Datang's free and easy concubine

Chapter 362

But their fiery and longing eyes told Su Cheng clearly that they couldn't wait at all.

Su Cheng helplessly greeted Xue Rengui: "Go, get my musket."

Firearms, what kind of firearms can Su Cheng admire so much?

Xue Rengui rushed over with a musket in hand and handed it to Su Cheng. Everyone still hadn't recovered.

Is that the musket that Su Cheng admired so much?

Think about how shocked they were when they saw the cannon for the first time!

That sharp shape!That huge body!At first glance, it is mighty and extraordinary!

And this is the musket that Su Cheng admires more than the cannon?

Why does it look like a fire stick?

"Is this a musket?" Li Shimin asked, looking at the stick in Su Cheng's hand.

"Why does your musket look like a fire stick?" Cheng Yaojin wondered.

Li Chengqian, Li Tai and the others were also very skeptical. This looked like a stick, and it was a stick with a unique shape. How could such a stick be used?Go to the battlefield and beat people?

Li Shimin, Li Jing, Cheng Yaojin, Li Ji and the others knew that according to Su Cheng, muskets should be long-range weapons. The question is, how powerful is such a stick that can't shoot very far?

"The shooting range is more than 100 steps, too specific data has not been tested yet..."

Before Su Cheng finished speaking, Li Shimin lost his voice: "What? The range is more than 100 steps?"

Others also looked shocked and disbelieving. Just like this fire stick, can it shoot more than 100 steps?

How can it be?

"This is impossible!"

"Your fire stick can shoot more than 100 steps away? How about blowing?"

"Boy Su, is it true or not?"

……

Li Chengqian and Li Tai felt a little baffled when they saw their father and the other generals shocked. Li Chengqian couldn't help asking: "Father, it's only more than 100 steps. What's so shocking? The guards in the palace can shoot through Yang with a hundred steps." There are too many to go."

Changsun Wuji explained with a smile: "His Royal Highness, the guards in the palace are all carefully selected military masters, that's why His Highness feels that shooting a hundred steps is nothing. In fact, the archers in the army Generally, you can shoot sixty or seventy paces away, but after sixty or seventy paces, you won’t be very accurate or lethal.”

Only then did Li Chengqian and Li Tai feel astonished. Bows and arrows can only shoot sixty or seventy paces, but muskets can shoot a hundred paces?This is too strong, right?

They finally understood why the father and the generals in the court were so shocked!

Su Cheng then laughed and said: "The power is much greater than that of bows and arrows. Some people on the battlefield can continue to endure injuries and continue to kill the enemy after being hit by arrows, but if they are hit by muskets, they will lose their fighting power even if they don't die."

It can shoot farther than a bow and arrow, and it is more powerful than a bow and arrow!

Cheng Yaojin was shocked and said: "This stick looks ugly, but it's so strong? It's unreasonable to be so strong!"

Everyone nodded unanimously. This is indeed unreasonably strong. It can shoot farther and more powerful than bows and arrows. Wouldn't bows and arrows be eliminated in the future?

Li Shimin looked at Su Cheng's fire stick, and his eyes flashed with fire. No wonder Su Cheng admired firearms so much, this thing is also called a magic weapon!

Su Cheng continued: "Furthermore, muskets are easy to use and easy to train. It only takes a month or two to train a qualified musketeer."

hiss!

Li Shimin and others couldn't help but gasped when they heard this, and were shocked by Su Cheng's words again!

It only takes a month or two to train a qualified musketeer?what does that mean?This means that at critical times, large-scale conscription can be made, and a large army can be pulled out in a very short period of time!

Su Cheng said with a smile: "However, muskets also have shortcomings, and there is still a lot of room for improvement!"

Hearing that muskets still have shortcomings, Li Shimin and others were inexplicably relieved. The muskets that Su Cheng said just now are too scary, with a long range and great power!

Hearing Su Cheng's shortcomings, not only were they not disappointed, but they felt it was true.

Li Shimin asked with a smile: "What are the shortcomings?"

Su Cheng explained: "The first is that the head is not accurate. This is a rifled gun, so the bullets fired cannot be as accurate as bows and arrows."

"Whether you aim at someone far away depends on luck. There is a high probability that you will miss it. There will be no marksman at all."

Li Chengqian and a group of civil servants couldn't help talking after hearing this.

"No matter how far you hit it, no matter how powerful it is, what's the use if you can't hit it accurately?"

"That's right, it's not accurate, it can't hit people, no matter how powerful it is, it's useless!"

If it's really nonsense, why would Su Cheng admire muskets so much?

Li Shimin raised his eyebrows and said, "Shoot?"

Su Cheng nodded and said: "Yes, salvo, muskets are not accurate, but compared to people who are proficient in archery, in long-distance combat, most archers are not accurate, so it is actually the same, they all rely on salvo!"

Cheng Yaojin and other generals immediately understood that muskets are not accurate in individual combat, but they can be used in salvos, and they are stronger than bows and arrows.

"There is another disadvantage. It takes time to reload the musket. It is not as fast as an archer's arrow. The advantage is that you can shoot continuously without wasting your arms." Su Cheng explained.

After listening to it, everyone had a general impression of muskets. They have a long range and great power, but their accuracy is poor and it takes time to reload.

But hearing it a hundred times is not as good as seeing it with your own eyes. Li Shimin said expectantly: "Try it quickly and see if it has a long range and great power as you said!"

"I only have a musket in my hand, and I can't fire a salvo, so the effect can't be truly displayed. It's better to wait another month. After one month, I will ask the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to show your Majesty well..."

Before he finished speaking, Su Cheng keenly saw Li Shimin's hand raised.

Forget it, forget it, let you impatient country bumpkins see the world.

Su Cheng waved his hand and said: "Xue Rengui, a hundred paces away, let the soldiers set up dozens of targets, and put them closer."

Xue Rengui immediately agreed to go, and everyone else was shocked, dozens of targets?Why put dozens of targets?

Li Shimin couldn't help asking: "Are dozens of targets? Are muskets so badly aimed?"

This is not only poor accuracy, it is simply inaccurate!

Su Cheng said bluntly: "It's not that the musket's aim is so poor, it's the minister's aim that is so poor!"

puff!Cheng Yaojin and the others couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Su Cheng said bluntly: "Why are you laughing? The musket was only made, and I haven't practiced it. Isn't it normal to be inaccurate?"

In fact, Su Cheng had practiced many times in the Firearms Supervision. Although the flintlock gun was simple and outdated, it was still very new to Su Cheng who had never touched a gun.

(End of this chapter)