94 Firearms Problem
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However, with the progress of the times, the role of bayonets in actual combat has almost completely disappeared, and the service period of ordinary soldiers has been shortened to two years. Most of the people in the military group were soldiers after 00, and they only knew a little about bayonet fighting, but they were not proficient.
In desperation, everyone had to join forces, each piece together the essentials of the assassination action that they still remembered, re-supplement and improve the training syllabus of the assassination training subject, and at the same time couldn't help but sigh to each other, if a veteran in the sixties and seventies ran here, how awesome it would be......
The assassination can barely be fooled by the traditional training syllabus, but when it comes to shooting training, they all feel quite a headache - what kind of weapon to use as standard equipment? What weapons should those recruits be trained to use?
At first, the committee built a military group to make do with the captured arquebuses and practice first. Although the arquebus is primitive and old, it is also the originator of modern firearms, and since it looks similar, the usage should be similar...... Most laymen in the committee think so.
Soon, however, the personnel in charge of training in the military team ran back in a rage after test-firing the captured firearms.
"Who the advocates training with seized firearms? Try it yourself before you talk! ”
Wang Haiyang took the lead with a face of black ash and gunpowder foam, and ran back with tears in his eyes and scolded - the quality of those captured arquebuses was not good, the sealing was not tight, and after firing, gas would leak out of the back of the barrel.
After that, Tang Jian, Beiwei, Xie Xi, and others also came back with scolding, and all of them were disgraced -- the smoke was too great when the arquebus was fired, and the gunpowder gas leaked strictly, and the traditional three-point-one-line aiming method was completely ineffective. ^^ starter.3-Q-Chinese^^ A gang of former professional soldiers fired nearly a hundred times. The hit rate was less than 20 percent.
Under the pressure of the military group, those who had advocated the promotion of "new three years and old three years." Sewing and mending for another three years", the rookies of the thrifty spirit committee were all forcibly escorted to the target. Professor Li and Hu Wen were spared because of their age and gender, but they were also asked to watch from the sidelines.
At first, everyone was still giggling and laughing, but not everyone can play the second-hand musket. Soon, however, the laughter gave way to a constant cough - each shot of these muskets emitted a large amount of smoke. If a platoon of people opened fire at the same time, the opposing figure would not even be visible on the position.
In the choking smoke, everyone completed various test firings. In addition to the captured arquebuses of the Dutch. They also tried the Ming army's equipment such as the Earth Bird Gun, which is said to be the most advanced Lu Mi gun in the Ming Dynasty. But the result is not as good as the arquebus, the single Q bullet that is fired out can't even find the approximate landing point, so you can only fill it with iron sand Q as a shotgun, and the range is very close.
There is no sighting device on the barrel, and even if there is, it is not dared to use it. Because the shooters had absolutely no idea which time the gunpowder gases would be sprayed in the back...... In the end, the total number of test firings did not occur several times, and there was even a bombing phenomenon. I almost didn't waste Ling Ning's hand.
"Damn, now I finally know what the legendary Divine Machine Battalion of the Ming Dynasty is. The musketeers of the Ming Dynasty were really unlucky, and these things probably did more damage to themselves than to their enemies......"
After the test shot, Pang Yu commented in a pitiful tone while rinsing his smoke-soaked eyes with clean water. In the past, looking at historical records, the number of muskets and artillery equipped with a vehicle and artillery battalion of the Ming army can surprise modern people, and they feel that it is almost completely a hot weapon army, how can they not be able to kill the Manchurians? Now I know why. x3xqx Chinese x first x hair x
"Yes, yes, this musket is really inferior to a bow and arrow. The latter can also ensure the safety of the shooter himself! ”
Ling Ning completely agreed. He had already wrapped several circles of gauze in his hands, and the damn Ming Army Bird Gun had only exploded in the third round. Narrowly missed the task its owner had failed to accomplish - taking out a shorthair.
Even now, Ling Ning's hands were almost burned into pig's trotters, and he didn't care much about it, but his wife Zhuo Yuan found the committee in a rage afterwards and had a big quarrel, forcing the committee to give him work-related injury leave, plus a wounded allowance......
Having tried first-hand the weapons of gunpowder in the seventeenth century, those members of the Committee who had intended to make the most of the captured weapons had to admit that their ideas were not realistic. Professor Li still asked his colleagues in the mechanical team: Can these weapons be modified so that their parts can be used, but he still got a negative answer.
"It's not impossible to renovate, but there is one thing that is very troublesome......"
After Xiao Lang measured the size of the parts of several firearms with calipers, he reluctantly told everyone:
"These muskets are all handmade, and although the principle and pattern are exactly the same, the size of each part is very different, and it is completely impossible to use them universally. If we want to reuse it, we will have to make a separate part for each musket that matches its size, and we might as well redo it all if we have the time to do it. ”
"Can't you use it at all?"
Hu Wen still asked without giving up, but saw that everyone in the military group, weapon group and mechanical group shook their heads at the same time:
"Not at all."
In the end, the Commission had no choice but to accept the judgment of the experts and declare that the muskets of this era were simply unusable - at least useless to modern people.
Pang Yu had seen an article somewhere before, saying that in this era, there were many one-eyed dragons or blind Q among soldiers and pirates, and a large part of the process was because the gunpowder gun was of poor quality and the accident rate was extremely high when fired. The heavy impact on musket tactics was that in this era, there was generally little emphasis on single-shot aiming, but the use of large-scale linear arrays and group platoon firing to ensure the lethality rate.
In China, the situation was even stricter, with the Ming Dynasty emphasizing musket tactics, but their firearms were never advanced enough to completely suppress cold weapons. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty abandoned the musket in the early stage, and in the later period, it was broken down, although it spent a lot of money to buy advanced weapons, but it has not learned to use it correctly.
Until the Opium War, when the Qing army used the muskets they bought against the enemy, they still did not aim, even if the quality of the muskets was already very good at that time, and the aiming equipment on the guns was relatively mature. And they have never been trained to use platoon guns in groups, and although they have guns, they can't use them, so it is not surprising that they have been defeated repeatedly.
Therefore, according to the opinion of the military team, the newly recruited soldiers must not use this kind of thing for training, it will make people useless.
As a result, the armament of the new army became a problem again - their guns were made of modern materials so far, and their numbers were long in short supply, and they had to be compensated for by crossbow machines in previous wars. These weapons alone were clearly not sufficient to create a new army, and the Commission had agreed to expand the army on the assumption that the captured equipment would be somewhat usable.
Now that this idea has been shattered, everyone should keep the original modern firearms for self-defense, and it is impossible for the new army to completely use crossbow machines to fight. Under such conditions, whether they can use local materials to make their own modern or at least modern firearms and weapons has been officially raised as an issue.
A few days later, everyone gathered again to formally discuss the issue of homemade firearms.
There is no doubt that these modern people from the twenty-first century have an absolutely overwhelming advantage over anyone of this era when it comes to weapons technology. But when all the members of the management committee, the processing industry, the chemical, mechanical, and military teams sat together to discuss which guns should be developed as the standard equipment of the new army, everyone was still at a loss.
It's not because there are no targets to choose from, it's that they have too many gun types to choose from, and there are too many people who know how to do it.
Wang Ruobin, Xu Hui, Feng Yufei...... Needless to say, these are already engaged in weapon systems, and even Xiao Lang, who is engaged in machinery, can tell some clues about the principles and structures of modern firearms. But this also directly leads to their internal opinions can not be unified, what lever bolt type, revolver on the bomb or gas on the bomb...... All kinds of nouns crackled and kept popping up, and the conference room quickly turned into a pot of porridge, only to hear Pang Yu and a group of laymen dizzy.
Cautiously, Pang Yu raised a hand:
"Ahem, I'm a layman, but may I ask, why don't we just copy those two five or six styles? It should be easy to imitate an off-the-shelf sample gun, right? ”
The group of people who were still arguing just now shook their heads at the same time in unison:
"If you can't imitate it, the metal materials and processing technology are not up to par."
Master Huang Jiancheng, who is in charge of the steel plant, is more kind, and added two sentences:
"The main thing is that there are still difficulties in the production of steel and spring steel for the barrel, and at present, with our steel level, we can produce high-quality wrought iron pipes instead of steel barrels, but the spring material is not easy to solve. Some steel can be produced using the crucible method, but the yield cannot be increased. ”
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