This night, Zhao Pu dreamed.

He dreamed that he had traveled to the Song Dynasty, and as a benefit to the traveler, he obtained a device called the "Modern Weapon System", which could summon some advanced weapons as long as certain conditions were met, such as Miga rifles, Mauser guns, Gagarin machine guns, and AK47s, as well as grenades, rocket artillery, mortars, and so on.

After having a summoning system, fighting with the Jin Army no longer has to be so difficult, 3,000 Mauser guns were shot, and more than 10,000 Jin Army iron cavalry were all slaughtered material; With three hundred AK47s in hand, the 100,000 Jurchen cavalry are all scum. At this moment in the battle, there is no suspense, even if it is Wanyan who does not leave the use of soldiers like a god, even if it is Wanyan Lou's treacherous and changeable, in the face of absolute strength, all wisdom is useless.

In the blink of an eye, the Jin army was wiped out.

Zhao Pu couldn't help laughing.

And laughing too much, Zhao Pu also woke up completely, there is no "modern weapon system", a cheating boss, no Mauser gun, and no AK47, everything is nothing, everything is a dream, Zhao Pu couldn't help sighing.

Dreams, after all, are dreams; If you laugh too much, you will eventually wake up.

In this era, there were no Mauser guns, no AK47s, there was no way that the level of steelmaking was not up to standard, the level of gunpowder was not up to standard, and the low-level productivity of this era was doomed to be unable to mass production. If it can't be mass-produced, it is destined to become a quantitative advantage, and without a quantitative advantage, the power is destined to drop by many levels.

Explosives are divided into many types, from low to high can be divided into black powder, picric acid (**), thundermercury explosives, nitrocellulose (nitrocellulose) explosives; **Explosives, TNT explosives, Dana explosives, smokeless gunpowder, black sojin explosives,**.

Black powder is the most common and lowest-grade gunpowder in this era, as long as you check the book, you can know it, there is no slightest secret. The Liao, Western Xia, and Jin armies were all armed with low-grade gunpowder weapons.

And with his knowledge of physics, he also knew the principles of making other gunpowders. As long as he is willing, under certain conditions, he will manufacture nitrocellulose explosives, explosives, TNT explosives, etc., but considering the cost, it is most cost-effective to manufacture.

Zhao Pu will always remember a sentence, half a step beyond normal people, that is a genius; One step beyond normal people, that's crazy.

Genius is happy, while madman is tragic.

Explosives that are too high-grade are not only cost-effective, but also problematic in terms of safety. Zhao Puke doesn't admit how clever the technical secrecy of this era is, he invented ** today, maybe a year later, or even a month later, Jin Jun will also have **. The low level of productivity in this era doomed the level of gunpowder to be very low.

In the manufacture of firearms, Zhao Pu also shook his head.

The low level of steelmaking in this era, combined with the lack of professionalism and poor quality of the craftsmen, resulted in a low level of barrels. Using the steel of this era, making a gun barrel can be described as the best suicide weapon, and it may be fired less than a hundred shots, and it is in danger of exploding, and if it is not done well, it will be disfigured and fatal.

It is better to make a barrel out of steel than copper. At the time of Bianliang, the flintlock pistol made was made of copper.

However, in the Great Song Dynasty, the economy was developed, and copper was used to make money. If you make weapons, the cost is too high to be cost-effective.

And the saddest thing is that the firearms of this era have too short a range and a slow reload. Whether it is an arquebus or a flintlock pistol, the firing range is very short, the firing range is more than 100 meters, and the effective firing range is about 50 meters, that is, when the enemy is at 50 meters, the best shooting can hurt the enemy. If you put on bulletproof armor such as kapok armor, the range will be shorter.

Shoot too far and have no effect at all.

Fifty meters, maybe the cavalry will kill in a few seconds. And fifty meters, which means that archers can also shoot, for accurate kills. If it was on the plain, a thousand musketeers, against three thousand cavalry, it would definitely be three thousand musketeers who lost.

What's even worse is that you can only shoot three or four shots a minute, and if you are not proficient, you can shoot two shots in a minute. And a skilled archer can shoot more than twenty arrows in a minute.

The musket has a short range, a slow rate of fire, and a poor quality, which is definitely a complete defeat compared to the cavalry with a fast impact rate and powerful shooting. In terms of the firing speed, range, lethality, and quality of the musket, the musket was completely defeated until it was resolved.

For example, the battle of the Ming Dynasty army against the Manchurian Eight Banners in later generations can actually be seen as a collision between firearms and iron cavalry, and the result was that the Ming army was completely defeated, almost nine out of ten battles.

Zhao Pu couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, it seemed that it was impossible for him to rely on firearms to fight against the Jin Army's iron cavalry.

However, the musket was not without advantages. It's easier to train a musketeer than an archer. For example, musketeers, used as infantry on the plains, may not be as good as the Jin army. However, training as a cavalry soldier and exerting mobility can be very powerful. The musketeers, while defending the city, also had the advantage when shooting condescendingly. In addition, in the hills and mountains, or in street fighting, muskets are more convenient than bows and arrows.

In cavalry, mountain warfare, city defense, and street warfare, musketeers were more advantageous than archers.

However, Zhao Pu quickly smiled bitterly again, Da Song may not be good at attacking, but in defending the city, it is first-class. No, Wang Yu relied on a small Taiyuan city to hold on for a year, if it wasn't for the exhaustion of grain and grass, it would have lasted even longer; There was also the city of Xiangyang in later generations, which the Mongol army attacked for five years before attacking; And in Sichuan, the defense of the city was outstanding, and the Mongol army died a lot, even the Great Khan died, and it was still not captured. In desperation, he could only take a detour, destroy Tubo, destroy Dali, and make a detour to the rear before capturing Sichuan.

It seems unnecessary to create muskets and improve the Song army's ability to defend the city, because the Song army has always been very strong in defending the city.

And mountain warfare, hilly warfare, even if there are no firearms, as long as the Song army is not too wasteful, it still fights impressively.

Suddenly, Zhao Pu found that the role of the musketeers was very narrow, at least not as much as in Europe and Japan.

Europe was sparsely populated, France was the most powerful, at its peak during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, and the national army was no more than 300,000. As a result, the European countries were terrified, and they formed an anti-French coalition to jointly suppress France, but France was still strong. In addition, Prussia attached the most importance to military force, and in the time of Frederick the Great, the army was no more than 70,000 at most. And the military strength of other countries is only 20,000, 30,000, that is a big country. and small medium-sized countries, principalities and the like, with armies of no more than a few thousand; Some smaller countries have armies of only a few hundred.

Because of the sparse population and sparse army, the country must pay attention to armament, the quality of firearms, and the research and development of firearms. The same country with thousands, or even tens of thousands, of muskets may be invincible to Europe.

But China is different, some big battles in China are often hundreds of thousands, or even more than 200,000 troops of violent collisions, thousands of muskets, or even tens of thousands of muskets, are only useful at the beginning, once they fall into a melee, it is to burn the sticks, and the is not necessarily used.

The musket is far less useful in China than in Europe.

Similarly, the role of muskets in Japan far exceeded that in China. Because Japan is mostly mountainous and hilly, the role of bows and arrows there is far less practical than that of muskets, and for Japan, which has been divided and divided by hundreds of warlords, it is more affordable to equip muskets.

Later generations said that the Chinese were ignorant, gave up the study of firearms, and abandoned their arms, with the result that the East did not shine brightly in the West, and suffered great losses in the Opium War, and even said that if China actively developed firearms, it could avoid the humiliation of the Opium War. In Zhao Pu's view, it's all nonsense, and the supervisor doesn't work hard, trying his best to find objective reasons.

It's like the Song Dynasty only had infantry troops, only horse troops, and no iron cavalry, because the Song Dynasty people stubbornly believed that only infantry troops were needed to compete with the cavalry of the grassland. However, if the cavalry is formed, it will inevitably be arranged in the frontier, which will increase the power of the frontier, and the frontier forces will compete with the central government, or even surpass, which seriously violates the national policy of strong cadres and weak branches, so the iron cavalry has not been formed from beginning to end.

Also in the Qing Dynasty, it was also the manufacture of firearms that suppressed firearms, and even destroyed firearms, not because the Manchu nobles were ignorant, but because the Qing Dynasty had no external troubles that could threaten him on the four sides, and there was no need to vigorously develop firearms, and the mountains and rivers could be consolidated just by riding and shooting. The development of firearms could lead to social instability. Just like the dynasties, the ban on crossbows, knives, etc., is for the sake of social stability; The Qing Dynasty banned firearms for the sake of social stability.

All this is because the Chinese pursue pragmatism in their bones, and everything is based on practicality.

Because of practicality, in times of crisis, you can continue to learn; Because of its practicality, it will abandon those weapons that have great prospects and will not be brilliant for the time being.

In later generations, the Chinese abandoned the study of firearms only because they believed that firearms were impractical and were toys.

Zhao Pu smiled bitterly, the early muskets had a short range, low lethality, full reload speed, and quality problems, which doomed the early firearms to only play the role of a toy, and were destined to be only a supporting role on the battlefield. As soon as the war subsided, the muskets were thrown aside and forgotten.

If you want to completely replace the bow and arrow with the musket, unless the bow and arrow are completely exploded in the performance of the musket, some high-level people will inevitably give up the musket for the sake of cheapness and choose the bow and arrow.

"It seems that I have some fantasies, and it is very difficult to equip all the muskets into the Song army!" Zhao Pu reflected, "I'm still obsessed and take the viewpoint of weaponism." Weapons are only an important reason for victory, and many factors such as the morale of the army, the people, logistics, the quality of soldiers, and the command of generals can be superimposed to win! ”

"In later generations, the Communist Party relied on millet and rifles to completely blow up the Kuomintang, and later relied on captured weapons to completely blow up the Yankees. But in the same way, the weapons of the Northern Song Dynasty were superior to those of the Liao State and the Jin State, and they were still defeated; The weapons of the Southern Song Dynasty were superior to those of the Mongols, but they could still destroy the country; The weapons of the Ming army in later generations were superior to those of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and they were still defeated repeatedly; During the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing army's weapons were superior to the Japanese army, but they were still beaten out. ”

"Even if I develop a Mauser rifle and equip it with the Song army, I may not be able to defeat the Jin army, because the Song army's combat quality is too poor. Maybe it was just equipped today, and tomorrow it will be dedicated to the Jin Army to fund the enemy! ”

Suddenly, Zhao Pu didn't make up his mind on crooked ways.