Iron Dynasty

Heavy musket?

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

Chen Qi stared at the map on the ground for a while, and said, Your Majesty, isn't this just a larger musket? And this musket looks very bulky. Using it is not as realistic as using a cannon.

Hearing this, Xiao Ming explained: This heavy 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's armor at a distance of two or three hundred meters. The range and power of artillery are of course It is very big, but the disadvantage is that it is cumbersome and expensive. This kind of heavy musket is easy to produce and can be operated by two people, and the effect will be better when used in vehicle arrays.

The two nodded, and now they understood that Xiao Ming's purpose of making this heavy musket was for the defense of the vehicle formation.

After a pause, Xiao Ming continued: If you want to defeat the barbarians, you must go deep into the grasslands. Using a heavy musket to match the chariot formation will have unexpected results. At the same time, in order to match this heavy musket, you need to modify the chariot. .

I hope the emperor will make it clear.

At this time, Xiao Ming drew again on the ground. The advent 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 and armored chariots.

The transformation of this chariot mainly focuses on two aspects. One is to increase the shooting holes of heavy muskets on the chariot, and the other to increase the blade thrusts on the outer armor, mainly to prevent the barbarian slave soldiers from climbing.

After Jizhou used the chariot formation to defeat the barbarians, he believed that the barbarians must also be looking for a way to break the chariot formation.

For the barbarians, the simplest and crudest way is to use the lives of barbarian slave soldiers to fill in.

It is said that the barbarian population is only four or five million, but the barbarians have always liked to keep slaves, and this slave soldier is also an existence that cannot be ignored.

It is because of this consideration that he decided to focus on building an iron armored vehicle formation in the next period of time. This type of chariot is equivalent to a mobile bastion on the grassland, and a heavy musket can be loaded with dozens of normal muskets at one time. Projectile, the effect is no different from the shotgun, the combination of the two plus the coordination of the musketeers and cavalry in the vehicle array, this is a heavily guarded fortress.

After telling their thoughts to the two, the two agreed to it.

Song Changping sighed and said, The emperor is ambitious and the lower officials are amazed. It's just that the frontier troubles of the northern grasslands in the past dynasties have never stopped. This grassland tribe has been driven away, and after a few decades, another tribe will become stronger. It's just repeated.

During this time, Song Chang usually went to the Bowen Academy to read books. In addition to the manufacture of this firearm, he also read some historical books, and he couldn't help feeling a little emotional for a while.

Chen Qi didn't know anything except artillery technology, but Song Changping said that he was a little worried, Your Majesty, what Song Changping said makes sense, but in this bitter and cold place in the north, no one wants to settle down, and there are only The barbarians are happy to go.

Xiao Ming frowned when he heard the words. Chen Qi's words were exactly the problem he was having a headache now. The barbarians were different from the kings of Zhao and Yan.

The vassal kings built their armies by collecting taxes from their own vassal states, so losing the vassal state means nothing.

But the barbarians are different. This is a half-grazing and half-farming ethnic group, and the strategy pursued is expansion and plunder. It can be said that the barbarians have already walked on the road of colonization, but they are different from the overseas colonization of the West. The barbarians have always been on the Eurasian continent. engage in bloody colonization.

Such a barbarian cunning rabbit three caves, even if he destroys the barbarian tribes near Changbai Mountain, the remaining barbarian tribes can still migrate to the vast grasslands, waiting for the land to have a vacuum of rights again.

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

Otherwise, he will be attacked from back and forth, unable to concentrate on fighting for colonies with Western powers overseas.

Getting up and pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, Xiao Ming said, I already have an idea, and I won't give the barbarians a chance to breathe again.

Song Changping scratched his head. This matter was not his responsibility, so he said, Your Majesty, Xiaguan just said it casually. For Xiaguan, producing firearms with all your heart is equivalent to beating barbarians.

That's not bad, it's enough that you can provide the army with firearms of high quality and quantity. Xiao Ming smiled, when he suddenly remembered something, so he asked: By the way, I let you and Lu Tong study. What happened to your flasher?

Mentioning this matter, the two of them looked excited. Chen Qi said, We and Lu Tong have already experimented in the laboratory three times, and we have achieved some preliminary results. In short, we can let the fire hat replace the flint.

That's good, you have to make the flash cap as soon as possible. Xiao Ming nodded. He and Lu Tong have studied the manufacture of the flash cap many times. That's why the research on the flash cap is like this smoothly.

Song Changping said at this time: Your Majesty, the development of the flash cap has already been completed, and the lower official is preparing to produce the flash cap type musket, which only uses flash caps and paper shell bullets, and a flash cap is installed every time a shot is fired. , saves the step of pouring gunpowder into the medicine pool with the flintlock gun.

Xiao Ming is not at all surprised by Song Changping's words. For him, with the current industrial capabilities of Qingzhou, he can only develop a musket to the level of a flash hat-type rear-loading gun.

As for metal cartridges, it is the product of another leap in production after the Western Electric Revolution, and it is now too expensive to produce.

At that time, he couldn't bear the huge consumption of bullets. After all, this bullet was a copper shell. According to his estimate, the cost of such a fixed-load metal bullet would be about two taels of silver.

So under the balance, before the electric revolution comes, he can only work hard on the flasher.

After all, compared with flintlock guns, flash hat guns improve the reliability and rate of fire of firing, and overcome the problems of unreliable firing of flintlock guns, high blind fire rate, slow firing rate, and lack of breath retention, and no longer have to worry about it. The problem of musket failure in rainy days, if the army can be deployed on a large scale, it means that his musket is a generation higher than that of the West.

However, although this flash hat firing gun is an improvement, it only has some advantages in rate of fire and stability, and it cannot change the mode 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 the flash cap. Now that the flash cap has made progress, let's start, and the rule that the military workshop will follow in the future is to use a generation, develop a generation, and design a generation, so as to ensure the weapon There will be no faults. Xiao Ming set the rules for the military workshop.

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