Chapter 63: Firearms Are Not Elixirs
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Li Zisheng crossed over from the Otherworld, where firearms or chemical kinetic energy weapons have reached the highest level, so he naturally knows the direction of this weapon.
However, Luo Zhengyan is neither a time-traveler nor an otherworldly memory.
You must know that from the earliest musket with separate ammunition, that is, the assault rifle that appeared in the thirteenth century of the Song Dynasty of the Celestial Empire, to the first breech single-loading rifle using metal cartridges by the famous German gunsmith Mauser in the mid-nineteenth century, which used metal cartridges, it has passed for more than 600 years.
The creation, improvement, and finalization of each stage of this process are the crystallization of the wisdom of countless people, including the practice of combatants on the battlefield.
This Master Luo is indeed very talented, but he has no clear direction, so he can only have a headache and a headache.
Of course, it cannot be said that this direction is wrong. Because his method of improving firearms was completely aimed at the current situation of the Great Nine Continents, a world of high magic and high martial arts.
Although Luo Zheng didn't have a very clear idea when he explained the firearms, that is, to let low-level cultivators or simply mortals fight against high-level cultivators, he also knew that the enemies faced by these weapons, whether they were cultivators or demon beasts, were extremely strong in defense and survivability, and they were also amazingly fast.
So the problems he encountered were much more complicated than the problems that humans in our world had with firearms. After all, we are dealing with flesh and blood, and the firearms in Zhongzhou are dealing with powerful people.
For example, the weapons in our world have a saying that they are excessively powerful, but in Zhongzhou, they are only afraid that the power of weapons is not strong enough.
Since the power of your own firearm is not strong enough, it would be good to increase the lethality of the firearm projectile. However, if the lethality of the projectile is to be large, it is necessary to increase the volume of the projectile or the degree of the projectile. Naturally, he started from these two aspects, which forced him to make firearms bigger, so the muskets he made became "cannons".
However, this is a world where you can become a cultivator with a little talent, and the line between guns and cannons is not so clear. For example, in our world, basically a caliber of less than 2omm is called a "gun", because no matter how large the caliber is. Ordinary people can't withstand the recoil when shooting.
In this way, the way to increase the volume of projectiles and firearms to increase their power is not in the direction of the firearm, but in the artillery. For example, the urban cannon that appeared in our world was made by the Turks in order to conquer the thousand-year-old city of Constantinople, and this cannon can shoot 500 pounds of stone projectiles.
It's a pity that Luo Zhengyan was born at the wrong time, although the various forces in Central Continent after the Battle of Heaven continued to have friction and disputes, but there was never a major war. Not to mention the Urban cannon, even if he built a train cannon like the Paris cannon, it would be useless.
Besides. Is this cannon more powerful than the great spells of the immortals?
Because there is no market for large artillery, Master Luo can only go back to research individual weapons, but as a single weapon, there will always be a limit to firearms, and it is impossible to enlarge its size infinitely. Even if the cultivators of Middle-earth are powerful and capable of carrying artillery, it is always troublesome to carry a big iron pipe.
Since this road is not working. Luo Zhengyan hit the idea on the projectile. He didn't know what a metal cartridge was, but he thought of it from projectile to making it shoot automatically, and then turning the projectile from metal into an explosive.
As a result, he pioneered the creation of rockets and high-explosive artillery shells.
This also has the advantage of solving the problem of aiming.
A simple bullet needs to shoot accurately and must hit the enemy's body to deal damage, while a projectile that can explode and burn itself doesn't have to be so accurate, as long as it lands around the enemy.
In order to increase the power of the projectile. Luo Zhengyan even tied several bazookas together, so that multiple rockets could be fired at the same time, and this multiple rocket launcher also appeared.
However, the firearms that this master has worked hard to create for half his life have always been ignored in Iron Mountain City, which is not to say that there are no smart people with discerning eyes here, but that his few things still lack a little practicality, or that there are some problems with positioning.
High-level cultivators have magic weapons, so why use such a weapon that "can only be used in battle"; for low-level cultivators and mortals, there are relatively few opportunities for this weapon to be used. The price is a bit on the high side. Compared to the bullets of muskets, "shells" with a large amount of mine powder are really not cheap.
In addition, Luo Zhengyan's thinking was still limited by the whole society, he made these firearms not for mortals, his original intention was to open for cultivators who went to explore southern Xinjiang.
Luo Zhengyan's family was poor, and for the sake of cultivation materials, he also went to southern Xinjiang when he was young. Of course, he knew that the cultivators would be suppressed and cultivated there, so every time he entered the southern Xinjiang, he was fighting for his life.
When encountering those fierce beasts, the lone small beast can still be hunted by force, and if it is a large and large beast, there is no other way but to escape.
On several occasions, he had seen his companions and other explorers die tragically at the hands of the wild beasts of southern Xinjiang.
So. Only then did he think of making a weapon that didn't need to be urged by true qi and could still be used like a magic weapon.
However, Master Luo's firearms have a fatal flaw, that is, they cannot prevent moisture. In the humid and rainy environment of southern Xinjiang, it is easy to fail.
This is because both multiple rocket launchers and mortars need to be ignited with open flames before they can be fired, which has become a big problem in southern Xinjiang.
Of course, this is also related to Luo Zhengyan's concept of no advertising and marketing. Do you have to promote good things, otherwise why did Li Zisheng write that "The Legend of Li Shan's Demon Punishment".
This Master Luo not only worked hard, but also invested a lot of money in firearms research.
His family background is not mediocre, relying on the savings of his early years to open a small iron shop, and he could barely make ends meet. But for these firearms, he also borrowed some money.
The debts of those ticket numbers in Iron Mountain City are not so easy to owe, so after only a few years of hard work, he has become impoverished since he was a child, and even his iron shop has been taken away, and in the end he can only become a refining craftsman in someone's shop.
However, this stimulated his love for firearms, and deep down he felt that such weapons had a lot to offer.
At this time, Li Zisheng was born, and he killed Huang Dagang with two bullets and Fang Tianya with three shots in the Baibao Ring Competition, making muskets and demon bullets a new trend in Tieshan City.
At this time, Master Luo came into contact with the young Ming's new firearms, and immediately shocked the Ming into a celestial person, and also knew his previous bias.
Therefore, out of his love for firearms, he came to the Changshan Military Workshop to recommend himself, of course, Luo Zhengyan came here in addition to the previous Ming, but also brought new works inspired by Li Zisheng's Ming
The multiple rocket launchers and mortar artillery only made Li Zisheng feel messy in the wind with five thunderbolts, but then the things that happened made him gasp.
Since the young "Ming" firearms, there has always been a faint worry in his heart, so he also stopped at the semi-automatic rifle and did not continue to "Ming".
He hadn't thought about this kind of worry before, but now that he saw the other two firearms designed by Luo Zhengyan, the young man had completely understood, and he knew what he was worried about.
In Chixian Zhongzhou, it should be said that in this Great Nine Continents World, from a single point of view, firearms cannot erase the gap in force between cultivators and mortals, high-level and low-level cultivators, on the contrary, it will expand!
For example, the innate live-action version of the Lianzi fast gun in front of you.
According to Luo Zhengyan's introduction, this is an enhanced version made according to the principle of the Lianzi Kuaijun in the Changshan Army Workshop. In fact, it is a few sizes of ordinary semi-automatic rifles.
Of course, in Li Zisheng's eyes, this gun looks like a "Barrett" semi-automatic sniper rifle.
In fact, it is better to say that the teenager fell into a misunderstanding before this...... Or maybe he meant it. That is, the firearms he made were still designed according to the physical endurance of mortals in the other world, without considering that the cultivators here in Middle-earth could use more powerful firearms.
In the case of the enhanced version of the semi-automatic rifle made by Luo Zhengyan, if it was used by a mortal or a low-level cultivator, it would be used in the same way as the genuine Barrett, which could only be used on the ground with a tripod and shoot in a prone manner.
But for the innate real person, it can be used like an ordinary rifle, just like the iron second son Tie Qianche who is now trying the gun.
He just stood with his gun over his shoulder, and in one fell swoop he emptied the five bullets in the magazine.
If it were our world, using "Barrett" like this, let alone ordinary people, even the governor and boulder would not be able to bear it. It is estimated that one shot can break his collarbone.
In addition to being uninjured, Tie Qianche's marksmanship is also extremely high, and the gun hits the target, and the target is still placed on the top of the mountain one mile away from him. Of course, this is also a "normal" situation, shooting is supposed to be the ability to control the muscles, this ability will not be born in real people?
After the test shot, the second son of Tie turned around and said one word: "Okay!"
Hu Kaishan, who was next to him, echoed: "What the second son said is very true. Lao Hu, I used to think that this Lianzi Kuaijun is convenient, but the power is too small, and it is a pity for us to be tasteless and abandoned. Now that he has Master Luo's big gun, it can be called handy. ”
In fact, after he saw this weapon, he immediately decided to recruit Luo Zhengyan into the Changshan Army Workshop.
"Sheng'er, what do you think?" asked Tie Qianche.
Li Zisheng, who had been in a semi-petrified state, came back to his senses at this time, nodded and said, "Master Luo's ingenuity is really admirable. ”
What he was thinking at this time was that it seemed that he couldn't rest on his laurels, and it was better to get those few things out quickly!