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Chapter 965 Don't use a musket as a firearm

"boom!"

There was a sound of shattering eardrums, and the people around couldn't help covering their ears.

With one eye closed, Equation shook his head in disappointment, "Missed again." When the musket was about to be fired, he threw it to Blake behind him, and asked him to fill the gunpowder.

A hundred meters away from the shooting site, stood a wooden stake.

Just now Equation fired several shots in succession, but the stake was still bare, leaving no bullet holes.

A lot of people came to see the equation shooting today, besides the general Blake of the army, A Yue and Tang Guo of the security team, and some civil affairs officials who wanted to witness the power of muskets with their own eyes.

Although everyone has seen the power of muskets in the battle against the mermaids, it is not as close and direct as it is now.

This kind of feeling of seeing the musket spewing tongues of fire and making a deafening sound in front of your own eyes really makes people's adrenaline rise sharply, and they are full of awe for this powerful weapon.

"This kind of musket is really not good."

Lu Fengmei, who was standing behind Fang Fang, shook her head and sighed, and walked to Fang Fang's side.

Fang Fang handed Blake's loaded musket to Lu Fengmei, "You can try it too."

Lu Fengmei laughed at herself, "I'll forget it, what kind of gun do you use with one hand?"

"Brother, let me try too."

Tang Guo excitedly raised his hand beside him, eager to feel the power of the musket.

Fang Fang smiled and beckoned to Tang Guo, let her come to him, and then handed the musket to her.

Tang Guoxing took the musket in a hurry, aimed at the wooden post in front of him and fired. After a "bang", the wooden post did not respond. Tang Guo pouted and complained in a low voice, "What, I clearly aimed at it."

Fang Fang smiled and said, "It's not your problem, it's the gun's problem."

Tang Guo is a girl who doesn't know anything about weapons. She looked at Equation with two big eyes, "Brother, is there something wrong with this gun?"

"Let Teacher Lu explain it to you." Fang Fang smiled at Lu Fengmei.

"Ahem..." Lu Fengmei pretended to cough twice, "Well, this is the case with the earliest muskets. If you look carefully inside the barrel, you will find that it is bare and without rifling."

Tang Guo asked curiously: "Rifle, what is that?"

Lu Fengmei said: "The rifling is also called the rifling line, which is the line engraved inside the barrel. After the bullet is ejected from the chamber, it can give the bullet the ability to rotate, so that the bullet can maintain the predetermined direction."

"So the musket in my hand has no rifling?" Tang Guo glanced at the inside of the barrel, but did not see any lines.

"The England where the Duke of York was located should be in Europe after the 12th century, and guns with rifled guns had not yet appeared at this time, so their muskets must not have rifled." Lu Fengmei became Tang Guo's military teacher, "This is why we I saw that the English soldiers lined up in a row and fired at the same time when they were fighting. It is precisely because this kind of smoothbore gun without rifling has no way to aim at all, and the only way to kill the enemy is to use this very stupid method .”

"So that's how it is!" Tang Guo suddenly realized, "Aren't these guns useless?" Originally, Tang Guo was very happy when he got [-] muskets, but he knew that these guns were useless. Aiming, became uninterested for a while.

Fang Fang said, "That's not necessarily the case. Even a smoothbore gun without rifling is better than a bow and arrow."

From the history of human weapon development, guns must be more advanced than bows and arrows.

Although these muskets have the huge disadvantage of being unable to strike accurately, they cannot cover up their powerful advantages. A row of soldiers shoot together, and the bullets fired are overwhelming, which is simply a devastating blow to those soldiers in the cold weapon era.

"Things are good things, it depends on how we use them." Lu Fengmei laughed.

While the few people were chatting, Zhuzhu came behind Equation holding a stack of paper documents, and said in a low voice: "My lord consul, this is the statistical information Madam asked me to give you. I hope you can read it."

Fang Fang took the stack of materials, pointed to the shade of a tree next to him, and said to Pearl, "Let's go there."

When leaving, Fang Fang asked everyone else to come over one by one to experience what it was like to use a musket.Those indigenous civil affairs officials couldn't wait a long time ago, and they lined up to experience this magical weapon, which they had never heard or seen before.

Sitting under the shade of a tree, Fang Fang flipped through the documents, all of which recorded the losses of the Ten Thousand Kingdoms in this war, including the two battles of the Duke of York's bombardment of the Ten Thousand Nations and repelling the attack of the mermaids.

The information is divided into two parts. One is the human casualties, how many civilians died and were injured in the war, and how many soldiers were killed and injured in the war; the other is the loss of buildings, markets, and trade on the island. became gold coins.

"My lord, the last page is about compensation for the dead and wounded soldiers. Madam said that this compensation can only be released with your consent." Pearl reminded Equation that there is still the most important page in this stack of documents.

Fang Fang glanced at the above amount, and Li Qingman proposed a very high amount of compensation. The total amount of compensation is not small, but Fang Fang did not hesitate at all, and said directly: "For those who sacrificed for the sake of the world, or are injured Soldiers, we need heavy compensation to let them know that it is meaningful for them to fight bravely on the battlefield, and the nations will not treat them badly."

"If the Lord Consul thinks there is no problem, then I will deal with matters related to compensation."

"Go."

Fang Fang returned the documents in his hand to Pearl. Looking at this indigenous girl who was already a mother, he felt that the changes in the world were really unpredictable. When she first appeared on Obsidian Island, she never thought about her at all. Will become A Yue's wife, and also gave birth to a child for A Yue.

"By the way, how is little Ah Yue recently?"

Fang Fang thought that he hadn't seen little Ayue for a long time, so he asked about the situation with concern.

Pearl said happily: "He can crawl now, this kid is lively and active, sometimes there is really nothing to do with him."

"That's right. When he grows up, let him take over his father's class and let him be the captain of the security team." Fang Fang laughed.

"Master Consul, actually I still have something to say to you." Pearl's face suddenly became a little embarrassed.

Fang Fang said: "You are Qingman's most capable assistant and also A Yue's wife. If you have anything to say, just tell me directly, don't be so reserved."

Pearl smiled and said: "Actually, it's not an important thing. Now that the scale of the world is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more residents on the island, sometimes the security team members will encounter many surprises when they are on duty. If something happens, I will always worry about Ah Yue."

Fang Fang smacked his lips and said, "Yes, the security team members are really dangerous."

"Master Consul, the muskets you have newly acquired are amazingly powerful, I mean if... if you can equip some for the security team..." Pearl said, her voice became softer.

But Fang Fang laughed loudly, looked at Pearl, "Ah Yue must have asked you to come."

Pearl lowered her head, her face turned red, "He is thin-skinned, so I am too embarrassed to mention it to you, so I want to tell you about it for him."

"Go back and let your Ayue just rest assured, I will not lose him for this batch of muskets." Fang Fang laughed.

(End of this chapter)