Chapter 127: Test the gun

"The ministers are willing to follow Your Majesty to rejuvenate our dynasty."

After listening to my passionate speech, most of the ministers of the DPRK and China were also very excited. Being able to be a minister of Zhongxing will naturally be famous for a hundred years, for them, isn't it a lifelong ideal and a lifelong pursuit? Even Liao Yingzhong felt that her heart was surging and sighed.

Seeing that the atmosphere was inflated, I suddenly stood up from the dragon chair, brushed the corners of my clothes, and said loudly: "For the rise of the Great Song Dynasty for me, even if there is an abyss in front of me, even if it is full of thorns, I will not hesitate to move forward." ”

These few words are like a declaration of my accession to the throne, although it is half a year late.

For a moment, I felt as if I had the sword of the Son of Heaven in my hand, and an invincible momentum naturally emanated, enveloping the entire hall in an instant. I said no more, and just looked at the crowd in silence.

After a brief silence, a loud noise erupted in the hall.

"For the rise of the Great Song Dynasty."

Once again, the ministers responded in unison.

Although Jia Yidao's face was expressionless, he also felt the momentum of an emperor like me, muttering in his mouth, and he didn't know what he was saying or thinking.

Whether the ancients were loyal to annihilation, after all, they lacked a thousand years of knowledge, and by the limitations of the times, compared to modern people, they were still much simpler, and they resonated in my impassioned words, whether true or false, for most of them, especially for some old ministers, they finally saw the birth of a Ming Jun who looked down on the world.

The emperors of the Song Dynasty, especially the emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty in Lin'an, were mostly not strong enough, and although the country's affluence reached the peak of feudal society, in the eyes of many people, the Zhao royal family seemed to be inactive in many ways. Since 960 A.D., Emperor Taizu has been repeatedly invaded by foreign tribes such as Liao, Jinmeng, etc., in the past three hundred years, the territory has been continuously lost, and finally it can only be on one side. Whether in the court or in the opposition people of insight, are very sad, Yue Fei's "Man Jianghong" can be said to be the best call for this, when can I return the mountains and rivers, there will be a good news from Chaotianque to comfort Lu Weng (Lu You).

On the first day of the leap month of the first year of Xianchun, many ministers saw hope.

"Retreat." Xiao Qi's voice seems to be very loud today.

On the way to the Gunpowder Division, I asked Shen Mo to go to the Young People's Guard to call Wen Zhang.

Although Yun Bofei still looked tired, he smiled: "Your Majesty, look at this musket." ”

I picked up the musket and first weighed it, about ten kilograms, about 25-30 mm in caliber, 1.5 meters in length, with a groove on the outside of the butt, in which a serpentine rod was mounted, one end of the rod was fixed, the other end formed a trigger, which could be rotated, and there was a clip to hold the slow-burning arquee, which had been soaked in chemical liquid. A powder disc was mounted at the rear end of the barrel, and compared to the first hundred muskets, the butt was improved and handguards were added, as well as a sight was added to the front end of the barrel.

Yun Bofei took the musket and introduced: "Your Majesty, this ignition device was developed by the minister after modifying it with reference to the drawings given to him by the emperor. When firing, the trigger is pulled, the nose is pressed down, and the ignited fire rope enters the powder tray to ignite the gunpowder, and then shoots the projectile out. The effective range of this gun can reach 80 meters, and the maximum distance can reach 200 meters, and within the effective range, it can shoot through all the armor of the current Chinese army. ”

"How's the firing speed?"

"Five to ten shots in a word (five minutes)."

This gun can be called a semi-mechanical ignition device of the musket, although it is far inferior to the flintlock gun, but it is also a arquebus that can be used in war, and its advanced semi-mechanical ignition device is at least two hundred years ahead of Europe.

"Mr. Shen, take a look too."

Shen Yiqiu took the musket from Yun Bofei's hand, looked at it and praised: "It's already beyond the imagination of his subordinates." There is only one question, that is, whether the sturdiness of this barrel can be guaranteed? ”

"yes, can you guarantee it?" I am also concerned about this, and if the barrel of the gun blows up, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Yun Bofei nodded and said to me, "There is a solution to this gun barrel matter. ”

"Bo Fei, tell everyone about it."

"Your Majesty, in order to create a barrel with a smooth and straight inner wall and no explosion, two problems need to be solved, one is the quality of fine iron, and the other is the drilling process. This fine iron, Wei Chen has figured out from the emperor's physical skills briefly, the need to reduce the carbon content in pig iron, that is, the emperor said steel, after talking with many craftsmen in the weapons supervision and the Ministry of Industry, the minister has found a way to smelt steel, and the drilling technology, with the help of Mr. Shen and the whole brother, the minister has also made a simple gun bed. In this way, there are basically no problems with the manufacture of the barrel. ”

"Well, good, let's go, let's try the gun." I suppressed my excitement.

"Your Majesty, how about letting your ministers test the gun?" Wen Zhang said happily.

I looked at Yun Bofei: "Yun Aiqing, is it okay?" ”

"Of course you can, General Wenzhang, I'll teach you."

The chief manager, Chen Dongping, took us to a blank field in the Gunpowder Division near Luoshi Mountain.

On the left side of Yun Bofei hangs a trapezoidal iron-edged pot for inducing medicine, and on the right side is a leather box for projectiles, which has a white vial, which is used for propellant charge, and each bottle contains one shot, so as to avoid soldiers from loading more or less propellant due to tension on the battlefield.

"First, pour the primer into the primer pot and close the lid of the primer pot." Yun Bofei explained while demonstrating, "Then unscrew the vial containing the propellant, pour the propellant into the muzzle, and then load the projectile muzzle, then pull out the strip from under the barrel, tamp the projectile and propellant, ignite the fire rope, fix the fire rope on the fire rope clip, close your eyes, open your eyes, make an aiming shape, aim at the target, and pull the trigger." ”

In order to make everyone see the process clearly, Yun Bofei's movements were extremely slow, and he spoke in detail.

"It's complicated, it's really complicated." I thought to myself.

Under the guidance of Yun Bofei, Wen Zhang completed the preparations for the launch, and said: "Minister Wen Zhang is ready, please give the emperor an order." ”

"Okay, Wenzhang, prepare, release."

With my order, Wen Zhang pulled the trigger, only to hear a "bang", a burst of smoke came out of the armor-clad target eighty meters away, Yuan Jian, who had excellent eyesight, Wen Zhang and the others had already seen that a hole was exposed at the lower left end of the armor.

"Hit." Wen Zhang shouted loudly.

I wasn't as excited as Wen Zhang, but said to Yuan Jian: "Sir, if it's at close range, can you dodge?" ”

Yuan Jian thought for a while and said, "Three or five meters away, the minister can dodge, and seven or eight meters away, Lan Yu can dodge." ”

"Hehe, there aren't many people like you these years."

"Your Majesty, it's just that the preparation time of this musket is too long, and it seems to be ......"

"Sir, arquebuses are mainly used on the battlefield, and if it is a contest between martial arts people, it is still of little use. However, it is difficult to say that more advanced firearms will come out in the future. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

I knew that a martial arts master like Yuan Jian was disdainful of muskets, and he didn't say anything about them at the moment, and said to Wen Zhang: "Wen Zhang, if hundreds of muskets are fired at the same time, what will be the effect?" ”

"Minister, minister can't imagine that kind of scene."

Yuan Jian also thought at this time, it was easy to hide in the face of a gunman, if dozens of muskets were fired at the same time, would he still be able to retreat with his whole body?

"Haha." I laughed, "Suppose a hundred Mongol cavalry rush towards you, and you give the order and open fire, these enemies will have to fall a lot." ”

"Yes, but this musket has taken too long to prepare, and the enemy may rush in front of you with the second or third shot."

"Well, this is a major disadvantage of arquebus, we can reduce the risk of this disadvantage from two aspects, one is to adopt a three-stage shooting method, and the other is the mutual cooperation of various arms. Of course, this does not fundamentally eliminate the problem of the process of firing being both complex and slow. ”

Wen Zhang asked curiously: "Your Majesty, the ministers are ignorant, what is a three-stage shooting, and how do you need to configure the troops?" ”