Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 881

[Chapter 881 Cavalry Gun]

“For Britain!”

Wesley raised his glass again as the salty sea breeze blew from the blue sea.

“For Britain!” Johnson also yelled, “Teach those yellow-skinned monkeys a lesson.”

“We hanged them one by one. In fact, it was the monkey named King Yan.” Wesley slammed his fist on the table.

After staying in Buer Port for three days, the fleet went to Tianzhu again.

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Yanzhou.

When Liu Fu led the civil servants to carry out vigorous institutional restructuring.

Zhao Xu and Yang Feng are inspecting the breech-loading guns that are going to be delivered to the army at the school grounds of the Military Warfare Division.

As he said in court.

The current focus of Dasong is development, while preparing for the coming war.

So after he was free, he turned his attention to armaments.

Furthermore, when he was in Jinling last time, Wang Ying sent a letter telling him that he had produced a sample of a breech-loading cannon.

His reply was to let him build a production line for mass production.

Now, the Bing Zhansi has stockpiled a large number of breech-loading guns, just because the royal army and the Qin army are still fighting and have not delivered them.

“Your Highness, whether it is a rifled gun or a howitzer, they all adopt breech loading. According to His Highness’s design drawings, the barrels of the howitzers have been reduced in diameter and lengthened. The range of these howitzers can reach eight miles. Wang Ying said, pointing to the howitzer in front of him.

Zhao Xu nodded, the style of the howitzer in front of him is infinitely close to the style of the howitzer of the contemporary World War I period.

In previous wars, a problem has been fully exposed.

That is when fighting, due to the short range of the howitzer, the enemy’s trench can only be bombarded with the howitzer after the rifled gun has cleared the opponent’s artillery.

This leads to a considerable reduction in the efficiency of warfare.

Therefore, after solving the breech filling problem, a howitzer with a long range and a small caliber is needed to replace a howitzer with a large caliber and a short range.

Thus, this rear-loading howitzer was born.

At present, this howitzer weighs two tons, has a barrel length of two meters four, a pitch angle of zero to forty degrees, and a caliber of 155 millimeters. By lengthening the barrel, its maximum range reaches four kilometers.

The rate of fire per minute is the same as that of the Qin-style rifle, which can reach ten rounds, almost three times that of the old howitzer.

On either side of the barrel were huge wheels, and there was an iron plate between the barrel and the breech mechanism.

This was to protect the artillery from gunfire.

All in all, the previous era of large-caliber, portable howitzers is over, and the era of heavy howitzers has ushered in.

After all, in the future, the Dasong army will face the Western Turk army, and it is necessary to ensure that the howitzers can be out of the range of the opponent’s artillery.

Looking past the howitzer, Zhao Xu looked at the rifled gun again.

Like the howitzer, there is another iron plate-like structure on the rifled gun.

Compared with the howitzer, the rifled gun has a small elevation angle and a long barrel.

Obviously also through the barrel, increasing the range.

“This breech-loading rifle has an effective range of sixteen miles.” Wang Ying continued.

“Eight thousand meters.” Zhao Xu showed a satisfied expression.

During the First World War, the range of howitzers alone could reach 16 kilometers, and rifled guns could easily reach more than 30 kilometers.

The reason why there is still a gap between the artillery of the Bingzhan Division and the artillery of World War I.

This is because electricity was widely available during World War I.

On the one hand, it can produce oxygen for oxygen blowing during converter steelmaking, and at the same time, it has special gun steel, and the gun bore can withstand more propellant.

But it is the accuracy of machining that has improved, which has solved the problem of air leakage in the breech filling, which has greatly increased the range.

When electricity is popularized in Dasong’s workshops in the future, they will gradually be able to raise the level of weapons to the level of World War I.

But even so, he was already very satisfied.

He believes that whether it is the range of the field howitzer or the range of the field rifled gun, because of the advanced design, it currently surpasses Xitu.

“It’s amazing.” Wang Ying’s introduction made Yang Feng feel emotional, “However, the range of howitzers is so far, so there is no need to install rifled guns.”

Zhao Xu and Wang Ying looked at each other and laughed.

Wang Ying said, “Although this is the case, the number of rifled guns can be reduced, but it cannot be eliminated. Simply put, compared to howitzers, rifled guns are more efficient in cleaning up the opponent’s fort.”

Zhao Xu nodded to show that what Wang Ying said was correct.

During World War I, howitzers were used to bomb trenches, and rifled guns were used to bomb the opponent’s bunkers.

During World War II, it was used to fight tanks.

Therefore, although the range of the howitzer has been improved, the rifled gun is still needed to solve the problem of attacking.

After walking around the two cannons, Zhao Xu said to Wang, “In this case, let’s try to deliver the two cannons to the army.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Wang Ying said.

After that, the two followed Wang Ying to the office.

This time Zhao Xu came to inspect the two breech-loading guns, but also had another important purpose.

It is to let the Research Institute and the Bingzhang Division cooperate to build a small power plant in the Bingzhang Division to ensure the electricity consumption of each workshop in the Bingzhang Division, and to carry out applicability transformation of the machinery in the workshop.

In this way, the next step is to try the development of metal-cased ammunition and the nemesis of cavalry-machine guns.

In addition, there is another important thing, which is also a task that can be carried out immediately, which is to manufacture muskets and cavalry guns exclusive to cavalry.

After the musket appeared, the cavalry tried to mount muskets.

However, since muskets need to be front-loaded, cavalry often load their bullets before fighting, and fire a shot before the battle, which is too inefficient.

As a result, muskets did not become popular among cavalry.

It was not until the 19th century, after the second industrial revolution, that the revolver appeared, and the era of cavalry-scale firearms came.

Later, with the appearance of breech-loading rifles, there appeared muskets specially designed for cavalry, cavalry guns.

This breech-loading rifle is much shorter than the rifles used by soldiers to facilitate cavalry shooting.

Because the gun is short, the effective range is short.

Zhao Xu estimated that the effective range of cavalry guns produced by Bing Zhansi’s current technical level is only about 250 meters.

This range is very stretched for infantry, but it is more than enough for cavalry.

It is enough to shoot Beidi light cavalry with cavalry guns.

Since ancient times, the Central Plains dynasty has been inferior to the prairie people in riding and shooting.

The difference lies in the horse archery, but as long as the cavalry gun is installed, the opponent’s advantage will disappear invisible.

In the future, the Dasong cavalry will no longer be afraid of the Beidi cavalry.

At the moment, Beidi gets mixed up with the Xitu people, threatening Dasong’s safety.

Before the cavalry destroyer of the machine gun appeared, the cavalry gun was obviously a good transition.

Otherwise, how would he face the combination of Beidi cavalry and Ross country infantry in the vast grassland.

In history, no one has ever conquered the grassland simply by relying on the two legs of infantry.

(end of this chapter)