Steel Dynasty - Chapter 809

[Chapter 808: Ammunition Revolution]

“Your Majesty, these are the first batch of explosive bullets equipped with fuses.”

In the military workshop, Chen Qi led Xiao Qi to the warehouse. On the ground where many muskets and ammunition were piled up, he saw at a glance He picked up the neatly arranged blooming bombs in the corner.

Because of the explosive bomb incident, Xiao Ming asked Lu Fei to delay the attack on Jinzhou. However, the army was wasting a lot of money outside and it would not be good for anyone if it continued to be wasted.

What’s more, the Japanese country on the Koryo Peninsula is eyeing it. He wants to end the war in the north as soon as possible and open up the situation for the colonization of Dayu.

At this time, Chen Qi picked up a blooming bomb from the ground and said to Xiao Ming: “Your Majesty, this batch of blooming bombs still uses hollow iron balls, but the cork tube of the iron balls has been replaced by the current mechanical fuze.”

Black Cat White A good cat is a cat that can catch mice. Xiao Ming ordered: “How about you let the artilleryman demonstrate it now? I want to see it?”

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Chen Qi nodded and ordered people to remove the cannonballs on the ground. Move out.

The group arrived at the shooting range. Under Chen Qi’s order, the artillerymen replaced the solid bullets with blooming bullets. The loading sequence was completed. With a roar, the artillery shells rushed straight towards the stone 500 meters away.

The exploding bullet rushed out with great force and hit the stone. The firing pin in the fuse slammed into the mercury fulminate, instantly detonating the shell. With a “boom”, the flames surrounded the stone, causing the stone to fly everywhere.

Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction. In the past, only mortars could fire explosive bullets, but now all smoothbore cannons can fire explosive bullets.

Especially for the navy, the way they fight will fundamentally change.

In the past, battleship shooting was nothing more than solid bullets that punched holes in the opponent’s ships. This rarely caused the battleship to sink. But it is different now. If the naval gun is loaded with such explosive shells, it will undoubtedly be a threat to the enemy. It’s a nightmare. The explosive bombs will directly sink the opponent’s warship.

“After the first batch of artillery shells are delivered to Pingzhou City, you immediately send these explosive shells to the navy.” Xiao Ming frowned slightly. The last time a Chongqing warship and a British warship met at sea was still fresh in his memory.

If the British warships fired at them again at sea, he guaranteed that the Qingzhou warships would wipe them out.

After the first test-fire was successful, Chen Qi continued to test-fire six more rounds, and all six shells exploded, indicating that the reliability of this kind of shells is still good.

“Where are the landmines I asked you to make?” Xiao Ming asked at this time.

Chen Qi picked up a hollow-point bullet from the box that was different from the shell. The hole of this hollow-point bullet was obviously larger, the fuse was larger than the shell, and it protruded very high from the surface of the shell.

“Your Majesty, this is, in order to make it easier for barbarians and horses to detonate landmines when they step on them, I made the fuses of the mines much more sensitive. The weight of the soldiers and horses is enough to detonate them,” Chen Qi said seriously.

Lu Tong was responsible for providing mercury fulminate, but the manufacturing of cannonballs relied entirely on him. However, with the maturity of iron mold technology and the use of steam engines, their production was much easier than before.

Xiao Ming showed a satisfied smile. History has proved that changes in weapons have led to changes in the situation of war. In the past, the West used naval guns to conquer the world. Now it is the turn of the Chongqing Kingdom led by him to formulate international rules.

Like the explosive bombs, Xiao Ming also asked Chen Qi to demonstrate for himself. At this time, Chen Qi asked the craftsmen to bury the mines under the soil. Then a craftsman stood far away, holding an iron block and buried the mines. Throw away the soil layer.

As iron chunks fell onto the mines, the ground exploded, sending soil and flames flying.

“Very good, how many artillery shells and landmines can you produce in a month now?” Xiao Ming asked.

“Three thousand of each kind is enough.” Chen Qi said: “Now the military workshop makes guns, guns, bullets, everything, and there are not enough manpower.” He

frowned and looked at the courtyard of the military workshop. It seems that military workshops are growing barbarically. In his opinion, with the modernization of weapons, this military industry should also become regular.

So he said: “I will allocate another group of people to you. You and Song Changping will be responsible for separating the musket, artillery and ammunition workshops, and each will perform their own duties. In this way, the efficiency of the three workshops can be increased.”

Chen Qi suddenly grinned. He was envious of this vigorous slave wave, but he ignored it because he was busy developing fuses.

Now that Xiao Ming said this, he naturally followed his wishes.

The new type of artillery shells are making rapid progress, and Xiao Ming is also in a good mood, because it means that he can defeat his enemies more easily and gain more markets for the Great Yu Kingdom.

After checking the cannonballs, Xiao Ming inspected the musket workshop and the artillery workshop. The production of these two workshops is now very stable.

The Gun Workshop has been producing and transforming conquest muskets, while the Artillery Workshop focuses on the production of field guns and naval guns, but in addition they have also been designing and developing the next generation of muskets and artillery.

But it will take some time to wait for the product to come out.

“By the way, your military workshop can now send craftsmen to Pingzhou to train the soldiers and teach them how to use these two weapons. As soon as your first batch of artillery shells arrive, the Battle of Jinzhou can begin.” Xiao Xiao Ming said.

“Yes, Your Majesty, I will make arrangements right now.”

Satisfied with the current production progress, Xiao Ming and Qian Dafu left the military workshop and returned to Qingzhou City.

As soon as the two entered the city, they found that the streets of Qingzhou were in chaos. At this time, the streets were full of businessmen, Confucian scholars, and ordinary people. In the chaos, he heard yelling, cheers, and fighting from time to time.

“What’s going on? Go and ask.” Xiao Ming said to Qian Dafu.

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Qian Dafu responded, walked to a guard who was maintaining order and asked sternly: “What does your guard station do? Why is there such chaos in this city.”

When the guard saw Qian Dafu, he showed nervousness With a look on his face, he said: “Manager Qian, this is not the fault of the security station. The chaos in the city was caused by merchants and Confucian scholars. It is said that it was caused by a dispute between Confucian scholars and merchants.”

“Confucian scholars and merchants?” Qian Dafu was stunned for a moment and vaguely guessed something.

The guard continued: “Yes, it was originally a fight between two people, but now it has turned into chaos in the entire Qingzhou City. Businessmen and Confucian scholars gathered a large number of people to fight in the city.”

Qian Dafu understood in his heart, and he returned to the carriage I told Xiao Ming the whole story before.

Hearing this, Xiao Ming showed a pensive expression. Among these businessmen, there are some people with unique vision. For the rising capital, Celestialism will undoubtedly completely break the shackles that have bound them for thousands of years.

That’s why they support astronomy so much.

(End of chapter)