Chapter 1245: Moving Forward (One Hundred and Thirty-Five) New Weapons

On the ship, three short and sharp whistles sounded, and the sailors standing in front of the cannons moved quickly. Guo Han stared at the cannon closest to him with wide eyes. Several soldiers were operating in an orderly manner. One soldier put a paper bag into the barrel, and another soldier immediately lifted an iron rod and inserted it into the muzzle, banging it several times. The third soldier opened a box next to the cannon, took out a black round ball from the inside, and put it into the muzzle.

After doing all this, two soldiers stepped back and stood up, and another soldier raised the torch inserted on the side, half-knelt on the ground, staring at the front.

Guo Han looked forward and found that almost at the same time, these soldiers completed the same action. It seems that in order to reach this level, they have practiced repeatedly.

Another long whistle sounded, and the soldier kneeling on one knee extended the torch in his hand to the tail of the cannon and dropped a fuse, and the sound of burning rang out.

Kou Shuguang glanced at Guo Han who was watching intently, smiled secretly and took a step back, leaning against the wall of the cabin behind him, and covered his ears with both hands.

With a loud bang, a flame suddenly came out of the muzzle of the cannon. The long muzzle was originally extended out of the side of the ship, but with this roar, the entire barrel slid backwards quickly along the rails on the floor. Guo Han was stunned by the rumbling sound at the first time, and before he could react, the entire ship suddenly sat back. He immediately stepped back a few steps, and Kou Shuguang behind him laughed and stretched out a hand. It hit his back, which allowed him to stand firm.

The rumbling sound continued, and bursts of fire sprayed out from the side of the ship. Under this powerful recoil, the ship was constantly retreating. Waves surged under the hull, hitting the side of the ship.

Guo Han opened his mouth wide and looked at everything in front of him. The thick smoke from the cannons when they were fired covered the sky and the sun. It completely blocked his sight.

The officer's whistle sounded again, but Guo Han didn't hear anything at this time. His ears were still buzzing. The soldier next to the cannon picked up a pole with a brush on the front end from the floor, stretched it into the muzzle, and swished in and out several times. Put down the long brush, and then stood still solemnly.

The hull was still rising and falling in the waves, but the soldiers were stuck on the deck like nails. Guo Han, on the other hand, was leaning forward and backward, and was a little unstable.

The smoke dissipated, and Guo Han looked at the target ships in the distance. Now there were only two left, and they were also rising and falling on the turbulent waves. The place where the third target ship was originally parked was now empty, with only a messy wooden board floating on the water.

"Good guy!" Guo Han shouted loudly. But he himself did not notice anything.

He rushed to the side of the ship, clung to the side of the ship, stared at everything with wide eyes, and did not even care about Kou Shuguang's trick on him.

"It is indeed a weapon of the country. With such a powerful weapon. What Qin, what Chu. What are we worried about?" Guo Han raised his head and laughed.

"Old Guo, you are too optimistic!" Kou Shuguang walked in front of Guo Han and laughed.

"What did you say?" Guo Han turned his head to look at Kou Shuguang, his ears were still buzzing, and he did not hear Kou Shuguang's words clearly.

"I mean, you are too optimistic!" Kou Shuguang said loudly in Guo Han's ear, his hands working together like a trumpet. "It's not that easy."

Guo Han pointed to the river surface, which meant that you can see for yourself.

Kou Shuguang patted the gun: "Do you know why this thing was equipped to the navy first?"

"I was just about to ask that. Right now, your navy doesn't have any powerful enemies. Even if you go on an expedition overseas, the existing weapons and equipment can beat the opponent helplessly!" Guo Han nodded.

"It's very simple. Each of these things weighs thousands of pounds. If they are equipped to the army, can they carry them while they are constantly moving? That would really be a burden." Kou Shuguang said: "In our country, the road conditions are good, and two horses can drag a cannon, but it's different when you go abroad to fight. You saw it in Chu. Can those roads be called roads? If you walk on such a heavy cannon cart, I'm afraid it will sink in an instant. What's the point of fighting a fart? You just push the cannon cart and walk all day! So, this thing can only be equipped to the navy now. Secondly, it is equipped on the city wall for defending the city."

Guo Han nodded, looking at the big black guy, thinking that this is indeed a problem. But he became happy again soon, "With these guys on the city wall, whoever dares to attack our city in the future will have a hard time."

"Who dares to provoke us now?" Kou Shuguang asked back: "So, this thing looks very powerful now, but apart from our navy and defending the city, it is really not very useful in other directions."

"Now that the big thing is out, the future goal is nothing more than to reduce its weight. This should not be a big problem!" Guo Han said confidently.

"You're wrong. It's a big problem." Kou Shuguang shook his head and said: "The Ordnance Industry Research Institute has been working on it for a long time, but there is not much progress. The level of iron and steel smelting still needs to be improved. Don't look at this The thing is made of iron, and it is dangerous. Some time ago, one of our cannons exploded. Grandma's, several soldiers didn't even find the body, it was blown into pieces. Besides, this smokeless gunpowder is researched by Ishin Research Institute. After a long time, there was not much progress. Look, after this round of gunfire, you can't see anything."

"The beating was quite accurate." Guo Han said.

"Lao Guo, you are not a soldier and don't understand this very well. This was shot after marking the shooting range in advance, and the target ship was parked there. If the two armies were fighting, others would foolishly stop where they wanted you to shoot. Ah, the hit rate of this thing is also a big problem when shooting at moving targets. The smoke is huge. After one round, starting from the second round, you have to shoot blindly. If you can't hit the enemy accurately, you will have to shoot again. Fight with a gang and solve problems with bows and crossbows.”

Guo Han looked at Kou Shuguang and asked doubtfully: "Then according to what you said, this thing is not very useful?"

"You are wrong again. This thing is currently under development. This is just a prototype. If you think about it again, when the weight is reduced and smokeless gunpowder is developed, it will be of great use. Besides, although It has many shortcomings, but it can still be of great use in certain situations.”

"Attack the city!" Guo Han suddenly sounded a possibility. "If we attack the city again, we can directly blast it with artillery. We don't need to use ladders to climb up. We can hit it with wooden blocks and directly blast a hole."

"Yes!" Kou Shuguang laughed, "Come on, Lao Guo, let me show you how powerful the explosive bullets are. They are specially designed to deal with skirmishers. What you just saw was a solid warhead."

The sharp whistle sounded again, and the soldiers repeated their previous actions, but Guo Han saw that the iron balls held out by the soldiers this time were different from the previous ones. They were covered with patterns.

Curiously, he took one out of the box and looked at it carefully.

"This is the explosive bullet. After it is fired, it explodes with a bang. Do you see these petal-by-petal patterns? When the time comes, it will be like pieces of broken shrapnel, which is much stronger than a bow and arrow. The one on the opposite side There are scarecrows on the target ships, and they can be equipped with good armor. Let's see their power. "

The sound of rumbling sounded again, but this time Guo Han gained experience and retreated to the ship's bulkhead, blocking his ears with his hands. After a burst of shelling, the two target ships in the distance both burned and they sailed quickly from here. Two boats went over, took some things from above, and brought them back.

The two scarecrows in armor looked miserable. One was missing his head, the other was missing a leg and an arm, and the armor on their bodies was covered with broken bones of various sizes and shapes. of shrapnel. Each scarecrow has at least dozens of such fragments embedded in it.

"Oh my God!" Guo Han shook his head repeatedly, "If such a bomb exploded among the crowd, the destructive power would be too great."

"Of course, this is ammunition specifically designed to deal with intensive charges. By the way, this kind of artillery shell has also been made into a throwing artillery shell and is prepared for use by the army. Of course, it is much smaller than this." Kou Shuguang signaled to his officers to take He picked up one and showed it to Guo Han, "That's it. We have some equipped here, but the output of this thing is very small now, mainly because this kind of petal-shaped projectile is too difficult to make, and now it is only equipped to a few Used by special forces."

Guo Han took the sweet potato-sized thing, held it in his hand, looked at the guide wire at the tail, and said, "Light it up when you throw it!"

"Yes!" Kou Shuguang said: "The king is very happy that the Ordnance Industry Research Institute has come up with this thing, and he personally named it a grenade. However, the king also put forward some other suggestions for improvement, which the Ordnance Industry Research Institute is currently working on. It's just a spontaneous fire, and the soldiers don't need to carry the fire seal with them anymore. If it succeeds, it will be much more convenient, but I don't know when it will be successful."

Guo Han's face was full of excitement, "Qin Chu thought that everything would be fine if he stole the gunpowder formula from us. How could he have expected that we had greatly advanced the use of gunpowder. At that time, he let them taste the power of these things. That damn Mao Wei is now the Marquis of the Qin State, specializing in making gunpowder for them, which makes people angry just thinking about it. "

The Maowei incident was the most disastrous failure of the Supervisory Yuan and later the National Security Bureau. It is no wonder that Guo Han gritted his teeth whenever this incident was mentioned.

"The king has never worried about this problem. Weapons are a systematic project. Compared with gunpowder, the king pays more attention to the growth of basic industries. As the king said, the threshold for gunpowder is very low, but how to use it is very difficult. It is a systematic project, and it is precisely these systematic projects that Qin Chu cannot catch up with us. Wait, Lao Guo, in a few years, our yellow dragon flag will be planted all over the world. "(To be continued)