Chapter 380 Lantern Festival

The optimized Yuan Qi array combination and Yuan Qi receiving array combination are not only easier to engrave and facilitate mass production, but also use Yuan Qi more efficiently.

Taking the current Type C Octagonal Tower as an example, only one Octagonal Tower can provide uninterrupted energy for 3,000 continuous cannons and 7,000 single-shot cannons.

That is to meet the demand for 10,000 gun types.

However, there are 12,000 full-scale captains under Ying Yi's command, of which only two-fifths are in the musketry category. In other words, a Bafang Tower is more than enough to meet the needs of a school captain.

Of course, if you add cannon, you have to calculate it separately.

According to the popularity of squatting tiger cannons in the army under Ying Yi, a general-level establishment of 3,000 people would have hundreds of squatting tiger cannons. A C-type Octagonal Tower with full power can only meet the needs of fifty elemental light elemental cannons.

As a result, the army will need to make some adjustments due to the elementalization of armaments.

Let’s not talk about how to adjust it specifically, let’s just talk about the elemental cannon.

The elemental cannon also has two standard specifications, one large and one small, one heavy and one light. Heavy elemental cannons are known for their power and range. It seems that since three days ago, the armaments componentization team has been testing cannons and muskets at a location outside the city. In the past few days, thunder-like explosions can often be heard.

The perfect plan was finally finalized not in Yuanqi Palace, but in the test firing outside the city.

The heavy C-type elemental cannon weighs four thousand kilograms, has a barrel length of five feet, a caliber of four inches, and a maximum effective range of twenty miles. It only takes three seconds from the time the cannon is fired from the muzzle to hitting the target!

In other words, its average speed is more than seven miles per second. That is about ten times the speed of sound.

In the words of Master Shi, the moment the cannon left the muzzle, it exploded in a circle of white waves and disappeared. The blast of air even knocked Master Shi, who was operating the cannon himself, away. If it weren't for the fact that everyone in Yuanqi Palace had been gifted with true spiritual numbers by Ying Yi, and each of them had a physique above 5, Master Shi would have been shocked to death, let alone flying out.

And its power is breathtaking. Where it was hit by the heavy elemental cannon, a canyon-like crack was opened directly on the mountainside. It was more than ten feet wide and penetrated more than ten feet deep into the rock. The nearby terrain was distorted.

The lead cannon disappeared and disintegrated.

"The range of the Yuan Qi Cannon is far more than twenty miles." Shi Dajiang said excitedly with a red face: "If it weren't for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy of control, an additional set of cannons were engraved on the Yuan Qi Cannon to change the cannon's ability to shoot horizontally. The Yuan Magnetic Yuan Talisman Array can hit two hundred miles away with one shot, let alone twenty miles."

Ying Yi was surprised when he heard this: "You even changed the cannon to shoot flat?"

Master Shi said: "Your Majesty has given you a reminder. If the villain cannot do it, wouldn't it mean that he has failed to live up to His Majesty's expectations?"

Ying Yi laughed: "Okay."

Then he said: "What about the light elemental cannon?"

Compared with heavy cannons, the power of light C-type elemental cannons has been reduced a lot. It weighs four hundred kilograms, has a tube length of three feet and a diameter of two and a half inches.

Master Shi bowed and said: "The light element cannon is suitable for medium and close range artillery fire. Therefore, its flat-firing characteristics have not been changed. The effective range of the light element cannon will exceed that of the magic gun. And because of its flat-firing characteristics, the effective range will not be affected. For innocent people outside, their cannons are also different from heavy cannons. After experiments by little people, it was found that stones made of concrete from road construction trucks are used as standard cannons. After being fired, a person who breathes five miles away will cause The speed will be too fast and it will disintegrate. In this way, not only will it not affect innocent people outside the effective range, but it will also increase its killing range."

"Oh? Stone?" Ying Yi asked curiously: "Who came up with this idea?"

Master Shi said embarrassedly, "He's a villain."

Ying Yi laughed again and again: "Okay, the stone is good." He patted Master Shi's shoulder several times, making Master Shi's face burst into laughter.

Then he continued: "The standards for gunpowder are newly established, regardless of the specifications of the gun itself, the specifications of the gun, and the regulations for maintenance and repair. The specifications of the cannon are based on the standards of element transport tanks and battleships. Established."

Ying Yi nodded slightly when he heard the words: "This is how it should be."

Transport tanks and battleships are a given, and elemental cannons appear later. Naturally, the specifications of transport tanks and battleships should be used as the benchmark.

"The transport element tanks and battleships are equipped with Type C Octagonal Towers. The manufacturing specifications of the two types of elemental cannons are based on this. They can be seamlessly connected. If they are installed directly, they can be coordinated with the Octagonal Tower."

Ying Yi was in high spirits and said: "Then we will follow your plan. After the Lantern Festival, I want the three major Yuanqi Industrial Zones to enter mass production immediately. Before April, I want to complete the armament replacement in the Liaodong Theater."

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The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival is also called the Shangyuan Festival. According to legend, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty worshiped Taiyi on this day, which has been passed down. For more than a thousand years, the Lantern Festival has become an extremely important festival for the Xia people.

In the morning, Ying Yi led hundreds of officials to the Temple of Heaven to offer sacrifices to heaven, and held a banquet for all officials at noon. She had no time until evening, so she changed into casual clothes, took Zi Niang, Chen Yuanyuan, Li Xiangjun and other fifth and sixth concubines out of the palace, and quietly blended in with the people to participate in this grand festival.

The Lantern Festival in the capital was extremely grand. Outside the Forbidden City, the streets were filled with bright lights. There are all kinds of lanterns for people to enjoy, there are people who guess lantern riddles, there are people who sell glutinous rice balls, and there are also opera troupes organized by the government. There is one here and one there, playing and playing, and it is very lively.

Suddenly, flames rose into the sky from the city gates of the capital, and countless people were setting off fireworks. The capital is illuminated with splendor and splendor.

Zi Niang and the other girls were very interested in playing, and when the time came to play, they saw the crowds of people on the street gradually disappearing, but they still had more to say.

And it's not over yet.

Back in the palace, Ying Yi summoned the concubines, female officials, and maids to the imperial garden. The lanterns prepared by the concubines early were put out, and various snacks and Lantern Festivals were sent from the imperial dining room.

Here we were guessing lantern riddles, but the girl couldn't figure it out, so she pulled Ying Yi over. When eating Yuanxiao there, if any concubine made it with her own hands, Ying Yi would naturally want to try it.

After all, you can't just take the queen and the girls out to play and completely ignore the other concubines.

The female officials and maids also let go, and those who guessed the answers to the lantern riddles also received prizes. Or a concubine's personal jewelry, a calligraphy and painting, or an embroidery.

Fireworks were also set off to illuminate the Forbidden City. There are also songs and dances, and there are Yingying and Yanyan.

This whole play ended in a mess caused by Ying Yi. In the flowers, under the shade of the trees, and in the corner of the corridor, there are many exciting sounds.

Naturally, the court meeting was held the next day - because of the Lantern Festival, the meeting was automatically postponed for one day. At the court meeting, Huang Zongxi, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, was caught and snarled again, saying that it was not in line with etiquette. To say that the Forbidden City was frivolous last night and the whole city knew about it was to lose the majesty of the Heavenly Family.

Ying Yi just smiled and didn't really care.

Although Huang Zongxi is a bit old-fashioned, he has no bad intentions. Ying Yi's broadmindedness, not only to the outside world, but also to the outside world, is actually as broad as the sea and the sky.