I want to be emperor

Chapter 806 Science and Hatred

The battle in Tshwane started quickly. The gunshots were not intensive, but they continued to ring!
Meng Xiu and the others ran all the way here just to defeat the Dutch and snatch the gold mines, so they had no other ideas at all, and launched an attack immediately after arriving outside the town.

The musket gunners with the 21-year-style flash cap percussion gun lined up, and then shot at the simple wooden wall of the Dutch at a distance of about [-] meters.

At this distance, these thin and simple wooden walls, except for a few reinforced parts, or thick support columns, those ordinary woods are actually difficult to stop the shooting of large-caliber smoothbore gun bullets.

And Chu Jun's 21-year/23-year-style flash cap percussion gun is also famous for its powerful power, a full caliber of [-] mm, and the particle black powder produced by a new process and a new formula, which almost reaches the black powder used in firearms. The limit of gunpowder propellant.

These all bring huge kinetic energy to the bullets fired by this musket gun.

The kinetic energy of more than 800 joules is enough to beat all dissatisfied people. At a distance of 100 meters, it can still penetrate a [-]mm thick low-carbon steel plate... This is still the excellent low-carbon steel produced by Chu State itself. If If it is replaced by the low-quality low-carbon steel handcrafted by the indigenous people, then this data can go up a little bit.

With such powerful bullets, the wooden wall made of small wood and planks, except for a few places that have been reinforced, cannot even block bullets in other areas.

To make a digression, in front of firearms, even in front of modern firearms, it is actually useless to hide behind thin steel plates or ordinary brick walls, let alone wooden boards.

Modern automatic rifles can penetrate brick walls more than ten millimeters thick, and old-fashioned bolt-action rifles, don’t think that they are less powerful because they are old guys. In fact, this thing is more powerful because it uses full-power bullets and full-power bullets. A bullet can easily penetrate a brick wall of more than 20 centimeters... This brick is still solid... As for the hollow brick, I won't discuss it.

Facing the shooting of modern firearms, if you want to avoid it, you'd better hide behind the load-bearing walls or concrete pillars. Ordinary brick walls are useless.

As for the car door often used by the protagonist in film and television dramas, pistol bullets can’t stop it, let alone a rifle. If you rely on the car door and the enemy to seize it like the protagonist, you will be beaten to pieces!
Facing the shooting from the riflemen of the Mengxiu gang, the Dutch were stupid at first and wanted to hide behind the wooden walls to fight, but soon they discovered that these thin wooden walls did not bring them any protection. Ability, even greater casualties due to the flying wood fragments generated after the bullet hits the wood.

As the gunfire continued, the Dutch hiding behind the wooden wall began to suffer casualties, and the screams sounded intermittently.

Some smart Dutchmen reacted quickly, and hurriedly left the thin wooden wall that looked thick, but the bullets barely used it, and turned around to the back of some more solid bunkers such as mounds of earth and stones.

After someone took the lead, others soon learned, looking for various bunkers and trying to hide.

Meng Xiu, who was outside the city, was holding a binoculars. After seeing the Dutchmen in front of him descending the city one after another, he was a little disappointed and said: "These Dutchmen reacted very quickly, otherwise, we can take advantage of this opportunity to kill more Some of them can break their morale even more."

"These Dutch people are harder to fight than the natives. If they were replaced by natives who don't understand anything, they might all rush towards us. It would be easier than killing a chicken!"

"It's a pity, these Dutch people have seen the world more or less, and know that bullets cannot be resisted!"

Meng Xiu has led people to fight with the aborigines many times, and his experience is also very rich. He knows that they are also aboriginal barbarians, but there are still many white aborigines in Europe and the aborigines in Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, Africa, America and other places. big difference.

The natives in other places are basically still at the level of ignorance.

But the natives in Europe have a higher level of civilization, and they are also capable of making flintlock guns and field artillery.

Even before the rise of the Great Chu Empire, Europe was the place where science and technology developed the fastest.

In the initial stage of education in the Great Chu Empire, some of the science textbooks used were translated European works.

But 30 years have passed, and the Europeans are still standing still, but the Great Chu Empire has absorbed the poor scientific knowledge of the Europeans under the leadership of Luo Zhixue, combined with the modern scientific knowledge brought by Luo Zhixue , Established a relatively complete modern scientific system rich in the characteristics of the Great Chu Empire.

There has been a huge gap between civilizations and civilizations in just 30 years, and this gap is still widening.

What is the Great Chu Empire studying now?
Research electromagnetics, internal combustion engines, and more advanced various basic materials.

What are Europeans studying?
Anyway, they can't even make a spring, so that the firing rate of their flintlocks has never been able to increase.

Europe in the seventeenth century was actually still at the end of the Middle Ages, and a lot of scientific knowledge was in its infancy, and even the development of science still needed to fight against the conservative church.

Galileo was put under house arrest until he died, and those who supported heliocentric theory were burned to death by the church.

Newton is still in school now, and he just came into contact with calculus...well, Newton doesn't need to learn calculus these days, because the Great Chu Empire had already developed calculus through Luo Zhixue more than ten years ago.

The same is true for gravity... 20 years ago, the imperial examinations of the Great Chu Empire contained gravity-related content.

So after Newton was smashed by an apple, it was impossible for him to come up with the law of universal gravitation on a whim in this world.

Even the general theory of relativity and the special theory of relativity have actually appeared in the textbooks of college students in the Great Chu Empire.

In the process of establishing the education system of the Great Chu Empire, Luo Zhixue recorded almost all the things he remembered from his previous life, whether it was theoretical knowledge or common sense of future generations, and so on.

These knowledge materials, together with the text and sketches, filled three rooms... And these materials are also the scientific research materials with the highest level of secrecy in the Great Chu Empire, and they are also the most strictly preserved materials. More than ten copies are kept in different scientific institutions.

At present, only researchers above the associate professor level of the Royal Institute of Technology can access relevant parts after application.

But these things, many Luo Zhixue only know the superficial things, so they are imperfect and unsystematic, lacking a lot of things in the middle, and quite a lot of them are simple and straightforward descriptive languages... There is no data, let alone What formula.

So relying on these things alone, but without systematic learning, not having enough IQ and talent to sort out, and doing research by yourself, in fact, can't produce any scientific research results.

Because what Luo Zhixue records are some specific nouns, at most it can give you some inspiration, guidance, and tell you where the goal is, but how to reach the goal is up to you...

For example, the string theory of theoretical physics, he knows this word, and he also knows that this thing is probably very powerful. It is used to explain the basic composition of the world and is expected to unify the four basic forces. A powerful theory!
But you have to ask him what exactly string theory is, how to express it mathematically, and what formula?Proof?
He'd be damned if he knew this!
Professor An Bo, Dean of the School of Electromagnetics, Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, discovered in the early years that quite a few of these materials mentioned computers. ...

In his opinion, many things are just like science fiction products. He really can't imagine that there will be such a thing that can perform various calculations like the human brain, and has all kinds of magical effects.

Even when he saw that the central processing unit in the computer can integrate tens of billions of transistors in a small area of ​​only a few square centimeters, his imagination began to run short...

He couldn't imagine how tens of billions of transistors could be packed into an area of ​​only a few square centimeters... Although he still doesn't understand what a transistor is...

What made him even more puzzled was how could this thing be made, even the top workers couldn't make this kind of thing!

He pondered, on such a small-area board, even the most skilled micro-carving master can only carve a few hundred pieces with the support of the microscope, using the top-level micro-carving equipment in Chu State. Something of a certain shape.

Well, I just sculpted simple individual shapes without considering other things, let alone a transistor... At that time, he didn't know what a transistor was!
And tens of billions...

At that moment, he had the urge to believe in a Buddha, worship a god...

This unscientific!

And after reading some of the top-secret materials, Ambow felt as if he had lost his soul. He thought about the computer described in those materials, and then thought about the basic electromagnetic theory he was studying. He didn't even have a theorem of the unified theory of electromagnetic When he could do it, he felt a huge sense of powerlessness!
Now the empire's electromagnetic development is just in its infancy, and they haven't even fully understood the basic theory... Batteries, generators, and even electric motors can be produced in the laboratory.

It doesn't mean that they understand the principle and why they can succeed in doing so!
Now a group of professors in the School of Electromagnetics of the Royal Institute of Technology, the main task is to understand why... at least they must understand the basic theory, otherwise it is difficult to develop quickly if they do not know why.

With the current level of primitive electromagnetism in the empire, in order to reach the level of electronic computers mentioned in the book... How much money will be invested, how much time will be spent, and how many talented scientists will be killed...

And myself, can I wait until that day?

It is estimated that there is no hope.

Whenever I think of this, Professor Ambow, who has been dealing with electromagnetism for more than ten years, feels even more uncomfortable.

Just like an ignorant little boy who just started to appreciate the beauty of a girl, but in the end he dreamed of a fairy sister with fatal temptation all over his body, who was as beautiful as a fairy and beyond all imagination, flying around in front of him... But But you can't touch her, you can't even see her clearly, only a hazy feeling...

However, in reality, what he saw was the fat girl next door with grinning yellow teeth, short fat like a pig, and a runny nose...

The most important thing is that everyone says that you and the fat girl are childhood sweethearts, and they are a perfect match...

How hurt this young heart must be!
Therefore, in order to prevent latecomers from seeing things they should not see and then receiving too much impact, these materials are kept strictly confidential, and they cannot be seen below a certain level. The materials that associate professors and full professors can see are different. Ordinary professors It is different from what can be seen by industry-leading senior professors.

However, despite the problems of one kind or another, the scientific and technological level of the Great Chu Empire has achieved leapfrog development because of the materials recorded daily by Luo Zhixue.

This has also led to the current Great Chu Empire. In terms of overall technological level, it has actually been able to reach the level of the original time and space in the middle of the nineteenth century. Worse.

At least if you let the Great Chu Empire build a 60-ton iron-clad ship made of pure steel, it still won’t work, but this thing can basically be produced around the [-]s in the original time and space.

However, the Great Chu Empire has now begun small-scale trial installation of single-shot bolt-action rifles with all-metal bullets. The technical level of this thing is placed in the original time and space, and it has actually reached the level of the 70s.

Therefore, the technological development of the Great Chu Empire was actually uneven.

However, even such a great Chu Empire can fully attack the natives of various countries, even those European countries.

Those Portuguese, Dutch, and English could not survive the indiscriminate bombing of the Chu army...

The same situation also appeared on the small battlefield of Tshwane. Meng Xiu and his group of armed bandits used the 21-year-style cap percussion guns in their hands to strongly suppress the defense of the Dutch immigrants.

After the Dutch killed and injured three or 40 people one after another, they were forced to evacuate from the wooden wall and hide behind various messy bunkers.

It's a pity that their bunkers are not systematic, not even a complete trench... And this kind of scattered, unsystematic bunkers, coupled with a group of young and strong people who have not received professional training, how can it be possible to stop the perennial robbery? looting bandits.

Seeing that the Dutch didn't dare to attack back, Meng Xiu and the others immediately started attacking the wooden wall!

They lined up and fired while advancing slowly. The continuous suppression of fire made these Dutchmen dare not come out to fight.

Ever since, Meng Xiu and the others came to the wooden wall without any practical resistance. For this kind of low wooden wall, there is no need to push it down or knock it open, just turn over it.

At this time, a small number of Dutch people finally came out to counterattack, but they were not organized. They spontaneously and sporadically came out of the bunker and fired with matchlock guns. As a result, they were directly shot and killed by Meng Xiu.

And more people, seeing a group of Chu people rushing up, ran towards the rear in unison.

This has nothing to do with their determination and belief, it is purely a lack of professional training.

A young man without professional training, even with the same weapon, would not be an opponent of the regular army.

Although Meng Xiu and the others are not a regular army, they have fought more times than the regular army, especially the experience of fighting against the natives is quite rich.

After this wave of rushing in, Meng Xiu's mouth curled up slightly in the face of the Dutch who kept breaking up and fleeing!
This battle was as easy and simple as expected, and there was no strong resistance at all.

It seems that this gold mine is in hand.

After controlling the gold mines, it is necessary to organize those natives to mine and pan for gold as soon as possible to dig out the gold as soon as possible.

The gold you dug up is your own gold!

However, at this moment, a young Dutch woman hiding in the window of the wooden house in front looked at Meng Xiu and the others with eyes full of hatred.

At this time, at her feet, lay a young Dutch man without a sound. There was a large pool of blood on the ground. After he was shot, he struggled towards the wooden wall in front of him and returned home...and died in front of the woman. !
The woman picked up the blood-stained matchlock gun, took a deep breath, aimed and fired!
With a clear gunshot, Meng Xiu who was walking among the crowd suddenly fell down...

(End of this chapter)