Chapter 23 Grandma Zhang enters the Grand View Garden (12) and fires the gun

Originally, Liu Hou didn't want to take the two little Loli to visit the barracks, which saved Zhang Xingcai from becoming more savage due to being infected by the atmosphere of the barracks. Who knew that the heavens would not fulfill people's wishes, Zhang Xingcai and Guan Yinping both strongly asked to go to the barracks to have a look.

After being angrily called "Little Adou" and "Good Adou" by Zhang Xingcai more than 50 times, shook his hands more than 40 times, blew more than 30 breaths in his ears, and twisted more than 20 times in his waist, and was about to twist his ears, Liu Hou was defeated and had to agree to take them to visit the barracks.

Anyway, she has already asked Zuo Ci to take her as an apprentice, and the two little Loli have also agreed to move to the "Ministry of Industry" to live in the future, so that it is convenient to go to school and learn skills here. In the future, there will be opportunities for ** her(s).

What Liu Hou didn't expect was that when he took the two little Loli to visit the barracks the next day, Guan Yinping admired Zhao Yun very much, and proposed to worship Zhao Yun as a teacher. Zhao Yun actually felt that she had good qualifications and was a manufacturable material, so he happily accepted this apprentice.

Historically, Guan Yinping also learned martial arts from Zhao Yun, but that was after Guan Yu's death, and now she actually worshipped Zhao Yun as a teacher in advance, I don't know if this is the inertia of history.

Liu Houzhen didn't expect that Guan Yinping, who looked shy on the outside, and Guan Yinping, who was weak and weak, had such an active side in his heart. In fact, it is also normal, Guan Yinping is Guan Yu's daughter after all, the tiger girl of the gate, and Guan Yu is a first-class military general in the world.

Learn martial arts, learn martial arts, anyway, in history, this Guan Yinping is not one of Liu Chan's wives, she is not barbaric and it is none of her own business, this is Liu Hou's irresponsible idea. But I think it's good for her to do this, Guan Yinping's personality is too weak, and it's good to learn martial arts to neutralize it.

As a result, Liu Hou has a real junior sister. Zhang Xingcai is not a real senior sister, but an honorary senior sister, and should actually be an apprentice, because Zuo Ci is Liu Hou's master in reputation, but he is actually an apprentice.

However, Zhang Xingcai, who doesn't know what to do, has now changed his name, and he is happy every day. Liu Hou didn't care, and took them around the base of the "Ministry of Industry" in the next few days, so that they could see all kinds of novel, fun and exciting things.

Since they even went to the barracks, Liu Hou, the core place of the "Ministry of Industry", and the secret factory of firearms, did not plan to hide their secrets, so he took them in for a good visit. also specially arranged for people to test guns and cannons for their fun, which is quite a bit of a beacon fire show princes.

After all, with the relationship between Liu Guanzhang and the three of them being closer than brothers, as the three children of their descendants, the relationship is similar to that of brothers and sisters, and Liu Hou is not afraid that they may leak secrets.

Zhang Xingcai is no stranger to guns. Zhang Fei was stimulated by Liu Hou's remark that "you don't need to rely on martial arts to take the head of the general in the army, you can rely on firearms" (see Chapter 26 of Volume 1 to test the gun), and he became interested in firearms. has been actively looking for ore and mining for Liu Hou, and also grabbed craftsmen everywhere to give them to Liu Hou, of course, he also got a lot of ** and a small amount of firecrackers, artillery, and earth-shaking thunder from Liu Hou.

These firearms were few in number, and Zhang Fei could only equip his own guards, and they were rarely used on the battlefield in peacetime. In view of the limited production capacity, Liu Bei's other troops are currently unable to equip all kinds of firearms on a large scale, let alone form combat power.

Therefore, in terms of the degree of firearms equipment, Zhang Fei's troops are second only to Liu Hou's "ho."

"G Army", in Liu Bei's group and even in the whole country and the world, is also the army with the most firearms.

Zhang Xingcai was influenced by Liu Hou's barbaric stepmother Sun Shangxiang, and he also liked military affairs, so he could also come into contact with Zhang Fei's firearms guards, and naturally he had also seen firearms training.

At the scene of the earth-shattering musket and artillery drill, Guan Yinping was so frightened that he hid behind Liu Hou, covering his ears with both hands, not daring to open his eyes. But Zhang Xingcai was not only not afraid, but jumped up and clapped his hands.

This time, it was all a self-hairing pistol. Liu Hou knows that the musket ignited with the arquebus has many disadvantages, such as in the windy and rainy weather, the ** in the fire door is either blown away by the wind or wet by the rain, so that it cannot be fired; Sometimes, before it can be aimed, it is lit prematurely by the lit arquebus, causing misplacement; Lighting a fire rope at night is also not conducive to concealment, etc.

Due to Liu Hou's foresight, he skipped the arquebus and the musket with the wheel to ignite, and directly developed the starting gun.

This type of strapper has a **,** jaws with a flint clamped in it. There is a blow anvil on the side of the fire hole, if you need to shoot, pull the trigger, and under the action of the spring, hit the flint heavily on the anvil next to the fire door, and sparks will emerge and ignite the **pool**.

In order to solve the problem that the pool is not exposed to wind and rain, the craftsmen also designed a buckle spring, which can move, and when the firing position is fired, the buckle spring will be lowered and cover the pool. When the flint hits the snap spring, it bounces up to reveal the ** pool. There is also a snap reed that will hold the snap spring in both positions.

To put it simply, it is to add a cover to the ** pool, which plays the role of wind and rain, and only opens the lid at the moment of shooting, this structure makes the gun a weapon used in all weather, and there is no need to worry about dumb fire in wind and rain.

At this time, I saw five rows of musketeers lined up and standing next to everyone, and the team was shouting the command: "Stand up!" ”。 I only heard "Brush!" With two sounds, the five musketeers kicked their legs and made a straight posture, all standing with their heads held high.

"Charge!" As the second order was issued, all the musketeers immediately fired the firing iron, then took out a paper-shelled bullet from the ammunition pouch hanging from their waists, pulled open the silk rope at one end of the **, and poured the weighed quantity ** from the muzzle of the musket into the barrel.

Then they pulled the thread from the end of the projectile, took out a piece of linen soaked in grease, wrapped it in grease, and loaded it into the muzzle. Wrapping the projectile in a tarpaulin is to reduce friction, which not only speeds up the reloading speed, but also plays a role in holding the breath, so that the shooting accuracy is improved and the firing range is also increased a lot.

Then they pressed the projectile tightly down the barrel to the top of the ** with a throughbar. And put a small amount of ** in the ** pool of the flintlock pistol. This completes the charging process.

At this time, the team issued another order: "First platoon, prepare!" I saw the first row of musketeers step forward, knelt down on one foot, flat-ended muskets in both hands, and put the wooden ** against the shoulders to make the grip of the guns more stable, and at the same time ready to resist the recoil. Then, quickly push the buckle spring above the pool and fire the strike iron completely.

"Aim! - Put! "With the team's command,

Listening only to the dense sound of "ping pong" like fried beans, the musketeers in the first row pulled the trigger and opened fire almost simultaneously, and the flint striking the iron clamp hit the buckle spring, scraping off the iron particles to form sparks. At the same time, the impact of the striking iron suddenly pushed the buckle spring back, revealing the **pool**, and the sparks fell into the **pool, igniting the **pool**.

Then the burning in the pool ignited the chamber of the gun. A violent explosion occurred in the small chamber, which produced a large amount of gas, pushing the projectile out of the chamber and firing it at the target in front. A row of wooden targets 50 meters away sent out a violent vibration.

"Second row, ready!" The squad immediately gave another order, and the musketeers who had finished their guns in the first row immediately retreated from the gaps in the platoons to the back rows, and the musketeers in the second row stepped forward and became the first platoon. I saw them also kneeling on one foot on the ground, repeating the action they had just done in the first row.

After putting their guns, they also retreated to the last row and began to nervously reload. By this time, the musketeers who had finished the first row of guns had already cleaned the chambers of their guns with the whole bar, and some of the quick-handed ones had already taken out another paper shell bullet and began to charge.

The third, fourth, and fifth rows repeat the movements of the first two rows. By the end of the fifth platoon, the original first platoon had completed the reloading and returned to the first platoon to re-fire.

At this time, the squad did not give the order to shoot, but issued a new order: "First platoon, take a break!" "First Platoon Musketeers" Oh! With a sound, he placed the gun on the left side of his body, ** on the ground, holding the gun in his left hand, and at the same time extending his right foot half a step forward to the right, and his center of gravity was on his left foot.

The team is continuing to issue the order: "Count points." "Immediately, there were auxiliary soldiers who rushed to the wooden target 50 meters away and sent the wooden target closer.

There are 10 soldiers in each platoon, corresponding to 10 targets. I saw that there were basically gun holes on these 10 wooden targets, some had two or three, and some had one. Each of the gun holes completely pierced the one-centimeter-thick wooden plank target, which shows that the power is not bad, and this kind of power is estimated to be impossible to resist ordinary leather armor and paper armor. Even the scale armor worn by the general may not be pierced.

Five rows of muskets were fired, and a total of 50 rounds were fired, and a total of 24 bullet holes could be counted on the target paper, which was close to a 50% hit rate. I have to say that this hit rate is already quite good.

Some of the missed shots were due to the fact that they were dumb when they were fired and did not hit at all, and some of them were bullets that flew away.

In this round of shooting, the rate of mute fire was about 15%, which was staggeringly high compared to the guns of later generations, but for the guns of the Sui fire, such a rate of mute fire was relatively low. Although Liu Hou and the craftsmen have made a lot of efforts, there is still a 10% to 30% dumb fire rate in actual combat, and it is not so easy to overcome it.

Then, the team ordered the auxiliaries to change the target and move it to a place 100 meters away. Then shouting the password, five teams took turns to shoot in one round, which was a five-stage strike. At the beginning, Liu Hou asked them to engage in three-stage strikes. Who knew that after seeing these musketeers in action, they found that their loading speed was ridiculously slow.

Even after a period of rigorous training, their speed had improved significantly, Liu Hou still felt that it was still slow, and at this speed, it was simply not enough to suppress the cavalry's charge with three stage blows. So, he asked Zhao Yun to change to a five-stage strike array through Zuo Ci.

When the target was sent over after this round of shooting, Liu Hou couldn't help frowning. I saw that only 3 of the 10 targets were hit this time, and there were some bullet holes scattered on each of them, and there were a total of 7 gun holes on it. Five platoons of soldiers, a total of 50 shots, only 7 shots, the hit rate is unacceptably low!

In addition, most of the lead bullets in the wooden targets are embedded in the wooden plank, rather than penetrating. This also means that even if a shot is taken, the lethality is limited. If the enemy is wearing armor, it may not be able to pierce armor at this distance.

I still have to increase the charge. Liu Hou thought to himself. However, an increase in the charge means that the caliber of the gun tube needs to be increased, otherwise it will explode, which also means that the weight of the gun will increase. In this way, it is very inconvenient for soldiers to carry and use.

Who wants to run around with a guy of a few dozen pounds? Don't your hands tremble when you hold dozens of pounds of things when you aim? Can you still aim accurately? Do you really have to use a wooden fork to fix the musket to aim and fire?