When Liu Ruihua heard Liu Junfeng's serious words, his face became solemn, and then he nodded seriously.

Liu Ruihua knows that although it is not good to deceive people, many times, ordinary people need to be deceived or deceived. If Liu Ruihua was not sent by General Zhou Yuying, Liu Ruihua's prestige when he organized the team would be greatly reduced.

Next, Liu Ruihua and Liu Junfeng studied some more things, and then the two of them went out to prepare for the training of the members of the musket team.

During this period, Liu Ruihua ran into the woods and took out another Mauser rifle, Liu Ruihua told Liu Junfeng that this rifle was buried in the grove just now, and of course Liu Junfeng believed it. Liu Ruihua treats him like this, and Liu Junfeng is now

"General Liu, that Qing soldier has a foreign gun team, and we are a musket team, this ...... Which one is so powerful?" asked Liu Ruihua with a musket in his hand.

"You fool, of course our musket team is amazing!" General Liu said, isn't it?"

"General Liu, where is our shotgun lit? Why don't you have an arquebus......?"

As soon as Liu Ruihua organized these people, the team members asked.

Liu Junfeng looked at the messy team in front of him, and said loudly: "Don't shout, let General Liu speak!"

Liu Ruihua said with a smile: "Hehe, don't dare to speak." Folks, you may not know the guns in your hands now, do you? I just said that these guns are firearms, which is a traditional saying.

The firebolt was invented in our country for hundreds of years. Now you are holding a gun in your hand, a flintlock pistol bought by the Qing Dynasty government and foreigners! This gun is made of flint and steel, so there is no arquebus! As for whether the foreign gun team is powerful or our musket team is powerful, I don't know this. Because—you say it!"

Seeing that the members of the foreign rifle team were stunned for a moment, Liu Ruihua said loudly: "Not bad! It is you, and you have the final say! As long as you train seriously and hard according to my training methods, your level will soon surpass that of the Qing soldiers! In that case, our musket team will surpass the foreign gun team of the Qing soldiers! You say, do you have the confidence to defeat the Qing soldiers' foreign gun team?"

"There is ......"

"Yes?"

"Is this okay?"

Inside the team, the voices of the answers were a bit garbled.

Liu Ruihua smiled bitterly and looked at Liu Junfeng.

Liu Junfeng said loudly: "What are you doing? Are you still not manly? How can you be like a girl? General Liu asked you if you have the confidence to defeat the Qing army's foreign spear team, and you told me whether you have confidence? If you don't have confidence, General Liu may turn around and leave! In that case, when the Qing army's foreign gun team kills us, we can only let others slaughter us! Is it true that today, there are still fewer people killed by the foreign gun team?

Look at how many women in our village have been spoiled by these beasts? Are there no sisters or mothers among them? How many children have been brutally killed? How many relatives have been killed by the Qing soldiers? Don't you want to take revenge?

"Think, yes! We want revenge! We want revenge!" Liu Junfeng's words immediately made the members of the musket team in front of him angry. Thinking of their relatives who were killed by the foreign rifle team, these members of the musket team were angry, burning, and blood boiling!

Liu Ruihua looked at Liu Junfeng with admiration, in fact, Liu Ruihua also wanted to use this method to motivate the players. But Liu Ruihua also wants to establish Liu Junfeng's prestige. After all, it is impossible for Liu Ruihua to lead this musket team for a long time.

Liu Junfeng saw that the current situation was good, so he looked at Liu Ruihua. Liu Ruihua understood and said loudly to the team again: "Okay, we want to take revenge! We must take revenge! We must defeat the Qing soldiers' foreign guns! Now, you, tell me! You can't, defeat, Qing soldiers' foreign guns!"

"Yes!"

"I can!"

"We can!"

At this moment, all that answered Liu Ruihua was the angry and blood-boiling roar of the musketeers of the team!

Liu Ruihua was very satisfied with this effect, and then waved his hand and said: "Okay! As long as everyone has this spirit and fighting spirit, and has this confidence in victory, then this is a very good start! Next, we will have a flintlock shooting practice tonight! But before we start, I would like to ask Liu Junfeng, the deputy captain of our musket team, to tell you the difference between muskets, arquebuses, and flintlock pistols!"

You must know that Liu Junfeng's eldest brother has worked in the Shenhai Firearms Manufacturing Bureau, and he not only understands all kinds of Chinese and foreign firearms, but also understands foreign languages! Haha, let us welcome Vice Captain Liu Junfeng's speech with warm applause!"

After Liu Ruihua finished speaking, he took the lead in applauding warmly.

The team members were stunned for a moment, and quickly leaned their flintlock pistols against their bodies, and then began to applaud with both hands.

In this era, clapping is not a habit, so the players are more curious.

It's just that Liu Junfeng said just now that General Liu Ruihua is from overseas and knows a lot of advanced things. Maybe this applause is also an overseas habit, right?

Liu Junfeng was stunned for a moment, and looked at Liu Ruihua with a wry smile, he knew that Liu Ruihua was deliberately establishing authority for him. Before this, Liu Ruihua did not say that he wanted Liu Junfeng to be the vice captain.

But now in this situation, Liu Junfeng must go up! He took a few steps forward and pressed his hand, and after the applause subsided, Liu Junfeng said loudly: "Thank you General Liu for your compliment! Compared with General Liu, what I know Liu Junfeng knows, it is absolutely insignificant! However, I do know a little about the manufacture of firearms. So now I will talk about the history of muskets, arquebuses, and flintlock pistols, as well as the differences.

Let's start with the firebolt.

You may know it, you may not know, but let me tell you -- it was our Huaxia who invented gunpowder! And it was our Huaxia who first invented the gunpowder! In our Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, there were some metal tubular shooting firearms, which were firearms, which can also be called fire barrels!

The musket can use gunpowder to fire stone bullets, lead bullets and iron bullets, which is based on the various muskets used for a long time in the Southern Song Dynasty, and gradually developed with the improvement of gunpowder performance, and is an important equipment of the army in the Yuan and Ming dynasties. At that time, our firearms in China were absolutely ahead of the world! Those foreign devils did not dare to come and provoke our country at all! This is a brief introduction to firearms, do you understand?

"Wow, it turns out that gunpowder was invented by our country? ”

"You idiot, I already knew that. But I didn't know that our country was using firecrackles so early?"

"Hey, I really envy that period, how powerful our country was during that period? Think about it now, it's really ......"

The team members sighed one by one.

Liu Ruihua said loudly at this time: "Okay, Deputy Captain Liu Junfeng said it well! Now everyone knows what a firecrackle is, right? I won't think about the great significance of a firecrackle -- because a firecrackle can be loaded not only with gunpowder, but also with spherical iron projectiles or stone balls, this is a precedent for loading projectiles in metal tubular firearms! This is an important contribution of our Chinese people to the development of the world's weapons! Our country has already begun to use a large number of firearms in wars several hundred years ago! In particular, the formation of a special firearms army has caused an epoch-making change between the warring parties from the era of cold weapons to the age of hot weapons!

After the advent of the Yuan Dynasty, the fire guns developed rapidly! In the war in which Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the guns played a very important role! After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of guns were made and used to strengthen border defense, coastal defense, and city defense facilities. Moreover, during the Yongle period, the Ming Dynasty also set up a Shenji battalion with special firearms! This promoted the change of the training and combat methods of the Ming army! The tactics of combining firearms with cold weapons such as broadswords and spears were created and developed. It can be said that in the Ming Dynasty, our country's firearms were absolutely ahead of the world! But what about the Qing Dynasty government? It went so far as to close itself off from the rest of the country, not only did it not develop the firearms that existed during the Ming Dynasty, but it also disdained foreign firearms.

"Ah, the firearms of the Ming Dynasty turned out to be so powerful?"

"But the Ming Dynasty is so powerful, why was it ...... by the Qing Dynasty?"

Liu Ruihua saw that the team members were about to discuss again, so he said loudly: "Okay, let's not talk about these issues first! Just now, Deputy Captain Liu Junfeng talked about the history of firecrackers. Next, I would like to ask Deputy Captain Liu Junfeng to talk about the history of the arquebus! Everyone is welcome!"

Liu Ruihua applauded again after speaking.

The players got used to it a little this time, and the applause soon rang out.

Liu Junfeng smiled at this time: "Now everyone knows how powerful General Liu is, right? I just know the history of the firecracker, but General Liu actually talked about the great significance of the firecracker! Hehe, well, since General Liu drove me to the shelf, then I will continue to offer ugliness and talk about the arquebus!"

Harquebus.

The arquebus gun has a metal hook attached to the gun at one end and a burning arquebus at the other end. When firing, the fire rope is used to ignite the black powder, so that the projectiles contained in the chamber can be fired!

You may wonder if the rope is just a rope? When the rope is lit, it will burn out all at once? Hehe, so those clever people have found a solution to this problem -- a piece of hemp rope or a tightly twisted strip of cloth is soaked in a special liquid, and then it is dried!

Hehe, that's all I know, now everyone welcomes Liu Jiajun to add!"

Liu Junfeng's learning ability is very strong, he can learn from Liu Ruihua for a while now, and take the lead in applauding

The applause of the musketeers immediately rang out. It seems that they have slowly gotten used to the applause.

Liu Ruihua said with a smile: "Okay, then I'll add a little bit! Just now Captain Liu Junfeng said that the fire rope should be soaked in a special liquid, then I will tell you that this liquid is 'potassium nitrate or other salt solutions', which are related to a kind of knowledge called chemistry, and you may slowly understand these in the future." The inquisperi burns very slowly, and the length of the arquebus can be lengthened, so in a war, no matter how long the time is, there is no fear of the arquebus burning out.

It's just that everyone also knows the shortcomings of this arquebus! The disadvantage is that it is afraid of moisture and rain! This is very easy to understand, if it is raining, not to mention whether the gunpowder will get wet, at least the arquebus is easy to extinguish!

Although arquebuses are afraid of moisture, they still have a clear advantage in terms of rate of fire compared to arquebuses! A well-trained archer can fire two bullets every three minutes! If many people fire in rows, they can cause a dense rain of bullets! This lethality is very terrifying! You must know that the long-barreled arquebus has a range of at least 100 meters, and some even 200 meters! You can imagine what kind of situation it would be like if we were armed with broadswords, spears, bows, and arrows against such arquebuses?

"Ah, the range is 200 meters? What is a meter? How far is 200 meters?"

"Stupid, you don't know any rice? 200 meters? That's more than 200 steps, right?"

"More than 200 steps? It is said that a powerful archer can penetrate Yang in a hundred steps, but he can't beat someone's 200-step arquebus!"

The team members began to talk again.

Liu Ruihua said with a smile: "Okay, don't discuss it yet, the old rules, applaud and welcome Liu Junfeng's vice captain award flintlock pistol!"

Liu Junfeng nodded to the members of the musket team amid applause, and then sighed: "Everyone knows that General Liu is very powerful, right? Since you know what chemistry and so on, and you know more about arquebuses than I do! Okay, continue to offer ugliness and talk about flintlock pistols." I don't dare to say too much this time, let's wait to hear General Liu's addition.

Fusiliers.

In the case of flintlock pistols, a small metal hammer is struck with a flint and steel mounted on a flintlock pistol, which produces sparks and ignites the gunpowder. In this way, it is faster than igniting gunpowder with an arquebus, and even when it is wet, flint and steel can still be used! Now we are using a flintlock pistol!

But the specific history of the flintlock pistol should be introduced by General Liu. Because I don't know who invented the flintlock pistol, and it's said that it's also a foreign devil, right?"

Liu Ruihua nodded and immediately said: "There is no accurate statement about the birth of the flintlock pistol. Some people believe that the German watchmaker Johann Kiefers invented this gun, others say that it was an Italian scientist who invented the wheel ignition device, and some people vividly say that the inventor of this gun is an Italian chicken thief, and make up such a seemingly credible story: this chicken thief often goes to be a gentleman at night, and the main tool he uses when stealing chickens is the arquebus, but the arquebus is easy to expose the target, so he used his brains to invent this more concealed revolver lighter.

The story of the invention of the revolver by the German watchmaker Johann Kiefers is generally considered to be more credible. According to the story, Kiefers, who was born in the early 16th century, was famous in the world of watches, not only for his ability to make all kinds of beautiful watches, but also for all kinds of firearms, and to make many beautiful arquebuses himself.

One day, a guest came to Kievers's house, and when the guests smoked and lit the fire, they used the ancient flint friction method to light the fire instead of the popular matches, and the shining sparks of flint instantly aroused Kiefers's inspiration, and he combined the serrated rotating steel wheel on the clock with the flint capable of producing sparks, and with his experience and wisdom, he succeeded in developing the world's first revolving rifle in 1515.

Kiefus's invention of the revolver attracted the attention of the German military, and soon the gun began to be equipped with German cavalry and infantry, and in 1544, when Germany went to war with France, the German cavalry was armed with a revolver and the French army was still armed with arquebuses. In the course of the battle, the French army armed with arquebuses barely fired a single shot, while the German cavalry, which used the revolver musket as the main weapon, became more and more brave and defeated the French soldiers. Soon, the defeated king of France also hired a considerable number of cavalry of the same kind, which were also armed with revolver muskets. In this way, the revolver musket slowly became the main weapon of the cavalry.

Also, because the rear loading musket has not yet been invented, so this has made high requirements for the ammunition loading technology at that time, according to the previous loading method, when loading the projectile, the projectile needs to be put into the muzzle, and the bullet stick is sent with a wooden hammer, and the gun is pushed into the chamber, which is very time-consuming, and on the battlefield, it means a waste of life. Later, gunsmiths in Pennsylvania, USA, created a method of speeding up reloading, using a sheet of linen or deerskin soaked in grease to wrap the projectile and load it into the muzzle, which reduced friction, not only accelerated the reload, but also played a breath-holding role, which increased accuracy and range. This is basically the history of flintlock pistols. ”

"Ah, it was really invented by foreigners? No wonder people are so powerful......

"Well, didn't you say that the firearms of the Qing Dynasty were very good?"

Liu Ruihua heard the discussion of the team members and said with a smile: "Yes! The firearms of the Ming Dynasty are indeed very powerful. And our country already had flintlock pistols in the Ming Dynasty!

In 1635, the Ming Dynasty firearms researcher Bi Maokang also made a flintlock pistol. Its construction and performance are not much different from the previous birds, mainly with an improved ignition device. Since the advent of the firebolt, the arquebus ignition method that has been used in China for more than 200 years has been improved to flint fire. This is a major innovation in the history of firearms in our country. Because the use of the fire rope ignition, there are many disadvantages, in the case of stormy weather, the gunpowder in the fire door is either blown away by the wind or wet by the rain, so that it cannot be fired, and sometimes it is misfired prematurely before it is aimed. Bi Maokang recorded a percussive flintlock pistol, in which the tap of the buckle machine was pressed down, and it was angry due to the action of the spring rubbing against the flint. In this way, not only did they overcome the difficulties caused by wind and rain in shooting, but they also did not need to press the faucet with their hands, so that the aiming was more accurate and they could be fired at any time. The flintlock pistol is equipped with a flint automatic lighter device, which is not afraid of wind and rain and does not need to be ignited by the fire rope in advance, and the firing speed and accuracy are greatly improved. It is a significant change in the history of firearms in China!

It's a pity that the Qing Dynasty government didn't know the power of firearms in the Ming Dynasty at all. They even wanted to import flowering shells from England? They thought that China could not make such advanced weapons, but they did not know that the arsenal of the Ming Dynasty that they took over still contained a batch of flowering shells of the Ming Dynasty, and these shells of the Ming Dynasty were superior to those of the British in terms of quality, range, and lethality. In 1840, the foreign devils came over and found a Ming Dynasty arsenal, and found that the flint muskets sealed in it were not at all behind what they were using! The Chinese people had already solved the problem of arquebuses not being able to fire on rainy days in the Ming Dynasty more than 200 years ago!

"Wow, that's amazing......"

The team members talked about it again.