Artillery doubling? What is this technique? I’ve never heard of it before. How dare the foreigners call it the fundamental principle of artillery? Our ancestors did not know this artillery doubling technology, but also built the artillery, to say, foreign barbarians artillery or from our ancestors to learn it.”
Zhang Hong unconvinced muttered a few words, but did not wait for Zhu Pingan to open his mouth, he narrowed his one eye, and then thoughtfully muttered nodded, “Yes, the foreigners are good at calculating, always chanting what Sainz, I saw the foreigners to do the artillery parts before stealing from the master in Nanyang is always taken out a book of ghostly calculations a pass. At first thought that the foreigners believe in religion, do artillery before chanting spells to cast a spell it. Now that I think about it, it’s about calculating the multiplier of the artillery.”
Zhu Pingan nodded noncommittally and said softly, “Perhaps, I have not met the foreigner smiths and do not know their habits, but according to the firearms texts of the foreign barbarians, they do like to use public notices to calculate to calculate to calculate.”
“Please also teach me the art of artillery multiplication, my lord.”Zhang Hong said with a pleading face, “If it is indeed as the foreigners said, I will be able to create artillery that is not weaker than the foreigners and not disgrace my ancestors.”
“This is of course, firearms originated from my divine state, I believe that you, Zhang smith, will be able to develop firearms that are not weaker than the foreigners. I will do my best to tell you everything I know. However, I also have a half-understanding of the art of artillery multiplication, I know what it is, but I don’t know the reason why. The so-called artillery times the diameter of the art, refers to how many times the thickness of the walls of the gun body calibre of the meaning of the muzzle, mainly refers to the length of the body of the gun and the muzzle of the ratio of thickness. I am still in my Ming a newest, most cutting-edge artillery books noted, which reads: ‘foreign barbarians casting cannon, the length of the size of the size of the thin and thick measure of the system is really careful, do not dare to rely on the cleverness of the creation of presumption, so that the wrong thing, according to some of the real passages compared to the degree of the example. The law is not based on the size of the rules, only to the empty diameter of the cannon for the rules, said that the different systems of the different sizes of the cannon also.”I read many books, I understand that only in accordance with a scientific fixed ratio design of the size of the various parts of the cannon, the cannon can achieve the best balance between weight and power. Otherwise, the gunpowder will either have overly thick walls, increasing the weight of the cannon in vain, or insufficient wall thickness, making it easy to create the risk of blowing up the chamber.”Zhu Pingan nodded and said slowly.
Zhang Hong listened with a serious face, hearing this he couldn’t help but be overwhelmed with emotion, greatly inspired, and hurriedly asked, “The original manufacturing artillery also has this kind of argument, no wonder I always felt before that the artillery was either too heavy or prone to blowing up the chamber, I don’t know the ratio of geometry for the optimal balance.”
“Specific artillery multiplier ratio how to calculate, but I do not know, at that time read and did not understand, so I can not remember. However, I saw the summary in the book, said after countless tests, the gun body and muzzle of the gun multiplier in about 22 times, the power range can reach a more ideal value. In addition, one of the latest and most sophisticated artillery books of my Ming Dynasty recorded that ‘the foreign barbarians have a proportional projection method, with the calibre of the gun bore as a rule. For example, a gun, agreed that the calibre of the mouth of the empty chamber for one inch, then the wall near the end should be one inch thick, near the ear at seven and a half centimetres thick, the mouth of the edge of the thick five points, so from the appearance of the view, the gun mouth sharp and tail rich. The round diameter of the ear and the length of the ear should be one inch, the proportion is born as a fixed rate push step ……”Zhu Pingan said with some embarrassment, there is no way he is a liberal arts student origin, for firearms ah these, are out of interest in modern times, see on the Internet.
This is also thanks to his good memory, barely still remember some, or else I’m afraid it’s even more embarrassing.
“The artillery multiplier of the gun body and muzzle is around 22 times, and the power range reaches an ideal value. May I ask Your Excellency, does the gun body here refer to the barrel length or the overall gun length?”
Zhang Hong asked for advice.
True to his name, he had stolen artillery technology from the Red Hairy Barbarians, this question was asked professionally.
“It refers to the barrel length.”Zhu Pingan thought about it and made sure he had not answered incorrectly.
“Many thanks, my lord. If the artillery doubling technique is determined to be correct, it would really be an extraordinary technology, how long the cannon body is, how powerful it is, how much iron and copper geometry is needed, all these key problems of artillery would be solved. Previously, the development of artillery, always think that the heavier the cannon, the thicker the muzzle, the thicker the cannon body, the more gunpowder loaded, the more powerful the cannon, so the cannon are thick body, thick muzzle, but ignored the length of the cannon body. No wonder, in the past, I always felt that although the artillery is heavy and thick, but the power is not as good as it should be, and there are often incidents of blowing up, so it turns out that the artillery is not the thicker the better ……”
Zhang Hong said excitedly, the more the person said the more excited, “this artillery multiplier technology is not good ah, no wonder the red hairy barbarians their artillery is better than ours, no wonder I always think that the red hairy barbarians artillery size and length of a little something. The original really something ah. Currently my Ming artillery are too bulky and limited power, city defence guns need to be powerful, siege and field need to be flexible and easy to carry, with the artillery doubling technique, I can find a balance between the weight and power, reduce the weight of the artillery, increase the power of the artillery, greatly improve the city’s defence artillery, field artillery …….”
Zhang Hong excitedly rubbed his fists and prepared to do something big to improve the city defence artillery and field artillery.
“Artisan Zhang, the current main enemy is the Japanese invaders, I want Artisan Zhang to help me develop a lightweight artillery that is suitable for the watery, forested and hilly terrain in the south of the Japanese River, and is easy to carry and transport. Although the current Franco cannon is powerful, it is too bulky and heavy, and the bowl cannon has too short a range and limited power, so there is an urgent need for a new type of lightweight artillery to combat the Japanese invaders.”
Zhu Pingan see Zhang smith ambition, want to research and develop perfect city defence guns, field guns and other artillery, do not have forehead sweating, even with the artillery doubling art, improve artillery is not overnight can be completed, without a decade or eight years is not finished.
The current Japanese invasion has been urgent, the Japanese increasingly rotten, increasingly serious, there is not so much time.
So Zhu Pingan directly pointed out the direction, let Zhang Hong targeted research and development of a suitable for Jiangnan terrain artillery.
Instead of spending time, effort and money to develop a wide variety of artillery, it is better to carefully develop a cannon. Jiangnan is mostly hills, forests and paddy fields, etc., the bulky city defence cannons and field cannons are not applicable, only lightweight artillery is suitable.
“I was looking through the books of Europa and other foreign barbarians in the Hanlin Academy’s Book Depository, and found that one of the books recorded a sketch of an artillery piece, a lightweight artillery piece being developed by the foreign barbarians. In order to facilitate firing, the artillery shot was placed in a fixed position, like a fierce tiger crouching and sitting, firing at an elevated angle.”
Zhu Pingan briefly described the future Qi Jiguang’s invention of the commonly used Tiger Crouching Cannon, allowing Zhang Hong to make use of the more advanced artillery doubling technique to improve and develop it, believing that it would certainly not disappoint him.
“Don’t worry, my lord, I will definitely live up to your expectations.”Zhang Hong clenched his fists hard, hammered his chest heavily and threw his voice.
