Yushan Soldiers' Bureau.

On this day, Liu Juntao hurried over with Bai Yuxing's subordinates, and before he could take a breath, he went straight to the firearms workshop of the military battle bureau.

This time, Liu Juntao came for nothing else, especially for the urgent report sent by Zhang Baigui!

It turned out that as early as a few months ago, Liu Juntao handed over the drawings of the three-eyed gun to Zhang Baigui, and wanted Zhang Baigui to build the three-eyed gun in batches according to the style of the drawings and deliver it to Zhou Zongsheng's horse team.

Of course, Liu Juntao's design of the three-eyed gun is an improved style, not only adding iron nails to the gun, increasing the thickness and length of the gun, but also adding a long handle to the three-eyed gun.

In this way, the three-eyed gun designed by Liu Juntao can not only fire on the galloping warhorse, but also use the three-eyed gun in his hand as a mace after shooting, which is convenient and fierce!

This kind of tactics is actually the common tactics of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry in the late Ming Dynasty in later generations, and Liu Juntao just used it for reference.

When Zhang Baigui accompanied Liu Juntao to the firearms workshop, Yan Hu also rushed over when he heard the news, and the three of them came to a wooden frame, only to see a black fire gun on it.

Liu Juntao happily picked up the gun and looked at it carefully, only to see that there are three guns in this firecracker, the shape is like three bamboos, each gun tube is a single gun combined, each gun tube has a small hole on the outside, add gunpowder in the gun tube when used, and finally fill the steel ball or cast iron block, broken iron sand, etc., add the fire rope at the small hole, ignite the fire rope when using, detonate the gunpowder to launch the projectile, and the three gun tubes can shoot in turns.

There is a handle seat at the tail of the three-eyed gun, and a wooden pole with a length of about 1.7 meters is installed to hold it, so that the shooter can be safe, and the three-eyed gun can also be used as a mace, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Moreover, according to Liu Juntao's idea, Zhang Baigui and the craftsmen of the Firearms Workshop of the War Bureau also made some improvements: the three single guns of this three-eyed gun are made of parallel hoops around the handle, and the finished font is shaped, each with a protruding outer edge, sharing a tail, equipped with a medicine room and a fire door, which can achieve continuous shooting.

"Jun Tao, because there are more guns in these three-eyed guns, the War Bureau has not yet studied the flint hair style, and now it can only be launched with an arquebus."

Liu Juntao nodded, in fact, this is also expected, after all, the firing device of the three-eyed gun is more complicated, so it is better to study it slowly in the future.

Zhang Baigui saw that Liu Juntao was very satisfied, so he stood aside and continued to introduce: "Juntao, these three-eyed guns are about one foot long, and the mouth is as big as an orthodox nine-year-old bird, and it can hold three coins of lead bullets. When building, the iron should be smelted, and the two cylinders should be wrapped to make the seams dense and the size of the eyes should be appropriate; It is also slightly turned with a steel drill, so that the light in the eyes is straight, and the bullet is accurate. After that, the three pipes are gathered into one, with three hoops or only one with a hoop. The eyes should be drilled from the bottom so that they do not sit back. After the gun, a wooden handle is loaded with a reservoir hoop, and an iron drill or an iron hoop is used after the handle. ”

Listening to Zhang Baigui's introduction to the process of building the Three-Eyed Gun, Liu Juntao also nodded secretly, and said in his heart: "Now that the War Bureau has its own set of methods and technologies for building firearms, in this way, it will be a matter of course to develop other sharp firearms in the future!" ”

Thinking of this, Liu Juntao looked carefully at the three-eyed gun in his hand again, and recalled some books he had read before crossing over: although the three-eyed gun tube is shorter and cannot be aimed at three points and one line, it still has considerable power and sufficient shooting accuracy at a distance of thirty or forty paces! According to the calculation of Da Ming's one step of five feet, about one meter six, the best range of the three-eyed gun is thirty steps, that is, about fifty meters, which can break heavy armor! Fifty steps, that is, more than eighty meters away, the three-eyed gun can severely damage the target without armor; A hundred steps is more than 160 meters away, and the Three-Eyed Gun has no lethality.

However, Liu Juntao also understood that the range of firearms recorded in some military books of the Ming Dynasty was not all credible, because the authors often exaggerated the range for the sake of secrecy.

For example, in the preface of "Fire Attack Zhiyao": "However, Zhao Shizhen (Zhao Shizhen, the author of the "Artifact Spectrum" that details the manufacture and usage of bird guns) has a collection of books overseas, and Zhu Rong Zuoli, in which the laws and regulations are all transmitted in the West; However, because it is related to military aircraft, there are many cautious, undetailed, and unspeakable, so that they do not get the grand view of the weapon, and even apologize to those who compromise. “

Moreover, Liu Juntao also estimated that most of the actual range of firearms in "Artifact Spectrum" is only half of what is stated in the book. The weight of the gunpowder lead bullet and the length of the barrel were the same as those of the three-eyed gun, and the Artifact Spectrum says that it was "appropriate to use it within a hundred paces." Step down: Fifty or sixty steps to penetrate the armor. Immediately: Twenty or thirty steps to hit. "The range is halved, and it takes less than thirty steps to break the armor.

But even so, the Three-Eyed Gun can be regarded as a sharp firearm, at least in cavalry battles.

Iron cavalry combat is different from infantry formation combat, thousands of iron cavalry formation charge, itself is galloping, the rider on the war horse holding the three-eyed gun to shoot the enemy, can maximize the range and power of the three-eyed gun, but also can play a surprise, disrupt the role of the enemy formation, can be called a sharp weapon!

Three-eyed guns can refer to knives, sticks and other weapons in close combat, and the northern Ming army in the late Ming Dynasty immediately used three-eyed guns to ride with royal captives, and the captives were quite fearful.

At that time, the Ming army in the north was in battle with three eyes to attack, and it was difficult to get up again, the benefits and disadvantages were half, and it was very difficult to get accurate, and it was often false; Because of the change of its system, with a short bed with a star, the rear tail hooked with a sheath belt, the left hand holds the gun against the enemy, the right hand hangs the knife to ignite the fire, put it into a shield, raise the knife to meet the enemy, immediately can prepare a surprise to destroy the strong, step down the pole and then ambush the road to attack, the name is called "Winged Tiger".

The Winged Tiger Gun mentioned here is similar to the Three-Eyed Gun, and the two are used in the same way in fierce battles, so you can see the sharpness of the Three-Eyed Gun!

According to the experience of the fierce battles of the Ming army in the north, it was believed in the "Records of Soldiers" in the 34th year of Wanli that the three-eyed gun was more suitable for cavalry combat than the bird's gun, and the three-eyed gun was not suitable for the infantry: the bird's beak should be south but not the north, and the three-eyed gun should be north but not south. Why? The north is cold and cold, and the beak of the bird must be hit by hand, which is often easy to do. As soon as the fire door was opened, the wind was very strong, and the medicine letter had been blown away first; If you use a letter, the fire door is easy to break. After being released, the captives came like the wind, and it was inconvenient to hold this as a tool to resist the enemy. Recently, there are bamboo beak guns and self-closing fire door birds, which are also strange for a while, but they are troublesome in the end. However, the three-eyed gun has three guns, and each gun can carry two or three leads, and within thirty or forty steps of serving the enemy, it will be placed on the real side; One shot and three shots, its sound is endless, and there is no one who misses. The captives and horses will hold this gun to replace the stuffy stick, and the captives have iron helmets and iron armor, although the blade cannot enter, but this gun can hit it. Therefore, in the north, the bird gun is not as good as the three-eyed gun.

It is precisely for this reason that Liu Juntao will not hesitate to work and order the Yushan Military Bureau to develop a three-eyed gun, and prepare to fully equip the horse cavalry of the Yushan Town Guard.

In this way, the entire Yushan Town Escort Team will be firearmed, and its combat power will also reach its peak!

"Master Zhang, let's go and try it!"

Looking at Liu Juntao's impatient expression, Zhang Baigui said with a smile: "Okay! Let's go outside and get a shot and see the true power of these three-eyed guns! ”

Everyone came to the test site outside the Yushan Military Bureau, and a young man of Yan Hu's escort team stepped forward with a gun, and after filling the three-eyed gun, he raised it flat and aimed at the humanoid target thirty steps away.

The young man of the escort lit the fire rope, only to hear the "tom tom" three consecutive roars, and the humanoid target in the distance was suddenly smashed into pieces.

Immediately afterwards, the young man of the escort team waved the three-eyed gun that had been fired, and rushed towards the already tattered humanoid target, and slammed it hard, only to see that the humanoid target was suddenly torn apart!

Yan Hu and Zhang Baigui and Bai Yuxing were all excited when they saw this, the three-eyed gun is so sharp, after equipping the horse team, the horse team will be even more powerful!

Immediately, Liu Juntao ordered the Yushan Military Bureau to start vigorously building the Three-Eyed Gun, and fully equip all the horse teams of the Yushan Town Escort as soon as possible!