Chapter 49: The Percussive Flintlock Pistol
Mo Li said proudly: "We are from the Huaxia Renaissance Army!" As he spoke, a sense of pride rose in his heart, thinking that no matter whether the Ming Dynasty could be preserved or not, at least he would have to keep the dignity of the Han people. Therefore, he had to find a way to get something valuable out of these foreigners in front of him.
"The Chinese Renaissance Army?" Ralo looked at Fred suspiciously, and Fred shook his head, indicating that he hadn't heard of the department either.
Mo Li guessed their thoughts, smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if you haven't heard of it, in short, we are the guardians of China, and it is enough for you to know this!" Guan Feng, check! The latter sentence he said in Chinese.
Guan Feng, Cheng Qingzhu, Du Geng and others were also stunned, they didn't expect Mo Li to be able to communicate with foreign devils. Guan Feng thought to himself, when will adults learn to speak the words of foreign devils? Hearing Mo Li's order, Guan Feng suddenly came back to his senses and responded: "Yes!" My lord! ”
Several soldiers stepped forward and untied the tarpaulin from the wagon. Lei Luo was anxious and said loudly: "Hey, hey, you can't ......"
"My lord, this car is full of muskets!" One of the soldiers inspecting the first carriage reported loudly.
"What?" Mo Li was also a little surprised, glanced at Lei Luo meaningfully, and sneered: "This gentleman, what else do you have to say?" Smuggling arms, huh! Take! ”
Several soldiers rushed up and grabbed Lei Luo and Fred, who shouted, "Sir, you can't arrest us!" I'm protesting! I want to see your Emperor Majesty! ”
Mo Li sneered: "Want to see our emperor? OK! But this depends on my arrangement, take it away! ”
Lei Luo cursed and muttered a few words, knowing that it had no effect, and then shut up, and was escorted by the soldiers towards Heiyun Village in despair. Mo Li carefully inspected the goods on the two carriages, and couldn't help but be overjoyed.
It turned out that the first carriage was full of flintlock pistols and ammunition, both long and short, while the second carriage was full of sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn and other crops, which were high-yield miscellaneous grains that multiplied very quickly, and had not been cultivated in large quantities in China before.
Among them, sweet potatoes are said to have been smuggled back by a Fujian businessman who was doing business in the Philippines during the Wanli period, and then there was such a thing as sweet potatoes in China, but at this time it was only about ten years, and it is estimated that there was no large-scale promotion, otherwise there would not be so many people starving to death during the Chongzhen period.
Mo Li's heart blossomed, a few days ago he was worried that he couldn't find the seeds of these grains, and now these two foreigners took the initiative to send them to him. As long as there are these things, and the large-scale promotion of planting in the future, many people can eat their stomachs, then there will be many people who can't survive to live, and they will follow themselves with all their hearts.
Mo Li ordered the two wagons to be taken back to the valley, and then he took the brothers to escort Lei Luo and the others back to the mountain.
If Mo Li had been careful, he might have noticed that there was a bandit in the grass beside the road who was not dead, and when he heard Mo Li say that the carriage was full of muskets, he shook slightly, and then continued to pretend to be dead, lying there motionless.
After Mo Li and the others walked away, the bandit got up, looked carefully at the route where Mo Li and the others evacuated, thought for a while, and then ran towards the mountain.
Back in the valley, Moli made an exception to the banquet and treat the brothers.
Liang Peijun is teaching Yuan Chengzhi to learn martial arts on a secluded col in the back mountain, these days, she is passing on the art on behalf of the teacher, teaching Yuan Chengzhi to practice this martial arts, Yuan Chengzhi hopes to learn martial arts as soon as possible, so as to avenge his father, so he also learned very hard.
Originally, Moli also wanted to take the opportunity to beg Liang Peijun to teach him to practice martial arts, so as to improve his combat effectiveness, and at the same time, he could also have more contact with Liang Peijun and cultivate his feelings.
"Report to the commander, the deputy commander has returned! I brought back a lot of muskets! And a few blonde foreigners! The Deputy Commander asked the Commander to discuss matters with Miss Liang. A guard walked a few steps in front of Yuan Chengzhi and reported loudly.
"Really?" Yuan Chengzhi blinked the elf's eyes and said, "Brother Mo is amazing! Let's go, senior sister, let's go see the foreigners. ”
Liang Peijun pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "What's so powerful about him, a little rascal!" Could it be that he was lucky with shit? ”
"Hehe, senior sister, why don't you always like Brother Mo? I think Brother Mo likes you a lot. After all, Yuan Chengzhi is a child's heart, and he is unscrupulous, and he smiled while walking.
"Phew, who wants him to like it." Liang Peijun said angrily, "Senior brother, you are not allowed to say such things again in the future, otherwise Senior Sister will not teach you martial arts in the future!" ”
"Don't! Senior sister, I won't say anything. "Yuan Chengzhi didn't dare to annoy this senior sister who was like a master, otherwise where would he go to learn martial arts.
"Alright, let's go." Liang Peijun took Yuan Chengzhi's little hand and ran towards the Justice Hall.
In the righteous hall, Mo Li was playing with a flintlock short gun, looking excited.
This kind of impact flintlock pistol is actually the prototype of the modern pistol, but limited to the smelting technology and technology of this era, whether it is a flintlock pistol or the arquebus that the Ming army is now equipped, the range and shooting accuracy are difficult to be satisfactory, basically, whether it is a flintlock or an arquebus, as long as it is a smoothbore gun, the caliber is about the same, it can hit the human shape at a distance of about 70-90 meters, and at a distance of 110-150 meters, it has a good hit rate on large targets such as infantry phalanx or cavalry, more than 150 meters, It's basically the same as emptying the gun.
Of course, not being able to hit accurately does not mean that it is not lethal, and early smoothbore gun bullets can still kill the enemy at a distance of 400 meters, but this enemy has to be particularly unlucky.
The percussive flintlock pistol clamps a piece of flint on the jaws of the hammer, and there is an anvil at the side of the fire transmission hole, if it is necessary to shoot, the trigger is pulled, and under the action of the spring, the flint is hit heavily on the edge of the fire door, and sparks emerge and ignite the ignition powder, this firing mechanism is called the percussive flintlock machine, and the firearm equipped with the percussive tunnel firing mechanism is called the percussive flintlock pistol.
The impact flintlock pistol greatly simplifies the firing process, improves the firing rate and shooting accuracy, is easy to use, and has a low cost and facilitates mass production. Compared to the arquebuses used at this time in the Ming Dynasty, the firing density could be increased by more than two times. On the battlefield, time is of the essence, and this saying could not be more appropriate.
Mo Li often played with guns in his previous life, in addition to learning some ordnance knowledge during military training, he also secretly played with guns after he came out of school, but it was also some high-fidelity pistols or homemade earthen guns, and he followed his uncle to hunt in the wild since he was a child, and his marksmanship was not bad. However, whether it is an imitation gun or a shotgun, there are still some differences from the flintlock pistols of this era.
Mo Li decided to go outside to try the feel of this flintlock pistol to see how it differed from the arquebuses equipped by the Ming army.
Lin Guo did not participate in this operation, she heard that Mo Li had returned, so she hurriedly came to find Mo Li, and as soon as she entered the door of the Gathering Hall, she saw Mo Li walking out with a musket.
Mo Li said: "Girl, go, I'll take you to shoot!" ”
Mo Li took Lin Guo, Guan Feng and others to the martial arts training ground on the left side of the cave entrance, facing the humanoid target a hundred meters away, dialed the flintlock gun machine to the firing position, raised his arms flat, held the gun in his right hand, supported his right wrist with his left hand, closed his left eye, aimed at the humanoid target in front of him, and pulled the trigger.
"Bang!" The bullet spun at high speed and fired forward.