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Chapter 399 Siege of Dingzhou

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    Chapter 399 Fran Cannon

    Li Zhen felt that it was very uncomfortable for both soldiers and officers to wear armor on this hot day. Moreover, making armor was cumbersome and time-consuming. In actual combat, it could only protect against bows and arrows, which greatly affected the soldiers.  mobility and flexibility.

    So Li Zhen returned to the mansion and decided to invent a new type of military uniform.

    After much thought, Li Zhen decided to create camouflage uniforms for later generations. The style of the military uniforms was mainly based on the camouflage styles of later generations.

    The color is mainly green, with black, yellow, tea and other tones. In fact, the new military uniform designed by Li Zhen is a camouflage uniform.

    The reason why green is mainly used is because nature is dominated by green tones. In the Boer War in another time and space, the British army wore red uniforms and their targets were very obvious in the jungle, while the Boers painted their uniforms and guns  The green color made it difficult for the British army to detect.

    As a result, during the war, the British army, which had an absolute advantage in strength and possessed advanced weapons, lost 90,000 men and suffered heavy losses. Since then, green military uniforms have become the consensus of armies around the world and have also been used in camouflage uniforms.

    Xue Rengui and Wang Fangyi have not set off yet, so Li Zhen called them and Liu Rengui over to take a look at the new camouflage uniforms he painted.

    Xue Rengui was shocked when he saw the camouflage uniform and said: "Your Highness, I have been in the army for so many years and I have never seen such a uniform."

    Wang Fangyi also said in confusion: "Why do you want to use green as the main color?"

    Li Zhen said: "In jungle combat and grassland combat, green is the main color. Do you think that if you wear white clothes and charge into battle outside, it will be easy to be discovered? But if you wear green clothes, will it be possible?  A good disguise to protect yourself?"

    After listening to Li Zhen¡¯s words, Xue Rengui and Wang Fangyi suddenly understood and nodded in agreement.

    Liu Rengui frowned and said, "But wearing this kind of military uniform, although it is light and flexible, it cannot protect you from arrows."

    Li Zhen said: "I plan to put on this new military uniform for the newly formed musketeers first. The range of muskets is much longer than that of bows and arrows. Bows and arrows have no way to use muskets, so the musketeers don't need to wear armor."

    My plan is to transform Datang¡¯s army into musketeers as long as production capacity allows, and fully distribute this new military uniform.  "

    "Of course, the army sometimes needs some close combat, so sometimes it also needs protection from arrows, so I designed this kind of clothing."

    Li Zhen took over the drawings of the second costume she designed.

    That was clearly a body armor and steel helmet.

    Li Zhen said: "With body armor, you can protect yourself from enemy bows and arrows, and steel helmets have more functions. They are not as heavy as helmets, are lighter, and can be used to boil water for cooking in the wild and serve as tableware."  "

    ¡°I¡¯ve seen this body armor and steel helmet before.¡± Xue Rengui said.

    "Didn't the prince also have a way back then?"

    Li Zhen nodded and said, "Yes, this kind of body armor and helmet are designed based on the body armor and helmet I use."

    "This is indeed a good method. It can prevent arrows and increase the mobility and flexibility of the army." Liu Rengui also nodded.

    For these two new types of military uniforms, several generals considered them to be an innovative invention. Li Zhen also planned to use this new type of military uniforms in military schools and newly established musketeers first, and then gradually promote them to the entire army.

    Of course, the production of new military uniforms takes time. Xue Rengui and Wang Fangyi will leave soon. It is estimated that by the time they return after victory, the production of new military uniforms will be almost complete.

    In order to produce new military uniforms, Li Zhen recruited many tailors in the Yingzhou area to form a garment factory. However, there was no candidate for the director of the garment factory for a while, but Xiao Ya volunteered, saying that the Xiao family used to deal in cloth.  business, it would be a good idea for her to manage the garment factory.

    Li Zhen had also heard that Xiao Ya was a genius in business. However, after arriving in Yingzhou, Xiao Ya had only stayed in the house and had nothing to do. It would be nice to let her use her talents.

    Xiao Ya was very excited when she heard that Li Zhen agreed to let her be the director of the garment factory. She had no time to pester Li Zhen every day and devoted herself wholeheartedly to her career

    On the vast sea, there is a vast expanse of blue.

    More than a hundred huge sea-going ships sailed on the sea, heading towards Pingzhou.

    This fleet is the Yingzhou Navy led by Chen Xingwu.

    Speaking of which, Chen Xingwu is indeed a very capable person.Within half a year, under his leadership, the Yingzhou Navy wiped out several groups of nearby pirates, doubled the size of the Navy, and became the overlord of the sea.

    Chen Xingwu now has 5,000 naval troops under his command, equipped with 1,000 muskets given to him by Li Zhen, and 50 Franconian cannons.

    "The fifty Fran cannons are Chen Xingwu's biggest trump card and combat power.

    The Fo Lang machine gun can fire continuously and pops up like a fiery snake. It is also called a rapid-fire cannon.  In another time and space, it was introduced to the Ming Dynasty by the Portuguese. The Ming Dynasty called Portugal the Fo Lang machine, so the gun was named the Fo Lang machine gun.

    The Franco machine cannon is an iron breech-loading smoothbore cannon. The whole gun is composed of three parts: barrel, belly and sub-cannon.

    When firing the gun, first fill the gunpowder pellets into the sub-cannon, then load the sub-cannon into the barrel, ignite the sub-cannon fire door and fire.

    The belly of the Folan aircraft is quite thick, and there is usually a steering stock at the rear of the gun, and a front sight and a rear sight on the barrel.

    The Fo Lang machine cannon has several advantages. One is its fast rate of fire.  The interval between each shot shall not exceed ten seconds.

    Second, it dissipates heat quickly.  Since the breech-loaded gun is connected from front to back, air can circulate, and the barrel is thin, making it easy to dissipate heat.  Fast heat dissipation can increase the artillery's ability to continue firing and also reduce the possibility of self-ignition of gunpowder.

    Third, the capacity of the sub-cannon is determined.  The capacity determines the amount of gunpowder to be loaded, so there will be no explosion accidents caused by overloading.

    Fourth, the sub-cannon is made of iron and can bear part of the gunpowder pressure, extending the life of the barrel. Even if one sub-cannon is damaged, the shooting performance of the artillery will not be affected.

    Fran cannons can be roughly divided into three types according to their size: small (caliber less than 5 cm), medium (field guns) and heavy guns (ship guns or siege guns).

    Among them, the small Fran cannons are mainly loaded with shotshells and are mainly used to kill personnel. The remaining large Fran cannons can not only be loaded with shotshells, but also can use solid shells, which are used to destroy enemy military formations, positions, city walls and  ships.

    As early as when Li Zhen first established the heavy industrial zone, he made the manufacture of Fran cannons and muskets a top priority.

    In Li Zhen¡¯s manufacturing diagram, the iron pipe used to manufacture the Folan cannon must be a double-layer iron pipe.

    Because the iron pipe technology of this era was limited, the iron pipes were all seamed. Only by putting a layer of iron pipes on top of a single iron pipe could it ensure that it did not leak. Moreover, the iron pipes could not be equally thick at the front and back, but must be thin at the front and at the back.  Thick, the thicker end is the tail.

    The outside of the cannon body is covered with iron hoops to ensure that the cannon does not explode, and then the cannon shaft is made.

    The Fran cannon for field use needs to be made into a gun carriage, and the naval gun can be placed directly on the battleship.

    With these fifty heavy-duty Franconian naval guns, Chen Xingwu is bound to win Pingzhou!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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