Make France Great Again Chapter 395

Looking at the 12-pound field bronze cannon, which symbolized the pinnacle of the French front-bore cannon, Jerome Bonaparte's thoughts seemed to return to a summer in his previous life.

At that time, he was reading an online novel called "Lingao Qiming". Although he can't remember the contents clearly now, the only thing that left an impression on him was the two baboons in the hands of "Lingao Five Hundred Baboons". Put 19th century weapons. With these two weapons, the five hundred baboons were a dimensionality reduction blow to the end of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the "five hundred baboons" are far more important to the internal struggle than the external war because of the continuous infighting of human beings since the beginning of their birth.

As for these two weapons, one of them is the Mignet gun currently in service in France, and the other is the large Napoleon cannon that was placed in front of Jerome Bonaparte.

At that time, in order to satisfy his curiosity, he deliberately pulled the drawings of the Napoleon Cannon from the Internet, as well as the launch video.

Now, when the real object of the big Napoleon cannon was placed in front of him, Jerome Bonaparte only felt an inexplicable trance welling up in his heart.

Time has passed, and there is no going back.

Thinking of this, Jerome Bonaparte could not help but sigh.

Just when Jerome Bonaparte was thinking about "hometown", Virnia, who was standing on the side, noticed the strangeness of Jerome Bonaparte, and she whispered to Jerome Bonaparte: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

A shout pulled Jérôme Bonaparte down from his memory, and he gave an apologetic smile to the two slightly nervous artillerymen in front of him. Then, he asked the people around him kindly: "Can any of you introduce this artillery to me?"

Basilio, who was standing behind Jerome Bonaparte, glanced at the team of field artillery engineers behind him, and gestured with his eyes to one of the chief design engineers to explain the structure of the new artillery.

The engineer who received the hint from Basilio's eyes immediately understood what he meant, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to Jerome Bonaparte: "Your Majesty, let me introduce the structure of this artillery to you. !"

"You are its creator?" Jerome Bonaparte looked up and down the engineer in front of him. Judging from his old face, straight body, and calluses on the **** of his right hand, the engineer should have come out of the army.

"It's not just me!" The engineer smiled shyly and added: "There are more than ten people in our team, and they are all creators of this gun!"

"Okay! That's you!" said Jerome Bonaparte, pointing to the engineer.

The engineer adjusted his state, came to the front of the 12-pound bronze gun with a stern face, stroked the bronze gun body and said: "This gun is a 12-pound field gun that we have improved and designed based on the original 6-pound field gun. The caliber is 114 mm, which is a full 21 mm more than the 6-pounder field gun (the 6-pound bronze gun has a caliber of 93 mm). The large-caliber barrel allows the entire gun to hold 12 pounds (5.44 kg) of heavy iron. Cannonballs.

Only 2.5 pounds (1.13 kg) of standard propellant is required to push a 12-pound projectile at an extremely fast (439 m/s) speed. When the muzzle is at a firing angle of 5 degrees from the horizontal, the precise distance About 1480 meters or so. When the muzzle is 10 degrees from the horizontal, the precise shooting distance can reach about 1880 meters. "

"1880 meters!" Jerome Bonaparte touched his chin while thinking about the data of the Napoleon cannon in his mind.

After a long time, Jerome Bonaparte said again: "As far as I know, the maximum range of a 6-pound field gun is only about 1,300 meters! Right!"

"That's right!" The engineer responded without hesitation: "And when the distance from the target is about 200 meters, the power of the 6-pound field gun will decrease, and its power cannot even penetrate half a company column, while the 12-pound field gun Enough to penetrate the entire company column at a distance of 550 meters!"

"What about the weight?" Jerome Bonaparte asked again.

Facing the endless problems of Jérôme Bonaparte, the engineer has obviously made full preparations: "In terms of weight, the total weight of the whole gun is 1109 kilograms, if the five ammunition boxes in the trailer are added, it is about 1750 kilograms. Although it is much heavier than the previous six-pounder, it is also greatly enhanced. Besides, the weight of this field gun is much lighter than that of the siege cannon!”

"Sounds not bad!" Jerome Bonaparte responded, and then changed the conversation: "However, after hearing so much of what you said here, I wonder if it is possible to carry out a live fire! After all What you hear with your ears is not necessarily true, only what you see with your own eyes can be true."

"Of course!" the engineer replied without hesitation.

The reason why the artillery was moved to the shooting range today is not to let the military people see if they have cheated. However, the arrival of the emperor forced the live ammunition to be suspended.

Since the emperor said that they can start, then they don't have to worry about other issues.

"Let's start!" The engineer nodded to the two live-fire artillerymen beside him.

The two artillerymen immediately began to move after receiving the order of the engineer. One of the artillerymen took the worm that was placed next to the gun mount, and then pushed the worm into the muzzle to scrape the debris left in the barrel of the previous shot.

After the skilled artilleryman scraped out the debris at a rapid speed, another artilleryman put the wet sponge into the inner chamber of the artillery for secondary cleaning. The wet sponge can clean out the hot debris that has not been removed from the worm. After two wet sponge cleanings, the standard 2.5-pound propellant was wrapped in a nylon bag and stuffed into the gun's bore.

Immediately after that, heavy solid shells weighing 12 pounds were shoved into the chamber with difficulty.

Finally, a guide rod is used to plug the solid shell and standard propellant into the correct position of the gun body.

For a skilled artilleryman, the entire process takes only 30 seconds.

However, these two artillerymen took more than 40 seconds, obviously some skills are not enough.

When everything was ready, the engineer turned to ask Jerome Bonaparte if he wanted to take a shot himself.

Jerome Bonaparte, who was willing to love hot weapons, naturally would not miss this opportunity. He slowly released Vernia's hand and came to the front of the big Napoleon cannon.

"Your Majesty, you just need to pull here!" Since the big Napoleon cannon uses the principle of pulling the rope, and the small Napoleon cannon uses the principle of lead wire, in order to prevent Jerome Bonaparte from being embarrassed, the engineer thoughtfully Said to Jerome Bonaparte, pointing to the drawstring of the big Napoleon cannon.

Jérôme Bonaparte grabbed the white drawstring lightly and was now on the side of the big Napoleon cannon. Jérôme Bonaparte was very clear about the recoil of the Napoleonic cannon in front of him.

Then, Jerome Bonaparte pulled hard.

With the roar like thunder, the muzzle of the big Napoleon cannon formed a circle of white smoke similar to a cone. This shape of smoke is what can only be produced when the cannonball breaks through the sound barrier.

The solid artillery shell that broke the sound barrier sprinted straight ahead in a smashing stance, and 700 meters in front of it, there happened to be a group of dummies woven from straw.

A few seconds later, the shells with slightly reduced speed rushed into the pile of scarecrows like tigers descending the mountain.

One, two, three... more than a dozen scarecrows were knocked down by a solid cannonball that went forward in no time at all. If all the cannonballs were converted into real people, the entire scene would be covered in blood.

The artillery shell that "destroyed" nearly a company column of scarecrow soldiers continued to fly, and then crashed into the forest behind the scarecrow.

A dull sound came from the forest nearly 1 kilometer away from Jerome Bonaparte. The birds living in the woods took off quickly after being frightened, presenting a scene of galloping birds.

"Not bad!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded in satisfaction, then turned and asked Nier: "What do you think?"

"As far as the power of the artillery is concerned, it's really good!" Niel was also very satisfied with the big Napoleon cannon, and then he added: "It would be even better if the price could be reduced a bit! "

"Huh? What's the price of this artillery?" Jerome Bonaparte realized that the price of this artillery might not be cheap.

Just by looking at the amount of bronze used in the artillery itself, it is known that the total price of an artillery plus the labor costs of the workers is likely to be more than 2,000 francs.

What is the concept of 2000 francs? This is equivalent to the total cost of a family of three workers in Paris for a year!

"Our offer is 2,500 francs!" The engineer told Jérôme Bonaparte the price.

After Jerome Bonaparte heard the engineer's offer, he took a deep breath.

The price of 2,500 francs is equivalent to the money that two ordinary workers can earn in a year~www.mtlnovel.com~ Now it takes two workers a year to build such a gun, which is really hot. Roma Bonaparte felt a little pain in the flesh.

Moreover, it is not enough to buy one artillery piece, but to buy hundreds or thousands of them. In this way, the cost of the early stage artillery and shells is at least 5 million francs.

"This... can it be a little cheaper!" Jerome Bonaparte had no worries at all. This was his own business, and he discussed it with the engineer openly.

The engineer looked at Basilio helplessly, he really didn't know what to say.

Basilio, who was originally standing in the back, walked to the front and said to Jerome Bonaparte: "Your Majesty, 2,500 francs is already the best price we can give the military! If we are doing foreign trade, like this artillery At least 3,000 francs are needed.”

"Is there really no way to get any cheaper?" Jerome Bonaparte asked again.

"Let's do it!" Basilio said to Jerome Bonaparte as if he had made a great determination: "2,400 francs per gun, it can't be less! This is already a small profit but a quick turnover!"

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