Flintlock musketeers? These five words made Jiang Chuan's interest rise all of a sudden.

The appearance of flintlock pistols in the history of musket development can be said to be a key node. Before the advent of flintlock pistols, all muskets were arquebuses. When firing, the soldier first ignites the fire rope at the tail of the musket with the flint he carries, and the burning of the fire rope causes the gunpowder in the medicine chamber to burn, generating a huge driving force, and shooting the solid iron bullets or iron nails in the musket out of the muzzle, forming a lethal force to the enemy.

The disadvantages of such an arquebus are obvious, slow reloading, low rate of fire, and short range, poor accuracy, in the same bunch.

It wasn't until later that flintlock pistols and mini bullets really made muskets a weapon of mass destruction on the battlefield. Of course, at this time it still belongs to the front-loading smoothbore gun.

Later, rear-loading smoothbore guns appeared. Later, rear-loading rifled guns appeared. At this time, the musket was regarded as having the appearance of a modern rifle, and it really became the main weapon on the battlefield.

The greatest significance of the appearance of the flintlock pistol is that it greatly simplifies the loading process of the musket, increases the firing speed, and enhances the adaptability of the musket in rain, snow and wet weather.

You think, the original arquebus, the enemy rushed towards you, you just lit the arquebus, watched the arquebus sneering, and imagined that the fire gun could spray the enemy into a pockmarked face.

The result is good, God suddenly turned his face, and a heavy rain said that it would fall, and the fire rope was extinguished for you at once. When you are scrambling to change the torch and re-light it, the enemy has already arrived, and a spear will stab you in the heart, stabbing you through the heart at once, and you can only curse MMP before you breathe.

But with a flintlock pistol is different, after the ammunition is loaded, a trigger is pulled, the trigger is connected with the flint friction, and the spark is shot, which instantly ignites the gunpowder in the medicine room, and the fire gun makes a loud noise, and before the enemy pounces on him, he is sprayed by you into a pockmarked face, covered with blood, lying on the ground and covering his face and screaming, and then your little friend goes up and cuts Ya, which is not very cool and crooked.

Of course, there are still many problems with the flintlock pistol, but after all, it is much better than the original arquebus.

Although from the perspective of Jiangchuan, a modern society with highly developed firearms, there is not much difference between flintlock pistols and arquebuses, they are both the same antiques.

But to look at something, we have to look at it in the era at that time, and make a horizontal comparison. Rather than making longitudinal comparisons in the context of the big history.

As far as Jiang Chuan knows, the muskets in this time and space are still dominated by arquebuses, and he has not heard of flintlock pistols appearing. Then if he equips his infantry with flintlock pistols, he will naturally have the first hand advantage.

Getting back to the point, Jiang Chuan reached over and slowly pulled out the sword, holding the hilt of the sword and slowly pulling out the blade.

I saw the light flickering in front of me, and in an instant, a line of information appeared in my mind: the flintlock musketeer belongs to the junior musketeer, and the training price is 50 gold coins, including the soldier himself and a full set of equipment. The full set of equipment includes a flintlock pistol, a short sword for self-defense, some ammunition flints, and a set of musketeers' uniforms.

I didn't expect the flintlock musketeers to bring their own equipment, which is a bit interesting, and it seems that it is worth the price.

And there is also a training description in this line of information: if the lord needs to train flintlock musketeers, he only needs to explain the training quantity and meeting place to the city lord's mansion, and the fees are automatically deducted by the system.

Jiang Chuan asked Xiao Buyi behind him and confirmed that this was indeed the case. So the order was given to train 500 flintlock musketeers, and the meeting place was in the barracks outside Quang Ninh.

Thinking of this, Jiang Chuan asked Xiao Buyi again, is it okay to place orders directly with Xiao Buyi for the training of other arms in the future, Xiao Buyi nodded and confirmed this conjecture.

It seems that this so-called chief is the agent that the system has found for itself in the territory.

After leaving the barracks, Jiang Chuan took Xiao Buyi to the gun foundry not far from the barracks.

The layout of the gun foundry is somewhat similar to that of later factories, with an exhibition area in the front yard and a manufacturing workshop in the back.

The person who received Jiang Chuan was a principal, and he took Jiang Chuan to the exhibition area first.

Another huge booth in the exhibition area has two things on it, one is a black and small watermelon, and a pottery bomb larger than a melon.

The other is a field gun. The structure of this field gun is actually very simple, a gun cart composed of a barrel and two wheels constitutes the entire field gun.

According to the principal, this kind of field artillery is currently an eight-pounder gun, which is a light artillery, and only one war horse is needed to pull it when marching.

When fighting, a minimum of two soldiers are required to cooperate, and they can fire solid shells or flowering shells, with a maximum range of about 1,000 paces and an effective range of about 500 paces.

The maximum range means that you can hit that far at most, and the effective range means that you will not be able to hit the head after this distance, and only God knows where to hit.

Of course, this thing also belongs to the front-loading smoothbore gun, and the range will not be too far, and the accuracy will be like that.

Although Jiang Chuan really wanted to directly equip the Jiang Jiajun with an artillery regiment artillery division or something, it was best to have all kinds of modern mortars, field artillery, mountain artillery, cannons, howitzers, and even anti-aircraft guns, but he also knew that it was just a matter of thinking.

The rice should be eaten one bite at a time, and the road should be walked step by step, and it is easy to pull the eggs when the steps are big.

Although the field gun in front of him is also an antique, it can be regarded as a timely rain for the Jiang family's army, which lacks heavy firepower in the field.

Although the red-coated cannon is powerful, it is too bulky and heavy, and it is okay to use it in siege, but it is too inconvenient to use it in field battles.

With this field artillery, then it will make up for the lack of field firepower of the Jiang army. The next time you encounter the enemy, you don't need to send antique-level ballistas and trebuchets anymore, you can directly set up a field cannon, and the cannon will hit his mother as soon as the cannon sounds, and it is beautiful to think about.

After asking the principal, the price of a grenadier and a number of matching bombs was also fifty gold coins. The full set of equipment includes a military uniform, two bomb bags, a self-defense dagger and several bombs.

This price is not too expensive, Jiang Chuan directly gave the order to train five hundred grenadiers and attack twenty-five thousand gold coins.

I asked about the field artillery, and the price of the field gun was not too expensive, two hundred gold coins for one cannon, including the gun itself, several shells, including solid shells and flowering shells, and the corresponding loading tools.

But this price does not include artillery. According to the standard configuration of the system, each field gun is equipped with three artillerymen: one is the gun commander, who is responsible for aiming and commanding, and the other is the loader, who is responsible for carrying shells and loading ammunition; The last person is the igniter, who is responsible for ignition launches.

All three artillerymen are considered technical, so each of them will cost fifty gold coins.

In this way, the total price of a cannon is three hundred and fifty gold coins.

Jiang Chuan pondered for a while, and directly placed an order for a hundred artillery pieces in one go, which means a total of 35,000 gold coins.

After placing the order, the director of the gun foundry told Egawa that the artillery and grenadiers would arrive within five days.