Chapter 660 Griffin Cannon and Regimental Falcon Cannon
The secret parties who were chatting and discussing suddenly fell silent.
It's not that they were not surprised when the mountain collapsed, but they fell into a huge confusion and didn't know what expression to make for a while.
That was not the squire's compound, but the Fraser Fortress that had been stuck in the throat of the northern county for decades.
After the initial confusion, a high priest of Ruoan Party couldn't help but asked in a low voice to the elder of the Shadow Society: "Do you remember that there is a spell that falls from the sky?"
"Meteor spell? But that witch has been dead for two hundred years."
"Is this the wind-up gun you mentioned? It's much more powerful than what you mentioned." Thinking of the slender wind-up gun made by his family, Solan couldn't help but feel embarrassed. This group of alchemists actually dared to take it. A miniature version fooled her, did he think she didn't dare to kill someone?
"No, no, no." Lulesi took a sip from the cigarette rod, "This is a new weapon. It's the first time I've seen it... No wonder the secret party has come to see it. Is it to establish prestige?"
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In recent times, the Ruo'an Party has vaguely let out rumors of the "Black Snake Bay Grand Alliance".
Large secret parties like the Shadow Society naturally unite quickly, but small and medium-sized secret parties are afraid and dissatisfied.
As the saying goes, it is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix. If power is handed over and independence is lost, wouldn't it be left to the control of the secret party?
Intellectually, they knew that unity was necessary.
But from an emotional point of view, most secret parties, especially the small leaders of the secret party, have considerable concerns about this.
When they came to Fraser Fortress this time, the secret party members knew that they were going to give them a blow, but they just didn't expect that the blow would be so great.
After comparing it with their own secret party village, the small and medium-sized secret party members present all made hissing noises.
Because they found that with the strength of their own small castle or earthen stronghold, they probably wouldn't even need a second shot.
"Piety! Sincerity!"
After firing the clockwork cannon, Mormont walked up to Horn with great interest: "Your Majesty, according to the observation mirror measurement, the first firing of the gryphon cannon caused a gap of about 1 meter in the enemy wall, and caused a gap of about 1 meter. 2 meter diameter landslide ”
Holding the lookout glass, Horn was also staring at the wall. The moment he saw the masonry splashing, he felt a little relieved.
Generally speaking, the main force of siege artillery is 24-pounder and 48-pounder guns. 12-pounder guns are mostly used for ship guns and field guns on specific battlefields.
This field gun hit the target on the first shot, and happened to collapse a wall. Horn thought it would have to be fired several times.
After all, although the screw adjustment angle and orbit adjustment position have been increased, in the current era of almost no ballistics, the fired shells are still quite random.
Astrology can only determine the position and distance. There are also interference factors such as wind, air humidity and the firing rod itself during the firing process. Whether it can hit or not depends on the gunner.
As a veteran of the fireball crossbow, Mormont showed unparalleled talent in operating the clockwork cannon.
Horn was both satisfied and dissatisfied with the results of this first test launch.
To be precise, he was very satisfied with the effect, but was quite dissatisfied with the prototype gun's five-meter-long barrel and its weight of more than 2 tons.
Normally, even a twelve-pound siege cannon needs a long barrel, but no matter how long it is, it should not exceed 3 meters. However, the clockwork cannon created by Leonardo and Highmoretine is actually 5 meters long.
According to the explanation of the two people, this is because the energy released by the orichalcum spring is not released instantly. If the barrel is too short, the cannonball will fly out in advance before the spring is completely relaxed.
But on the other hand, since there is no problem of gunpowder exploding the barrel, the barrel of this griffin clockwork cannon is about 2-4 centimeters thinner than that of a normal artillery gun.
Of course, as a prototype gun, the barrel wall was thickened only for safety.
If it really needs to be put into actual combat in the future, not only will it not need an integrated barrel, but the wall of the barrel can be made 2-3 centimeters thinner, and it can even be loaded into the breech.
It is precisely because the barrel is too long that the weight that should only be about 1.8 tons has increased to more than 2 tons.
Such a cannon actually requires six horses to drag it. You must know that two or three people can push the Falcon Cannon. "If we can't solve the problem of the fuze and locking wedge, we can just build a mortar and hit the hurricane bombs to the wall. With their dense position, tut tut." Hai Moting crossed her arms in front of her chest and tut tut in her mouth. .
"Instead of thinking about how to solve the problem of timing unlocking of the locking wedge, it is better to think more about how to develop a stronger locking wedge." Horn put his hands behind his back and stayed away from the spring chamber that was being replaced. "This How many clockwork warehouses were blown up along the way?”
"My design is perfect. It's a matter of materials, it's none of my business." Seamotine immediately put the blame on the Dragon Cult dwarves, "You should ask Kelgen."
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The hurricane bombs that Hai Moting mentioned were actually stuffed with orichalcum springs and iron sand lead into the iron shells, and the locking wedges of the springs were released the moment they hit the ground.
Then, under the crazy rotation of the clockwork, the iron sand and lead will explode in all directions like a tornado.
At present, the design of this hurricane bomb only remains on paper. It is not known when it will be developed and put into production.
"Can these locking wedges and spring clips be used for the regiment's Falcon Cannon?" Horn continued to ask Seamotine while looking at the reloaded Griffin Cannon and Leonardo recording the data.
In Horn's artillery design, the 12-pounder gun was probably used for defensive warfare and positional warfare, and the real field gun was the 3-pound Falcon gun.
Because even if the barrel of the 12-pound Griffin gun is shortened, the weight will not be less than 1.7 tons. The maneuverability is relatively poor, and the cost is too high.
Horn's regimental artillery is the 3-pounder gun attached artillery team assigned to the corps level and the 6-pounder gun independent artillery team assigned to the battle group level.
Haimoting muttered something: "Well... the 2-pound orichalcum spring equipped for the regiment's Falcon Cannon requires about 40 pounds of carbon steel to make the barrel.
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Assuming that each Falcon cannon is equipped with 15 barrels and consumes 30 pounds of orichalcum and 600 pounds of carbon steel, a legion of three Falcon cannons requires 90 pounds of orichalcum and 1,800 pounds of carbon steel. This figure is not unacceptable... ”
While Highmotine and Horn were chatting, under the control of Mormont, the artillerymen smoothly replaced the 60-pound barrel and started the second round of bombardment.
Following Mormont's order, the black shadow once again leaped out wrapped in air waves and rushed towards Fraser Castle across a distance of nearly 1,500 meters.
The second shot obviously did not have as good luck as before. Although it still maintained the previous angle and orientation, this shot was focused on the bell tower.
Rubbles and tiles fell down wrapped in broken wood, hitting the heads of the soldiers and knights under the city wall. Some timid soldiers even screamed "devil" and "heavenly punishment" and began to flee.
"Go back to your place!"
"Want to lose your head? Come back!"
"Buzz-pop!"
It took the knight officers taking out their whips to drive these fleeing sergeants back to their positions.
But when they looked up at the cracks in the bell tower, they unconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva in their throats.
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I have to say that thanks to the knights of Fort Fraser, they have worked here for many years and built many waterwheels and windmills.
After installing the gear set and modifying and replacing the larger water wheel, the remaining eight clockwork barrels were put into action in turn. This griffin cannon could roar almost every five to ten minutes.
The gryphon cannon continued firing from morning to evening. If Horn hadn't been worried about the clockwork chamber being blown up, it would have probably continued at night.
Although the city wall had been blasted with gaps in the east and cracks in the west on the first day, Horn still did not order an attack on the city, but repeatedly tested the data from various angles.
Two days, three days, until the fourth day, the knights and soldiers in the city collapsed.
Before the city gate was blasted open by the gryphon cannon, hundreds of extraordinary knights secretly escaped from the castle on their horses at night.
When the Joan army entered Fraser's Fort in the morning light, looking at the sergeants kneeling in a row on both sides with flags hanging upside down, they felt a little dazed for a moment.
Their wounded man, the only wounded man, was the unlucky guy who broke his leg while running too fast when entering the city.
(End of chapter)