The Three Kingdoms

Sun Quan looked at the artillery with satisfaction, and asked: "The field artillery army has almost no weapons now. We must let them familiarize themselves with the operation of the new artillery as soon as possible!"

"It should be possible. The three firearms manufacturing workshops in Jinling City will be started at the same time. Within a year, the equipment for the field artillery army will be completed!"

Ge Xuandao: "However, due to the introduction of new metallurgical methods, the cost is not cheap. The cost of a cannon, not counting shells, is at least [-] silver dollars!"

Xun Zhan's face turned dark when he heard it from the side.

The Ministry of Industry is already a big gold-swallowing machine, and if there is a firearms research workshop, he will not be able to survive.

"Can you reduce the cost consumption?"

"Your Majesty, we will try our best here, but if this is to be mass-produced, we must cooperate with several weapons research workshops in Longquan. I am afraid it will be difficult to reduce the cost!"

"Longquan Workshop?"

Xun Zhan's eyes flickered coldly. As far as he knew, some of the weapon workshops in Longquan belonged to the imperial court, but the most important part of the private workshops was controlled by merchants and Longquan weapon manufacturing families.

He stood up, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I will discuss it with Longquan Weapon Workshop in person!"

"Then I will trouble you!"

Sun Quan smiled and nodded.

Then they walked into the second firearms research room.

"Please look, Your Majesty, this is the latest musket developed by our Firearms Research Workshop according to His Majesty's description back then. This brand new musket will be several times more powerful than the previous musket, and it will reload quickly!"

Ge Xuan handed Sun Quan a musket.

"Is this... a breech-loading gun?"

Sun Quan looked at it carefully, his eyes were clear but bright.

The Shenhuo Army led by Ling Tong before used all flintlock guns, which were slow to reload and lacked shooting power. Although they made contributions in the Battle of Venice, generally speaking, they were not as good as bows and arrows for large-scale wars.

[Chapter 590 of the text, Chapter [-], Cross-era development [-]]

Guns, this is a symbol of the era of cold weapons and the era of hot weapons.fastest

Cannons, giant artillery, it is still very difficult for Dawu to mass-produce them.

First of all, it is not allowed above national strength and finance.

The cost of a cannon is too expensive.

The Great Wu Dynasty now has 58 states, with a vast territory and a population of more than 8000 million. The income is really good.

But it can't stand the huge investment of the imperial court in local construction and military logistics.

The treasury of the imperial court is basically in deficit every year, and it has to rely on national debt to survive.

The battle against Rome and the civil strife caused by Sun Ce's proclaiming the emperor have already consumed all of Wu's foundation in the past few years. If it weren't for the Ministry of Commerce and the Wu Bank's generous purchase of [-] million silver dollars in commercial debt last year, I am afraid that the court of Wu will finances have collapsed.

If you want to mass-produce artillery, you not only need to overcome technical problems, but you will not be able to achieve it financially within at least four or five years.

But muskets are different. As long as the craftsmanship of these muskets is perfect, they are not expensive. If they are mass-produced and deployed on every soldier of the Wu army, then the combat effectiveness of the Wu army will rise in a straight line, and even one Face to face, the Roman army will be defeated.

The fighting power that the Shenhuo Army broke out in the Battle of Venice is enough to illustrate this point.

There are millions of soldiers in the Great Wu Army, and it is absolutely impossible for everyone to be an archer. After all, not everyone has the strength needed to draw a bow. Archers are only a small part, but if they use muskets, Then each one is an archer.

When the Firearms Research Workshop produced the flintlock, Sun Quan believed that the time for mass production had not yet come, because the manufacturing process was immature, and the limitations of the developed flintlock were too great. In fact, it was not as easy to use as a cold weapon. .

So Sun Quan was only equipped with the Shenhuo Army at the beginning, and used a trial method to transition between cold weapons and hot weapons.

"A breech-loading gun?"

In the firearms research workshop, after being surprised, Sun Quan's originally calm expression suddenly became elated.

"Sure enough, it's a breech-loading gun!"

He operated it himself, and his eyes became brighter and brighter.

The biggest difference between breech-loading guns and flintlock guns is that the bullets of breech-loading guns are loaded directly from the back, while the bullets of flintlock guns are filled in from the front. Don’t underestimate this small difference. On the battlefield is the matter of life and death.

Sun Quan remembers that the real breech-loading guns first appeared in history in the nineteenth century, the Prussian Empire in the west. Solved the battle, while also eliminating the obsolete flintlock.

"boom!"

Sun Quan took the gun, walked to a shooting range in the workshop, and fired a shot himself. The recoil was so strong that his shoulder hurt a little, but he thought it was worth it when he saw the through hole on the target in front of him.

"it is good!"

Sun Quan laughed loudly, and said to the ministers behind him, "You guys also have a try and feel how this weapon is!"

"promise!"

Xu Shu and the others nodded.

Several of them are civil servants, except for Xu Shu who has some martial arts skills, they are all from frail scholar backgrounds, and they only tried sword dancing when they were in good health, and they are not very familiar with weapons.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

The four ministers, Xun Zhan, Xu Shu, Sima Lang, and Liu Ye, raised their guns in person. After aiming at the target in front of them, they pulled the trigger directly, and the sound of the gun was deafening.

"This target is at least a hundred paces away, right?" After firing a shot, Xun Zhan felt the shoulders holding the butt of the gun a little sore, but when he saw the small hole in the target in front of him, he was shocked and dared not asked confidently.

"One hundred and eight steps!" Ge Xuan replied with a smile.

"shoot with great precision!"

Xun Zhan looked at the musket in his hand and sighed: "I am a literati, I can't lift my hands, I can't carry my shoulders, and I don't know martial arts. One day I can shoot through Yang with a hundred steps. If all our soldiers are so skilled, why worry about the world being injustice!"

"Such a weapon can indeed make the Wu soldiers even more powerful!"

"If the soldiers of our army were all equipped with such terrifying weapons, how could the defeat of Rome come about!"

The minds of several ministers were extremely shocked.

This weapon has gone beyond their common sense.

Whether it is the powerful lethality or the simplicity of the control technology, they are far beyond the bow and arrow.