Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 746

[Chapter 746 Sharp Weapon]

“Return to Your Highness, during the period when Your Highness went to Korea, the minister ordered craftsmen to polish broaches specially for cutting the rifling of artillery. Ten days ago, they began to improve artillery in the army.” Wang Ying signaled Zhao Xu to the Artillery Workshop While going, he introduced, “At present, thirty-six artillery pieces have been improved for His Highness’s inspection.”

Zhao Xu nodded, and the rifled guns are the enlarged versions of the rifled guns.

In this day and age, guns are no different.

Bing Zhansi can pull the rifling line of the rifled gun, and with a little improvement in technology, he can naturally pull the rifling line of the rifled gun.

Therefore, Wang Ying successfully improved the smoothbore gun into a rifled gun, which should be taken for granted and should not be surprising.

While talking, the two went to the warehouse of the artillery workshop.

Here, thirty-six field guns are arranged in sequence.

Zhao Xu walked over and stared at the gun barrel for inspection.

Inside are all etched regular rifling.

Satisfied with this, Zhao Xu looked at Wang Ying and asked, “This rifled gun is all right, but there is one thing that needs to be resolved to make this rifled gun effective on the battlefield, do you know?”

He didn’t Explain directly, but ask Wang Ying in return.

It’s not about showing off.

It was to test whether Wang Ying had his own independent thinking on firearms.

When he came back from Korea this time, he thought it was necessary to build a firearms research institute in the Military Division, just like building a research institute.

Then select some students from the science and technology school and give them to Wang Ying, so that he can independently develop firearms according to the tasks he gave.

After all, the structure of firearms will only become more and more complicated in the future, and Wang Ying alone is not enough.

Otherwise, this will hinder the speed of Dasong weapons replacement.

“Your Highness, this is not a problem for me.” Wang Ying smiled lightly upon hearing this.

He carried the box to the left of the field gun, and took out a cone shell from it.

When he came to Zhao Xu, Wang Ying said: “Like rifled guns, round bullets are not easy to load. Inspired by rifled guns, I also improved the shells, so I have this conical shell.”

Zhao Xu revealed With a satisfied look, he asked again, “But round shells can roll on the ground and bounce to kill the enemy, but conical shells don’t seem to be able to do that?”

“Hey…” Wang Ying smiled triumphantly. It’s testing him.

So, he said: “So, this conical cannonball is a flowering shell, and it can be exploded. Please take a look, Your Highness.”

While speaking, Wang Ying twisted the front part of the cannonball, which is like a bottle cap, and unscrewed a long screw after a while. .

Wang Ying showed Zhao Xu the screw and the hole on the top of the shell.

“I replaced the wooden plug of the round flower shell with a bolt. There is a small hole in the middle of the bolt, which can be inserted into the wire. The mouth of the shell is threaded. By rotating the screw, the timing of the explosion of the shell can be controlled.” Wang Ying explained.

“Well, it’s very good. You have figured out the development route of rifled guns.” Zhao Xu patted Wang Ying’s shoulder.

In fact, Wang Ying came up with this kind of conical shell. In fact, he changed the shape of the previous round flowering shell, and changed the cork into a metal bolt to ensure that the yellow gunpowder exploded the shell instead of bursting from the shell like a firework. The top of the shell sprayed out and became a dud.

But this improvement is very remarkable, just like the change in the shape of the rifle bullet, it is enough to cause a military revolution.

Just like the current Xitu, they have the ability to manufacture rifled guns, but the habits of hundreds of years have made them unexpected that bullets can also be tapered.

But once they know it, they quickly apply it.

In contemporary times, the change of rifle bullets has also gone through this process.

One side first used a rifled gun with a tapered bullet on the battlefield, and the other side followed immediately.

Therefore, Zhao Xu has always been worried that the two wars between Nanxia and Goryeo might expose the secret of the tapered bullet.

The other party will definitely study the secrets of Yanzhou rifled guns.

But he wasn’t worried about it.

From research to comprehensive follow-up, the other party needs at least two or three years.

This period of time is enough for the royal army to equip the next generation of rifled guns.

It was also this consideration that made him decide to restructure the Military Division, make it regular, and create a modern military industry research and development system.

“Your Highness is absurd. It sounds like it was inspired by the tapered bullet.” Wang Ying said politely.

Zhao Xu took the conical cannonball, looked at it again, and became more and more satisfied.

With the conical shell, the rifled field gun will have the same accuracy as the rifled gun, and it will play a terrible power on the battlefield where it is pointed.

Not only can it kill enemies through straight-line impact, but it can also kill enemies through explosions.

But the combination of rifled guns and conical shells has changed the most, not the army, but the navy.

First of all, the navy will launch rifled guns, and the range and accuracy of naval guns will be greatly improved again.

Second, conical shells pierce hulls more easily than round shells.

Just imagine what a horrible scene it would be if a cone shell exploded inside a wooden battleship.

In modern history, it was precisely because of the appearance of conical flowering bombs that wooden sail warships declined rapidly, and iron-clad ships covered with thick iron armor appeared.

At the same time, there is no need for so many gun positions on the battleship.

Because it only needs to hit a few shells, and the opponent is basically finished.

Thinking of this, he said to Wang Ying: “You send a team to Jinghai County, transport the steam engine and artillery broach, improve the navy’s naval guns, and manufacture a batch of conical shells needed for naval guns.”

“Yes , Your Highness.” Wang Ying answered very simply.

Then, Zhao Xu told Wang Ying about the Firearms Research Institute.

Wang Ying was naturally overjoyed about this.

His son is in charge of a research institute, but he is not as good as his son as an old man.

Now eating at home, he doesn’t have the confidence to teach Wang Chong a lesson.

Accepting this important task, he immediately felt his back straightened.

After staying in the Military Division for a while, Zhao Xu returned to the palace.

The arrangements for these days have also been arranged.

Next, he just needs to wait for the fruit to ripen.

In addition to these, Chen Shou had promised him that the steamship would be launched in November.

It is already mid-September, and in just over a month, there should be good news.

Thinking of the shipbuilding department, Zhao Xu thought that a batch of shipbuilding workshops should be built to make dumplings.

After all, in the future, the British fleet in the East is just the tip of the iceberg of the British fleet.

At present, Britain has more than 500 warships all over the world.

This does not include warships from other Western countries.

Moreover, Western countries now have the ability to build steamships.

It can’t be reflected in peacetime, and once a large-scale war breaks out, they will explode their production capacity.

More steamships would be commissioned by then.

Therefore, shipbuilding capabilities must not lag behind.

Of course, there is one more point.

Steamships can be used not only for military purposes, but also for civilian purposes.

He hoped that some steamships would participate in water transportation.

In this way, relying on the well-developed water network, Jinzhou’s coal, Yuzhou’s soda ash, Qizhou’s graphite, and Yanzhou’s iron ore can be circulated in Jiangbei to promote industrial development.

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At the same time, Lincheng.

A steamboat docked slowly at the pier.

Under the guidance of Prince Liang Feng, the British envoys entered the palace.

(end of this chapter)