"At present, it is certain that the True Qi Crossbow has an absolute advantage in terms of rate of fire and power, but it is expensive to cost, and it either needs to be injected with True Qi to recharge by gilded warriors, or it consumes physical strength manually......

Gunpowder Bullet ...... Well, it is the 'gun' that the king said, the steps are too cumbersome when loading, the rate of fire and the power are a lot worse, and the gunpowder also involves the problem of preservation, there is no accuracy at all, but the manufacturing cost and training cost are very low, and it is better to save physical strength, as long as there is no problem with the barrel, shoot for several hours in a row, and the soldier will not be tired. Huang Zhong said after thinking about it carefully.

The breech gun is actually very easy to deal with, after all, it essentially stuffs gunpowder and projectiles into the barrel, and then ignites the gunpowder to break the projectile out.

The barrel can be made by hand, it can be sewn with iron powder, and the technical content of lead bullets and gunpowder is really not very high, at most there are some gadgets to assist in reloading......

However, breech guns are basically smoothbore guns - smoothbore, which means that there is no rifling, which means that the projectile does not rotate when it comes out, and the deviation angle follows the edge.

It is not impossible to manually depict rifling, but the loading method of the breech gun is doomed, and it will not take long for the rifling to wear out, and the rifled breech gun is also difficult to load, but it is not as cost-effective as increasing the rate of fire and queuing up to shoot.

Therefore, the era of breech guns was mainly based on smoothbore guns that shot casually, and at most sharpshooters were equipped with rifles with a very short lifespan.

Although the sample of the Ministry of Industry of Chu is not still an arquebus, it is still a flintlock pistol with a separation of bullet and medicine, that is, after pulling the trigger, a flint is used to hit the fire door and ignite the gunpowder stuffed into the gun, and the lead bullet is blown away...... Security and stability can be imagined.

Even in the second half of the 18th century, when the breech gun technology was relatively mature, the hit rate at a distance of 100 meters was less than one-tenth......

"Hansheng, you can't offend anyone." Bai Tu silently rolled his eyes at Huang Zhong's ambiguous statement.

Huang Zhong smiled a little embarrassed when he heard this: "Ahem...... If the end of the future chooses, it should be that all the generals will be equipped with true qi crossbows, soldiers...... Ordinary bows and crossbows are used for attack, and guns are used for defending cities. ”

It is easy to understand that the bow and crossbow used for the attack and the musket for defending the city are easy to understand, after all, the loading process of the breech gun is to use the push rod to advance the projectile from the muzzle, and the gun needs to be erected, so it cannot lie down, and can only shoot upright.

In addition, a single smoothbore gun could not hit the opponent, and only a salvo in an array had a deterrent effect, which contributed to the emergence of "lined up shooting" in modern times.

A veteran who is accustomed to cold weapon tactics can't think of such a "straightforward" tactic for a while, and it makes sense to hope that there will be cover when defending.

And there is also a weakness that Huang Zhong didn't expect for a while - the breech gun with separate ammunition is easy to jam, once a salvo is fired, the soldier is likely to not know that he is jammed, and sometimes after a big battle, he feels that he shoots very well, and goes back to check the barrel...... I found that it was filled with more than a dozen bullets, and this kind of thing is not uncommon!

After Huang Zhong finished speaking, he added uneasily: "Of course, if the thieves also start to equip muskets on a large scale, then I suggest that muskets be quickly promoted in the training of ordinary Jizao soldiers." ”

Huang Zhong saw this very clearly, and Bai Tu actually understood it - even the arquebus can promote the replacement, and if you really use a more mature rifle flintlock pistol and a bow and crossbow, its advantages are also obvious.

The threshold is low, the cost is low, and the difficulty of training lies mainly in the salvo of courage and obedience to command, in addition to that...... There are almost no physical requirements.

If others have mastered flintlock pistol technology and can be mass-produced, Baitu must follow suit!

True Qi Crossbow? The cost of a real crossbow can make dozens of flintlock pistols, and it doesn't need too much training, as long as you are bold and 10,000 young people can be pulled up, and you can go to the battlefield to "shoot" in a month.

Or if Bai Tu travels to more than a hundred years later, the more chaotic and precarious period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the city may be slaughtered at any time, and the incomprehensible wolf-hearted beast behavior of modern civilization will occur anytime and anywhere...... That Bai Tu must have stabilized his position, and immediately climbed the technology tree of the flintlock pistol.

However, now Bai Tu is still "wearing shoes......

Therefore, he is stable, and even willing to pay more for smaller casualties, and the situation is far from the extent that he can make Bai Tu give up his illusions and decency.

"Hansheng can rest assured of this, counting the one in your hand, the Ministry of Industry has only produced five samples now, not to mention ...... Even if they do give them samples, this is not something that can be mass-produced in a year or two. Bai Tu is still confident in this.

Then Bai Tu paused and said: "And for the sake of safety, unless the musket can go further, the assembly is still mainly based on the True Qi Crossbow and the ordinary bow crossbow, and this kind of gun will not really be used." ”

"If you go further...... If the musket could reach half the rate of fire of an arrow, it would be enough to sweep the world even if it maintained its current accuracy! Huang Zhong said convincingly.

"Well...... The problem is that Huang Saijiu also said that her True Qi Crossbow can also go further. Bai Tu sighed.

Originally, Bai Tu thought that the True Qi Crossbow was already the limit of cold weapons - after all, Bai Tu had never heard of any True Qi Crossbow in his "previous life", even if it was a modern sniper crossbow, that is, the current strength of the True Qi Crossbow!

And the musket side......

Although the data in the hard disk is incomplete at this point, after all, Baitu is just a ghostwriting paper, and it is impossible to just include all technologies, especially various gunpowder ratios and the like, only the general direction, and the accurate information cannot be found.

But at least the direction is clear!

To make the transition to a breech gun, several necessary technologies must be named.

First of all, the barrel must be sealed, and only manual polishing by craftsmen will inevitably lack both output and specifications, and the application of stamping machines is indispensable.

The stamping machine is now in sight, and what Yu Ji wants to solve can still be attributed to the material problem - the material must not only meet the strength and toughness, but also ensure that the press can be formed in one pass.

The second is the fixed bullet – a bullet with gunpowder in a cartridge case, similar to the modern one.

Continuing the "projectile + gunpowder" model, forcibly loading the breech, the defects are too large, there were in the 17th century, but it cannot be called a full-fledged breech gun, and it was not used on a large scale.

The first full-fledged breech gun that Prussia was equipped with in the middle of the 19th century was already a firing gun, that is, after pulling the trigger, a "firing pin" was pierced into the firing charge of the bullet, which then ignited and thrusted the bullet!

It was this change that made it possible to reload the breech, and the soldiers were finally able to shoot from their stomachs five times faster than the breech guns, and Prussia defeated Austria in seven weeks......

It's just that the bullet at this time is not the copper shell of later generations, but a copper warhead with a paper shell, but the principle is very close.

But in terms of the True Qi Crossbow, Bai Tu didn't know or think of how it could develop in the future, and he wasn't even sure if it could really develop.

It's just that...... After all, this is the world of Chengji, Bai Tu didn't dare to argue with Huang Yueying, a professional, and he had to say that he was right.