There were also a lot of cannons. There were 1,600 Falang Machine Cannons, 3,700 Tiger Crouching Cannons, 2,400 Great General Cannons, Weiyuan General Cannons, 10,000 Hong Yi Cannons, and over 10,000 Gaomiao Cluster Rocket Carriages. Fire dragons came out of the water, seven thousand underwater Dragon King Cannons, ten thousand chariots of all kinds, thirty-two Fu ships, thirteen Dafu ships, fifty Haicang ships, seventy-five Cangshan ships, seven huge tower ships, forty mountain ships, hundreds of eagle ships, and 160,000 horses. It cost ten million taels of silver and lasted for seven months. It was called the Shenji Army.
Zhu Youjian nodded his head after reading it. After receiving six hundred platinum, Lin Feng had returned to the Fan manor. The Eternal Army had expanded to 100,000 men and was divided into three divisions: the Vanguard Selection Battalion, the Confrontation Battalion, and the Tiger Troop Division. Lin Feng ordered the craftsmen to build 10,000 rocket vehicles, and then they were made into small rocket missiles for the Hundred-Tiger Charge. Their range was four times that of the Shenji Army's rocket vehicles, 1,200 meters. The Eternal Navy had 300 huge turreted ships, 400 Great Fortune Ships, 500 each of the Fortune Ships, Hai Cang Ships, Cang Mountain Ships, and Zuo Mountain Ships. There were also dozens of huge Zheng He Treasure Ships. In order to deal with future wars on the sea, Lin Feng decided to use the Blossoming Bomb.
The so-called explosive shells were artillery shells that exploded after hitting the target. Compared to the solid iron shells, the explosive shells were much more destructive. The use of the flower bomb in the sea artillery battle could greatly damage the enemy ships. As long as a few of the 18-pound heavy artillery shells hit the enemy ships, they would be able to sink them.
The early blossoming bombs had a simple structure and were easy to manufacture.
In fact, during the Ming Dynasty, there were also flower bombs. However, this kind of explosive shell technology was in the hands of a few elite artillery in the capital camp and was never spread. And according to the information he had gathered, this kind of explosive shell technology seemed to be used to ignite the fuse of the shell and the shot of the cannon. There were layers of barriers between the cannonball and the shot, and the operation was very complicated.
The Flowery Bullet that Lin Feng wanted to show was more advanced. It was a delay fuse that used the flame from the explosion of the cannon to ignite the shell. It was simple to operate. This kind of flower bomb technology was gradually matured in the 18th century, and now it was brought to the end of the Ming Dynasty by Lin Feng.
He went to the workshop where the dragon-tail carriage was forged and instructed the craftsmen to produce the flower bombs.
The Flowery Bomb was simple. It was a hollow iron ball that was filled with black gunpowder and shotgun iron beads. There was a hole at the top of the shell, and a wooden delay fuse was inserted into the hole.
When firing, the gunner would cut the length of the fuze according to the distance between the enemy ships and control the time of detonation. The cannon flare only needed to ensure that the shell hit the enemy ship before exploding. The explosion time did not need to be too precise. It could take a little longer.
The hole where the fuze was inserted needed to be threaded with a turning tool. The wooden delay fuze also had threads on the barrel. This way, the delay fuze could be screwed into the shell so that it would not fall off during flight.
The wooden fuse was also very simple. It was a hollow wooden tube filled with hard black gunpowder. When the density of the black gunpowder was high, it would burn stably according to the law of parallel layers, achieving the effect of delaying the ignition of the explosives in the cannonball.
The wooden tube of the wooden fuze needed to be made of hard wood. Before making it, he had to first use vinegar, and then soak the wood in an aluminum solution to increase its fire resistance and prevent the wood from being ignited and causing the lower layer of black gunpowder to burn.
In the early days of the immature blossoming shells, the gunpowder in the shells came into direct contact with the iron balls of the shotguns. This kind of shell was more dangerous. When the shotguns collided with each other, it was possible to ignite the gunpowder and cause the chamber to explode. It was also the case when flying. Therefore, there were very few shells that could reach the intended target and successfully detonate. Lin Feng's modified version separated the bomb and the pellet with an iron plate. This was safer because the gunpowder and the pellet did not come into contact.
In order to increase its armor-piercing ability, the wall of the Flowering Bullet produced by Li Zhi was relatively thick.
Behind the Flowering Bomb, a wooden base was added.
The wooden sabers were as large as the caliber of an 18-pound cannon, allowing the cannon to be more airtight when the gunpowder was ignited. The shell and the wooden support were combined into one, and the wooden support was fixed to the tail of the shell with an iron sheet. In this way, when the shell flew in the external ballistic state, due to the low density of the wooden support, the head of the shell would always be facing forward. It had a self-stabilizing structure similar to a shuttlecock, which increased the accuracy of the shot. Not only that, but the wooden sabers could also cushion the chamber pressure, reducing the peak chamber pressure of the shells.
The craftsman who forged the dragon-tail carriage and the Fan family's lathe-operating worker worked for a few days under Lin Feng's lead and created the most advanced flower bomb of this era.
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