Ideas are beautiful, but reality does not allow them.

Before the cannon was rifled, it was hoped that the gun would be rifled. It's basically a fool's dream.

As for what Bi Maokang said, the time is ripe, and Zhu Youxiao also wants to wait.

But Zhu Youxiao knew that he had no way to wait, and he couldn't afford to wait. The next Daming will definitely be very chaotic, and it can be said that there is smoke everywhere.

How long Xiong Tingbi can hold out in Liaodong is simply unknown. Although there are no problems so far, I am very relieved.

However, there have always been large and small war reports on the Liaodong side, and it can only be said that the situation has been barely stabilized, and it is basically unrealistic to want to completely gain a foothold, or to say that it is a counteroffensive.

In such a situation, weapons research and development and army building are definitely in the first place.

I can't wait, I need fast production and fast assembly. We know what is the best, but we can't wait until the best comes out to make it, right?

By that time, the daylilies were all cold. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao knows very well that Bi Maokang's suggestion can only be a suggestion.

Not only do you need to produce, but you also need large-scale production and large-scale assembly. At least Qi Jin's troops had to ensure that they were all reloaded with flintlock pistols.

So Zhu Youxiao said: "Let's produce according to this prototype." Your research also continues, when it is successfully developed, when the new one is produced, and when the old one is eliminated. ”

Zhu Youxiao saw what Jian Bi Maokang was going to say, and said slowly: "It's so decided." ”

So Bi Maokang didn't say anything more. He knows he can give advice, but he always has to know one thing, and that is who is in charge.

Xu Guangqi glanced at Bi Maokang, a little helpless.

He felt that his apprentice's political sensitivity was not enough, not that this apprentice's advice to His Majesty was.

This suggestion is good, but Bi Maokang did not think of the current situation of Daming at all, and did not consider the situation from the overall situation.

If Bi Maokang stays in Baigong Academy for the rest of his life, this may not be a problem.

Originally, I was quite optimistic about Bi Maokang and wanted him to go out from the Baigong Institute to do something in the future, but now it seems that it is still over.

Without a view of the overall situation, it is a fatal shortcoming for a high-ranking official in the DPRK and China.

With the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, the new equipment must be assembled as soon as possible. Whether it is Liaodong or the DPRK, all of them are needed, otherwise Xu Guangqi will not insist on training the new army.

The imperial court now has no available army, and an army needs to be formed as soon as possible. Bi Maokang didn't see this, this is a big shortcoming.

Zhu Youxiao didn't think about it, and he didn't plan to let Bi Maokang do other things, as long as Bi Maokang can take care of the Baigong Academy, his credit is already big enough.

"Put a few shots and try it." Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "Let me see the power." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Bi Maokang agreed, and then beckoned to the people not far away.

Several people walked up quickly, and they began to reload their bullets quickly, and then shot at the target not far away.

The greatest advantage of the flintlock pistol is that it hits the flint heavily on the edge of the fire door, causing sparks to emerge and ignite the gunpowder.

It greatly simplifies the firing process, improves the firing rate and shooting accuracy, is easy to use, and has a low cost and facilitates mass production.

In the process of shooting, Zhu Youxiao had already seen the advantages.

The rate of fire of the flintlock pistol is much faster than that of the original firearm, and a skilled shooter can shoot 3~5 rounds per minute. The most critical point. It is unaffected by the weather and can be used in rainy days.

Of course, the fire guns of the Ming Dynasty are not so garbage, and the most important thing is the garbage created.

The low yield of firearms, the high consumption, and the high failure rate are all human problems. Many soldiers in the border army will explode their chambers when they use firearms, and the firecrackers produced by the military headquarters will blow up their own people before fighting.

However, this will not be the case in the Baigong Institute, the standard manufacturing process, the manufacturing method of excellence, and the strict supervision system all ensure that the products produced by the Baigong Workshop must be high-quality products.

This is known from the report sent back from Liaodong, and the use effect over there is very good.

Xiong Tingbi has already put on the book more than once, hoping that he can allocate him some more firearms from the Hundred Crafts. It's just that the Apocalypse Vulcan Gun made last time was all experiments, and Zhu Youxiao didn't pay attention to him at all

At this time, the mass production of such a firearm is simply 49 years into the national army.

After the smoke of the flames dissipated, Zhu Youxiao nodded with satisfaction, turned his head and said, "Let me try it." ”

As soon as these words came out, they directly startled Bi Maokang.

He didn't have the courage to let His Majesty try, so he set his eyes on Xu Guangqi for help.

Xu Guangqi, who was on the side, took a step forward and said, "Your Majesty, firearms are dangerous after all, so don't try them, right?" ”

"Reload." Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "I believe in you. ”

As soon as these words came out, he naturally couldn't refuse anymore, so Bi Maokang took a flintlock pistol, personally loaded the gunpowder and projectiles into it, and then handed it to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao took the flintlock pistol, made a three-point aiming posture, and then pulled the trigger.

After a bang, Zhu Youxiao's body shook.

I didn't expect the recoil to be quite large, even if I was prepared, I was shocked.

As for the bullets, they will definitely not hit the place where Zhu Youxiao is aiming. A gun without rifling is simply impossible to point and shoot, aiming is just a joke.

There is no problem of aiming at smoothbore guns at all, because it is useless to aim, so it requires fire coverage, large-scale assembly, and then phalanxes, rows and rows of guns.

Zhu Youxiao smiled and handed the flintlock pistol in his hand to Bi Maokang, and said, "Put it away, the things are very good, you have done a good job, I will look back and let people be rewarded for their meritorious deeds." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Bi Maokang hurriedly said.

"Pull up your rifled artillery and try it for me to see." Zhu Youxiao said with a smile again.

This is a problem that Zhu Youxiao is very concerned about, because once there is a rifled artillery, it means that the shells can be fired very quickly. And it is able to concentrate the target very accurately.

The shells that can be aimed at are naturally much more powerful.

Of course, smoothbore guns can also be targeted. Later mortars were still smoothbore guns, but shells with tail fins were needed to accurately hit the target and calculate the landing point of the shells.

Zhu Youxiao naturally told Bi Maokang about this, and they were also researching. However, this is more difficult, because the shell must explode after the gunpowder hits the ground.

Although Daming also has shells that can explode after landing, they definitely can't meet the requirements of mortars, so they have to start researching again, and there is no progress for a while.

The progress is relatively large, in fact, it is the rifling of the artillery. Of course, the scientific and technological workers of the Ming Dynasty are not without their own ideas, for example, they have researched a new fire dragon water.

They adopted the idea put forward by Zhu Youxiao and made a second-stage launch.

The front was loaded with a large amount of gunpowder, which was mixed with a lot of porcelain and steel fragments to increase the lethality, and even iron balls, and the tail was used to fix the flight in the back, and it was launched with a launcher.

No matter how Zhu Youxiao looks at this thing, it looks like a prototype of a missile.

When Bi Maokang delivered this idea to Zhu Youxiao, he really startled Zhu Youxiao.

Since they wanted to do it, Zhu Youxiao let them do it. It's just that there hasn't been much progress yet, and there are still many problems that need to be solved.

According to Bi Maokang's design, the new fire dragon uses a two-stage launch, with the gunpowder in the front being pushed and the fire in the back being blasted, which will produce great power after blasting.

What needs to be solved now is the problem of pushing, the problem of sealing, and the problem of landing explosion. The problem of fixing the tail wing, Bi Maokang and they have almost solved it, and they can solve all this problem.

If he can really make something designed by Bi Maokang, Zhu Youxiao is still looking forward to its power.

Let's look at the rifled gun first, this is what can be handled.

Soon the artillery was pulled up.

The steel frame wheels, all already equipped, can be walked by horse.

There was a not too large cannon on it, and it was clear that the caliber and power of this cannon would not be too great. Of course, it's impossible to pull the big one up here.

Looking at the color of this artillery, Zhu Youxiao knew that this should be a bronze cannon, and obviously it still failed to solve the rifling problem on the steel cannon. However, Zhu Youxiao believes that it will not take long.

Someone brought a wooden box over and opened the lid to reveal the shells inside. This is a newly designed flowering bomb.

You know, because of the power of black powder, the flowering bomb is not the mainstream now.

The current mainstream is still a solid iron bullet, which relies on the inertia of the launched to kill and injure the enemy, and it is also used to break through dense formations, and it is not as strong as in later generations.

The purpose of this new design of the flowering shell is to match the new rifled artillery.

Bi Maokang put a lot of thought into this, because in order to cooperate with rifled artillery, round shells would definitely not work. However, if a long shell is used, then it will not roll on the ground, and the solid will be meaningless.

Therefore, it is necessary to use new shells to match rifled artillery. The only thing that can be used is the flowering bomb.

In order to increase the power of the flowering bomb as much as possible, Bi Maokang and the others also put a lot of effort into gunpowder.

For example, the use of granular gunpowder and the increase in the concentration of raw materials to make the gunpowder as powerful as possible and produce more fragments from the explosion to increase the power of the shell.

Now this kind of shell is the best they can make, the shape is similar to the later Mini bullet, because it has rifling, so the accuracy can also be guaranteed.

Zhu Youxiao quickly walked to the back of the artillery and looked at it carefully.

This is actually a rear-loading gun, the design is inspired by the Franky gun, and it is still very different from the rear-loading cannon of the later generations of fixed-loading gunpowder shells, and it looks far less sophisticated and easy to use.

There is a belly in the back of the gun, and each time you have to fill it with a projectile, and then use the fire to ignite the propellant, pushing out the cast-iron flowering shell in front of it, and at the same time igniting the lead in the tail of the flowering shell.

The cannonball flies out and burns in the air, then hits the ground and explodes.

Zhu Youxiao doesn't think it's reliable, but it's a direction.

Of course, the problem that needs to be overcome is the metal fixed artillery shell, as long as the problem of the metal fixed artillery shell can be solved, the power will definitely be able to go up a notch, and the rate of fire will definitely be higher.

Even so, this gun was advanced enough at this time.

"Let's give it a shot." Zhu Youxiao looked at Bi Maokang and said.

Bi Maokang hurriedly moved to the distance not far away.

Two men walked over quickly, and they began to reload the guns.

First, the shell was stuffed into the barrel from behind, and then the belly of the gun was filled with a paper-wrapped propellant.

After getting Zhu Youxiao's permission, Bi Maokang personally walked over and used a torch to ignite the fever medicine.

With a bang, the smoke rose instantly, and the cannonball flew out of the barrel in an instant, and then fell to the ground with a white line, making a boom.

In an instant, earth and rocks splashed, and smoke and dust rose everywhere.

After Zhu Youxiao saw this scene, he nodded with satisfaction, and then turned his head to Bi Maokang and said, "Go over and see how powerful it is." ”

In fact, this design is very rigid, because the amount of propellant determines the launch distance.

At the same time, the firing distance determines the length of the lead in the shell, which in turn determines the distance of the explosion.

If you want to hit closer, you may not blow up after landing, so you need to wait a little longer.

However, these faults or shortcomings are not too important in terms of the power it can cause.

Hearing that Zhu Youxiao wanted to go over to have a look, everyone didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed.

By the time the group walked to the front of the crater, Zhu Youxiao had already walked there first.

Looking at the crater that exploded in front of him, Zhu Youxiao found that the power of this kind of cannon was not great, and only a crater of less than one meter was blown up, let alone how deep it was.

But the scarecrows around them were filled with fragments from the explosion. This made Zhu Youxiao very satisfied, this kind of artillery relied on the fragments from the explosion to kill and injure the enemy soldiers.

Bi Maokang carefully looked at His Majesty's expression, as if he was afraid that His Majesty would not be satisfied, so he hurriedly said on the side: "Your Majesty, this is the smallest caliber artillery designed by the Hundred Gongyuan, if the caliber is increased. Then the power will be even greater. ”

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Bi Maokang and said with a smile: "The weight will also be heavier." ”

The bigger the artillery, the more the propellant, the bigger the shell, the more natural power there is. Of course, the heavier it will be, the more cumbersome it will be to transport in this day and age.

If the transportation problem cannot be solved, then everything else is nonsense. The big guy can only be used to defend the city, but it should be much better than the other artillery.