After Liu Jun agreed to the request of Mei Qing's peers, Mei Qing became very pleasing to Liu Jun again, forgot the unhappiness just now, and surrounded Liu Jun to ask about the details of the battle of Tiger Head Fort.

Mei Qing is obviously different from other ladies, she is not interested in any piano, chess, calligraphy and painting female workers, but she is most interested in these battlefield conquests, cavalry and archery battles.

"I see that your bird guns are particularly accurate, how did you do it, did you use any new firearms?" Mei Qing was very interested in the firearms of the Nine-Headed Bird, and she still remembered that the Nine-Headed Bird's gunners fired endless volleys before, and the bandits who fought directly collapsed, but they did not hurt the Mei family who fought with them.

Liu Jun smiled, he had been in contact with Mei Qing for a short time, but he liked her a little. Of course, this liking is not the love of men and women, but purely liking this person, a boy-like woman, really cool and innocent, such a girl is rare to see in the future, let alone in this era.

"Actually, there is nothing special, we just use ordinary bird guns, but the quality is guaranteed, so there will not be frequent explosions, inaccurate shooting, etc. Secondly, our gunners have been trained for a long time, especially with live ammunition, so shooting has long been a natural thing for them. The bird pickers in each of my official team members have a hit rate of more than 70% with an 80-step rake. ”

Mei Qing was extremely surprised when he heard it, and the hit rate of more than seventy percent of the eighty step rake was too powerful. Although she is a woman, she is not ignorant of firearms, on the contrary, she is very familiar. He knew that the ignition rate of many officers and soldiers, even a single arquebus, was often only half. That is, many times, the arquebus could not ignite the ignition powder, let alone the hit rate.

And the lit half often has a very low hit rate. Most officers and soldiers lack training in peacetime, have little time for drills, and even less training with live ammunition, so when a battle starts, they often rush to make mistakes in the steps of shooting, either forgetting to pour gunpowder or loading more lead, and even forgetting to open the fire door when firing, and some forgetting to take out the strips, and some forgetting to stuff the strips after loading the lead bullets, and as a result, the lead bullets often roll out of the barrel.

When shooting, they even turn their faces to the side for fear of the smoke and flames of the powder pool, or simply close their eyes and pull the trigger. Not to mention the strict adherence to the method of shooting, when firing the gun, the butt of the rifle is aimed against the cheek.

The firearm is indeed an advanced ordnance. It takes less time to manufacture than a bow and arrow, it takes less time to train its archers, and the power of a firearm is enormous. At the same time, however, firearms are more complicated to operate, require a high level of proficiency, and have relatively strict restrictions on the weather, etc., and require sophisticated equipment and strict training.

If you can't do this, then firearms will only become chicken ribs, in the final analysis, firearms are just a weapon, the key is the person who uses it.

Without quality assurance, without adequate training, the fire gun is handed over to those who are not trained enough, and it is simply just a large firecracker.

It takes at least three years to train a good archer, and the archer needs to be a strong young man to be suitable. The firecracker is different, with enough ammunition and quality assurance firearms, it takes three months to train a qualified firecracker, and there is no need to even require the gunner to be a young man, a teenager can, a middle-aged or elderly man in his forties and fifties can, even a young woman can become an excellent gunner after training. This is the root of the prevalence of firecrackers.

"Your firecracker doesn't look like a normal bird's gun."

Mei Qing was very familiar with the bird gun, and recognized at a glance that the gun Liu Jun was carrying on his shoulder was unusual.

Liu Jun took off the fire gun from his shoulder, handed it to Mei Qing, and introduced to her, "This is called the Flying Dragon Gun, formerly known as Lu Mi Gong, but this gun has improved on Lu Mi Gong. ”

"I know Rumi." Mei Qing said with a smile.

The so-called Lumi in the Lumi gun, to be precise, refers to the Rumi Sultanate, and some people also say that in fact, Lumi is a false name for some merchants, and the Rumi in the Lumi gun is actually the extinct Sultanate of Rum, and the merchants sold goods to the Ming Dynasty in the name of the Tuottoman Turkish Empire, so the original tribute in the name of the Rumi State is actually more likely to come from India or North Africa.

The biggest thing about Lu Mi Gong is that the fire door is a little farther away and the engine is only pinched, and the two points are not moving. That is, the bolt of the fire door and the position of the fire door, once the bolt of the Lu Mi gun can be bounced back without having to break it back by hand, the second point is that the sparks sputtered by the fire door will not burn the shooter's eyes, that is to say, the shooter can not close his eyes or less eyes when firing to increase the hit rate.

In addition, the original crutched stock was changed to a square shape to reduce recoil, and the length of the barrel could also be increased as much as possible to increase the range and power. At the same time, because the caliber of the Lumi gun is larger than that of the traditional bird gun of the Ming army, it is more powerful.

Mei Qing also used the Lumi gun, which is more accurate and farther than the bird gun, but the cost is also higher. However, Mei Qing carefully looked at the flying dragon gun in his hand, but felt that there were still many differences from the ones he had used.

The gun was five feet long and weighed about six pounds, which were basically the same as the Lumi guns she had used, but the butt was more curved and wider. Also, the fire door cover seems to be a little different.

"It's a little different, is there any special use?" Mei Qing asked.

Liu Jun was surprised by Mei Qing's familiarity with the firebolt and explained, "The top of the bottom fire plate of this gun has a disc cover that can be slid back and forth to open and close, which is specially designed to prevent the ignition powder from flying away and also has an insurance function to prevent misfire. When the charge pool is loaded with ignition powder, the fire door cover can be closed, and then when the trigger is pulled, the runner shaft rotates, the disc cover opens cam, and the disc cover opens the lever to open the disc cover. ”

"This way, you don't have to open the fire lid by hand before launching." Mei Qing immediately understood the special feature of this device. The original fire door cover had to open the charge before each shot, then close the cover and then reload the gun tube with ammunition, and then manually open it again when it was ready to shoot, so that the fire rope could fall and ignite. There will be a time difference between opening the lid and shooting, although the time is very short, but if the wind is strong, then the ignition powder will also be blown away by the wind, and even when it rains, it will be wetted by the ignition powder.

But with this device, it is actually equivalent to eliminating the last manual action of opening the door cover. Pull the trigger, the faucet falls with the fire rope, the fire door cover opens automatically, the fire rope ignites, and the fire rope is fired. It not only saves an action, but also shortens the time for the gunpowder exposure to open the fire door cover to a minimum, which greatly prevents the gunpowder from being exposed by the wind and rain, as long as it is not heavy rain, some light rain will not even affect the ignition of gunpowder.

On the battlefield, one less action can sometimes be a minute faster to shoot, and this time can even fire one more shot, or even save a soldier's life. Not to mention, this self-opening fire door cover is windproof and rainproof. You must know that the northern soldiers refused to use the bird gun at the beginning, because the north wind is strong, and the ignition powder of the arquebus is easy to blow, which is not as safe and reliable as the fire door gun directly using the lead.

"This seems to be the same as the yin and yang twin machines on the combined machine." Mei Qing is also a firearms expert, and she has seen all kinds of firearms.

Liu Jun was already a little surprised, and said, "That's true, in fact, it's not just a reference to the Yin and Yang dual machine of the combined machine, there are traces of Xuanyuan Gun on it." These firearms were specially designed by Zhao Shizhen to deal with the ignition problem of the northern border army.

Liu Jun's chief craftsman is Zhao Shizhen's second disciple, for these have learned, after improvement, finally improved the spontaneous fire door cover on the flying dragon gun, the use of yin and yang dual machine, so that the performance of the flying dragon gun greatly increased.

"The butt of this gun is wider than the original Lumi, is there any explanation for this?" Mei Qing asked.

"There is a reason for widening the butt." Liu Jun said a little proudly, the butt of the Lu Mi gun is originally wider than that of the bird gun, of course, the purpose is not to look good or anything like that, but the wide butt can be shot against the shoulder, the original fire gun is shot close to the cheek, and the face is used to reduce recoil when firing, and enhance stability and accuracy.

Liu Jun, who came from later generations, of course, knew that most rifles in later generations relied on shoulder-to-shoulder to reduce recoil, especially shoulder-to-shoulder shooting. At this time, most of the butts were too thin to shoot against the shoulder. Therefore, Liu Jun unceremoniously changed the Feilong-style butt to the large butt style of the rifle of later generations.

As a result, the shooting method of the Wyvern style has also been changed from shooting close to the cheek to shooting close to the shoulder, which greatly improves the shooting accuracy.

"Can I try it?" Mei Qing couldn't help but itch when she heard Liu Jun say so many advantages after improvement.

"Absolutely." Liu Jun smiled and nodded, the soldiers were still cleaning the battlefield and bandaging the wounded, and there was still some time for the time being.

Liu Jun took the ammunition bag from his body and handed it to Mei Qing, Mei Qing took it and opened it, and what he saw was not the familiar gunpowder tubes, lead bullets, and primer cans, but rows of paper tubes, and couldn't help but wonder.

She is also a frequent use of firearms, and she is quite familiar with the process of firing firearms, which are generally very cumbersome. First of all, you have to take a pre-filled bamboo powder tube in advance, pour the amount of gunpowder into the gun tube, and then take the lead bullet from the lead bag and put it into the gun tube, and then stuff some rags into it and poke it with a whole strip to fix the gunpowder and lead inside, so that the projectile will not fall out when the muzzle of the gun sags.

Then measure some ignition powder from the primer tank and pour it into the powder pool, then close the fire door cover, light the fire rope and clip it into the faucet, the whole loading process is completed, and then open the powder pool, aim, and shoot.

In this reloading process, any mistake in any step will prevent the launch from being successful. And with such a tedious reloading process, every shot fired, it takes half a day.

But now, Mei Qing only has these paper tubes in front of him, and there are no fixed medicine tubes, medicine cans, and lead bags.

Liu Jun took out a cone-shaped paper tube, "This is a custom-packed paper bullet, which contains ignition powder, propellant and projectile. Liu Jun directly bit off the head of the paper bullet with his teeth, the paper roll of this ammunition is very tough, and it has also been soaked in grease, and it tastes really bad in the mouth.

After biting off the paper bullet, Liu Jun first poured a little into the powder pool, and then covered the fire door. Then pour all the remaining gunpowder into the chamber of the gun, stab it with a strip, and stuff the remaining projectile that is still wrapped in paper into the chamber.

Because the paper cartridge casings are soaked in oil, it is more convenient to poke them in, and with these paper cartridge casings, there is no need to stuff strips of cloth into the gun to fix the lead bullets.

"Alright, reloaded!" Liu Jun inserted the tong back and handed the flying dragon gun to Mei Qing.

Mei Qing's eyes widened, a little incredulous. She is an expert in firecrackers, and Liu Jun's reloading action just now saves several steps compared to the standard firecracker loading. The original lead bag, ignition canister, and fixed gunpowder bamboo barrel are now directly merged into one ammunition pack.

Not only does this take less time than two steps, but it also allows the Gunner to carry more ammo at once. Under normal circumstances, a gunner carries 300 rounds of gunpowder and lead in battle, but only 30 cartridges can be ordered. In battle, if thirty shots are fired, although there is still gunpowder, it has to be re-measured. Not to mention the time-consuming and troublesome, and it is really dangerous to carry two bags of gunpowder directly on their backs, especially if the gunners always have to carry a lit arquebus.

However, this kind of fixed paper cartridge barrel is no longer limited to 30 rounds, and it can be carried more at one time, and it is wrapped in an oil-soaked paper shell, which is not only moisture-proof, but also safe and time-saving.

In the end, you don't even have to stuff the strips of cloth.

Coupled with the time-saving and windproof and rainproof functions of the spontaneous fire door cover, Liu Jun's flying dragon gun is really much more advanced.

Mei Qing, who looked a little excited, held this flying dragon gun, she knew that if it was really as Liu Jun said, then this fire gun would really make the fire gun even more powerful.

Raise the loaded firearm and hold the gun against the cheek.

"Put the butt of the gun on your shoulder." Liu Jun helped her correct her posture, he stood behind her, his hands went around from back to front, grabbed her hand holding the gun, and helped her adjust to the new shooting method of shoulder-to-cheek shooting.

The two of them were close to each other, both obsessed with this new flying dragon gun, and for a while they even forgot the fact that Mei Qing was actually a woman.

Mei Tingyou was stunned, looking at the intimate posture of the two of them hugging each other tightly and sticking together, their mouths were wide open, and they forgot to close them.

"It's over, something is wrong, how can I go back and explain to the master now!" Mei Tingyou really wanted to rush up and shout to the young lady, "There is a difference between men and women, and you can't kiss her, miss." Even if you are that, you have to avoid some people, this is a big court, hundreds of people are watching, you hug and hug like this, what kind of system do you have, this matter spreads, how can you still have the face to meet people in the future. ”

"Besides, miss, haven't you heard that this Liu Jiye is already engaged to Miss Lu family, how can you be the daughter of the dignified governor and the young lady of the Sima family, how can you be so in a hurry."

It's a pity that now Mei Qing is all about this new-style firecracker, she forgot that she is the daughter of an unmarried family, and she also forgot the intimate posture between her and Liu Jun at this time.

She held the flying dragon gun, put her shoulders against her cheeks, aimed at a big tree dozens of steps away, held her breath, and then calmly pulled the trigger, with a bang, and a puff of white smoke rose in front of her.

The two of them ran through the whistle smoke towards the tree.

"Hit!"

On the pole of the tree, a lead bullet had become flattened, and some of it had even cracked apart.

Don't look at this flat lead bullet, because the lead is soft, but the power is extremely strong. When it hits the human body, it will deform due to resistance, causing the damage in the human body to be greater the deeper it goes. If it is pierced, it will form a wound several times larger than the diameter of the projectile at the part where it is strung out of the human body, and even if the fragments of the projectile are not all removed from the wound, it will cause lead poisoning.