Steel Dynasty - Chapter 711

[Chapter 710 Flash Hatch Pistol]

“Heavy Musket?”

Song Changping was a little surprised when he learned the name of this kind of musket.

Chen Qi stared at the picture on the ground for a while and said, “Your Majesty, isn’t this just a larger musket? And this musket looks very bulky, so using it is not as practical as using an artillery piece.”

Hearing this, Xiao Ming Explained: “This kind of heavy-duty flintlock gun has a long range and great power, and can shoot a lot of projectiles at one time, and can even directly penetrate the cavalry armor from two to three hundred meters away. Although the range and power of the artillery are great, it has shortcomings.” It is bulky and expensive. This kind of heavy-duty smoothbore gun is easy to produce and can be operated by two people. It will be more effective when used in a vehicle formation.”

The two nodded, and now they understood that Xiao Ming made this kind of heavy-duty gun. The purpose of the musket is for vehicle formation defense.

After a pause, Xiao Ming continued: “If you want to defeat the barbarians, you must go deep into the grassland. Using heavy muskets in conjunction with the vehicle array will have unexpected effects. At the same time, in order to cooperate with such heavy muskets, you must modify the tanks. “

I hope the emperor will make it clear. “

Xiao Ming started drawing on the ground again. The emergence of modern tanks and machine guns ended the cavalry. Now he obviously cannot make modern tanks and machine guns, but he can make heavy muskets. Add armored chariots. “

The transformation of the chariot this time mainly focuses on two aspects. One is to add a shooting hole for a heavy musket on the chariot, and the other is to add a thrusting blade to the outer armor. The main purpose is to prevent the barbarian slave soldiers from climbing.

After using the car formation to defeat the barbarians in Jizhou, he believed that the barbarians must also be looking for a way to break the car formation. The simplest and most crude way for the barbarians is to use the lives of the barbarian slave soldiers to fill up

the population

.

Thousands of people, but the barbarians have always liked to keep slaves, and these slave soldiers are a presence that cannot be ignored.

It is precisely because of this that he considered focusing on building an armored chariot formation in the next period. This kind of chariot is equivalent to being able to fight on the grassland. A moving bastion, and a heavy musket can load dozens of normal musket pellets at one time, and the effect is no different from a shotgun. The combination of the two plus the cooperation of musketeers and cavalry in the vehicle formation, this is a heavily guarded fort.

After telling the two of them their thoughts,

Song

Changping sighed and said: “The emperor is ambitious and ambitious, but the border troubles in the northern grasslands have never stopped in the past dynasties. After destroying this grassland tribe, another tribe will become stronger after a few decades, and so on. “

During this period, Song Changping often went to Bowen College to read. In addition to the manufacture of firearms, he also read some history books. He couldn’t help feeling a little emotional for a while.

Chen Qi didn’t know anything except artillery technology, but Song Changping said so. Somewhat worried, “Your Majesty, what Song Changping said makes sense, but no one is willing to settle in this bitter cold land in the north, and only the barbarians are willing to go there. “

Xiao Ming frowned when he heard this. Chen Qi’s words were exactly what troubled him now. The barbarians

were different from the vassal kings such as King Zhao and King Yan. The vassal kings relied on collecting taxes from their own feudal states to build armies and became stronger, so they lost The feudal state means that there is nothing.

But the barbarians are different. They are a half-pastoral and half-cultivating ethnic group, and their strategies are expansion and plunder. It can be said that the barbarians are already on the road of colonization, but they are different from those in the West. Colonization, barbarians have been engaged in bloody colonization on the Eurasian continent.

Such a barbarian cunning rabbit has three holes. Even if he destroys the barbarian tribes near Changbai Mountain, the remaining barbarian tribes can still migrate to the vast grasslands and wait for the power vacuum to appear again in this land.

But this was intolerable to Xiao Ming, because his purpose was to solve the northern problem once and for all,

otherwise he would be attacked from both sides and unable to concentrate on fighting for colonies overseas.

Xiao Ming stood up and paced back and forth with his hands behind his back. “I have already made up my mind and will not give the barbarians any more breathing space.

Song Changping scratched his head. This matter was not his responsibility, so he said: “Your Majesty, the lower official just said casually. To the lower official, doing your best to produce firearms is equivalent to attacking the barbarians.

“

“That’s true. It’s enough if you can provide the army with firearms of high quality and quantity.

“

“Xiao Ming smiled, and then he suddenly remembered something, so he asked: “By the way, what happened to the flash hat I asked you and Lu Tong to study. “

When this matter was brought up, the two of them looked excited. Chen Qi said: “We and Lu Tong have conducted experiments in the laboratory three times and have achieved some initial results. Simply put, we can replace flint with flash caps. “

That’s good. You have to make the flash cap as soon as possible. “

“, Xiao Ming nodded. He and Lu Tong have studied the manufacturing of this flash cap many times. Because of this, the research on this flash cap will go so smoothly.

Song Changping said at this time: “Your Majesty, now the flash cap’s The development has been completed, and Xiaguan is preparing to produce the flash cap type musket. This kind of musket only uses flash caps and paper shell bullets. A flash cap is installed for each shot, eliminating the need to pour gunpowder into the flintlock gun. Steps to the medicine pool. “

Xiao Ming is not surprised at all by Song Changping’s words. For him, Qingzhou’s current industrial capabilities can only develop muskets to the level of flash cap type breech-loading guns.

As for metal fixed-loading ammunition, it is another leap in production after the Western Electric Power Revolution .

The subsequent products are now too expensive to produce.

By then, he will not be able to bear the huge consumption of bullets. After all, the bullets are made of copper. According to his estimate, a metal fixed-loading bullet like this costs two taels of silver. So

on

balance, before the electric revolution came, he could only work on the percussion cap gun.

After all, compared with the flintlock gun, the percussion cap gun improved the firing reliability and rate of fire, which defeated the flintlock gun. The rifle has problems such as unreliable firing, high blind fire rate, slow rate of fire, loose breath holding, etc., and there is no need to worry about the failure of the gun in rainy days. If it can be deployed in the army on a large scale, this means that its guns are higher than those of the West. Generation.

However, although this flash cap firing gun is an improvement, it only has some advantages in rate of fire and stability. It cannot change the pattern of war. It can only be said that it has some advantages on the battlefield.

“I had this idea when I asked you to study flash caps. Now that the flash caps have made progress, let’s start. In the future, the rules followed by military workshops are to use one generation, develop one generation, and design one generation, so as to ensure that the weapons There will be no faults. “Xiao Ming formulated the rules for the military workshop.

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Song Changping and Chen Qi bowed and said.

(End of chapter)