’s thinking about steamships was just accidental, then Wang Yinghui’s forward-looking understanding of weapons seems inevitable.

Although Wang Ying and Chen Shou are the chief officials of one party, whenever they are free, they will go to the science and technology school to attend lectures.

The atmosphere of the science and technology school will definitely cause a change in their way of thinking.

Now, like the students in the Science and Technology School, they are actively thinking and exploring deeper mysteries in their respective fields.

This is also the fact that the spark of Yanzhou Science and Technology has continued to grow.

“You’re right.” Zhao Xu said.

Before the howitzer technology is mature, it is the main force on the battlefield.

But then the howitzer replaced the smoothbore.

In contemporary World War I and World War II, smoothbore guns only existed on tanks and battleships, and the battlefield was basically bombarded by howitzers.

Smoothbore guns are only suitable for shooting in a straight line, but the battlefield is full of obstacles.

A howitzer that can curve down to avoid obstacles can kill more soldiers.

But even so, for Wang Huqing’s army, now is not the time to completely abandon smoothbore guns and equip them all with field howitzers.

But it is necessary to increase the proportion of old guns, that is, howitzers, among field guns.

It should be improved rather than used as an auxiliary firearm.

After all, with yellow gunpowder, the most powerful boost is the blooming bomb.

The gun barrel and the gun barrel need to consider the amount of gunpowder to prevent the chamber from blowing up, but the blooming ammunition does not need it.

“Then have you thought about how to improve the mortar?” Zhao Xu asked, but did not immediately tell Wang Ying his plan.

After pondering for a while, Wang Ying said: “First of all, of course, a pair of wheels should be installed on the mortar. Secondly, the weight of the mortar should be reduced like that of a field gun, so that the mortar can move flexibly on the battlefield. Finally, the shooting range of the mortar should be increased. In this way, flexibility, range and power are all there.”

Zhao Xu nodded slowly, agreeing to Wang Ying’s words.

Undoubtedly, Wang Ying has gained a lot of experience from modifying the smoothbore field gun, which is now applied to the mortar.

However, I have to say that his direction is right.

But previously, such improvements to mortars were not possible.

Because the power of black powder is limited, more black powder must be filled to increase the range, and to reduce weight, the barrel must be made narrower and thinner.

This is contradictory.

If you do this, the power of the mortar will be reduced.

But now yellow gunpowder and converter steelmaking have solved these two problems.

Higher-quality steel can make the barrel of the mortar thinner and narrower, and yellow powder can make the shell more powerful.

In this way, a perfect mortar was born, and it was even officially renamed the howitzer.

“Just follow this path.” Zhao Xu patted Wang Ying’s shoulder.

However, like the complete rifled gun, the new mortar or howitzer still needs to wait for some time before it can be installed in the royal army.

For him at the moment, the most important thing is to replace the gunpowder for the artillery and muskets in the army.

After all, the current situation is very serious. From the arrogant attitude of the envoys of Qi State, it can be seen that this alliance has made Qi State expand a lot.

Moreover, Beidi and Dongying are both people who are afraid of chaos in the world.

They will definitely provoke Qi, Nanliang and Xie’s family to take risky war actions against Yanzhou.

Therefore, he can’t count on the new rifled guns and howitzers, just put these two firearms on the manufacturing schedule.

The yellow gunpowder is the key to the next period of time.

Before, he asked Qu Sheng to stockpile a large amount of glycerin, sulfuric acid, and nitric acid. Now he only needs to synthesize nitroglycerin, and then use diatomaceous earth to absorb it.

Immediately, there will be a steady stream of yellow gunpowder being produced.

These yellow gunpowder will give Yanzhou military strength a leap-like improvement.

The effective range of 350 meters and the maximum range of nearly 600 meters are enough.

Besides, other firearms would also benefit.

Thinking of this, he felt relieved a lot.

Lucheng.

royal palace.

When Zhao Xu was experimenting with yellow gunpowder, the envoy of Qi State came back in a panic.

In the early morning of this day, it was the morning meeting.

Han Zheng announces Han Yang to the imperial palace and asks him to report back on his envoy to Yancheng.

“Your Majesty, the King of Yan is arrogant and ignorant. Not only did he not agree to His Majesty’s request, but he even humiliated our country of Qi. It is really unreasonable.” In front of all the ministers, Han Yang angrily reprimanded.

Han Zheng frowned when he heard the words, and said to Han Yang: “Did you tell King Yan that Beidi and Dongying also joined the alliance?

” Qi Guo, still talking and talking…”

At this point, he didn’t dare to say any more.

“What are you talking about!” Han Zheng’s expression became serious.

“He said that he would personally capture the emperor alive and dance for him.”

“Bold madman.”

“Ignorant boy!”

“I have never seen such a rebellious person.”

“…” After

Han Yang’s words came out, all the ministers in the hall were furious, pointing in the direction of Yanzhou and yelling.

Han Zheng stretched his face, sneered, and said, “I want to see if he captured me alive, or if I captured him alive myself!” He

slapped the dragon chair, stood up and shouted, “From today onwards, we will fight hard and rectify the situation.” Armaments, waiting for the second alliance to prepare troops to send to Yanzhou!”

“Yes, Your Majesty.” The officials bowed in response.

Han Zheng snorted again, and left the hall with his hands shaken.

Back in the study, he invited Makoto Sato to tell him what Han Yang had said.

This time he sent an envoy to Yancheng, Sato Mahisa also agreed.

They believed that after the alliance, their strength had greatly surpassed that of King Yan.

So he tried to intimidate the king of Yan, so that the king of Yan handed over the firearms technology and surrendered to the state of Qi.

If King Yan couldn’t bear it, he obediently handed over the firearms craft and went to Qi State to receive the seal.

They took the opportunity to kill King Yan and attack Yanzhou in one fell swoop.

But they didn’t expect this, and they got such a response after that.

“In this case, there is only war, and His Majesty should give up other ideas.” Sato Mahisa narrowed his eyes.

Their Dongying plan has always been the same, which is to provoke a civil war in Dasong, using Dasong people to fight Dasong people, causing them both to lose.

King Yan did not submit, which was more in line with his wishes.

In order to embolden Han Zheng, he continued: “Our flintlock guns in Dongying have a range of 130 meters, which is only 20 meters away from King Yan’s. Occupy an absolute advantage.”

“Additionally, we have a large number of soldiers and a large number of generals, and we will definitely be able to kill all the soldiers of the King of Yan. Next, we only need to step up the forging of flintlock guns and train the soldiers.”

After his words fell, an eunuch hurried over and said, “Your Majesty, the envoy from Nanliang is asking to see you.”

(End of this chapter)