Chapter 711

”Heavy muskets? "

Song Changping was surprised to learn the name of this kind of firearm.

Chen Qi stared at the picture above for a while and said, "emperor, isn't this a bigger musket? Moreover, the musket looks very bulky. It's not as practical to use it as to use artillery. "

Wen Yan, Xiao Ming explained:" this kind of heavy-duty flint gun has a long range and great power. It can shoot many bullets at one time, and even directly pierce the cavalry's armor at two or three hundred meters away. The range and power of the artillery are great, but the disadvantages are bulky and high cost. This kind of heavy-duty shotgun is easy to produce and can be operated by two people. It is very effective to use in the vehicle array The result will be better. "

The two nodded, and then they understood that the purpose of Xiao Ming's heavy-duty muskets was for vehicle defense.

After a pause, Xiao Ming continued: "if you want to defeat the barbarians, you must go deep into the grassland. Using heavy-duty muskets with the vehicle array will have an unexpected effect. At the same time, in order to cooperate with this kind of heavy-duty muskets, you need to transform the chariots."

”I hope the emperor will make it clear. "

at this time, Xiao Ming drew on the ground again. It was only with the emergence of modern tanks and machine guns that cavalry ended. Now he obviously can't make modern tanks and machine guns, but he can make heavy muskets and armored chariots. "

the transformation of the chariot mainly focused on two aspects, one is to increase the firing hole of the heavy musket on the chariot, the other is to increase the blade stab on the outer armor, mainly to prevent the barbarian slave soldiers from climbing.

After Jizhou defeated the barbarians with the vehicle array, he believed that the barbarians must also be looking for ways to break the vehicle array.

For the barbarians, the most simple and crude way is to use the lives of the barbarian slave soldiers to fill.

The population of the barbarians is only 4.5 million, but the barbarians always like to keep slaves. The slave soldiers are also an existence that can not be ignored.

It was because of this that he decided to focus on building the armored chariot array in the next period of time. This kind of chariot is equivalent to a mobile fortress on the grassland, while the heavy muskets can load dozens of normal muskets at a time, and the effect is the same as the shotguns. The combination of the two, together with the cooperation of the firemen and cavalry, is a heavily guarded fortress.

After their own ideas and two people said, two people agreed to the matter.

With a sigh, song Changping said: "the emperor is ambitious, and the lower officials are impressed. It's just that the border trouble of the northern grassland in the past dynasties has never stopped, and the grassland tribe has been driven away. After several decades, another tribe will be strong, just like this again and again. "

during this period, song Changping often went to the Bowen college to read books. In addition to the manufacture of firearms, he also read some historical books. For a moment, he could not help but feel some emotion.

Chen Qi doesn't know anything except artillery technology, but song Changping is a little worried. "Emperor, what song Changping said is reasonable, but no one wants to settle down in this bitter and cold place in the north, and only the barbarians are willing to go there."

Xiao Ming frowned when he heard that Chen Qi's words were his headache. The barbarians were different from those vassals like King Zhao and King Yan.

The vassal kings built up their army by collecting taxes from their vassals, so losing vassals means nothing.

However, the barbarians are different. They are a semi nomadic and semi farming group, and their strategy is to expand and plunder. It can be said that the barbarians are already on the road of colonization, but they are different from the Western overseas colonization. The barbarians have been engaged in bloody colonization in Eurasia.

Even if he destroyed the barbarian tribes near Changbai Mountain, the rest of the barbarian tribes can still migrate to the vast grassland, waiting for the land to appear a power vacuum again.

But this is intolerable to Xiao Ming, because his goal is to solve the northern problem once and for all.

Otherwise, he will be attacked from both sides and will not be able to concentrate on competing for colonies with Western powers overseas.

When he got up and walked back and forth, Xiao Ming said, "I've got an idea. I won't give the barbarians another chance to breathe."

Song Changping scratched his head. It wasn't his duty. So he said, "Your Majesty, I'm just saying it casually. For me, if I try my best to produce firearms, I'll beat the barbarians."

"That's true. It's enough that you can provide quality and quantity firearms for the army." Xiao Ming was smiling. At this time, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "by the way, what happened to the helmet I asked you and Lu Tong to study. "

when they mentioned this, they looked excited. Chen Qi said:" we and Lutong have experimented in the laboratory for three times and achieved some preliminary results. In short, we have been able to let the fire cap replace the flint. "

”That's good. You need to make the cap as soon as possible. "Xiao Ming nodded. He and Lu Tong have studied the manufacture of the fire cap many times. Because of this, the research of the fire cap is so smooth.

Song Changping said at this time: "emperor, now the development of the fire cap has been 7788, the lower officer is ready to carry out the production of the fire cap type fire gun. This kind of fire gun only uses the fire cap and the paper shell bullet, and each time it shoots, it installs a fire cap, which saves the steps of flint gun and pouring the gunpowder into the medicine pool."Xiao Ming is not surprised by what song Changping said. For him, with the current industrial capacity of Qingzhou, he can only develop the muskets to the level of cap type rear loading muskets.

As for metal fixed charge, it is the product of another leap in production after the western electric power revolution. Now the cost of production is too high.

At that time, he can't bear the huge consumption of bullets. After all, the bullet is a copper shell. According to his estimation, the cost of such a metal charge is estimated to be about two liang silver.

So on balance, before the electric revolution came, he had to work hard on the firecap.

After all, compared with the flint gun, the firecap gun improves the reliability and firing speed of firing, overcomes the problems of the flint gun, such as unreliable firing, high rate of blind fire, slow firing speed and lax airlock, and no longer has to worry about the failure of the firegun in rainy days. If it can be deployed in large-scale army, it means that his firegun is higher than the Western generation.

However, although this fire cap firing gun is a kind of progress, it only has some advantages in shooting speed and stability, and it can not change the mode of war. It can only be said that it has some advantages in the battlefield.

”I asked you to have this idea when you studied the fire cap. Now that the fire cap has made progress, let's start. In the future, the rules followed by the military workshop are to use one generation, develop one generation and design one generation, so as to ensure that there will be no fault in weapons. Xiao Ming made rules for the military workshop.

”Yes, Emperor. "Song Changping and Chen Qi bowed and said.

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