The sixth day of the second month of the sixth year of Longdao.

At the naval shooting range in the west of Dengzhou, Xu Shiyang led a group of naval and army officers and officials of the Ordnance Engineering Department of the Ministry of Industry in Dengzhou to observe the test firing of the new rifle.

Xu Shiyang stood on the rostrum behind the shooting range with his arms crossed, and beside him were officials from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry, and a few meters below the rostrum, there was a long table on which two new-style rifles were placed, and two standard flintlock pistols totaled four guns.

Behind the long table stood four veterans, all four of whom were famous sharpshooters with outstanding achievements and a high level of marksmanship.

In addition to these four men, there were also several Tartar Soldiers of the Blue Army Brigade, who were responsible for comparing the Hattar weapons with the Heli Bow commonly used by the Tartars.

The range was full of Xu Shiyang's guards on three sides, all of whom were armed with pistols, flintlock pistols and at least one cold weapon, wearing cuirasses and steel helmets, all of them majestic.

The shooting range itself is surrounded by a thick earthen wall, so as not to cause casualties to the onlookers due to the projectiles flying out of the wall - in the past, every time the Qi army tested a weapon, the wall was full of onlookers, but this time it was a new weapon comparison experiment that Xu Shiyang attached great importance to, so the range guards did not allow any unrelated people to come to watch.

On the opposite side of the long table, a row of targets were placed in five positions: 30 steps, 50 steps, 70 steps, 100 steps, and 150 steps.

The target was made of wet clay and kneaded to the size of a normal person, covered with a thick layer of linen and a heavy set of armor, so that the accuracy of the weapon could be tested as well as the power of the weapon.

"It's time to go." Xu Shiyang gave a faint order, and Tang Long, the director of the arsenal next to him, immediately waved a small flag.

The soldiers at the long table immediately began to prepare for shooting, because the fire cap firing rifled gun and the Migne bullet were only made today, even the veterans were not familiar with this new weapon, so today's test firing did not consider the rate of fire, but only the range, power and accuracy of the weapon.

When the flintlock gunners finished reloading, they stood in place, waiting for the two musketeers to finish loading under the guidance of the Arsenal technicians.

Then two musketeers, two flintlock musketeers and two archers shoot together.

The target of the first round of shooting was a target thirty paces (45 meters) away, a distance at which the veteran had the same weapon in his hands, so to test the accuracy, four gunners had to shoot three times at the same target, while the archers could shoot five rounds.

After a burst of ping-pong shooting, the target reporter from the arsenal ran over to check the damage to the target.

Two of the six targets had three or four heavy arrows stuck in their bodies, but only one of them hit the part of the target that was not protected by armor and caused damage, and the other armor-piercing cones failed to penetrate the target's armor at this distance.

The four musket targets were obviously much more miserable, the two flintlock targets were hit 2 and 3 times respectively, all of which pierced the armor, and if they were on the battlefield, the two armor soldiers would have died.

The other two firing targets were each hit with 3 shots, and all of them were also penetrated, and there were actually four shots that pierced the target!

In other words, at such a close distance, the Minne bullet fired by a large-caliber firing pistol even has a high chance of piercing through two layers of iron armor and killing a strong warrior!

The results of the shooting were counted on a large blackboard next to the rostrum, by which time the smoke had cleared and the second round of firing at a target fifty paces (75 meters) away began.

The musketeers still fired three rounds each, and the archers changed to two so as not to reduce their accuracy due to the loss of arm strength, and they still had five arrows each.

This time the firing distance was much longer, so the accuracy of the flintlock pistol and bow decreased, while the firing pistol remained fully hit.

In the third round of firing at a target seventy (105 meters) away, the heavy arrows fired by the Heli Bow were no longer enough, so the two Blue soldiers chose light arrows, and although they made a few hits, none of the heavy targets did not move, and none of them penetrated.

The accuracy of the flintlock pistol also dropped significantly, with only one shot each of the two gunners hit.

And the firing pistol still holds the all-in record!

At this time, the faces of all the officials watching changed.

Everyone is an army or army-related officer, and everyone knows exactly how accurately the musket shooting will decline with distance, in fact, in the case of flintlock pistols, shooting more than 100 meters has little to do with the gunner's shooting skills - at this distance, the accuracy of one or two guns alone depends on the gunner's luck.

However, the firing pistol was a complete hit, and it also pierced the iron armor .......

It is no wonder that Commander Xu attaches so much importance to this weapon.

The shooting continued, this time a hundred paces (150 meters), and the two tartar archers simply abandoned precision fire and threw light arrows at the target.

As a result, one of the targets was hit with two arrows, but according to the markers, the two arrows came from two different archers, i.e., one person shot someone else's target .......

The flintlock pistol simply missed, and the two soldiers who used the pistol only fired one bullet each!

"This score is as good as the goal of a flintlock pistol shooting fifty paces!" Luo Haitao, chief of staff of the Navy, shouted: "This gun is too strong, right?" ”

"If there had been this gun a few months earlier, Liao Shen would have been better off." Li Jinghuai also said: "It's a pity, now that the Tartar is finished, there are not many places where this gun can be used." ”

"The battle isn't over yet." Xu Shiyang said calmly: "You must not think that you will be comfortable if you destroy the Jurchen Tartars, it's still early." Now read on. ”

The last round of shots was at a target one hundred and fifty paces (225 meters) away, and at this distance, the accuracy of the flintlock pistol and the bow and arrow was the same, completely zero, and there was no need to think about it.

In fact, according to the current Qi infantry code, it is a violation of military discipline for anyone to use a rifle to shoot at a target at a distance of 100 paces, let alone at a target at a distance of 150 paces.

So the flintlock and the archers simply gave up shooting, and only two musketeers continued to shoot in this round, each of them fired three shots, and then the flintlock musketeers fired three more shots with their rifles, and the four men hit a total of 6 shots, which was exactly half the hit rate!

"Can you still hit this distance?"

"This is the shooting range, and the hit rate on the actual battlefield will be reduced by more than 30%." Xu Shiyang smiled and reminded with some disapproval.

The firing pistol is indeed very powerful, but it is not so powerful, and the reason why this kind of achievement can be achieved is purely because the shooters selected today are all old non-commissioned officers, and everyone has fired hundreds of bullets on the battlefield, and more on the training ground.

Such a veteran will naturally be able to shoot more calmly on a shooting range where there is no danger at all, and it will be easier for him to achieve good results.

In fact, in the course of real combat, with only a few months of training, it would be good for a soldier who fired no more than thirty rounds of live ammunition to have half the hit rate of them.

Xu Shiyang turned to face the officials under him, and asked lightly: "Okay, the result is out, how should you each use this gun?" ”