Chapter 2132： Single-headed cannonball

Seeing Marin's wretched self-heeled expression, Kohler was speechless, so he asked the same question as Schwartz:

"Master, if all European countries have mastered this tactic, how should we respond? Is this what you said, "As long as the price is high enough, merchants are willing to sell the rope to hang themselves"?"

Malin's face suddenly stiffened, and he said angrily:

"What do you know? Didn't I say that you can use "Swarm of Bees" on the side?"

Kohler shook his head:

"Didn't you say that it is because the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow has no plate armor, and it is easy to shoot through a swarm of arrows? It is not good to replace it with France, which has a high rate of plate armor equipment..."

Marlin was a little stunned at once, yes, the emperor defeated the French with artillery chains, and the French would definitely learn. After all, there are a lot of French artillery, so it's easy to learn.

But letting the black knights attack from the side with a swarm is certainly effective for the Moscow army that does not wear plate armor. But for France, where there are tens of thousands of knights in plate armor, although it is effective, the effect is not so good...

Moreover, a swarm of bees is easier to imitate. If it is learned, then the North Sea country army will easily be put in a swarm on the face...

It is useless in Eastern Europe, anyway, the exchanges between East and West are not close, and the news is difficult to pass. But if you use it in Western Europe, you can get a big victory. Others are not fools, so they must copy it.

Moreover, even if the improved version with wings can't be copied in a swarm, ordinary swarms can still copy it. Although the effective range of an ordinary swarm is relatively short, it is also very scary if it is close to the face. When encountering a master tactician, being able to hold back and wait for the opponent to be placed within 45 meters before launching together, the damage caused is no less than the damage suffered by the improved version of a swarm of swarms from a hundred meters away.

In addition, once Marin offered a swarm of killers to deal with the battlefield of chain artillery carts, then the artillery would quickly lose the market. Because it is not invincible, it is naturally no longer sought after.

Therefore, using a swarm to deal with the chain artillery array will not only cause the artillery to lose its market appeal, but also cause the enemy to imitate it. After all, this thing is really low-tech. As long as you get an unburnt sample, you can successfully imitate it.

Marin also didn't dare to bet that the Europeans did not find a swarm of generals who used it correctly, like the Ming Dynasty did. What if someone finds the right way to use it?

At that time, the consequences will be serious. If the Beihai Kingdom is defeated, it will cause serious uncontrollable consequences. Because, the reason why Marin was able to say one thing in the North Sea country was the invincible character. This resulted in no one in the North Sea daring to rebel, because no one was confident that he could beat Marin. This is also true for the princes outside, they have no confidence in defeating Marin. The previous coalition forces of Saxony and Brandenburg, as well as the coalition forces of the eight princes, were defeated by Marin, which had a great impact on the outside world.

But if Marin’s invincible persona collapsed, then those princes would regain their confidence, and maybe they would unite to attack the North Sea country again. What is terrible is that once the deification of invincibility is broken, perhaps the military spirit of the North Sea State army will become distracted.

Just like France, in the Napoleonic period, invincible confidence was established. But after losing in the Franco-Prussian War, France's invincible self-confidence collapsed. Since then, facing Germany has always been passive. Although there are tactical reasons, it is undeniable that self-confidence is also very important for war.

Therefore, Marin does not intend to use a swarm of weapons of high uncertainty in Western Europe. This will not only bring unpredictable consequences, but also affect the artillery business.

"However, how can the reform guarantee the defeat of the French and the princes of various countries on the premise of maintaining the artillery business?"

Marin thought of using a single-headed musket, but the problem is that even the leaky Franco cannon has a range of about 200 meters. The single-headed bullet and the Franco machine gun fired at each other, and the range of the two sides was not much different, but the difference in power was too great. You can kill a person with a lead bullet, and you can kill a few iron balls, and the benefits and the deterrence it brings are incomparable.

At that time, you can use the normal front-mounted three-pounder gun and the rear-mounted Franco cannon. After all, the effective range of the front-mounted three-pounder cannon is about 365 meters, which is much farther than the 200 meters or so with the rear-mounted Franco cannon. .

However, even with the front-mounted three-pounder gun, the range is beyond that of the opponent, but the hit rate is the same as that of a musket, which is just as horrible. One or two hundred meters later, whether the front-mounted three-pounder can hit the target can only be blessed by God. After all, the front-mounted three-pounder gun is also smoothbore, and the hit rate is not good.

Although artillery was later called the **** of war, in the smoothbore era, artillery shells relied more on the dense crowd on the opposite side to strike in a range than on precise bombardment. No way, the musket gun is like this, the accuracy is not high.

Unless, wired-bore guns, or use the Migne rifle with a longer range and higher accuracy to solve the opponent. But Marin was unwilling to take out the Miner rifle, the ultimate killer, if his opponents generally installed Miner rifles, then his "Jiangnan Tannery" armor would not be able to withstand it.

As for the rifled gun? That thing is too difficult to machine, you have to use a lathe to cut inside the barrel. As for manual rifling, that thing is fine for use on guns, and it is possible to realize it when used on artillery. After all, the rifling depth of the artillery is very demanding, and the processing is very difficult, and it cannot be obtained by hand.

In addition, copper guns are not suitable for making rifled guns. Because once the barrel is hot, the copper barrel is easy to soften. If the smoothbore gun is okay, the rifled gun... the shells can easily squeeze the thermally softened rifling... then the artillery will be abolished... and historically, rifled guns are generally made of steel, such as the Parrot gun. The Napoleon guns, all built to 12-pounder, are still smooth-bore bronze guns. It's not that I don't want to engrave the rifling, but once the barrel gets hot, the rifling is crushed by the iron ball.

If you want to make a rifled gun, you must use steel. However, what Marin wants to sell is copper cannons, which are profitable, so...

"Use the Napoleon cannon against the Franco cannon?" After thinking about it, Marin shook his head. Why? Although the Napoleon cannon is powerful and has a long range, it also consumes a lot of copper. One or two doors or even dozens of doors is nothing, if there are hundreds of doors at every turn...it's too expensive...

In addition, you can use large-caliber bronze cannons, as well as other countries. You know, this year, the 12-pound bronze gun technology is not difficult. Only because of the inconvenience of land transportation and there are almost no roads in this era, the average country has not carried the 12-pound bronze gun on land. But at sea, on Spanish and Portuguese ships, the 12-pounder gun is just a very ordinary caliber.

If you want to suppress your opponent through your caliber, others can learn to counter-press and come back. At most, they use clay molds for their main guns, and the cost is higher than yours.

But if you use a rifled cannon, you have to use a steel cannon. But this is not good for the sales of bronze guns...

Marlin was very upset. He opened the wooden box on the table and wanted to take out a cigarette to light it, but made a mistake during his busy schedule. He opened another wooden box and took out a steel spike bullet...

"What's so..." Malin was speechless, and planned to put the single-headed bomb back into the box.

However, suddenly Marin's hand holding a single-headed bullet stopped in mid-air...

"Single-headed bullet...single-headed bullet..." Marin muttered to himself.

"What if...what about using single-head bullet technology to transform cannonballs?" A flash of light flashed in Marin's mind...

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If he said nothing, Marin hired a carpenter to carve the wooden box. This wooden box is actually a mold, used to make cement shells.

Marlin was reluctant to make cannonballs with iron, it was too extravagant. These years, iron is a strategic resource. The shells made of cement are low cost, and they can be disregarded if they are destroyed, and they are too lazy to be recycled. Moreover, the power of cement shells is similar to that of stone shells, and they are also very powerful. Used to bombard city walls or warships may not have enough power and need to change iron balls. However, people who are used to fight flesh and blood are definitely enough!

The concrete single-headed shell with a male rifling on its head was dried and then pulled directly to the shooting range for testing. It was fired with a three-pounder gun. Then, those who participated in the test were stunned to find that the single-headed shell had a range of more than 500 meters. Moreover, the thief must be beaten!

It can be said that if the enemy’s artillery position is fired at the enemy’s artillery position, the three-pound artillery with a single-headed shell can easily destroy the opposing artillery position.

The only thing that makes people worry about it is that if the single-headed cannonball smashes into the sand and swamp, it is easy to be sampled and successfully copied. When the time comes, it will be terrible...

What to do? On the shooting range, Marin saw the artillery officer beside him squeezing the sealing wax of a fruit can, uncorking the cork, and preparing to use the can...

"Yes! Put a hat on the head of the shell!"

Then, Marin made the cement shells into the oval-shaped bullets of ordinary pistol shells, but left two sockets.

At the same time, Marin arranged for someone to use molds to make wax "hats" from sealing wax purchased from Eastern Europe. On the "hat", there is a male rifling.

Before firing, the gunner would insert the made wax "hats" into the two sockets of the cement shells, and put the wax "hats" on the heads of the cement shells.

After launching, the cement shell began to rotate because of the male rifling on the wax "hat". But because of the high temperature caused by friction with the air, the wax "cap" is easy to melt. At the same time, when the warhead hits the target, the wax "hat" will also be easily smashed...

When shells smash into sand or swamps, the fragile and high-temperature wax "hats" will also be seriously damaged, making it impossible to see the perfect shape. In this way, there is no imitation.

After testing, the performance of this cement single-headed shell wearing a wax "hat" is minimal. After the launch, the wax "hat" will basically suffer serious damage, and it will not be able to see the original appearance, and there will be no way of talking about being copied. Even the cement shell itself will be torn apart due to the fierce impact, not to mention the fragile wax "hat".

"Hey, I didn't expect that the single-head bullet technology can actually be used on artillery shells. The use of this single-head artillery shell is really sharp!"

Kohler and Schwartz, who accompanied him throughout the journey, immediately sent a rainbow fart. But this time, they really praised it. Because Marin's "brain hole" is too powerful. And this single-headed shell is really powerful.

Moreover, the two discussed with Marin. If the single-head artillery shell technology is used in siege and naval battles, it is as powerful as it is. Just change the cement to cast iron, and then change the artillery to a larger caliber artillery. Iron single-headed shells similar to cones can bring greater damage and damage to city walls or enemy warships... In order to enhance the ability to break defenses, the oval-shaped warheads can be made sharper, similar to the pointed heads of later generations. Rifle bullets...

"This invention is really amazing!" Even Marin himself admired his ability to "invent and create". This is not a copy of the technology of later generations, it is the ability to draw inferences from one another!

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