Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 402 Gun

"At present, it seems that the Qi crossbow definitely has an absolute advantage in terms of firing rate and power, but it is expensive to build, and it either requires a gold-plated warrior to inject Qi to charge, or manually consume stamina...

The gunpowder bullet crossbow...well, it is the "gun" that the king calls it. The steps for loading are too complicated, the rate of fire and power are far behind, and the gunpowder also involves preservation issues, so there is no accuracy at all, but the manufacturing cost The cost and training cost are very low, and the advantage is saving physical energy. As long as there is no problem with the gun barrel, the soldiers will not be tired if they shoot for several hours continuously. Huang Zhong said after thinking carefully.

The front-loading gun is actually very easy to deal with. After all, it is essentially stuffing gunpowder and projectiles into the barrel, and then igniting the gunpowder to collapse the projectiles.

The barrel can be made by hand and can be seamed with iron powder. The technical content of lead bullets and gunpowder is not very high. At most, it is some gadgets to assist loading...

However, muzzle-loading guns are basically smoothbore guns - smoothbore means no rifling, which means that the projectile does not rotate when it comes out, and the deviation angle is random.

It’s not impossible to have to carve the rifling by hand, but the loading method of the muzzle-loading gun is destined to wear out the rifling soon, and it is also difficult to load the rifled muzzle-loading gun. Instead, it is better to increase the rate of fire and line up to shoot. High cost performance.

Therefore, the era of muzzleloaders was mainly based on smoothbore guns that fired randomly. At most, sharpshooters were equipped with rifles with a short lifespan.

Although the sample from the Chu State Ministry of Industry is not still a matchlock gun, it is still a flintlock gun with separate ammunition and powder. That is, after pulling the trigger, use flint to knock on the fire door, ignite the gunpowder stuffed into the gun, and remove the lead. The bullets flew away...the safety and stability can be imagined.

Even in the second half of the 18th century, when muzzle-loading gun technology was relatively mature, the hit rate at a distance of 1 meters was less than one-tenth. After skilled loading, the rate of fire reached an astonishing three rounds per minute, which was terrifying...

"Han Sheng, you can't offend anyone." Bai Tu rolled his eyes silently at Huang Zhong's ambiguous statement.

Huang Zhong smiled awkwardly when he heard this and said: "Ahem... If you choose in the future, all the generals in battle should be equipped with Qi crossbows. As for the soldiers... they will use ordinary crossbows to attack, and guns and ammunition to defend the city."

Bows and crossbows for attacking and muskets for defending the city are easy to understand. After all, the process of loading a front-loading gun is to push the projectile from the muzzle with a push rod. The gun needs to be erected, so you can't lie down, you can only stand upright shooting.

In addition, a single musket cannot hit the opponent, and only a volley in an array can be a deterrent. This has contributed to the emergence of "queuing to kill" in modern times.

Veterans who are accustomed to cold-weapon tactics could not imagine such a "upright" tactic at the moment. It makes sense to hope that there will be bunkers during defense.

Moreover, there is a weakness that Huang Zhong did not expect at the moment - the muzzle-loading gun with separated ammunition is easy to jam. Once a salvo is fired, the soldiers may not know that they have jammed. Sometimes after a big battle, they feel that they have shot very well. , went back to check the barrel of the gun... and found that it was filled with more than a dozen bullets. This kind of thing is not uncommon!

After Huang Zhong finished speaking, he added uneasily: "Of course, if the thieves also start to equip muskets on a large scale, then I suggest that muskets be quickly promoted in the training of ordinary Ji Zao soldiers."

Huang Zhong understands this very well, and Bai Tu also understands it - even the matchlock gun can promote the replacement. If you really use a more mature flintlock gun and a crossbow, its advantages are also obvious.

The threshold is low and the cost is low. The training difficulty mainly lies in courage and following the command of the volley. Other than that... there are almost no physical requirements.

If others have mastered the flintlock technology and can mass-produce it, Baitu must follow suit!

Infuriating crossbow?The cost of making a Qi crossbow can make dozens of flintlock guns, and it does not require much training. As long as you are brave and can pull it with ten thousand men, you can go to the battlefield and "shoot" it in a month.

Or if Bai Tu traveled back more than 100 years to the more chaotic and precarious Northern and Southern Dynasties, when the city could be massacred at any time, and acts of wolf-hearted beasts that are difficult for modern civilization to understand occurred anywhere and at any time... then Bai Tu would definitely be stable. After taking up the position, immediately climb the technology tree of the flintlock gun.

However, Bai Tu still "wears shoes" now...

Therefore, Bai Tu could remain stable and was even willing to pay a higher price for smaller casualties. The situation was far from enough to make Bai Tu give up his illusions and dignity.

"Hansheng can rest assured about this. Counting the one in your hand, the Ministry of Industry has only produced five samples. What's more... even if they are really given samples, they will not be able to produce them within one or two years." Something." Bai Tu was still confident about this.

Then Bai Tu paused and said: "And to be on the safe side, unless the musket can go further, the assembly will still be mainly based on Qi crossbows and ordinary crossbows, and this kind of gun will not be really used."

"Going further...if the musket can reach half the rate of arrows, even if it maintains its current accuracy, it will be enough to sweep the world!" Huang Zhong said with confidence.

"Well...the problem is that Huang Jijiu also said that her Qi Crossbow can go further." Bai Tu sighed.

Originally, Bai Tu thought that the Chi Crossbow had reached the limit of the weapon - after all, Bai Tu had never heard of a Chi Crossbow in his "previous life", even a modern sniper crossbow, which is the current strength of the Chi Crossbow!
As for muskets...

Although the information on the hard drive is incomplete at this point, after all, the white picture is just a ghostwritten paper, and it cannot cover all technologies, especially various gunpowder ratios. It only has general directions and cannot find accurate information. .

But at least the direction is clear!
To transition to a breech-loading gun, several necessary technologies must be highlighted.

First of all, the barrel must be sealed. Just relying on manual polishing by craftsmen will inevitably be insufficient in terms of output and specifications. At this time, the application of a stamping machine is indispensable.

The stamping machine has now been developed, and what Yu Ji wants to solve can still be attributed to the material problem - the material must not only meet the requirements of strength and toughness, but also ensure that it can be formed in one go using the stamping machine.

Secondly, there are fixed-loading bullets-that is, bullets similar to modern bullets with gunpowder in the shell.

Continuing the "projectile + gunpowder" model and forcing the breech to be loaded has too many defects. It existed in the 17th century, but it cannot be called a mature breech gun, and it has not been used on a large scale.

The first mature breech-loading gun equipped by Prussia in the mid-19th century was a percussion gun. That is, after the trigger is pulled, a "firing pin" is used to pierce the percussion charge of the bullet, thereby igniting it and giving thrust to the warhead. !
It was this change that made it possible to load ammunition in the breech. Soldiers could finally lie down and shoot. The rate of fire was five times higher than that of a muzzleloader. Prussia used this to defeat Austria in seven weeks...

It's just that the bullets at this time were not the copper shells of later generations, but copper bullets with paper shells, but the principle was very close.

But when it comes to infuriating crossbows, Bai Tu doesn't know and can't think of how it can develop in the future. He's not even sure if it can really develop.

It's just... this is Cheng Ji's world after all, and Bai Tu doesn't dare to argue with a professional like Huang Yueying, unless he says that he is right.

(End of this chapter)