"Don't worry, there is a fourth one."

This drawing is quite special. It is small parts that require ignition when pressed. In addition, there are several small mechanisms.

The thing in front was fine, but the striker was changed to impact. Mozi understood it after just a glance, but Mozi stared at the so-called safety devices behind him for ten minutes. It was not that difficult. Mozi looked at the parts and wanted to know its use, but he couldn't figure it out.

"Mozi, these projects need to be operated separately, the focus is on the bullet project team. They must first conduct tests and find out the most suitable caliber, which is the size. That is, they cannot be too large, at least they must be able to carry sixty bullets, and they must ensure their power, at least twice as powerful as the current flint rifle. Can it be done?"

Looking at the bullet drawings, Mo Zi passed it in his mind. This fully encapsulated bullet has better sealing properties. With the same charge, the effect is better than that of the flintlock rifle. If the bullet body is lengthened and the charge is doubled, the power will naturally increase. Moreover, the warhead can also think of ways to use better alloys and have stronger penetration.

As if he saw what he was thinking, Renault said: "Purification alone is not enough, and it is necessary to increase lethality. It is best to use two layers of warheads and use unused metal. When the projectile is shot into the human body, the outer layer will be deformed and cracked due to the effect of body fluids, and the pills will roll in the body, causing secondary killing."

No matter what convention Renault is, there is nothing in the world of Great Chu. War is aimed at killing people. No matter how immoral the weapons are, the ones who can kill people are good weapons. In Great Chu, human rights and human nature are talked about, that is, it is impossible to get along with oneself.

"Well, sir, wise." Mo Zi was also a beginner. When Renault said that, he suddenly realized that the projectile could be made like this, but the difficulty of manufacturing was one step further, which was difficult to deal with.

"First set the bullet, and then create the caliber of the rifle based on the bullet design. As for this, it is prepared for the future. Let's talk about it after the gun is finalized and mass-produced." Renault sighed lightly, and even the gun and the bullet could not be guaranteed, let alone the gun.

The last design is naturally prepared for artillery. Nowadays, there are a variety of new metals in the craftsman camp laboratory of the Shengong Hall, which does not require alloys. The results of the God of Wealth detection are better than most alloys on the earth. After alloy experiments, it is too simple for Renault to want to gun steel.

As long as there is gun steel, guns are actually easier to manufacture than guns. After all, they are big and have little requirements for accuracy. The difficulty lies in the shells. You have to let them explode. Are shells that cannot be blown up or are they still called shells?

Impact fuzes, delay fuzes, and various safety devices must be considered. Don’t blow yourself away before the enemy is blown away.

Time passed quickly. Two days passed in a blink of an eye. Wei Wenchang and his group followed Renault to thirty miles outside the Jingtien City. Three airships flew into the sky. It seemed that they were no different from the airships that General Wei had seen. Can this thing be used for war?

"Let's start." Renault ordered the messenger behind him to wave the flag and whisper the flag. This was created when Renault was fine.

The other two messengers were also busy, one carrying a huge and heavy walkie-talkie, and the other carrying an equally heavy silver-zinc battery pack. It depends on whether the luck is good.

"Zero101, this is the ground command center. Please answer when you receive it."

The weather is good today, and the messenger is lucky. The chances of success are only 20% when sending commands with walkie-talkies. It would be good if you can succeed in ten calls and two of them. Even so, the airship army's love for walkie-talkies is far more than that of the flag language. This thing is more intuitive than the flag language and can be said more clearly.

"Zero One received it, please order."

"Sir, the military exercise begins and the military exercise begins!"

"Zero One understands, the exercise begins."

After a few conversations, General Wei's eyes almost popped up, and the sound of people talking came from the box!

"this……"

"Look at the exercise first." Renault said quietly. The walkie-talkie is still far away. Although each airship is equipped with a walkie-talkie as much as possible, this thing is only used for assistance. Usually, you have to use flag words and observers to pass commands. It is too unreliable to count on the walkie-talkie.

This is Renault's professional strength, so he is very clear that in a short period of time, he cannot solve the problem of walkie-talkie phones. Even if he has done his best to solve the problem, it is impossible to be truly successful in two years. The walkie-talkie phones are actually enlarged children's toys, and they are defective products.

The order was issued, and the three airships turned at the same time. Several strong men were shirtless, shaking the mechanism, the huge fan blades turned, and the helmsman controlled the wind rudder. The huge airship slowly changed direction. There was no way. The airship was too big and had no mechanical assistance. It was all about manpower. Don’t mention speed and flexibility. It was so touching that it made people want to cry.

In this way, the airship members are still energetic. After all, unlike the previous hot air balloons, they can at least control them within a certain range.

The red flag was shaking, and two walkie-talkies on the three airships failed again. Fortunately, everyone had been accustomed to it. They could barely pass the commands through the day and the fire at night.

Dozens of head-down crossbows began to shoot. Because it was an exercise, Renault asked someone to install gunpowder at the tail of the crossbow arrow, and metal powder was mixed in it. The crossbow arrows shot with bright flames, which meant to pull light bullets.

The light of fire, driven by the crossbow arrow, shot towards the ground like a meteor, and penetrated deeply into the ground. The three-foot-long crossbow gun shot at least two feet into the ground. This is because the ground in the desolate land is full of iron ore and is extremely hard. If it is ordinary yellow land, you can't even see the tail of the arrow, and only deep arrow holes will be left.

These head-down crossbows are not individual crossbows, but are designed based on the bed crossbow. They are equipped with ratchet mechanisms. Two strong men shake the ratchets and wind the strings, and the shooter is responsible for aiming.

Needless to say, it is very powerful. Wei Wenchang thought it was only three airships in front of him. If it were three hundred, what about three thousand? He could shoot tens of thousands of crossbow arrows at one time, and the power was no longer small.

The most interesting thing is that the crossbow arrow shot down from the air at hundreds of steps high, and its power did not decrease due to the distance, but was a little amplified by the acceleration of gravity.

On the other hand, if the ground wants to attack the airship in the sky, it will be troublesome. The attack power of holding a crossbow arrow is not enough, and the same is true for the bow. Unless it is a hard bow with more than six stones, it will threaten the shooter on the airship. After all, the blue sky has a certain defense ability. If steel plates are installed on the blue sky, even the crossbow will not be able to shoot through it.

You should know that the airship has a large load capacity, and the lowest one can carry five tons. It is not used for transportation and becomes a combat airship completely. There is no need to consider the load load issue. The blue sky is increased and it can carry at least fifty soldiers at a time. The original five head-down crossbows can be increased to ten, so as to double the firepower.

He was thinking that the second round of demonstration had begun. This time it was the Musketeer's performance. Compared with the bow-head crossbow, the musketeer is less powerful and can shoot faster. It is used by individual soldiers. It does not require a group of three people, which instantly increases the firepower by three times.

Wei Wenchang nodded slightly after seeing it. He actually didn't like muskets. This game fired too slowly, and was only stronger than a bed crossbow. It has little effect on the battlefield. It can only be used in the early stages. It disrupts the enemy's cavalry formation and waits for the enemy's cavalry to rush forward, and basically it will be destroyed.

In this regard, the function of muskets is not even as good as that of crossbows shooting soldiers. Crossbows can shoot hanging, but muskets can only shoot flat. It is difficult to increase lethality by relying on the thickness of the military formation.

The military formations of this era rely on people, and dense formations are the king. They are all lined up in front. How can you shoot flat behind them?

But it is different to put musket soldiers on the airship. There is no need to consider the enemy's rushing forward. As long as you have a stable mentality, you can shoot one shot after another. Moreover, the airship can move, and can strike the enemy's charge queue, or the enemy's back row, or even fly directly above the enemy commander to play a beheading operation. Thinking about this, muskets and airships are quite promising.

The red flag swung again, and the third round of martial arts exercises was about to begin. The first two rounds of martial arts exercises can only be regarded as appetizers, and the third round is a big meal, which is also the key skill of the Shengong Temple Flying Team. It does not have any technical content to throw bombs.

At the same time, ten lit explosive packs were thrown down on each airship.

"Boom boom boom..." There was a loud thunderous sound, projectiles splashed, gunpowder smoke rose everywhere, and columnar black smoke rose into the sky.

Airships are incomparable to human-powered aircraft, with loadings of hundreds of times larger. In order to increase the demonstration effect, the smallest explosive packs are all 100 kilograms. Each airship also threw a giant bomb of 500 kilograms. The sound, smoke columns, and the large pit on the ground were shocking. Not to mention Wei Wenchang, even Renault was shocked. When the amount of black gunpowder reached a certain level, its power should not be underestimated.

"This... is this black gunpowder?" Wei Wenchang naturally knew about the black gunpowder. When Renault was in Luocheng, he gave a recipe, but in that recipe, Renault added ingredients, and the effect was definitely not as good as the original one.

At that time, Renault did not want to spread the black gunpowder, so he added information. Now it is different. With the enemy of Ao Ren, and the laboratory is growing rapidly, Renault believes that the laboratory can develop better explosives in a few years.

He doesn't understand anything else, he knows nitroglycerin. It's not difficult to refine that thing. The difficult thing is how to make safe nitrifying cotton. It requires a lot of experiments, and this kind of experiment is very dangerous and will kill people.

"That's right, the black gunpowder recipe was not good in the past, and it was improved. General Wei thought, how about such an airship unit?" Renault asked with a smile.

"Okay, okay, okay!" Wei Wenchang said in surprise. Today's exercise opened his eyes. It turned out that this was the normal way to use airships. Everyone's thinking was banned before, and they just wanted to use it to transport them. Who would have thought that airships would be so effective in combat.

In my mind, General Wei had a new strategic idea in his mind.
Chapter completed!