Chapter 1335： Cement shells

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The same uses artillery, but the technical levels of the two sides are different. The artillery used by the coalition forces of the Eight Kingdoms had a bare barrel and no movable gun mount.

Therefore, when laying artillery, the coalition forces of the Eight Kingdoms will send several soldiers to the front with the gun barrel. Then, let people dig the soil in front of the formation, leaving a hollow in the barrel to fix it. Then, the gun barrel is just forward.

In order to counteract the powerful recoil of the artillery, the bottom of the barrel of the coalition artillery was sunk into the pit. In this way, when the gun is fired, the reaction force of the artillery can be transmitted to the ground and absorbed by the ground, so as not to shift the artillery.

But in this way, this old-fashioned artillery layout method will inevitably raise the muzzle, it is difficult to shoot horizontally, and it can only be curved. But curved shooting is a great test of the gunner's experience. If the experience is insufficient, the angle adjustment is not good, and it is easy to hit the gray machine.

The artillery of the North Sea country is quite different. The artillery of the North Sea country generally has ears. Moreover, infantry guns are mounted on wheeled gun mounts. The tripod behind the gun mount directly rests on the ground, but the bottom of the tripod has rake teeth, which increase the friction with the ground.

This kind of artillery shooting with a gun mount is very simple, as long as it is pushed directly to the front and lay flat and forward. Then, the gunner aimed at the target from the back of the barrel with the Wangshan aperture perpendicular to the gun body, and then fired flat shot.

After firing, the entire artillery will recede because of recoil. The rake teeth under the tripod will rub against the ground and then recede to counteract the recoil of the artillery.

After that, the gunner propped the gun to the previous position and loaded it, and then used Wangshan to aim and shoot ...

Therefore, although the artillery of the North Sea State was arranged after the artillery of the coalition forces of the Eight Kingdoms, it was deployed first. At this time, the gunners of the Eight-Power Allied Forces were still digging pits to debug the artillery ...

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The North Sea Army carried 45 three-pounders this time. Originally, Marin wanted to bring more, and even planned to bring a few Karon guns. However, considering the inconvenience of transportation, he only brought a light three-pound gun. Anyway, the power of the three-pound gun is enough.

Although the effective range of the three-pound gun is only 365 meters, the range of the opposing infantry artillery is even worse. Coalition gunpowder is mostly one-pound or two-pound light artillery. Moreover, it is still a Franco cannon. Because the breath is not good, the range is worse. Its effective range is up to 200 meters. Therefore, the three-pound gun brought by Marin is enough to crush the opponent.

Moreover, this artillery battle is very interesting. Because the shells on both sides are not iron **** ...

Yes, although the shells used by both parties this time are spherical shells, they are not iron **** or other metal balls.

The artillery shells of the coalition forces of the Eight Kingdoms are ball-shaped shells polished by stones. The shells of Beihai are all cement shells ...

why? Because, in this era, there is no iron-making blast furnace in Europe, and all small workshops produce iron. Small workshops produce iron, and the unit of measurement is pounds, not tons of later generations. Therefore, the cost of iron **** in this era is very high, and most people cannot afford it. Even if Marin built a simple iron smelting blast furnace, the daily production of iron was only 10 tons. Because iron production is low and expensive. Therefore, most of the artillery in Europe at this time is made of stone bullets rather than iron ball shells. The application of iron ball cannonballs is mainly used in battlefields such as ship confrontation and bombardment of gates. In general, everyone uses stone bombs as shells. Especially in the field, whether it is iron ball or stone ball, hitting people is burping anyway. It is obviously more economical to use stone ball.

And the cement shells of Beihai country are more economical ...

The processing of stone ball shells also requires the stonemason to select stones of appropriate shape for manual grinding, which is more time-consuming and laborious. But the Beihai country's cement shells are very simple to process-just mix the cement and put it into a two-part empty ball mold. Then, squeeze hard. After extrusion molding, it can be directly dried in the sun and air-dried. Speaking of cost, it is much lower than stone ball shells. Moreover, the production is faster and the quality is guaranteed. Of course, the shells made in summer need to consider the expansion coefficient. After all, thermal expansion and contraction.

For the shells, the most important thing is to fit the barrel. If the shell is larger than the caliber, it cannot be loaded. If it is smaller than the caliber, the apnea is not good.

The three-pound guns of the Beihai Kingdom are all bronze guns cast with iron molds. Not only the casting speed is fast, but also the caliber is relatively consistent. Therefore, the North Sea country only needs to pay attention to controlling the size of the mold to quickly produce a large number of shells that meet the requirements. The artillery pieces gathered by the princes of the Eight Kingdoms often have errors in caliber due to the craftsmanship. Therefore, it is very troublesome to have a suitable stone bomb for each artillery.

Therefore, the artillery of the coalition forces of the Eight Kingdoms princes need to equip each gun with a corresponding shell.

The artillery of the Beihai State is more trouble-free. As long as it is of the same caliber, the shells can be used universally ...

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While the artillery of the Allied Powers of the Eight Kingdoms was still struggling to dig the pits and arrange the artillery, the artillery of the Beihai State had aimed them at a row of three-pound artillery ...

Marin always believed that among the coalition forces of the eight countries, their artillery was probably the most threatening. As for those musket guns, they are certainly not opponents of the Beihai musketeers. However, these artillery pieces are different, and the artillery pieces can take away the lives of several soldiers. The threat of 40 artillery pieces was really stressful. That is Marin, in order to avoid being caught by enemy artillery, they stand on the high platform behind the battle to watch the battle, at least three or four hundred meters away from the enemy artillery, to ensure that the other party's artillery is out of range. Otherwise, if you are hit by an enemy one or two pounds of stone bullets, even if it is a passer-by, you will have to die.

Therefore, in this battle, the biggest task that Marin handed over to the Chinese Army was to suppress and destroy the enemy's artillery positions and make the opponent's artillery "dumb."

With an order, the artillery of the Beihai Kingdom suddenly moved. The artillery in charge of the medicine, first unpacked the customized oil paper bag, took out a certain amount of gunpowder particles ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Then, poured into the artillery slightly upped by placing the tripod in the dug pit Inside. Then, take out a cement ball shell, insert it into the barrel, and push it to the end with a putter ...

Then, the artillery pushed the artillery forward, came to the predetermined location, and began to aim at the opposing artillery position ...

"aim!"

With the command of the artillery officer, the artillery responsible for aiming squatted behind the barrel, looking forward from the mountain behind the barrel, using a simple "three dots and one line" visual inspection, aimed at the enemy artillery in front position……

"ignition!"

With the command of the artillery commander, more than 40 torches reached the fuse on the fire hole behind the artillery ...

With the sound of "chirping" gunpowder burning fast, the fuse burned out quickly. Then, more than forty artillery shouted. And on the artillery position, there was also a burst of smoke ...

The shells made of cement pressed left the cannon and whistled to the enemy positions. Under the terrified attention of the enemy artillery, the concrete spherical shells flew closer and closer until they smashed into the artillery positions of the coalition forces of the eight kingdoms ...