Compared with the ordinary howitzer, the shape of the grenade surprised Hu Zhuang, Wang Shengrong and others.

The artillery shells used by the People's Army are mainly solid iron balls and shot bullets. There are chain bullets on the Navy. The shape of the grenade is very strange. The bullet body and solid shells are slightly the same, but a wooden bullet holder is added.

Ye Liangchou explained that this wooden egg holder can prevent the shell from rolling unstable during the discharge of the bore. If there is no egg holder, the shell will rub against the inner wall of the barrel and cause the shell to roll around. If the fuse is facing the burning high-pressure gas at this time, the fuse will be pressed into the bullet body and exploded directly.

After learning about the specific situation of howitzers and grenades, Hu Zhuang, Wang Shengrong and others felt that the howitzers were relatively troublesome to fire and the rate of fire was relatively slow. If the howitzers fired one grenade, the Flang machine cannon had at least two solid shells.

However, they still have great expectations for this howitzer. The shells that can explode like grenades have much more lethality than solid shells. If solid shells want to kill the enemy, they must hit them. If grenades want to kill the enemy, they don’t need such trouble. As long as there are enemies in the landing area of ​​the grenade, they can cause damage to the enemy.

After learning about howitzers and grenades, the test firing is about to begin. The "target" is located a thousand meters ahead of the howitzer. Some of the scarecrows are wearing armor, holding shields, some are wearing only cloth clothes, and some are standing not far away from the back wooden boards.

The possibility of accidental grenades being fired by howitzers were slightly higher than that of the Ferron machine gun. Fang Nan and his group left the howitzer for more than 20 meters and came to a place with bunkers. Some subordinates brought a telescope. Fang Nan and his group were holding a monocular telescope and preparing to watch howitzer test-firing grenades.

Ye Liangchou gave the artillerymen responsible for the two howitzers, and the artillerymen immediately took action.

Calculate the target distance, cut off part of the length of the grenade tube, load ammunition, adjust the gun body, ignite, and fire!

Accompanied by flames and black smoke, two grenades flew out from the two howitzer muzzles, one in front and one behind, and smashed them toward a target a thousand meters with a parabola.

Boom! Boom!

The two grenades exploded before a second after landing, but it was a bit of a pity that the first test shot did not accurately hit the target. One was more than 30 meters away, and the other was nearly 20 meters away. Some shrapnel even flew to the target area, but there was no more power.

Fang Nan, Hu Zhuang and others didn't care about the first test shot, especially the senior military leaders who commanded the war. They knew all kinds of firearms very well. In terms of accuracy, they must be the first in the tiger-headed gun. There are sharpshooters in the People's Army, and they hit wherever they are at a distance of hundreds of meters.

The accuracy of artillery is far from comparable to that of tiger head rifles. At present, it is enough that artillery can hit shells within a rough range. It deals with large targets such as enemy arrays and city walls. This refers to solid shells. If it is replaced with grenades, the same accuracy is enough.

However, the first test shot failed to hit the target, which made the artillery soldiers who manipulated the two howitzers feel very uncomfortable. The Grand Governor, the Minister of War, and the Commander of the Army were watching, but they missed.

The first time it was missed, and the second time it had to hit. In order to facilitate the two artillery to correct the shooting position, the two squad leaders were equipped with a telescope. Through the telescope, the artillery recalculated the calculations, fine-tuned the gun body, and loaded the ammunition.

About three minutes after the first test shot, two howitzers spit out grenades again. This time one grenade successfully hit the target area, and the other howitzer deviated less than ten meters from the target.

This was a relatively successful test shot. Seeing a grenade successfully hit the target, the artillery soldiers finally breathed a sigh of relief and waited quietly for the next order.

Seeing howitzer successfully hit the target for the second test shot, Fang Nan nodded slightly, and Hu Zhuang, Wang Shengrong and others' eyes lit up. They felt that the shooting accuracy of this new type of artillery was quite good, and they actually hit the target for the second test shot. If they were put on the Folang machine cannon, it might be a matter of luck.

Since a grenade successfully hit the target, Fang Nan and others would go over and see how the grenade damages the "target". When riding in a carriage, the group soon came to the target area and personally observed the damage to the scarecrow.

The grenade exploded in the target area, and a scarecrow was directly blown down and smashed. The flying shrapnel penetrated the shield and armor, and several shrapnel were also inlaid on the wooden board slightly further away.

"The explosion effect of this grenade is more than four or five grenades." He Yan came to a conclusion after looking at the venue.

Grenades are incomparable to grenades. Grenades cannot be made too heavy. A grenade must carry at least four or five grenades on its back. The weight of the grenades will increase more power, but the number of grenades will be reduced. Moreover, the grenades cannot throw the grenades at a distance, and they will directly turn into suicide weapons and die together with the enemy.

Grenades are transported by cars. As long as the artillery can move, it is enough to be fired in a howitzer. The Firearms Research Institute does not need to be careful about the weight of the grenade. It needs to increase the power of the grenade as much as possible without changing the volume. It can even make a larger howitzer to fire a larger volume and a greater power grenade.

Zhou Yi looked at the blasting effect of the grenade and was already imagining the scene where the howitzer was used as a naval gun and fired grenades at the enemy ship. Grenades fell on the enemy ship and exploded, killing the enemies on the enemy ship.

A high-level member of the People's Army made a decision after just watching howitzers test fires, and their troops must be equipped with howitzers.

Compared with the military's senior management, Fang Nan thought more. Fang Nan was preparing to give the Firearms Research Institute a new task, improve howitzers, develop light, medium and heavy, three types of howitzers, which can completely replace the tiger-headed cannon and the Flang machine cannon.

In the experimental site, senior military officials told Fang Nan that they all wanted howitzers, but the howitzers had not yet been officially mass-produced, and it took time to go from mass production to mass production.

Fang Nan thought briefly and made a decision, first let the arsenal mass produce howitzers, and each department of the People's Army produced would test and train artillery themselves. The first unit equipped with howitzers on a large scale was designated as the navy.

Muskets are the main weapon in the army, while the navy uses artillery as its main weapon. The People's Army on the land is already strong enough that even if the Ming court armed millions of soldiers, the People's Army could defeat it.

However, the battles on the water are different. The People's Navy and the Ming Court Navy are too far apart. The Navy urgently needs new weapons to narrow the gap with the Ming Court Navy.
Chapter completed!