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Chapter 1082
Baron Brick shot with a longbow for a purpose, otherwise no longbowman would shoot arrows at plate armor like crazy.

Knights in full plate armor are the enemy of knights, steel crossbowmen, and infantry phalanxes. The real meaning of the longbow is to eliminate infantry regiments to the maximum extent... Although it is difficult for light arrows and heavy arrows to shoot through the plate breastplate, what about the arms, legs, and neck?
It's just that Bolik didn't expect Pan Sheng to be so confident, and he set the target forty steps away, which was a distance of 65 yards.

Now here's the problem, the Baron doesn't feel like he can shoot.

Pan Sheng completed the actions of loading ammunition and lighting the match with a very standard posture and beautiful and quick movements.

Although it is a little more complicated than the commonly used flintlock guns, it is not a problem for him. The Beiyang Military Academy started the preliminary training with matchlock guns.

Pan Sheng was a thief. He wanted people to see his proficient movements to have a good impression of this old matchlock made in Ming Dynasty, but he also didn’t want people to pay too much attention to his movements. In the fifth year of Wanli, the Beiyang Military Bureau made the best bird guns three years ago, with long and straight barrels, but there is a small problem with this batch of guns, the tenon of the rod will be shaken off after shooting."

"There are too many imitations of our bird guns. Those muskets look the same but are not as easy to use as they are, so each batch will have unique shortcomings. For example, this batch has to be removed and inserted in the belt when using it."

This is the rhetoric that Pan Sheng thought of on the road, and even paved the way for future arms sales. Although he didn't know whether Dashuai Chen would allow Tang Er to sell his survival from the Changsheng Arms Bureau, if he wanted to sell it, he would definitely sell it. It is a defective product with a problem.

This batch of blunderbuss was actually refurbished in Changsheng last year. Changsheng's military craftsmen made the tenons according to the new blunderbuss, and the old blunderbuss could not be used, so this problem occurred.

He knocked on the breastplate, the material is similar to the ordinary breastplate used by Ming soldiers, even a little thinner, and he does not believe that England's iron forging skills are better than their steelmaking skills, if the bird gun can be used at thirty One step can punch a hole in the breastplate of the Ming army, so forty steps can also penetrate the breastplate of England.

The biggest problem is precision.

The problem lies in the bird gun rod. After five years in Wanli, the Beiyang Military Government accepted the suggestion of the Xuanfu Jiangwu Hall and changed the flat-headed rod into a Qi Jiguang-style copper concave hemispherical rod, which completely fits the shape of the lead shot to avoid The lead shot is squeezed and deformed when it is pushed into the barrel.

The putter he used is still an old-fashioned iron flat-head hardwood, so he must be extra careful when pushing.

This will also bring about a huge difference in accuracy between training and the battlefield. Usually, you can carefully keep the lead shot spherical, but on the battlefield, you don’t care about it so much. If you hit it hard three times, you won’t be able to fix the lead in the gun chamber. The ball was crushed... After thirty steps, who knows where the lead will fly?

Raise the blunderbuss and push the shoulders, all done in one go.

Aim, pull the trigger, and stay calm.

Pan Sheng is very experienced in this matter, he has practiced.

In the earliest training, I was afraid and trembling between the moment when the matchlock was ignited and the gunpowder ignited and exploded in the medicine chamber. As a result, I was deducted money every time I trained, and I was punished for dragging the whole small flag. Wash your feet with water.

Of course he was not the only one with this problem. At that time, Beiyang Daying was full of old acquaintances every day in the pumping room installed with a press water pump.

The low-level officers do not prohibit this. If you are a soldier, if you don’t let go of the gun, you can’t be blamed for being looked down upon by others. But Ye Mengxiong banned this kind of banner army for private punishment, and found that after the ban, the banner army was poorly trained and punished by others. It is unavoidable to be summed up by fists and feet.

The final military law stipulated that private fights would revoke military registration and fine one-year military pay, and training and punishing continuous sitting still existed, but the punitive military training of the punished flag army was increased, and the education of low-level officers was also increased.

boom!
Forty steps away, the breastplate was blown to the left.

Under the admiration of everyone, Pan Sheng looked as usual, handed the blunderbuss to his subordinates, and nodded slightly to the Baron.

The servant picked up the breastplate, and there was a hole on the right side of the front of the breastplate. Pan Xiaoqi let out a sigh of relief, and decided that he would never use this gun to fire a second time—the lead shot was still fired when it was loaded into the gun chamber. The push is deformed.

He aimed at the center, but at the moment he released the gun, he felt that he was slightly to the left. The gun should have missed or hit the left side of the breastplate, and the breastplate should have been knocked to the right. right.

Of course, it is also possible that the gun barrel is biased to the right, but this possibility is very small. After all, the gun barrel was made by Chen Mu when he was in charge of Nanyang Wei. The name of the craftsman engraved on the gun tube was only worn off last year, and the quality is guaranteed. .

In the final analysis, there are two reasons why the gun is not accurate, either there is a problem with the gun, or there is a problem with the person.

The advancement of technology is to avoid problems with guns as much as possible, and at the same time make people less likely to have problems.

Looking at the hole left by the buckshot on the breastplate, the baron put down the musket he had just held in his hand. Although his musket looked intricately etched, it was actually a handicraft. Blacksmiths can make the pattern on the wooden handle extremely beautiful, but they may not be able to drill the musket barrel as straight as the one in Pan Sheng's hand.

What's more, just like Pan Sheng is not confident in his ability to use a longbow, the baron who has practiced martial arts since childhood believes that he can throw a dagger on that breastplate by walking a few steps forward, but he may not be able to hit it with a musket .

"This is indeed a good weapon, but I still don't think it's worth three pounds. Is it more appropriate than buying six such breastplates for my soldiers?" The baron smiled and pointed to a knight The fully-armed attendant behind him said to Pan Sheng: "A set of breastplate, wall guards, leg guards, and a knight's armor with a neck guard is only 45 shillings. I can buy him more horses for the rest of the money." horse, and I have another knight."

Old Taylor, who was acting as an interpreter, sighed and looked at the poor baron. He knew very well that the 'businessman' from the Ming Empire behind him didn't understand pounds, shillings and pence at all, and even the price of three pounds for a musket It's arbitrary.

Sell ​​weapons?Whether to sell or not is up to fate.

However, the old Taylor explained to Pan Sheng very professionally: "One pound is three taels of silver, 22 shillings, and 240 pence."

Even so, Pan Sheng was unwilling to let go of the price. He just said in the baron's eyes as if stating the facts: "Knight? It's useless. As long as a peasant holds a bird gun, let out a knight and he will be gone."

Only Pan Sheng knew that he was not pretending, but was actually stating the facts. That's how the bastards of the French Royal Army were beaten by Yang Ce's black soldiers who knew nothing but walking, turning, and firing guns. dead.

He raised his hand and said, "A blunderbuss comes with three matchlocks and one hundred lead shots. You can see its quality; if you want a treasure like that, I can think of a way when I go back, and the price may be a little more expensive." ...Jazz seems like a nice guy, to be honest."

"Firearms are used all over the world. Ming Dynasty, North Korea, Burma, Japan, Portugal, and Spain. Your Excellency should also prepare some bird guns, even if it is only ten shots."

Baron Berik seemed to be a little loose, but he finally shook his head and said, "You don't understand, it's like the second Tang asked me why we use longbows instead of the multi-layer compound bows. "

"That kind of bow would crack very quickly in England, and longbows are easy to make, and a large batch can be produced in three years; my farmers can use bows and arrows, and there are hundreds of good players with bows when they are recruited. It takes a lot of gunpowder to practice to your level, and I don't have that much gunpowder for farmers to practice."

Pan Sheng laughed: "Gunpowder, if you need Tang Er, you should be able to get it, he is very capable."

Bolik still shook his head, he was laughed at by Pan Sheng's look of "we have everything", and said: "If you really want to do business so much, I have a business for you, the royal armory and the Tower of London The Arsenal together propose to the House of Lords to increase orders for yew shirts from Europe."

"Portugal and Spain have the best yews, but now because of the relationship between the Queen and Spain, we can't get cedar from Spain. I heard...there are a lot of cedars in the New World, and we need them very much."

(End of this chapter)