Despite many problems and difficulties, Su Yonglin decided to continue the experiment to determine the maximum number of shots at one time and try to improve the recoil problem
Then calculate its farthest range and maximum effective range.
After these are confirmed, good soldier can be selected to practice. After good soldier is familiar with the artillery, he can bring the artillery to the battlefield.
The artillery mass production plan has also confirmed that the Ministry of Finance will allocate special funds to the Firearms Division. Although the large financial resources are far from affluent, the Firearms Division does not need to worry about money.
They need to worry about whether they can finish Su Yonglin’s work on time and in quality.
In order to reward craftsmen and officials of the Firearms Department, Su Yonglin decided to upgrade the level of the Firearms Department, and the Firearms Bureau was directly under the Ministry of Industry and not tied with other departments.
Qiu Yuan, the head of the Firearms Division, was promoted to the position of Firearms Bureau. He bypassed all channels, directly presented it to Su Yonglin and asked for Su Yonglin’s benefits and qualifications.
Artisans will also get promotion opportunities and rich material rewards according to their contributions.
This is Su Yonglin’s reward mechanism for craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry. This emperor is not poor. Su Yonglin knows the importance of science and engineering to the country. There are both science and engineering examinations in the imperial examinations.
Students who pass the examination will also enter the Ministry of Industry in large numbers to study new technologies. More than 30% of the craftsmen in the Department of Eye and Firearms are from the imperial examination, and the rest are all craftsmen.
With the passage of time, in the future, the craftsmen of the whole Ministry of Industry will have higher quality, the ability to arrange and inherit, and scientific thinking, not just relying on experience accumulation to promote scientific progress.
China has treated artisans fairly well. From the very beginning, they already have the status of officials, and they will be promoted according to their respective contributions and achievements in the future, relying on their technology to become new technical officials.
If you have a good creative ability and have made great contributions, you can get a normal state reward like civil servants and military commanders.
Su Yonglin walked over and encouraged them to make persistent efforts.
However, Su Yonglin will not be satisfied with this situation.
Since the quality of steel has barely reached the standard and has made a leap in quality, it is necessary to continue to promote the production of qualified steel and the quality of steel to continue to rise, and to promote the production of more types of artillery.
Su Yonglin felt that he could start to promote the weaponization of the army.
"This kind of artillery is powerful, but it is shorter than maneuver and rapid fire, and the way is not very big except for fighting hard. I hope you can develop a lighter artillery with high firing rate, such as this."
Su Yonglin took out a pen and paper and drew a picture according to the style of the remembered Fran machine gun, focusing on the setting of the mother spear and introducing the concept of fixed ammunition to inform the craftsmen of the concepts of the spear and the mother spear.
Su Yonglin hopes that this type of artillery can move with the large troops and can also be used in field operations.
The weight is relatively light, and the wooden wheelbarrow can be relatively quickly loaded and fired in a certain range to strike the enemy’s army.
"At present, the main mode of military warfare is that the attacking army and the army form an army array to impact and kill each other, so although the artillery can’t fire the explosion Raytheon gun, it can destroy the enemy army array like a solid iron bullet. Think about that picture."
Su Yonglin described the way in which a gun fired a solid iron bullet to destroy a tight military array.
An iron bullet roared and rushed to the enemy’s army array. The scorching breath and powerful explosion kinetic energy will tear everything and stop the flesh and blood in front of it.
It takes one hit to destroy a secret army.
This is the exclusive ability of artillery, but the existing powerful long-range weapon trebuchet can’t do this.
If the trebuchet could have done this, perhaps the army array would not have developed to this day, perhaps the heart phalanx would have been born long ago.
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The ancient army array maintained a solid phalanx for a long time because the trebuchet was as clumsy and heavy as the heavy artillery, and it was extremely difficult to move.
It takes too long to load and launch, and it is also necessary to deal with large unmovable targets in order to give full play to the impossible battlefield.
The battlefield is still dominated by crossbows and military formations.
It is necessary to produce light artillery that can follow the actions of the army and can be used in the field battlefield, which will help the battlefield directly destroy the enemy’s army array and destroy their fighting will with confidence.
Maybe it can directly change the form of war.
Although Su Yonglin wants to make it most, he can still shoot a flowering artillery. Unfortunately, at present, explosive firearms such as Raytheon guns can be fired by heavy artillery.
The ultra-high bore pressure of heavy artillery will directly destroy the general Raytheon gun, and it will hurt yourself first and hurt yourself seven times.
If you want to thicken the shell of Raytheon gun to the point where it can be launched, it is estimated that it will either be a squib or split into three or five pieces. Don’t say anything, it will be a lonely explosion
It’s better to shoot an explosive bomb by throwing a Raytheon gun or a big rocket with a trebuchet.
However, it is the best choice to use solid ammunition for artillery unless the iron smelting technology continues to improve or the technical points of breech gun and primer are highlighted.
But it doesn’t mean that the cannon can’t open the bullet.
Su Yonglin knew that an ancient mortar had a short barrel and a big muzzle like a big bronze bell, so reducing the bore pressure could open the bullet, but the range and accuracy …
Just a little chicken ribs. It’s not as good as the army’s proficiency in using trebuchets nowadays.
At present, the concept of real light artillery or Fran machine gun represents the mother spear, which reduces the range and power, but makes it possible to maneuver quickly, load quickly and launch at high frequency, making it a field gun to cooperate with field troops
The craftsmen watched Su Yonglin paint more vivid artillery styles, listened to Su Yonglin’s explanation, read each other, looked at each other and silently nodded. Qiu Yuan, the owner of the new firearms bureau, said that they would definitely complete Su Yonglin’s delivery.
Su Yonglin was very happy to give this important to them.
Imagine the future siege of heavy artillery and the scene of light artillery in the field. Su Yonglin feels that there is no problem in destroying the military level of the Song Dynasty.
Can the wall of the Southern Song Dynasty hold back the trebuchet and the heavy and light artillery bombardment?
Can their army stand the blow of artillery dimension reduction?
The new war situation is coming. Is the Southern Song Dynasty ready?
Su Yonglin is very much looking forward to such a scene.
Almost after the inspection by the Firearms Bureau, Su Yonglin went to inspect an ironmaking workshop and saw the coking site of a craftsman.
It’s good to be able to handle coking, but when he smelled the pungent smell and saw the strong smoke that he couldn’t shake, he realized that if he continued to leave these coking craftsmen without protective workers, he might have to lie in bed after a while.
Indigenous coking is feasible, but the pollution caused by it is terrible
No wonder I can smell strange smells in the palace occasionally a while ago.
It is necessary to move the coking plant and ironmaking plant to a place a little farther outside Zhongdu City, otherwise it will pollute Zhongdu City sooner or later, and everyone will get respiratory diseases.
Looking at this newly-started industry, Su Yonglin realized that with the industrial start and productivity leap, environmental pollution followed closely, and all kinds of environmental pollution would appear, which would also have a great impact on ancient medicine and life expectancy.
However, compared with the rapidly developing society, environmental pollution is nothing in the eyes of the emerging bourgeoisie and the ruling class.
However, Su Yonglin is not a good capitalist or a unified emperor after all. He thinks that development is important, but it can’t be lost, and it has lost its humanistic spirit and social concept.
He finally established a country that is moving to a different country, a country that is gradually getting rid of the shackles of the old society and watching it fall into the historical trap again. He can’t do it.
Some things must be prepared for a rainy day and can’t be ignored.
So Su Yonglin thinks it’s time to fix the mask, but wet cloth is also necessary, so we must always do some protection to avoid respiratory diseases.
The most important thing, of course, is to limit working hours and engage in a shift system. Set a maximum working hour and shift immediately as soon as it arrives, so as to reduce the physical damage caused by coking to craftsmen.
Then we should provide them with better medical care and regular physical examination to avoid them losing their livelihood because of illness.
