I’m The King Chapter 1245: : Carrying forward the past and ushering in the future (one hundred and thirty-five) new weapons

On the ship, three short and sharp whistles sounded, and the sailors standing in front of the artillery moved quickly. Guo Han stared at the nearest artillery with wide eyes, counting A soldier is operating in an orderly manner. One soldier put a paper bag into the cannon barrel, another soldier immediately lifted an iron cleaning rod, stretched it in from the cannon muzzle, pounded it a few times, and the third soldier turned on the cannon. A box next to it took out a black ball from inside and put it into the muzzle of the cannon.

After all this was done, the two soldiers took a step back and stood up, while the other soldier raised the torch that was stuck on the side, half-knelt on the ground, staring at the front with both eyes.

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

There was another long whistle, and the soldier kneeling on one knee stretched out the torch in his hand to the tail of the artillery and hung a section of fuse, and there was a burning sound.

Kou Shuguang glanced at Guo Han, who was watching attentively, and took a step back with a snickering smile, leaning against the bulkhead behind him, covering his ears with his hands.

There was a loud bang, and a burst of flame suddenly sprang from the muzzle of the gun. The long muzzle originally protruded from the side of the ship, but amidst the roar, the entire gun barrel quickly slid backwards along the guide rails on the floor. Guo Han was immediately taken aback by the rumbling sound, and before he could react, the whole building sat back abruptly. He immediately stepped back a few steps, and Kou Shuguang behind him laughed and stretched out a hand. It was on his back, which made him stand firm.

The sound of rumbling continued continuously, and a burst of flames sprayed out from the side of the ship. Under the powerful recoil force, the building boat kept receding backwards, waves of waves gushed out from under the hull, slapping the side of the boat.

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

The whistle in the officer's mouth rang again, but Guo Han didn't hear anything at this time. Ears were still buzzing, and the soldier by the artillery picked up a pole with a brush at the end from the floor, stretched it in from the muzzle, and swished in and out several times. Putting down the long brush, and then stood still in awe.

The hull of the ship was still heaving in the waves, but the soldiers were stuck on the deck like nails, but Guo Han was leaning forward and backward, a little unstable.

The gunpowder smoke dissipated, Guo Han looked at the few target ships in the distance, and now there are only two left, which are also heaving on the turbulent waves. The place where the third target ship was originally parked was now empty, leaving only a messy board floating on the water.

"Good guy!" Guo Han said loudly, his voice was extremely loud. But he himself didn't notice anything, he jumped to the side of the boat, grabbed the side of the boat, stared at all this with wide eyes, and he didn't even care about Kou Shuguang's shadow.

"Sure enough, it is a powerful 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 up to Guo Han and said with a smile.

"What did you say?" Guo Han turned his head to look at Kou Shuguang, his ears were still buzzing, and he couldn't hear what Kou Shuguang said clearly.

"I mean, you're too optimistic!" Kou Shuguang said loudly in Guo Han's ear with his hands working together like a trumpet. "There is nothing so easy."

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

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

"I was just about to ask. Right now, your navy doesn't have any powerful enemies. Even if you go overseas, your existing weapons and equipment can defeat your opponents!" Guo Han nodded.

"It's very simple. Each of these things weighs thousands of catties. If you say that you equip the army with such a heavy thing, can they carry them in constant movement? That's true. It's going to be a burden." Kou Shuguang said: "In our country, the roads are in good condition, and two horses can drag a cannon away, but when going abroad to fight, the situation is different. You can see it in Chu State Now, can those roads be called roads? Walking up such a heavy cannon cart, I’m afraid it’s going to sink in at once. What a fart fight, let’s push the cannon cart and walk all day long! So, this thing , now it can only be equipped for sailors, and secondly, it is equipped on the city wall for the purpose of defending the city."

Guo Han nodded, looked at the **** guy, and thought that this is indeed a problem. But soon he became happy again, "With these guys on the city wall, whoever dares to attack our city in the future will really be able to bear it."

"Who would dare to tease us now?" Kou Shuguang asked back: "So, this thing seems to be very powerful now, but it is really useful in other directions besides our sailors and city defenders. Not too big."

"The big thing came out, and 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're wrong, it's just a big problem." Kou Shuguang shook his head and said, "The Ordnance Research Institute has been in operation for a long time, but there is not much progress. The level of iron and steel smelting still needs to be improved. Although this thing is made of iron, it is also dangerous. Some time ago, we had a cannon that exploded. Grandma, a few soldiers didn’t even find the body, and it was blown to pieces. Besides, this smokeless gunpowder is really researched. The academy has also studied it for a long time, but there is not much progress. You can see that after this round of gunfire, you can't see anything."

"It's quite accurate to beat." Guo Han said.

"Old Guo, you are not a soldier, so you don't know much about this. This was shot after the shooting circle was marked in advance, and the target ship didn't stop where it was. Let you fight, the shooting of moving targets, the hit rate of this thing is also a big problem. The smoke is heavy, after one round of shooting, from the second round, you have to hit blindly, if you can't accurately hit the enemy, then continue In the end, we have to rely on help to fight and use bows and crossbows to solve the problem."

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

"You're wrong again. This thing is under development now. It's just a prototype of one person. 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, it is still of great use in certain occasions."

"Siege!" Guo Han suddenly raised a possibility. "If we attack the city again, we can directly bombard it with the artillery, instead of climbing up the ladder, we can use the ram to hit it, and directly blast a hole."

"Yes Luo!" Kou Shuguang laughed, "Come on, Lao Guo, let me show you how powerful the explosive bullet is. It is specially used to deal with skirmishers. What you saw just now is a solid bullet."

The sharp whistle sounded again, and the soldiers repeated their previous actions, but Guo Han saw that the iron **** brought out by the soldiers this time were quite different from the previous ones, as they were covered with patterns.

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

"This is the flower bomb. After it is fired, it explodes with a bang. Have you seen the patterns of these petals? It will be such a piece of broken shrapnel, which is much stronger than bows and arrows." .The target boats on the opposite side are all equipped with scarecrows, and they can be covered with good armor. Let's see their power."

The rumbling sound resounded again, but this time Guo Han gained experience. He retreated to the bulkhead and blocked his ears with his hands. Bian quickly drove over two small boats, moved some things off from them, and sent them back.

The two scarecrows in armor looked miserable. One had lost his head, the other had lost a leg and an arm, and the armor on his body was filled with scarecrows of various shapes and sizes. One of the shattered shrapnel. Every scarecrow has at least dozens of such fragments embedded in it.

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

"Of course, this is the ammunition specially designed to deal with intensive charges. By the way, this kind of shell has also been made into a throwing shell, ready to be used by the army. Of course, it is much smaller than this." Kou Shuguang signaled to his subordinates But the officer took one and showed it to Guo Han, "This is it. We have some here, but the output of this thing is very small now. Equipped for a small number of special forces."

Guo Han took this sweet potato-sized thing and twisted it in his hands~IndoMTL.com~Looking at the guide wire at the end, "Ignite him when throwing it!"

"Yes!" Kou Shuguang said: "Your Majesty is very happy with the Ordnance Research Institute's creation of this thing, and personally named it a grenade, but the King also put forward some other suggestions for improvement. The focus of research is spontaneous fire, no need for soldiers to carry fire pockets with them. If it is really successful, 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 would have greatly advanced the use of gunpowder. At that time, let them try these things It's amazing, that damned Mao Wei is now the marquis of Qin, and he specializes in making gunpowder for them, which makes people angry."

The Maowei incident was the most disastrous failure of the Overwatch Council and later the National Security Bureau. It is no wonder that Guo Han gritted his teeth when he mentioned this incident.

"Your Majesty has never worried about this issue. Weapons are a systematic project. Compared with gunpowder, Your Majesty pays more attention to the growth of basic industries. As His Majesty said, the threshold for gunpowder is very low, but how Using it is a systematic project, and it is precisely these systematic projects that Qin Chu can't catch up with us even if he flatters him. Just wait, Lao Guo, it won't take many years, and the whole world will be plugged into ours The Yellow Dragon Flag." (To be continued)