Doomsday Code

Chapter 298 The Power of Artillery

"Five rings."

The target reporter in the distance shouted loudly.

Chen Cheng could only touch his nose awkwardly.

His original intention of testing the gun was to see if there were any problems with it, but he forgot that he was not a sharpshooter, and a sharpshooter could not tell what problems the gun had and how to improve them just by shooting.

Chen Cheng coughed to break the awkwardness of the little fat man and the others looking at him, and then said:

"These two times were just wrong demonstrations. Remember, aiming a gun requires three points in a straight line. Now I will show you the correct one."

The fat boy, who had been with Chen Cheng for a long time, could naturally hear the embarrassment in Chen Cheng's words.

But people like Ximov were Chen Cheng's students, and in their eyes Chen Cheng was their mentor. Everything they learned was taught by Chen Cheng, so how could Chen Cheng be wrong?

Chen Cheng took two deep breaths, then grabbed a handful of dust from the ground and scattered it, then he made some calculations in his head, then he raised his gun and aimed, slightly adjusting the angle of the muzzle.

Then he loaded the gun and there was a bang.

The next moment the target reporter shouted:

"Ten rings."

This time Chen Cheng also showed a satisfied smile.

Then I thought to myself that it’s not a good idea to just pretend to be cool, I still need to use my brain.

Chen Cheng just scattered the soil to see the wind direction and roughly estimate the wind speed. Then, based on the approximate bullet trajectory of the first two shots, he immediately did a complex physics and mathematics problem in his mind.

When Ximov and his men saw this, they applauded and cheered.

Chen Cheng put down his gun, and then walked up to Simov and the others and said:

"Now I see that this gun doesn't seem to be a big deal, but remember to compare the extreme test data you will do later with the data I give you. If the difference is not big, then there is no problem. But if it does not reach the data I give, remember to find the problem yourself."

Ximov nodded, then smiled and said:

"Teacher, why don't you try the cannon too? We haven't seen how the range-finding method you gave us is used on cannons."

After hearing what Simov said, Chen Cheng felt a little itchy. This was the first time he could test-fire the cannon in the true sense.

In the previous life, guns and cannons were the romance of men. Who had not thought about being able to touch a gun and shoot a cannon by themselves?

"Okay, but I want you guys to fuck me."

"Okay, no problem teacher."

Chen Cheng directly chose a 150-caliber heavy howitzer. This is a big gun and also the largest caliber artillery among the batch of artillery designed by Chen Cheng.

Chen Cheng took the telescope from Ximov and observed for a while, then pointed to a small black dot on a mound in the distance and said:

"Just look at me. My target is that small mound. It's estimated to be at least 10,000 meters away."

As Chen Cheng pointed out, others also looked at the small mound with binoculars.

To be honest, although they had seen the paper data provided by Chen Cheng, they knew that the range of this cannon was easily several thousand meters.

But when we put this into practice, the shock is more frightening than the data on paper.

At this distance, even Xiao Dun, who was the most knowledgeable among these people, had never seen such a strong man who could strike so far with one strike.

However, they did not know that what Chen Cheng gave them was only what they could produce at the moment, otherwise Chen Cheng could have made a howitzer with a range of tens of thousands of meters.

Chen Cheng came to the front of the artillery, observed it again, and then stretched out his finger to gesture, and then said loudly:

"One round of loading test firing, distance meters, angle xxx, one round of rapid firing."

As Chen Cheng finished speaking, Ximov and his men began to load in an orderly manner, and then adjusted the muzzle as Chen Cheng said. Then with a bang, the shell flew out of the muzzle at supersonic speed, and then everyone looked in the direction of the target with binoculars.

Not long after, everyone saw the shell exploded some distance away from the mound, creating a large hole there.

After seeing where the shell would land, Chen Cheng made some calculations, and then asked Simov and others to adjust the angle of the muzzle, reloaded again, and then there was another boom.

This time, there was no problem with the landing point of the shell, it landed directly on the mound.

With a loud bang, the mound disappeared, leaving only a large crater.

This time everyone has witnessed the power of this cannon.

Especially Xiao Dun, he could imagine that if the mound was not a mound, but he and his men were marching, then they would most likely be suddenly killed by such a shell without knowing it.

Because this shell has no energy disturbance and can fire from ten thousand meters away.

And in the drawings that Chen Cheng gave, he only needed the distance parameter, and for the rest he could hit the enemy without even having to see him.

At this time, Xiao Dun was already thinking that if the two armies were fighting, his side would be able to ambush such an artillery unit in the mountains ten thousand meters away, and then send spies to find out the enemy's marching route.

Will the enemies who still think in traditional way suffer this loss and be directly annihilated by their own artillery units?

Xiao Dun no longer needed to think about it. The enemy would either be blown to pieces or be directly defeated.

"It's horrible, it's unbelievable."

After Xiao Dun muttered for a while, he grabbed Chen Cheng's shoulders and said:

"Brother Brown, you must produce more cannons like this. This is a battlefield artifact. This is a battlefield artifact. It doesn't even have any magical fluctuations, and it can still hit the target from 10,000 meters away. And it's so powerful. Do you know what this means?"

At this moment, Xiao Dun was really too excited. When he thought that such a battlefield weapon and combat method would soon come from his hands, at this moment Xiao Dun was really no less excited than Fan Jin who had passed the imperial examination.

But no one here dared to slap him to wake him up, and Xiao Dun was not Fan Jin, so he adjusted his mood after being excited for a while.

Seeing his recovered mood, Chen Cheng secretly praised him in his heart.

Although he was a little out of control just now, it was normal. Even though Chen Cheng already knew the power of artillery, when he actually saw the shells hit the target, he was excited in his heart.

And from what Xiao Dun said excitedly just now, Chen Cheng already knew that Xiao Dun had already thought of the role of artillery in war.

Chen Cheng kept sighing in his heart that Xiao Dun was worthy of being the heir to the marquisate who was awarded the title for military merit. He was really sensitive to military affairs and thought of the role of the artillery so quickly.

After calming down, Xiao Dun thought about the weight of the artillery and the shells. To be honest, in this era without regular artillery tractors, the transportation problem caused by the weight of the artillery was a big concern.

Although there are bug-level things like space bags in this world, the space in the space bag is limited and it definitely cannot accommodate such a large cannon.