"I'm in Dakang's Salt Fish Life Novel" finds the latest chapter!

Less gossip.

Liu Mingqi is a very pragmatic person.

Scientists are generally very pragmatic, and only scammers will talk a lot.

For example, in the 1980s and 1990s, the most profound thing about the famous "water-to-oil" scam, the handsome scholar, was that Uncle Zheng, the fairy tale king, was all shouting for it, let alone officials, scholars, and entrepreneurs.

Because of his pragmatism, what Liu Mingqi wants to do is not the tall Armstrong gun, but a very traditional front-mounted smoothbore gun!

Yes.

It is a front-mounted smoothbore cannon.

From a modern perspective, the front-mounted smoothbore cannon is garbage.

Not only is it very troublesome to launch, for example, every time the launch is completed, a cloth broom must be used to clean the gunpowder residue inside, and then the explosives and projectiles can be filled again and fired.

And the key is that its power is too small!

This front-mounted smoothbore cannon usually has solid bullets, flowering bullets, shotguns, shrapnel bullets, etc.

However, because the power of the front-mounted smoothbore gun is insufficient, that is, the power of gunpowder is insufficient, so if it is a long-range launch strike, you can only rely on a solid bullet, that is, an iron ball!

The boy created a front-mounted smoothbore cannon, of course, for the purpose of fighting at sea.

Sea combat is usually long-range combat, and often you want to attack other people's fleets, and they will run away.

This is a natural need for a long-range attack weapon.

At this time, in this era, in the era of smoothbore guns, solid bullets were really the most practical.

The most lethality of solid bullets comes from the crushing and impact of the iron ball, rather than the "boom" explosion in the TV series we imagined.

It can be said that this way of killing enemies is very primitive and not modern at all.

Then the accuracy of the front-mounted smoothbore gun is not high.

It's a little better on land. For example, when you are on the sea, because of the bumps of the ship and the distance is too far, if you can hit the enemy ship with one shot, it will be considered that you have a great fortune.

Otherwise, why do you think there were thirty or forty or sixty or seventy cannons on one side in the 17th and 18th century?

It depends entirely on quantity to win.

A volley could hit an enemy ship, and they all had to be happy.

Not to mention that era, if the gunboats like World War II had developed very terrifyingly, when the US and the Japanese pirates fought in the Pacific, they would have one shot to hit the enemy with one shot, which is God's blessing.

What is the final solution?

Isn’t it just that the planes approached the enemy ship and threw bombs and fired machine gun bullets?

So you see, that's the most important reason why aircraft carriers are the most threatening weapons.

Because only the plane it carries can get close to it and then accurately hit and sink the enemy ship!

With the gunboat alone, if both sides completely wipe out the shells, there may not be any major casualties, and then they will go back to their own houses and find their own mothers.

The biggest reason for the Japanese pirates' defeat in the Battle of Life and Death in the Pacific is that their carrier-based aircraft are not advanced enough and too many pilot losses cannot be effectively and timely supplemented.

Later, even if there were planes, the pilot who drove the plane was novice, so he was beaten up by the US military plane as soon as he got on.

In the end, the Japanese pirates without air supremacy, even the strength of aircraft carriers and warships was stronger than that of the US military on the battlefield, they could only be beaten to the point of being beaten and ended in a crushing defeat.

Yes, that's right.

What I'm talking about is the Battle of Midway.

Come back to your eyes.

When we discuss things and consider things, we must focus on the present.

First solve the current problem, and then you have the opportunity to talk about it later.

Even if we know that one day outsiders will fly over unfriendly, will you stop living because of this?

No.

Therefore, the most correct attitude is to walk step by step.

Therefore, we can figure out why Liu Mingqi wanted to make a front-mounted smoothbore cannon.

The biggest reason is that according to the current situation of technological development, even if Europeans outside the Strait of Malacca have developed gunboat navy, their gunboats and cannons are not of high standard.

Otherwise, they would have rushed over long ago and swept across the entire Southeast Asian waters, thus threatening Dakang, wanting to destroy Dakang and turning the people here into their slaves.

You must know.

As early as when my Ming Dynasty was still here, what was their gunboat level at that time?

At that time, they all dared to run to the coast and wanted to rely on several ships and hundreds of people to destroy the entire Ming Dynasty. Do you think if they had the gunboats from the 17th and 18th century, would they not come?

It's already flying into the sky, okay?

Since these people have not even reached the level of the sixteenth century, my front-mounted smoothbore cannon is completely enough, and it is completely enough for at least two hundred years.

Of course, the front-mounted smoothbore cannon will not be used for two hundred years. At most twenty or thirty years later, Liu Mingqi can make the rear-mounted rifled cannon.

But at this time, we can only catch up with the craze of dividing the colonies.

It is best to defeat all Western countries, so that not only can we divide the most important colonies, but also open up all the European markets, making it a place for our Dakang to dump products!

Or many people don’t know that in fact, during the First Opii War, the British army attacked the Qing Dynasty just to open up the market. There was no idea of ​​destroying the Qing Dynasty and occupying its own land.

Because Britain is a country dominated by businessmen, their favorite thing is to do business, rather than fighting with hundreds of millions of people thousands of miles away.

But later they discovered that when the country was old and backward, and there was so much wealth, their minds completely changed and they became robbers.

This is the origin of the Second Opioid War.

At that time, they just made an excuse and came to rob.

The biggest victim is also our most painful pain in the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens!!

It took me nearly a hundred years to completely build the greatest building complex in the world. It was robbed of all the time, and then to cover up my crimes, it burned it directly with a fire.

It’s all about tears if you say too much.

If the West still follows the previous development trajectory in this life, they will have a lot of good things.

Then after my Dakang fleet arrived at their port, we could also do something we like.

Who told them to say, "All the cannons are within the range of the truth." This is also good, right?

Okay, come back to the front-mounted smoothbore cannon in front of you.

In terms of physics dynamics and orbitology, the trajectory, range, driving force, etc. of the shells are discussed. Therefore, Liu Mingqi, a PhD in physics, has truly observed cannons from various periods.

Liu Mingqi can clearly understand the structure of modern cannons, let alone this primitive front-mounted smoothbore cannon.

For more than three hundred years, there were naturally several generations of products for the front-mounted smoothbore cannon.

After it has developed, it can also be called the peak of its field.

It would be fine if Liu Mingqi didn't build it, but once she built it, she would definitely build such a peak front-mounted smoothbore cannon.

The front-mounted smoothbore cannon is not as simple as everyone thinks. For example, you can start using it by making an integrated iron cannon body.

First of all, the body of this iron cannon must be made of very pure iron, and there must be no impurities, otherwise it will be cracked if it is used a few more times.

Then add a few tightening hoops to the gun body, which can prevent the gun body from shattering due to violent vibrations inside or the explosive force of gunpowder.

Then the gun body is also conical, and it constantly shrinks from the last tail to the muzzle, but the barrel inside it is a cylinder, and the only difference in size is the wall wrapped outside.

There is also an aiming mark at the tail of the gun, which is the axis of the gun bore. It developed into the 19th century and there were optical aiming instruments on it.

At the same time, the position of the muzzle also has the same aiming mark, which is to correct the elevation angle of the muzzle.

With the optical aiming instrument at the tail of the gun, the flight trajectory of the shell will be closer to its own ideas and will be more accurate.

In addition to the gun body, there are also parts such as gun ears, tail buttons, tail gates, etc.

Here we can talk about the specific steps.

After the gunpowder bag is stuffed into the muzzle, first press it against the tail of the gun with a cloth stick, then stuff solid bullets, flowering bullets, etc. into the muzzle.

The second step is, isn’t there a tailgate just above the cannon’s body and tail retreat a little?

Open the tailgate, poke the gunpowder bag with iron wire, then sprinkle black gunpowder, ignite the black gunpowder, then quickly close the tailgate, waiting for the gunpowder bag to explode inside the cannon body.

The sound of gunfire being fired on TV is the sound of gunfire being exploded inside the gunfire body.

Then it generates a huge driving force, pushing out the solid bullets, flowering bullets, etc. in front to attack the enemy and enemy ships.

When the launch was completed, the soldiers waiting next to him quickly took the cloth stick and cleared all the gunpowder residues inside the cannon body.

Next, the previous loading process was repeated and the second round was fired again.

According to legend, the navy, which has reached its limit, can fire such a volley of guns in five minutes!!

For other European countries in the same time period, the standard is once every five minutes!

It can be seen from this that after hundreds of years of development, the British Navy was really a BG existence in that era, and no one could stop it!
To be continued...