Ming Zuo

Chapter 496 Rocket Artillery

The Seventh Militia Brigade came from Yizhou and nearby Feixian County, Linshu, Cangshan, Yinan and other places, and was mostly composed of local farmers and tenants.

The Eighth Militia Brigade came from various guards in Jiaodong, and many of them were soldiers from the original guards.

Zuo Menggeng has a different opinion as to the decayed and depraved soldiers of the guard.

In Zuo Menggeng's view, whether these guard soldiers can be transformed into powerful fighters does not depend on what they have experienced or what they have done, but depends on the intensity of ideological remolding.

Are there still few fighters transformed from KMT in our army in later generations?

What were these people like when they were in KMT, and what were they like after they were transformed into commanders and fighters of our army?
The Sixty Army made of mud, and the Fifty Army made of iron, aren't they the same people?
Why is the fighting power so different?
Facts have proved that his judgment was correct.

The new fighters transformed from guard soldiers, after receiving full respect and sufficient salary in the new big family, had another ideological change, and quickly transformed into the most steadfast fighters.

After receiving the order from the High Command, the [-]th and [-]th Militia Brigades quickly marched to Jiaozhou Bay to form the First Marine Division.

Looking at the tens of thousands of troops fully loaded, Tang Wenhuan and Bai Dasheng were really happy.

Holding the "Marine Corps Drill Manual" produced by Zuo Menggeng, they began to explore and build.

Zuo Menggeng didn't dare to leave for a while, for fear that these two guys would distract the good marines.

This stay is more than a month.

Not without surprises though.

Zuo Dai brought the newly made rocket launcher to him for inspection and acceptance, and there were still two models.

"This thing has no technical content at all, let alone an arsenal, even a few workers in a steel factory can make it."

The manufacture of rocket launchers is really simple.

It is the cast iron shell and bullet, each of which is stuffed with gunpowder, and then combined into one, stuffed into the iron cylinder, fired out and the job is over.

The two rocket launchers produced by the equipment department have almost the same appearance.

They are all placed on a two-wheeled wooden cart, with three rows of four tubes and twelve rounds in the upper and lower rows, and the size and length are the same.

"The main difference lies in the projectile body and the launch tube. Of the two types of rockets we manufacture, one has a fixed balance wing, and the other is a pop-up type designed by you."

When Zuo Dai brought the two kinds of rockets in front of Zuo Menggeng, the difference came out.

Fixed wing rocket, as the name suggests, the balance wing at the end of the shell is fixed and cannot be disassembled or moved.

As for the pop-up balance wing, four small grooves are dug out at the end of the cartridge case, and clockwork springs are installed inside.

When the rocket is inserted into the launch tube, the balance wing will be retracted into the shell through the extrusion of the wall of the launch tube.

After the rocket is launched and detached from the launch tube, the balance wing will pop out driven by the clockwork spring to stabilize the flight because of the loss of the pressure of the tube wall.

"What's the difference between the two stabilizers?"

"Accuracy and failure rate, and the manufacture of the launch tube."

Zuo Dai first introduced the fixed-wing rocket.

"This type of rocket is more accurate and has a very small error..."

Zuo Menggeng was worried, and asked, "How much is the error?"

"The shooting range is [-] meters, and the error is only [-] meters."

"What about the killing range?"

"21.31 meters in diameter."

Zuo Menggeng couldn't help grinning.

Well, the killing range is only in the early [-] meters, and the error has reached [-] meters, and this is a model with higher accuracy.

But he also knew that rockets were not aimed at accuracy, but at scrubbing the ground.

If you want to improve the accuracy of rockets, you have to wait for the level of craftsmanship to reach a certain level.

For example, the shell and warhead of the rocket in front of me are all cast iron as a whole.

Undoubtedly, the surface is rough.

This creates enormous air resistance, which affects both accuracy and range.

The best way is to smooth the surface of the projectile.

But the question is, how long does it take to process a rocket body with a hand-grinding wheel?
Another one, if you do it manually, how can you ensure that the standards are uniform every time.

what?
With machinery?
Well, the projectile body of the rocket is circular, and the warhead is even more conical. If the mechanical grinding wheel is smoothing, how to solve the movement trajectory and rotation of the mechanical arm?

Not to mention whether it can be done in terms of materials, just the calculation of the rotation angle of a twisted arm can kill everyone in the Mathematics Academy.

So at the current level, the rocket body can only do this.

If you want to have a lethal effect when the accuracy is very touching, just take the amount directly.

A rocket launcher has twelve rockets, and if there are dozens of them, the accuracy doesn't matter.

"Another advantage of fixing the balance wing is that after the rocket ejects from the chamber, there is no need to worry that the balance wing will not bounce up, causing the shells to fly randomly."

The accuracy of the rocket is entirely controlled by the balance wings, but the pop-up rocket is not precise because of the craftsmanship, so sometimes the rocket is fired but the balance wings are not deployed.

Then the rockets started to scurry around, quite like Ah San.

"However, one of the advantages of the pop-up rocket is that it saves the manufacturing cost of the launcher."

Because the balance wing can be compressed into the body of the projectile, the launch tube does not need to be deliberately designed, it is just a simple iron pipe.

"Using Uncle Tu's words, it doesn't hurt at all to throw this thing away after hitting it."

And the launch tube of the fixed-wing rocket will not become.

From the outside, it is still a round iron pipe.But inside, a card slot module is installed.

Only in this way can the rocket be stably placed in the launch tube to achieve smooth launch.

Because the card slot module is installed, the card slot needs to meet a certain fine standard and have sufficient lubrication, so the manufacturing cost has risen sharply.

This is the pros and cons of the two rockets.

The arsenal was arguing endlessly, everyone said their own good, Zuo Dai couldn't make up his mind, so he simply asked each to produce one, and brought it here for Zuo Menggeng to decide.

"Of course we must speak with facts."

Zuo Menggeng didn't make a conclusion easily, but asked people to take two rocket launchers to the shooting range for on-the-spot inspection.

Experiment with pop-up rockets first.

The artilleryman opened the wooden box, took out the rockets, and began to load them into the launch tube one by one.

The overall length of the rocket is 1.3 meters, and the weight is [-] kilograms when charged.

The twelve rockets were loaded, and the artillery took the fuse.

The fuse is very thick, and the front end is divided into twelve thinner fuses.At the end is a hollow iron pipe the length of a finger.

The fuse was inserted into the iron pipe and was tightly bound.

The front end of the iron pipe is not flat, but has a sharp corner like a needle.

The artillerymen aimed their sharp horns at the butt of the rocket, where there was a thick layer of brown paper.But because the iron pipe has sharp corners, it is easy to insert it.

After the fuse was installed, the artilleryman took out a lighter.

A veritable lighter, exactly the same as the kerosene lighters seen in later generations.

Metal case with a cover on it.

When opened, you can see the gears and oil-soaked cotton thread, and the flint below the gears.

Just rub the gears with your thumb, and the flint will rub against the sparks, which will ignite the cotton thread.

As long as you know the principle, it is not difficult to make this thing with the craftsmanship of this era, and it has become a new blockbuster product in the industrial field.

The new army alone has ordered more than [-] units, and the acceptance among the people is also very high.

After all, it is much easier to use than Huozhezi, and it can be used repeatedly, and the price is not expensive.

(End of this chapter)