On the Seven Towers

Luo Ling and the book spirits finished their discussion and found that there were only a few shells left on the gun position.

She digested the information that the book spirit had just said. The awakening of the gods was naturally a bad thing for the world, but it might be a good thing for the school. External pressure might make humans more united and bring more opportunities to the school. In the foreseeable future, there might be a coalition of various forces. She had mastered the three inheritances of the Dream Tower, the Forging Tower and the Star Tower by accident. As long as she had enough strength, she would occupy a very advantageous position in this coalition. She planned to take time to talk to the committee about this situation in two days.

The test firing of the pneumatic gun on the field had all ended, and the audience burst into warm applause. There was no doubt that the leaders of the committee were satisfied with the result. The fan-shaped area about 100 to 300 meters in front of the gun position was full of fallen trees and craters, and the farthest shells fell more than 400 meters.

Although the power of this kind of gun was not as strong as traditional artillery and the range was short, it was not without advantages. Compared with artillery of similar technical level, it has a faster firing rate, is more concealed, safer, and does not require repeated cleaning of gunpowder residue in the barrel.

Meng Guoqiang said with some pride: "Our industrial group is quite satisfied with this cannon, and it has great development potential. There are already several research directions for the range and power: First, engrave stability and flight arrays on the shells, which can immediately increase the range by more than double, but the cost is relatively high. Second, as our industrial group's steelmaking level recovers, we will use better steel to make gas tanks in the future, and cooperate with the improved solid array to greatly increase the air pressure in the gas tanks. The third idea is more imaginative, but the young people in the group have found a solution, which is to learn and improve the electromagnetic rail gun array in the body of the electric wing silver dragon golem, and install a simple electromagnetic array inside the gun barrel. When the gas tank is opened to fire the shells, the crystal is used as a capacitor to power the power supply, and the Lorentz force is used to achieve gas-electric linkage firing."

"You are too whimsical, you actually want to make an electromagnetic gun? This thing is cutting-edge technology even in our place, and you want to do it in this poor place. Isn't this a big leap?" Commissioner Chu Ying asked.

Luo Ling was also quite surprised. After she returned to school, she handed the two golems to the scientific team for research. She didn't expect these people to be so bold and quickly turn their minds to the holy-level golems.

"Hey, Lao Chu. This is a different time. What is not available there is available here. According to the research of the scientific team, magic crystal is an extremely efficient energy carrier; and the magic array can provide various amazing auxiliary effects, such as the cooling array, which may solve the heat dissipation problem of the electromagnetic system. Besides, we are not directly using electromagnetic rail guns, but only adding an electromagnetic strengthening system on the basis of pneumatic guns to increase the driving force of the guns when needed. This is different from directly using rail guns."

"Okay, Lao Meng, last time you told me that this plan would take at least ten or eight years to complete, don't fool Lao Chu with things that are not in your reach." Guo Qian said.

"Old Chu is our God of Wealth, haha." He said seriously, "However, the second option should be realized in the near future. Okay, I've shown you the cannon, let's look at the gun. Old Wang, let's start!"

Wang Jiyuan waved his hand, and several soldiers from the guard battalion erected three rows of targets 50 meters apart in the open space in the distance. On the other side, three soldiers held three air guns and stood in a row 50 meters away from the first row of targets.

Meng Guoqiang walked over and took a gun from a soldier and introduced: "We have made a large modification to the gun, referring to some characteristics of modern high-pressure air rifles."

The gun was black and very slender. Compared with the dwarf's hand cannon, it is much more beautiful. A gas cylinder is connected to the back of the barrel, which is covered with reinforcement arrays. There is a notch above the trigger for placing lead bullets.

"We used the reinforcement array provided by the dwarves in the design of the gas cylinder. After Mr. Morey's modification, the actual inflation pressure actually exceeded that of modern air guns. In other words, the muzzle kinetic energy of this air gun is greater than that of modern air rifles. Unlike pneumatic cannons, we successfully pulled out rifling in the barrel of this gun, greatly improving the range and accuracy.

According to our calculations, under standard inflation, the muzzle kinetic energy of the bullet is about half of that of the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, exceeding that of the Type 54 pistol. Mr. Morey also set up a more time-consuming and energy-consuming ultra-high pressure inflation mode. In this case, the kinetic energy of the first shot can be further doubled."

"In other words, under the condition of strengthening a single shot, the lethality of this gun is equivalent to that of the Type 56 and a half?" Chang Lin asked.

"This is more complicated..." Meng Guoqiang hesitated for a moment, not knowing how to explain this problem clearly.

Wang Jiyuan added: "That's not the case. The bullets used in the two are different. The air rifle uses Minié lead bullets, which are different from the copper-clad steel jacket bullets of the 56.5 rifle. The lead bullets have poor penetration, but better stopping power. If they hit the human body at a close distance, the damage will also be good. However, if the enemy has fighting spirit to penetrate the armor, the effect will definitely not be as good as the 56.5 rifle. However, the advantage of the Minié bullet is that it is simple to make and low in cost. Of course, we are also working with the industrial group to develop more suitable bullets."

The people around who didn't know much about military affairs were confused. Chang Lin smiled and said, "Although I didn't understand everything, I also understood what you meant, that is, the current bullets are not good enough, but we are developing better bullets, right?"

Wang Jiyuan and Meng Guoqiang looked at each other and nodded, "Let's understand it this way. Old Meng, you continue."

Meng Guoqiang then introduced, "This gun can be effectively fired about ten times after one inflation, and then the accuracy and power will decrease. However, since we haven't made a magazine suitable for lead bullets, we need to load bullets manually, up to three rounds at a time. But in order to reduce the failure rate, it is safest to load one bullet..."

After Meng Guoqiang finished his introduction, Wang Jiyuan announced the start of the test shooting.

The soldiers started shooting after inflating and loading. This kind of air rifle only makes a very light puffing sound when shooting, and the recoil is also very small. The hit rate at 50 meters is very good, and the bullets are most likely to hit the target. When shooting at the target 100 meters away, the hit rate dropped slightly, about three-quarters, and finally hit the target 150 meters away, and half of them hit.

Applause broke out again in the field.

Guo Qian said: "Lao Meng, Lao Wang, it seems that this kind of air gun can indeed be used as a substitute for individual weapons. Now we can make guns and cannons, and I can finally put my mind at ease."