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Volume 1 Chapter 58 The Weapons of the Dafeng

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    After finishing the matter of propellant, Wu Yiping locked himself in the battleship again.  Now that the battleship has completed its sea trials, there is no problem with normal navigation, but as a key function of the battleship, the Dafeng has not yet.

    That is the weapon system of the battleship. Although the front of the battleship is equipped with a ramming horn, you cannot just ram into it no matter what opponent you encounter!  This is too cheap.

    If you encounter a wooden ship of dozens or hundreds of tons, you can directly smash it into pieces. However, if you encounter a large sail warship, especially after the enemy understands the impact function of Dafeng Village, they will definitely carry out targeted defenses.

    When the time comes, I¡¯ll get some boats filled with rocks for you to hit, and I¡¯m sure you¡¯ll get a bloody head.  It's like if you drive a huge Hummer and hit a wooden box weighing several hundred kilograms, you can easily smash the wooden box and only lose some paint.

    But if a wooden box weighing several hundred kilograms is condensed into a stone weighing several hundred kilograms, then you will suffer the consequences if you are too stupid to hit it. If there are dozens of such stones, then  .

    So Wu Yiping now urgently needs to install a weapon on the battleship.  The ideal weapon must be artillery, but Wu Yiping's current steelmaking level and artillery manufacturing level are still poor. Wu Yiping estimates that it may take about a year before there is a breakthrough in artillery research.

    So now he needs a transitional weapon. Fortunately, when he got the information on the steel crossbow, he had already started related research.  Now everything is ready, just waiting for assembly.

    This weapon installed on the Dafeng is the ultimate giant crossbow.

    This kind of crossbow is unprecedentedly huge, and its location is on the original main gun position of the battleship.  The design is a combination of six horizontal installations and three vertical columns.

    There are several spare motors for anchoring on the battleship.  Therefore, this ultimate steel crossbow is powered by three high-power electric motors, and it takes 30 seconds to fully cock the bowstring at one time.  Moreover, Wu Yiping designed several brackets at the firing position, which can quickly replace the brackets and launch four different arrows.

    The first type of arrow is just an armor-piercing crossbow arrow.  The diameter of this kind of arrow is 5 centimeters. It is mainly used to penetrate thick armored bunkers to kill enemies. The head is 30 centimeters long and is made of all steel. The 1.5 meter tail is an iron rod made by modern iron-making methods.  A width that is thick at the front and thin at the back ensures both lethality and smooth flight of the arrow.  18 can be launched at a time, with a range of 2,000 meters.

    The second is to install a large and short round-shaped bracket. The bracket is divided into nine small spaces with steel sheets. Each space can hold a medium-sized crossbow arrow. This kind of arrow is up to 60 meters long.  Centimeters, 15 centimeters of the arrows are made of all steel; each crossbow position can fire 9 arrows, and 18 crossbow positions can fire 162 arrows at a time, forming a veritable rain of arrows. Its main function is to kill people without cover.  enemy.  Range 2000 meters.

    The third type is that after adding a bracket, each crossbow position can launch a basketball-sized ceramic ball. This ball will be filled with oil and fuses, or gunpowder and fuses.  Launching 18 such balls at one time, it can be said to be a must-have product for home travel, murder and arson.  However, since Wu Yiping can't find oil at all, he can only use tung oil, which has a small output, as a substitute. Gunpowder has just made a breakthrough, and it will take some time to mass-produce it; so this weapon is only in experimentation.  The range can reach 1800 meters.

    The fourth type, which is launched after adding a bracket, is four small iron balls connected with a 1.5-meter-long iron chain. The diameter of each small iron ball is 8 centimeters; it will expand after being launched.  The purpose is to deal with the sail.  The sail of this era is the motor!  If the sail is broken, let's see how you can still jump!  !  However, since this type of continuous bomb is the heaviest, its range is only 1,600 meters.

    Wu Yiping has already drawn the drawings after countless nights of hard public relations work.  And the steel plate has been cut, and now it's just waiting for assembly and test firing.

    Wu Yiping didn¡¯t know that while he was busy assembling the ultimate steel crossbow, a group of people in Lotus City were discussing him.  They are Ping Hailong from Lotus City and a group of his men.

    Ping Hailong is a very smart man. He knows that food is everything at this time, so when Wu Yiping went to Lotus City to sell dried fish for the first time, he was so attentive and specially arranged people to deal with Dafeng.  Village to inquire.

    The original name of Ping Hailong is Wu Hainiu. He is about 40 years old this year. When he was a young man, he was a fisherman in Fujian. Because he killed four police officers in a conflict, he was wanted on the sea and had nowhere to hide.  Fleeed to Hainan, joined a group of small pirates and became a pirate.

    ¡°I didn¡¯t expect that he really had the makings of a pirate and was ruthless enough. They first kicked their boss into the water during a robbery, and then spent a lot of money to recruit some other pirates in Hainan.  PotentialIt grew bigger and bigger, and finally took the opportunity to capture the Lotus City in Taiwan.  His real name was gradually forgotten by others, and those who knew him called him Ping Hailong.

    Ping Hailong originally thought that if he occupied Lotus City, he would achieve greater development.  Unexpectedly, it backfired. After getting a city, his subordinates who lived and died together were unwilling to live a wandering life, and their fierceness as pirates gradually disappeared!  Each and every one of them only knows how to live in a state of drunkenness and dream of death.

    Ping Hailong also slowly let go of his ambitions and lived a comfortable life.

    But the arrival of the Dutch broke his dreamland. The number of objects that could be robbed became less and less day by day, and the savings accumulated in the past were also less and less.

    Shoufeng City¡¯s old enemy, General Zhou, continued to attack him even more.  It's getting more and more difficult now. We can't even eat enough, and our subordinates are about to starve.

    His subordinate Kotou Shiye paid attention to one thing, which was to use the banner of fighting against the Dutch. This might be able to deceive others' trust and gain support. Not to mention, once he used this banner, there would really be people who didn't know the truth.  The wealthy clans supported him one after another.

    Now it is discovered that Wu Yiping may have a very powerful fishing method, and of course he will do everything possible to get it.

    This time Tianping Hailong was drinking and having fun with a group of his men in the hall. Although Ping Hailong was from the south, he was very tall, over 1.8 meters tall.  He wore a pair of knee-length shorts underneath and a cowhide vest on his upper body.  I don't know whether it's because he hasn't showered in a few days or because he got oil from eating, but his whole body looks shiny.

    Pinghai Ryuhei's signature move is to sit on a chair in the middle of the hall. While sitting, he lifts his right foot up and puts it on the chair, rests his right hand on his right knee, and tilts his face and head when looking at people.  Look, it gives people a cunning and cruel feeling.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? When Ping Hailong was chewing on a large pig bone, which is very rare nowadays, and the food was tasteless.  I heard a voice coming from the door: "General, there is news."

    Ping Hailong¡¯s men all call him General.  Because he saw his old enemy calling himself General Zhou, he followed suit and asked his subordinates to call him General Pinghai.

    Ping Hailong first raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, put down the bones, took a sip of wine, looked at his men sideways and asked:

    "What's the matter! Tell me!"

    His men swallowed their saliva after being stared at, and said in fear: "General, there is news about the Dafeng village you asked us to investigate."

    "Oh! Tell me! What news."

    "Back to the general, Dafeng Village is now in great shape. They have gathered thousands of people. They didn't know where they got two iron boats more than ten meters long. They also got a kind of fishing net that can be used in the sea.  , According to what our brother learned, they can catch several thousand kilograms of fish every day, and apart from what they eat, there is still a lot left over for making dried fish, so they can have dried fish to sell in our Lotus City."

    Hearing the news, everyone¡¯s eyes lit up in the hall.  Ping Hailong said doubtfully:

    ¡°Can we really harvest thousands of kilograms of fish and shrimp every day?¡±

    "There is absolutely no problem. Our brothers saw them returning to port with our own eyes. The boat was full."

    "General, lead us all to kill him! Steal his shabby fishing net, so that we can have dried fish to eat every day."

    "That's right! General, you can't let go of this fat sheep! It's a small village. You don't need to go out personally, General. You just need to give an order, and the little brother will be able to capture it, right?"

    Looking at the commotion below, Ping Hailong didn't say anything, but just motioned to his dog-headed master with his eyes.  His dog-headed master was actually Zhang Jingbo, the welcome messenger that day. This Zhang Jingbo had read many books and was a teacher before.

    But the poor life of a teacher was not what he wanted. By chance, he met a human trafficker; so he cruelly sold two of his students.

    Zhang Jingbo did it secretly and was not discovered by anyone at the time. Unexpectedly, the trafficker was caught, so what happened next was very simple.  Zhang Jingbo, who was exposed to the incident, fled to Ping Hailong and became a dog-headed master.  But this Ping Hailong has never valued him very much. When something happened, he asked him to pay attention, and when nothing happened, he asked him to greet guests. You must know that there are no people in Lotus City to do business now.  The last time I met Wu Yiping, it was just bad luck.

    Zhang Jingbo took a sip of wine and said to Ping Hailong with a smile: "General, we have announced to the outside world that we will unite all the Han people to fight against the Dutch. Now if we go to attack Dafeng Village, we are going back on our word! Such big families will not  are supporting us.¡±

    "Well! What you said makes sense, but look at my brotherLife is not easy for us now!  We are fighting against the Dutch every day, trying to get some dried fish to satisfy our craving, and we have to buy it from that bullshit Wu Yiping. The brothers are very unhappy!  "

    Zhang Jingbo said "Bah!" in his heart, "Damn it, it's you who wants other people's boats and fishing nets, okay, and you're dragging it on your brothers."

    But you can only think about these words in your heart.  Ping Hailong still said respectfully: "General, we definitely can't attack Dafeng Village now; but I heard that the Dutch in Keelung have a new governor; the old governor will go back soon, maybe  He wants to vote when he leaves." After saying this, he proudly stroked his beer belly, narrowed his eyes slightly and continued:

    "The Han people are in trouble, and we want to help, so the general must keep an eye on them. If the Dutch really go to attack Dafeng Village, we must go to rescue them."

    The simple-minded Ping Hailong stared at Zhang Jingbo with a gloomy face for a long time, and then he slowly understood and his gloomy face calmed down.

    This is a strategy of killing with a borrowed knife. When the Dutch and Dafeng Village are both defeated, I will lead people to clean up the battlefield and kill everyone on both sides.  Not only can he raise his banner against the Dutch more loudly, but he can also obtain the method of fishing as he wishes. It really kills two birds with one stone.

    "It's just" Ping Hailong stared at Zhang Jingbo and asked with confusion: "How can we get the Dutch to go to Dafeng Village?"

    Zhang Jingbo still smiled and said with a confident look on his face: "Dafeng Village is a good place! I dreamed about this village last night! The dream also said that a big gold mine was discovered in this village!"

    "A big gold mine was discovered?" Ping Hailong looked confused!  Then the eyes slowly lit up.  In the end, he burst out laughing.  He picked up the wine bowl and drank all the wine in one breath, and said repeatedly: "Haha! Military advisor, what a good plan, what a good plan! I will arrange it right away so that the news about the gold mine in Dafeng Village reaches the ears that should hear it. Haha.  Ha ha!!!"

    (Today is the 10th anniversary celebration of the kindergarten my daughter attends. Her grandmother was originally invited to attend, but she was temporarily unavailable, so I had to attend. I was bombarded by loudspeakers in the auditorium for several hours, and now my ears are still ringing.  . Having said so much, I just want to express one meaning, that is, there is only this chapter today.)
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