Chapter Ninety-Two: The Matter of the Military Formation

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"In this way, not only are you innocent, but you are dedicated to the country, and you deserve to be rewarded?"

"Don't dare to expect awards. How to say that I am also a legitimate countryman, and when I voted in the county election, my vote on family property was also against the votes of the lowest voting class. Since I am a countryman, I can talk about state affairs, and there is nothing wrong with me thinking about it. ”

"That's different, you're a family property, a workshop. It's not real estate. Those who own real estate must stand with the state, because the land does not move. But money can run, you run to other places to open a workshop, the same money. Could it be that the prohibited goods smuggled every year are swam by themselves? ”

"Aren't the troops now all landless hired laborers?"

"Therefore, as long as Yu Linwei has a good family with land, we are the wings of the country. That group of scum is just afraid of the military sticks, so they went to the battlefield. Expect them to fight for their country? Do they know what a nation is? They knew that the batons were worse than buckshot. Of course, the Navy is different, only scum is the best Navy. ”

After casually saying a few words about the officer's discrimination, General Lang turned around and picked up the flintlock pistol, looked at the bayonet on it, touched it with his hand and nodded, "The steel mouth is good." It's just that this gun is a little weird. Say, since you said that the flying ball is your strategy for the country, what is the matter with this gun? ”

"It's a flint gun, it doesn't need an arquebus."

"I know."

"This gun, if the most skilled person is not on the battlefield, can be reloaded six times faster than the arquebus. The firing rate is also much higher than that of most of the yellow wheel guns on the market. ”

"Six?"

General Lang smiled, took out the gunpowder bag he had brought, handed the gun to Jian Chen, and said, "You can reload it for me once." ”

Taking over the musket patiently made by the craftsman, Chen Jian took out the stick, bit through the gunpowder bag, put the ignition, skillfully loaded it, broke the spring, checked the flint, and buckled his hand on the trigger.

Lang Jiang carefully observed Jian Chen's movements, and found that Jian Chen seemed to be deliberately slow, breaking down each step into a total of sixteen steps.

The thirty-seven steps of dismantling a arquebus are half as much as it takes, and many of the steps are much simpler than an arquebus.

As for the hammer structure, although he didn't understand it very well, he also knew that the simpler the parts, the better it would be. The biggest problem with the yellow wheel gun or the flint gun with chain fire is that there are too many parts inside, which means that if any part fails, the gun will be difficult to fire.

What's even more rare is that even if Jian Chen obviously slowed down the speed of reloading, the reloading process was several times faster than the loading of arquebuses.

General Lang thought to himself that if it was a training method of beating soldiers with military sticks, as long as the officers' military sticks were smashed harder, this could be faster to reload.

Chen Jian loaded it, handed the gun over, and said, "As long as the trigger is pulled, the hammer will smash open the primer box with the flint and ignite the primer inside." ”

After taking the gun, he knew that the gunpowder in the tail was a little loose because it was not compacted by lead bullets, so he just pulled the trigger to see how effective the gun was to see how well the ignition box burned.

With a strong buckle, the flint splashed sparks under the action of the hammer, knocked open the ignition box, and ignited the fine gunpowder inside, emitting a purple light and bursts of white smoke.

Lang Jiang nodded secretly, this musket is really good, if the firing rate can be ensured, it is the best compared to ordinary muskets. Even if it is not used in military formations, even if it is hunting on weekdays, it is stronger than those guns.

Turning the muzzle of the gun upside down, he looked at the barrel and asked, "The barrel was changed from the barrel of an arquebus?" ”

"Yes. Projectiles are as big. ”

"This gun is also something you want to show me? Do you think a gun can change everything? Or do you think that such guns can make us more powerful than the other side? ”

Jian Chen shook his head and said, "No, I don't think that a gun can change everything, what can change everything is the spear behind you." ”

General Lang took a hand and tried the spear that looked like a short sword, and said approvingly, "The steel mouth is good." If you use it well, you can pierce the plate armor, but if you use it well, you can use it well. Can this thing change everything? ”

Jian Chen asked, "Can I go over and talk?" ”

General Lang smiled and nodded in agreement, he was not afraid of what kind of assassin Chen Jian was, and a real assassin would not put his mind on him.

Chen Jian pointed to the flintlock pistol and said, "Arquebus, people must be separated by two to three feet, otherwise the arquebus will ignite the gunpowder on others." But if it's a flintlock pistol, then people can be shoulder to shoulder. Within a hundred paces, one hundred and fifty people can stand, and one salvo is one hundred and fifty buckshots. ”

"If a spear is attached, any gunner can be used as a spearman. You must know that spearmen are useless until they engage the enemy, and they have to endure lead and artillery shells in the process of engaging the enemy. So what a spearman really spends on the military formation is only the moment when he is close to the attack, before which they are decorations. ”

"Nowadays arquebusiers and spearmen are one-to-one, let's say two people. If they were all replaced with flintlock pistols and thorns, then both of them would be gunners and spearmen. It's 2 to 1 when shooting, and it's still 2 to 1 in close combat. ”

"And it's not just two to one, but this advantage in rate of fire and reload is far beyond the reach of arquebuses. If Yu Linwei is equipped with such flintlock pistols and military thorns, with your strictness and military discipline, you can instantly defeat several times the enemy by firing a volley after the enemy is close to thirty paces, and then raising the military thorn to charge. ”

"From then on, there is no distinction between projectiles and hand-to-hand combatants, everyone is a projection, everyone is a hand-to-hand soldier, and no one is half useful on the battlefield. Isn't that the big thing that changes everything? ”

General Lang's heart moved, although he was not experienced in battle, but he still had a certain understanding of the battlefield from a professional background. The ancestors of the family are all from the army, and this truth can be understood as soon as it is said.

The reason why I didn't expect it before was because whether it was a flintlock pistol or a yellow wheel gun, in their eyes, it was just a gun, not a spear.

Since ancient times, the army has been half gunner and half spearman, and under this distinction, people's thinking has been fixed.

But when he saw this strange gun just now, Lang Jiang vaguely felt something in his heart, and when Jian Chen said this, he immediately understood.

I have to admit that this statement is not bad at all. Even if you don't take into account the distance between people, just letting any soldier do more than half of it is too big to do it.

Until then, no matter what tactics, whether phalanx, long line, or whatever, the spearmen were always covering the musketeers, because once the musketeers were engaged in hand-to-hand combat, they lost most of their role; Again, in the anti-engagement phase, the spearman's effect is no different from that of a stone.

Carefully touched the gun in his hand, thought about what Chen Jian said, pondered for a moment, and finally spoke.

"How much does it cost?"