There was a "bang", a solid bullet made of brass, with a flash of fire and a puff of smoke, shot at a poor lamb, after Xiao Zao was shot in the head, he fell to the ground, struggled weakly a few times, and then completely lost his breath.

"One shot killed, successful, we have finally figured out the musket designed by His Majesty."

"It's finally succeeded, I hope the effect this time can satisfy His Majesty."

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A group of people ran to the dead lamb and cheered excitedly, this little sheep should be regarded as the first animal in the world to die under the muzzle!

Li Zhonghua heard the good news sent by the Chang'an Datang Academy of Sciences, referred to as the Tang Academy of Sciences, once again comprehensively improved the scientific and technological content of the musket, and finally successfully produced a sample gun, and successfully passed the training, immediately put down all the things, and went to the Datang Academy of Science in person, he must verify with his own eyes, once again how lethal the re-improved gun is?

The emperor came to the Datang Academy of Science in person, and all the teachers and students of the academy were overjoyed.

As an emperor, when he travels, he is accompanied by hundreds of civil and military officials, as well as the imperial guards, the palace guards, the lineup is very large, and it is basically difficult to keep a low profile.

The teachers and students of the Datang Academy of Science and Technology, in order to show the morale of the Datang Academy of Science in front of His Majesty the Emperor, have made sufficient preparations.

Over the years, Li Zhonghua's concern and devotion to the Datang Academy of Science can be said to be unrelenting, giving money to money, resources to resources, and giving people to people.

Not only that, Li Zhonghua also often instructed them to prevent them from going further and further down the wrong path.

Although Li Zhonghua is not strong in hands-on ability, his knowledge of firearms and ammunition is also very limited.

But after all, he is a person who has crossed over from the 21st century, and just by virtue of his little point, it seems that in the 21st century, it seems that the general knowledge about guns, as well as the history of the development of guns, can make them take a lot of detours and save a lot of time.

Therefore, the teachers and students of the Datang Academy of Science, the emperor Li Zhonghua, are respectful and loving from the bottom of their hearts.

A flock of sheep is running in the pasture, and a platoon of soldiers with spears, igniting fires, shooting.

In the burst of gunfire, one after another sheep were hit and fell to the ground, some were hit by the vital point, and after falling to the ground, they struggled and died, and some of them fell to the ground in pain, although they did not hit the vital point.

After seeing the power of the gun with their own eyes, the civil and military officials were terrified one after another.

Under the power of the gun, no matter how good your martial arts are, you can be knocked down with one shot, who dares to say that you are not afraid.

Don't look at the current power of the gun, but it has taken more than ten years of continuous hard research to get the current results.

Although Li Zhonghua has advanced insight, there is nothing in this era, and everything needs to be processed by himself.

For example, if you want to make a really useful and powerful gun, you must use metal to make a gun, otherwise everything is.

How can you use metal as a barrel without a lathe? Therefore, if you want to research and make a real gun, you must first make a lathe.

A real gun is a barrel-fired weapon that uses gunpowder gas energy to fire a projectile with a caliber of less than 20 mm (more than 20 mm is defined as "artillery").

It is mainly used to fire bullets to hit unprotected or weakly protected living targets. It is the main weapon of the infantry and the auxiliary weapon of other arms.

In the original history, it was not until the late Southern Song Dynasty in 1259 that China invented the first gun with black powder to launch projectiles and bamboo tubes, called the assault gun.

Its basic shape is that the front section is a thick bamboo tube; The part that swells in the middle section is the powder chamber, and there is a little fire hole in the outer wall.

The back section is a hand-held wooden stick. When it is fired, it is held on the ground with a wooden stick, the left hand holds the iron pipe, and the right hand ignites, making a loud noise, shooting out stones or projectiles, and the unburned gunpowder gas spews out of the muzzle of the gun for two or three meters.

First of all, due to the problem of the ratio of raw materials of gunpowder, its thrust is quite limited, and the firing range is probably less than 100 meters, and because the shooting method is very stiff, it is impossible to use the modern "three-point-one-line" aiming method.

In addition, because the barrel is a bamboo tube, after about four or five shots, the bamboo at the end of the barrel will become very fragile due to the burning of the gunpowder explosion, and it will break off when it falls to the ground.

What's more, when shooting, because the chamber pressure is too high, the chamber is simply exploded, where can the bamboo support such an explosion, and it is rare to be able to fire successfully, so there is only a psychological deterrent effect.

With Li Zhonghua here, of course, you have to choose to skip this step, such a research and invention will have no effect, it is simply chicken ribs, if it is useful, the Southern Song Dynasty will not be destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the ratio of gunpowder was readjusted, resulting in the same volume of gunpowder, and the pressure of the explosive gas flow caused by it in the same space increased by about three times compared with the original pressure, that is, the acceleration of the projectile became three times that of the original, and the ejection speed became nearly twice that of the original.

On the other hand, the barrel of the bamboo tube was replaced with a pig iron tube, and the chamber pressure that it could withstand was greatly increased, so that the use value of the musket was greatly improved due to the increase in power, range and durability.

However, due to its large size and heavy weight, it is not an excellent substitute for bows and arrows.

At the same time, the Yuan Dynasty also produced early pistols, which, although portable, were pitifully low in power and range, and basically had no tactical value.

As for Western Europe, the appearance of similar weapons in Italy in the middle of the fourteenth century, its name is "arquebus", in fact, it is basically similar to the later "arquebus", but the size and weight are far superior to the latter, and the lethality seems to be about the same as the arquebus, so this weapon is mainly used for the defense of castle fortresses.

At that time, the cavalry was also equipped with muskets, and the German lancers used "muskets" to beat the French army in horror.

The muskets used by the cavalry were shorter and smaller, and when firing, the gun was first tied to the neck with a rope, and a "Y" shaped frame was placed on the saddle to support the barrel, and the wooden stick at the back was pressed against the iron armor on the chest, and the right hand was ignited.

By the beginning of the fifteenth century, smaller hand-held guns appeared on the battlefield, and the wooden grip of the original "musket" was redesigned to be able to lean on the soldier's shoulder when firing, rather than on a stand or on the ground, so that the definition of a rifle was formalized as a long-barreled firearm fired by a single soldier on the shoulder.

Moreover, the craftsmen incorporated a mechanism into the chamber of the new musket that controlled the ignition.

However, this weapon can only exert great power in the case of close-range, indiscriminate salvo fire.

By the middle of the 16th century, the arquebus, which had been used on the battlefields of Japan, finally appeared.

The ignition mechanism of the original arquebus was a simple "C" shaped hook with one end fixed to one side of the butt and a slow-burning arquebus clamped at the other.

The fire rope is twisted by potassium nitrate or other chemical treated hemp rope, and in the later stage, it is also used to draw silk with fire wool (cellulose nitrate) and twist it with hemp rope soaked in castor oil, and even use "burning water" (oil) to soak hemp rope to make fire rope.

The projectile is made of iron or lead, generally speaking, because the lead is soft and easy to deform, so it has considerable benefits when loading and hitting the target, otherwise, when loading the projectile, the iron projectile needs to be put into the muzzle, and the bullet stick is sent with a wooden hammer to push the iron bullet into the bore, which is a waste of time. When the arquebus is fired, the metal hook can be pushed into the fire door with your fingers to ignite the ignition powder and continue to ignite the propellant.

In this way, the shooter can push the fire rope to ignite while aiming. Arquebuses used smoothbore technology.

However, due to its breech-loading single-shot reload and separate projectiles and propellants, it has a very slow rate of fire, about 30 seconds per shot, and is a trained advanced musketeer.

In addition, the exposed fire rope is very easy to be blown out by the wind or rain, and the shooting is very easy to fail, and the gunner also needs to use the fire fold to directly ignite the fire rope, so it is very troublesome to re-fire after the shooting fails.

With the development of technology, the problem of the need for the fire fold to ignite directly was satisfactorily solved, the craftsmen of Western Europe added a small torch driven by the trigger at the back of the gun, this small torch has been burning during the battle, when it is necessary to shoot, pull the trigger to make the small torch move forward, contact the fire rope inserted in front, and the small torch is kneaded with a cloth soaked in castor oil, and the fire burning on it is not easy to extinguish. In this way, the arquebusier does not have to re-fire after a failed shot, and it is much easier to shoot.

This new type of trigger-fired arquebus, with a caliber of 15 to 20 mm, a pipe diameter ratio of 40 to 45 mm, and a maximum range of 60 to 80 meters, was introduced to Japan in 1543.

"Musket" musket - born in Nuremberg, Germany, around 1500 in the German Nuremberg area of the spiral rifled trigger firing arquebus, also known as "rifle" (rifle), due to the engraved rifling effectively strengthens the accuracy of the gun, the length of the barrel has also been improved, can better guide the movement of the ammunition after the force, that is, its maximum range has been improved, reaching as much as 200 meters! In addition, this arquebus is equipped with an aiming device consisting of a crosshair and a door, so the accuracy is greatly improved. In short, it can be described as a great revolution in the gun industry.

However, it is a pity that for various reasons, this rifled arquebus has not been widely adopted, only the three more powerful states of the German Confederation of Prussia, Austria and Bavaria have officially equipped their troops, which is one of the reasons why these three states in the German Confederation can fully suppress small countries such as Hanover, as well as "deter" Italy, France and other large countries.

However, it is clear that this rifled arquebus was not introduced to Japan, and it was not until the later flintlock pistol was born that Japan carried out a replacement of muskets.

Since then, there has been a revolution in musket technology in two fields, one is firing technology and the other is ammunition technology. The development of the former, first in the late 16th century, Europe invented a way of "tinder ignition".

The technical principle is to put a "tinder" or a short arquebus in a small tube, and the gunner only ignites the tinder when the gun is in use, so as not to expose the target at night because the gun carries a lit fire rope.

The "tinder" arquebus was the forerunner of the later tunnel pistol. The flintlock pistol was invented by the French in the 17th century.

Its basic structure is like a musket, that is, it uses the flint on the hammer to strike to produce sparks and ignite gunpowder. The average caliber of the flintlock pistol was about 13.7 mm, and since the reloading musket had not yet been invented, it was a high demand for the ammunition loading technology of the time.

According to the previous loading method, when loading the projectile, it is necessary to put the projectile into the muzzle of the gun, use the wooden hammer to send the bullet stick, and push the gun into the chamber, which is very time-consuming, and on the battlefield, it means a waste of life.

Later, gunsmiths in Pennsylvania, USA, created a method of speeding up reloading, using a piece of linen or deerskin soaked in grease to wrap the projectile into the muzzle and load it into the muzzle, reducing friction. This method not only speeds up the reloading, but also acts as a breath-holding effect, which increases accuracy and range.

If the advent of the flintlock pistol marked the end of the technology of the era of purely mechanical ignition, then the ensuing technology of explosive ignition was the beginning of the era of instantaneous ignition.

The first to perform the explosive ignition technique provocation test was a Scottish priest named Alexander Forchs.

Fauces began to use vessels for mercury powder. Later, the mercury powder was spread between two sheets of paper. After further making a paper roll "fire cap", this invention significantly accelerated the firing of firearms.

In 1808, the French mechanic Bao Li applied a paper fire cap and used a needle tip to ignite, and in 1821, Richards of Birmingham invented a "detonator" that used a paper fire cap.

Later, someone pressed "explosive bombs" on long strips of paper or linen to feed them automatically, and they were fired by hammers. In this way, the firing pistol was more perfect, and by the 19th century, the needle-prick firing pistol was also born.

It first appeared in 1840 and was invented by the German Dresser, so it is also known as the Dresser needle pistol.

Its technical features are that the ammunition is loaded from the rear end of the barrel and fired with a needle.

This weapon was first equipped by the Prussian army, and it shined in the three wars of the unification of the kingdom in Prussia, and the cavalry of the Danish, Austrian and French countries were discolored. Parallel to the development of firing technology was the development of reloading technology.

In the Opium War of 1840, the British army was equipped with the famous BROWNBESS breech-charged smoothbore flint musket as standard, not the British Captain Patrick Ferguson in 1776 successfully invented the breech-loading rifle, the "Ferguson" breech-loading rifle rifle was successfully developed by Captain Ferguson in the British Army's suppression of the American Revolutionary War in 1776, on the basis of the Kentucky-style rifled rifled rifle rifle rifled rifle with the American breech charge in the United States in the United States in the suppression of the 1776 American Revolutionary War.

The British army had produced 100 of these new guns, equipped with a team of 100 men led by him, and the effective range was increased to 200 meters, with a maximum rate of fire of six rounds per minute, but because of his own death, this gun was not popularized in the British army until 1853.

What Li Zhonghua wants to develop most is this kind of gun, although the later loosening technology is better, but with Datang's current ability, it is impossible to make such a sophisticated gun.

In the eyes of civil and military officials, the batch of guns produced now seems to be very powerful, but Li Zhonghua is not satisfied.

However, the food has to be eaten one bite at a time, and everything has to go through a long period of slow development, and Li Zhonghua can only hope that they will make persistent efforts to improve their skills in making guns as soon as possible.

However, now the guns that have been successfully tested have good lethality, and a batch of such guns can be produced and equipped in the army for use in actual combat.

Is this gun any good? Only when the power is on the battlefield can it be brought into play, and it is also the best way to test it.

Thinking of the report that I had just received a few days ago, the Tatar people had risen from the melee of various ethnic groups in the Northeast at such a fast speed, and it was time to prepare to take action to stop the development of the power of the Tatar people.