"First of all, the weight of a tiger gun is too clear, and the wall of the gun tube is too thin, which determines that the tiger gun can’t hold too much gunpowder, and the tiger gun explodes when it is fired …"
"Without gunpowder, the range of the tiger gun is very close … As far as we are concerned, these tiger guns can fly out of ten meters even if they launch solid iron bullets. Of course, if we just launch, the effective range of the shotgun is at most forty meters, which is not within the range of the Tatar archer."
"All gunners who have tiger guns to participate in combat must be prepared for the defense of the Tatar archers, and the shields must be prepared. Never be careless …"
See you a face of thoughtful nodded WeiZheng continued.
"This is a tiger gun and another disadvantage is that the loading is too slow … it takes a long time to complete the preparation of the second gun after one gun is shot out, and in the process, the enemy has rushed to the front of everyone dozens of meters away …"
"Our army has experienced a lot of battles. Tiger guns often have to quit the battlefield after hitting a round of shells. It is almost impossible to maintain the continuity of artillery fire …"
At this moment, Wei Zheng can’t see from everyone’s face that it is just hot but heavy.
At this time, Wei Zheng suddenly turned around and added, "The tiger gun has a short range. Our method has changed, but we can seize a gun with a longer range and more power from the Tatars to make up for our shortcomings …"
"But in view of the disadvantage that the Tiger Gun is too long to load and the shooting speed is too slow, we can think of other ways to solve it …"
Speaking of this, Wei Zheng’s face suddenly showed a mysterious smile and woke up to everyone. "Before the enemy breaks into our true meaning, shoot more shells and kill the enemy more. We can solve this problem from two aspects."
"The first aspect is to change the way we shell, and the second aspect is to find a way to shell …"
Before Wei Zheng, what long eyes lit up and looked forward to asking Wei Zheng, "General, do you already have a specific solution?"
Wei Zheng didn’t speak, but asked with a mysterious face. "Well … you should have seen the training of long gunners at ordinary times. Didn’t you find something from the round of spikes of long gunners …"
Wei Zheng wakes up, including why everyone is in silence and thinking.
As for Wei Zheng’s preparation, he once again gave some thoughts when he woke up. He looked thoughtfully at Wei Zheng and asked, "General, you mean to fire the tiger gun in three rounds and then one round …"
"Yes …" Wei Zheng affirmed with a face of excitement.
"According to the front width of the battlefield, divide the tiger guns into two or three … after the first batch of tiger guns are fired, the second batch of tiger guns will be fired in the third round … followed by the fire."
"Three rounds of artillery fire, even if it is made of iron, will be blocked by tiger guns with lead bullets dozens of meters away. At this time, the first batch of tiger guns have been fired and reloaded, so a new round of shooting can be carried out …"
"In this way, we can repeatedly bombard the enemy with limited tiger guns, and hit as many lead bullets as possible to kill the enemy’s effective strength before the enemy breaks into our position …"
What Wei Zheng said summed up in a few words is’ three-stage’ shooting.
The’ three-stage’ gun body will be fired at the gun body to make the gun battlefield play a greater role.
As soon as the defense analysis was finished, he replied with a surprise, "General, I don’t understand … This way of firing can keep the artillery fire continuous and give the enemy attacking troops the maximum damage."
Weizheng nodded his head in agreement and then continued to order
"Whether to shoot in three stages or in two stages requires your artillery platoon to explore for themselves. Besides training, you will always sum up the training results and find out the new methods of artillery warfare."
"Please rest assured that the general will complete it …" More than 20 gunners said that their words were full of confidence.
Seeing that everyone’s face is confident again, Wei Zheng continued to say, "Then we will solve the problem of loading the tiger gun …"
"The whole process of loading the tiger gun has a total of several steps of loading gunpowder for compaction; Filling lead bullets and then compacting; Finally, fill the solid iron ball before launching … "
"This series of processes is both complicated and indispensable …"
"If we miss a link in the battle, we will not be able to shoot out when we load the shells, rather than exploding."
"Let’s think about whether there is any way to reduce these links and save time when loading shells …"
The "three-stage" firing method of artillery has exceeded the acceptance range of these "gunners", and it is even more advanced in artillery loading technology.
After Wei Zheng finished speaking, he responded to him except silence or silence.
I already have my own ideas in my heart. Wei Zheng didn’t hide anything from everyone and said, "Brothers, I have an idea in my heart that I don’t know if it is feasible …"
"It should be clear to everyone that in addition to the tiger gun, there is also a more powerful Franc machine gun."
"One of the great advantages of the Franck gun is that it can be loaded quickly. That’s because each Franck gun is equipped with several guns. It can be fired without going through the complicated loading process of the Tiger Gun …"
"My idea is whether we can prefabricate the shells of the Tiger Gun in front of the battlefield like the Franc Gun, and directly load the prefabricated shells into the gun bore and insert them into the matchrope to fire, thus reducing the cumbersome loading process."
"Prefabricated shells …" He asked with a puzzled face, who had never been in contact with the Franz machine gun.
"Yes, it’s prefabricated shells … a mold with the same caliber as the artillery compacts gunpowder and lead bullets, then wraps them with waterproof oil paper and coats them with a layer of lubricating grease."
"The battlefield directly plugs this prefabricated shell into the gun bore together with the oil paper, then pierces the oil paper with the matchrope and inserts it into the prefabricated shell part, and finally ignites the matchrope to fire."
"In this way, the whole loading process of Tiger Gun will be simplified by us, which can solve at least half the time."
Chapter 39 Making a Gun
When artillery training entered normalization, they left the training ground and walked into the hot air weapon factory.
