The navy has but the army does not have, generally only professional and technical weapons, because the navy and the army combat is very different, at this stage the navy's combat mission and the army do not have much intersection, but this is not difficult Jiang Tian, many of his designs because can not be lined up in the Academy of Sciences, so after the establishment of the Naval Research Institute, he will use the navy's research and development funds close to the water, legally speaking, these research results and patented technology belong to the navy, so the remaining question is how to let the army fancy naval weapons. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

As a technical branch of the armed forces, the navy is also the most expensive branch of the military for a long time, and its technical content and complexity are the highest, and there are many common equipment on land and sea in Chinese and foreign history, and now that the technical level is not very high, this kind of general equipment is more common, such as muskets and artillery. But the army also has these things, and the requirements of the army and the navy in the use of artillery are not quite the same, the army has more muskets than the navy, and the experience of using them is even richer.

"Why are you only staring at weapons?" Jiang Tian looked at them with a smile: "Yijian, you can be regarded as having seen the battlefield, what do you need to march and fight besides weapons?" ”

Liu Baokai said without thinking: "In addition to the blades of knives, guns and blades, it is the most important grain and grass, I remember when I was a child, I fought with my father, there were several times when the grain and grass were cut off, I had to kill horses to satisfy hunger, and then although there was fried noodles, but the emergency was acceptable, if you eat for a long time, you will not only get night blindness, this appetite will also burn unbearable." ”

Song Yi continued: "Now the fried noodles have been replaced by compressed biscuits, although they are easy to carry, but the taste has not changed much, Mr. wants to sell all kinds of canned food to the army?" ”

"Yes, it's not right!" Jiang Tian shook his head and said: "Canned food is indeed suspicious to solve the supply problem of the expedition of the army, but the profit of this thing is low and the production threshold is also low, except for the navy's munitions factory, if your family's family wants to get involved in this industry, as long as there are enough raw materials to be marketable, it is okay for the navy to make a little money from this, but it is impossible to rely on it to expand the fleet." So there has to be another way,"

These people knew that Jiang Tian was already confident, and now was the time to test himself, so they used their brains to think together, and after thinking about it, they found a few equipment that might be useful for the navy and army.

"According to your statement......" Song Yi exchanged glances with the others: "Engineer equipment, carrying equipment, fast field tents and even four-wheeled carriages are all developed with the funds of the Royal Naval Research Institute, and they are also the first to be distributed to the Marine Corps, and in terms of weapons, the revelor repeating musket is also a lightweight version of the marine type, if the army wants to ......"

Everyone's eyes were focused on Liu Baokai, only his family was from the army among the people present, I saw him frowning and thinking: "The problem shouldn't be big, but this is not a matter for my family to decide, and I have seen the continuous firing gun, it is indeed sharp, but the original design of this gun is for the Marine Corps to stick to the beachhead, although the cavalry can carry it for long-distance maneuvering, but it cannot be used on horses, nor can it be operated by a single person to shoot, so the cavalry should not buy this gun." ”

Jiang Tian thought about it, although he did say at the beginning that he would not look for business opportunities in weapons, but since he talked about this, maybe he could create new profit opportunities: "The cavalry's musket is now mainly a short-barreled army rifle, and it is still a single-one structure, and the cavalry must be loaded in advance when charging, and there is no time to reload and fire after firing a shot." If you can fire a few more shots like you did at the three-eyed gun, you should be able to reduce the pressure of hand-to-hand combat. ”

After Jiang Tian created a magazine rifle, whether it was King Ji or Liu Junding, these cavalry-born generals immediately realized that this was a weapon that changed the mode of war, although it had not yet reached the point of subverting the dominance of cavalry, but it could allow their own cavalry to break through the enemy's defense line with a devastating momentum, but the high price finally made the wealthy army daunting, only equipped a cavalry company and an infantry company for the forbidden army, and the rest was the so-called reward for meritorious men and the formation of elite sniper troops.

Developing a weapon is not a problem for Jiang Tian, the question is what kind of weapon is needed? Originally, Jiang Daren developed a magazine rifle regardless of the cost, although the performance was amazing but no one could afford to use it, and it turned out to be a toy in the hands of a very small number of people, Emperor Zhang gritted his teeth and formed an independent sniper unit, just the cost of training made the roots of the army sour at the root, so how to improve the performance of the weapon without increasing the budget too much has become the key to testing Jiang Tian's design level.

"In the past, it wasn't that I was unwilling to design the best weapons, but it was just because the cost of refitting the whole army was too high, and the existing firepower could already crush the surrounding opponents, so His Majesty vetoed my refitting plan, and now if you need to equip a single unit with a unique weapon, it should be able to be approved." Jiang Tian still didn't have anything to say, at first Zhang Tao thought that Jiang Tian could solve the processing problem of new weapons, and then after Jiang Daren's repeated science popularization, he learned that the problem that needs to be solved in order to mass-produce magazine rifles is not design drawings, but a complete set of industrial systems.

Hearing that a separate weapon could be developed for the cavalry, Liu Baokai was excited: "Sir, do you mean that the cavalry can use that kind of rifle with continuous fire?" ”

Jiang Tian nodded and shook his head: "It can be fired in bursts, but it is definitely not the kind of rifle in your father's hand, let's talk about the specific situation when it is made." ”

Because he wanted to find funds for the navy, the research and development work was placed in the Naval Research Institute, and Song Yi originally wanted to participate, but firstly, he was not from the navy, and secondly, Jiang Tian also wanted to let the people from the research institute practice, so he didn't take him to play. But this gang of gentlemen can't be idle, and they spread the news that Master Jiang is developing a new rifle, thinking that they will also launch network propaganda, but they didn't think that his appeal is greater than they expected, and the people in the military are like cats that smell fish, and they are asking what kind of weapon it is, and how much can it cost?

Liu Junding sent away another colleague in the army who came to inquire about the news, and stood in his yard thinking about something alone, and the pervert didn't dare to disturb when he saw his father, so he had to stand aside and wait. After a long while, Old Man Liu turned his head to look at his son: "How much Qianqian do you have in your husband's stomach?" ”

"This ......" Liu Baokai thought for a while: "Although the child learns from Mr., what he learns is nothing more than what Mr. knows, and the more time passes, the more he feels that Mr.'s knowledge is deep, and it is bottomless!" The child also heard Dexin say that Mr. Song once said: He has never seen the door of science in his life, but Mr. Jiang has long been an insider. If it weren't for his advanced age, Boss Song would even intend to follow him. ”

"It's okay to die at night!" Old man Liu sighed: "Old Master Kong's words are really wrong to use on Lord Song, I thought that I had been fighting horses all my life, and I was an expert in marching and fighting, and I had never seen any battles with Your Majesty, and the war in this world was nothing more than that." His Majesty also mentioned that the cavalry would be useless in the end of the development of this firearm, but I should not have a chance to see that kind of war, but now it seems that maybe the old man will really see the decline of the cavalry in his lifetime! ”

Liu Baokai gasped and didn't know how to speak. It's not that he can't see that Jiang Tian has upgraded his weapons again and again, and the biggest impact is not the navy that has changed shotguns, nor the army that has gone to the next level, but the cavalry of their family, which was originally the king of land warfare. The cavalry's biggest reliance is its mobility ability, whether it is strategic or tactical, it is precisely because of the fast speed and strong impact ability, few armies can resist the attack of cavalry under field conditions, although Emperor Zhang used the combination of heavy infantry and musketeers in actual combat, more than once stopped the Manchu cavalry, but the defense is more than enough to attack, and the pursuit of the enemy still has to rely on cavalry, but Liu Baokai knows very well in his heart that as long as Jiang Tian is given enough funds, he can really create a weapon that completely buries the cavalry.

He just didn't want to think about it before, although he didn't go too far with the fleet when he ran away from home this time, he saw with his own eyes that when the gap in weapons was large enough to a certain extent, the backward side could really only be killed. Whether it is the Zheng family or Yangyi entrenched in Southeast Asia, after seeing the fleet escorting the Spanish envoys, affected by the defeat of the Dutch fleet, no one dares to have a trace of resistance. He also heard a name from the mouths of those Chinese businessmen and expatriates more than once - Zheng He!

This fleet commander, who had the same religious beliefs as him Liu Baokai, once commanded the most powerful fleet in the world at that time to sail to the Western Ocean seven times, and it is still talked about by the residents along the way. Liu Baokai seemed to have found an opportunity to reflect his own value while being proud, and today his father asked about the way out of the cavalry, and he hesitated again, not knowing how to explain to his father that he wanted to change careers to the navy.

"Dad, the child thinks that everything in this world is contradictory, and the cavalry was not what it is now when it was born, if the weapon changes, then let's change it, and the child also heard from Mr. Jiang that ......"

"What did you hear?" Liu Junding looked at his son, whose temperament had changed a lot.

"I heard that ......" Liu Baokai hesitated for a moment: "Mr. Jiang said that the reason why cavalry is cavalry is not because it rides a horse but because its mobility is higher than that of other arms, even if there are no horses in the future, there will be other substitutes, as long as the mobility is still higher than others, it can still be called cavalry." ”

"Nonsense!" Old man Liu's face turned red, and although he realized that he had lost his temper, he couldn't help but refute this statement: "What kind of cavalry is it called without a horse!" ”

Liu Baokai thought to himself that he knew that you would say this, but he didn't dare to refute it: "What my father said is that the child also feels a little inappropriate, but this at least represents an assumption of Lord Jiang, and if there is a sufficient number of repeating guns, the number of cavalry is really impossible to break through if the number is small, and the number is too much......"

He didn't say what he said later, but Old Man Liu knew what he wanted to say, a large-scale group charge could indeed break through any line of defense, but did it make sense to pay a lot of casualties? The hard-trained people and horses have become ghosts under the gun, and if they have to fight for the sake of righteousness, they can pay it back, but if they encounter the situation of blind command of literati in the late Ming Dynasty, won't it become a senseless death?

Therefore, no matter what the fate of the cavalry will be in the future, it is necessary to keep up with the times now, not to lag too far behind the mainstream equipment, and if possible, it must be better equipped than the general army, otherwise it is really possible to be eliminated, based on this consideration, Liu Junding has no choice but to follow Jiang Tian's train of thought.

The initiator just wanted to make some money for shipbuilding, but he didn't expect to invisibly promote the military reform that would inevitably be triggered after the redress, which may lead to competition between the services, this kind of unintentional insertion, Zhang Tao understood after receiving the report, originally he didn't want to engage in specialization, but he was eager to launch the Northern Expedition itself to expose the problem of cutting out the weak army, and in the past two days, there have been many old people in the army who have written to fight for the opportunity to change their troops, obviously everyone understands that the troops with poor performance this time will definitely be withdrawn, After pondering for a moment, Zhang Tao, as the commander of the three armies, gave a unified reply to these twists and turns: this redress is only to select a suitable cavalry gun for the cavalry, and the rest of the troops are not included in this redress.

The leader set the tone, and the others couldn't say anything, the cavalry, as the main force of the Northern Expedition, had a royal relative like King Ji, and his position was more stable than that of other branches of the military, even if he was disarmed, he couldn't cut them off, so it was reasonable to give priority to equipping new weapons, which made them even more curious about what kind of musket could be better than the guy they were using now.

Because the structure is simple and the principle is not complicated, the Institute quickly came up with a finished product, which fully meets the requirements of riding a gun after testing, and the price is not too expensive, the only disadvantage is that it is not easy to reload ammunition when riding a horse. This problem is a big disadvantage in Jiang Tian's opinion, but compared with the front-loading musket, the new rifle can be called a huge progress, on the day of the cavalry gun inspection, not only the cavalry generals were present, but also a lot of people from other branches of the military came, Zhang Tao naturally will not miss this opportunity, he is the person who is most concerned about the development of weapons, but until now Jiang Tian has focused on research and development on the navy side, and the army weapons have not made much progress because of the problems of the industrial system, even if he is the emperor in this regard.

At this time, Jiang Tian's value is reflected, and the technical problems in the eyes of others are in his hands, but they are just small things that can be solved by talking and laughing, just like this riding gun, Jiang Tian used one of the many excessive models in history before the maturity of the magazine rifle. In terms of firing principle, it is actually a large revolver rifle, because this kind of gun has an irreparable problem of not holding your breath strictly, which affects the range very much, so it is just a flash in the pan in history, and now the all-metal fixed ammunition can not be popularized, so Jiang Tian can only use paper shell fixed ammunition and metal bullet bottom, although the loading problem is solved, but the range is still greatly affected, and the whole gun is only 70 meters effective range in an ideal state, which is still due to the length of the barrel of 300 mm.

Bang bang bang...... After firing five bullets in one breath without pause, Liu Baokai sat on his horse and his eyes showed an unconcealable shock. He volunteered to test the new gun not because he was bold, but since he saw this gun, he knew that there was no suspense in this order, he just wanted to be the first to try the power of the new gun, but he was shocked when he felt what semi-automatic firepower was for the first time.

Not only him, but also other military personnel who observed the scene were also surprised by the intensity of firepower, although there was only a half-chest target standing fifty meters away, but the sand and dust stirred up behind the target fully explained the density of the impact point, which was much sharper than the flip-type magazine rifle that had already begun to be installed, although that thing was also invented by Jiang Tian, but it used a full paper shell with chicken ribs to set the ammunition, and every time it was fired, the bolt was pulled to open the magazine, and the bullet was accurately placed in the large steel ammunition barrel on the flip over, Then push the bolt to reset the ammunition barrel so that it can be fired, and the next time you shoot, you should also pay attention to not have too much residue in the ammunition barrel, otherwise it may lead to blind fire.

Originally, they felt that although this rifle was not as good as the all-metal cartridge rifle, it was already much stronger than the front-loading flintlock pistol, especially after the improved ****** and warhead shape, the power and range were greatly improved, although the gun was a little heavier, but it was still worth it compared to the improved performance. But after seeing this revolver rifle today, I realized that the musket can be played like this!

Fortunately, among these people, Zhang Tao is a knowledgeable person, and he saw His Majesty the Emperor shake his head and said: "It's a pity that this can only be an excessive weapon, except for cavalry, at most, it is equipped for fire support personnel in the squad platoon for self-defense, or to clean up enemy strongholds during street fighting." ”

"That's right!" Jiang Tian did not hide the shortcomings of this rifle: "The revolver structure is simple, and the processing technology is not complicated, but due to the defects of the bullet, the problem of the breech is not strict is further amplified, I can only increase the size of the ammunition and the amount of charge, so it can only ensure the effective range of 70 meters, as a cavalry weapon, its range is just more than the enemy's cavalry bow, but as an infantry weapon, his range is not even as good as the infantry bow, and it is only useful when the enemy rushes to the front, or when he conducts a round of fire before hand-to-hand combat with the enemy." That's why I didn't promote this structure in the Army. ”

His statement made those army generals nod their heads incessantly, the range of seventy meters sounds very far, but when faced with a large horn tendon recurve compound bow on the grassland, there is only one possibility that people can't hold their heads up, so it really can't be promoted on a large scale in the army.

"But!" The corners of Jiang Tian's mouth curled slightly: "This kind of gun can be improved, it can be turned into a pistol that can be grasped with one hand, and it is equipped with middle and senior officers as a self-defense weapon, because the caliber is relatively large, and it can also use a kind of shotgun with a lot of lead pellets, and when facing the enemy who is rushing towards him intensively, it can cause large-scale damage without aiming." ”