Chapter 41 Arquebus

"Bo Fei, get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

People like Yun Bofei, who are not good at money and do not seek status, but like the ancient literati, they regard reputation as the most important, if this gun can be successfully developed, then Yun Bofei will glorify his ancestors, and the Yun family will also be passed on to future generations, which is not only Yun Bofei, but also his father Yun Yue's lifelong wish.

I know in my heart that the successful development of the musket is not an easy task, although Yun Bofei has a deep knowledge of firearms, but after all, there are limitations of the times, and I only know a little about the surface, most of them have read some introductions in books. With the current technology, it is difficult to solve the problem with the ignition technology alone, not to mention the wide range of involvement. However, things have to come step by step, and Yun Bofei's return is at least a good start.

The lack of scientific and technological talents was an extremely important problem in ancient times, and great scientists like Shen Kuo were eventually depressed. In the final analysis, it is the lack of attention of those in power that has led to the rigidity of the thinking of the ancient Chinese people.

The development of this musket requires not only firearms experts, but also experts in mathematics, physics, chemistry and other industries.

My heart longing for talents paused: "Ladies and gentlemen, the competition between countries is the competition of talents, what is talent?" In various industries can be called talents, don't think that they can fight, they can write articles are talents, many strange ideas, and even cranky ideas may invent things that change history, you all know that gunpowder was inadvertently invented by Taoists in alchemy, so you need to carefully observe the surrounding characters. All of you here are talents, and I will reuse them, but if we want to revitalize our dynasty, it is far from enough to rely on me and you, and everyone must pay attention to the people around you in the future, as long as they have a skill, I will also reuse them. Even if it is like Jia Nidao, his people have superb insights in crickets, this is also talent. ”

I don't care if anyone here can understand it or not, and I will say the concept of talent in the future generations.

So are Shen Yiqiu and Quanjue really scientific talents as I think?

In the late Southern Song Dynasty in history, there was a shortage of soldiers, and there were almost no records of talents in this area, so it is better to dig out slowly.

Thinking of this, I took out a pile of papers full of words and drawings and said, "Bo Fei, this is some of my experience, you take it and take a closer look, remember to keep it secret." ”

Yun Bofei took the paper and said, "Your Majesty." ”

These papers are all the patterns of modern guns and artillery that I have drawn from memory, as well as some simple principles of guns such as wire guns, smoothbore guns, and even the artwork and utility of hand grenades.

"By the way, how are you doing along the way, Blue Feather?"

"Back to Your Majesty, it's quite smooth, Yun Bofei's hometown is really secret, and it is an excellent place to hide troops when you want to attack Mongolia in the future."

"Well, Blue Feather, draw a picture and give it to me. Bo Fei, have your family settled down? ”

"Your Majesty, you have settled down and stayed at Zhongfei's place for the time being."

"Okay, Bo Fei, you rest for a few days and go to the gunpowder shop immediately, the research and development of firearms is very important, it will become one of the final deciding factors in the Song-Mongolian War." When I saw that the crowd didn't seem to believe me, I added, "You don't need to doubt that, you'll know later." ”

"Your Majesty, the minister plans to go to the gunpowder shop tomorrow, Lord Wen, do you think it can be done?"

I smiled and said, "Bo Fei is so anxious, why not, Song Rui, you will arrange it." ”

Wen Tianxiang also smiled: "Your Majesty rest assured. "Song Rui, build a small military camp near the Gunpowder Division, and I plan to move the base of the Young Guards to the foot of Luoshi Mountain."

"Obey."

"Zhong Fei."

"The subordinates are here."

"You personally lead fifty imperial guards to guard the Gunpowder Division, and you need to ensure the safety of the Gunpowder Division before the young guard takes over the defense."

"My subordinates obey."

"Lan Yu, Shen Mo, you have a good rest these days, you don't have to rest in the New Year, and you will go to Huiji with me on the third day of the first month."

"Obey."

After reading my manuscripts, Yun Bofei couldn't wait to interject: "Your Majesty, the minister just read His Majesty's manuscript preliminarily, it is simply a classic, and the minister plans to go beyond the assault rifle and directly study the arquebus and grenades. ”

"Oh, Bo Fei, he is worthy of being a master of firearms, he understands it so quickly, how sure is it?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister only understands a little, but the minister is already two or three percent sure, but the ignition of gunpowder is not at all lawful."

As far as I know, the arquebus has a metal hook on the gun, one end of the hook is fixed to the gun and can rotate around the axis, and the other end holds a burning arquebus, and when the soldier fires, he pushes the metal hook into the fire door with his hand, so that the arquebus ignites the black powder, and then fires the projectile contained in the chamber.

The ignition device is a fire rope made of a hemp rope or a tightly twisted cloth strip, soaked in potassium nitrate or other salt solutions and dried, can burn slowly, the burning rate is about 80 mm ~ 120 mm per hour, so that the soldier can hold the gun with one or both hands after pressing the metal hook into the fire door, and his eyes are always focused on the target.

But it is precisely because of the fire rope that the speed is slow, and each soldier has to carry dozens of meters of fire rope when he goes out, which is very inconvenient.

According to historical records, a well-trained shooter can fire 2 rounds every 3 minutes, and the range of the long-barreled gun is about 100 meters ~ 200 meters.

But this speed is still far from that of the most astute archers, who can shoot nearly 40 arrows in a minute and at a distance of more than 100 meters.

The Mongolian iron horsemen who were good at this could shoot about 20 feathered arrows per minute even in mounted shooting.

However, if we follow the three-stage shooting method of later generations, the rotation of the whole row and the whole platoon, plus the psychological deterrent effect after the gunpowder is fired, the effect is still obvious.

Arquebuses have four major drawbacks, one is the reason for the arquebus, the second is trouble, the third is affected by the weather, and the fourth is poor accuracy. So it was later replaced by more advanced flintlock guns.

It was also since the flintlock pistol that the cold weapon was completely eliminated.

I thought to myself, as long as the arquebus can come out in advance, with the help of grenades, I can still fight the Mongols. If the flintlock pistol can be developed in the Battle of Xiangyang three years later, it will be 100% victorious, and it will be time for me to recover the Central Plains, or a grenade and arquebus will be enough to be undefeated.

Five years of Jingding have passed like this, and for the people of the Great Song Dynasty, except for the change of emperor, everything else is still the same, whether it is Lizong or Duzong, they are not interested, because in their opinion, there is nothing unusual about it. However, every Song Dynasty person, whether poor or rich, rushed to their homes happily a year ago, and the joy of gathering relatives and the expectation for the coming year are eternal.

The wish of the people in this era is so simple and simple, that is, they hope that the whole family can be reunited in the New Year and eat a hot dumpling together.

For me, it was my first New Year in this world, and I should have been worried about the train ticket at this time, going home, the ticket was hard to buy, not going home, and homesick.

I began to feel homesick, I began to miss Lingshan, I began to miss my relatives and friends in later generations, and even the Spring Festival Gala with mixed reviews.