Chapter 53: The Grand View of Firearms

On the east side of the palace, near Xuanwu Lake. A large area has already been emptied, and a lot of targets have been placed, most of which are arrow stacks.

And on the side, under the awning, there is also a row of tables.

On this row of tables, there are a lot of firearms.

It's a grand spectacle of firearms, and there are all kinds of firecrackers.

Moreover, the distinction between guns and cannons in ancient times was not very strict, and the distinction between guns and cannons in later generations was specified in detail. And the difference between guns and guns in this era, Zhang Xuan can only roughly divide the big ones into cannons and small ones as guns, but which ones are big and what are small.

Even Zhang Xuan couldn't say it.

Therefore, although most of the guns in front of him were firecrackers, Zhang Xuan only brought a bird gun as a sample, and the rest were brought by Zhang Zhen. There are even quite a few artillery pieces all over the place.

The scale of firearms production in the Ming Dynasty was very large, and Zhang Zhen took over the Nanjing treasury, even if the guns and artillery left by the official army could not be had, not to mention for the time being, but the appearance was still there, even Zhang Xuan was also eye-opening.

Such as thunder cannons, great god guns, two-headed fire guns, attack guns, Qianzi thunder guns, Weiyuan guns, Ye Gongshen guns, and so on. There are all kinds of things, and Zhang Xuan generally seems to be a tube-mounted firearm, but there is a difference in style.

Of course, there are design ideas that Zhang Xuan can understand, and some design ideas that Zhang Xuan can't understand at all.

One of them is a nine-urn cannon, the cannon body is like an urn-shaped, nine are superimposed together, and they are stacked vertically, nine fire ropes and one piece, people must dig a pit in the ground, hide in the pit to ignite, otherwise it is easy to be shocked to death.

Zhang Xuan didn't care about the power of such a firearm, he just wanted to ask, how this firearm was loaded, shot once, and loaded the next time, it is estimated that it will be the year of the monkey.

Of course, these firearms are not all useless.

There are several things that can be very useful.

One of them is the Tiger Squat Cannon.

The Tiger Squat Cannon is actually a small cannon of the same specification as the Linying Cannon created by Zhang Xuan, which was designed by Qi Jiguang, which is light and powerful. The Ming army also believed that the power of the fire gun was insufficient, and the tiger squat cannon could defend the danger, so the large-scale equipment of the Ming army was a common artillery, which was probably only a few dozen catties, and two people could carry it to keep up with the march.

In this way, the Linying cannon designed by Zhang Xuan is a little larger than the tiger squat cannon.

Of course, the heroes see the same thing, but there are also differences in the quality of artillery.

It is estimated that the craftsmen in the hands of General Qi can ensure power while being light. And the craftsmen in Zhang Xuan's hands are different.

The target of this kind of artillery is the foot soldiers. As for the siege, don't even think about it.

Second, it is the Franc cannon.

Franc machine guns, there are big and small, there are more than 1,000 catties of large, and there are 2,300 catties of small ones

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However, the most important thing about the Franc cannon is the rate of fire, not the power.

Someone in the Ming Dynasty summed up why firearms always defeat the enemy when they come to the enemy, not to mention other reasons, that is, the firepower cannot be sustained. It is easy to disconnect the front and back of the firepower, giving the enemy a lot to take advantage of, just like Qin Meng broke the Zheng army's army under Anping Town.

It's not that Qin Meng is so powerful, but this kind of tactics has long been spread in the north.

The Qing army has repeatedly broken the Ming army with this, which can be said to be a hundred tried.

Therefore, people with lofty ideals make a fuss about the continuity of firearm shooting.

There are three ways of thinking, one is multi-barreled firearms, such as three-eyed system, extreme ten-eyed guns, and hundred-eyed guns, which are fired sequentially to ensure that the firepower continues. The Franc machine, also known as the sub-gun, is equipped with a sub-gun, which can be replaced to increase the rate of fire.

There is also a kind of live turbine.

Zhang Xuan only had a glimpse of it in the book, and he hadn't seen it, but looking at the description in the book, it was probably like a revolver-pistol structure.

The third type is the Hongyi Iron Cannon.

Zhang Xuan touched the familiar inscription on it, a little embarrassed, it read, "In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Fujian Junmen, Zhang, Governor Zheng, cast." ”

Zhang Xuan doesn't know who this Fujian military gate is, but this governor Zheng, Zhang Xuan knows. It's Zheng Zhilong.

This cannon was one of the trophies that Zhang Xuan took from the Zheng family.

The Hongyi Iron Cannon is the so-called Hongyi Cannon.

It weighs up to 3,000 catties, there are more than 1,000 catties, there are on the head of Nanjing City, it is a siege weapon, but it is inconvenient to move, in the field, it seems to be useless, Guy You will transport 3,000 catties of things to the battlefield, either the daylily is cold, or it is to send loot to people.

However, in water warfare and siege warfare, he is an indispensable protagonist.

In fact, these kinds of artillery are not only valued by Zhang Xuan, but also by the officers and soldiers, which are the most equipped and several types of artillery in the Ming army.

This counts as a cannon.

The rest is a firebolt.

The first is the bird's gun.

The bird gun is the ignition of the fire rope, the place where the fire is ignited, the fire is ignited, the trigger is pulled, and the fire rope is pressed into the chamber of the gun to fire. This is also known as the wolf, the power is a little insufficient, it is not easy to get it on a rainy day, and the fire rope is damp, so it is not easy to do.

However, the victory lies in the simple mechanism, mature technology, and the technology of Qi Jiguang's era, and there is no big problem with large-scale production, and the quality can be guaranteed.

This is also the reason why Zhang Xuan looks at the birds.

It's not that Zhang Xuan didn't see a fire gun that was better than a bird's gun, there were, and there were quite a few.

The Lumi gun, the Lumi gun is a flintlock gun, which is better than the bird gun. Moreover, it has a windproof and rainproof cover, so it seems that only if you don't throw it into the water, the gunpowder is not damp, and you can fight on rainy days. But the number of Lumi guns is small,

At least before today, Zhang Xuan only listened to his name and did not see his person.

Why so?

Zhang Xuan figured out in his heart that it was either a problem of craftsmanship or money.

It's just that these things are not in a hurry, these things have to be solved in the future, and now we have to solve the problem first, the next generation of firecrackers, Zhang Xuan has booked this Lumi guns. After all, the distrust of the soldiers towards the firecrackers has spread to almost everyone.

One is a little behind, but reliable, much better than one that looks advanced, but not so reliable.

In addition, Zhang Xuan also saw some fire guns with more interesting ideas.

For example, the Victory Franc machine.

Da Ming seems to want to use a way of thinking to rot, this Wansheng Franc machine, is the work of using the Franc cannon on the gun, he is a rear-loading gun, but the idea is the same as the Franc cannon, that is, prepare a few guns, load them into the barrel from behind, and then ignite.

It is said that it can be fired continuously, and the cycle repeats.

But Zhang Xuan is not very optimistic.

There is no other, the problem of airtightness.

The range of the Franc cannon was affected by the problem of rear loading. Much shorter range than similar artillery.

And if this firebolt also affects the range, it will be very bad, after all, in Zhang Xuan's opinion, the effective range of the firebolt is already close, if it is deflated, it will be useless.

However, Zhang Xuan has to admit that this idea is good, if the fire gun is made smaller, and the sub-gun is combined, isn't it a revolver-pistol? Even if the range is affected, the cavalry doesn't care, if each cavalry is equipped with two before charging into battle, it can fire twelve times in a row, it is also good.

The remaining one is the Saigong gun, which is made by Qi Jiguang, which is similar to the idea of Wansheng Fulang machine, but there is one point, but it is a little big, two meters long, and when shooting, it can climb on the ground, so that Zhang Xuan does not know whether this thing belongs to the gun or the cannon.

Then there is the electric switch gun invented by Zhao Shizhen, which also uses the idea of the Franc cannon, which is different from the Wansheng Franc machine, combined with the flint of the Lu Mi gun, which looks better than the Wansheng Franc machine.

As for the rest, Zhang Xuan didn't pay much attention to it.

Many firecrackers are combined with cold weapons, which can shoot guns, and in turn can be used as hammers, and the three-eyed firearms are one of the representatives, and they are also the most widely used, but for Zhang Xuan, a person who wants to establish a pure firearms army, he naturally doesn't even look at it.

In fact, Zhang Xuan felt that the system in the army was very important, so the firecrackers were uniformly equipped with bird guns, light artillery, tiger squat guns, medium artillery, and medium-sized guns. It would be better if it could be paired with a revolver-pistol.

Plus some hand-to-hand heavy armor classes. These firearms are sufficient to cover the far, medium and near distances, forming a specific level of strike. Set up the shelves of the army of pure firearms.

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