Chapter 29: Training the Musketeers
Early the next morning, there was a queue training, a full half an hour of training, and then professional training.
Recommend people to come up and briefly review, or ask questions on the spot, so that after half an hour, the last thing is to let everyone know about guns and understand why they explode when they are radiated?
Because of yesterday's experience, and because everyone is young, they are all curious about new things, and the next step is very easy.
If the joint between the barrel and the wooden handle is loose, or if the gunpowder is too much and the explosion is too powerful, it is very easy to cause the joint to explode.
Of course, the main thing is that the craftsman cut corners, which should have been wrought iron, but if you use pig iron to shoot continuously, you may explode.
The processing technology is not up to par, the barrel is too thin in some positions, and the lead is penetrated when it hits it, and the chamber is exploded.
Too much gunpowder was put in, the explosion was too powerful, and the chamber exploded.
The method of fabrication is improper, and the explosion occurs.
So there are more than ten listed before and after, although the principle is one by one, and the bird gun has been used many times in the previous life, but how to see if there is a problem with the bird gun is troublesome.
After doing this for a full day, and then each person put a hammer, it is the mantra and the essentials of the explanation.
Then there is the lethality of the bird gun, in addition, Yang Lin is most concerned about the power of the bird gun.
Scattershots are composed of a large number of small pieces of iron sand, which are dispersed after bursting out of the muzzle, and can shoot up to thirty or forty meters (the range of modern shotguns is mostly about 50 meters).
The other is a solid ball, which, as shown in the previous test, can reach a maximum distance of about 200 meters, but even the best bird shooters can only accurately hit a humanoid target at 100 paces (120 meters), while the average shooter is much closer (Westerners believe that it can be accurately hit at 100 yards, or 91 meters).
There are many descriptions of its lethality in ancient books, such as Qi Jiguang's test in "Records of Military Training", which believes that "the weapon can be used to shoot and hit, and the bow and arrow can also be reached." You can still be in the eyes of money, not only wearing Yang, but the benefits of the heavy armor are in the belly."
Song Yingxing believes in the experiment of "Heavenly Creation" that "if the bird meets within 30 steps, the feathers and flesh will be shattered, and there will be a gestalt 50 steps away, and if it is 100 steps, it will be exhausted." The shotgun is more than 200 paces, and the prescription is like a bird's gun, and the body is long and the medicine is also doubled. ”
In testing the firepower of the bird with a wet quilt, two layers of wet quilt can be pierced in 80 steps, and 4 layers of wet quilt can be pierced in 50 steps, so its power can be seen.
In 1814, Col. George Hanger of the British Army believed that if a soldier's rifle was not badly made, he could hit a humanoid target 80 yards (73 m) or even 100 yards (91 m) away; But if a soldier is targeted and wounded by an enemy with an ordinary gun from 150 yards (137 meters) away, then he is really very unlucky.
If you want to shoot someone 200 yards away with a normal gun, you might as well shoot the moon instead, as the chances of hitting the target are the same.
And the protagonist was originally a gun lover in his previous life, and after crossing over, he practiced hard every day, and of course he could become a very good bird gunner. )
Personally tested, for unprotected targets, it has a certain lethality at 100 steps (120 meters), can shoot at targets at 80 steps (96 meters) away, and has lethal force at 50 steps (60 meters) away.
For protective targets such as cotton armor, it can break armor at 80 steps (60 meters), shoot eyes at 50 steps away (36 meters), and cause fatal damage at 30 steps away.
For heavy protection targets such as two-layer cotton armor, it can break armor at a distance of 50 steps (60 meters), shoot the target at a distance of 30 steps (36 meters), and easily shoot the target at about 10 steps (12 meters).
(Westerners tested that the plate armor of the European cuirassiers could not withstand a bullet fired from 40 feet, or 12 meters, from a distance of 40 feet.)
This is just a general bird gun, if you use a hook gun with a barrel length of 120 cm and a gun length of 150 cm with a full gun length, the armor-piercing ability is 20 steps farther than that of a small bird gun, and a tall man is selected to fill the position in the army.
Even so, but its power is far above the bow and crossbow, "Training Documentary" believes that the standard of heavy arrow shooting of excellent archers is only 80 steps, even if it presents a 45-degree long shot, the light arrow is at most 200 steps away, but there is no crosshair at all, mainly through the rain of arrows to intimidate the other party.
In the past few days, I have searched for the book of soldiers and found the secret of releasing the gun, and now everyone has memorized it by heart, and every soldier can memorize it backwards, namely:
One washes the gun, two medicines, three medicines, four leads, five leads, six papers, seven papers, eight open doors, nine medicines, ten press the fire rope, eleven open the fire door, 13 o'clock aiming, 13 o'clock aiming, 13 guns.
In this way, it can be seen that in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the action of releasing guns was troublesome, and there were as many as six steps to simply fill gunpowder (gunpowder, lead, and kraft paper).
But the action of releasing the gun is very cumbersome and it is very easy to make mistakes, every day in addition to queue training is to practice the gun repeatedly, but many people just can't remember, either forget this or forget that, even if the usual training to complete the loading action correctly is only 8 percent, if the battlefield use can be imagined.
Forced to be helpless, Yang Lin had to adopt the method of stacking the array, that is, one person put the gun in the front, and the other two people filled the gunpowder lead in the back and filled the gunpowder, so that it had a slight scale.
By the middle of September, the imperial court armies from all walks of life were marching to northern Sichuan one after another, and now the troops are encircling and suppressing the local rioters entrenched in Bazhou, Dazhou, and Pengzhou.
Ma Gan, the chief soldier of northern Sichuan, and Ding Xianjue, the general of staff, led his troops out of Guang'an Prefecture as a flank to attack Guang'an Prefecture, the nest of the local tyrants.
Staff generals Zhao Ronggui and Guangyuan garrison Yang Zhan led their troops out of Guangyuan and attacked Bazhou as a flank.
Chen Shiqi, the governor of Sichuan, sat in Shunqing Mansion to coordinate in the center, and Long Wenguang, the commander of the Northern Sichuan Army, led Liu Jiayin, the general of Sichuan, Wang Chaoyang, and the garrison Chen Yingrui, and Feng Youqing, led his troops to seize Pengzhou, which had just been captured by the local tyrants.
Although the main battlefield on the middle road was on both sides of the Jialing River in Xiangru County, Liu Jiayin, the general soldier on the north bank, led the main force to besiege Xiangru County, and on the south bank, Wang Chaoyang, a general of staff, and Chen Yingrui, a garrison, led a partial division to attack the ancient city of Yunshan, and the township led by Yang Lin ensured the grain and grass of the Ming army on the south bank.
As the saying goes, the food feeders are hungry, and according to the agreement with Chen Shiqi, the governor of Sichuan, every day to ensure 100 loads of grain on the front line, Yang Lin took the villagers to send grain and grass to the front line every once in a while.
However, the entire Xiangru County covers an area of 1,300 square kilometers, and it takes 40 or 50 miles to rush from Luojiabao to the front line, and it is often necessary to set off in the morning.
In ancient times, in addition to the need to pay the field levy and the Ding tax, more importantly, to serve the conscription, in the Taiping period every year the first head with the first Ding to transport the grain to the place designated by the government, this is the most common conscription.
And feeding grain and grass to the front line in times of war is also a kind of conscription.
Different from Tian Fu Ding Fu, the service is completely unpaid, and many times the people also need to bear the losses during the period, for example, the people in the Jiangnan area will transport the grain and grass to Jingshi, regardless of the loss on the road, the cost of accommodation and investment on the road, you have to hand over the amount of grain and grass designated by the government to the government with quality and quantity, otherwise you will commit a big crime.
The grain and grass have already been raised, and how to transport it to the front line of forty or fifty miles is a big problem, according to the idea of Fu Diji, the grain officer of the governor's yamen, the best way is to distribute the strong men to the lower leagues, and then everyone will carry the grain to the front line on their shoulders.
As soon as the idea was proposed, it was vetoed, not to mention that the villagers in the big hometown will not look up and look down, if they completely use force to tie everyone up to serve the conscription, so how will they behave in the future?