The Rise of the European Emperor

Seeing Marin's wretched self-healing expression, Kohler was speechless, so he asked the same question as Schwartz:

"Master, if all European countries have mastered this tactic, how should we respond? Is this what you said, 'As long as the price is high enough, the merchants are willing to sell the ropes to hang themselves'?"

Malin's face suddenly stiffened, and he said angrily:

"You know what? Didn't I say you can use 'Swarm' on the side?"

Kohler shook his head:

"Don't you say that it's because the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow has no plate armor, and a swarm of arrows is easy to shoot through? It's not good to switch to France, which has a high rate of plate armor..."

Marlin was stunned for a moment. Yes, the emperor defeated the French with an artillery barrage, and the French would definitely learn. After all, the French also have a lot of artillery, and it is easy to learn.

But letting the black knights strike from the side with a swarm of swarms is certainly effective against the Muscovite army without plate armor. But for France, where there are tens of thousands of plate armor knights, although it is effective, the effect is not so good...

Moreover, a swarm of bees is also easier to imitate. If it is learned, the Beihai army will easily be put on the face by a swarm of bees...

It is useless to use it in Eastern Europe. Anyway, the exchanges between Eastern and Western Europe are not close, and it is difficult to spread the news. But if you use it in Western Europe, you will get a great victory. Others are not fools, so they must copy it.

Moreover, even if the improved version with wings can't copy it, the ordinary swarm can still copy it. Although the effective range of ordinary swarms is relatively short, if it is close to the face, it is also very terrifying. When encountering a master tactician, you can hold back and wait for the opponent to put it within 45 meters and then launch it together, and the damage caused is no less than the damage received by the improved version of the swarm at a distance of 100 meters.

In addition, once Marin sacrificed a swarm, the big killer, to deal with the battle formation of the iron chain artillery car, then the artillery will quickly lose the market. Because it is not invincible, naturally it is no longer sought after.

Therefore, using a swarm to deal with a chain of iron chains will not only cause the artillery to lose its popularity in the market, but also cause the enemy to imitate it. After all, this thing is really low-tech. As long as you get an unburned sample, you can successfully imitate it.

Marin didn't dare to bet that the Europeans, like the Ming Dynasty, did not find a swarm of generals who used it correctly. What if someone finds the right way to use it?

By then, the consequences will be serious. If the Beihai Kingdom is defeated, it will lead to uncontrollable serious consequences. Because, the reason why Marin can speak the truth in Beihai Kingdom is because of his invincible characters. This led to the fact that no one in Beihai dared to rebel, because no one was confident that he could beat Marin. This is also true for the princes outside, who have no confidence in defeating Marin. The previous coalition forces of Saxony and Brandenburg, as well as the coalition forces of the eight vassal states, were all defeated by Marin, giving the outside world a great impact.

But if Marin's invincible personality collapses, then those princes will regain their confidence, and maybe they will unite to attack Beihai Kingdom again. The worst thing is that once the invincible deification is broken, the military morale of the Beihai Kingdom's army may also become lax.

Just like France, in the Napoleonic period, built invincible confidence. But after the defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, France's invincible self-confidence collapsed. Since then, it has always been passive in the face of Germany. While there are tactical reasons, it is undeniable that self-confidence is also important in warfare.

Therefore, Marin does not intend to deploy a swarm of such uncertain weapons in Western Europe. This will not only bring unpredictable consequences, but also affect the artillery business.

"However, how can we guarantee the defeat of the French and the princes of various countries on the premise of maintaining the artillery business?"

Marin thought of using a single-headed musket, but the problem was that even the leaky Folang cannon installed at the back had a range of about 200 meters. The single-headed bullet and the Folang cannon were shot against each other. Although the range of the two sides was not much different, the difference in power was too great. If you kill one person with a single buckshot, the iron ball can kill several people, and the benefits and deterrence it brings are incomparable.

At that time, the ordinary front-mounted three-pounder cannon can be used against the rear-mounted Folang cannon. After all, the effective range of the front-mounted three-pounder cannon is about 365 meters, which is much farther than the 200 meters or so of the rear-mounted Folang cannon. .

However, even if it is a front-loaded three-pounder, the range exceeds that of the opponent, and the hit rate is the same as that of the musket, which is just as appalling. After one or two hundred meters, whether the front-loaded three-pounder can hit the target can only rely on God's blessing. After all, the front-mounted three-pounder is also smoothbore, and the hit rate is not good.

Although the artillery was later called the god of war, but in the era of smoothbore artillery, the artillery shells rely more on the crowd of people on the opposite side to strike a range rather than accurate bombardment. No way, smoothbore guns are like this, and the accuracy is not high.

Unless, with a rifled gun, or, with a longer range and more accurate Mignet rifle, take out the opponent. But Marin was reluctant to take out the Mignet rifle as the ultimate killer early. If the opponents were generally equipped with the Mignet rifle, then his "Jiangnan Leather Factory" armor would not be able to resist.

As for the rifled gun? That thing was too hard to machine, it had to be cut inside the barrel with a lathe. As for manual rifling, that thing is fine for muskets, but it is possible to use it on artillery. After all, the rifling depth of the artillery is very high, the processing is very difficult, and it cannot be done by hand.

In addition, bronze guns are not suitable for making rifled guns. Because, once the gun barrel is hot, the copper gun barrel is easy to soften. If the smoothbore gun is fine, the rifled gun...the shell can easily squeeze and deform the heat-softened rifling...At that time, the artillery will be abolished...and historically, the rifled guns are generally cast in steel, such as Pyrott gun. The Napoleon guns, all made to 12-pounder guns, are still smoothbore bronze guns. It's not that I don't want to carve the rifling, but once the barrel is hot, the rifling will be crushed by the iron ball.

If you want to engage in rifled guns, you must use steel. However, what Marin wants to sell is copper cannons, and the profits are huge, so...

"Using the Napoleon cannon against the Flang cannon?" After thinking about it, Marin shook his head. why? Although the Napoleon cannon is powerful and has a long range, the consumption of copper materials is also amazing. One or two or even dozens of doors is nothing, if it is hundreds of doors at every turn... it will cost too much copper...

In addition, you can use large-caliber bronze guns, as can other countries. You know, this year, 12-pound bronze gun technology is not difficult. It was only because of the inconvenience of land transportation and almost no roads in this era that most countries did not bring 12-pound bronze guns to land. But at sea, on Spanish and Portuguese ships, the 12-pounder was just an ordinary caliber.

If you want to suppress opponents through caliber, others can learn to counter-pressure back. At most, people use mud molds for their main guns, and the cost is higher than yours.

But if you want to mount a rifled gun, you have to use a steel gun. But taking this out is not good for the sales of copper cannons...

Marin was very irritable. He opened the wooden box on the table and wanted to take out a cigarette and light it, but he made a mistake in his busy schedule. He opened another wooden box and took out a single-ended bullet with a steel nail...

"What's this..." Marin was speechless, and planned to put the single-headed bullet back in the box.

However, suddenly Marin's hand holding the one-headed bullet stopped in mid-air...

"Single-headed bomb...single-headed bomb..." Marin muttered to himself.

"What if...the single-headed bullet technology is used to transform the cannonball?" A light flashed in Marin's mind...

...

As soon as he said it, Marin called a carpenter to carve the wooden box. This wooden box is actually a mold used to make cement shells.

It is too extravagant to make cannonballs out of iron. These days, iron is a strategic resource. And the shells made of cement have low cost. Moreover, the power of cement cannonballs is similar to that of stone bullets, and the power is also very fierce. It may not be powerful enough to bombard city walls or warships and needs to be replaced with iron balls. However, people who are used to beat flesh and blood are absolutely enough!

The cement single-headed shell with a positive rifling on the head, after drying, is directly pulled to the shooting range for testing, and then fired with a front-loaded three-pounder. Then, those who participated in the test were stunned to find that the single-headed shell had a range of more than 500 meters. Moreover, hit the thief accurately!

It can be said that if you shoot at the enemy's artillery position, you can easily destroy the opposite artillery position with a three-pounder gun with a single-headed cannonball.

The only thing that makes people worry is that if the single-headed cannonball is smashed into the sand and swamp, it is easy for someone to get a sample and successfully copy it. By then, it would be terrifying...

What to do? On the shooting range, Marin saw that the artillery officer beside him was pinching the sealing wax of a can of fruit, unplugged the cork, and prepared to use the can...

"There! Put a hat on the head of the shell!"

Then, Marin made the cement shell into the oval-shaped warhead of a very common pistol bullet, but left two sockets.

At the same time, Marin arranged for the sealing wax purchased from Eastern Europe to be made into wax "hats" using molds. On the "hat" is the male rifling.

Before firing, the gunner will insert the prepared wax "cap" into the two sockets of the cement shell, and put the wax "hat" with rifling on the head of the cement shell.

After firing, the cement shell begins to spin because of the male rifling on the wax "cap". But because of the high temperature caused by friction with the air, the wax "hat" is easy to melt. At the same time, when the warhead hits the target, the wax "hat" will be easily smashed...

In time, the shells smashed into the sand or swamp, and the wax "hat", which was extremely fragile and afraid of high temperature, would also be severely damaged, making it impossible to see its intact shape. In this way, there is no need to talk about imitation.

After testing, this kind of cement single-headed projectile wearing a wax "cap" has little effect on the performance. After the launch, the wax "hat" will basically be seriously damaged, and the original appearance cannot be seen, and there is no way to talk about being imitated. Even the cement cannonball itself will be torn apart by the violent impact, not to mention the extremely fragile wax "hat".

"Hey, I didn't expect that the single-headed projectile technology could actually be used on artillery shells. This single-headed projectile is really sharp to use!"

Kohler and Schwartz, who accompanied him the whole time, immediately sent rainbow farts. But this time, they really praised it. Because, Marin's "brain hole" is too powerful. And this one-headed shell is really powerful.

Moreover, the two discussed it with Marin. If the single-headed artillery shell technology is used in siege and naval warfare, it is equally as powerful. Just change the cement to cast iron and the gun to a larger caliber gun. Cone-like iron single-headed cannonballs can bring greater damage and kill to city walls or enemy warships... And in order to enhance the ability to break defenses, the oval-shaped warheads can be made sharper, similar to the pointed ones of later generations. head rifle...

"This invention is really amazing!" Even Marin himself admired his ability to "invent and create". This is not copying the technology of later generations, it is completely the ability to infer other things!

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