One Piece of Song Dynasty

After wandering around for a while, Li Qingling saw that there was no other way and had to find something to say: "Wan'er, what do you want to buy?"

Tang Wan snorted coldly and continued walking forward without saying a word. Li Qingling said again: "Wan'er, I have admitted my mistake to you. Besides, I have no choice but to conceal my identity."

Tang Wan snorted angrily: "Then after our family arrived in Yanjing yesterday afternoon, you wouldn't have secretly sent someone to notify me in advance, so that our family could be prepared and not make me so embarrassed today."

Li Qingling explained: "Yesterday I also wanted to send someone to find you, but my father didn't let me tell you in advance. I couldn't even send someone secretly. My father wanted to see what you were doing without knowing my true identity. What choice will you make?"

Logan didn't believe it and said, "What you said is true."

Li Qingling raised her hands and said: "Wan'er, I can swear to God that everything I said is true."

Tang Wan pouted and said: "Okay, I will trust you this time and forgive you. However, your father is so treacherous. He actually came up with such an insidious trick to test me. Today you have to compensate me. I said yes." Just buy whatever you want.”

Li Qingling surrendered and said: "Okay, okay, okay, Wan'er can buy whatever she wants today."

Tang Wan asked: "By the way, our family will go back to Zhengzhou tomorrow. When will you go back to Fujian to go to school?"

Li Qingling replied: "Tomorrow, my third brother and I will go with you. First we will send my uncle and aunt to Zhengzhou, and then we will go to Fujian together."

Logan nodded and said, "Yeah, okay."

Li Qingling asked: "Wan'er, please don't reveal my identity and that of my third brother at school. Revealing it may cause unnecessary trouble for us."

Logan replied: "Well, I will definitely not reveal your identities."

Li Qingling added: "There is also Hongxiu. If she finds out, you have to give her instructions."

Tang Wan said: "Don't worry, Hongxiu, I won't tell her the truth. By the way, why did you tell me that your family runs a restaurant before?"

Li Qingling replied: "My family originally ran a restaurant. Tianxiang Tower is a royal family property. This is not a secret in official circles."

Tang Wan suddenly realized: "I asked you why it's so cheap to go to Tianxiang Tower to eat."

The two of them waited until evening before Li Qingling sent Tang Wan back to the hotel. The next day, Li Qingling and Li Yixuan followed the Tang family to Zhengzhou.

Just two months after the end of the year, good news came from Bandai Group. The weapons inspection that had been assigned to Bandai Group finally solved the problem of the firing rate of flintlock guns. Today, the firing rate of flintlock guns has reached %. .

Chen Gui personally came to Li Xin with the latest flintlock gun. Li Xin looked at the latest flintlock gun. The latest flintlock gun had a stock like a later rifle, giving it the function of being fired over the shoulder. , In this way, the gun owner will have a stable support point with the butt of the gun on his shoulder, which can effectively improve the shooting accuracy.

After testing, the new flintlock gun is compared with the previous matchlock gun. Although the fire rate of the flintlock gun may not be as good as the matchlock gun sometimes, most of the time, the advantage is far superior to the matchlock gun.

Because the matchlock is fired with a matchlock, it is greatly affected by the weather. If the weather is too humid, rainy, or windy, the matchlock basically cannot be used effectively. Soldiers equipped with matchlocks will encounter Such weather is basically equivalent to weighing a fire stick. Unless they are equipped with a bayonet, when facing enemies armed with cold weapons, what awaits them is basically the fate of being massacred.

In addition, although the loading step of the matchlock gun is only one more step than the flintlock gun, lighting the matchlock and sticking it on the faucet of the firing device, this process is enough to determine the fate of many people. The musketeer must always hold the matchlock before firing. If it cannot be extinguished, it is slightly better to stand and wait to fire, but if you have to walk and be ready to fire at any time, it will be difficult for the musketeers with matchlocks.

The musketeer must carefully puff out his cheeks and blow on the flame of the match as he walks. He must not let the flame go out, otherwise he will have to relight the match. If the match cannot be lit in time, it will be really fatal.

In the th year of Wanli in the previous life, the Battle of Saarhu, which was related to the fate of the Ming Dynasty, took place in Liaodong. There were certain factors that led to the final defeat of the Ming army. The Ming army was equipped with a large number of firearms, including three-eyed blunderbuss and bird blunderbuss. , the number of kidnapper guns and equipment was very high, and their technology far exceeded that of the Donglu Tatars who were completely cold weaponized at that time. However, due to weather reasons, the Ming army was unable to effectively exert its firepower advantage, which also affected the final battle process.

The flintlock gun can effectively avoid this situation. Although it will affect the firing of the flintlock gun when it rains, it at least has a certain firing ability, allowing it to maintain a certain combat effectiveness. In addition, the fire A cover is added to the door. After filling the primer, you can close the lid to ensure that the primer will not be blown away by the wind, causing a blind fire.

In addition, the flintlock gun eliminates the need to light the match rope and install the match rope. After loading the ammunition and primer, you only need to open the hammer stuck with the flint and make all preparations for firing. Once necessary, Fire and you can instantly aim, pull the trigger and shoot at your target.

As a result, the usable climate of the flintlock gun greatly exceeds the use range of the matchlock gun, which to a large extent ensures that the musketeers can effectively fire in many cases.

Another very important point is that if the matchlock is used at night, it must be ignited in advance. The enemy holding the matchlock can be found from a long distance at night, making it impossible for them to carry out any form of surprise attack.

However, the flintlock gun does not need to be ignited in advance, which prevents the user from being discovered by the enemy in advance, and it becomes possible to ambush the enemy at night. Think about a group of flintlock musketeers hiding in one place, waiting for the enemy to swagger in front of them. As we were passing by, suddenly a group stood up and opened fire.

What kind of chaos can such a situation cause to those being attacked? The command at night is inherently ineffective. Once attacked suddenly, sometimes a small number of musketeers can defeat an enemy that is ten times or even dozens of times more powerful than them. This advantage is self-evident.

The flintlock gun only reduced such a step, which seemed to simplify the tedious loading of the musket. However, the benefits obtained were so great that it can be said to be of epoch-making significance. This was also when the flintlock gun was After being put into the battlefield, it quickly replaced the original matchlock gun.

This made Li Xin very excited. At the same time, after the long flint-hair gun was manufactured, it also made it possible to make a short flint-hair gun that could be carried around in the next step.

However, there is one thing that does not satisfy Li Xin, that is, making guns is more troublesome than making cannons, and the steps of making guns are much more complicated than making cannons. Therefore, the current production of this kind of flintlock guns is somewhat low.

Stroking the flintlock gun, Li Xin asked: "Chen Aiqing, how many guns can the annual output of this gun reach now?"

Chen Gui replied: "Your Majesty, this gun has just been developed and there are not many skilled workers. I am afraid that the initial output can reach a hundred guns a month. Of course, I am referring to qualified products. In the later period, as the number of craftsmen increases and the yield rate increases, Production will definitely increase significantly.”

Li Xin asked again: "How long will the early stage mentioned by Chen Aiqing take?"

Chen Gui thought for a moment and said, "It's almost half a year."

Li Xin nodded and said: "Well, Chen Aiqing estimates the output of this gun this year."

Chen Gui thought for a while and said, "It should be able to reach three thousand."

Li Xin said: "Okay, I will give this gun the name Xingwu Style. After Chen Aiqing returned, he began to organize large-scale production and continued to improve the gun."

Chen Gui said: "I obey the decree, but your Majesty, I have something to ask for your consent."

Li Xin nodded and said, "Well, you tell me."

Chen Gui said: "Your Majesty, I want to become an official. I am now seventy years old and my energy is not as good as before."

Li Xin thought for a while and said: "Okay, I'm sure, Chen Aiqing, the three thousand matchlock guns have been made."

Chen Gui replied: "They have all been made. Making these three thousand matchlock guns has exercised a lot of our craftsmen's ability to make gun barrels."

Li Xin nodded and said: "Okay, then bring them all. In addition, Chen Aiqing will stay in Yanjing for a few days. I will send a letter to several major generals and ask them to rush back quickly. When the time comes, Chen Aiqing will also bring him I personally tried firing the flintlock musket in front of the generals to show them the power of the flintlock musket.”

Chen Gui bowed and said, "I obey your order."

It took a month for the generals who received Li Xin's imperial edict to gather in Yanjing. During this period, Li Xin had ordered Cao Long to dedicate ten people to train in the use of Xingwu Type flintlock guns.

On this day, all the generals came to the court. The two cavalry generals, Yue Yun and Li Shifu, arrived last. As soon as they entered the hall, they saw a dozen navy and army generals chatting animatedly in the hall.

Li Shifu sighed: "We are all here together. Yue Yun, what do you mean the emperor called us here today?"

Yue Yun shook his head and said: "I really don't know about this, but depending on the situation, it must be a big deal, otherwise we wouldn't have called all the main generals of our military. You see, even General Yang, the head coach of the Baotao Guard who is far away in Yunnan, has come. ”

After a while, Li Xin came to the main hall: "Everyone is here."

When the generals saw Li Xin, they saluted and said, "I have met the emperor. Long live the emperor. Long live the emperor."

Li Xin signaled: "Come on, please. I have called you here today to show you the new weapons we have developed. Come on, come with me to the Royal Garden."

On the way to the Royal Garden, Yue Yun whispered: "Uncle, what kind of new weapons do you think the emperor will show us this time? He actually recalled all the generals."

Li Shifu said thoughtfully: "It should be a weapon that can change the shape of war, just like artillery."

When they arrived at the Imperial Garden, everyone found ten bow and arrow targets standing here, and ten soldiers standing on one side holding ten strange-shaped sticks.

Chen Gui came forward and said, "Your Majesty, everything is ready."

Li Xin nodded and said: "Well, generals, what I want to show you today is a new weapon called a flintlock gun. I know that you generals have a lot of questions, but don't ask them now. Wait until you finish watching them. ask."

Following Li Xin's order, ten soldiers holding Xingwu Type flintlock guns loaded the ammunition into the bore with projectiles wrapped in linen cloth soaked in oil. This method was taught to the soldiers by Li Xin, using oil-soaked bullets. The linen-wrapped projectiles can reduce friction, speed up the loading, and also have a breath-holding effect. Nowadays, trained soldiers can shoot three times a minute at the fastest.

The soldiers who loaded their ammunition put their guns on their shoulders and started shooting at targets a hundred meters away. Then the soldiers shot again at a distance of meters and meters.

After three shootings, Li Xin said: "Generals, the shooting demonstration is completed. Now you can take a look at the conditions of the thirty targets."

After hearing this, the generals began to walk forward and observe each shooting target. The targets were made of one-inch thick wooden boards. The fifty-meter and eighty-meter targets were completely penetrated, while the one hundred-meter target was not penetrated and the projectiles were embedded in them. It's stuck in the wooden board, and the accuracy of the pellets at the -meter target has obviously dropped a lot.

Yue Yun looked at the wooden target and said excitedly: "This is a good thing. It is much more powerful than a bow and arrow. It can reliably break through iron armor within eighty meters, and it can also break through leather armor within a hundred meters, but it is only a hundred meters." The meter accuracy is a bit low.”

Li Shifu echoed: "It seems that archers will be replaced in the future."

Yue Fei on the side shook his head after hearing this and said: "Not necessarily. Did you notice when the soldiers were shooting just now? The interval between the three gunshots was not short, and the shooting frequency of bows and arrows is obviously faster than that of flintlocks, so I think The flintlock cannot replace the archer."

Han Shizhong nodded and said: "Old Han, I agree with General Yue's statement, but I think this flintlock should replace the spearmen. I am afraid that the spearmen will withdraw from the battlefield in the future."

Yue Yun asked in confusion: "How can Uncle Han say this?"

Han Shizhong explained: "Have you not noticed that the head of the flintlock rifle is equipped with a long dagger? Imagine that if the enemy opposite is a cavalry, the best range of the flintlock rifle is meters, and the distance of meters is enough for the flintlock gun. After firing a gun, you will face the impact of the cavalry. What do you think it would be like if there was no dagger at the head of the gun?"

Li Shifu replied: "That must be a situation where they were massacred by cavalry. I understand, the flintlock gun is already very long, and it can be used as a spear after adding a dagger."

Yang Yizhong, who had been observing, nodded and said: "Yes, but compared to flintlock guns, long spears do not have the ability to attack at long distances, so long spears will be withdrawn from the battlefield in the future."

Liu Qi said: "Actually, none of you have discovered the biggest advantage of the flintlock gun."

Qu Duan asked: "What advantage?"

Yue Fei stroked his beard and said: "I think what General Liu wants to say is the training advantage. Both archers and crossbowmen have certain requirements for soldiers, that is, they must be strong, but flintlock guns do not require them at all. As long as they are Normal people can use a flintlock gun, they just need to practice shooting."

Liu Qi nodded and said: "General Yue is right. This is the biggest advantage of the flintlock gun."