Primitives are stunned

Chapter 494 Cluster Rocket Launcher

Gunpowder is a wonderful thing.Its production method is simple, but its uses are countless.

However, when it comes to gunpowder, most people's first reaction is an explosion.

As early as in ancient China, gunpowder was invented by alchemists.

However, what left Wang Hao speechless was that in the system space, for some unknown reason, gunpowder was actually defined as a third-level technology.

It is precisely because of this that the research and development of gunpowder weapons put Wang Hao in a predicament.

Even though he has Nine Dragons Mountain, where fire melons are grown, and a large number of black crystal bombs, Wang Hao still feels that the use of gunpowder will be more extensive.

The nitrate produced by the nitrate field last year was used by Wang Hao to develop the formula of gunpowder.

It's just that gunpowder is very easy to get started. In China, even a junior high school student knows the required materials and approximate ratio of gunpowder.

However, it is very difficult to increase the lethality of gunpowder.

After a whole winter of research, Wang Hao and the others failed to come up with the formula for the high-explosive bomb.

The biggest achievement is to use gunpowder to make firecrackers like the Sky-Switching Monkey.

It is almost impossible to conduct research and development on the Great Wilderness.

With so little knowledge, even Gu Mu is helpless in the face of gunpowder.

However, it is impossible for Wang Hao to let the nitrate fields that have been built with so much effort go to waste.

Wang Hao finally decided to build a semi-automatic weapon of mass destruction centered on gunpowder.

This kind of weapon is the Lianzhu rocket in ancient China.

As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, rockets appeared in ancient China.

This kind of rocket has four parts: arrowhead, arrow shaft, fletching and gunpowder cartridge.The shell of the gunpowder cartridge is made of bamboo tube or hard paper tube, filled with gunpowder, the upper end of the tube is closed, the lower end is open, and the small hole on the side of the tube leads out the fuse.After ignition, the gunpowder burns in the barrel, producing a large amount of gas, which is ejected backward at high speed to generate forward thrust.In fact, this is the prototype of the modern rocket.

To put it bluntly, it is to tie a soaring monkey to the shaft of an arrow, and then use the momentum of the soaring monkey to launch the arrow shaft to achieve the effect of killing the enemy.

If that's all it is, bows and arrows can do it, and the accuracy of manual shooting is hundreds of times stronger than rockets, so why develop rockets.

In fact, everything has two sides.Although the rocket's accuracy is a bit poor, and its lethality is not as good as that of a bow and arrow, it is a weapon capable of large-scale, large-scale, and group attacks.

In combat, one rocket, maybe useless, what about two?

Well, two are useless, but what if the number is increased to two hundred, or twenty thousand?
Simultaneously launch [-] rockets to attack a range. This kind of inaccurate and completely random attack is likely to be impossible for any creature to dodge.

After hearing what the carpenter said, Wang Hao decided to go and see if the cluster bazooka made by the carpenter was what he thought.

Most of the houses in Xincun are made of wood.

When there are a group of mature carpenters in the village, this kind of simple wooden house is much easier to build than a brick house.

However, in the middle of the new village, there are fifteen bright brick houses.

Although only a shallow layer of foundation was dug for these brick houses, their firmness was much stronger than that of wooden houses.

The carpenter took Wang Hao to a brick house in the middle.

As soon as he entered the door, Wang Hao saw the rocket launcher tied with hollow bamboo placed in the middle.

Four hundred hollow bamboos of similar thickness were tied to a wooden cart that could be adjusted up and down.

The carpenter picked up a rocket from the side and randomly stuffed it into a quiver.

At the very end of the quiver, there is a small embedded baffle, which can just block the powder accelerator on the rocket, but it can expose the lead wire.

Wang Hao took a look and found that the size of the rocket launcher was about the same as he estimated.

When the rocket is put into the launcher, the position of the arrow is just exposed outside the bamboo tube, and the position of the tail of the arrow is under the quiver.

Wang Hao counted, such a rocket launcher has [-] quivers horizontally and [-] quivers vertically, a total of [-] quivers.

In other words, if it is filled with rockets, the number of rockets it can launch at one time will be four hundred.

But it took less than five seconds for the four hundred rockets to be launched.

In this way, when the monsters attacked the city, facing those overwhelming low-level creatures, if Wang Hao had a hundred rocket launchers, he would be able to shoot [-] rockets in an instant.

If the shooting range of these rockets is reduced, Wang Hao believes that the places he attacks will definitely become barren.

"Has this been tested?" Wang Hao asked.

"There is no salvo yet, because it needs more things. But I have tried a small amount of shooting. The shooting range is only half of that of a bow and arrow, and the lethality is only half of that of a strong bow. But this kind of power is enough to kill tigers and lions." These ordinary creatures are more than enough." The carpenter said.

"In that case, let's do a volley test today, just to let those outside the village see our Huacheng's confidence in the face of monsters attacking the city." Wang Hao patted the rocket launcher and said.

The carpenter responded and went out to call for someone to prepare.

The rocket launcher was pushed to the open space in front of the village, and several clansmen followed with bundles of rockets.

And those people from other villages were also called by Wang Hao, saying that he wanted to show them a new type of weapon in Huacheng.

These outsiders have seen many kinds of weapons in Hwaseong.

There are ballistas, black crystal bombs, fire melons and bows and arrows.

Each of these things brought them shock.

Hearing Wang Hao said that there were weapons for them to see again, everyone immediately became interested and came out one after another, watching several Hwaseong people busy around the rocket.

Four hundred rockets were quickly inserted into the quiver.

However, the more time-consuming part of the rocket is that if you want to launch these rockets at one time, you have to connect the leads of all the rockets together.

The rocket in the middle is better, with longer leads, but the four-sided rocket leads are not that long anymore.

In desperation, the clansmen could only bring some lead wires and continue them.

Wang Hao patted the carpenter and told him to remember that the leads need to be improved, and the leads on both sides need to be lengthened.

After the entire 10 rockets were sorted out, Wang Hao estimated the time. The three of them sorted out the [-] rockets, and it took almost [-] minutes.

If the speed is increased in the future, this time may be shortened to 10 minutes for one person.

10 minutes is too long, and it may even be able to determine the outcome of a battle.

In terms of speed, it must be improved.It is best to achieve the speed at which the rocket can be replaced within 1 minute.

After thinking about it, Wang Hao asked, "Is your launcher connected to the rocket launcher?"

"Yes." The carpenter looked at Wang Hao, not understanding why he asked this.

"Then think of a way to separate the launcher from the launch vehicle. In this case, we only need to make more launchers. During the battle, after launching a round of rockets, we will immediately change to another launcher. In this case, the speed needs to be increased." It’s much faster than this way of slowly reloading.” Wang Hao said.

(End of this chapter)