The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

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However, he still hopes to change this situation frequently, so adopting the adaptation of water pirates to strengthen his own strength, and combining the two forces together to deal with Qin's armed merchant ships has become his only choice.

This adaptation became the basis of the cooperative relationship between the two parties. After all, the Chu State Navy is a legal law enforcement agency, while water pirates do not have such rights. This kind of **** is something that water pirates do not have inherently.

760 bombardment

Chu State successfully adapted the first Chu State Water Pirates. In order to win over the water pirates without affecting the cooperation between the two parties and at the same time eliminate the wariness of the other party, the Chu State Water Army adopted an independent designation for adaptation, so that both sides reached their own goals. The purpose is that the strength of Chu State's water army has been strengthened to some extent, which will provide powerful help to contain the Qin State's surface ship power in the future.

Just as the water surface power in the south changed quietly, the situation in the north turned bad again

"The grenades are ready to be released two and a half miles in front of the target," a Qi artillery chief ordered loudly. Qin system and Qi system are two different length units. The Artillery of the State of Qi adopted the system of the State of Qin when teaching the artillery of the State of Qi, but the people of the State of Qi seemed to be very stubborn. They insisted on converting it into the unit of length of the State of Qi and then studied it. In this way, the artillery of the State of Qi calculated according to their own scale

"Kangdang" shells are stuffed into the barrel of the gun and the shells are installed

"Put it off" the Artillery Major shouted to give an order

"Ignition" Artillery The igniter quickly ignited Qi's cannons using captured Yan's cannons. Yan's cannons came from Qin's cannons. It is the pressure-pull type. Install a detonator behind the barrel, and then use a spring mechanism to pull the gravity device to hit the detonator. The detonator generates sparks and ignites the propellant inside. This is the ignition method used by all bronze artillery before Qin, but it was influenced by Qin. Domestic technology is exported and the people of Yan state say that the money used is a problem. The people of Yan state can’t afford that part of the money, and the cost of using detonators to launch is very expensive. The price of one detonator is equivalent to the price of five bullets, which is too expensive for them. So the Yan people didn't buy it. Of course, the Qin people didn't want to make a loss-making business, so they refitted all these cannons and turned them into traditional ignition methods and sold them to the Yan people.

However, after the people of Yan State experienced a huge failure, these cannons were in the hands of the people of Qi State.

The people of Qin State themselves said that this traditional ignition method has disadvantages, but they can’t say what the disadvantages are. It seems that it is slower in time, and there is not much difference in specifics.

But the Qin army looked down on this kind of artillery with a backward firing method. They thought that this kind of artillery was bulky and the firing speed was terribly slow. What's worse, this kind of artillery was the most dangerous in the fast firing method, especially if the artillerymen didn't pay attention, it might cause damage. Exploding the chamber is dangerous. When this artillery was used before, the life of Qin’s artillerymen could not be guaranteed. Later, after using a fixed metal barrel and reloading the artillery, the situation changed greatly.

"Boom boom boom" the Qi army assembled all the artillery they could collect, there were only 26 artillery pieces in total, but these artillery pieces were enough to deal with Qin's airport, which only had more than 300 people.

"Whistling" came the whistling sound of shells

"Boom" a huge explosion sounded, and the shells landed on the Qin army's position accurately

"Cannon attack, cannon attack" the soldiers of the Qin Army shouted nervously

"Whoosh" shells whistling continuously

"Booming" shells continued to explode on the Qin army's position

"Bah bah..." The soil from the bomb entered the mouth of a second lieutenant of the Qin army

"Where did the damned Qi people get the artillery?" The second lieutenant cursed loudly in dissatisfaction

"Swoosh" the artillery of the Qi people fired continuously, trying to rely on this uninterrupted artillery to suppress the machine guns of the Qin State

"Let me see." The captain who attacked the Qi army heard the sound of the gun and hurried to the outpost observation post to observe. Through a hidden observation port, the captain saw his target in the binoculars.

In the camera, the gunpowder smoke from the Qi state artillery covered the Qi army's artillery positions. The captain could only see part of the artillery firing through the blowing of the wind.

This kind of old-fashioned bronze artillery still uses black gunpowder. If it uses the granular gunpowder of Qin State, Qin State has a deep research on granular gunpowder. Qin State added some animal and vegetable glue to the gunpowder to make the gunpowder particles bigger. Firstly, the launch reaction speed of gunpowder is greatly accelerated, and the power is much greater than that after drying with water. The most important thing is that the storage time is relatively long. The difference is that the gunpowder used by the people of Qi State is imported from Chu State and has been greatly shrunk. The gunpowder exported by the Qin State is originally less powerful than the industrial gunpowder produced by Qin State itself. Not only that, the gunpowder uses powdered gunpowder rather than granular gunpowder.

But the Yan State Artillery pointed out the necessity of using this kind of gunpowder, because only the use of granular gunpowder combined with conical shells and rifling in the barrel can make the shells have a greater range. In this way, Qi Guo knew the granular gunpowder in disguise, but the problem is they Knowing that, they couldn’t make granulated gunpowder at all, but they were able to get some natural granulated gunpowder. These granulated gunpowder came from damp gunpowder. The damp gunpowder in the south of Chu State was easily damp during storage and transportation. The damp gunpowder was transported to Qi State. The people of the country need to dry it naturally. This process happened to be the initial stage of the production of granular gunpowder in Qin State, so the artillerymen of Qi State are more willing to use this kind of damp gunpowder because they can accidentally get some granular gunpowder. The use of gunpowder can greatly improve the shell. The range of granular gunpowder is no less than that of high explosives

But the people of Qi still can't get good granular gunpowder because they haven't got enough understanding of this problem, and they still lack one thing, which is the process of graphite polishing. This process is very important to maintain the power of granular gunpowder, but Qi people haven't understood Knowing the role of graphite, the people of Qin State have begun to use graphite on a large scale in various industries and daily life. The most common thing is that the battery in the flashlight used by Qin State is a carbon rod made of graphite material.

"Hmph," the captain glanced at the artillery position where the Qi people fired shells and said with a smile

"Can this old-fashioned artillery still be able to shoot accurately?" the captain asked himself

"Hoo!" A cannonball flew directly over and broke a flag erected by the Qin army, interrupting the flag and falling on the position. In fact, this kind of artillery can still shoot in hardcover within a range of two miles, especially when the Qin State once exported it. The accuracy of this kind of artillery is no less than that of metal fixed shells, because that kind of steel artillery is the originator of artillery used later, and the people of Qin just exported this kind of artillery.

Because Qin people think that this kind of grandfather-level artillery is useless, especially the Qin army was equipped with a large number of this kind of artillery, but soon new artillery was manufactured, and its range and speed of fire are far superior to that of steel. Artillery, so the state of Qin quickly eliminated this kind of artillery made of steel and sold it to the people of Yan state.

"How can the artillery of the damn Qi people be so accurate?" The captain cursed angrily at this time

He didn't know that the domestic arms dealers in Qin State, especially the army, were also involved. They piled up a large number of such artillery in their warehouses. In order to prevent these iron guys from rusting and to be able to replace them with new artillery early, the military put these The artillery was resold to the Yan people, and then the Yan people gave it to the Qi people. In this way, the artillery produced by the Qin people can finally be used on their own people.

"We don't know, but the model seems to be our own artillery," said a gun sergeant major through a telescope

"That's right, the damn Yan people gave the artillery to these damn Qi people," the captain cursed loudly

However, the people of Qin should be thankful, because the people of Yan did not buy many of these artillery pieces themselves, because the price was too high, so these artillery flowed into the houses of those nobles, or in the hands of the Chu army in the south, only a small part entered the Yan army, Qi army, only a small amount Some of these cannons were obtained by the Qi army, and they obtained a large number of bronze cannons. The accuracy of these bronze cannons is relatively accurate at a distance of [-] paces, but after a critical point, the shells begin to become inaccurate. The repeated use of these cannons has reduced the lifespan a lot, because the Yan State artillery rarely takes the initiative to maintain their cannons, and because of the battlefield, their cannons are used for a long time, which invisibly gives the Qin people another advantage of these cannons. The life expectancy has been greatly discounted because of the relationship with the Yan people

"These guns look very old but the current situation is that we are still within the effective range of these guns, especially when these guns can shoot four miles and shoot at fifteen degrees, our machine guns can't do it at this distance. To effectively contact the enemy, we are in a very passive situation, we can only be passively beaten, and we have nothing to do about it." A Qin military officer wrote in a telegram replying to the Qin Xianyang General Staff

The addition of artillery made the staff of the Qin State Staff Department feel the seriousness of the matter

The contest between 761 artillery and aircraft

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"The artillery of the damn Qi people is bombarding us." A lieutenant reported the situation to the lieutenant of the flight department, hoping to let the plane dispatch to kill those damn artillery. After all, the feeling of being passively beaten is not good.

"Huh" a cannonball hit again

"We are very aware of this situation. After all, we can hear the loud sound of the shells, but not now. Since the artillery can hit you, it can also hit our planes." The flight department gave their own opinions.

"Damn if we can't defend the airfield you're screwed," the lieutenant threatened.

"We understand this situation, but you have to think about such a long airstrip. When we take off, it is very likely that a shell will hit us. It is not impossible to happen," the flight department replied.

"We don't care. I only know that the only ones who can kill those damn artillery are you flying planes." The lieutenant roared loudly because their positions were being bombarded and it was very violent. More than 20 artillery pieces from the Qi State rushed towards the Qin army crazily. The concentration of fire from the position is the kind of concentration of all the artillery for intensive bombardment, and the Qin army, because they are all marines, considers the simplicity of the airport defense task and the airport itself is a huge fire support system. I think it's very easy to drop bombs from the air because the plane is flying and can take advantage of its rapidity in the air to provide effective air fire support to the Marines defending the ground.

This kind of thinking is not wrong that air fire support can be provided, but the high level of the Qin army obviously overestimated the level of air fire support that can be achieved

Because the engine technology cannot provide greater engine power, the load capacity of the aircraft, especially the load capacity of weapons, has always been at a very low stage, plus some materials. ** During this period, mainstream aircraft used skins, wood panels, and even some In order to reduce the weight of the aircraft as much as possible, the aircraft uses materials such as plywood to make the aircraft

From these materials, it can be seen that the effective load of the aircraft, especially the weapon load, is rarely dispatched once. The specific tactical effect achieved by the aircraft is only equivalent to a mortar firing eight mortar shells plus the aircraft's aircraft fuel load. It is also very limited. The material of the aircraft is basically made of wood, which means that there cannot be fuel tanks in the wings of the aircraft to increase the range of the aircraft. This also directly makes it impossible for the aircraft to stay in the air for a longer period of time. air support

Not only the load and range, but also the aircraft's weapons. The only weapon used by the aircraft is aerial bombs, but the power of aerial bombs in this period is still very small compared to the power of ground artillery. The power of machine guns used is also less than that of ground heavy machine guns. The .[-] machine gun ammunition is more than enough to deal with infantry, but the machine gun seems to be somewhat underpowered when shooting in the air and continuous ground shooting, but this problem has not been discovered

There are various reasons why Qin Fang thought so highly. Qin Fang overestimated his air fire support capability. Under such an overestimation, there was a big loophole in the weapons that the military equipped the Marine Corps with. The Marine Corps is only equipped with a small number of direct-pointing artillery for flat fire

The Marine Corps has them, but the number of these artillery shells is small. Compared with the direct-pointing artillery, the curved mortars equipped by the Qin Army have more mortar shells, but the problem is that the mortars cannot reach those artillery shells at all. It can only provide fire support within a distance of about [-] steps to [-]. If it is further away, the accuracy will be greatly reduced.

Now the marines can only pin their hopes on the aircraft and their direct-firing artillery with a very limited number of shells

"Take the phone and I'll talk to them," a captain said, taking the phone

"Your problem is that the plane cannot take off on the runway?" asked the captain

"Yes, our plane may be attacked by the other party at any time now..." the person in the flight department replied

"Keep your dog eyes open and let me take a good look at the Qi army's artillery is concentrating its fire on our side. You have a shell on your side. I don't care what your reason is. If you can't let the plane take off, I will let my artillery take it All the shells are leaning on your hangar, I promise to turn your plane into a pile of waste wood." The captain hung up the phone after speaking

In fact, Qin's planes stopped flying on the day when the Qi army surrounded them. The pilots thought that the plane might become the first target of the Qi army's attack. In fact, the Qi army also thought so, but they didn't know the exact location of the plane. Because there are many big houses in the airport where the planes can be put down, Qi Jun began to estimate that the houses where the planes can be put down are the places where the planes are parked. Unfortunately, they misjudged that the planes were parked on the side of the aircraft tower, and Qi Jun mistakenly thought that the warehouse in the south. Because there are many big houses in the warehouse area, those big houses are likely to store a lot of aircraft

At the same time, the Qi army believed that aircraft were the greatest threat to artillery, so when they opened fire and fired shells, they had already thought of launching an air attack like an eagle from the air, so they focused on the location where the aircraft was parked. Unfortunately, their artillery shells hit the big house. The threat is not great. The first is that their range is not enough because their gunpowder power is really insufficient. The second is that the Qin army's warehouse uses masonry structures that can withstand certain shell attacks. The two add up to the Qin army's great advantage

"We have no choice but to give it a try." The person in the flight department said helplessly when he disconnected the phone

"Okay let's go" said a flight officer clapping his hands