The wine is finally shallow, and I never know that I have to bow to it.

Therefore, on the second day of the Mid-Autumn Festival Night Banquet, Shen Shuren dragged his tired and sour body early in the morning, and came to the regimental training school outside Qizhou very diligently.

Watch Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro demonstrate their respective queue drills, and take a look at the live-fire tests of various musket tactics.

"Hiss-" When he turned over and dismounted in cotton armor, Shen Shuren still felt a little uncomfortable at the waist, and secretly took a cool breath, but he was not noticed by others.

It seems that he can't be unrestrained when he is young, with his physique that he now exercises every day by riding a horse and archery, it was more than enough to deal with one Chen Yuanyuan, and the next day he was still fierce.

The key is that I just dealt with Chen Yuanyuan yesterday afternoon, and when I went back in the evening, the atmosphere under the moon before the flower came, and I couldn't help but comfort again, and I got up in the middle of the night and taught Dong Xiaowan how to behave.

Looking back now, Dong Xiaowan, who is plain and elegant under the white moonlight, is really a little unbearable.

You have to be a little diligent for a day or two to take a breath.

Shen Shuren was slightly distracted, and the basic queue formation demonstration on the school field had already passed more than halfway. There was no urine spot in the whole process, and there was no need for Shen Shuren to stop questioning.

After reading it, Shen Shuren also had an intuitive understanding of the original Ming army's musket formation, and even the position of the Spanish phalanx-

Of course, this Spanish phalanx is just Pizarro asking people to hold their respective weapons and stand in a good position as required, and there is no real combat power. After all, it has only been half a day since he became the head of the sect, and it would be good to be able to explain what he was going to do.

This was followed by the firing of various muskets.

Shen Shuren asked people to bring a row of wooden planks with a diameter of one foot that is customary in the army, and then asked Shen Jiading and Pizarro's Spanish entourage to use various bird guns, fire guns, and Spanish turtledove guns to test their accuracy.

"Bang bang bang-" For a while, there was a loud shot on the school grounds.

The regimental training next to them was lively, and they all looked at it. It can be seen how lax the Huangzhou regimental training was before Shen Shuren came, and there was not much ammunition money for training at all, and many of them were in a hurry to shoot when they arrived on the battlefield.

The combat effectiveness of the musketeers also has to spend a certain amount of training and ammunition to feed, and how can they have combat effectiveness if they are reluctant to silver.

As the shooting test progressed, Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro also stood on the left and right sides of Shen Shuren respectively, with expectant faces, trying to prove their correctness in front of Lord Tongzhi.

At the banquet last night, they each boasted about Haikou, and they all said that their tactics were the most realistic, and they were waiting for this moment to prove themselves.

After a long time, the gunfire stopped, and each side fired a total of fifty shots in their own way.

The process of shooting is very slow, and it is necessary to call a stop once for a round, so that the person hiding in the trench behind the target position can test the target before he can place another shot to ensure statistical accuracy-

Because if the target is uniformly tested after 50 rounds are fired, it will not be possible to calculate the data of "the probability of hitting at least one shrapnel in a single shot". There will be a problem that "some guns have two or three fragments on target at a time", confusing the statistics.

Fortunately, Shen Shuren arranged five targets for each group, so each round could shoot five shots, each target was divided into one shot, and fifty shots only needed to count ten rounds.

After the smoke cleared, the results were also counted. For convenience, Shen Shuren simply taught his subordinates to use Western mathematics to calculate the results before the assessment.

"The Bird/Lumi Gun has 50 steps and 50 shotguns, with a target rate of 74%, and a total of 93 pieces of shrapnel have been hit."

"The Bird/Lumi Gun has 100 steps, 50 shotguns, a target rate of 16%, and a total of 11 shrapnel hits."

"The Franc machine turtledove has 50 steps and 50 shotguns, with a target rate of 86%, and a total of 132 shrapnel hits."

"The Franc machine turtledove has 100 paces and 50 shotguns, with a target rate of 40%, and a total of 39 shrapnel hits."

After Shen Shuren read the data, his face was slightly gloomy, but then he also accepted this reality. Zuo Zixiong on the side was a little hard to believe.

The accuracy of the bird and Lu Mi is within Zuo Zixiong's prediction, but he didn't expect that the Franc machine country turtledove used by Pizarro would work so well - the key is that Zuo Zixiong had not seen the turtledove before, and he had also used it.

The charge of the Lumi gun is four coins each for lead and gunpowder, and the ammunition for the ordinary bird gun is three coins each.

Although the turtledove is heavy, and each has more than one or two ammunition, which is at least three times that of the bird's gun, it is said that the hit rate of the shotgun fired should not be so large.

Shen Shuren pondered for a moment, and then noticed that Zuo Zixiong's face was depressed, but he comforted him:

"This official doesn't blame you, now it seems that you are all making suggestions based on your own real experience, you are all realistic, and the level of combat effectiveness is not your problem.

Zuo Dusi, I see that the turtledove gun you saw before may be a Cantonese product imitated a few years ago, or it may not be imitated in place, or it has no shape, and you have not mastered the supporting use of the esoteric, so you will think that the turtledove with the shotgun is nothing more than that.

The key now is to find the problem, solve the problem, and see why our bird guns are far inferior to the real original turtledoves, let's just change it. ”

After listening to Shen Shuren's fair comments, Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro were also convinced, and they no longer blamed each other's tactical thinking.

Perhaps the difference between the two at the beginning was because of a misjudgment in their understanding of weapons.

Everyone soon began to disassemble and analyze, and Zuo Zixiong compared them one by one with his previous experience and knowledge, and soon found several problems.

For example, he found that the shotguns used in various muskets of the Ming army did not seem to be very particular in shape - the lead bullets of the Ming army's muskets, only the large single-headed bullets were relatively round. However, because of the large number of fragments required and the high frequency of processing, the shotgun is too lazy to make the shape very regular, and many of them are strange-shaped iron filings.

The turtledove was imitated by the Han people, the earliest was the first year of Chongzhen (1629) Guangdong governor Wang Zun private imitation, but it was also used privately on the ground in Guangdong, and was spread into the capital, it was already the eighth year of Chongzhen (1636), and then the generals around the country had formal contact with the turtledove, so it was normal to not know the correct usage in the last four or five years.

Previously, when the Ming army loaded the cannon with shotguns, they also grabbed a handful of iron nails, iron filings or even broken stones, and pressed them on top of the gunpowder, which could be shot out, with enough fragments, and more people could be sprayed to death by spraying it close to the face, and it was okay, and it did not pay attention to the effective range. Even the cannons are so casual, and it is not surprising that the imitation version of the turtledove is also loaded with iron sand, iron filings and even gravel to fire.

Shen Shuren continued to review, and soon noticed another important operational difference between Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro -

Even if the Spaniards were loaded, they would use a single bullet that was large enough and of good quality to fit the barrel to squeeze the entire subsequent charge.

To put it bluntly, it is the BUCK plus BALL mode required by the standard practice code of Western musket shotguns in the 18th century, BUCK is a small projectile, and the top should be pressed with a single-headed bullet BALL.

When Zuo Zixiong uses shotgun, sometimes it is pure shotgun, and the quality of the compression projectile on the top is uneven, and sometimes he even uses some broken lead to press and stuff the surface.

Chongzhen's thirteen-year-old local armament really can't ask for more, and the shoddy system is already very serious.

Shen Shuren has knowledge of physics, and after a little investigation, he can figure out the reason.

"When I designed the Daming Bird Gun, because I fired single-headed bullets all year round, I didn't consider injuring the enemy with shotguns from a long distance, and I didn't pay attention to the effective range of shotguns, so the adaptation technology of shotguns was a little disjointed.

When firing a shotgun, it is very important to have a top bullet with a good air tightness of the barrel. This can prevent the gunpowder gas from leaking out from the top and bottom of the projectile when it is inside the barrel, blowing the direction of the projectile's flight.

Because the caliber of the single-headed bullet is about the same as the inner diameter of the barrel, it will not blow crooked if there is a slight leakage, and it will be bound by the barrel in the direction of progress. The caliber of the shotgun is much smaller than the inner diameter of the barrel, and if there is gas blowing next to it, the shotgun will bounce up and down in the barrel, left and right, and of course it will be inaccurate when it is discharged. ”

The best way to learn a piece of knowledge is to understand it yourself and then relay it to others. In the process of being a good teacher, your own thinking can also be sorted out more clearly.

Shen Shuren explained, and suddenly understood it, and figured out why Michelle. During the Seven Years' War, Lefayette would have intrigued the idea of "having a smoothbore gun hold two single-headed bullets of the same caliber and size at the same time".

The key to more projectiles and farther shots is the airtightness between the projectile and the barrel to prevent the projectile from leaking and jumping because it is too small than the inner diameter of the barrel.

It's not that the shotgun can't hit far, it's that the shotgun that isn't round enough can't hit far.

In modern times, whether it is S686 or Winchester 1897, the ammunition used in these shotguns, after being disassembled, you can see that each steel ball is actually as thick as the inner diameter of the barrel, but there will be 6 to 9 steel balls arranged in a straight line, and the tail is gunpowder.

Pizarro now uses not so many projectiles, and I heard that there are up to four sub-caliber projectiles arranged in front and back, but the outside must be wrapped in leather to fill the gap in the caliber.

The three of them were discussing each other, and a temporary compromise method quickly arose in Shen Shuren's heart:

You can also learn the so-called "paper cartridge shell fixed ammunition" that most traversers can think of, optimize it a little, use a thicker paper with good air tightness, or elastic leather, and arrange several sub-caliber spherical projectiles in sequence, and fill the tail with gunpowder, isn't that also close to the firing effect of modern trolls?

It's just that in terms of reloading, it still has to be loaded in the breech, and it has to be loaded one shot at a time, and it is still at the level of the Ming Dynasty in terms of firepower continuity, and it cannot reach the power of the trolls of later generations.

Thinking of this, Shen Shuren immediately instructed Zuo Zixiong: "Zuo Dusi, if you are asked to learn the turtledove ammunition of the Pizarro sect leader, and get multiple round ball lead bullets of one smaller caliber for the bird gun, can you do it?"

As long as the charge does not increase, the projectile becomes more and smaller, so that it will not explode, right? As for the sealing, you can wrap the elastic and airtight leather on the outside of the buckshot, and temporarily hold it to prevent it from jumping."

Zuo Zixiong thought for a while: "This doesn't sound dangerous, but the projectile is much more laborious to make, and today's lead bullets are melted into lead water and poured into a mold to form a ball." The same amount of lead bullet becomes several times smaller, and it is necessary to multiply the amount of mold casting, and my Ming army used iron sand and iron filings to make shotguns because it was too troublesome. ”

With the industrial strength of the Ming Dynasty, each small bullet of the shotgun has to accurately control the shape and size, which is indeed a bit of a waste of production capacity.

Shen Shuren thought about it again, and said: "Sharpening the knife is not a mistake for chopping wood, let's make preparations with both hands, while making a mold for small bullets, try to pour lead water directly into cold water."

I remember that the surface tension of lead is quite large, and if you pour it directly into cold water, it will be stimulated and condensed into small balls, which are quite round, but the diameter is not easy to control. However, if you want to wrap the outside of leather in the future, it doesn't matter if the diameter is slightly worse. ”

When Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro heard this, their eyes lit up, and this kind of improvisation was really unheard of for them.

But in any case, this is really worth a try, the accuracy of the shotgun is not accurate, and the small projectile is not round is the most critical factor, because only if it is round enough, the instability of the flight direction caused by its own roll and rotation can be alleviated and overcome the Magnus effect.

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PS: Alas, the update is too fast, and the new book period of a month has not yet arrived, and because of more than 200,000 words, it has been squeezed out of the new book list in advance. Forget it, squeeze it out, anyway, this time it was also very low on the list.