Chapter 753： The matchlock gun is also very powerful

Although the shooting rate had dropped to about 50% when shooting a target at a distance of two hundred steps (300 meters), knowledgeable Daming officials and soldiers were shocked.

The control of firearms by the Ming Dynasty was very strict. Why is it so strict? Because the Ming Dynasty regarded firearms as a strategic weapon, it attached great importance to the issue of firearms. Therefore, in the Ming dynasty, as long as they are military officials who understand military affairs, they will not ignore firearms.

As a result, when the Ming Army was suppressed by the post-Gold Army in the late Ming Dynasty, many officials placed their hopes on the Hongyi Cannon imported from the West, admiring the idea that "the cannon is the truth". For this reason, the Portuguese were also extorted severely. An 18-pound cast iron cannon cast in England cost no more than one hundred and two silvers, but it was sold by the unscrupulous Portuguese businessman for an extremely high price of one thousand two. The Daming court actually admitted, willing to act as the head of this injustice.

In fact, the Fran cannon is more suitable than the Hongyi cannon as a land artillery for attacking the enemy. However, at that time, because the artillery of the Ming Dynasty did not have a movable gun mount, the Fran machine gun was also difficult to transport. In addition, the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty also made rough Fran machine guns, resulting in a bad fit between the Zi gun and the mother gun, and serious air leakage, which made the Fran machine gun unusable.

From Marin's point of view, the Frang cannon with an effective range of 300 meters is actually more suitable as an infantry artillery because of its fast firing rate. Because, before the enemy cavalry rushed to our square, how many guns can be fired. Blasting the five sons in one breath will definitely cause great damage to the opponent. If Zizhen is loaded with a shotgun, the killing will be even more fierce.

However, the Daming artillery has never had a good movable gun mount (the Tiger Squad Gun has been placed on the chariot to shoot, but the Tiger Squad Gun has no power, range, and rate of fire. A lot of merits have also been built.) Generally, Fran machine guns are built on the city head or the turret, so naturally they cannot exert their advantages. The reason why the Frang cannon was replaced by the Hongyi cannon is because the Hongyi cannon with a longer range is obviously more suitable for the city head and the turret. The Fran cannon, in fact, the most suitable is placed in front of the array. But the premise is that a modern gun mount with convenient transportation and fast deployment is needed ...

This time, Marin donated the Fran machine gun, and dedicated the whole gun with the modern gun mount to the Ming Dynasty. With modern movable gun mounts, in the future Fran machine guns will inevitably be moved to the battlefield and bombard the enemy head on.

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On the shooting range, it was not just Liu Meng who was a knowledgeable civilian excited. Many other civilians who understand military affairs, including Xu Yong and other generals, have slowly seen the superiority of this new type of artillery-long range, great power, rapid deployment and shooting speed, it is an absolute battlefield weapon ...

Just as the Daming officials and soldiers on the scene were up, Kong Tai coughed and said:

"Adult Shen, Admiral Liu, General Xu, I have no display of muskets ..."

Liu Meng was shocked and said with expectation:

"Ah, yes, yes, I haven't seen the effect of Huo Bing, Deputy Chief Kong, please show it to the old man!"

Then, Xu Yong, the avant-garde commander of Guangzhou, immediately ordered the thousands of men under his command to replace all the gun targets in the shooting range of the thousand households with musket targets ...

However, the current mainstream musket of the Ming Dynasty is the three-eyed gun. The three-eyed blunder is single-handed. Generally, the fire blunder hand holds the blunder in the right hand, and the left hand ignites the lead wire to excite the three-eyed blunder.

Three-eyed guns are three iron pipes tied to the front of the wooden handle. After the fuze is lit, three bursts will be made. However, it is very troublesome to reassemble the three-eyed gun, and it is very slow. Therefore, after a round of shooting, the hands of the fire gun will hold the three-eyed gun, and use the three-eyed gun as a hammer to smash the enemies close by. The heads bound together by the three cymbals are indeed quite heavy. If you hit the enemy, you can't kill the enemy immediately, the more you can damage the enemy. Therefore, the main role of the three-eyed blunder in the Daming army is to give the opponent a three-shot burst before the battle, and then the fire blunder becomes a hammer soldier in close combat ...

Moreover, the range of the three-eyed blunder is very close, and the general best range is only thirty steps (about 45 meters). Within thirty steps, you can break the heavy knight and deal with the enemy's heavy armored cavalry.

It is precisely because of the existence of the three-eyed gunpowder that the Mobei Mongolian departments gradually eliminated the heavy cavalry in the Ming Dynasty, and basically evolved into light cavalry. Why? Because the deadly cavalry of the Genghis Khan era was useless. In front of the three-eyed gun, the heavy armor squad is also sent. Later, the reason why Manqing could win was because they used cotton armor that was more suitable for resisting muskets. The cotton armor technology is also self-taught ...

And beyond thirty steps, the three-eyed gun will not hurt the heavily armored enemies. But at 50 steps, it can also hurt enemies that are not armored at all. But generally, such unarmored enemies are artillery. Hitting them with three eyes is also a waste of ammunition.

In general, the power of the three-eyed gun is about the same as that of the short musket. Of course, the barrel length of the three-eyed gun is also very short. If the length of the wooden handle is not counted, the length of its barrel is similar to that of a Western short musket, and its power is naturally similar.

The barrel of the matchlock gun is more than a meter long. The longer the barrel, the faster the initial velocity at which the child ejects the muzzle, and the farther the range is, as is the artillery. Therefore, the long-barreled matchlock gun brought by Marin is naturally much more powerful.

According to the shooting habit of Sanyan Bian, the gunmen of Guangzhou avant-garde set the target of the gun at a distance of 20 steps (Note: Although the destruction distance of Sanyan Bian's armor is 30 steps, it is within 20 steps. It is convenient to aim. Within 20 steps and 30 steps, this distance may not necessarily hit the target. The same is true for the musket, generally within 70 yards (63.7 meters). However, the musket is beyond the 50-meter range, it is a little Not allowed. And the extreme lobster soldier musketeer will force a wave of enemy shots before firing within 30 meters. Within this distance, even recruits can hit.) Kong Tai took a look and was too close. So, negotiated with Xu Yong and put the target at a distance of 30 steps ...

"With a distance of 30 steps, are their muskets better than Daming's?" Daming officials onlookers talked about it.

However, when I saw the muskets brought out by the musketeers in Beihai, the barrel was much longer than the three-eyed gun barrel of Daming ...

Long barrels are difficult to process, and barrels are different from barrels. The barrel is cast, and the wall is generally thick. The barrels are generally made with thin walls. However, it is really more difficult to process barrels with very thin walls than barrels.

The Ming dynasty had a bad tradition of treating craftsmen as slaves. The craftsmen who generally entered the household registration of the craftsmen basically became slaves of the court. Any civilian with a big sesame seed can call and drink to those master craftsmen. This tradition is actually inherited from the Yuan Dynasty. The Mengyuan Dynasty regarded the Han people as slaves, and the craftsmen were no exception. The Ming Dynasty also inherited this unreasonable system. Therefore, the status of Daming craftsmen is low. Because there is no hope, even if there is an invention, the credit will be taken away by the civil servants, so the level of the craftsmen of Daming stopped, and in the late Ming Dynasty, it was surpassed by the West ...

The reason why the short-barreled three-eyed blunders were used in the early Ming Dynasty was also related to the lack of technology for making long barrels. It was not until the Jiajing years that the Portuguese passed the technique of making long barrels to the Ming Dynasty for the sake of the Ming Dynasty.

The distance of thirty steps is not difficult for the musketeers sent by Beihai this time. You know, these people are specially selected sharpshooters in Beihai, just to show them to Daming. Therefore, their shooting skills are superb.

With a shot, the smoke gradually dissipated. After seeing that all the gunmen of Beihai State had put down their guns, the gunmen of the Qianwei Qianhu Institute in Daming Guangzhou took the gun targets back and showed them to the two chief envoys ...

After seeing Shen Rui and Liu Meng, they were surprised to find that these gun targets had gun holes ... That is to say, all 15 musketeers who participated in the shooting were on the target during this round of shooting. Moreover, the bullet holes made by most people are still very close to the middle of the target, and the results are quite good ...

"Sure enough, good shooting!" Liu Meng praised.

You know, it's thirty steps away, which is 45 meters away. At a distance of 45 meters, the gun target is quite small in the field of vision. It's good to be able to hit the target, not to mention the bullet hole near the center of the target? Therefore, the compliments of Liu Meng who knows how to do things are not excessive.

Shen Rui didn't understand firearms well, but Liu Meng said yes, he also stroked his beard and smiled with satisfaction ...

However, the two bigwigs haven't finished boasting yet, and Kong Tai asked again-set a target again at 40 steps ...

The Daming officials and soldiers present were all taken aback-the distance of 40 steps, but the distance of Daming fire gunner practice shooting is twice, the Western firearms are so sharp?

Soon, they knew the result-this round of shooting was much worse than the 30-step distance, but 15 people all hit the target, but most of the bullet holes are not near the center point, but are distributed on the target Marginal area ...

However, Li Sanshui, the commander of the Hundred Team of the Guangzhou Qianwei Qianhu Institute, who was knowledgeable, was surprised:

"Can I wear a target 40 steps away?"

"Why? Li Baihu, what did you say about the 40-step target?" Liu Meng asked with interest, not caring about Li Sanshui's rude behavior.

Li Sanshui clasped his fists and replied:

"Go back to adults, the fire targets used by our thousand households are all made of harder beech wood. Moreover, this kind of target is very particular. But if it can penetrate this kind of wooden target, it means that the bullet also has a heavy armor Ability. Because this beech wood target is made by imitating the protective power of heavy armor. If you can wear the target, you can break the heavy armor! "

"Then, how many steps can my big Ming's three-eyed gun break the heavy armor?" The layman Shen Rui asked.

"Back to adult, only 30 steps!"

"Ah? Doesn't it mean that the flames of the North Sea are better than Daming?" Shen Rui said a little unhappy.

"I'm afraid so ..." Li Sanshui was also depressed. He was also uncomfortable as the leader of the Ming Ming fire brigade. After all, he used to be proud of being the commander of the big fire brigade.

At this time, Kong Tai, who had been silent on the side, interjected:

"The two adults, General Xu, and the muskets produced by our Beihai country have the ability to break heavy armor within 66 steps (100 meters). However, beyond 40 steps, it is difficult to guarantee a hit ..."

"66 steps ... very powerful ... can guarantee a hit within 40 steps, which is also a weapon in the gun ..." Liu Meng thought.

Kong Tai knew very well at this moment-the Ming court probably couldn't hold his face anymore. This was Marlin's confession before, and he must let Daming hold his face ...

So he performed a Hanli ceremony and said:

"The two chief ambassadors, General Xu, I am a widow in the Beihai Kingdom, and I can get it, that is, a firearm. And our High Duke, has longed for the great prosperity and sincerity. Please be a lord of Daming. "

"His Grand Duke once said that since ancient swords have been matched with heroes, the wealth and power of the Ming Dynasty are powerful and unrivaled in the world. My sharp firearms in the Beihai Kingdom are also dedicated to the powerful Daming ~ www.novelhall.com ~ to show sincerity ... "

After saying such a long line of speech, Kong Tai couldn't help but turn over the "tribute to the tribute" held in his sleeve, which was full of shameless lines that Marin instructed how to send Daming's ass. Kong Tai's words just came from this book. This kind of thing is very much like the "Interview Collection" handed down from later generations ... However, there are two kinds of collections, one knows how to interview and the other guides how to flatter ... After all, Kong Thai has a limited vocabulary in Chinese and can't be organized Too many shameless Chinese words for flattering ... So, before the trip, Marin gave Kong Tai a "treasure book", something similar to Zhuge Liang's "trick" ...

Hearing Kong Tai's words, Shen Rui and Liu Meng's administration made his face look better. After all, firearms lag behind people, and it is really shameful. But the attitude of the North Sea State was so low, which made them feel a lot better.

Liu Meng nodded and said to Kong Tai:

"Since Ma Guozhu (Marin was surnamed Ma, of course, he was surnamed Ma in his previous life) is so sincere. "

"So, I thanked Mr. Liu for being humble!" After that, Kong Tai snapped to the ground and expressed his gratitude to Liu Meng ...

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