Bright Sword: I am an undercover agent in the puppet army

Chapter 17 Li Yunlong: Second Battalion Commander, pull up my flying thunder cannon, this is the brigade commander’s bold idea!
Xu Yang did not answer but asked: "Does this need to be explained? This fertilizer powder is not produced by us, but by the devils.

If we don’t give money to the devils, can they give us fertilizer powder?”

Li Yunlong was speechless for a moment.

Xu Yang continued, "Although I can't give you a lower price for the fertilizer powder, I can give you dozens of artillery pieces with power comparable to 150mm heavy artillery. Are you interested?"

"Of course I'm interested! Brother Xu Yang, but I wonder where these artillery pieces are now?"

When Li Yunlong heard that Xu Yang was going to give him artillery, his face immediately changed 180 degrees, and the way he addressed Xu Yang changed from "boy" to "Brother Xu Yang".

Xu Yang: "It's at my base, but there are only materials. You need to go back and assemble and produce it yourself."

Immediately, Xu Yang took Li Yunlong and Liang Kang to the wing warehouse. He had already taken out the seamless Laiyang steel pipes and other materials from his personal space and placed them in the warehouse.

Li Yunlong looked at the Laiyang steel pipes in front of him and asked in confusion: "Brother Xuyang, you are not going to tell me that these steel pipes are the raw materials for making artillery?"

Seeing Xu Yang nod, Li Yunlong continued: "The diameter of these steel pipes is at least 300 to 400 millimeters. Not to mention, there are no rifling inside these steel pipes. Even if there is, our Eighth Route Army cannot produce such a large caliber shell.

Moreover, the steel pipe is so thin that it cannot withstand the huge pressure generated by the firing of the shells.

Aren’t you talking nonsense? "

Xu Yang smiled and said, "Who says that the barrel must have rifling? Can't a smoothbore gun be used?

As for the shells, the artillery I designed doesn’t fire shells at all, but rather explosive packs.”

Li Yunlong was stunned: "Fire the explosive pack?"

"Good." Xu Yang nodded and took out the "Instructions on How to Use Laiyang Seamless Steel Pipes to Modify Flying Thunder Cannons" from his pocket and handed it to Li Yunlong.

After reading the manual, Li Yunlong was immediately surprised and said, "Brother Xu Yang, you are a genius, you are a real weapons genius!

Although the accuracy of this flying thunder cannon is not enough and the range is only about 300 meters, it is already considered a magic weapon for our Eighth Route Army!
Why don't you stop being an undercover agent here and go back to design weapons and equipment for our Eighth Route Army?"

After returning to the organization, how can I continue to go undercover and complete system tasks to obtain rewards?
Xu Yang flatly refused: "Captain Li, after I return, who will get you supplies and fertilizer powder?"

Li Yunlong thought so and gave up the idea...

After Li Yunlong returned to the base with fertilizer powder, Laiyang steel pipes, electric welding machines, cutting machines and other equipment, he sent them directly to the arsenal for production.

Because the equipment was complete, the first flying thunder cannon was manufactured quickly.

As the provider of instructions, equipment and materials, the Independent Regiment naturally got the first opportunity for test firing.

Second Battalion Commander Shen Quan ordered several of his soldiers to carry the Feilei Cannon to the experimental field near the arsenal, dig a hole according to the instructions in the manual, use wooden boards to support the bottom of the barrel, and then wrap it with soil and tamp it down.

Finally, fill the propellant, stuff in the explosive pack, and press it down with a wooden stick.

As a strategic weapon, the Flying Thunder Cannon was valued not only by Li Yunlong, but also by a number of brigade leaders.

At this moment, a group of brigade leaders were eagerly watching.

This put Shen Quan under tremendous pressure. He carefully checked several times and made sure there were no problems. Then he quickly ran to Li Yunlong and the other brigade leaders and saluted: "Report, everything is ready! Please give instructions!"

Li Yunlong glanced at the brigade commander next to him, and after getting his approval, he ordered: "Fire!"

"Yes!"

Shen Quan agreed, then turned around and waved the command flag in his hand heavily.

The gunner immediately lit the fuse after receiving the instruction. Not long after, there was a muffled "boom" sound, and a 10-kilogram explosive pack flew out. A few seconds later, it landed on an open space more than 300 meters away and exploded violently. "Boom!"

Even though they were thousands of meters away, Li Yunlong and a group of brigade leaders were still ringing in their ears from the huge explosion.

Second Battalion Commander Shen Quan said somewhat awkwardly: "Commander, the point where the explosive package landed seems to have deviated from the target by more than 50 meters."

In just a distance of more than 300 meters, the error is more than 50 meters. This can no longer be called a slightly lower accuracy, but a complete lack of accuracy at all.

However, Li Yunlong did not care, his face was filled with ecstasy: "A deviation of only 50 meters is nothing.

The absolute killing radius of a 10-kilogram explosive pack is at least over 20 meters. If some scrap iron particles are filled inside, the effective killing radius can even reach over 50 meters.

If multiple artillery pieces are used simultaneously for intensive bombing, there will be no such thing as error."

This is not a crude cannon at all, it is a divine weapon!

Not to mention that the error was only 50 meters, even if it was more than 100 meters, Li Yunlong didn't care. He just needed to be able to throw the explosive pack out.

Because the killing radius of the explosive pack and the intensive bombardment of multiple artillery pieces can completely make up for the lack of accuracy.

If the Eighth Route Army had this magical weapon in the battle of Lijiaopo a few days ago, then the 772nd Regiment would not have needed to adopt the tactic of adding fuel and launching charges again and again.

Just a few rounds of salvos are needed to flatten Lijiaopo!
Li Yunlong had even begun to imagine the wonderful scene of dozens of flying thunder cannons firing at the same time and bombing the Japanese attacking cluster.

Brigade Commander Chen beside him also nodded in agreement: "Yes, the advantages of the Flying Thunder Cannon are enough to make up for its lack of accuracy.

With the Flying Thunder Cannon, the combat effectiveness of our Eighth Route Army will definitely be improved by several levels!"

"Besides, this is only the first test shot. The gunner has no experience. Once he gets familiar with it, the accuracy will definitely improve a lot."

"Keep firing!"

"Yes!"

Second Battalion Commander Shen Quan responded and waved the command flag again.

The gunner in the distance began to clean the barrel, reload the propellant and explosive packs, and adjust the shooting angle based on the experience just gained.

"Boom!"

With the experience just now, the accuracy of the second explosive pack was greatly improved. Although it still did not hit the target, the error had been reduced to within 30 meters.

"Boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom!——"

Then, eight more explosive packs were fired in succession, one of which finally and accurately hit the circular target on the ground with a diameter of three meters.

But this does not mean anything, because the explosive packs fired by the flying thunder cannon are inherently uncertain, and hitting the target is like a blind cat catching a dead mouse.

However, the error range can basically be kept within 25 meters.

This distance is already well within the killing range of a 10-kilogram explosive pack and is enough to kill Japanese soldiers.

However, the brigade commander had a bolder idea, which was to use it to attack the enemy's artillery tower!
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(End of this chapter)