"I'll talk to Chance about this!" Bourne frowned: "He is now in charge of the improvement of the musket, plus this card slot or the sleeve you said, it shouldn't take a lot of effort, as for the spear, according to your request, I will go back and let him design it, and send it to you!" ”

Gao Han nodded with satisfaction, his kind of brilliant idea, for Bourne, he was not even too lazy to be surprised. No way, when the tall man had a flash of inspiration, it was too much.

"Also, how's the five-pounder going!" Gao Han called him here, in addition to the matter of the bayonet, of course, he also wanted to learn about the progress of the development of the five-pounder gun by the way.

"The calculations have been completed, and the model should be ready soon!" Speaking of this, Byrne looked admiring: "Father John has done it in the Imperial Foundry, and many things make me feel that I know in the morning and can die in the evening!" ”

"It's a matter of dying at night!" Gao Han was stunned.

"Yes, that's what Father John said!" Bourne sighed and admired: "Actually, if the model is made, if there is no problem in the steel raw materials, this cannon will be properly completed, for those few casting hands, Father John has taught them well for a few days, so if you can't do it, I feel that God must be asleep!" ”

"That's good!" Gao Han thought about it for a while, and explained: "Wait until the casting is done, don't be particularly quiet, and wait until the test gun is no problem, let's continue to see if we can make a bigger cannon!" ”

"However, the furnace for melting steel is a little too small!" Byrne had long wanted to say this, "The steel that comes out of each furnace can be used to cast these five-pound cannons, and no matter how big the cannon is, it is necessary to either expand this furnace or build another such furnace to be able to use it!" ”

"That's not something you're thinking about!" Gao Han waved his hand: "I'll solve this problem, you can do the things in hand first, and tell Tang Ruowang, if he succeeds this time, I will report his merits to our Emperor Majesty!" ”

"That's just great!" Bourne's eyes were full of little stars: "My lord, I don't know if I have the honor to let His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire know my name!" ”

Gao Han looked at him for half a minute before he smiled slightly: "Work hard, you have a chance!" ”

Adding a spear to the musket is actually a very simple thing, but before this thing appeared, no one thought of this, a musketeer, with a short blade by his side, is enough to deal with a lot of emergencies, even if someone thinks of this aspect, they will feel unnecessary.

However, as soon as someone reminds and has the ability to do so, the benefits of this spear are immediately apparent.

Now in the popular army tactics in the West, the proportion of musketeers has gradually increased, and the tactics of the Spanish phalanx, which is simply shining in the West, but no matter which phalanx, the musketeers must have spearmen to protect, which is simply the truth of the phalanx tactics.

However, as soon as this spear appeared, the spearmen could essentially be eliminated.

The musketeer has become a class of troops that can project long-range fire and short-range impact, and the ordinary length of the musket is generally more than one meter five, because the length of the barrel determines the distance of the shot, such a long gun body, and then equipped with a spear of about one foot, in fact, produces melee lethality, which is not inferior to the spearman.

Gao Han didn't realize that he just seemed to have a flash of inspiration in his mind, thinking that the musket should have a spear for hand-to-hand combat, which was actually a huge achievement in the history of the development of muskets in his vague memory.

It can be said that the emergence of spears is basically a watershed between cold weapon warfare and hot weapon warfare, after the appearance of spear stabbing, in the armies of every Western country, basically gradually eliminated the combat units dominated by cold weapons, and the entire history of human warfare has since entered the era of hot weapons.

Unconsciously, Haojingao has entered July, counting the days, Gao Han has already arrived in Guangdong from Beijing, almost half a year.

In the past six months, Gao Hanzhen didn't know what kind of wind he had watched from the southeast, and as soon as he arrived in Guangdong, he would stay in Haojingao and not even go to Guangzhou City.

However, the officials in Guangzhou are probably still very happy to see this situation, after all, no one wants to have a court to make them wander around their territory all day and make themselves fearful.

This Lord Guanfeng, since he likes those people and things, it is best to stay in Haojing Ao all the time and not move the nest, even if there is a need, everyone will try to meet it, and when the order from the Beijing Division comes down, he will obediently return to Beijing, isn't it a good thing for you to be good for me, good for everyone.

However, Gao Han knew in his heart that he was afraid that he would not be able to return to Beijing for the time being.

Liu Ru originally wrote an excerpt for Gao Han before going to the Wa Kingdom, and now that she has not returned, Jingli's reply has already arrived.

The emperor's reply to Gao Han's suggestion this time is much more than the last time, especially Gao Han's matter of his own firearms factory, but there is not much concealment to truthfully play it, the emperor obviously attaches great importance to this firearm, far more than Gao Han's estimate.

"Feasible!"

"You can do it hard, I've got your back!"

"The Xiyi fleet is for long-term concerns, but it is also possible to worry about the near future, I am very pleased that you can have this vision!"

"The matter of the Overseas Pacification Division, I have approved, and you can discuss the specific regulations with Su Qing!"

All kinds of Zhu criticisms abound, and Gao Han took this reply, which was simply a bit sad and joyful.

The happy thing is that the emperor approved all the things he reported, and he really felt grateful for this weight, and the sad thing is that once this reply came, he was afraid that he would not be able to return to the capital for a while.

Although the official of the Overseas Pacification Division has already arrived, this is a bare-bones commander, whether it is this soldier, food, or people, all of them have to be handled by themselves, which can be regarded as finding things for themselves. , staying in the center, must be doing things to be promoted easily and quickly, and, with the trust and friendship between himself and the emperor, seeing the emperor from time to time, he believes that his career should be very easy.

But now, this trust has become that even if you are in "exile", you can't be idle!

If Liu Ru was here, he would definitely sarcastically mock him mercilessly: Don't be hypocritical! These things, aren't they all self-inflicted, and now I think there are too many things, big men do things, can you not be so mother-in-law?

Thinking of Liu Ruyi, calculating the days, he felt that Liu Rushi should be back soon, if he didn't come back, the iron ship of the Japanese should be coming soon, at least, she would have news to bring back, and he didn't know how she was doing in the Japanese country.

In the past month, a lot of things have happened, the most important of which is, of course, the muskets produced now, are equipped with sleeves that can be loaded with spear stabs, basically, with the addition of this knife stab, the muskets will not be much improved in the short term.

Before the advent of the flintlock pistol, Takahan had no plans to develop a more advanced musket.