Take the earth to enshrine the gods

Chapter 202 Psionic Fortress Cannon

In the battle of Zhennanguan, the M2 heavy machine gun that Qianyuan placed high hopes on turned out to be tasteless.Subsequently, Qianyuan suspended the manufacture of heavy machine guns, and even the [-] Base was shut down.

The Barrett sniper rifle that Qian Yuan painstakingly refined was lying in the warehouse of the palace eating ashes and never appeared again.

Thermal weapons research and development has entered a dormant period.

However, Master Yan Zhi became very interested in thermal weapons through the heavy machine gun, and exchanged several related books and some thermal weapon blueprints with Qian Yuan.

Call it a hobby.

In fact, Master Yan Zhi has never given up on the transformation of thermal weapons. His thinking is the same as that of Qian Yuan, that is to use refining techniques to transform thermal weapons.

After in-depth research on thermal weapons, Master Yan Zhi decisively gave up light weapons such as firearms and shifted his interest to heavy weapons such as cannons.

Because the lethality of firearms is very limited, and they need to be installed on a large scale, forming an agglomeration effect, which does not fit Yu Yutian's war form.

Only strategic weapons such as cannons, especially super cannons, are useful.

After a year of research, there is finally a result, which is exactly what Master Yan Zhi wants to show Qian Yuan today - a super cannon.

Not to mention the giant cannon base, the barrel alone weighs 200 tons, is 32 meters long, has an exaggerated caliber of 1200mm, and has a maximum range of 50 kilometers.

This is too exaggerated.

"What is this cannon powered by, gunpowder?" Qian Yuan knew a little about thermal weapons, and gunpowder alone couldn't move a cannon of this magnitude.

Master Yanzhi smiled and said: "It's a spirit stone." Gunpowder is of course not acceptable, but it is easy to drive it with spirit stones through formations.

Qian Yuan was suddenly stunned, and then overjoyed.

Although Master Yanzhi said it was easy, Qianyuan, who had been refining thermal weapons himself, knew very well how difficult it was to carve formations into thermal weapons and achieve energy conversion.

No wonder Master Yan Zhi said that it was epoch-making.

This energy conversion technology can not only be used in the cannon in front of him, but also in other high-tech products, realizing the combination of civilizations that Qianyuan has always wanted.

Even so, Qian Yuan was still full of doubts, "Even if it can be successfully fired, the power of the shell's explosion is extremely limited, right? Could it be that it's tasteless again?"

The grenade used by the cannon uses the fragments and shock waves generated after the explosion of the projectile to damage the target. It has both blasting and killing effects, and is used to destroy field fortifications and kill enemy soldiers.

This kind of debris may be fatal to ordinary people, but to monsters or warriors, it is completely tolerable and not fatal.

It's scary at most.

Master Yanzhi said confidently: "So, I also modified the cannonball." As he said that, he walked to the other side and opened a long wooden box to show off another of his research and development results.

It is a new grenade.

Qianyuan's first impression was that it was big, which was three or four times the size of ordinary shells. No wonder the gun barrel had to be made with such a large caliber, and this was the root cause.

In addition, Qianyuan also sensed spiritual power fluctuations on the cannonball. Needless to say, this is naturally carved with a formation on it, which also needs to be recharged with spirit stones.

Master Yanzhi introduced: "The whole cannonball is actually composed of one hundred and eight bone-penetrating nails. After a violent explosion, the bone-penetrating nails will be attached with flames and become bone-piercing fire nails. , can completely penetrate the armor of a warrior or the flesh and blood of a monster race.

"When necessary, it can also extract poison from the bone-penetrating nail and turn it into a bone-penetrating nail, which is even more lethal."

Qian Yuan's heart trembled, this thing is really vicious, said: "This thing, the cost is not low?" I want to know how much energy is needed to make such an exquisite thing.

"It's not low."

Master Yan Zhi's voice suddenly became lower, which is the biggest shortcoming of Da Pao.

Not to mention the cannon itself, the cost of a grenade alone is 100 spirit stones. If a hundred shells are destroyed in a big battle, it will consume [-] spirit stones.

Hearing this, Qian Yuan retreated a bit.

This is simply burning money, no, burning spirit stones, who can withstand such consumption?
The cost of a cannon is more than [-] spirit stones, and the casting materials only available in Gein cannon barrels are all refined iron, and some key components are made of black iron.

If it wasn't for the richness of the fief, it would really not be able to withstand the toss of Master Yanzhi.

"Your Highness, is this cannon successful?" Master Yan Zhi asked, feeling unspeakably nervous, for fear that Qian Yuan would cut off the project.

This is his brainchild.

Looking at Master Yan Zhi's pitiful eyes, Qian Yuan didn't want to let such a sharp object get dusty, "It's okay, we can consider making a batch and put them in the three major fortresses."

If such a cannon can be installed, the enemy will probably lose a layer of skin if they want to conquer the fortress, and it can be regarded as a strategic defensive weapon.

It's expensive, but worth it.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Master Yanzhi was overjoyed, and took advantage of the situation and said, "Your Highness, please name the cannon."

Qian Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Let's call it the Psychic Fortress Cannon."

"Good name."

In order to promote this project, Master Yanzhi even paid for his flattery.

"Is there any difficulty in mass production?" Qian Yuan asked.

Qian Yuan was wondering if he could sell the Psionic Fortress guns to the First Legion at a high price and start an arms business to fill the gap in military expenses.

Master Yanzhi said very bachelorly: "We are short of refined iron and weapon refiners."

Qian Yuan was speechless.

There is only one iron mine in Yingshui County in the fiefdom. With the successive establishment of iron and steel factories and iron products factories, in the long run, the ore of the Fengcheng Metro will be in short supply.

Raw iron ore is a controlled material and is not easy to purchase.

The Quicksand Country to the south is a big iron ore country, but the relationship between the fiefdom and Wanhuamen is relatively normal, and there is no sign of iron ore trade at all.

In vain.

Regarding this point, Qianyuan is helpless for the time being. He is going to send another prospecting team to the Zulong Mountain Range for a more detailed prospecting trip after he returns.

See if there are any surprises.

As for the weapon refiner, this is also Qianyuan's problem.

Although they were given away or recruited, the Bingjia Division already had a considerable team of weapon refiners, including more than a hundred senior blacksmiths.

However, it is still far from the demand of the fiefdom.

Now that they have to start the project of the horse spiritual fortress cannon, it is even more difficult.

"As I said last time, is there any progress in letting the craftsmen and senior blacksmiths accept apprentices?" Qian Yuan asked.

Master Yanzhi said helplessly: "It's time to accept apprentices. There are more than two hundred apprentices now, but it is far from the time to be useful."

Qian Yuan nodded, "So, we have to find a way to recruit another batch of craftsmen outside."

It’s different in the past.

The empire is in turmoil, and the Qianyuan is growing in power, so it should be much more attractive to craftsmen.

Especially in the western region, under the continuous turmoil, people's hearts are unstable. As long as they can afford the price, let alone the craftsmen and blacksmiths, it is not impossible to relocate all the military workshops to Qingqiu City.

Qian Yuan is not afraid of third brother's revenge now.

After returning from the XC area, Qian Yuan found Sun Baoshan, the engineer, and asked him to handle the matter himself, and sent a lobbying team to the west and south respectively.

Prepare to take advantage of the turmoil to further consolidate the fiefdom's military heritage.

(End of this chapter)