"Bang ......"

Bursts of gunfire rang out on the beach,

The burst of gunfire startled the seabirds that roostled nearby and fled.

Suddenly, several large birds struggled as if they were electrocuted and fell straight down.

A few bloodstained feathers fell onto the sparkling sea.

The Ming army musket team is practicing on the beach,

Instead of using a conventional wooden target, they chose a seabird as a target.

On the one hand, it is to test the range and accuracy of the bird's gun, and on the other hand, it can also fight tooth sacrifices.

There were various models of arquebuses used by the Ming army.

There are folding turtledove foot guns with the largest caliber in the Ming Dynasty, and there are also Lumi guns with good performance.

However, no matter what kind of arquebus, the shooting process is indeed too cumbersome in Liu Yu's opinion.

The Ming soldiers who watched the musket poured gunpowder from the canister into the medicine tube, and poured the gunpowder from the mouth of the gun into the chamber, and compacted and pressed the gunpowder in the chamber with the gun.

Then he took the projectile from the belt between his crotch and loaded it into the chamber, and then pressed the projectile into the gunpowder with a fight.

The gunpowder in the powder jar is then poured into the fire door of the medicine chamber, the medicine chamber is filled to connect it with the gunpowder in the chamber, and then the fire door cover is closed to prevent moisture.

Load the fire rope into the faucet clamp of the trigger and prepare for ignition,

Liu Yu was dazzled by a series of steps.

When shooting, it is necessary to open the fire door cover, light the fire rope, aim in a squatting or standing position, and pull the trigger to fire.

Only then was a round of muskets fired.

Behind one musketeer were several musketeers who filled him with gunpowder.

"No wonder the Tartars won the world on horseback," looking at the situation in front of him, Liu Yu couldn't help but sigh.

Despite its epoch-making significance, the cumbersome musket did not show a clear advantage over the strongbow for the seventeenth-century army.

Watching the shooting of the Ming army's musket team, Liu Yu's hands were also itchy, and he hurriedly asked his own soldiers to equip the self-generated firecracker.

It is difficult to escape the fleet of Luzon, and its soldiers are mainly divided into Xiao Wu of the Naval Town and Huang Liangji of the Mighty Town.

Before Xiao Wu led the fleet to leave, he left Liu Quan and more than 100 elite soldiers under his command behind.

One is for garrison, and the other is for surveillance.

Soon, the soldiers were reloading the self-generated firearms.

"In case of wind and rain, all guns must first open the fire door, but they can be raised against the enemy. There are often those who are wet by wind and rain and can not send a hair, and there are those who do not shine on the stars and send them by mistake, so that the faucet must be transformed into a message, so that the flint touches the machine and the medicine is fired spontaneously combusted. “

Liu Yu is no stranger to self-made fireworks, after all, it is the first flintlock pistol in China, which is a generation ahead of the arquebus.

Although this self-generated gun cannot be compared with the real rifles of later generations, it undoubtedly represents the most advanced level of technology in China in the 17th century.

Therefore, this thing naturally became his special weapon.

Of course, Huang You's commander's firearms department is working overtime to rush to this kind of firearms.

Liu Yu plans to gradually form a Shenji battalion subordinate to himself, and fully equip it with improved self-generated firearms.

He also knew that after thirty years of war, the European continent was basically fully equipped with flintlock pistols, and the Spanish colonists could not have been without flintlock pistols.

Therefore, if they really met the Spanish musket team, the Ming army must be equipped with firearms of the same level to have a chance of winning.

Picking up his own firecracker, Liu Yu aimed at a nearby coconut tree.

The seabirds were all frightened, and Liu Yu didn't want to be embarrassed.

The flintlock pistol is actually not complicated, it is a flint clamped on the jaws of the hammer, and there is a blow anvil on the side of the fire hole.

When the gunner fires, as long as the trigger is pulled, the flint is struck on the edge of the fire door under the action of the spring, and a spark can be generated, which can ignite the gunpowder and fire.

"Bang!"

An obvious recoil force shocked Liu Yu,

A coconut shook in response, leaving a black hole.

"Good marksmanship." Zhu Honghuan exclaimed.

Liu Yu's expression changed slightly,

It took him a lot of effort to pull the trigger, but his fingers still hurt slightly.

When the gun was pulled with too much force, the body of the gun shook significantly.

In fact, it is because the coconut tree is only ten steps away from him.

He didn't say much, but motioned for his soldier to hand over a loaded arquebus.

This is a kind of arquebus invented by Zhao Shizhen, a firearms developer.

Hold the fire rope in place, stand on your front feet, and gently lift the gun.

Holding the hand in the left hand, the knees of the arm joints, and the back tail clamping the armpits, looking at the seabirds flying in the sea not far away,

Liu Yu closed his left eye, pointed his right eye at the star, closed his breath, aimed at the seabird, and then pulled the trigger.

The body of the gun shook, and a seabird rose more than 20 paces away.

"It's a pity." Liu Yu sighed.

The arquebus was noticeably lighter than a self-generated firebolt and seemed to have a superior range.

"One more shot." Liu Yu said.

The soldiers took the Lu Mi gun and replaced it with another one, took out the medicine jar, and was about to fill the medicine pool with gunpowder, but was suddenly snatched by Liu Yu.

Liu Yu sank his face and looked at the medicine jar.

"Bring me the pot of the self-made fire." Liu Yu commanded.

"Something's wrong." Zhu Honghuan came over,

Liu Yu gently poured the black powder from the two medicine jars onto an ashlar stone.

I saw that the gunpowder in the two canisters took on different shapes.

The gunpowder particles in the gunpowder jars of Lu Mi Gong vary in size, from the size of soybeans to the shape of grains of sand, and even have a lot of powder.

The black powder in the medicine jar of the self-generated fire gun is uniform in size, and the particles are like sand grains, and the grains are full.

"King Lu, you go back first."

"I'm going to the Firearms Division again." Liu Yu looked at Zhu Honghuan and said.

"Okay, be careful, then." Zhu Honghuan looked at Liu Yu, and went straight back to Mingcheng without asking.

It has been more than ten days since he returned to the Firearms Division, and Liu Yu also wants to know how the Firearms Division has made the guns.

Entering the village where the Firearms Division was located, Liu Yu couldn't help but be stunned.

Compared with more than ten days, it seems that there has been a big change here.

The village itself is located next to a river,

At this moment, there is a small dam made of wooden fences on the side of the river.

The village became an ordnance base.

Liu Yu didn't disturb everyone and let the soldiers wait outside.

He went with one man and two gunpowder jars.

When Liu Yu walked into the factory where the gun was made, he was stunned.

I saw that there were more than 20 bamboo beds in the entire plant.

On the bamboo bed, there are black metal sticks, and next to the golden sticks, there are horizontal hand drills.

The barrel is fixed transversely on a shelf that can be rotated on its own, and the drill cutter is fed horizontally,

Swirling and spinning and making holes in the metal, it was not human power that shook the drill bits, but a stream of water.

"This."

Liu Yu was dumbfounded.

"Lord Liu, you're here." Huang Youde couldn't help but smile when he saw Liu Yu standing there stunned.

"Huang Youde, this is." Liu Yu pointed to these bamboo beds,

"If you go back to your lordship, this is a water conservancy borehole." Huang Youde replied.

"The hardest part of building a firebolt is the body, so half of the time it takes to build a bird's hammer is to drill a gun, and you can only drill an inch a day at most, and it can take up to a month to finish drilling, and I've seen the English build firecrackers."

"The English people are very different from us in that they prefer water power to manpower, so that what used to take a month to drill a gun tube can now be drilled in five or six days to drill a good quality gun pipe with a smooth inner chamber." Huang Youde said with a smile.

Suddenly, Liu Yu grabbed Huang Youde's hand,

said sincerely: "Virtuous, it's really a blessing to have you here." ”