Chapter 1701: Persian Artillery

Because there is no movable gun mount, the 40 Folang cannons on the scene were all lifted to the surface and placed. Before placing the artillery, engineers had already dug the pit in advance with a small shovel.

In order to facilitate shooting, the artillery engineer first digs out the soil, and then piles up a long mound of earth for the placement of artillery. The angle of the artillery is not horizontal, but it is raised 5 degrees. Because iron ball shells are heavy, they are parabolic and do not spin. Therefore, properly raising the muzzle will help the shells fly farther. If the angle is flat, the range of the shells is not close, and it is directly hit on the ground. Moreover, this angle also helps the artillery to transmit recoil to the ground ...

In addition, the elevation angle of 5 degrees is also conducive to irrigation ...

Irrigate? Yes, irrigation! Shooting the artillery will make the barrel hot. Especially for copper cannons, if the temperature is not lowered in time, copper tends to soften at high temperatures. Once the barrel is overheated and continues to shoot, it is easy to cause the barrel to deform.

Therefore, after several shots, the artillery will directly irrigate the muzzle. The bottom of the Folang cannon is open, and water enters from the muzzle and will flow out from the tail of the gun. Then, the barrel cools sharply.

Then, just wipe it with a rag, without using a dry sponge to absorb water into the barrel. Why? Because this does not affect the shooting. Because the filling of the Folang cannon is done in Zizhen, and has nothing to do with the mother. Even, the iron ball is pressed into the blunder.

Therefore, even if the mother is wet, it will not affect the firing of the Folang gun. Of course, the water on the mother's bun will not wet the part of the zun fu.

As for the cooling of Zi Bing, it is even simpler-the artillery threw the overheated Zi Bing directly into the bucket. Then, remove it and use a rag to remove the water ... However, the dehydration of Zi Kun must be taken seriously. After all, it is filled with gunpowder. If it is not wiped clean, it may not sound.

This way of fixing the barrel on the ground does not require temporary aiming before firing. After all, the firing angle and direction are fixed. However, there is a second shooting method ...

The second way of shooting is actually what the Turks are good at-use big carts to install artillery!

The solution is to make four-wheel carts with iron racks. The frame is made of iron, as are the wheels. Only in this way can we withstand recoil.

The 300-pound Folang cannon barrels were placed on a four-wheeled cart, lined up to face the enemy. At the back of the cart, a stake is inserted to resist the cart so that the recoil does not cause the cart to retreat.

Because it is an iron frame cart, even if the recoil of the shelling, it will not damage the cart. But the body is strong, but the bearings of the frame and wheels are not so strong. There, it is also the place most affected by the recoil of the artillery. Fortunately, the Turks had already prepared spare axles and were not afraid of losses.

Of course, this is the approach that Turkish talents will use in hasty battles. After all, to fight against Middle Eastern countries dominated by light cavalry, you must always be prepared for a hasty battle.

If there was no raid by the enemy, the Turks would still lift the barrel down and bombard the enemy on the ground. After all, replacing the axles is costly and cumbersome. Sometimes, the axle can't stand it, the artillery crashes and the body collapses ...

In fact, the Turks were only one step away from modern gun mounts. That is-let the cart go back and absorb the recoil ...

When using a four-wheeled vehicle to mount an artillery attack and fix the body, the recoil of the artillery will hurt the car too much. Moreover, the caliber of the artillery cannot be too large. Large caliber artillery is placed on the car, and if the body is fixed, the recoil of a gun can shake the car ...

If you choose to lift the gun body off the car and place it on the ground, the artillery should not be too heavy. If it's too heavy, the artillery can't lift ...

Therefore, until the time of the Naval War, the mainstream of the infantry artillery was the three-pound artillery, and the body weight did not exceed 300 pounds. No matter how heavy, the artillery could not lift. Moreover, recoil is too great ...

The emergence of retractable gun mounts solved the problem of recoil, and the larger caliber infantry guns became possible.

Of course, there is also the problem of gunpowder consumption-guns of too large caliber consume too much gunpowder. Just like the Beihai Kingdom has cast so many cannons, but it is basically not used. Because, gunpowder can not afford. It wasn't until Marin developed Chile's saltpeter that he could use those large-caliber naval guns.

However, for Persia, the three-pound Folang cannon sent by Marin this time has been very satisfactory. Because the Turkish infantry artillery is also of this level. As long as it was no worse than the Turks' artillery, Ismaili was satisfied.

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The volley of 40 Folang machine guns is just a pediatrics in the eyes of the generals of Beihai. Because the North Sea infantry also has 6-pound guns and 12-pound Napoleon guns. But in the eyes of the Persians who haven't seen the artillery very much, the three-pound gun is already terrible ...

In particular, during the shooting of living creatures, Persian Shaisimayi I and the Persian nobles were very shocked to see a group of cattle and sheep being beaten by artillery. This group of people is considered a battlefield, but in the face of cattle and sheep that are impoverished by shells, many people still want to vomit. Because, even if the Persian cavalry killed people, it was nothing more than a machete. They have n’t seen the way to tear the body of cattle and sheep into fragments like a cannonball ...

But after the discomfort, everyone in the Persian princes ecstatic-in the future, we also have this big killer!

Then came the shooting performance of the matchlock gun, but after seeing the ground shaken by the artillery fire, the Persian princes were somewhat interested in the power of the matchlock gun.

Bernard Shaw was helpless. Fortunately, the North Sea spy resident in Persia tried to persuade Ismail I to let the musket team perform a cargo shooting show.

When shooting, the Persian prince did not see anything. But when inspecting the wounds of cattle and sheep, they only felt the chills-the blood holes in the cattle and sheep were basically incurable ...

This is the difference between a musket and a bow and arrow-the enemy shot by the bow and arrow can continue to fight. Even, there are unlucky eggs like hedgehogs covered with arrows, and they insist on fighting until the blood bleeds.

But the rifle is different, as long as a bullet enters the body, the combat effectiveness is basically lost. Moreover, it is basically difficult to cure. Even if the military doctors of the North Sea State make a shot, they can only guarantee that the shooter has a high chance of surviving, but there is no guarantee that the shooter will recover later. After all, the blood holes made by lead bullets are too difficult to treat ...

How to say, not only can the Chinese Arrows continue to fight, they will be injured next time, and they will continue to participate in the battle. The bullets lose their combat power on the spot. Moreover, it is also easy to fall disabled ...

Some people may ask-during the war of resistance against Japan, many people can continue to fight after being shot by a devil!

Here to explain, the devil's three or eight caps use pointed bullets, but not lead bullets, but iron bullets. This pointed bullet may have a strong ability to break armor. But because the defense ability is too strong, it is easy to pass through. Moreover, the wound left is very small. Because the caliber of the three-eighth gun is only 6.5 mm. Therefore, after being hit by the devil's three-eighth cover, often only a penetrating wound with a caliber larger than the three-eighth cover is left on the body, unlike the round ball lead shot that will cause the body to roll through the blood hole.

Interestingly, small-caliber pointed bullets like ghosts are more powerful when facing bulletproof vests and armor. At the level of bulletproof vests during World War II, they would be directly penetrated by the three or eight large covers, and they would cause fatal injuries. Because the fragments of the body armor were carried into the body by the pointed bullet and caused great damage to the human body.

Therefore, during the Second World War, the US and Soviet troops with bulletproof vests faced the devastating damage caused by the three or eight guns. On the contrary, it was a forced Chinese Resistance Army who didn't wear anything directly, but survived. Big deal, got a hole in the body ...

For example, the Soviet Army ’s Sn-42 body armor equipped during World War II has good protection against pistols and German MP-40 submachine guns that use pistol bullets. But when it comes to rifles, it's safer to take off the rags. Otherwise, die faster ...

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After seeing the terrible power of the spherical lead, Ismaili finally agreed to introduce a matchlock. However, his purpose of introducing matchlocks was mainly to protect artillery units. Therefore, the scale is not large. It was artillery, he promised to introduce 300 ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ because the Turkish army had so many artillery pieces. As a powerful monarch in the Middle East, the Persians want to compare with Turkey. Even artillery cannot be less than Turkey.

But in terms of price, the two parties negotiated. The Persians were dissatisfied with the price of 650 gold coins per gun and considered it too high. This is mainly because the price of copper in Persia is much cheaper than in Europe.

The silver-copper price ratio in Europe is 1 to 15, and the Persian side is not expensive because it is close to India.

Therefore, they think that the price is too high and are reluctant to give so much.

However, after asking the Portuguese, the asking prices of the Portuguese were similar. Therefore, Ismail I reluctantly bought the 40 Folang cannons at this price.

However, as soon as he turned his head, Ismaili ordered 40 Portuguese cannons of the same specifications from the Portuguese for 600 gold coins (50 gold coins cheaper than the North Sea).

Then, Ismail I used these 80 Folang guns to form a Persian artillery army. At the same time, a 500-person musketeer was prepared to protect the artillery.