Chapter 42: The Dilemma
In the end, Chen Xian had to give up his retaliation, because there were too many such things, and he couldn't retaliate at all, and this kind of intensive retaliation was almost about to destroy the intelligence system of the East China Sea Kingdom!
Chen Xian began to think of ways to distance himself from the enemy in terms of scale and efficiency.
But Chen Xian knows that hydraulic machinery can't actually open the absolute gap with the human handicraft industry, not to mention, hydraulic machinery itself is not too complicated, and it is difficult to keep it secret.
Chen Xian had to realize that the era of crushing opponents with technology in the past was about to pass, and he may be able to maintain a certain advantage in organization and technology, but this advantage will no longer be the previous crushing and generational difference.
This made Chen Xian fall into anxiety, and it was not so easy for industrial technology to develop to this point, and then move forward.
In terms of weapons, if you want to go further, it will be even more difficult, whether it is a rear-loading gun or a rear-loading gun, with Chen Xian's current technological means, there is still a long way to go.
Chen Xian also tried to make mini bullets and rifled guns, trying to use this kind of miraculous technical improvement that was blown in the crossing of the previous life to enhance the range and accuracy of the rifle.
Chen Xian found that rifled guns are not difficult to solve, his existing technology and a little skill can solve the problem of rifling the barrel, Mini bullets are not difficult to manufacture, and lead casting is not difficult.
The difficulty lies in the coordination of the bullet and the barrel, to make the front gun use Mini bullets, the processing accuracy of both sides must reach a certain standard, otherwise, it is either difficult to load, the lead is serious, or the gap is too large, and the expansion rate of the bullet is difficult to get stuck in the barrel and rifling.
In particular, the problem of hanging lead makes this rifled gun that uses Mini bullets need to be cleaned frequently and carefully, otherwise there is a danger of exploding.
In order to completely solve the problem of hanging lead, it is necessary to change the alloy composition of the bullet to increase the hardness and strength of the bullet, and as the hardness and strength of the bullet increase, the expansion rate of the mini bullet will inevitably decrease, which leads to the further improvement of the accuracy of the mini bullet on the barrel and itself!
With Chen Xian's current level of craftsmanship, the accuracy of the rifle barrel manufactured in his factory can be controlled to the millimeter level, which is still a full order of magnitude short of the accuracy requirement of one-tenth millimeter of the use of mini bullets.
Tolerances of an order of magnitude often take several generations to slowly accumulate and overcome.
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When Chen Xian's intelligence station in Jingzhao Province sent information showed that the Mongols seemed to have their own ten-pound field guns and had begun to equip them.
When the Mongols were in the large artisan camp in Jingzhao Province, with tens of thousands of craftsmen from Shaanxi, the Western Regions, and the Western Xia, they were already able to mass-produce flintlock pistols.
Chen Xian was so anxious that he even woke up from his dream!
A strong sense of urgency grabbed Chen Xian's throat at once!
He even wanted to fight the Mongols in a life-and-death battle regardless of the fact that the domestic political reform was not yet completed.
But in the end, reason triumphed over fear, because Chen Xian believed that time would always be on his side.
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The Mongols, who had overcome the technical difficulties, drove the people everywhere to mine copper ore, and at the same time collected copper materials and copper coins everywhere, and minted copper cannons on a large scale.
After more than a year of accumulation, the Mongols had hundreds of ten-pound field guns and hundreds of five-pound and seven-pound field guns.
Intelligence shows that the Mongols not only mastered the manufacturing method of flintlock pistols, but they also probably mastered the manufacturing technology of the barrel drilling machine invented by Chen Xian, the manufacturing technology of Rose, and even the forging technology of bayonets! In the cowardly army of the Mongols, plate armor even began to appear!
Over the years, Mu Huali has accumulated a lot of arquebuses.
It's not easy to make a flintlock pistol from scratch, even if you have a barrel drill, it takes three days to make a barrel, but if you have a ready-made arquebus and use it to transform it into a flintlock gun, the construction time can be at least twice as short!
The tens of thousands of arquebuses that Mu Huali had accumulated over the years were being transformed into crude flintlock muskets by Genghis Khan's huge artisan battalion......
In addition to the workers, the landlords from Hebei also returned from Zhendingfu through their remaining connections in Hebei, and let Genghis Khan and Mu Huali learn about the latest changes in Chen's army.
Following Chen Xian's example, Mu Huali established an infantry phalanx composed purely of flintlock musketeers.
During the exercise, Mu Huali and Temujin found that the infantry composed of pure flintlock musketeers had a great advantage against the Morris phalanx, which was composed of pikemen and flintlock musketeers, but did not make much progress against the cavalry.
After reaching this conclusion, Temujin immediately dispatched tens of thousands of musketeers from the original Han army, distributed flintlock muskets with bayonets, organized them according to the organizational form of the Chen army, and trained them in the training method.
With the help of some renegade officers of the Chen army, the linear column of troops in the Mongol Han army expanded rapidly.
Genghis Khan and his generals studied the structure and tactics of Chen's army through drills, and made some surprising changes to the Han army under him.
First, after repeatedly verifying the power of the flintlock pistol, Genghis Khan ordered the removal of the cloth armor from the Han army.
The cloth mask armor was forced by Mu Huali from Wanyan Pingtao.
At the beginning, the Qianhu sent by Mu Huali to help Yeluliuge fight with Wanyan Pingtao found in the battle that Wanyan Pingtao, who had not been in existence for a long time, was able to wear a strange armor in the whole army.
When Wanyan Pingtao had to surrender to the Mongols in order to fight Chen Xian, Mu Huali asked Wanyan Pingtao to offer him cloth armor and craftsmen who could make cloth armor.
After weighing the pros and cons, Wanyan Pingtao could only dedicate this low-cost armor and technology to the Mongols.
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Through repeated drills and observations, Genghis Khan reduced the number of pikemen in the Maurice phalanx to one-third of the total number and changed the composition of the Maurice phalanx.
He did away with the separate lines of pikemen and musketeers in the Maurice phalanx, and grouped the pikemen and musketeers into a single line, with the first two rows of pikemen responsible for protecting the musketeers behind them, and the last four rows of flintlock musketeers.
When the battle began, the pikemen formed a repellent in a crouching position in the front row, protecting the flintlock muskeviants behind them from cavalry onslaught.
Because of the production capacity of flintlock pistols, the change of the Mongol Han army was gradual, which led to the fact that when Chen Xian's intelligence station noticed this change, the change of the Mongol Han army had already been completed by a small half, and when the news was delivered to Chen Xian, it was delayed for several months.
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