Chapter 1296
New Artillery
Chapter 1296 New Artillery
Artillery has been one of the most favored objects on the weapons list since Haihan started the arms sales trade many years ago.So that Western countries like Portugal had to give up the business of selling old weapons to Far Eastern countries at high prices. Instead, they imported artillery from Haihan to arm their colonies in the Far East.Haihan's artillery business has gradually grown from exporting dozens of cannons per year to hundreds of cannons per year, and its profits are far higher than rifles.
Although the export scale of Haihan has increased a lot compared to the past, the demand gap still exists objectively. Only the large and small city gates in Annan alone need thousands of city fire cannons.Of course, the defense plan of using strong city artillery is naturally also the suggestion of Haihan's military adviser. Otherwise, a country like Annan under the protection of Haihan would not need so many city fire artillery.In fact, most of the city defense guns bought from Haihan at a high price and brought back to China for deployment have never been fired, and they are just rusted slowly on the top of the city.
Is it because Annan people are too stupid to understand Haihan's arms sales routine?That's not necessarily the case, some of them are rich in their own pockets and take kickbacks;There are many vested interests involved, and the situation is relatively complicated, but this kind of unscientific arms trade can be maintained for a long time, it is not because Haihan shaves his head and picks his head, and Annan's internal reasons also account for a large part. part.
In fact, there are more or less similar situations with other buyers. City fire artillery has always been the main type of artillery exported by Haihan.In addition to making a lot of profits for Haihan, these heavy guys will not pose too much direct threat to Haihan, and they can also incorporate the armaments of these countries and regions into the Haihan military industry system. It is a sales strategy that serves multiple purposes.
However, the cannons unveiled today are not city defense cannons. After the oilcloth on the cannons is removed, they are four field cannons of different calibers.The biggest difference between this kind of gun and the city defense gun is that there are two huge wheels under the gun body, which can be directly pulled and transported by animal power.There is a mechanical device under the barrel, which can easily adjust the shooting angle with the hand wheel.In addition, there is a hoe on the gun mount, which is lowered to the ground during the war to relieve the recoil when firing and stabilize the gun body.
In the past few years, Haihan has strictly controlled the export of field guns. Even a regular customer like the Fujian Xu family who is not short of money and has a good relationship can buy only a handful of field guns from Haihan every year. number.On the one hand, this is to control risks. After all, the guns sold may become weapons used to attack the Haihan army on the battlefield in the future; There is basically no excess production capacity for export sales.After all, the structure of this field gun is much more complicated than the bare barrel of a city defense gun, and the man-hours required to manufacture it are much longer.
For many buyers, Haihan Field Gun has always been a hot spot for buyers.Since the number of field guns sold by Haihan Ordnance is extremely limited every year, and the enthusiasm of buyers is very high, it seems unfair to sell them first.Therefore, starting from 1631, the annual sales of field guns have been conducted by means of bidding. The monthly shipment is limited to five, and the one-year delivery period is arranged to be bid in batches. The monthly shipment is awarded to the highest bidder. , and there is only one specification of the six-pound gun, there is no room for picking and picking.
If you want to equip your own troops with the advanced Haihan artillery in the first place, then you must bid at a high price, and buyers with less financial resources can only wait for a few big customers to buy it before making plans.Of course, it doesn't mean that the price will be much cheaper if you are in the back. For rich and willful customers, participating in the bidding for each batch is the best way to reduce the purchase cost.And Haihan intentionally does not limit the number of bids each year, so basically twelve batches of field artillery sales in a year will have a pretty good performance.
During the most tense period of war in the Fujian Strait from 1631 to 1633, in order to strengthen the armed forces of his own army as soon as possible, Xu Xinsu spared no expense in bidding for field cannons. Three or four times as much.Because of this, buyers have always been dissatisfied with Haihan's supply capacity.
In fact, Haihan's sales strategy is simply a kind of hunger and thirst marketing. It deliberately controls the supply volume to regulate the relationship between supply and demand, and artificially creates a market where supply exceeds demand, and uses this to affect the final selling price and achieve the purpose of increasing sales.The auction supply seems fair, but the high added value generated in the actual operation is far more powerful than Haihan's own price increase, and it is easy to create a competitive situation. It's easier to call out high prices.
Of course, in order to save money and trouble, it is not impossible to use city defense guns to convert them into field guns, but the performance gap between self-modified counterfeit goods and genuine ones is too large. Conquering the Northern War is not realistic.Therefore, the demand for field guns has not been greatly affected by the sales of city defense guns.
The field guns that Haihan Ordnance showed to all parties today are three-pound guns, six-pound guns, nine-pound guns, and twelve-pound guns. The 24-pound cannon has no export plans at all, so it was not included in the display.
However, the audience was also not sure whether the cannon that Haihan showed this time was going to be exported, or whether it was just used to whet everyone's appetite as usual, and after seeing it, it was announced that it was not for sale.Therefore, the audience behaved relatively calmly, and did not have the same enthusiasm as when they tested the rifle just now.
But at this time, Yan Chujie walked to the front, took the iron horn from the guard, and said to the audience: "Everyone, the four types of artillery we are showing here today will be included in the list of export weapons. Model, so buyers who are interested in purchasing field guns, please be sure to watch the following artillery demonstration carefully. As for more specific performance parameters, we will issue written materials for your reference later.”
There was an uproar in the auditorium. Although I always hoped that Haihan could provide more models of field guns to choose from, I used to rush to buy six-pound guns in the past. This year, I actually launched four models at once. It really exceeded everyone's expectations.Everyone had a bunch of questions and wanted to ask Yan Chujie right away, but Yan Chujie said that everyone should watch the demonstration first and talk about it later if they have any questions.
The shooting demonstration process of artillery is actually similar to that of rifles. It is also to shoot targets of different sizes at different distances to observe their lethality, accuracy, effective range, operation process, etc.Of course, the target is not suitable for using an iron target that can be pierced by a rifle. This time, a three-cent-thick iron plate was directly lifted out.However, because the size of the target is too large, the weight is full, and it is difficult to carry, so what is shown to the audience is only a sample of the target, and a thick iron target has been arranged in advance on the target position.
Four cannons with different calibers fired at targets at the same distance in unison to compare the difference in lethality.Although these smoothbore guns still use solid shells, their power cannot be underestimated because they use Haihan's special gunpowder. At a distance of 200 meters, even the smallest caliber three-pound gun can easily penetrate the target.
The setting of the target position is gradually opened at a distance of 300 meters, but after [-] meters, the target as big as a door panel becomes a small piece, and there is no scope on the gun body, the gunner can only rely on Therefore, starting from this distance, artillery at all levels gradually missed the target.However, this is not a problem in the eyes of the audience, because when viewed through the telescope, the impact point does not deviate too much, which is already above the average level.
However, the lethality of the small-caliber artillery has obviously decreased at a longer distance, and it can no longer penetrate the iron target, and the sound of metal collisions on the target is very clear.However, the effective range of these cannons has exceeded 500 meters. The inability to penetrate the iron target does not mean that their power is low. Torn to shreds.
In the final result, the 800-pound gun used five rounds to hit the target at a distance of [-] meters, which is the model with the longest effective range.But at this distance, it can no longer penetrate the target, leaving only a deep dent.
Taking advantage of the time when the soldiers retrieved the targets from a distance, Yan Chujie appeared on stage again and explained the performance characteristics of these types of artillery.Although Liu Shang didn't understand this stuff, he pricked up his ears and listened very carefully, remembering all the information disclosed by Han Chujie in his mind.He also knew that Haihan's gun-making technology was amazing, but he didn't know that Haihan's arms trade was so large that so many countries came to order arms from Haihan.Fortunately, Ming Dynasty has not clashed with the countries in the south in recent years, otherwise it is really possible to suffer a big loss because of the gap in weapons.
The soldiers removed the target, pulled it back to the auditorium in a carriage, and then showed the crowd the effect of the shelling.The holes and craters on the iron plate are clearly visible, and it is not difficult to deduce from the bullet marks which type of shell it was hit by.
Although Yan Chujie did not give a more specific explanation on the sales method, but simply revealed that all these types of field guns will be on the market, this is enough to mobilize the enthusiasm of buyers.Dong Yanyun even stated on the spot that he would place orders for the four types of artillery, and he just waited to see how Haihan sold them.If there is no accident, it will be a matter of course to make a lot of money by relying on artillery orders this year.
But the shooting demonstration of the artillery is not over yet. Yan Chujie announced that he will also show a "concept product" that is still under development.Then two pack horses pulled a cannon cart covered with oilcloth to one of the artillery positions. Yan Chujie stepped forward to remove the oilcloth and showed the audience the new artillery.
Although the caliber of this gun cannot be seen for the time being, there are many military officers from various countries present. Judging from the thickness of the barrel, the caliber of this gun is probably similar to that of the nine-pound gun.But the special thing is that this gun is not loaded from the front, because the artilleryman operating this gun has opened a bolt device at the rear of the barrel, revealing a hole, and the caliber is consistent with everyone's prediction.
The breech-loading gun has been equipped in the Haihan army for a while. Although there are only a small number of front-line elite troops equipped at present, this news cannot be hidden from the well-informed people of all parties, and its firing principle is not a secret. The gun-making technology is limited, and it is impossible to imitate breech-loading guns that can be put into actual combat applications.At this time, the breech-loading gun that Haihan pulled out to display was also the first time that most of the people present witnessed this new type of artillery with a structure that was quite different from the past.
However, some people can't help but have an idea. The Haihan army is already equipped with this kind of artillery, and even used it in actual combat. You, Yan Chujie, have the nerve to call it a "concept product". To put it bluntly, it is not Are you going to export it?Why do you have to play tricks like this and release this thing as a new product?
But those who thought this way were soon slapped in the face. The artilleryman opened the box containing the shells. What was loaded inside were not round solid shells, but long strip shells with a front cone and a rear column, about six inches long and thick. It is consistent with the nine-pounder shell.Looking at its shape and color, it seems to be made of brass.The artilleryman stuffed the shell into the barrel from the tail, and then closed the bolt to complete the loading.
"This... this cannonball can also be fired?" "The Haihan people have always had whimsical ideas, or it may have magical effects." "Why does this shell look a bit like the cardboard fixed ammunition used by the Haihan rifle? "
There was a lot of discussion among the audience, and some of them noticed the real characteristics of the shells.Copper-shelled shells plus rifling are the forms that will inevitably appear when artillery evolves to an advanced stage. Breech-loaded guns plus rifling have been made a long time ago. However, Haihan's metal processing ability was limited in the past, and it was difficult to make them capable of actual combat. This is also a project that Haihan Military Industry has only recently successfully tackled.Of course, judging from Haihan's current production capacity and cost, it is still unrealistic to mass-produce this kind of artillery and shells, so this gun is indeed just a prototype sample. Yan Chujie called it a research and development project. The concept product in the book is not really a mystery.
Looking at the reaction of the audience, Yan Chujie knew that the cannon had aroused everyone's curiosity enough, and he hoped so.The actual shooting effect of this cannon must have given these people a lot of shock.
(End of this chapter)
Artillery has been one of the most favored objects on the weapons list since Haihan started the arms sales trade many years ago.So that Western countries like Portugal had to give up the business of selling old weapons to Far Eastern countries at high prices. Instead, they imported artillery from Haihan to arm their colonies in the Far East.Haihan's artillery business has gradually grown from exporting dozens of cannons per year to hundreds of cannons per year, and its profits are far higher than rifles.
Although the export scale of Haihan has increased a lot compared to the past, the demand gap still exists objectively. Only the large and small city gates in Annan alone need thousands of city fire cannons.Of course, the defense plan of using strong city artillery is naturally also the suggestion of Haihan's military adviser. Otherwise, a country like Annan under the protection of Haihan would not need so many city fire artillery.In fact, most of the city defense guns bought from Haihan at a high price and brought back to China for deployment have never been fired, and they are just rusted slowly on the top of the city.
Is it because Annan people are too stupid to understand Haihan's arms sales routine?That's not necessarily the case, some of them are rich in their own pockets and take kickbacks;There are many vested interests involved, and the situation is relatively complicated, but this kind of unscientific arms trade can be maintained for a long time, it is not because Haihan shaves his head and picks his head, and Annan's internal reasons also account for a large part. part.
In fact, there are more or less similar situations with other buyers. City fire artillery has always been the main type of artillery exported by Haihan.In addition to making a lot of profits for Haihan, these heavy guys will not pose too much direct threat to Haihan, and they can also incorporate the armaments of these countries and regions into the Haihan military industry system. It is a sales strategy that serves multiple purposes.
However, the cannons unveiled today are not city defense cannons. After the oilcloth on the cannons is removed, they are four field cannons of different calibers.The biggest difference between this kind of gun and the city defense gun is that there are two huge wheels under the gun body, which can be directly pulled and transported by animal power.There is a mechanical device under the barrel, which can easily adjust the shooting angle with the hand wheel.In addition, there is a hoe on the gun mount, which is lowered to the ground during the war to relieve the recoil when firing and stabilize the gun body.
In the past few years, Haihan has strictly controlled the export of field guns. Even a regular customer like the Fujian Xu family who is not short of money and has a good relationship can buy only a handful of field guns from Haihan every year. number.On the one hand, this is to control risks. After all, the guns sold may become weapons used to attack the Haihan army on the battlefield in the future; There is basically no excess production capacity for export sales.After all, the structure of this field gun is much more complicated than the bare barrel of a city defense gun, and the man-hours required to manufacture it are much longer.
For many buyers, Haihan Field Gun has always been a hot spot for buyers.Since the number of field guns sold by Haihan Ordnance is extremely limited every year, and the enthusiasm of buyers is very high, it seems unfair to sell them first.Therefore, starting from 1631, the annual sales of field guns have been conducted by means of bidding. The monthly shipment is limited to five, and the one-year delivery period is arranged to be bid in batches. The monthly shipment is awarded to the highest bidder. , and there is only one specification of the six-pound gun, there is no room for picking and picking.
If you want to equip your own troops with the advanced Haihan artillery in the first place, then you must bid at a high price, and buyers with less financial resources can only wait for a few big customers to buy it before making plans.Of course, it doesn't mean that the price will be much cheaper if you are in the back. For rich and willful customers, participating in the bidding for each batch is the best way to reduce the purchase cost.And Haihan intentionally does not limit the number of bids each year, so basically twelve batches of field artillery sales in a year will have a pretty good performance.
During the most tense period of war in the Fujian Strait from 1631 to 1633, in order to strengthen the armed forces of his own army as soon as possible, Xu Xinsu spared no expense in bidding for field cannons. Three or four times as much.Because of this, buyers have always been dissatisfied with Haihan's supply capacity.
In fact, Haihan's sales strategy is simply a kind of hunger and thirst marketing. It deliberately controls the supply volume to regulate the relationship between supply and demand, and artificially creates a market where supply exceeds demand, and uses this to affect the final selling price and achieve the purpose of increasing sales.The auction supply seems fair, but the high added value generated in the actual operation is far more powerful than Haihan's own price increase, and it is easy to create a competitive situation. It's easier to call out high prices.
Of course, in order to save money and trouble, it is not impossible to use city defense guns to convert them into field guns, but the performance gap between self-modified counterfeit goods and genuine ones is too large. Conquering the Northern War is not realistic.Therefore, the demand for field guns has not been greatly affected by the sales of city defense guns.
The field guns that Haihan Ordnance showed to all parties today are three-pound guns, six-pound guns, nine-pound guns, and twelve-pound guns. The 24-pound cannon has no export plans at all, so it was not included in the display.
However, the audience was also not sure whether the cannon that Haihan showed this time was going to be exported, or whether it was just used to whet everyone's appetite as usual, and after seeing it, it was announced that it was not for sale.Therefore, the audience behaved relatively calmly, and did not have the same enthusiasm as when they tested the rifle just now.
But at this time, Yan Chujie walked to the front, took the iron horn from the guard, and said to the audience: "Everyone, the four types of artillery we are showing here today will be included in the list of export weapons. Model, so buyers who are interested in purchasing field guns, please be sure to watch the following artillery demonstration carefully. As for more specific performance parameters, we will issue written materials for your reference later.”
There was an uproar in the auditorium. Although I always hoped that Haihan could provide more models of field guns to choose from, I used to rush to buy six-pound guns in the past. This year, I actually launched four models at once. It really exceeded everyone's expectations.Everyone had a bunch of questions and wanted to ask Yan Chujie right away, but Yan Chujie said that everyone should watch the demonstration first and talk about it later if they have any questions.
The shooting demonstration process of artillery is actually similar to that of rifles. It is also to shoot targets of different sizes at different distances to observe their lethality, accuracy, effective range, operation process, etc.Of course, the target is not suitable for using an iron target that can be pierced by a rifle. This time, a three-cent-thick iron plate was directly lifted out.However, because the size of the target is too large, the weight is full, and it is difficult to carry, so what is shown to the audience is only a sample of the target, and a thick iron target has been arranged in advance on the target position.
Four cannons with different calibers fired at targets at the same distance in unison to compare the difference in lethality.Although these smoothbore guns still use solid shells, their power cannot be underestimated because they use Haihan's special gunpowder. At a distance of 200 meters, even the smallest caliber three-pound gun can easily penetrate the target.
The setting of the target position is gradually opened at a distance of 300 meters, but after [-] meters, the target as big as a door panel becomes a small piece, and there is no scope on the gun body, the gunner can only rely on Therefore, starting from this distance, artillery at all levels gradually missed the target.However, this is not a problem in the eyes of the audience, because when viewed through the telescope, the impact point does not deviate too much, which is already above the average level.
However, the lethality of the small-caliber artillery has obviously decreased at a longer distance, and it can no longer penetrate the iron target, and the sound of metal collisions on the target is very clear.However, the effective range of these cannons has exceeded 500 meters. The inability to penetrate the iron target does not mean that their power is low. Torn to shreds.
In the final result, the 800-pound gun used five rounds to hit the target at a distance of [-] meters, which is the model with the longest effective range.But at this distance, it can no longer penetrate the target, leaving only a deep dent.
Taking advantage of the time when the soldiers retrieved the targets from a distance, Yan Chujie appeared on stage again and explained the performance characteristics of these types of artillery.Although Liu Shang didn't understand this stuff, he pricked up his ears and listened very carefully, remembering all the information disclosed by Han Chujie in his mind.He also knew that Haihan's gun-making technology was amazing, but he didn't know that Haihan's arms trade was so large that so many countries came to order arms from Haihan.Fortunately, Ming Dynasty has not clashed with the countries in the south in recent years, otherwise it is really possible to suffer a big loss because of the gap in weapons.
The soldiers removed the target, pulled it back to the auditorium in a carriage, and then showed the crowd the effect of the shelling.The holes and craters on the iron plate are clearly visible, and it is not difficult to deduce from the bullet marks which type of shell it was hit by.
Although Yan Chujie did not give a more specific explanation on the sales method, but simply revealed that all these types of field guns will be on the market, this is enough to mobilize the enthusiasm of buyers.Dong Yanyun even stated on the spot that he would place orders for the four types of artillery, and he just waited to see how Haihan sold them.If there is no accident, it will be a matter of course to make a lot of money by relying on artillery orders this year.
But the shooting demonstration of the artillery is not over yet. Yan Chujie announced that he will also show a "concept product" that is still under development.Then two pack horses pulled a cannon cart covered with oilcloth to one of the artillery positions. Yan Chujie stepped forward to remove the oilcloth and showed the audience the new artillery.
Although the caliber of this gun cannot be seen for the time being, there are many military officers from various countries present. Judging from the thickness of the barrel, the caliber of this gun is probably similar to that of the nine-pound gun.But the special thing is that this gun is not loaded from the front, because the artilleryman operating this gun has opened a bolt device at the rear of the barrel, revealing a hole, and the caliber is consistent with everyone's prediction.
The breech-loading gun has been equipped in the Haihan army for a while. Although there are only a small number of front-line elite troops equipped at present, this news cannot be hidden from the well-informed people of all parties, and its firing principle is not a secret. The gun-making technology is limited, and it is impossible to imitate breech-loading guns that can be put into actual combat applications.At this time, the breech-loading gun that Haihan pulled out to display was also the first time that most of the people present witnessed this new type of artillery with a structure that was quite different from the past.
However, some people can't help but have an idea. The Haihan army is already equipped with this kind of artillery, and even used it in actual combat. You, Yan Chujie, have the nerve to call it a "concept product". To put it bluntly, it is not Are you going to export it?Why do you have to play tricks like this and release this thing as a new product?
But those who thought this way were soon slapped in the face. The artilleryman opened the box containing the shells. What was loaded inside were not round solid shells, but long strip shells with a front cone and a rear column, about six inches long and thick. It is consistent with the nine-pounder shell.Looking at its shape and color, it seems to be made of brass.The artilleryman stuffed the shell into the barrel from the tail, and then closed the bolt to complete the loading.
"This... this cannonball can also be fired?" "The Haihan people have always had whimsical ideas, or it may have magical effects." "Why does this shell look a bit like the cardboard fixed ammunition used by the Haihan rifle? "
There was a lot of discussion among the audience, and some of them noticed the real characteristics of the shells.Copper-shelled shells plus rifling are the forms that will inevitably appear when artillery evolves to an advanced stage. Breech-loaded guns plus rifling have been made a long time ago. However, Haihan's metal processing ability was limited in the past, and it was difficult to make them capable of actual combat. This is also a project that Haihan Military Industry has only recently successfully tackled.Of course, judging from Haihan's current production capacity and cost, it is still unrealistic to mass-produce this kind of artillery and shells, so this gun is indeed just a prototype sample. Yan Chujie called it a research and development project. The concept product in the book is not really a mystery.
Looking at the reaction of the audience, Yan Chujie knew that the cannon had aroused everyone's curiosity enough, and he hoped so.The actual shooting effect of this cannon must have given these people a lot of shock.
(End of this chapter)