Because of the lack of talent, because of low productivity, the production of arquebuses could not be increased, and Zhang Qiang wanted to see how they did it.

Zhang Qiang said to Francis: "You make a gun, from beginning to end, show me." ”

Immediately, Francis commanded his men and the Ming students he taught to get busy.

Preparing materials, there was chaos, and this compound was instantly crowded with people and materials.

The sound of shouting, the sound of striking iron, the sound of training machines.

Running around, it's okay to mess around.

Zhou Congee explained: "Over there, there is a carpenter who makes the butt and handle of the gun, and he is making the butt. ”

"There's the bolt over there, the one that pulls the trigger from the arquebus."

"There's a fire being lit over there, and the barrel is made of two layers of fine iron plates,"

"Over there, Francis is adjusting the machine, it seems that he wants to drill the barrel that was not finished just now, and then continue to use that barrel, otherwise, just this barrel, it is estimated that it will take half a month to drill, although it is divided into more than a dozen groups, but each group has to be drilled by Francis at the end, the students are only roughly drilled, and his men, that is, the four Portuguese, do another fine drill, and finally he drills again, polishing the inner wall of the barrel, which will take a long time, Therefore, at this moment, only the barrel that has been finally formed can be used. ”

Zhang Qiang took down a completed arquebus from the wall next to him, some of the decorative patterns on the gun were extremely chic and good-looking, and there were several iron hoops on the barrel, and the butt was wrapped with iron hoops, and it was tightly closed.

The crowd was busy until the next morning, when a Portuguese arquebus, which was basically made from ready-made parts.

Francis reloaded himself, and it took almost three minutes to reload, and then fired a shot.

It hit a three-inch thick plank seventy meters away, and the plank shattered, which was very powerful.

Then a layer of iron armor was replaced, and one shot was missed seventy meters away, and five shots were hit, and the iron armor was penetrated.

Two layers of iron armor, seventy meters without penetration, sixty meters just penetrated, fifty meters, direct penetration.

Compared to the Ming army's firecrackers and the Qing army's shotguns, this is already very powerful.

The use of three-stage shooting can offset the speed of the Qing archers, but this distance is still not safe, and the enemy's cavalry only needs to rush to a distance of 70 meters in a mere ten seconds, which is equivalent to ten to fifteen breaths.

Moreover, the most elite white armor of the Qing army is three layers of armor, one layer of iron armor, one layer of chain armor, and one layer of cotton armor, and the innermost layer of cotton armor can offset the impact of the warhead, making the warhead roll in the cotton armor, and then lose the power to continue penetration.

This is a Portuguese arquebus without an extended barrel, and if the barrel is lengthened, then it should be able to penetrate two layers of iron armor at a distance of seventy meters.

At a distance of fifty meters, it can almost penetrate three layers of armor.

At a distance of thirty meters, even the inferior guns of the Ming army can directly penetrate the Qing soldiers with two layers of armor, but the Ming army's firecrackers are defeated in the absence of iron discipline, and at a distance of thirty meters, no one will stand there stupidly, facing the heavy arrows of the Qing soldiers and shooting at the Qing soldiers, which is the reason for the defeat of the Ming army, courage and discipline.

If Zhang Qiang's troops have a very strong morale, even if the Qing soldiers rush into the queue of firecrackers, the firecrackers will not flee, but will face the battle, but the actual effect, the fighting ability is always the shortcoming of the firecrackers, Zhang Qiang will not deliberately improve this melee fighting ability, thankless, and the future will be the era of hot and other weapons that both sides shoot directly at a distance.

"Put the iron armor at a distance of ninety meters and take a look." Zhang Qiang said.

At a distance of 90 meters, François fired ten shots, only five shots hit the iron armor, fifty percent of the hit rate, this hit rate is a bit low, this is no way, smoothbore gun, originally to see who is unlucky, to see who is worse a kind of gun, this is François, if you let your firecracker troops, plus the kind of battlefield that tests people's psychological quality, more chaotic places, maybe the hit rate is less than 30%, which is also the reason why the British lobster soldiers often have to approach the enemy 30 meters or even closer to the 20 meters distance to fire a salvo.

The hit rate is high, and it shocks the enemy greatly, a salvo fire, at least knocks down the enemy's entire two rows of soldiers, how big do you think the shock of the enemy is? If you give the lobster soldiers a chance to fire a salvo, then the enemy will basically be hit by forty to fifty percent of the people, and a unit will lose forty percent of the soldiers at once, even if the commander has a good psychological quality, he will pout his lips in pain.

If, Zhang Qiang said that in the future, against the main force of the Tartars, the real Tartar infantry, the Jinhua Righteous Army led by himself directly approached the enemy at a distance of 50 meters and fired two rounds of salvos, it is estimated that the total strength will not be more than 100,000, even if there are many Han army flags to join, and the total strength of the Qing army Tartars has reached 500,000 or 600,000, it will not be able to bear it.

"My lord, my lord," Zhou Congee shook Zhang Qiang's arm, Zhang Qiang returned to reality from his fantasy, wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, raised his hand and said, "That, where did we just go?" ”

The guns of the Ming army and the Qing army have to be 30 meters to have this power, and 70 meters can only hit leather armor and single-layer cotton armor that is not very good, and it is estimated that 90 meters does not know where the bullets flew, unless it is an extremely unlucky unlucky egg, and I don't know who to hit.

"Is it all of this quality?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Francis said: "My lord, this is carefully made by the villain, if it is someone else, seventy meters can only penetrate a single layer of iron armor, if the quality is better, the thicker iron armor may not be able to penetrate." ”

"The villain suggested that this arquebus can only be fired at 45 to 50 meters, so that under the premise of ensuring accuracy, it can penetrate two layers of iron armor, if you want to penetrate the Qing army's three layers of iron armor or two layers of iron armor and one layer of cotton armor, 30 meters or even 20 meters away to shoot is guaranteed."

Zhang Qiang was very unhappy, at this distance, the heavy arrows of the Qing soldiers had already killed the firecrackers.

He wants a crushing battle, not a fight with the enemy, although he has the system, has the training and control skills that the system gives him, as long as he gives himself three months, he can explode a wave of soldiers, but he also consumes the enemy like this.

"Is there a way to increase the power?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Francis said: "Increase the amount of gunpowder, increase the length of the barrel, can be raised to fifty-five to sixty meters, three layers of armor, one blow penetrates, seventy meters away from two layers of iron armor, eighty to eighty-five meters away, hit the enemy even if the enemy wears a layer of iron armor, or leather armor, cotton armor of the enemy is seriously wounded, killed, a distance of 100 meters depends on luck." ”

"Let me see your gunpowder?" Zhang Qiang said.

Francis had a barrel of gunpowder, an oak barrel, not big, about the same as a barrel of infant formula.

This already looks much better than the barrel-like gunpowder keg of Daming, the smaller the barrel, the more uniform the gunpowder.

Looking at the color, the gunpowder seems to be already granular gunpowder, and there is no way to improve this Zhang Qiang, so he can only say: "Take the gunpowder to refine, pick up the gunpowder with the best color, the most powerful, the particles are full and uniform, and the gunpowder is in good condition, find a special person to manage the gunpowder, and the secret recipe after the gunpowder is configured cannot be leaked, otherwise there will be no forgiveness." ”

After the steps and materials have been read.

Zhang Qiang pulled Francis over, "Look, Your Excellency Francis, I know that you give me what you think is the best thing you have there, right?" ”

Francis couldn't help but laugh, "My lord, the villain has done everything he can. ”