The pillar painted by Gao Pragmatic, even he doesn't know what it should be called, but the function of this thing is really to adjust the height of the muzzle, and its origin is still the inspiration he got when he watched two military fans tear each other apart on a forum.

The object he painted, which he tentatively named the butt, is not actually a complete column, but a cylindrical iron pillar split from the middle, similar to the telescopic antenna of later radios, with a runner mechanism in the middle part, which can adjust the degree of telescopic and telescopic degrees, and divide several scales to adjust the height of different gun muzzles.

"Qi Dudu, I am not a person in the army, and I don't know very well the range of various types of artillery in our army at the moment, but in any case, the muzzle level must have an impact on the range and angle of fire of the artillery." Gao Pragmatic sighed: "In the next period of time, I may be busy and unable to carry out this type of test, so I can only provide you with such a drawing, as for manufacturing and testing, etc., I can only ask Qi Dudu to carry it out himself." ”

Qi Jiguang's military acumen is so remarkable, and he can't make an empty judgment now about the specific value of this "gun stock", but as Gao Shiyu said, it must have a great impact on the range and other aspects!

As for Gao Pragmatic's statement that he has no time to make and experiment, he is completely understandable, after all, he is now the prince's companion, not to mention, and he is still in the study period, no matter how amazing and brilliant he is, it is impossible to waste too much energy on these weapons - this thing can't make him a gold list.

"How dare you read a word of invitation as a senior attendant? Gao Shiyu must not say this, Qi is really ashamed. Qi Jiguang said sincerely.

Gao pragmatic saw that the sky was a little cloudy, and he was a little worried that it would rain later, so he didn't say anything more, changed the topic, and talked about the next type.

"Muskets—oh, I mean hand-held firearms, including all sorts of handcuffs—I wonder what the level of equipment of our army is at the moment?" He originally planned to replace it with a "musket", but suddenly remembered that the Ming Dynasty was more accustomed to being called "gun", so he temporarily added a sentence.

Of course, this aspect is difficult for Qi Jiguang, only to see him say like a few treasures: "There are many types of my Da Ming Huo Gun......

However, Gao Pragmatic directly interrupted him this time: "Don't talk about all kinds of things, Qi Dudu, it's not that I slander the wisdom of the firearms craftsmen of the past generations, although many of these things are quite creative, they all have two problems." ”

Qi Jiguang was slightly stunned and asked, "Which two questions?" ”

Gao pragmatic said with a sad face: "Variety is a very important problem in itself. He paused for a moment and said: "I remember that when you were training the sergeant of the army and practicing martial arts, Qi Dudu emphasized many times that there is no need for tricks in battle, you must pay attention to practicality, and it is best to defeat the enemy with one move, yes or no?" ”

This was indeed a basic idea of Qi Jiguang's training of Qi Jiajun, so he nodded without hesitation: "Yes." ”

"It's the same with muskets, at most two or three models are enough, but at the moment I know of the Saigon guns, the Lianzi guns, the swarm bees, the double guns, the double-barreled guns, the three-barreled guns, the four-barreled guns...... All the way to the ten-barreled gun, what are the three-eyed guns, thirty-six-barreled guns, etc., which seem to be magnificent, but how many are the real combat effects are good? ”

Qi Jiguang said with a wry smile: "Our Southern Army prefers the Bird Gun or the Saigon Gun improved according to the Bird Gun, and the Northern Army prefers the Three-Eyed Gun, in addition, it is still used in a swarm, and the rest ...... There are a lot of them in the warehouse, but few people are willing to use them in normal times, and sometimes they are temporarily in response to the war and are not well armed, but they will be taken out to decorate the façade. ”

Gao Shishi shook his head: "These various firearms, with different charges, the number reaches dozens, which soldier remembers so clearly?" Once there is a lack of weapons at the time of the battle, you have to go into battle with just one piece, and you can't even remember the amount of charge, how can this battle be fought? That's it, the size of their projectiles is not the same, and the temporary operation should be divided into dozens of ammunition and guns to match? How can you hit if the bullets don't match? It's a catastrophic logistical system. Why didn't these miscellaneous department stores be withdrawn, and only those two or three kinds were used—such as the Saigong gun, the three-eyed gun, and a swarm of bees that Qi Dudu just said? ”

Saigon Gun is a localized bird gun after the Ming Dynasty imitated and improved the introduction of Western guns, from the point of view of technical indicators, it can be regarded as world-class, as for the manufacturing quality of batch equipment in the army, it is difficult to say.

The three-eyed gun is more famous, and many Ming wear novels have been carefully talked about, so I won't mention it, anyway, it is a medium-range musket (calculated according to the average level of the times), and it can also be used as a cold weapon after shooting, which is quite popular with the rugged and heroic northern military lords.

As for the swarm, it was a melee firearm, and it was even a bit difficult to say that it was a gun, it could shoot a hundred bullets at a time, it had a large dispersion, it had many chances of hitting, and it was light and agile, and the soldier could carry it around his waist with a belt. In the eyes of posterity, it looks like a short, thick one-time shotgun.

In fact, judging from the preference of the northern and southern armies for the choice of hand-held firearms, the northern army appears to be more unrestrained, and the way of fighting is biased towards firing a wave of firearms in the medium and long distances, and then directly smashing people with firearms in close combat; The Southern Army was more sophisticated, specializing in firearms and cold weapons. As for the swarm, you might as well think of it as a pistol for later generations, which can only fight at short range, of course, because the accuracy and power of firearms in this era are very limited, so they are made into scattered bullets - I can't penetrate your body, I will shoot a large piece, in case it hits your eyes, throat and other vital points, won't you make money?

From a long-term point of view, the Southern Army's combat methods are more reasonable, and there is a specialization in the arts.

However, because the development of hot weapons requires a process, and this process may take one or two hundred years to completely eliminate cold weapons without human intervention such as traversers, in fact, the combat methods of the Northern Army cannot be said to be unreasonable.

However, the three-eyed gun must be an outdated product in Gao Shishi's eyes, and sooner or later he will come up with a rifle with a bayonet to replace it. However, before that, the thermal weapon combat capability of the musket itself needs to be improved, otherwise it may reduce the density of firepower or the instantaneous amount of projectiles.

In fact, Gao Pragmatic felt that with Qi Jiguang's military talent, he should not be unable to see this kind of drawback, so he asked this question.

Qi Jiguang really didn't see the problem, but he smiled bitterly: "Don't hide it from the high servant, this problem is not only known to me Qi, who can't see the number of towns in the world?" It's just that...... I can't tell. ”