"Report Director! Everything is ready for experimentation. "The assistant came to report.

The director, usually the first supervisor in a certain field, is used by Li Chengqian as the official title of the person in charge of this base.

It belongs to the highest rank of the foreign officials.

"Hmm!" The person in charge of the base turned to Li Chengqian and said, "Please also ask Your Highness to move to the laboratory to watch the musket experiment." ”

"Hmm!" Li Chengqian got up and followed the person in charge of the base to a spacious room, which had a large window on each side except for a door.

At this time, the window is wide open, and through the window, you can clearly see the birds singing and fragrant outside, and mosquitoes are entering and exiting the window unscrupulously.

Li Chengqian withdrew his gaze from the window and carefully examined the furnishings in the room.

As soon as you enter, you will see a simple table made of wood, and on the table is a small long wooden box containing the musket used for this experiment.

On the opposite wall hangs a circular wooden board with a red dot drawn in the middle of the board, which is used as a target for experiments.

"Your Highness! Do you want to start now? The person in charge of the base asked.

"It's not bright enough!" Li Chengqian shook his head and said: "It's better to go to an open place outside to experiment, and in the future, all experiments with new weapons will be carried out outside, don't be inside." Flash"

In addition to being open outside, it is also more convenient and safer than conducting experiments inside, and if something happens, it is too late to escape for your life inside.

In addition, the air in the house is as smooth as the outside circulation.

"No!" The person in charge of the base was instructed to move everything from the experiment outside.

The air outside is fresh, the sky is poor, the sky is cloudless, the sun is shining, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the scenery here is good.

"Your Highness! When you're all set, are you going to get started? After setting the target, putting the musket away, and everything was ready, the person in charge of the base asked Li Chengqian again.

Originally, such an experiment did not need to be followed up by him, the director, at all, just waiting for the results of the experiments of the people below.

As for any problems or areas that need to be improved, there is naturally a researcher in charge, and he only needs to write a written report on the final results and submit them to his immediate boss, the prince.

No one else has the right to interfere in the affairs of the base, and he does not need to obey orders from anyone other than the prince, and is directly responsible to the prince.

Now that the prince wants to personally test the power of the musket, he naturally has to accompany him.

"Let's get started!" Li Chengqian said, sitting on the chair prepared for him on the side, watching the musket experiment.

It will be an epoch-making moment that will go down in history forever.

After receiving the Prince's instructions, the Director nodded to the experimenters on the side and said, "Let's start!" ”

"No!" The experimenter took the order, walked over to the table, took the musket from the wooden box, and clumsily filled the medicine and waited for a while.

Finally, light the arquebus and raise the musket with the butt on your shoulder, aim at the target a hundred meters ahead, ready to shoot.

Moments later, with a thud, an iron ball projectile erupted from the barrel of the gun and shot at the target a hundred meters away.

The speed is still too slow, mainly in reloading ammunition and lighting the arquebus, which is too late.

"Cough, cough" followed by a puff of smoke from the musket, choking the experimenter's tears, but fortunately it was an empty room.

If the experiment is carried out in the house, there is a high risk of poisoning.

A fresh breeze blew and blew the smoke away.

After several experiments, it turned out that the effective distance of the musket was from 100 to 200 meters.

The effective killing distance is 50 meters, and the power is acceptable, not much stronger than the lethality of a bow and arrow, which obviously does not achieve the effect expected by Li Chengqian.

"This kind of musket is not good, you must increase the speed of research and make the bird gun recorded in "Heavenly Creation" as soon as possible."

"Like this musket, it must be eliminated, if a large number of our army is equipped, once the gun is fired, the smoke coming out of the gun can smoke a large number of our soldiers to death."

"We don't have to wait for the enemy to attack, our army will be directly defeated, so this musket is basically equivalent to waste." Li Chengqian said.

Although the production process of bird guns is recorded in "Heavenly Creation", the specific operation should not be written in detail.

In the absence of anything, it would be nice to be able to research a musket!

Now it is only necessary to improve the musket according to the records in the "Heavenly Creations", and it is believed that it will soon be possible to produce a qualified bird gun.

Then, the firearms unit equipped with 10,000 horses will inevitably be able to sweep through the surrounding countries.

When the time comes, don't say anything about Goguryeo, Tubo and the like, even the Arab Empire, which claims to be one of the two major empires that coexisted with the Tang Dynasty, would have to kneel in front of the musket troops.

"No! Please rest assured, Your Highness! Chen must have led the scientific researchers to improve the existing muskets according to the "Heavenly Creations". ”

"The minister dares to guarantee that as long as His Highness gives the minister three months, the minister will be able to transform the musket into a bird's gun." The person in charge of the base said loudly.

"You do things, don't worry! Three months is too urgent, don't put too much pressure on yourself, take your time and don't rush. ”

"How does this musket hurt the ironclad? Have you experimented with it? Li Chengqian said.

"Just now, it was all an experiment to shoot a wooden target, and there was no experiment on the armor, so I don't know what the specific result is." The person in charge of the base is human.

"Then take a pair of armor and give it a try, and what will happen?" Li Chengqian said.

"No!" The person in charge of the base received the order, turned back to the assistant on the side and said, "Go and get a pair of armor." ”

The assistant was ordered to retreat, took a pair of armor for the soldiers of the Tang Army, and after fiddling with the armor, the experimenter fired muskets again.

After a few shots, the armor was brought to Li Chengqian, and judging from the traces on it, the musket could effectively break through the iron armor within fifty meters and cause damage to the target.

Fifty meters away, within eighty meters, only single holes of different depths can be left on the armor, and beyond eighty meters, there is basically no effect.

The results of the experiment still did not satisfy Li Chengqian.

"That's it! That's all for today! After these experiments, there are still many things that need to be improved in the musket. ”

"For example, you need to rely on an external force to ignite the arquebus in order to fire ammunition, and it will be better to improve the aspect of not using an external force to ignite the arquebus."

"Adding a front sight to the front of the musket and a door to the back can improve the accuracy of the shot." Li Chengqian said a lot.

The assistant of the person in charge of the base recorded them one by one, and the prince's words would be very helpful in improving the musket.