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"The testers of the military believed that this musket had several drawbacks:

First, the movement is too loud and not suitable for military flight. The flying army is carrying out some special tasks, and the requirements for secrecy are relatively high, and as soon as this musket is fired, the sound is very loud, which is not conducive to the flying army's covert combat.

The new army will not like it too much, a gun is very loud, the new army formed a military formation, thousands of people, it must be noisy to death when it fights, and the golden drum order is estimated to be inaudible;

The second is that the shot is not fast, and it takes a lot of time to reload once you shoot, and it can't be connected, and the efficiency is not as good as a strong crossbow, and it is not as good as a crossbow. The new army is now fighting, all of which are pursuing crossbow arrow suppression, through continuous crossbow arrow shooting, suppressing the opponent from charge, so that the opponent can not rush to the distance of hand-to-hand combat, which requires continuous weapon strike ability, that is, the fire suppression that the lord often says. But this musket is obviously not up to the task. Not to mention a crossbow, it's not as good as a strong crossbow. A strong crossbow can be loaded with a twist and a pull, while a musket needs to be pulled and twisted, the cartridge case is removed, and then replaced with a new bullet, twisted and pushed, and reloaded. After rigorous and accurate test calculations, the testers calculated that the time for changing bullets for muskets was, on average, about twice as long as the time for changing crossbows for crossbow arrows. As for the contrasting effect of the repeater, not to mention.

It took a long time to reload, it could not be connected, and the recoil force was very large, so both the new army and the flying army were very dissatisfied.

Thirdly, this new musket is much heavier than the original crossbow. This gun, bullets, grenades, daggers, water bottles, helmets, plus sapper shovels, plus marching uniforms, a non-commissioned soldier, seventy-seven-eighty-eight, must have a load of dozens of pounds. They would be unhappy if they added a little bit of weight, let alone so much at once. ”

Liu Zhang listened to it for a long time and sneered: "Our military testers, are they all waste?" Don't you see the advantages just by seeing these shortcomings? If you can only solve the problem, you don't have the ability to solve it? Don't you see that the advantages of this musket far outweigh its few minor flaws? It's all a mouse-eyed person! ”

Liu Zhang couldn't help but be angry because the musket he had high hopes for was so nitpicked, and it was the military that he had single-handedly established.

"Ji Yu, don't be angry first, don't worry first. The testers of the military did not say that they did not see the advantages of this musket, such as the long range and greater power. But this range and power, compared to the previous strong crossbows, in general, did not bring a breakthrough earth-shaking change. I discussed it with Huang Gong, and they said that if you want to increase the power and range, it is not impossible, then you need to increase the amount of charge in the bullet. But it also brings new problems, such as higher costs, more recoil of muskets, and higher failure rates of some components, such as firing pins. They feel that the current power can already meet the needs of our army, and there is no need to increase the power anymore. ”

"Huang Gong, they are still a little too honest and sincere." Liu Zhang couldn't laugh or cry, shook his head and said, "Huang Gong, they still don't know much about those military people. Since it is a sample, it is completely possible to make the sample as powerful as possible, and first shock those turtle testers. By the time your musket is so powerful in the eyes of the testers, they will automatically ignore other shortcomings, those minor faults. At that time, they automatically magnified only the advantages of the musket, and not the disadvantages. The military's favorite thing is the powerful weapon. Your guns are loud and powerful now, and the military is certainly not satisfied. If you are a few hundred feet away, a single tom pierces several layers of iron armor, you see if the military will cry and beg for you to hurry up and change your clothes. ”

"So, what does the lord mean, do you have to test again?"

"I don't care whether it is retested or not, anyway, it is imperative to finalize the new armament, mass production, and change of equipment, I don't care what financial difficulties you have, or entanglement of interests, or what tests you are not satisfied with, if there is a problem, solve the problem for me, if you don't have money, you will find money, and if you can't find it, you will advance it. Of course, if the military is not satisfied, try to solve what can be solved, improve what can be improved, and if it cannot solve what cannot be improved, then the military itself must change and find ways to adapt itself to the new equipment. I have already told Huang Gong and them some of my suggestions for improvement, and we can meet with Bing Cao and the military testers again in the near future to completely settle this matter. Things like loud noise, slow shooting, etc., these will be improved in the future, and even muskets will continue to be developed in the future, and these cannot become obstacles to the mass production of new weapons.

I don't care what questions you have, what I want to see is that this musket will be finalized and mass-produced in the near future.

Of course, in order to match the new weapon, the military now has to test new tactical tactics to adapt to the new equipment. For example, the original set of golden drum orders inherited from the previous Han army can be considered to be completely replaced, and it has long been unable to keep up with the actual situation of our army. For another example, after changing the musket, the dagger can be attached to the front of the musket, which is similar to the spear used in our original army, and it can also be used for hand-to-hand combat, which is much stronger than the previous sapper shovel. In this case, most of the front-line troops can consider removing the sapper shovel and reducing some of the load.

What I mean by this is that the problems raised by the military can be improved or solved in a way.

None of that can be a reason to hinder the finalized mass production of new armaments! ”

Liu Zhang absolutely could not tolerate someone coming out to shake his established determination to strengthen his armament.

"Do you want to be in such a hurry?" Xu Shu hesitated a little and questioned: "Our army's current combat strength and existing armaments are already very good. Judging from the last few major battles, which have basically been overwhelming victories, do we need to replace new armaments with such urgency? If we switch to new armaments in such a hurry, directly abandon the strong crossbows and crossbows that we have worked so hard to research, and then spend a huge amount of money to replace muskets, will this be too wasteful of people's financial resources, and waste national strength, it is not the best policy, not a long-term solution? ”

"Yuan Zhi, you're too worried. As you said before, the military industry is actually a large industrial chain of interests, and it also needs to produce benefits, and it will also bring benefits to the finances. Those military workshops, craftsmen, material suppliers, etc., they also benefit, and they also have to pay taxes. Moreover, when you produce these armaments, the military has to spend money to buy them, and when the military spends the money, the military has to hand over the corresponding report card, that is, the combat record, otherwise why would we give them so much military spending every year, why do we give them so much money and food every year. In addition, the obsolete armaments, the old armaments, we can sell them again when we look back. In short, there will be no loss.

If you want to make a lot of money, you have to invest high.

It's troubled times.

What are troubled times?

Troubled times are to see whose fist is big and whose fist is hard.

The army is our fist, and armament is the hardness of the fist!

This world, in the final analysis, is still a power from the barrel of a gun!

Without strong force, everything is empty talk! ”

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