Chapter 145: Tools of Production
What Brother Zheng said is indeed one of the biggest disadvantages of the bird.
As an early firearm.
The biggest disadvantage of the bird gun is its rate of fire.
Its power, rate of fire, are not bad.
However, his rate of fire is too slow.
Compared to bows and arrows, it is not enough to carry shoes for bows and arrows.
You know, the rate of fire of a bow and arrow is actually quite fast.
A skilled archer can even shoot more than a dozen feather arrows in the entire quiver in one breath through the shooting method of a series of arrows in just a few seconds.
Compared to archers.
The speed of the bird's gun is simply too slow.
Therefore, it is difficult to guarantee that Brother Zheng will mention this matter.
However, Ying Changsheng didn't care about this.
Because, of course, he knew that the greatest advantage of a firearm was not its rate of fire.
In comparison, the advantages contained in it are enough to make up for its shortcomings.
I saw that Ying Changsheng slipped up the bird gun in his hand, and then opened his mouth to ask Brother Zheng in front of him.
"Doesn't my father think that the rate of fire of the bird gun is too slow, so it can't be used?"
"Exactly!"
Ying Zheng nodded.
"That's what I thought!"
"This rate of fire is so slow, if you go to the battlefield, how can you fight?"
"Use this thing to kill the enemy, you can only fire it once, if the enemy, after you shoot the lead bullet, and pounce in front of you, then, is it possible, directly let others slaughter?"
"Of course not!"
Ying Changsheng shook his head.
"Father, you haven't understood the greatest advantage of this bird!"
"Oh?"
Brother Zheng was surprised, looked at the body of the bird's gun, and couldn't help but be puzzled.
"Is there anything else that this bird gun has hidden advantages?"
"Of course!"
Ying Changsheng said without thinking.
In all fairness.
Early gunpowder weapons.
It's really not good.
This bird gun is already counted as the closest firearm.
However, it is still not a good thing.
Compared with the gunpowder weapons developed in later generations.
This rudimentary gunpowder weapon.
Sensei said that it was compared with the machine guns of later generations.
It's to compare with the bow and arrow.
He's a lot worse.
But even so, in history, with the advent of early firearms.
Both the East and the West knew that the early firearms were much worse than bows and arrows, but they were still equipped with a large number of such weapons.
And that's why it is.
It's because, compared to cold weapons.
The bird gun has an incomparable advantage of other weapons, that is, it is easy to manipulate!
Archers are not for everyone.
The bow thing, trying to pull it apart and shoot feathered arrows.
That's not an easy task.
Since ancient times, archers have been forced to do so.
This sentence is not a ridicule of later generations, but a fact.
Because archers are often tall and strong, only in this way can they have enough strength to draw their bows and shoot arrows.
And, worst of all.
Cultivation of archers.
It's so hard!
A skilled archer.
The cost of cultivating it is very high.
More than you can imagine.
It takes at least three or five years of training to be able to produce a qualified archer.
Moreover, compared to gunpowder weapons.
The cost of bows and arrows is also quite high.
Well, the cost of bows and arrows is higher than firearms!
That's not to say.
First of all, the bow and arrow of the current era, take the bow as an example, to make it, it takes a pair of horns to be made!
Cows are not good!
Cattle are large production tools.
Moreover, it will take a long time for a horn bow to be made.
At the very least, it will take a year or two to make a batch of qualified bows and arrows.
As for the arrows?
It's not easy to make!
The cost of an arrow is much higher than that of a lead bullet.
He needed straight sticks, which were finely processed, painted, dried and embalmed, and feathered to make arrow feathers.
None of this is easy.
It can be said that the cost of bows and arrows is much higher than that of firearms.
And the production cycle, it's too long.
At the very least, it will take a year or two to succeed.
In such a situation.
The obsolescence of bows and arrows is also inevitable, I only heard it, Brother Win Changsheng said.
"Father, this bird gun, it is a person, it can be used, you just saw it, the son is only eight years old, you can take this fire, go to war, and then kill a soldier who has been fighting for a long time!"
"This ......"
When Brother Zheng heard this, his eyes lit up in an instant.
Wu Shi Lu on the side echoed again and again, and then said to Ying Zheng.
"Yes, the sharpness of Your Majesty's firecracker, the biggest advantage, in the minister's opinion, should lie in the fact that it can make a person who has no power to kill a strong man easily!"
"This is very suitable for the minister's caravan, Your Majesty doesn't know, most of the people in the minister's caravan don't know martial arts at all, and if they give them swords and guns, they probably won't be able to summon them, but if they are given this bird gun, they will definitely be able to shoot a lead ......bullet when they are in battle."
"That's true!"
Hearing this, Brother Zheng slapped his thigh and said.
And winning Changsheng is secretly in the bottom of my heart.
In this history, the biggest advantage of the bird gun is that it is conducive to the rioters.
It would take a few years for a farmer to manipulate it into a regular army, at least.
I want them to become a feudal samurai who is proficient in the art of killing.
The time consumed is even longer.
However, such a well-trained cold-weapon soldier.
On the battlefield, he will be killed by a soldier who has just learned to fight birds.
In such a situation.
is a smart military commander, and will be equipped with a lot of bird guns in his army.
At this moment, Brother Zheng also noticed this, and he won the immortal path.
"I probably understand, this bird gun, his advantage is that he doesn't need to be trained, he can use it at any time, even a three-year-old child, as long as he learns patiently, he can also learn to play bird guns in a very short time, what I said, right?"
"Father is wise!"
Brother Win Changsheng Chaozheng said.
Immediately, he muttered again.
"Moreover, my father doesn't know that this bird gun, although it is slow to load, but it can also be used as an ordinary weapon, held in his hand, and hand-to-hand combat with people......"
"Oh?"
Hearing this, Brother Zheng showed a look of surprise.
He looked at the bird in front of him.
For the various advantages of the bird.
At this moment, Brother Zheng already knows it in his heart.
However, he really couldn't understand how the bird gun could be used as a cold weapon for hand-to-hand combat, only to see him, frowning and muttering.
"What did you say? Could it be that he took this bird gun in his hand and used it as a stick to pick people? I'm afraid this doesn't work, right? ”