In the early morning, some faint mist has not yet dissipated. It looks faint from a distance, like a veil dancing by a fairy. The soft sunlight shines in the forest, and the lush leaves have deep and shallow green. The grass on the hillside is as fragrant as clusters of unknown wild flowers, bathing in the sun, blooming with smiles. The dewdrops on the petals are shining with colorful light under the reflection of the morning light.

Cao Chong stood on the wall of Zhaoxianzhuang, but his eyes narrowed. In front of Cao Chong, there was a team ready to go.

There are not many people in this team, but there are also many people. Standing among them, they look a little majestic. They are the two hundred tiger soldiers given to Cao Chong by Cao Cao.

Before the tiger soldiers, there were dark iron lumps. The iron lumps were quite large. They might not be able to be held by one person. They looked like a iron lump, but they were not.

This is the prototype of a mortar!

Mortar, whose English name is Mortar, is a type of curved smoothbore cannon with a short gun body, a large firing angle, a high ballistic arc, and a seat sheet with a seat sheet to withstand recoil. It uses a muzzle to load and launches a curved smoothbore cannon with a tail bullet.

The launch principle of a mortar is to use the recoil force generated by the mortar's own launching drug tube and additional drug pack after it is ignited to launch the mortar shells.

This sentence is difficult to say, and it is simple to say. Cao Chong vaguely saw similar mortars in his previous life and also saw its assembly. Among them, there are many types of mortars.

The simplest thing is that the mortars in the Republic of China period were directly modified from iron barrels.

There is a thimble-like component at the bottom of a regular mortar barrel. When the mortar shell slides from the mouth of the mortar barrel to the bottom of the barrel, this thimble-like component will push itself to the detonator of the shell, and then the firing powder on the shell will explode, and the shell will fly out under the recoil force of the firing powder.

Of course, with the production technology of the Three Kingdoms period, it is difficult to produce even a thinner needle, so Cao Chong roughly used the iron mortar from the Republic of China period, and with the instigation of a group of craftsmen, he eventually became this iron lump.

The iron lump was dark all over. In front of the tiger soldiers, it seemed like a mysterious object, which attracted many people's curious eyes, and for a moment, there were also many whispers.

Of course, it is still unknown whether this iron lump can be made in the end, but according to the general principle, it is still very likely to be made.

Even if it is possible to succeed, this iron barrel mortar has its shortcomings. The biggest disadvantage is that it is heavy. Secondly, the iron product is not purity at this time, and the tube cavity is very likely to be melted by the high temperature of gunpowder burning, causing the iron barrel mortar to be scrapped, or even explode during blasting, hurting its own people...

There are good things and bad things. These shortcomings are not a problem. As long as you have the mortar, even if you have these shortcomings, it can be regarded as an advancement of the times.

The practicality of gunpowder will be greatly improved!

As for the guns, Cao Chong basically has not studied them. He has played a few of them and has studied them in Type 54, Type 59, and Type 64 pistols. However, the research is a study, and Cao Chong is generally aware of the components inside. However, people of this era cannot make those fine accessories at all, so it is still difficult to complete the gun.

Since it was difficult to study, Cao Chong simply didn't think about this thing. As for the rest, Cao Chong made a grenade and had no other results.

If the amount of ordinary gunpowder is not large, it actually has no power. Like the gunpowder in a firecracker, if you pour it down and ignite it, it will just be a hissing sound.

Only the pack of gunpowder has a certain power, and those grenades with iron sheets and gravel are naturally more than ten times more powerful than simple gunpowder.

If a grenade goes down, it will cause people to die, besides the impact of one blow, there are more damage to flying iron pieces and gravel.

Today, Cao Chong is going to train his troops and test the power of this new object.

It’s a mule or a horse, you have to take it out for a walk!

Cao Chong sighed deeply in the direction of Jingzhou, but there was not much sadness in his eyes. What was flashing in his eyes was a strange light, and this light was full of fighting spirit!

The reason why Cao Chong is very motivated is naturally because of the war in Jingzhou!

Half a month has passed since Cao Ren's defeat in Wuling Road, and it has slowly arrived in October.

Although Cao Ren escaped during the Wuling battle, due to Jin Xuan's false surrender, Cao Chun and his party were ambushed outside Wuling City and suffered heavy losses. In the end, Cao Ren had to retreat. He was seriously injured and now he has been recuperating in Yecheng.

After Cao Ren was defeated, Cao Cao personally led his troops, but he could not chew off Liu Bei's bone.

Liu Bei, who had time, began to increase his strength little by little. At least, Liu Bei's control over the four counties in Jingnan had greatly increased.

Of course, this is just the most superficial reason, the deeper reason, and the failure of Cao Cao's many battles, have triggered a chain reaction.

Cao Cao's southern expedition was unfavorable, and there were huge obstacles in Cao Cao's southern expedition. First of all, the many defeats were due to the morale of the southern expedition. Secondly, the surrendered Jingzhou faction, such as Cai Mao and others, were worried and worried, and could no longer drive Cao Cao wholeheartedly like before. After all, Jin Xuan's matter was on the side.

For Jiangdong, Cao Cao's defeat this time was tantamount to enhancing Sun Quan and Zhou Yu's confidence in resisting Cao and hitting the arrogance of Jiangdong's surrender to Cao's faction. Jiangdong might unite in advance, which is naturally unfavorable to Cao Cao.

At the same time, the victory of these battles may accelerate the emergence of the Sun-Liu Alliance.

Of course, in Cao Cao's base camp, the situation is not optimistic in the north.

Cao Cao's unfavorable southern expedition made Ma Chao and Han Sui in Liangzhou feel other thoughts, and now he is a little restless.

Liu Zhang in Shuzhou and Zhang Lu in Hanzhong made some small moves.

Simply put, if Cao Cao could not win a victory quickly, the foundation in the north would be a little unstable. It should be noted that Ma Chao and Han Sui were stationed in Sanfu, in Chang'an area, leaving Xudu, only two days away from Xudu. If Ma Chao and Han Sui were really brave, he could have been able to ride Xudu.

Because Cao Cao left behind Xudu, there were less than 10,000 people, and most of them were veterans, and they could not be compared with the bravery of the Xiliang soldiers.

Secondly, Cao Cao's unfavorable expedition directly led to the instability of internal forces. It should be noted that among all forces, Cao Cao's internal forces are the most complex and dangerous.

Zhuge Liang could go out to Qishan seven times and fight for several years in a war, but Cao Cao could not. Once the army left Emperor Xian of Han for a long time, he would know what would happen.

The situation gradually became dangerous, and Cao Chong's opportunity gradually emerged.

Huh ~

Cao Chong took a deep breath and waved to the soldiers on the field.

drink!

The queue of two hundred people shunned a few huge iron lumps and was moving slowly and firmly on the suburbs north of Xudu City!
Chapter completed!