Borrow the day to change the day

As soon as Lu Xiangsheng and Yan Yingyuan heard about Zhong Jinwei's mention of artillery training, they stopped and looked at each other with a look of reluctance.

Zhong Jinwei had just walked a few steps, and found that the two of them hadn't followed, so he turned around and asked, "Why, did I go wrong, you should lead the way in your camp."

As the host of the camp, Lu Xiangsheng had no choice but to say, "Supervisor, you don't have to watch the artillery training."

"What? Didn't Mr. Sun set up the artillery and guns for you to practice?" Zhong Jinwei asked in surprise when he heard this.He clearly remembered that Sun Chengzong promised himself to fire the guns and artillery to Lu Xiangsheng.

"The supervising army misunderstood. Mr. Sun has a fire poker for the subordinates. There are one imitation Flang machine, one gun for destroying captives, and ten bird guns." Lu Xiangsheng quickly explained when Zhong Jinwei misunderstood. [

"Oh, then why do you say that the artillery training is worthless?" After hearing Lu Xiangsheng's explanation, Zhong Jinwei couldn't understand what he meant before.

"Supervisor, on the second day after the officer received the firearm, when the soldiers were being trained, the cannon blew up and killed two people. Frangji also had a problem with venting gas, and one was burned, and within a few days he was injured. And the musket also exploded two, wounding one and killing the other. Therefore, no one dared to use it.”

Lu Xiangsheng explained with a wry smile, and Yan Yingyuan next to him also nodded repeatedly. He was almost injured, and the scene of the sudden explosion left a deep impression on him to this day.

"What, the quality of the removed firearms is so poor? No, I'll talk to old man Sun." Zhong Jinwei was taken aback when he heard that, and felt a little angry at Sun Chengzong's perfunctory treatment of himself. He lifted his legs and prepared to go back to find Sun Chengzong.

When Lu Xiangsheng saw it, he quickly blocked Zhong Jinwei's way, and said to him: "Supervisor, this matter has nothing to do with this soldier."

Zhong Jinwei looked at Lu Xiangsheng for a while, then fell silent for a while, and then said: "Are you giving him an excuse? Obviously, he promised me to allocate this firearm to you."

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head and explained: "The supervising army is thinking about it. The quality of Daming firearms has always been poor, and incidents of explosions have happened from time to time. Moreover, these firearms were recruited by our own soldiers to find the general soldiers of various departments. Maybe they gave us the best quality firearms in hand. In addition, there are also reasons why the soldiers of the lower official battalion did not operate properly."

Zhong Jinwei heard what he said, and the quality of Xindao Daming's firearms seemed to be well-deserved.He was a little curious about how poor the quality was, so he asked, "Where are the remaining firearms?"

The firearms belonged to Yan Yingyuan, so when he heard Zhong Jinwei's question, he replied, "They're all piled up in the tent."

"Come on, take me to see the firearms." Zhong Jinwei said.

Yan Yingyuan nodded and led the way ahead, while Lu Xiangsheng accompanied Zhong Jinwei and walked behind, heading for the tent where the firearms were stored.

The light in the camp was not very good, so Zhong Jinwei asked Gu Baichuan and the others to help, moved all the firearms outside, and then picked up a blunderbuss to watch.

In later generations, except for touching a real gun during military training, he never touched it again.Therefore, Zhong Jinwei looked at the bird gun carefully.

The gun of this bird gun is about [-] meters long and weighs about seven or eight catties. There is an iron bar under the barrel, a flintlock device, a front sight and a rear sight, and it is an arquebus.

Zhong Jinwei played with the bird gun according to the posture of aiming the gun before, and then asked the person next to him: "Who can play this thing, show me."

As soon as Yan Yingyuan heard this, he approached Zhong Jinwei, took the bird gun in his hand, and then went to find the matching gunpowder, lead, and matchlock, and demonstrated the shooting process of the bird gun to Zhong Jinwei.

Before the demonstration, Yan Yingyuan pointed to the relevant parts of the blunderbuss, and said to Zhong Jinwei: "When using muskets on the battlefield, the first step is to clean the fire hole and the pot of fire, which is here. Because the gunpowder residue will block the fire hole. It is the most common problem with bird guns. Now it is the first time to use guns, so this step o operation is saved.”

Zhong Jinwei nodded and said, "Okay, then what?"

Yan Yingyuan poured the gunpowder he found just now into the priming pot, closed the cap of the priming pot, and introduced: "There are several types of gunpowder, such as priming, shooting, and explosives. Their formulas are more They are different, just now the grass people used the medicine.”[

Because Yan Yingyuan has no official position, he calls himself a grassroots citizen on this official occasion.

He demonstrated slowly, so don't worry that Zhong Jinwei can't see clearly.

After finishing this step, he took out another bag of gunpowder, put down the gunpowder with the muzzle facing up, took out a flat spoonful of gunpowder from a small container in the bag, and poured it into the barrel of the gunpowder, while continuing to introduce: "This is a shotgun, with a fixed capacity, about [-] cents. Pour it in and then stuff it with lead."

After Yan Yingyuan finished speaking, he took out the lead and stuffed it through the muzzle.Then he pulled out the cleaning rod under the gun barrel, and started to insert the gun barrel. While pounding the pills and firing the gunpowder, he wanted to speak again.

Zhong Jinwei interrupted him and said: "I know this, you have to make sure, you don't need to say it, just continue."

Seeing that Zhong Jinwei knew about it, Yan Yingyuan saved his saliva, took out the matchlock, fixed it on the matchlock clip, and then said: "If you need to shoot, you need to light the matchlock at this time. The lid of the medicine pot is closed. So there is no need to worry about accidents caused by sparks igniting the primer."

After Yan Yingyuan finished speaking, he picked up the gun, made an aiming posture, pointed at an open space, and pulled the trigger.

Zhong Jinwei opened the lid of the priming pot at the same time he saw the fire rope fall.It is conceivable that the tip of the matchstick ignites the priming medicine, and then ignites the launching medicine, and the pill will be released.

At this time, Yan Yingyuan introduced again: "In order to prevent the gunpowder from burning the eyes and the fire from being dazzling, the eyes should be closed at the last moment of the shooting."

Zhong Jinwei looked at Yan Yingyuan talking and doing, and couldn't help saying: "This step is so complicated, it will take a lot of time to shoot a shot, right?"

Yan Yingyuan replied with a smile: "Marshal Qi divides this step into ten steps. After the training is proficient, no word will exceed thirty rounds."

Zhong Jinwei stayed in Guangdong for later generations, so he is no stranger to a word Yan Yingyuan said, which means 10 minutes.Calculated in this way, a skilled shooter only takes two to three shots per minute.In the eyes of Zhong Jinwei of later generations, this speed is really too slow.

He thought for a while, and then said: "Then let me sum up now, are there any of the following shortcomings of this bird gun? First, the operation is too complicated, and it is easy to make mistakes during battle."

"Second, it can't be used in rainy days, or it can't be used if there is too much fog."

"Third, shooting with eyes closed should not be allowed."

Yan Yingyuan nodded and said, "What the supervisor said is almost the same. There are two other shortcomings."

"Oh, what's the shortcoming?" Zhong Jinwei asked.

Yan Yingyuan put the blunderbuss in his hand on the ground, held the head of the blunderbuss and said: "First, the fire rope is lit and fired, and it is easy to expose the target at night. The battle of Sarhu back then suffered from this."

"Secondly, the effective range of the bird gun is not far, only about eighty steps."

At this time Lu Xiangsheng suddenly interjected and said: "Supervisor, I believe that the biggest shortcoming is that it is easy to explode."

Zhong Jinwei stretched out his hand to pass the blunderbuss in Yan Yingyuan's hand, while looking at it, he asked Lu Xiangsheng, "Don't you know how to improve the quality of this blunderbuss?"

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head slightly, and sighed: "It's still a question of money. During the Jiajing period, the bird guns were made of fine iron. It takes ten catties of crude iron to make one catty of this kind of fine iron. The finished gun barrel is strong and durable, and will not burst when shot. But the current bird gun”[

Zhong Jinwei knew what Lu Xiangsheng meant by not saying anything later, so he looked at the blunderbuss in his hand, threw it to Gu Baichuan who was standing beside him, and asked, "Then what is your attitude towards the blunderbuss?"

Lu Xiangsheng and Yan Yingyuan looked at each other, and then Lu Xiangsheng replied: "Supervisor, if it is still a bird gun of this quality, I would rather use a bow than this bird gun. But if it is a bird gun made of jng iron, then use it. Bird gun."

"Then have you ever thought about improving this bird gun yourself?" Zhong Jinwei suddenly asked a question that was unexpected by the people around him.

Yan Yingyuan thought that improving the bird gun was not a matter of the war, why did his brother-in-law ask us about it?He tried to ask: "The superintendent asked us to make our own bird guns?"

"Oh, what I said is not very clear. First, you can ask Bingju to improve its shortcomings based on the experience of using the bird gun. Second, you can try to improve the use of the bird gun. Instead of just saying that the bird gun is not good, I will switch to a bow and crossbow." Zhong Jinwei began to pretend to be a master again as he spoke.