My Confucian Father

Chapter 79 Improve the thunder and increase the rifling!

Seeing this row of artillery, Su Mu was a little surprised.

This group of people from the Mo Sect actually produced so many kinds of artillery, with different shapes and designs. It can be seen that they really spent a lot of time studying it.

Next to each cannon, Momen disciples in black robes were doing research. They were readjusting their angles, as if preparing to start a new round of test firing.

"Stop it all! There is a problem with the shooting accuracy of this thunderbolt. I almost hit someone just now. Stop the test!"

Seeing this, Wei Liangcai hurried forward and slapped the person who was about to load the spirit stone on the back of the head.

All the disciples of Momen stopped immediately when they heard the words.

After stopping them, Wei Liangcai turned around and said to Chen Li: "Elder Chen, we have tried many methods, but the accuracy of Thunderbolt is still uncontrollable."

"You can barely aim within a hundred steps, but after more than a hundred steps, the attack will deviate, and the landing point is impossible to predict."

"Whether it's changing the formation, adjusting the aura output, or shooting angle, it's useless."

In fact, just now they aimed at an angle that would not miss them, but once Hong Tianlei's attack exceeded the range of a hundred steps, it would completely deviate from the established track.

As for where to hit, it all depends on luck. That's what happened when the cannon flew out of the testing ground just now.

This problem has troubled them for a long time. If Hong Tianlei's attack cannot control the precise landing point, then the power will be greatly reduced.

What's the use of the enemy standing directly in front, but the attack deviates a hundred and eight thousand miles away?

Unless thousands of Thunderbolts carry out indiscriminate bombing, the deterrent effect of a single door is really limited.

"Can't aim? Then what's the use of this thunderbolt? It can't hit people at all. It's not as useful as using a bed crossbow."

Tao An was originally very interested in Hong Tianlei, after all, even his father was blown away by this thing.

But when he heard that he couldn't hit people after more than a hundred steps, he suddenly lost interest. No matter how powerful the weapon that couldn't hit people was, it was no different from scrap iron.

Wei Liangcai blushed, and tried to argue: "Temporarily, only temporarily! There must be a way to solve this problem, but I haven't found it yet."

Can't aim?

After Su Mu heard Wei Liangcai's words, he walked to Hong Tianlei's side and carefully looked at this fantasy version of the artillery.

This cannon is about three meters long, about the thickness of a person, and the base is equipped with wheels, which can be pushed around.

The cannon body is made of some kind of hard metal, and it is red all over. Su Mu can feel a slight scalding sensation when he gets close.

On the surface of Hong Tianlei, there are quite complicated and gorgeous formation patterns, which Su Mu can't understand. He doesn't know the way of formation in this world.

However, he can probably understand that these formation patterns are equivalent to circuits, which extract the aura in the spirit stone used as energy and convert it into an attack and hit it out.

"It's an understatement to say that the cannon is an energy cannon, right? There was no energy source like spirit stones in my previous life, otherwise I would definitely be able to develop even more powerful weapons."

Su Mu thought in his heart that no matter in any era, high-quality, huge, stable, and controllable energy is a very precious thing.

"There is no problem with the energy transmission, and the structure is not far from the same. Let's look at the internal structure..."

Su Mu came to the front of Hong Tianlei, and then stuck his head into the barrel to check the structure inside.

As expected, the inner wall of the barrel is smooth.

Seeing Su Mu's strange behavior, Chen Li couldn't help but asked suspiciously: "Mr. Su, what are you..."

"Hush! Don't disturb Brother Mu's research!"

Zhuge Bin hurriedly pulled Chen Li back, with a look of excitement and anticipation on his face, he knew that Su Mu was looking for Hong Tianlei's question.

Chen Li looked at Su Mu who had stretched his entire body into the cannon barrel, and then at Zhuge Bin who was beside him with an excited face, his dark face was full of puzzlement.

What is this researching?

After a while, Su Mu withdrew from the cannon barrel, and said directly to Chen Li and the others: "The problem has been found, there is a problem with the cannon barrel."

Wei Liangcai shook his head directly when he heard the words: "Impossible, I personally made this thunderbolt, whether it is the pattern engraving or the forging process, there is no problem at all."

"I'm not saying that there is something wrong with the forging, but that there is one thing missing."

Su Mu smiled, reached out and tapped lightly on the barrel, with a strange brilliance in his eyes, "There is no rifling inside the barrel of this Thunderbolt."

When he saw the inside of the barrel, Su Mu knew why Hong Tianlei couldn't aim.

The reason is simple, that is, the lack of rifling.

Rifling, also known as rifling, is the soul of this kind of ballistic propulsion launch weapon.

To put it simply, with rifling, the cannon will rotate at high speed after ejecting from the chamber, reducing air resistance and greatly improving accuracy.

Although Hong Tianlei fired energy shells instead of real metal shells, since he couldn't shoot accurately, there was a high probability that the rifling was the problem.

The principle Su Mu didn't know how to explain it. After all, this was the spirit stone weapon of the Xianxia world, but he couldn't find any other reason besides this.

"Rifling? What's that?"

Chen Li was stunned. He had never heard the word Su Mu said before. What does it have to do with the accuracy of the attack?
"Give me the pen, paper and measuring ruler, and give me a copy of Hong Tianlei's original design."

Su Mu didn't want to explain this to them, after all, this explanation has to involve aerodynamics, which is not something that this group of people can understand, so he directly demonstrated it.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhuge Bin immediately handed over things like dogs, and even moved a table over.

"Brother Mu, it's up to you!"

Zhuge Bin said excitedly, he completely believed in Su Mu's strength, and in his heart Su Mu was an omnipotent existence!
Su Mu picked up the pen and paper, took a look at the design drawings, and made some changes to the design drawings of the gun barrel, adding rifling inside.

"According to what I drew above, recreate a cannon barrel, and there is no need to change other places."

Su Mu handed over the revised design to Wei Liangcai.

The latter took over the blueprint and studied it for a while, but couldn't see any changes from before.

Isn't it just adding a few spiral lines inside the barrel, so that the accuracy of the attack can be improved?He was deeply suspicious.

"Do as Mr. Su says."

Chen Li looked at the drawing, although he couldn't see the way in it, but Su Mu said that it was naturally hard to refuse.

In short, no matter what, let's make something first, and whether it is useful or not is a later matter. If you refuse now, you will not give Su Mu face.

Wei Liangcai had no choice but to leave the test site with the blueprint, and went to the square outside to find a forging table to remake the barrel.

After almost half an hour, he returned to the test site with a brand new, freshly baked, steaming gun barrel.

(End of this chapter)