The night went well (just a few big fat pigs)!

However, Zhu Zilong only carnivaled with everyone a few times at the beginning, and soon he had other things to do in the village.

After dealing with some matters in the village, he took the samples such as the three-eyed gun sent by Ma Xiaosan and others, and pondered for a while.

The three-eyed gun is a short firearm in ancient China, made of iron or rough steel. It is shaped as a combination of three bamboo-shaped single guns, and each tube has a small hole on the outside.

When used, gunpowder is added to the gunpowder pipe, and finally filled with steel balls or cast iron blocks, crushed iron sand, etc., and the three gunned pipes can be fired in turns. The three-eyed gun was common in the Ming Dynasty, but the range was short, not as good as the bow and crossbow, and the reloading speed was too slow.

It is known as a three-plate axe firearm, which means that after firing almost three times at the same time, you can use it as a hammer to fight the enemy in close combat.

So, the three-eyed gun didn't have much prospect of being forgotten. However, the three-eyed gun has survived to this day among the people, and the people use the three-eyed gun, which is only filled with gunpowder and not with cast iron balls, as a tool to exorcise demons and scare away evil spirits, similar to the role of firecrackers.

Now in the 21st century of New China, in some Hakka areas in southern China, you can still see three-eyed guns and such activities.

According to historical records, Zhu Zilong knew that when it was at a distance of thirty or forty paces, it still had considerable power and sufficient shooting accuracy.

The step of the Ming Dynasty was about a little more than a meter, that is, its best firing and killing distance was between 30-50 meters.

The American entertainment YY program "Deadly Samurai" has a measured evaluation of the Three-Eyed Gun weapon (for reference only, don't take it seriously) that the Three-Eyed Gun can shoot accurately at a distance of 25 yards (22.785 meters) when stepping down. And be able to penetrate the knight's chain mail!

However, this is of little use.

The human 100-meter sprint only takes more than ten seconds, and the strong or athlete can run it in 10 seconds. If you are riding a horse and sprinting, you can shorten the NN seconds!

What's more, this thing has to be 30-40 meters before its power gradually appears, and it is estimated that the enemy will rush to you in such a short distance.

Fortunately, Zhu Zilong himself brought seamless steel pipes from Hyundai.

The bird gun made of seamless steel pipes, coupled with his own improvement of the black powder matching ratio, etc., is not as good as a real rifle, but it is always a little more powerful than the strong gun in his hand now.

In terms of long-range weapons, Zhu Zilong decided to abandon bows and arrows and choose firearms instead, not because bows and arrows were not sharp enough.

However, the cost of manufacturing and purchasing is too high, and qualified archers are too difficult to practice, and it is difficult to see results in a few years, but Zhu Zilong does not have such time. After all, guns and so on will be the mainstream in the future!

Of course, this does not mean that arrows and other arrows are outdated.

Think about Genghis Khan's Mongol cavalry, what did it rely on to conquer most of the world's countries? And when the Qin Dynasty unified the Six Kingdoms, the famous arrow array?

A large part of their success depends on arrows!

In the age of cold weapons, bows and arrows were the most terrible deadly weapons. Two of the most distinctive bows and arrows in Eurasia are: the English longbow and the Chinese Qing bow. And the last line of defense against them is armor, European chain mail and Chinese iron armor, one attack and one defense, what will be the result?

Some modern scientists later copied this image and came up with data.

The maximum speed of the British Longbow: 126 ft/s, which is about 38 m/s (equivalent to a Category 6 typhoon). Maximum bow speed: 144 ft/s, 43.9 m/s. In terms of arrow speed, a short clear bow is even better!

Both bows and arrows pierced through the chain mail, especially the Chinese Qing bow, which had greater penetrating power and penetrated both sides!

This is also the fact that the Qing army was able to defeat the Ming infantry. And at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, a hundred years after the Industrial Revolution, the West had already used a large number of artillery and warships. The Qing Dynasty still used bows and arrows as the main reason!

Because as long as the training is excellent and the archer is outstanding, its power is not a few points weaker than a gun, and even under special conditions, it is better than a gun!

It's just, it's still the same sentence.

Cultivating a qualified archer takes too much time and costs. It's far from giving you a gun, even a woman, after practicing for more than ten days, she can barely go to the battlefield.

Day 2!

Zhu Zilong called over more than a dozen of the more than 100 craftsmen who were said to be able to make firearms.

These dozen or so people were all rough, their faces were covered with wind and frost, and their cotton jackets were tattered. In order to win people's hearts, Zhu Zilong changed some new clothes in his house to them on the spot. After inviting them to eat a landlord-level delicacy first, they began to chat!

Zhu Zilong asked them, "I heard that you are good at crafting firearms?" ”

The head of the craftsman is called Li Cannon, who is thirty-five or six years old, and his figure is very stout, he stood up and replied to Zhu Zilong: "If you go back to the adult, it is not a small boast, when the small one was in the Acropolis Ordnance Bureau, when it came to making weapons and firearms, it was also one of the best. Now that we don't have a job, we have not lost our skills here. ”

Zhu Zilong looked at him as if he was reminiscing, and his expression was both proud and hateful, as if it was true.

However, just to be on the safe side, I asked him about making bird guns.

Li Dacang's answer was the first to say, which could satisfy Zhu Zilong, and in the end, it was a cost-effective cost for Zhu Zilong. This means that the cost of a qualified bird gun with a small number of explosives is about five to ten taels, and the amount required is not a small amount.

About five to ten taels, which can be used as the living expenses of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty for a few months, it is indeed not cheap.

This is probably one of the main reasons for the lack of firearms in the Ming Dynasty army, right?

After all, the military salary can't be paid, and the officials at all levels have deducted it, and there is still money to equip the soldiers with the best firearms?

If you don't have any money, everything will be off!

However, Comrade Zhu Zilong is now poor only with money, and nodded at Li Cannon.

He was more concerned about the quality of the bird guns, and many of the bird guns used by the Ming army in history would blow up their chests, causing the sergeants to have a fear of using bird guns. However, because he brought a batch of seamless steel pipes from Hyundai, he thought that this most difficult problem could be easily solved.

So, he took out a seamless modern steel pipe, showed it to Li Cannon, and asked him how about using it to build a firearm?

Syllable!

As soon as the seamless steel pipe came out, the eyes of Li Cannon and the others lit up, and when they were sent to them for a closer look. Even more hands, my hands are a little shaky!

"Big, big...... My lord, are you refining steel? When Li Dacang and the others spoke, their lips were trembling.

It is no wonder that Li Dacang and others will lose their temper, in ancient times, "soldiers, the major affairs of the country".

"Weapons are excellent" is a "major event" that affects the strength of military combat effectiveness, and is also a "major matter" that has a bearing on the rise or fall of a country.

Steel is mainly based on iron, and the carbon content is generally less than 2%. The emergence of pig iron and steel-making technology has continuously improved the shape and performance of iron weapons, which has greatly improved the combat capability of the army.

Since the Warring States Period, it has replaced bronze weapons and become the "weapon of the country" on the battlefield.

The earliest technology in China is frying steel, which is the main method of turning pig iron into steel or wrought iron in ancient China, but compared with modern steel, the gap is not one or two points, but many points.

Due to the backwardness of science and technology, the success rate of steelmaking in ancient times was very low. For example, if you fry steel, it is easy to fry mature iron.

Therefore, steel is rare, and 100 steels are even rarer, once 100 steels appear, it can basically be regarded as being used to build a famous sword.

Only above 100 steel, 100 refined steel. That is what Li Cannon said, Zhu Zilong is now handing over his seamless steel pipe sample, sorry. I can't find a few in the entire Ming Dynasty!

So what can make people not lose their temper?