Qiming 1158

Chapter 84 Flying Musket

After conquering the three states, the Shengjie Army seized a large amount of gunpowder, as well as rockets, fireballs, caltrops and other firearms from the Jinjun arsenals in various places.

However, from these seizures, Su Yonglin has yet to see a tube-shaped firearm.

Shandong is located on the front line of the Jin-Song battle. If there is no tube-shaped firearm storage, it can only show that there is no tube-shaped firearm that can be used at least in the Jin Dynasty.

As for whether the Southern Song Dynasty existed, Su Yonglin didn't know, he had never seen it, and his grandfather had never mentioned anything similar to him before his death.

However, it is of course a good thing that the Jin army does not have tube-type firearms that can be used. This shows that the Jin army currently uses relatively few firearms and does not pay much attention to it.

It may be because the current national defense pressure is not too great, and the country's military situation has not fully shifted to defense, so it does not pay attention to firearms that mainly play a defensive role.

In the future, the rising Menggu tribe will be in a hurry, and there will be no way to fight wildly. It is estimated that they will start to pay attention to firearms like the Southern Song Dynasty.

In terms of the types of firearms seized, in addition to the relatively early Northern Song Dynasty firearms such as the fireball and the caltrop, Su Yonglin saw most of the rockets, so it seems that the mainstream combat firearms of the Jin Army should be rockets.

Judging from such a configuration, Su Yonglin believes that at this time, the biggest use of golden guns is to set fire to fire, not to injure people by explosion. The previous gunpowder explosion that killed people in Xintai County should be accidental.

Thinking of this, Su Yonglin realized that in the current period, the golden guns have not yet evolved further, and they have not developed in the direction of tube-shaped firearms.

Su Yonglin's head is all about the development history of firearms, from the age of the musket gun to the age of the arquebus, from the undifferentiated guns and guns to the clear guns, from the smoothbore era to the wire-rifle era, he knows the most representative firearms. .

But what's the use of knowing?
Even in modern times, cavalry still has a huge advantage.

What really ended the cavalry was the machine gun and the steel chariot. It was the era of World War I, and even the cavalry played very well on some battlefields during World War II.

It can be seen that the advantage of cavalry over infantry is beyond doubt.

Su Yonglin doesn't think he can toss out machine guns and tanks that are more than 800 years old after decades of effort, and directly end the era of cavalry.

If he really wanted to do that, he would be able to directly dominate the world and become the leader of the ball. The Jin Kingdom, Mongolia, Southern Song Dynasty, and Xixia would all be like a piece of paper in front of him.

Unfortunately this is not possible.

Now, what he will face is an extremely severe war situation, a crisis situation in which the enemy is strong and we are weak.

In this case, there would not be much leeway for him to endlessly invent and test the performance of firearms.

It took time for early firearms to go from being invented to being practical. Even if a slightly more advanced weapon could be made by hand and could not be installed, the input-output ratio would be outrageously low.

Not to mention that a proficient firearms unit also has to undergo very strict training, and even popularize mathematical knowledge, compile new tactics and tactics, and find terrain that can be used for combat. It is by no means easy to use.

Not to mention defeating highly mobile cavalry.

He must first be able to ensure his own survival, and then the others.

There is no doubt that what enables him to survive in the current situation is the mature tactical tactics, the elite infantry army, the long-range and high-precision God Arm Bow, and the ever-increasing elite cavalry regiment.

The price/performance ratio of firearms is too low for him.

It can only be said that there are some beneficial small innovations on the existing basis, instead of putting limited energy and resources into the bottomless pit of invention and creation.

The invention of firearms is very tempting to him, but even so, that is what happened after he completely established a foothold in the Central Plains and even successfully destroyed the Jin Kingdom.

Only then will he have enough resources and manpower to devote himself to the bottomless pit of invention and creation.

Not now.

Of course, Su Yonglin also considered the utility of firearms in the future battle with the Jin Kingdom's cavalry, and instructed the arsenal to manufacture a new type of weapon.

This should also be used by Jin Guo first, but I haven't seen it so far, and it may not have been invented yet.

This weapon is called a flying musket.

The principle is actually very simple. It is to tie a bamboo tube or iron tube at the front end of the spear, with built-in gunpowder, iron slag, arsenic, etc., and ignite it when it is in contact with the enemy. Eruption more than ten feet away.

After the gunpowder burns out, the flying musket becomes an ordinary long spear, which can continue to fight and stab.

In fact, it is equivalent to adding a magic damage skill to the physical infantry in contact with the enemy.

Su Yonglin felt that this thing might have a good effect whether it was dealing with the same infantry formation or the cavalry who dared to rush into the formation.

So when he was in Jinan, he ordered the arsenal to use the existing gunpowder and infantry spears to make flying muskets.

This time, when he came to the arsenal, he saw a batch of flying muskets that had already been made.

Su Yonglin took out a shot and looked at it carefully.

The spear is more than one zhang long, and the front end is bound with an iron or bamboo cylinder of about two feet.

"Have you tried it?"

"After the test, after the gunpowder is ignited, the fire can erupt more than ten feet away, and the eruption is very violent."

Su Yonglin nodded.

"Let me try."

So Su Yonglin held a long spear more than ten feet long, and a craftsman took out a fire from a small iron can and lit the lead.

The lead burned for a moment, and the gunpowder in the iron cylinder burned violently, and then a large amount of sparks and smoke erupted. The eruption momentum was quite strong. Severe burns.

It's a pity that the duration is not long, and it feels like it is only about 1 minute, but this effect should be guaranteed.

After burning, the iron cylinder is not damaged. After a little cleaning, it can be filled with gunpowder and continue to launch. It can be recycled many times with little loss.

Then Su Yonglin tried the bamboo-tube-style flying gun, and found that the bamboo tube was seriously damaged and could not be used too many times, but the material cost was low, and it did not require reprocessing like an iron tube, so it was also a good choice.

So both material launch tubes can be used.

The long spear itself is more than one chi long, and the flying musket extends the attack distance by more than ten chi. When the two armies meet the enemy, this round of eruption is enough to cause chaos and considerable damage to the soldiers in the front row of the other side.

If the opponent does not have enough defenses, it will even be directly broken.

"The effect is good. According to the current situation, we can concentrate on manpower to make more, start at [-], and give it to the army for trial as soon as possible."

Su Yonglin was very satisfied with the lethality of this flying musket, and expressed great satisfaction. He planned to deploy the army as soon as possible to increase the attack power of the infantry.

After this matter was settled, Zhao Guangsi talked about the issue of funding.

Regarding this issue, Zhao Guangsi hopes that the arsenal can get more funding.

However, Lin Jingchun, the chief financial officer of Shengjiejun, said that the finances are tight and it is very difficult to make more funds.

"There are too many places where money is used now. It's not that I don't want to give it. It's really not that much money. Alang, since the army started, the accounts are clear and can withstand inspection."

In front of Su Yonglin, Lin Jingchun was open and honest to show his innocence.

For this, Su Yonglin has no doubts.

(End of this chapter)