Datang Longya

Chapter 733

After a period of calculation, Li Tai stopped fiddling and locked the buckle of the artillery adjustment frame.

"Okay, give me the torch!"

Wang Qing came over with a torch and said worriedly: "Wei Wang, why don't you light the fire in a lowly position!"

Li Tai snatched the torch and said disdainfully: "It's just lighting a cannon, how dangerous is it? Go back and watch this king kill their biggest cargo ship with this cannon!"

Seeing that Li Tai had put the torch close to the fuse, Wang Qing immediately ran behind the protective iron plate.

He had seen the power of cannon explosions before. In order to launch this finished product, Jing Leisi killed three people during the experiment.

Don't think that three people are very few, and three people died under the almost harsh security protection of Jinglei Division, which is already a high loss.

After lighting the fuze, Li Tai also threw away the torch and ran wildly holding his head.

He is timid, especially afraid of death, especially because he has briefly participated in the production of artillery, and has a deeper understanding of the power of bombing than anyone else.

after a few breaths
boom!
Not bombardment.

Li Tai breathed a sigh of relief, took the binoculars handed over by the guard, and looked towards the pier.

After the deterrence of the first and second shots, the enemy was completely frightened and lost their size, looking for a place to hide in a mess.

Some calm people have already run to the side of the mountain, trying to get to the other side of the mountain.

Across a mountain, it's all right!
It's really all right, because the range of the artillery made by Zhang Zhongqing can not exceed the height of the mountains on this island.

After the sound caused by Li Tai's shell, those who hid felt that their hiding place was not safe, and they all got out to find a more reliable place to hide.

However, the target of Li Tai's shell was not them, but the cargo ship moored at the pier, fortunately not affected by the first shell.

Click!

The bow of the ship moored on the shore collapsed without warning, and the gold and silver in the cabin fell into the sea.

The country of Wa is rich in gold and silver, and these things may be transported to the Tang Dynasty by the country of Wa in exchange for weapons.

After all, although Soga Jiro unified the Wa country, the weapons and equipment he had exchanged had almost been consumed.It is estimated that no one would want to let his soldiers live in poverty after enjoying the top weapons of the Tang Dynasty.

Seeing the effect of this cannon, Li Tai frowned: "The error is a bit big, I was going to aim at the center of the ship."

Hearing Li Tai's words, the gunner immediately blushed.

Although the artillery he calibrated was very accurate, it couldn't reach Li Tai's level.The previous hit on the pier hill was because the target was big enough.If he is allowed to hit a boat at this distance, his error may be much, much larger.

After seeing Li Tai's accuracy, the gunner's pride disappeared, and the next big flattery came out: "Wei Wang's accuracy makes the humble official ashamed. Wei Wang is really talented, and he can shoot so accurately for the first time." .Compared to you, the ones in the humble practice are a pig."

Li Tai likes flattery the most, so he didn't dislike the gunner immediately, and patted him on the shoulder: "Yes! But this thing has nothing to do with talent, it was bought by my hard work the day after tomorrow. When you go back, ask Zhang Zhongqing to give away all the gunners." Going to the liberal arts school to study physics can save a lot of practice time!"

That's right, the reason why Li Tai can shoot more accurately than the gunner is because of physics.After simply estimating various data, you can roughly calculate the trajectory of the shell you fired.

The error that existed was due to the error in the distance he estimated with his line of sight.

Although Li Tai's cannon did not hit the center of the cargo ship, it had a huge effect.Because his cannon smashed two cargo ships, and there were only two ships moored at the dock.

In this way, in the case of saving a cannonball, Li Tai's error was lucky.

"Since their ships have been bombed, they can't report back to Japan. Let's go to another place to fight!"

Under the control of the captain, the Chengtai made an elegant arc, away from the north of the archipelago, and headed east.

Next, it will fire a few shots in all four directions of the island. This is not to kill the enemy, but to deter.

It is a deterrent. After Chengtai left the island, it first circled behind the fishermen's boats before reappearing.

In this way, the people on the island looked like one of the warships surrounding the island approached and bombed them with that magical weapon.

Invisibly, they became afraid of the faintly visible shadow of the boat in the distance.

The power of one ship has reached this level, so how weak are the others?

The pier to the north was bombed, and the cargo ship was bombed.Although there is still a small boat driven by two people hidden in the dark, no one dares to go to sea.

The shadow of the boat in the distance is like a god of death, which makes people feel palpitating. Only a fool would go to die!
The artillery had completely cooled down during the transfer of the Chengtai, which made Leng Feng couldn't help but lament that Zhang Zhongqing's luck was a bit too good.

Datang's iron smelting technology is difficult to produce a suitable cannon body. Zhang Zhongqing, a single cannon, made it by chance.

Leng Feng is an idiot when it comes to steel smelting. He doesn't know how to make the barrel of a cannon. For this successful cannon, he can only guess that some kind of alloy happened to be smelted.

Because of this, artillery has not yet been mass-produced.When it can be manufactured on a large scale depends on whether Tiesheng can find a fixed formula for this alloy.

Before arriving at the destination, the artillery has been reloaded, and it is the cold front that adjusts the artillery at this time.

At this time, he didn't measure with a protractor like Li Tai, but adjusted with his own intuition.

After a while, Wang Qing came over and told him, "Duke Protector, you can't do that, the circular hill has no dead angles, and no matter where the boat stops, it won't be able to find a good angle."

Just when they passed by here in a boat, the observer suddenly reported that this is probably the place where the enemy on the island stopped the boat or even Zhao Chuan.

The observer is an experienced soldier of the East China Sea Fleet, and his guess is unreasonable.

After looking at the terrain here, Leng Feng also felt that the place surrounded by hills and connected with sea water was the best boat bay or shipyard.

At this time Zhang Zhongjian was not there. Judging from the situation in the sea, if there was a boat bay, the enemy's ships had not yet been dispatched.

This is a rare opportunity.

With the mood of taking a gamble, Leng Feng ordered the boat to find a good angle to avoid the obstruction of the hill.

But it's a pity that the angle around the hill is very tricky, and the place where there is a gap happens to be blocked by the high mountain next door.

Hearing Wang Qing's report, Leng Feng raised the elevation angle of the cannon muzzle, and then murmured: "Give it a try, I guess it will work!"

Wang Qing and the gunner next to him wanted to say something, but they had to keep their mouths shut.

Unlike the King of Wei, they had the courage to persuade the King of Wei, but they did not have the confidence to persuade the Duke of Wei.

After all, anyone who is not stupid can see this war. Although it is Duke Wei who draws up the regulations, it is the Duke Protector who vaguely dominates everyone.

Li Tai looked at the hill with a telescope, and then said: "Master, do you want to be higher? I feel that this height is not enough."

"It can't be any higher."

Leng Feng drew a rough parabola on the paper, and said to Li Tai: "No matter how high it is, its horizontal distance will be reduced, and it will be impossible to cross the hill."

Seeing Master drawing lines so casually, Li Tai couldn't say anything.

(End of this chapter)