Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 886 Hot Air Balloon Heavy Machine Gun
The Royal Academy of Ming Dynasty can not only study some things by itself, but also prevent Zhu Youjian from exchanging and rewarding the system.

You must know that these things are far ahead of that dynasty. They don't need to develop them, and they can be nearly a hundred years ahead as long as they are imitated.

In the future, the imitated things can be improved, and it will be many years ahead.

Zhu Youjian established the Royal Academy of Sciences for the long-term development of Ming Dynasty, and he was unwilling to exchange everything in the system.

Hearing that light machine guns and hot air balloons were manufactured, Zhu Youjian's eyes lit up.

These two things are too important for the soldiers who are fighting for the Raksha Kingdom.

In order to see the hot air balloon and the light machine gun, Zhu Youjian immediately announced his withdrawal from the court, and then rushed to the arsenal with Song Yingxing.

The prototype of the hot air balloon was first invented by Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period. At that time, Zhuge Kongming was besieged by Sima Yi in Yangping, unable to send troops out of the city for help.

Kong Ming calculated the direction of the wind, made a floating paper lantern, tied it with a message for help, and escaped as expected, so later generations called this kind of lantern Sky Lantern or Kongming Lantern.

Invented around the second or third century AD, it was used to transmit military signals.

Well-known scholar Joseph Needham also pointed out that in 1241, the Mongols used dragon-shaped sky lanterns to transmit signals during the Battle of Ligenitz.

It was not until 1783 that Europeans released the first balloon filled with hot air into the air.

In the eighteenth century, the French papermakers Montgolfier brothers reinvented the hot air balloon in Europe.

Inspired by the continuous rise of scraps of paper in the stove, they used paper bags to gather heat for experiments, so that the paper bags could continue to rise with the airflow.

On June 1783, 6, the Montgolfier brothers performed a public performance at the Place Anone in Lyon. A simulated balloon with a circumference of 4 feet was raised and flew for 110 miles.

On September 9 of the same year, in front of the Palace of Versailles in Paris, the Montgolfier brothers performed a hot air balloon launch for the king, queen, court ministers and 19 Parisians.

On the afternoon of November 11st of the same year, the Montgolfier brothers carried out the world's first hot air balloon manned air flight at Chateau de Mouet in Paris. The flight lasted for 21 minutes and landed near Place d'Italia after flying halfway across Paris.

This flight predated the Wright Brothers' flight by a full 120 years.

In terms of inflatable balloons, the Robert brothers of France were the first to fly into the sky with hydrogen-filled balloons.

After the Second World War, high-tech made ball skin materials and heating fuels popular, and hot air balloons became a public sport that was not restricted by location, simple and convenient to operate.
Of course, the hot air balloons made by Daming are much more advanced than those made by the two brothers.

The main structural materials of the hot air balloon are almost all exchanged from the system, and some places are close to the hot air balloons in World War II.

In fact, the hot air balloon does not have any high technological content, that is, the airbag is filled with air, and the air is heated by the device to make it lighter to obtain lift.

The height of the hot air balloon developed by Song Yingxing and the others is limited. Under normal circumstances, the height is 500 meters, and the limit is 800 meters.

The basket of the hot air balloon is not too big, it can only hold two people, and the maximum load is three people.

Although the height cannot be compared with later generations, there was absolutely no way to knock it down in that era.

Because the range of the flintlock is only more than 200 meters, the cannon at that time was a barrel that went straight, and it was even more impossible to shoot into the air.

Zhu Youjian asked the Royal Academy of Sciences to develop hot air balloons for two purposes, one is to obtain intelligence from aerial observation.

Another thing is that you can condescendingly throw grenades at the opponent's crowd.

Because of the height problem, the opponent can only watch helplessly and there is no way to deal with it.

It just makes the enemy so angry that he can't get used to it and can't kill him.

Heavy machine guns generally refer to machine guns weighing more than 25 kg, including tripods.

Equipped with a fixed gun rack, it has a longer range and greater power. The transportable machine gun is the supporting firepower of the infantry detachment. For this purpose, the shooting accuracy is better.

It can be used to overwhelm the enemy's firepower points and block the enemy's action routes; it can also kill and injure group targets in large numbers and support infantry to charge into battle.

Heavy machine guns have longer firepower continuity and better shooting accuracy at long distances, so they have greater lethality and are especially suitable for dealing with charging enemies.

Light machine guns appeared many years later than heavy machine guns. What Song Yingxing and the others developed was actually heavy machine guns.

At that time, there were no comparable firearms, and they did not know what was a heavy machine gun and what was a light machine gun.

Zhu Youjian originally gave them a light machine gun, but due to technical problems, Song Yingxing and the others forcibly made it into a heavy machine gun.

This heavy machine gun has a range of only 400 meters and a rate of fire of more than 200 rounds per minute.

Of course, both the range and the rate of fire are less than half of those of later generations, but it was fierce enough to use in the late Ming Dynasty.

Even so, Zhu Youjian was still very happy. At first he thought that it would be difficult for the Ming Dynasty Weapon Manufacturing Bureau to come out!

As we all know, the world's first machine gun was the Gatling machine gun invented by American military doctor Greene during the Civil War.

However, more than 200 years ago, some people in China carried out research on weapons in this area, and even achieved good results, and designed a prototype gun-the repeating bird gun.

This cross-age or milestone weapon was developed by Dai Zi, a weapon expert during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and it is also called Dai Wenkai in some books.

However, Dai Zi, while some of his inventions won praises from the Qing government and the public, was suddenly charged with the trumped-up charge of "communication with the Japanese" by Mazi at the time, and was exiled to the current Tieling area in Northeast China, where his family suffered!

As China's most outstanding weapon design expert in the 17th century, he suffered this catastrophe for no reason.

For Dai Zi, it can be described as "a great misfortune in a lifetime", and for the progress of China's history, it is a "good opportunity" to catch up with Western weapon technology.Why is there such a tragedy?
Dai Zi, whose calligraphy was open, was named Gengyan Old Man in his later years, and was born in an official family in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

Inspired by his father at an early age, Dai Zi became very interested in mechanical manufacturing from the West, and read a lot of books, especially in the study of firearms that emerged in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

At a young age, Dai Zi boldly put it into practice after gaining a certain amount of theoretical knowledge related to weapon design and manufacturing.

Several firearms were produced over the years, some of which were designed to hit targets more than a hundred paces away.

At that time, one hundred steps was equivalent to about one hundred meters. As far as hot weapons were concerned in the 17th century at that time, this range was already very good.

Soon, the San Francisco Rebellion broke out during the reign of Emperor Kangxi.

The young Dai Zi took a sample of a new weapon of his own design, the blunderbuss, to seek an audience with Prince Kang, the then commander of the counter-insurgency army.

At that time, the Geng Jingzhong rebels in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were extremely arrogant, and the battle was very difficult.

As a veteran of the battlefield, Prince Kang, after watching the drill of Dai Zi's new firearm, keenly realized that he "digged a treasure"!
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