(Final chapter of Volume II.)

In this chapter, the second volume is coming to an end, and the next volume is the vice president of Wu Yijun. The next volume is even more exciting, and a magnificent era has just been revealed! Please brothers for continued support.

In addition, in the first two chapters of 'Welcoming Angels', the silver handed to the father-in-law of Xu Fugui was given cash instead of silver tickets, which was indeed inappropriate and had been changed to silver tickets...... Thank you brothers for your suggestion in the book review area, hehe. ）

There are countless firearms in the Ming Dynasty, and there is no doubt that the Five Thunder God Machine is the most powerful of all individual firearms.

This was only the first half of the 16th century in the Western calendar, and it was the period when the development of firearms had just entered its first peak, the arquebus.

As a large-scale popularization of the first generation of muskets, arquebuses have many drawbacks, slow rate of fire, short range, poor accuracy, can not be used in rainy days, fire is easy to expose the target, etc., but no matter what kind of defects, it is a new weapon ahead of the times after all, and it is the future development trend.

The most criticized thing about the arquebus is undoubtedly the rate of fire, Qi Jiguang recorded the 10 processes of using the arquebus in the "New Book of Ji Xiao". In Europe, Jacob de Guiller, Amsterdam, published in 1607, an illustrated volume of Weapon Exercises, described the firing steps of the arquebus, divided into twenty-five steps. When the musketeer goes into battle, he should bring a gun, a fire rope, gunpowder (for the inside of the gun and for the fire door), a projectile, and a fork bracket. As soon as the enemy and the enemy exchange fire, the shooter is busy firing - reloading - and firing again, and his hands and feet must be very agile, and the best marksman can only fire two or three rounds per minute.

The average shooter can shoot one buckshot a minute, which is okay.

And what can you do in a minute?

On the battlefield, the speed of the cavalry charge is about 40 kilometers per hour, which is converted to about 660 meters per minute, more than a mile! And what is the range of an arquebus? The effective firing range is more than 100 meters, and the distance of more than 100 meters, the cavalry is coming in an instant!

In the original time and space of Lian Zining, the last Huanghuang Empire of the Han people was defeated by the semi-slave barbarian people who started between the white mountains and black waters, and there was no effective battle formation method.

And in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the court was disordered, first the eunuch party, and then Donglin, who was worse than the eunuch party, came to power. The quality of the guns produced was so poor that they almost exploded with a single shot.

Such a Ming Dynasty has lost a lot in the military, and it is really unjust.

To be honest, the arquebus at this time is really not necessarily as good as a strong bow and arrow.

This is also the reason why, whether in the East or the West, after the appearance of the arquebus, it has been suppressed by cold weapons for a long time.

The only exception to this may be the original revolver arquebus series represented by the Five Thunder God Machine in the Ming Dynasty!

At the same time in Europe, the most advanced firearm was the Spanish Mushkert arquebus, which was born almost in this era and represented the best and highest level of arquebuses in Europe. The caliber is 23 mm, the weight reaches about 20 catties, the weight of the lead bullet is 50 grams, the maximum range is 250 meters, the effective range is 100 meters, and the mechanical sight is used, and the excellent shooter can shoot two rounds per minute. The guns were bulky and could only be fired most of the time with a fork mount, but they had the advantage of being able to penetrate the heavy cuirasses worn by the knights at a distance of 100 meters, which many firearms of the time were useless from 80 meters away.

But it was with this musket that Spain conquered the Americas at that time, and the Inca Empire, which had thousands of miles of people and 500,000 infantry, was firmly established.

Even the most advanced musket in Europe was only two shots per minute.

And the five thunder god machine can do five shots in a row! Because it shares a fire gate, and the barrel can be rotated, so after one barrel is fired, it will automatically rotate to the next barrel, no need to reload, no need to reload, no need to repeat the cumbersome twenty-five procedures, you can fire instantly! Five shots in a row, what is this concept?

In the short period of a few seconds when five buckshot shots were fired in a row, the Five Thunder God machines already possessed some of the characteristics of automatic firearms in later generations -- bursts!

Individual automatic firearms, the West did not develop until around World War I, and the weapons that dominated the West from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century were single-shot rifles such as Springfield, Mosin Nagant, Mauser and the like, which were only seven or eight rounds per minute even if used by a skilled soldier.

And the five consecutive shots of the five thunder god machines, the interval between each shot is only two or three seconds.

It can be imagined what a brilliant and magnificent steel storm created by these five consecutive bullets!

As long as it is paired with effective tactics and the commander is sensible enough, an army equipped with such weapons will be a formidable force!

In this era, in this era when hot weapons have just spread to the four seas, and cold weapons are in the ascendant and even dominate, the Ming Dynasty has firmly grasped the pulse of the development of weapons in the future, standing at the peak of this era, and has surpassed any country, a nation and a group.

Even if there are people in the court who have no eyes and no beads, causing firearms to be silent for decades, this Ming Dynasty is still the first in the world!

And I, I must completely preserve this advantage, and do not have such an arrogant and dark regression, and the extremely stupid act of abolishing firearms, so that I will not sink for a hundred years in China, tens of thousands of sons and daughters.

Lian Zining shouted silently in his heart!

At this time, he had calmed down, put back the five thunder god machines in his hand, walked out of the warehouse, and said to Liu Liangchen who was guarding outside: "Let people take a good look at here, and then go to the carpenter shop in the town, order some shelves, ask for three-layer shelves, and then spread oilcloth on them, put the guns on the shelves, and show them to the official. ”

Liu Liangchen's face turned pale: "Obey the order, and you will not disappoint the adults!" ”

Lian Zining nodded, then paced to the lobby, and asked people to summon Rongyue and discuss it carefully.

Now that the imperial decree has also come down, the text of the military department has also been issued to the Chenzi Office and the other seventy or eighty hundred households stationed in the towns on the outskirts of Beijing.

Just, what is prepared?

"Naturally, how do you make a mess of the preparation, how do you get some benefits?" Rong Yue sat down with Lian Zining in her hands, with a sneer on her face, and said in a cold voice.

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