Chapter 169: Experimenting with Foreign Guns
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Luo Xuan, Lin Fengxiang, Zuo Zongtang, Bai Huihuai, Liu Shengbang, Cui Datong and others accompanied Feng Yunshan to test fire foreign guns in the arrow path not far from the governor's yamen. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
A Miaoman's figure also appeared in the Arrow Dojo, but it was the ancient version of "Zhou Comianmin" who was a maid for Feng Yunshan. Feng Yunshan already knew that her real name was Cheng Lingbei.
Hearing that Feng Yunshan was going to go to the arrow path with everyone to test the newly purchased foreign guns, Feng Yunshan's cheap son Feng Guifang also wanted to follow to see the excitement, and Cheng Lingbei, who usually followed his aunt to take care of Feng Guifang, volunteered to follow, saying that it was to serve tea and pour water for the Holy King and the eldest prince, Feng Yunshan relented for a while, so he asked her to follow.
Unexpectedly, this girl didn't pour the tea, and as soon as she arrived at the arrow, she stared at the foreign gun motionlessly, looking eager to try and excited, obviously the purpose of coming with her was not to serve herself, but to see the foreign gun.
Alas, how is this ancient beauty completely different from what she imagined, shouldn't she be gentle and well-read? How can he be like this eccentric person in front of him, completely looking like a tomboy? Haven't even had your little feet tangled?
Feng Yunshan couldn't take care of her. His attention was already entirely on the guns.
A white line was drawn with lime in the open space at one end of the arrow path, and two tables were placed next to it, and Bai Huihuai had already ordered someone to place 4 foreign guns and 1 bird gun on them.
There are five types of guns in the Holy Army, one each of the shotguns, the Charlville MLE 1816 flintlock musket, the Charlville MLE 1842 firing musket, the Brown Bess flintlock musket, and the Dresser M1841 needle musket.
On the opposite side of the arrow road, a row of hard door panels was placed, and the nearest distance from the white line was 50 steps, Feng Yunshan estimated that it was about seventy meters. The other hard door panels are 100 steps, 150 steps, 200 steps, 300 steps, 400 steps, and 500 steps away from the white line.
The musket test shot was a good shotgun player selected from Feng Yunshan's personal guards, in his twenties, named Cheng Dashan, who used to be a hunter and shot accurately.
Yesterday, Feng Yunshan asked Smith, a foreigner from the United States, to teach several guards how to shoot foreign guns. Cheng Dashan is also one of the better middle schools.
Cheng Dashan first took a shotgun, loaded it with medicine, lit the fire rope, and shot towards the 100-step hard door panel. Taking advantage of the gap between the gunpowder changes, the other two guards went to the door panel to check, but they missed, and the lead bullet fell next to the door panel, presumably because the range of the shotgun was not enough, and it did not even reach a hundred steps.
Cheng Dashan quickly filled the second round of gunpowder and lead bullets, and did not aim, but fired at the door panel 50 steps away by feeling, and bang, the projectile hit the door panel. The two guards stepped forward to see that there were two projectiles embedded in the wood on the chest of the humanoid image on the door panel, and only a few marks were left on the periphery.
After looking at the door panel brought by the guards, Feng Yunshan knew that these 50 steps were almost the lethal limit of a shotgun, and it would not exceed 100 meters at most.
After shooting the shotgun, Cheng Dashan's second attempt was the Charville MLE 1816 flintlock smoothbore gun. Now, because it is a paper-wrapped bullet, the loading of gunpowder and warheads is obviously much faster than that of shotguns.
Although he has only just learned how to shoot foreign guns, Cheng Dashan seems to be very proficient. Bite off the paper shell at the end, pour the gunpowder into the barrel from the front, compact, stuff the remaining bullet with the paper case into the barrel, and after aiming roughly at the door panel 100 steps away, pull the trigger, bang, no one needs to come forward to check, standing in the distance, you can already see a round hole in the chest of the human shape of the hard door panel.
This foreign gun is indeed much more powerful than a shotgun. Feng Yunshan looked at the hardwood plank about 150 meters away, and it was pierced. Looking at the situation of the hole through this, it should still be powerful.
Then, Cheng Dashan reloaded his ammunition and fired a shot at the door panel 150 paces away. The guards lifted the door panel to see that the bullet had already hit the edge of the door panel, and the accuracy was much worse, and the bullet barely made a small hole in the hardwood board, and it was not embedded in the wood. It seems that the maximum lethal range of this Charvil MLE1816 flintlock smoothbore gun is only 200 meters, and the accuracy is not high, if it is far away, it will not be able to reach.
The third test was the Charleville MLE1842 firing smoothbore gun, which was actually similar to the MLE1816 flintlock smoothbore gun, but because it avoided the energy loss of the original tail part of the tunneling gun, the muzzle velocity of the projectile was higher and the firing range was longer. What's more, compared to the flintlock pistol, this pistol ignites black powder at the moment of fire from the cap, allowing for precise aimed shooting.
As a result, the MLE1842 firing smoothbore gun was able to shoot a humanoid pattern at a distance of 200 paces, which is quite an effective killing range of 300 meters.
Moreover, due to the simplification of the loading step, the firing rate of the rifle was also a little faster, increasing the rate of fire of the flintlock pistol from 2-3 rounds per minute to 3-4 rounds per minute.
The fourth Brown Bess flintlock musket, after testing, was about the same as the Charvail MLE1816 flintlock rifle, but the accuracy within 100 meters was better than the Charlville MLE1816 flintlock rifle.
The last test was the Dresser M1841 needle pistol.
Feng Yunshan was full of expectations for this musket.
Cheng Dashan was obviously a little unaccustomed to this kind of rear-loading musket, and was a little clumsy to load the paper loading bullets into the bolt, and after closing them, he pulled the trigger.
200 steps, the humanoid chest on the hard door panel is penetrated!
Luo Xuan, Lin Fengxiang and others were very interested and began to point their fingers; Cheng Lingbei on the side also forgot the teapot in his hand, and just stared at the arrow dojo with his eyes.
300 steps, the hard door panel humanoid chest was penetrated again!
Luo Xuan, Lin Fengxiang and the others widened their eyes! They couldn't have imagined that this foreign gun could shoot so far! And Cheng Lingbei was also stunned.
400 steps, the hard door panel is still hit!
Although there is no breakdown, the warhead is only embedded in the wood, but the lethality is enough! It's just a little off, and I hit the edge of the plank, which is a little regretful!
However, even this stunned everyone present!
Luo Xuan, Lin Fengxiang and others opened their mouths wide and let out an incredible exclamation: Wow! How is it possible to hit so far?
They were accustomed to seeing the usual holy army shooting shotguns, the range of more than 30 steps, and now when they saw the foreign guns shooting 3,400 steps casually, they couldn't help but sigh: I can't imagine that the gap between such a bird gun and a foreign gun is so big!
Cui Datong, who was originally a Manchu adjutant general, sighed even more: No wonder the Qing army can't beat the foreigners! Not to mention other reasons, there is no comparison between this weapon alone.
And Cheng Lingbei made a loud noise, and the teapot in his hand fell to the ground and fell to pieces. Only then did she react, and hurriedly apologized to Feng Yunshan and admitted her mistakes. Fortunately, everyone was in a good mood and didn't say much.
Feng Guifang, who is usually taciturn, also cheered at this time, and was the most excited.
Feng Yunshan couldn't help but smile when he saw it, although he was his nominal father, he didn't have any family affection in his heart, he just felt that he was an orphan, and he just took care of Feng Yunshan in the past. Besides, he doesn't have time to accompany him, everything depends on him.
Comparatively speaking, Feng Yunshan is the calmest.
He has long understood the power of foreign guns, and now he is just testing it, and by the way, he will open the eyes of these main generals under him.
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