Some of the ancient Chinese firearms - the fire system
Bird gun: Individual arquebus, the Ming army based on the captured Japanese iron cannon to study and improve. The barrel is made of wrought iron, weighing about 5-6 catties, and the ratio of the fire gun is increased to increase the crosshair, and the trigger clamp is used to ignite the fire rope, and the curved butt is installed, the barrel is slender, and the caliber ratio is between 50 and 70 times. The fire door has a cover, and a faucet arquebus is used, and one arquebus can be fired many times without extinguishing. The caliber of the bird gun is between 0.9~1.3 cm, and the range can reach about 300 meters. The total length of the gun is 112 cm to 150 cm, and compared with the various fire guns (fire gate guns) before the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it has the characteristics of long barrel, small caliber, light weight, and easy to use for infantry and cavalry. In the late Ming Dynasty, shotguns were already the main equipment of the Ming army. Each shotgunner is equipped with 2 fire canisters, one for propellant and one for ignition, and carries 300 rounds of lead bullets.
Lumi Gun: A single arquebus, created on the basis of a shotgun paid by the Lumi Kingdom (Turkey). The total length of the gun is 5-7 feet, the weight is 6-8 catties, the pipe length is 4 feet 5 inches, the front is a quasi-star, and the rear is set up with a door, and the mulberry or willow wood is made of gun. The butt has a steel blade at the end, and when the enemy approaches, it is reversed to be used as a saber. This gun has a long range and great power, and it is also superior to the beak gun in structure. "Wu Bei Zhi" said: "Bird milling: only the farthest and most poisonous."
Franc Gun: A large-caliber arquebus, somewhere between gunguns. Based on the arquebus obtained from the captured Francophone (Portuguese) ships. It has 9 guns, which can fire continuously and quickly, and weighs more than ordinary arquebuses, but is more powerful and has a longer range.
Electric Gun: Individual arquebus, Ming Dynasty firearms experts absorb the advantages of Lu Mi gun and Franc machine to create their own. The gun is about 6 feet long, weighs 5 pounds, and is in the form of a rear-loading sub-gun, with 5 sub-guns. The ignition device is the same as that of the Lumi gun, but with a retainer underneath. The sub-guns are preloaded and rotated into the barrel to fire, which can increase the rate of fire.
Thunderbolt: 5-barreled arquebus, Ming Dynasty firearms experts absorb the advantages of bird guns and three-eyed guns to create their own. The single tube is 2 feet long and has a regular five diamond-shaped distribution. Each of the 5 tubes has a crosshaired fire door, and the fire line is separated by a thin steel sheet. 5 There is a long wooden handle in the tube, hollow into a cylinder, there is a fireball in it, the gun can be ignited after the ejection is completed, and there is a spear head at the end of the handle, which can be used for close combat. The handle has a box to ignite, and the 5 tubes are shared. There is a cowhide sleeve in front of the gun to protect the shooter. There is a fork frame with the gun. Use in a kneeling position, shoot a bullet first, then turn 72 degrees to shoot the second tube, and push it.
Three-eyed gun: 3 single-arm handguns, made of 3 single-arm guns around the handle of parallel hoops, finished font type, each with a protruding outer edge, sharing a tail, single gun caliber 15 mm, total length 350-450 mm, all have medicine chamber and fire door, can be fired continuously. After shooting, it can be used as a hammer to hit the enemy.
Four-Eyed Guns: 4-tube single-arm guns, which are formed by 4 single-handed guns in parallel around the axis, similar to the three-eyed guns.
Five-row guns: 5 individual arquebuses, net iron barrels, each tube weighs 1 catty 4 taels, 4 feet long, each has a fire door, can be loaded with 4, 5 lead bullets and a number of fire. The 5 tubes were arranged in parallel, with a wooden handle in He'an, and the 5 tubes were fired sequentially after ignition.
Five Thor machine: 5 individual arquebuses, made of iron, each 1 foot 5 long, weighing 5 catties, surrounded by handles and rows, with a crosshair, 2 coins in the tube charge, a lead bullet, a common fire door, the barrel can be rotated, and the ignition is turned to the next fire door after firing, and the flat fire can reach 120 steps (5 feet per step).
Seven Star Guns: Vehicle-mounted 7-tube guns, the tubes are made of iron, 1 foot 3 inches long, 7 tubes are arranged in parallel, one tube is centered, 6 tubes surround, there are iron sheets outside, and three hoops are added, all of which have fire yao projectiles, the tail is combined into one place, and then press a 5-foot long wooden handle. The wheel diameter is 1 foot 5 inches, and the 7-gun salvo is fired in wartime, and the nozzle can be high and low, and the power is greater.
Ten-eyed gun: a single soldier and a single-tube gun, the pipe is made of wrought iron, weighs 15 pounds, is 5 feet long, the middle 1 foot is the entity, the two ends are 2 feet long for the tube, each end is divided into 5 sections, each section is 4 inches long, there is a hoop, a fire door, and each section is filled with fire yao and lead bullets. When you use it, you tap one head, fire it in turn, then turn around and fire another?
Three-in-a-row guns: Multiple guns for a single soldier, with a long barrel, loaded in three sections, each with a fire door, loaded one by one, and fired in turn.
Ten Consecutive Guns: 10 Tubes, each tube contains 10 bullets, a total of 100 bullets, 10 tubes are parallel around the axis, and the hoops are combined into 10 tubes of guns, shooting cavalry in dense groups.
Lianzi gun: continuous shooting individual gun, copper and iron casting, tail wood handle, there is fire yao behind the bore, packed in a small paper tube of one section and one section, sharing a lead, each section of fire yao shoots a projectile. An iron cylinder is inserted vertically in the middle of the barrel, and the projectiles are filled in turn, the first projectile is in the barrel, and the second projectile automatically falls after shooting, and is fired by the second section of fire, so that multiple rounds can be fired repeatedly!
Immediately Franc machine: cavalry with small Franc machine, short body, length 154 mm, caliber 28 mm, weight 1 catty 10 taels and 1 catty 12 taels, there are 4 hoops, the second and third hoops have a square round hole in the middle, can be tethered.
Shock: The Ming army was fighting against the Ming army, and when they saw the Ming army raising their guns, they fell to the ground and rushed forward with their guns closed, so that the Ming army had no time to load. This gun fires one bullet first, and then another bullet after the interval, so that the Japanese are overwhelmed.
A swarm of lead bullets: multi-bullet muskets, cast in iron, small caliber and short barrels, can hold hundreds of small projectiles. The gun can be carried on the waist. When using, first insert the iron foot at the front end into the ground, and the tail against the small wooden stake, so that the muzzle of the gun is high. After ignition, hundreds of bullets fly in unison, and the scattering area is large.
Quick gun: long-handled musket, 5.5 feet long, weighing 5 catties, the front is a sharp spear head, followed by a 2-foot long gun barrel, there are 4 hoops, the inner wall is smooth, loaded with three or four coins of fire yao and lead bullets from the mouth, and the back of the barrel is a long handle. When using the gun head, the 1.5-inch fire line is inserted into the barrel, and then the gun head is loaded after the firing is fired, and the enemy fights in close combat.
Clamp handle: double-barreled single-soldier handgun, composed of two conjoined single-hand, with a long-rod cold weapon clamped in the middle, fastened with multiple hoops and guns. In wartime, the first bullet is fired, and then the cold weapon is melee combat.
Flying God Fire Poison Dragon Gun: A multi-purpose individual gun, cast with copper and iron, a tube length of 1 foot 3, a load, a long handle, a gun blade, and 2 poisonous fire spray canisters next to the barrel. The enemy can shoot the enemy from a distance, the enemy can spray poisonous fire at close range, and the enemy will fight with a spear.
Self-generated firebolt: a kind of percussion-type flintlock pistol invented by Bi Maokang, the right servant of Nanjing's household, has no big difference in structure and performance from the rifled bird gun, mainly because of the improved ignition device, the fire rope ignition method, and improved to flint fire. The flint is clamped on the hammer, and the head of the buckle plate machine is pressed down, and the flint is rubbed against the flint due to the effect of the spring. In this way, not only did it overcome the difficulties caused by wind and rain on shooting, but it also did not need to press the dragon head with your hand, the shooting accuracy was more accurate, and it could be fired at any time under various circumstances.
"Falling into the box". There is a copper puff on it, which can accommodate 40 fires and 40 leads. But add enough fire and lead in the copper gate, and light the fire yao in the door below, and the fire and lead in the copper gate can fall into the box by themselves, slip into the pipe, and bombard outward, not annoying to fill it, and the sound of the gun is endless, until the forty guns are finished. If the forty guns are not enough, and they only care about adding fire and lead to the copper pot, even if there are thousands of sounds, they will be issued one after another. It is more anti-hot frying of the gun, and a large kettle is prepared under the gun, and it is watered frequently.