Chapter 112 Test Shot
With hatred for the Qin people, the Zhao army left the city was not 12,000 but 19,000, including five or six feet of teenagers. They only had an old leather armor, holding copper spears, and the temperature dropped continuously after the snow. After walking for more than ten miles in the north wind, they were already trembling. The Wei army had only 12,000 people because the King of Wei insisted on guarding the royal city, but more than a thousand martial soldiers sent out, which was the last force of the Wei State; more than 50,000 people arrived at the Chu camp on the first day, and the rest were still on the way.
As Xiong Jing guessed, in order to choose to arm these soldiers, the shogunate could only rest for several days after the first batch of Qi soldiers arrived, and brought armor, weapons and covers to these soldiers from the seal. The colder the north wind, the snow on the ground continued to settle, and most of the Qi people who could arrive arrived. All the soldiers who arrived were armed, and the war horses could already gallop on the snow without much effort.
On the moon of the evening of the aid, Dingwei was the last military controversy of the shogunate. Sitting on the left of Xiongjing were the generals of the state, the Wei army was led by the veteran general Jin Zhu, the Zhao army was led by Sima Mao, and the Qi army was reunion. There were three good people beside him. These good people were originally only brigade leaders, but there were no higher-level officers, so they had to be promoted to the commander of the five towns with 10,000 troops.
The Zhao and Wei army were not large in number, and the Qi army even had to make up for the Chu army's system. The military proposal naturally obeyed the arrangements of the Chu army. More than 60,000 of three armies were arranged in the middle of the military formation, thinking that the central army, the Chu army was arranged on both sides of the military formation as the left and right armies. This arrangement did not face their opposition, but made them feel at ease.
On the contrary, Xiong Jing was not at ease. He thought carefully about the arrangement of the battle in his mind and wanted to find out the problems. This was completely futile. Dozens of strategists in the shogunate could not find the problems. How could he find out the problems after simple thinking? The strategists were more worried that the soldiers of the Qi army would collapse in stage fright, so they made comprehensive considerations and made up for the arrangement. What was really unpredictable was the weather, for fear of sudden storms in the fierce battle, but this impact was also relative. If the coalition forces were affected, the Qin army would inevitably be affected...
"I heard that the Qin people's chief spears are all inferior, but I don't know that the king and the army's Sima... can be allowed to see the bad people." A good man beside Quguang said with a bow. He had no objection to the army's life, but I heard that the Qin people's chief spears are all inferior, so I really want to see them.
"The chief spear matter..." Zhuang Wudi looked at Xiong Jing. He wanted to promote the inferior Qin soldiers, but for some reason Xiong Jing arbitrarily stopped this matter. "The Qin soldiers are indeed not as good as me, but those who are not better than those who are more powerful will win, but those who are brave will win. As for the chief spear of Qin people..." Seeing Xiong Jing silent, Zhuang Wudi felt that the generals were different from those who were seeing the soldiers, so he said: "Take the chief spear of Qin people, and then take our army's giant armor and the barbarian spear."
The inferior chief spear of the Qin army attacked the Chu army's giant armor. The shogunate had actually demonstrated such a thing. The Chu army general led Sima to determine the view that the Qin army's chief spear was inferior. He once again demonstrated that the Chu army did not object. After all, the military discussion did not discuss it. Instead, the Chu army unilaterally arranged the array and combat details of the entire decisive battle. The military discussion ended in less than an hour, and the remaining time was just enough to see the armor-breaking performance.
"Is this the chief spear of the Qin people?" Not all the chief spears were quenched and cracked, and some were not quenched. The good man named Gao Qin held a chief spear without quenching. In terms of shape, he could not tell the difference between this and the Chu army's barbarian spear.
"This spear will be soft." Sima Mao also attended to inspect these spears. Obviously, he knew the spears of the Qin army better than the Qi people. After picking out one of the spears from a bundle of spears, he said, "If I were a Qin soldier, I would have to choose this spear."
The spear in Gaoqin's hand is the same as the spear. Only some places can see fine particles and smelting intricate parts. The spear in Sima Mao's hand has obvious quenching cracks, and the spear in the spear is even more obvious, and the spear edges in the middle are not straight.
Gao Qin looked at the spear chosen by Sima Mao and the spear he chose, but could not see the difference. Sima Mao smiled when he saw this. He turned to look behind him. The shogun servant had already sent him food and Xiong Jing was talking to Vulcan. He grabbed the spear in Gao Qin's hand and threw it at the huge armor on the target not far away. "Bang, bang", two consecutive sounds, and the spear hit the huge armor and fell to the ground.
When Sima Mao looked back, Xiong Jing looked here without any hesitation and continued to talk to Vulcan. The other Chu generals were not shocked, but instead looked at this method of throwing spears with interest. A shogunate servant ran over and picked up the two chief spears.
"How?" Sima Mao asked, pointing to the curved spear on the smooth and smooth spear. "This is different." He picked up the spear he chose, and the spear of the spear was not bent but cracked.
"I've been taught." Gao Qin couldn't help but nod. The chief spear he chose was indeed beautiful but not easy to use.
"I'm sorry that I can't break the armor." The thrown power is not as strong as the spears of the storm, but it is stronger than the spears of most soldiers. When the spear strikes the storm, Sima Mao saw the spears being dropped by the storm. He chose another spear that was cracked. This time he did not throw it. He ran and rushed the spears like the Chu army. At this time, the Pingyuan Jun Zhao Han and Lian Yu were talking to Xiong Jing. Sima Mao, as the general of Zhao State, did not care about his identity and rushed the spears with ordinary soldiers, which made Zhao Han and Lian Yu feel a little embarrassed.
"It's young." Xiong Jing smiled, saying that he was no longer young. "If General Sima knows about the army, he will definitely be happy."
"The Qin people cannot break the armor?" Zhao Han asked. He still felt that Sima Mao Menglang would cause trouble if he really became the general of Zhao in the future. Like others, Zhao Han believed that the Chu army would win again and the Qin army, and what he was worried about was the restoration of Zhao.
"The Qin people who are seen now cannot break the armor." Xiong Jing said objectively. "The Qin people attacked and pulled Daliang, which was a Jujia Juji. In the battle of Honggou, the Qin people did not see the Qin soldiers who had Jujia Juji, and they should have it in the decisive battle."
When Xiong Jing heard that the Qin people attacked Daliang, Zhao Han's expression changed a little. This was not hatred, but his eyes turned around in the loss of mind, as if he had thought of something important and secret. Xiong Jing didn't care about his loss of mind. When he was talking, a sound of cannons came from outside.
The Chu army, who was waiting for the Qi army to train, was not idle. On the west side of the Qin army, the infantry practiced slanting walking, while the artillery guards kept testing the artillery. The short-barrel gun made of low-carbon steel was indeed superior in performance, but because of its small diameter, the distribution of shells over 400 meters became very uncontrollable. The vertical spread was over twenty meters, and the length of the three trenchers was not twenty meters.
The shooting of a catapult is about 200 meters. At such a short distance, at the initial speed of a short barrel of about 220 meters per second, the shells can be from the barrel to the ground for up to one second. According to the gunsman manual, the A-type tube burns seven millimeters per second under standard conditions. The gunsman must intercept the seven-mm long tube and load it. Such a short tube is extremely dangerous and may explode if you are not careful.
There are many gun groups in the martial arts field where gun smoke is spreading, but only two short-barrel guns are firing live ammunitions, and the rest of the gun groups are all in ammunition-free drills. Chen Qing has been paying attention to the two live ammunition-tested artillery. There are only 3,000 blasting shells, and each gun group has more than 130 test-firing one round, and five test-firing is more than 660. The current approach is to pick out about half of the gun groups, and each gun group has five test-firing.
"Target catapult car, one thunder bomb test shot, seven millimeters of signal tube..."
"The target casting car, one thunder bomb test shot, seven millimeters of the signal tube. Put it—!"
The roars of the artillery guards came one after another. After shouting the command to "discharge", only the two live-fire cannons would "boom" and spray out flames much more violent than the fifteen-jin cannons, and large flames burst out from both sides of the muzzle. The shells were out of the chamber in the rage flames, and they flew out more than two hundred meters before landing. Unfortunately, the information tube was still long. After landing, the cannon ball jumped for more than ten meters before it exploded. It was worthy of being equipped with five kilograms of gunpowder. In the flames, the shells were shattered in the air.
"The trust is a long man!" Pan Xuan, who had a black face, looked at the somewhat confused cannon guard. "Photography is short."
The shells land only take a moment, and it is almost impossible to grasp this moment. Therefore, the earliest time fuses were used more for shrapnel rather than blasting bombs. Shredded bombs exploded in the air to kill the enemy with the blasted shotgun. This requires less accuracy of the time signal tube. The shells can explode before landing, or they can bounce up and explode after landing.
However, shrapnel is a military ammunition. What the Navy wants is an explosion bomb that can explode inside the hull and cause fire. The shrapnel needs to be equipped with the opposite shore, not against the enemy. During the sail period, there are only bombs instead of shrapnel. The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. Xiong Jing never thought of shrapnel. He thought of blasting bombs from beginning to end. When he saw the test fire of the artillery guards, he remembered that there were shrapnel bombs that exploded in the air, and everything was too late.
The artillery captain and artillery soldiers were the teenagers who hurriedly entered the school and graduated in a hurry. At the age of fourteen, they followed the Chu army to attack Guanzhong. After five years of war, they had changed from teenagers to young people, and each of them had a beard. Before Pan Xuan warned, the artillery captain carefully observed the landing point of the shells. Seeing that the shells had not exploded after they landed on the ground, he blinked, and knew that the letter tube had been cut off, but he still answered sincerely.
"Target casting car, one test shot of the thunder bomb, the tube is seven millimeters short..." The gunfire commander. The gunfire captain did not reduce the length of the tube to six millimeters or six millimeters, but added a short word. This made Pan Xuan look at him more. Other gunfire captains usually reduce to six millimeters, two hundred and twenty meters per second, and half millimeter is eighteen meters, so that the shells will explode a few meters before landing.
"The target caster car, one test shot of the thunder bomb, the signal tube is seven millimeters short. Let it go--!"
‘Boom…’, the angry flames rose again. When the flying shell landed on the ground, the target inserted into the snow exploded in the flames. The gunmen were surprised at first, and then cheered. Pan Xuan also laughed. The second shot could blow the target, and he was really lucky.
"Who's the name?" Pan Xuan asked.
"I dare not ask the official, boy Wu Guang." Wu Guang saluted Pan Xuan with a happy face.
Chapter completed!