I’m The King

On the ship, three short, sharp whistles sounded, and the sailors standing in front of a cannon quickly moved. Guo Han's eyes widened, staring at the cannon closest to him, and several soldiers were watching. Operation methodically. One soldier put a paper bag into the barrel, another soldier immediately lifted an iron cleaning rod and stuck it in from the muzzle. The tom rammed a few times, and the third soldier turned on the artillery. A box next to it took out a dark ball from inside and put it into the muzzle.

After doing all this, the two soldiers stepped back and stood, while the other soldier raised the torch inserted to one side, half-kneeled on the ground, and stared at the front.

Guo Han raised his eyes and looked forward. He found that these soldiers had completed the same movements almost at the same time. It seemed that in order to reach this level, they had undergone repeated practice.

There was another long whistle. The soldier on one knee stretched the torch in his hand to the tail of the artillery and dropped a fuse, and the sound of burning rang.

Kou Shuguang glanced at Guo Han who was looking attentively, then took a step back with a smirk, leaned against the ship bulkhead behind him, and covered his ears with his hands.

With a loud bang, the gun muzzle suddenly released a burst of flames. The long muzzle originally stretched out of the ship’s side, but amid this roar, the entire gun barrel quickly slid backwards along the rails on the floor. Guo Handi For a while, he was blown up by the rumbling sound, and before he could react, the whole building sat backwards steeply. He immediately stepped backwards a few steps, Kou Shuguang behind him laughed and stretched out a hand. Putting it on his back, it made him stand firm.

The rumbling connection continued to sound, and a flare of fire spurted from the ship's side. Under the strong recoil force, the Lou Ship continued to retreat, and waves of waves surged under the hull, beating the boat gang.

Guo Han opened his mouth wide, looking at everything in front of him, the thick smoke clouded the sky when the artillery was fired. He completely blocked his view.

The whistle in the officer's mouth rang again, but Guo Han did not hear anything at this time. There was still a buzzing in the ears, and the soldier by the artillery took a pole with a brush at the front from the floor, stuck it in from the muzzle, and went in and out several times. Put down the long brush, and then stood still.

The hull of the ship was still undulating amidst the stirring waves, but the soldiers were stuck on the deck like nails. It was Guo Han, leaning forward and backward, somewhat unstable.

As the gunpowder dissipated, Guo Han looked at the several target ships in the distance. Now there are only two remaining, and they are also undulating on the turbulent waves. However, the place where the third target ship was originally parked was empty at this time, and only a messy plank floating above the water.

"Good fellow!" Guo Han said loudly, his voice loud. But he didn't notice anything himself, he rushed to the side of the ship, grabbed the boat gang, staring at all this, even Kou Shuguang was overshadowed by him.

"Sure enough, it is a weapon of the country, with such a powerful weapon. What is Qin, what is Chu. What are we worried about?" Guo Han raised his head and laughed.

"Old Guo, you are too optimistic!" Kou Shuguang walked up to Guo Han and smiled.

"What did you say?" Guo Han turned his head to look at Kou Shuguang, his ears were still humming, 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 with a horn with two hands. "There is no such easy thing."

Guo Han pointed to the surface of the river, that means you can see for yourself.

Kou Shuguang stretched out his hand and patted the body of the gun: "Do you know why this thing was equipped for the navy first?"

"I'm just about to ask. Right now, your navy doesn't have any powerful enemies. Even if you are expedition overseas, the existing weapons and equipment will be able to defeat your opponents!" Guo Han nodded.

"It's very simple. Each of these things weighs thousands of catties and thousands of catties. It is such a heavy thing. If you say that the army is equipped with them, can they carry them in the continuous movement? That will really become a reality. It’s cumbersome.” Kou Shuguang said: “In our country, the road is in good condition. Two horses can drag a gun away, but if you go abroad to fight, the situation is different. You have also seen it in Chu State. Can a road be called a road? When such a heavy artillery cart walks up, I’m afraid it’s going to fall into it all at once, and I'll fight a fart fight. I will push the artillery cart to walk all day long! So, this thing, now only Can equip the navy, secondly, it is equipped on the city wall for the purpose of defending the city."

Guo Han nodded and looked at the **** guy, thinking that this is indeed a problem. But immediately he became happy again, "With these guys resting on the city wall, who would dare to attack our city in the future, he can really stand it."

"Who would dare to tease us now?" Kou Shuguang asked back: "So, this thing looks very powerful now, but besides our navy and the defender, it is really not very useful in other directions. ."

"When the big things come out, the goal in the future is nothing more than to reduce his weight. This shouldn't be a big problem!" Guo Han said confidently.

"You are wrong, it is a very big problem." Kou Shuguang shook his head and said: "The Ordnance Industry Research Institute has been engaged for a long time, but the progress has not been much. It is still the level of iron smelting and steel smelting that needs to be improved. Don't look at this. The stuff is made of iron, and it’s also dangerous. Some time ago we had a cannon that exploded. Grandma’s. Several soldiers didn’t even find all the corpses. They were blown to pieces. Besides, this smokeless gunpowder was also studied by the Yizhen Institute. It’s been a long time, and there hasn’t been much progress. You see, after this round of gunfire, you can’t see anything."

"It's pretty accurate," Guo Han said.

"Lao Guo, you are not a soldier, so you don’t understand this. This was done after marking the firing boundary in advance, and the target ship stopped where it was. If the two armies were fighting, others would stop where they would let you fight. Ah, shooting with moving targets, the hit rate of this thing is also a big problem. The smoke is so big, after one round of shooting, from the second round, you have to blindly hit, if you can’t accurately hit the enemy, then you have to do it next. Rely on helping fights and solve problems with crossbows."

Guo Han looked at Kou Shuguang and said in a puzzled manner: "Then according to you, this thing is not very useful?"

"You made a mistake again. This thing is now under development. This is just a prototype. Think about it again. When the weight is reduced, when smokeless gunpowder is developed, it will be more useful. Let's talk about it, although There are many shortcomings, but in some situations, it is still very useful."

"Siege!" Guo Han suddenly sounded a possibility. "If we attack the city again, we can directly bombard the city with that artillery, instead of climbing up the ladder, and hitting the bumper with the wood, we can just blast a hole directly."

"Right Luo!" Kou Shuguang laughed, "Come on, Lao Guo, let you see how powerful the bullets are. That is specifically for combating skirmishers. What you saw just now was a solid bullet."

The sharp whistle sounded again, and the soldiers repeated their previous actions, but Guo Han saw that the iron ball held by the soldiers this time was very different from the previous one, and it was covered with patterns.

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

"This is a blooming bullet. After it was shot out, it exploded with a bang. Do you see these patterns, one by one? By then, it will be such a piece of shrapnel, which is much stronger than a bow and arrow. The opposite The target ships are equipped with scarecrows, and they can be covered with good armor. Let's see their power."

The rumbling sound sounded again, but this time Guo Han gained experience, retreated to the bulkhead of the ship, blocked his ears with his hands, and after a burst of shelling, the two target ships in the distance burned, and they drove quickly from here. In the past, two small boats brought some things down from above and sent them back.

Two scarecrows wearing armors looked miserable. One head was missing, the other was missing a leg and an arm, and the armor on the body was covered with broken pieces of different shapes and sizes. Shrapnel. At least dozens of such fragments were embedded in every scarecrow.

"God!" Guo Han shook his head again and again, "If such a bomb explodes in the crowd, it will be too destructive."

"Of course, this is the ammunition designed to deal with intensive charges. By the way, this type of shell has also been made into thrown shells, ready to be equipped for army use. Of course, it is much smaller than this." Kou Shuguang motioned to his officer but took it. I came and showed it to Guo Han, “That’s it, we also have some equipment here, but the output of this thing is very small now, mainly because this kind of petal-shaped projectile is too difficult to build, and now it is only equipped for a few Used by special forces."

Guo Han took this sweet potato-sized thing and squeezed it in his hand~www.wuxiaspot.com~ looking at the guide rope at the tail, "Ignite him when throwing!"

"Yes!" Kou Shuguang said: "The king is very happy that the Ordnance Industry Research Institute has made this thing, and he personally named it a grenade. However, the king also proposed some other suggestions for improvement, and the Ordnance Industry Research Institute is now working **** it. It is spontaneous, and there is no need for soldiers to carry the firefolds with them. It is really successful, it is much more convenient, but I don’t know when it will be successful."

Guo Han was full of excitement, "Qin Chu thought that everything would be fine if he stole the gunpowder from us. How could he have expected that we have greatly advanced the use of gunpowder. At that time, let them taste the power of these things. That **** Mao Wei is now the master of Qin, specializing in making gunpowder for them. It makes people angry to think about it."

The Maowei incident was the most tragic failure of the Supervision Institute and later the National Security Bureau. It is no wonder that Guo Han gritted his teeth when he mentioned it.

"The king has never worried about this problem. Weapons is 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 limited. It is a systematic project, and it is precisely these systematic projects that Qin Chu couldn’t catch up with us. Wait, Lao Guo, it won’t take many years. In this world, we will have to put our yellow dragon flag on. To be continued)