Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 635

[Chapter 635 Street Fighting Weapon]

“We must resolve the civil strife in Da Song as soon as possible.” The content of the questionnaire made Zhao Xu suddenly feel a sense of urgency.

Compared with the Western countries, the current industrialization of Yanzhou has only just begun.

In terms of overall strength, Yanzhou might not be as good as any other western country.

The only luck is that he has the home advantage.

Moreover, the sword is slanted, and military tricks are used to make the rifled guns of the current royal army be at the level of the 1850s.

Although all countries in the West are currently equipped with some rifled guns.

However, they have yet to grasp the mysteries of the tapered bullet.

This will keep him on edge for a while.

However, it is obviously unrealistic to rely on only one Yanzhou to fight against the entire industrial country in the West.

Fighting wars in the country can still make do with it.

But if you want to go abroad to fight, the manpower, material resources, and financial resources will be huge. At this time, the importance of comprehensive national strength will be reflected.

Therefore, he must unify Dasong, promote industrialization in an all-round way, and at the same time actively explore overseas markets to make Dasong rich.

After all, the industrial countries in the West have already set their sights on the last piece of pure land in the East.

And colonized the equivalent of contemporary Southeast Asia and Central Asia.

Using this as a springboard, they would continue to erode north.

For this, he certainly cannot tolerate.

Between them, a war is bound to break out.

And the most important point is that there is a huge continent in the distant sea area southeast of Dasong.

This continent is the Australian continent.

According to Fei Wen, there are only more than 500,000 British settlers on this continent.

If he doesn’t seize this big piece of fat in this era, how can he be worthy of future generations.

And to win this continent, it must confront the current superpower in the world, Britain.

According to his memory, in this contemporary period, the area ruled by the British Kingdom was 33 million square kilometers, and the Queen of England ruled over a population of 450 million people including the colonies.

Definitely the superpower of the moment.

Against such a group of great powers led by a superpower and followed by other countries in the West, he must do his best.

Otherwise, his fate will be like that of Napoleon who was defeated by the anti-French coalition, or even worse.

“Your Highness, what is this?” When Zhao Xu was deep in thought, Zhou Yi looked at the blueprint he was drawing.

Startled for a moment, Zhao Xu came back to his senses, and then smiled, “This thing is called a grenade, and it was prepared for the soldiers of the royal family.

Zhou Yi was a little disappointed. He thought his navy would be able to shine.

Zhao Xu paid attention Seeing Zhou Yi’s expression, he smiled helplessly.

The navy and the army are like two children raised by him. They will always be angry with each other because you have more and the other has less.

So he said, “You don’t have to envy this, this king is already letting you Chen Shou has built steam-powered steamships, and these will belong to your navy in the future. ”

Zhou Yi’s expression suddenly changed from unhappy to ecstatic, and his face wrinkled with a smile, and he said repeatedly: “Thank you, Your Highness. ”

Zhao Xu didn’t bother to talk to him. According to him, Fei Wen had already sent people to Yajia City. In this way, the Dongying people’s maritime alliance went bankrupt.

Then, his energy can then be concentrated on the second Lucheng Alliance Yes .

According to the information provided by Tsui Hark two days ago, Beidi envoys and Shizu envoys will arrive in Lucheng in the next two days.

This meeting will determine the next actions of the Yan Yan Alliance.

However, he does not care about this.

Anyway, no matter what the outcome of their discussion was, he would let the royal family’s troops go south when the yellow gunpowder was fully equipped.

At the same time, if Dongying takes action at sea, he will let Zhou Yi solve the Dongying Navy.

In the direction of Qinzhou Yongrong, he will also let Ma Han start a war and take back Qinzhou and Yongzhou.

It is easy for Beidi people to think about it, but not so easy to go back.

Firming his mind, he asked Zhou Yi to go back, and he took the blueprints to the Military Division.

He didn’t develop the grenade on a whim, but some problems were exposed during the street fighting in Pingyuan City.

On the vast battlefield, there is no doubt about the superiority of the Wangfu pro-army muskets.

But if you enter street fighting, the distance between soldiers is reduced to tens of meters, and there is not much difference between a flintlock gun with a range of only 100 meters and a rifled gun with a range of 300 meters.

At this time, the casualties will increase rapidly. This time when they attacked Pingyuan City, the most casualties occurred during the street fighting.

Qi soldiers hiding in various buildings sometimes don’t even need flintlock guns. They just need to hold a sword and rush out suddenly, killing and injuring the soldiers of the palace.

Therefore, when the soldiers of the palace entered the house to search, their lives would be in danger.

Next, facing the war of unification, such street fighting will only be very frequent.

If this problem cannot be solved, the royal army will suffer heavy casualties.

Therefore, after thinking about it, he felt that among the weapons for street fighting, the only one that could currently be developed was the grenade.

At that time, when the soldiers find that there are enemy soldiers in the house, they only need to throw the grenade in.

When he arrived at the Bingzhang Division, Zhao Xu called Wang Ying to study the blueprint of the grenade with him.

In contemporary history, after the invention of gunpowder, the most primitive hand grenade first appeared in China.

The grenade at that time was called Hongtianlei, and it was a spherical ceramic jar with black powder stuffed inside and a powder twister inserted outside, just ignited and thrown out.

However, the power of this kind of thunder is similar to that of contemporary firecrackers, and it will not cause much damage to the enemy.

As a result, this thunderstorm gradually disappeared.

Later, grenades spread to the West, and the grenadier was born in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

In fact, it is equivalent to soldiers throwing flowering bombs forward.

But this kind of grenade is still very primitive. It was not until the birth of yellow gunpowder in the 19th century that a real grenade appeared.

After all, with the power of black gunpowder, the body of the grenade is too small to have any power, and it is too big and very cumbersome.

Only by increasing the power of gunpowder can this contradiction be resolved.

This is also the reason why he is only now developing grenades, because the previous conditions were not met.

“The main difficulty should be the firing tube.” Wang Ying noticed the mark on the small tube on the drawing.

Zhao Xu nodded, what he asked Wang Ying to make was a grenade with a wooden handle.

This grenade has a simple structure and is relatively easy to manufacture.

The only difficulty is pulling the fire hose.

But at the moment, Yanzhou has the conditions to produce this kind of fire tube.

The principle of this fire pipe is to use a steel pipe to put glass powder inside, and roll a copper wire into a ball and put it in the glass powder.

One end of the copper wire is connected to a match, and the other end is passed through gunpowder twist and sulfur.

The friction between the copper wire and the glass powder will ignite the fuse and sulfur, then ignite the gunpowder, and finally explode.

Among the raw materials, the most critical is glass powder.

Yanzhou can make glass, so naturally it can make glass powder.

(end of this chapter)