Chapter 642: Street Fighting Weapons

"We must solve the civil strife in Dasong as soon as possible.��The content of the questionnaire suddenly gave Zhao Xu a sense of urgency.

Compared with the Western countries, the current industrialization of Yanzhou has just begun.

If we compare the overall strength, Yanzhou is probably not as good as any Western country at present.

The only lucky thing is that he has the advantage of homeland.

And he took a different approach and took advantage of the military, making the current rifles of the royal army at the level of the contemporary 1850s.

Although the current Western countries are all equipped with some rifled rifles.

However, they have not yet mastered the conical bullet The secret of the bullet.

This will allow him to maintain his advantage for a period of time.

However, it is obviously unrealistic to rely on only Yanzhou to fight against the entire industrial country in the West.

Fighting a war at home is still acceptable.

But if you want to go abroad to fight, the manpower, material resources, and financial resources consumed will be huge, and this is when the importance of comprehensive national strength is reflected.

Therefore, he must unify Dasong, fully promote industrialization, and actively explore overseas markets to make Dasong rich.

After all, the industrial countries in the West have already set their sights on the last piece of pure land in the East.

And And colonized the Southeast Asia and Central Asia equivalent to the present.

Using this as a springboard, they will continue to erode northward.

He certainly cannot tolerate this.

There will inevitably be a war between them.

And the most important point is that there is a huge continent in the distant sea southeast of Dasong.

This continent is the Australian continent.

According to Feiwen, there are only more than 500,000 British people settled on this continent.

If he does not take this big piece of fat meat in this era, how can he be worthy of his descendants.

And to take this continent, it must confront the current superpower in the world, Britain.

According to his memory, in this contemporary period, the area ruled by Britain is 33 million square kilometers, and the Queen of England rules 450 million people including colonies.

It is definitely the current superpower.

He must do his best to confront such a group of powers led by a superpower and followed by other Western countries.

Otherwise, his fate will be like Napoleon who was defeated by the anti-French alliance, or even worse.

"Your Highness, what is this? "When Zhao Xu was lost in thought, Zhou Yi looked at the blueprint he was drawing.

After a moment of shock, Zhao Xu came back to his senses and then smiled, "This thing is called a grenade, which is prepared for the soldiers of the royal palace.

Zhou Yi was a little disappointed. He thought his navy could benefit from it.

Zhao Xu noticed Zhou Yi's expression and smiled helplessly.

The navy and the army are like two children raised by themselves. They will always be jealous of each other because of your more and his less.

So he said, "You don't have to envy this. This king is already asking Chen Shou to build a steam-powered steamship. These will all belong to your navy in the future."

Zhou Yi's expression suddenly changed from unhappy to ecstatic, and his face was wrinkled with laughter. He said repeatedly: "Thank you, Your Highness."

Zhao Xu was too lazy to pay attention to him. According to him, Feiwen had sent people to Yaga City, so the Japanese maritime alliance was bankrupt.

Then, his energy can be focused on the second Lucheng League.

According to the information provided by Xu Ke two days ago, the envoys of Beidi and the powerful clans will arrive in Lucheng in the next two days.

This meeting will determine the next action of the anti-Yan alliance.

However, he didn't care about it.

Anyway, no matter what the result of their discussion is, he will let the royal army go south when the yellow gunpowder is sufficient.

At the same time, if Japan takes action at sea, he will let Zhou Yi eliminate the Japanese navy.

In the direction of Qinzhou and Yongrong, he will also let Ma Han start a war to take back Qinzhou and Yongzhou.

It's easy for the Beidi people to think about it, but it's not so easy to go back.

After confirming his idea, he asked Zhou Yi to go back, and he took the drawings to the military department.

He didn't develop grenades on a whim, but some problems were exposed during the street fighting in Pingyuan City.

On the vast battlefield, the advantage of the royal army's muskets is undoubted.

But if it enters the street fighting, the distance between soldiers is reduced to tens of meters, and there is not much difference between the flintlock with a range of only 100 meters and the rifled gun with a range of 300 meters.

At this time, casualties will increase rapidly. In this attack on Pingyuan City, the most casualties occurred during street fighting.

The Qi soldiers hiding in various buildings sometimes did not even need flintlock rifles, but only needed to rush out with swords and kill the soldiers of the palace.

Therefore, the soldiers of the palace would face life-threatening danger when entering the house to search.

Next, facing the war to unify Dasong, such street fighting will only be very frequent.

If this problem cannot be solved, the royal army will suffer heavy casualties.

Therefore, after thinking about it, he felt that among the weapons for dealing with street fighting, the only one that could be developed at present was the grenade.

At that time, when the soldiers found that there were enemy soldiers in the house, they only needed to throw the grenade in.

When he arrived at the Bingzhang Division, Zhao Xu called Wang Ying to study the grenade drawings with him.

In contemporary history, after the invention of gunpowder, the most primitive grenade first appeared in China.

The grenade at that time was called Hongtianlei, which was a spherical ceramic jar with black gunpowder stuffed inside and a medicine twister inserted outside, which could be lit and thrown out.

However, the power of this thunder bomb is similar to that of contemporary firecrackers, and it does not cause much damage to the enemy.

Therefore, this thunder bomb gradually disappeared.

Later, grenades were introduced to the West, and the grenadiers were born in the 15th and 16th centuries.

In fact, it is equivalent to soldiers throwing shrapnel forward.

But this kind of grenade is still very primitive. It was not until the 19th century with the birth of yellow gunpowder that real grenades appeared.

After all, with the power of black gunpowder, the body of the grenade is too small and has little power, and too large and very heavy.

Only by increasing the power of gunpowder can this contradiction be solved.

This is also the reason why he is only developing grenades now, because the conditions were not available before.

"The main difficulty should be this pull-fire tube." Wang Ying noticed the marking of the small tube on the drawing.

Zhao Xu nodded. He asked Wang Ying to make a wooden-handled grenade.

This kind of grenade has a simple structure and is relatively easy to manufacture.

The only difficulty is the pull-fire tube.

However, Yanzhou now has the conditions to produce this kind of fire tube.

The principle of this kind of fire tube is to use a steel tube filled with glass powder, and roll a copper wire into a ball and put it in the glass powder.

One end of the copper wire is connected to the ignition rope, and the other end is connected to the gunpowder and sulfur.

The friction between the copper wire and the glass powder will ignite the fuse and sulfur, and then ignite the gunpowder, and finally explode.

Among the raw materials, the most critical one is the glass powder.

Yanzhou can make glass, so it can naturally make glass powder.