Yang He fired a few more shots, and the overall feeling was not much slower than the single-shot rifles of later generations.

Of course, one is a metal bullet and the other is a paper shell bullet, which cannot be compared in many aspects.

Everyone was excited, compared to the Yuan-style Xin'an Gun, this two-type gun is really good, no longer need to use a fire rope, no need to temporarily ignite, attack and defend ambushes, strain a surprise, and be invincible. Sometimes even light rain can be used in combat.

However, after asking Zhang Zhuxun about the cost of making these two guns, it costs about fifteen taels of silver to add a sword, and everyone is staggering, it is too expensive.

Moreover, Zhang Chuxun also said that due to the shortage of Suzhou Iron and Steel, there are only more than 100 catties of Suzhou Iron and Steel that can be used at present, and only about the number of spring steel sheets needed to make 500 poles of two-type guns can only be used.

But the Xin'an Army currently has 600 guns, as well as cavalry sentry teams, mandarin duck formation teams, etc., they all need this kind of guns. There are only 500 rods, not to mention that the current armament cannot be fully equipped, and the number of steel sheets needed to expand the army in the future is even more insufficient.

Everyone sighed again, it was too uncomfortable that good things could not be popularized.

Yang He also sighed, it doesn't matter if the cost of the two-type new gun is high, the inferior firearms will explode at every turn, and the soldiers dare not use them at all, so it is better to use sophisticated weapons to maximize the strength of civilized people.

The key is the problem of insufficient materials.

He bought a total of two Sugang from the waves, totaling more than 400 catties. But the demand for this high-quality high-carbon steel is too wide, and if nothing else, his excellent drill bits of all kinds are inseparable from the use of this steel.

So squeezing around, the amount of sugang he can use is only more than 100 catties. It's just that there is no good steel, and it is delusional to want to make a flintlock pistol with a high firing rate.

In fact, China and foreign countries are slowly becoming aware of the problem of flintlock pistol materials, for example, in the "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom", it is said: "...... The spring force must be more than 20 catties, otherwise it is not enough to climb the machine. It must be combined with the central axis of the Pythagorean, otherwise it will not fit and will not be strong. ”

A small piece of spring steel, the accumulated strength needs more than 20 catties to ignite, ordinary steel, it is difficult to say whether there are five catties of strength, naturally it is not ignited.

The best steel in the Ming Dynasty is Suzhou Iron and Steel, although it is not cheap, a pound costs six or seven taels of silver, but only the reed made of this excellent high-carbon steel can be ignited. The rest of the low-carbon steel sheet either can't be fired, or three shots, and two shots are dumb, so it's better not to use it. This is also the reason why flintlock pistols cannot replace arquebuses for a long time, and the steel is not good and cannot be fired.

Zhang Zhugong has the most say in this regard, when the three brothers got a bag of Sugang, but they were reluctant to use it, and gave it to Yang He as a precious gift.

"Indeed," he said, "if the reed doesn't work, it can't catch fire." From the perspective of his subordinates, only Su Gang can be used, and even the fallen steel is useless. ”

Zhang Songtao said: "It's just that there is no local Suzhou steel, and there is no good steel to replace, so it is always purchased from outside, and if it is stuck in the neck, it is always controlled by others." ”

Everyone frowned, this is a serious problem, Yang He nodded slightly, Zhang Songtao is worthy of being a scholar, and the height of seeing the problem is different from others.

The flintlock pistol actually has no technical content, whether the flint can be ignited is only related to the material, the spring steel is good, it can catch fire, and the steel is not good, it becomes useless. The lack of steel materials has seriously troubled the people of this era.

For Yang He, the main factor restraining the development of his flintlock pistol is also the problem of spring steel, which is always a hidden danger by importing alone, and the quantity is still seriously insufficient.

And he also knows that with the chaos of the situation in the Ming Dynasty, many raw material channels for purchase will have problems, or even lose, and must be self-sufficient.

So he is also preparing, and in the past few months he has bought a large amount of black lead, that is, graphite, as well as high-alumina clay, etc., to prepare his own crucible to make steel. Although the cost is high and the service life of graphite crucibles is very short, it is worth the high investment in order to develop excellent force.

And a lot of good tool steels are actually not in such a big demand.

Just like the spring steel sheet of the flintlock pistol, it takes four or five taels of fine steel to make a piece of steel, and the crucible steel is even less, one pound can make about five or six pieces of spring steel, ten catties can make fifty or sixty pieces, and one hundred catties can make five or six hundred pieces.

If Yang He has a thousand catties of crucible steel in his hand, he can use it for a long time.

As long as he protects the secret of crucible steelmaking, he is not afraid that others will copy the two-type new angun in his hand. What if the steel is not good, but the appearance is exactly the same? If you can't catch fire, you still have to go back and use the arquebus.

The two-type new Anjun is not cheap, and the cost of one shot is fifteen taels, and many military officials are deterred when they see it.

There are a few shots of the new gun, and everyone happily passed it on, Luo Xianjue touched the sword on it, and said: "Look at this firearm, it can be stabbed, and it can be shot, and it is so convenient to stab and shoot for both purposes." ”

Zhang Chujing also picked up a gun and tried it, he gestured, but said: "Will all the soldiers use a sword in the future?" It's shorter, and I'm afraid that I'm afraid of facing the enemy's armored soldiers, and I don't have an advantage in hand-to-hand combat. ”

Everyone was stunned, and then they also discussed, indeed, after the two-style gun is inlaid with a sword, the length is at most five feet, and if the opponent uses a spear, it is at least one zhang long, and it feels really shorter.

And if the opponent is heavily armored with a spear, or even uses a big stick mace or something, they smash it with a stick, and the sword will definitely be broken, crooked, how can they fight?

Everyone still remembered that they all used swords, what about the shield soldiers and spearmen in the army? They don't want it?

Everyone feels very conflicted, it seems that this sword is useful, and it seems that it is not very useful, especially in hand-to-hand combat, this sword is like a chicken rib.

Li Ruwan also passed the one-shot two-style Xin'an Gong at this time, she looked left and right, she couldn't put it down, she said: "How can it be useless? Brother Jing, what if you are wearing heavy armor and holding a big stick? The master will hit you first to see if you die. ”

Zhang Izujing was stunned, opened his mouth, and was speechless, as if this was the case when his eldest brother was fighting.

He was clumsy in words, feeling that something was wrong, and he couldn't say it.

Everyone is even more contradictory, Li Ruwan said this, it seems that this sword is very useful, but it is just ......

Yang Hedao: "There is no need to fight, the sword bearer must be a warrior, and in the future, the sword regiment will be built in the army, and the brave man can join." ”

Of course, he understood the issues that everyone was arguing about, so he planned to build a sword regiment and use all the veterans who had been trained in the battlefield.

They only had a regiment of 200 people, a regiment of four teams, each team of only 30 people, the inner two armor used the second type of Xin'an gun, equipped with a sword, and the first class used a winged tiger gun, also equipped with a sword.

All of their dual-purpose firearms, all of them have armor, and their protection is outstanding, and their firepower is outstanding. They fought, and the men in the first two rows could fight from seventy to twenty paces. If an enemy comes within 20 paces, the Winged Tiger can fire three shots in a row, and any enemy will collapse.

Even if it doesn't collapse, the swordsmen in the first two rows can continue to fight, shoot with guns, stab with guns.

Finally, there are three squads of 50 mandarin duck soldiers, as professional meat fighters and assaulters.

In Yang He's plan, the main force of the field in the future is planned to evolve into the Sword Regiment, but it is still early, because he lacks veterans of the battlefield tempered by blood and fire. The recruits use the sword, which is too wasteful and does not exert the power they should have.

For the time being, the army is also the current formation, sword and shield men, spearmen, and fire guns.

This year, all the soldiers of the Xin'an Army can be equipped with the second-type Xin'an guns, but all the swords are still far away. Only the sword is made and reserved, and the required soldiers are satisfied.

……

Yang He said this, and everyone also put aside this issue and controversy.

The quartermaster made many samples of weapons, and everyone watched them one by one.

There are two kinds of weapons that everyone is more interested in, one is the newly developed 10,000 enemies, and the other is something called Flying Thunder.

It turned out that Xin'anzhuang had 10,000 enemies, but it was too big, each weighing three catties, and it contained two catties of gunpowder. After the development of new gunpowder, the amount of gunpowder used was greatly reduced with the same power, and the new 10,000 enemies became smaller.

Now the 10,000-strong enemy weighs only two catties, and the gunpowder contained in it is half a catty, but it has the power of the original two catties of gunpowder.

The Quartermaster House forged some new 10,000 enemies, much smaller than before, but very similar to the grenades of later generations. Oblong, with a wooden handle, a lead behind the handle, and then a lid that can be unscrewed when used to protect the lead from moisture.

Then the shell of the bullet was thinner, containing fifty iron bullets, each ten millimeters in diameter.

However, because the cast iron shell is often unevenly cast, the explosion will first break from the weak point, resulting in insufficient pressure and no lethality. Some grenades have uneven shrapnel after exploding, or even one or two, and this is the reason.

The use of prefabricated fragments, or the longitudinal and horizontal grooves outside the projectile, in fact, the effect is not ideal, the test shows that the fragments are still uneven after the explosion, some directions are more and some directions are less.

Yang He estimated that this is the case with the cast projectile, and it is difficult to concentrate the stress in place, and there is also a big problem with the material technology at this time.

This drawback is very difficult to solve, that is, in the twentieth century, the grenades used by various countries still have this drawback, large and small.

Therefore, Yang He's solution is to add iron bullets to the new 10,000 enemies, so that even if the fragments cannot be destroyed, the fifty iron bullets inside can still kill the enemy violently.

Of course, there are also drawbacks, without adding iron bullets, the 10,000-strong enemy can be made smaller and thrown farther. With the addition of iron marbles, the volume becomes larger and the throwing distance is shorter, increasing the danger of your own throwing personnel.

However, there are pros and cons, and for the time being, it is necessary to add iron marbles to the 10,000-strong enemy.

And Flying Thunder.

Everyone looked at it, and there was a long and thin thing on the table, more than three feet long, hollow, and the hole was a few inches larger, which seemed to be made of iron pipes inside, but the outside was covered with a handguard, and the whole was polished very smooth, and it was also painted with red paint.

Look at this long cylinder, one end is larger, like an iron horn, and the other end has a door and a crosshair, which seems to be for aiming.

"What's this?" Minister Yang picked it up and looked at it, and felt that the long cylinder in his hand weighed about six or seven catties, which was about the same as a fire gun.

He looked beside the barrel, and there were things on it, which seemed to be ten thousand enemies, but the head was pointed, like a spearhead, and behind it was a slender iron rod, which could be stuffed into the barrel. Look at the rear end of the "spearhead" is slightly larger than the barrel, and it seems that it can be stuck over there, and it looks like a large rocket.

Everyone was curious to look around, Minister Yang picked up this thing, and felt that it weighed six or seven pounds, he looked up and down, and saw that the pole behind the "spearhead" seemed to have a cover similar to ten thousand enemies, so he unscrewed it, revealing the lead inside, which was very long.

"Huh." Everyone was surprised, and Zhang Songtao muttered: "According to the military quartermaster, this thing is called flying thunder, is it a rocket similar to the flying spear and flying sword in the army?" ”

Luo Xianjue said: "I feel like a monkey in the sky." ”

Minister Yang looked carefully, and saw that the lead went into the iron rod, which seemed to be filled with primer, and then there was a small tail at the tail, three inclined iron plates, like a rudder.

Minister Yang affirmed: "This is the rocket. ”

The taciturn Han Guan'er couldn't help but speak at this time: "How can this be used?" ”

Luo Xianjue said: "It must be inserted into that tube, you see that there is a wire behind it, you hold the tube, and then light the fire, you can fly away, just like playing with monkeys." ”

Minister Yang said: "You are not afraid of spitting fire, being scorched?" ”

Everyone laughed, especially Li Ruwan's laughter was the loudest.

Zhang Chugong groaned: "It should be carried on the shoulder, and the fire will be breathed back, so you will not be afraid of injury." ”

Minister Yang shouted, "This thing is interesting, I'll try it." ”

Everyone was hotly discussed, Yang He smiled, yes, this thing in front of him, when people in later generations see it, a weapon will float in their minds, a shoulder-mounted bazooka.

The weapon named Flying Thunder was made by Yang He with reference to the shoulder-mounted bazooka of later generations.

The bazooka is more than one meter long, weighs about six pounds, and the body of the projectile has seven pounds, all of which weigh thirteen pounds, and are used on the shoulder.

If you only look at the appearance, this weapon is not complicated, just an iron cylinder, it is easier than making a barrel, because there is no need to consider the pressure of the chamber, whether to explode or not, etc.

The key is a rocket, the warhead is easy to say, it can be cast with pig iron, and there is a pound of explosive gunpowder in it, just like a new ten thousand enemies, in order to increase the power, the warhead is loaded with 100 iron bullets of 10 millimeters.

It is mainly the principle of priming medicine at the time of launch, and in this regard, Yang He does refer to the folk fireworks inspiration such as "two kicks" and "sky monkeys".

These two types of fireworks appeared as early as the Song Dynasty, so they are not unusual. That is, the gunpowder is divided into two layers, the back door at the bottom is not tightly blocked, and after the fuse is ignited, the gunpowder burns to produce an air flow, and it flies forward or high in the air.

After flying a certain distance, the lead ignites the gunpowder that is partially sealed in the warhead, and the explosion occurs.

There are two key points here, one is how to ignite the gunpowder sealed by the warhead with the right lead after flying to a suitable distance, and produce an explosion, it is not good too early or too late.

However, Yang He finally thought about it, it was better to bomb later than to bomb early, at this time, cold weapons were fighting, and the enemy and I were all lined up in a military formation, and the team was dense. The rockets are coming, you are so frightened that you run away, and when this army moves, it will be the end of the rout.

You strictly abide by military discipline and stand still, that's better, stand still and be bombed.

So this problem is solved, just pay attention to the problems of not leaking air in the future, getting damp, and not exploding after flying to the target at the end.

The most important thing is the power to propel the flight, the iron object, and to fly some distance, which requires a lot of push.

Therefore, the Yanghe rocket weighed seven catties as a whole, with one catty of explosives in the front and two catties of primer fired in the rear, and the shells and 100 iron bombs all weighed no more than four catties.

The main reason is that it is difficult to drill holes in the primer cartridge, so Yanghe is pressed by a method similar to honeycomb coal molds. This method is fast and convenient, the primer is put into the mold, slowly pressed and compacted, and then the mold is taken out, and the primer tube is formed.

Finally, seal the two ends of the spray cylinder with cement, insert the medicine, use the paper oil paper as the tube, put it into a wooden box wrapped in oil paper, and store it in the moisture-proof warehouse, which can be stored for up to three years.

This method is simple and convenient, and the forming speed of the primer tube is fast, but there is a problem, because it does not dare to press too hard, and the firepower is too bad compared to the nozzle drilling, so it is necessary to increase the amount of medicine in order to produce enough fuel power to fly.

However, Zhang Chuxun reported that after the Quartermaster Institute developed the new 10,000 enemies and flying mines, after testing, the killing radius of the new 10,000 enemies could reach 5 to 7 meters.

The maximum range of the flying thunder is 100 paces, and the killing radius reaches an astonishing 10 to 15 meters.

This is still the range of the effective killing radius, and some shrapnel pieces can still kill people when they fly up to 100 meters away. Just like a gun, the effective killing distance is tens of meters, but some unlucky people stand hundreds of meters away, and some are still killed by gunfire.

For Yang He, this distance and killing range are sufficient.

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Everyone was excited to try it, and the military camp also opened up a training ground for the grenadier team, but it was Yang He who designed the grenade training ground according to later generations.

There is a thick bunker earthen wall, and the soldiers stand behind the earthen wall and throw, and squatting down after throwing, even if the shrapnel splashes, it will not hurt the throwing trainees.

For the sake of safety, there is also a trench dug on the throwing side, so if you miss, you can immediately jump into the trench to dodge.

From Xin'anzhuang onwards, the grenade training ground was designed in this way, so that the damage rate of the soldiers was greatly reduced.

There was a high platform 100 meters away to observe, and everyone went up to the high platform at the moment, but the live ammunition demonstration was not Minister Yang, but Chang Rusong, the captain of the grenadier team, a stout and honest old grenadier.

According to Yang He's request, the munitions station also made a special bag for the grenadier team, made of thick tarpaulin, which is very similar to the grenade bags of later generations. It can be carried on the back, with a strap crossed over the shoulder, a knot at the back, and a new 10,000 enemy with eight inside.

Four on the front, two on each side, a total weight of 16 pounds.

According to Zhang Chuxun's teachings, Chang Rusong was very curious to carry a bag of 10,000 enemies, and he moved left and right, feeling that this was very comfortable to carry, much better than carrying a basket before.

He looked at it for a while, then took out a 10,000-enemy from the bag and twisted the lid to reveal the lead inside.

A grenadier handed him a lit rope, and Chang Ru loosened it, and shouted to the people around him: "Flash away, I'm going to throw it." ”

The surrounding people quickly dodged, and Chang Rusong led the 10,000 enemies to the fire rope in his left hand, and the lead "sizzled" burned, bubbling with a chilling fire.

Fortunately, Yang He is focusing on production, and the lead of these 10,000 enemies is no problem, burning at a uniform speed, neither fast nor slow.

Chang Rusong is also an old grenadier, with strong psychological quality, and his hand holding the wooden handle of the enemy is still steady.

Then, he threw the 10,000 enemies out of the earthen wall, throwing dozens of steps, and then squatted behind the earthen wall neatly.

There was a loud bang, thick smoke billowed out, Yang He looked at it, and saw that Chang Rusong threw 10,000 people behind the enemy, until he was thirty steps (45 meters) away, and it was not far from the target, so he couldn't help nodding secretly, worthy of being an old grenadier, just throwing it far and throwing it accurately.

In the grenadier team of the Xin'an Army, it is an accurate 20-step pass, 30 steps excellent, and more than 40 steps heroic.

However, Yang He felt that the grenadiers could generally throw thirty steps, which would be enough.

The sound of explosions, Chang Rusong threw one after another, and only stopped after throwing eight new 10,000 enemies.

Everyone can see clearly that although the 10,000 enemies are now small and the style has changed, the power is not small at all, especially the 50 iron bullets hidden in each 10,000 enemies, and after the explosion, the surrounding dust is like a torrential rain.

Imagine that these 10,000 enemies are thrown into the middle of the enemy, and those thieves who are caught will surely suffer heavy casualties.

Everyone was talking excitedly, but the new enemy was decided, and everyone was most interested in that flying thunder.

The thunderers are temporarily arranged in the grenadier team, in groups of three, one carrying a canister and two carrying a bomb. It's similar to the new 10,000 enemy bag, but it's much bigger, and the buckle is also at the front. In the rear oil bag, there was a three-round rocket warhead weighing twenty-one pounds.

It was still often fired like a pine, and there were a few thunder samples, so Huang Jianzhong, the deputy of the team, carried it on his back, and Zhou Siwen, the deputy of the other team, followed him and lit the fire.

According to Zhang Chuxun's teaching, Chang Rusong carried the bazooka with great interest, watched the door and the front sight, and watched the target in a direction ahead.

Zhou Siwen took out a rocket from Huang Jianzhong's back pocket, and according to Zhang Chuxun's request, the rocket was stuffed into the bazooka from the front and the warhead was stuck in the mouth. Then he removed the cover from the back of the bazooka, and the long lead fell through the flare.

Zhou Siwen grabbed the lead and lit it with the fire rope, and the lead burned like a "zizi".

According to what Zhang Chuxun said earlier, Huang Jianzhong and Zhou Siwen quickly flashed to both sides.

Suddenly, a long burst of fire erupted from the mouth of the trumpet, several feet long, and a large puff of smoke rose up, and then the rockets flew out of the barrel.

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Old White Bull: There is another chapter in the evening.