Chapter 637： Artillery

In fact, Marin knew that by changing the clockwork lighter a little, a flintlock can be made with lower cost and more convenient to use.

Although the clockwork lighter is not afraid of wind and rain, you need to use a small wrench to wind up before launching, which will delay two or three seconds. Unlike a flintlock gun, just dial the trigger back and you are ready to fire. Therefore, how to see the flintlock is better than the clockwork lighter.

However, Marin clearly knows that the flintlock gun has low technical content and low cost, and it is easy to be imitated by opponents. Therefore, even if he knew how to make a flintlock, Marin did not intend to launch a flintlock. Because, once launched, it is easy to be imitated by the enemy, and then use a flintlock to shoot yourself ...

While the mainspring is different, the mainspring is difficult to manufacture and the cost is high. In the case where others do not have spring steel, the spring can only be made by hand, and the yield is extremely low. In this way, it is very expensive for others to manufacture the clockwork lighter. Even if the structure and principle of the clockwork lighter are known and the imitation succeeds, it cannot be installed on a large scale because of the high cost. Conversely, because of its technology of carbon spring steel, Marin has a low spring manufacturing cost, a high pass rate of finished products, and a fast manufacturing speed, which is convenient for large-scale packaging.

Therefore, Marin deliberately used the second-class clockwork lighter, hoping to use cost advantages and technical advantages to make those poor opponents unable to achieve large-scale packaging. In this way, the opponent's firepower is certainly not as good as his own.

Of course, other countries can also choose to install a matchlock gun. But the shortcomings of the matchlock gun are too obvious-the shooting density is low, and the vegetable will be taken off in case of wind and rain. Therefore, the same use of muskets, the line of fire guns certainly can not beat the line array of clockwork muskets. This is because musketeers who use a clockwork musket can shoot side by side and shoot at the opponent with a shooting density nearly twice that of the opponent's line array. Although the shooting accuracy of the smoothbore gun is impressive, the density is higher, and the possibility of catching the opponent is greater ...

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However, the replacement of the arquebust gun with a clockwork rifle has no advantage in the face of the British army. Why? Because the opponent's long-range firepower is also very powerful ...

Although is a bow and arrow, in fact, the lethality of the English longbow is never under the musket. Even when neither side wears plate armor, the English Longbowmen are more lethal. Because the rate of fire of the Longbowmen in England is much faster ...

Generally speaking, the Longbowmen ’s rate of fire is 12 arrows per minute. When ten thousand arrows are fired at the same time, it can reach 15 arrows per minute. When using a musket, whether it is a matchlock gun or a clockwork musket, it takes 30 seconds to fire a shot, which is two shots per minute, because of the difficulty of loading. Of course, through the three-stage shooting method, it can be increased to six shots per minute. However, the rate of fire of 12 arrows per minute facing the opposite side is still greatly disadvantaged.

If you don't wear plate armor, facing the arrow rain of England's longbow, you will definitely be killed and injured. Even if you wear a plate armor, there will be some casualties. Because, no matter which army, it is impossible to wear plate armor to the whole army. After all, wearing plate armor also requires strong physical strength and endurance.

Even if the front fighters are wearing chest plate armor and iron helmets, and the rear fighters are equipped with iron helmets and wood chip armor, there will definitely be casualties. After all, even the front row fighters did not wear plate armor on the lower body. If you are unlucky, your legs may hit arrows. And the soldiers in the back, if the bow and arrow hit the iron helmet Shanghai is all right. If it hits the neck or chest through the gap between the iron helmets, it will be finished ...

Therefore, there is not much advantage in relying on the musket alone. You must think of other ways ...

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Marin began to recall the plot of the Hundred Years War between Britain and France. Finally, he remembered-the reason why the French army finally turned over, it seems that it mainly relies on two things-artillery and plate armor ...

Needless to say, the plate armor has enough defense against bows and arrows. The reason why the early British army frequently won was because the plate armor had not yet appeared in the 14th century. At that time, the chain armor was popular, and naturally it could not stop the English longbow. In the 15th century, with the development of plate armor technology, the French army gradually became more effective. In the situation where the war horse is easy to hit the arrow, the French knight simply dismounted and charged as a plate infantry with good results.

Of course, it is the artillery who plays the main role. Because long-range firepower was far inferior to that of the British army, after entering the 15th century, the French began to develop artillery to fight the British army.

Although the artillery technology was general at that time, the range was only more than two hundred meters. However, this is enough-because the range of the English Longbowmen is more than two hundred yards.

Moreover, the lethality of the artillery is much greater than the bow and arrow. The English Longbowmen can shoot more than 200 yards. However, if it exceeds 100 yards, the power of the arrow will be greatly reduced, and the armor breaking ability will be almost lost.

Different from the artillery, even a big iron ball, even if it hits the old distance, only the kinetic energy provided by the quality of the iron ball itself can smash the other party out.

More than that, as long as the iron ball shells pass by, as long as they don't hit the sky, more than one person will be killed. A three-pound iron ball projectile, flying over, hitting the head of the opponent and hitting the head of the opponent, breaking the arm, touching the broken leg, touching the chest, directly hitting a large blood hole that was worn, and then continued The next bad luck ... if you hit the crowd, a single iron ball can always take away several enemies ...

The French were ruthless. In the later period of the war, dozens of hundreds of artillery were mobilized to participate in the war.

This time the Englishman is losing money because the training of the English Longbowmen is extremely difficult. A longbowman must not only have a tall body (height over 1 meter 75), but also need more than ten years of uninterrupted practice. In order to allow young people enough time to practice archery, the King announced that it is illegal to play football (because young people playing football will occupy the time for archery practice).

So, after many years of continuous practice, the King of England recruited thousands of long archers from the people. Hundreds of longbowmen were so difficult to train, and they were taken away by the French in a round of shelling. How can the Englishmen not collapse?

Know that long bowmen are difficult to supplement because of their high requirements. Therefore, England's longbowmen are getting fewer and fewer. After the quantitative change caused the qualitative change, the French finally prevailed in the later period and expelled the British army from the European continent.

Marin felt that the French thought was very clear and worth learning. Therefore, this time, Marin also decided to use artillery as the main means of attack, using intensive artillery to mass kill the English Longbowmen.

Marin already had 50 front-loaded three-pound guns, plus more than 50 Saxon back-loaded bronze guns seized in the battle of Lübeck (Fran machine gun ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Therefore, Marin has the ability Hundreds of infantry guns were mobilized to bombard the British Longbowmen.

Although the range of the Fran cannons seized from the Saxons was the same as the French artillery, it was only more than two hundred meters, unlike the three-pound gun that was installed before, it had 365 meters. However, this is also enough to kill a large number of English Longbowmen. As long as the plate armor is attached to the artillery ship, it can fully resist the longbow of the British army. The English Longbowmen, even wearing plate armor, could not stop the bombardment of iron ball shells. As long as a hundred artillery pieces were used to cause enough casualties to the English Longbowmen, the morale of the other party would have fallen sharply. When the time comes, the whole army advances and can completely defeat the British army.

As half of Napoleon's fans, Marin also advocated "artillery artillery". In fact, later generations of the Chinese Republic also pursued artillery. In 1979, when the Vietnamese monkeys were beaten, the Chinese army destroyed more than 880,000 rounds of artillery shells. It is said that at a certain time, a head suspected that there was a Vietnamese monkey ambushing in a mountain depression, so he let the artillery fire 10,000 shells into that mountain depression. Afterwards, the scouts discovered in the past that over 800 monkey soldiers died in the tunnel. Moreover, it was not killed, but was shocked by the explosion shock wave of the continuous shells, and the ear, nose and throat were bleeding. In the description of Jin Daxia-it was shocked to death by internal power, and it was so shocked to bleed ...

Marin actually highly admires this kind of unreasonable play, but unfortunately, now that saltpeter is limited, gunpowder is not particularly sufficient. Therefore, you can only save some use. But after the Chilean saltpeter was developed in the future, Marin decided to let the shells fly freely, and whoever refused to accept them would smash them into dust with tens of thousands of shells ...

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