open sea

Chapter 1287
In this era, it is a false proposition that the weapons used by soldiers are related to invention, science, and advancement.

Intentional technology blockade is useless in most cases. The sea connects all countries in the world. It is difficult for people to have any new individual weapons that cannot be seen at first glance. As long as others see it, they can be easily imitated.

Although artillery and warships are still high-end technologies, firearms are really nothing. Most countries in the world can make them as long as they get one.

The Yuan Dynasty improved the firearms of the Song Dynasty into blunderbusses. The earliest snake-barrel firearms were improved by the Czechs. Even the matchlock guns and flintlock guns had nothing to do with the Iberian Peninsula, but they were installed in large numbers. The country of the arquebus, why?
He needs it, and he has the money.

This is why Puli County sailors have so many three-eyed blunderbusses, because this is the standard weapon of the previous generation of the Ming Dynasty, and it was produced in a very large number. In terms of environment, it poses a certain threat to both the barbaric shirtless men and Alda's leather cavalry. For the armored cavalry, artillery is used to deal with it. In the poor financial situation of the Jiajing Dynasty, it was the best individual firearm for the troops. .

But now the internal finances and the external environment have changed. Domestically, the old guns, fast guns, and three-eyed guns are replaced by matchlock guns. A large amount of silver and goods flow into the Central Plains and are supplied to the imperial court to gradually replace all individual soldiers with flintlock guns. firearm.

A large number of matchlock guns were sold to vassal states and immigrants for their own use, so what about the three-eyed guns that were replaced?

Maritime merchants.

Although domestic arms workshops usually do not accept sea merchants to purchase firearms, there are still many ways for sea merchants to obtain firearms.

First of all, there are quite a few businessmen who have officials outside their ranks these days. Most of them donate silver and goods to the emperor to become officials. , It is not as good as buying from Nanyang Military Mansion and Dongyang Military Mansion after going to sea.

Westerners can’t do it, Western firearms are not enough for their own use. Yin Zhengmao pays attention to trade routes and taxes, not merchants. He especially dislikes merchants doing evil overseas. It’s enough for Lin Afeng to wipe his ass.

The products sold by Chen Lin from Nanyang and Chen Mu from Dongyang are really good in workmanship and in large quantities. As long as the registration is compliant, it is no problem to sell hundreds of old guns at a time.

But these two people have dark hearts, and the price they want is too high. It is one price to sell it to Yin Zhengmao, another price to sell it to the inner guard of the country, one price to sell it to the vassal state, and another price to sell it to the sea merchant.

To put it bluntly, their brain circuits are different from others. When others think of selling guns, they think of buying guns. What should I do if people rebel? The two military houses have a systematic strategic guiding ideology.

Anyway, holding the Military Weapons Bureau, selling the raw materials and silver you earn from a hundred matchlock guns will allow the Military Weapons Bureau to remake [-] flintlock guns, [-] small Francine cannons, [-] General Zhenshuo cannons, Two [-]-material shark ships have also trained a lot of skilled craftsmen in the industrial chain.

With these weapons, you can arm a hundred-man blunderbuss team, and the Nanyang military government can immediately add two gunboats and two hundred banner troops.

To rebel, to create; to make trouble, to make trouble.

Even if you become king overseas, you still have to come back and call your father.

As far as Chen Lin alone is concerned, even if Nanyang cedes an acre of three-point land, even if the imperial court calls it Dad, Chen Lin will not give a good face. Don't be unhappy, Chen Lin is eager to be called the king, and then raise the banner to demand Beiding What about the Central Plains?

Now that the troops have been suppressed, won't the arms go back to Chen Lin and can they be sold to the next family?It is simply a perpetual motion machine for harvesting wealth.

The businessmen in the East who are begging for a living generally come from the Nanyang Military Mansion and the Oriental Military Mansion. Because of their environment, the three-eyed blunderbuss is more popular than the matchlock bird blunderbuss.

There are very few people wearing heavy armor on the ship, and there are Franco cannons at long distances. Most of the sailors have not received military training, and they may not be able to shoot accurately with blunderbuss.

Of course, if you use a bird gun, you won’t be able to shoot accurately, and if you change to a three-eyed gun, you still won’t be able to shoot accurately, but once you load the ammunition, you will have at least three chances to fire it. Maybe the people next to you can catch it accurately.

This is the case in Puli City now.

The English labored hard, pushing the three-storey siege vehicle with a climbing ladder to approach the city, and the conscripts hidden in the thick-skinned wooden car body turned the winch, and put the climbing ladder on the city bit by bit. Under the leadership of a team composed of knights, retinues, and veterans, hundreds of conscripts under the siege engine were waiting to attack the city.

The rushing catapult did not work well. Six round stones with irregular shapes were thrown one after another, and only one hit the city wall. At that moment, it seemed that the whole city wall was shaken by it, but in fact, only tiny stones were left behind. crack.

As for the other stone bullets, they crossed the top of the city and smashed into the city. No one knows whether they killed or wounded the enemy, but even if they did, stone bullets weighing forty to fifty catties would do very little damage to the soldiers. Whether it is the house or the land, there will be a big hole, and only the unlucky ghosts who are really hit will die unexpectedly.

If you really want to open a gap in the city wall, you may have to use the ancient method of climbing the city.

Several Franco cannons below the city quickly bombarded the position where the siege vehicle put down the climbing ladder. The nobleman in charge of the artillery wore a helmet decorated with lion heads, and urged the gunner to repeat the actions of firing, cleaning, and loading. He was from The nobles of Yeovil are more anxious than anyone else about the comprehensive siege caused by this accident.

Because he pulled these cannons out of the fief, just like the plight of all European countries except Sweden in this era, even though he emptied the castle's inventory for defending the city, the gunpowder stock was still difficult to guarantee long-term shooting. I was even convinced that my gunpowder could not last a day of bombardment.

Since there is less gunpowder, it must be used where it must be used. During the confrontation, bombarding the city wall can be avoided. At this moment, use artillery to suppress the enemy at the position of the city, and help the infantry to tear the gap to win the siege. That's the most important thing.

But actually he couldn't hit it.

Although his artillery did blast the two parapets close to the ascent platform, the artillery could not hit the back of the parapet, and was fired at an elevation angle so that the shells passed the parapet and continued to fly into the sky and smash into the city.

Most people can observe an anomaly on the siege engine.

This old-fashioned siege vehicle has excellent siege capabilities. As long as it is not blown up or burned, usually at the moment when the flat ladder is on the top of the city, all the infantry on the siege platform will set up a large shield and wave their weapons. On the city... Regardless of crossbows, bows, fire door guns, and arquebus, it is difficult to threaten plate armor knights with shields.

Once the plate armored knights climbed to the top of the city, the continuous stream of light infantry would be able to seize the top of the city and expand the results of the battle.

But this time they obviously heard the battle cry, and they could indeed see that everyone was eager to try at the moment when the climbing platform was put down, but they didn't move forward, but were obviously stunned.

A brief pause, what did they see?
No one in the city knows.

All I know is that after that pause, the sound of cannons and the screams of burning gunpowder sounded from the top of the city, and a large cloud of gunpowder smoke rose from the top of the city. The city platform was covered in blood and minced meat and fell to the ground not far away.

After the cannonballs, there were dozens of hundreds of arrows shot one after another indiscriminately. Those arrows flew around with burning gunpowder. Some fell on the soldiers gathered below the city.

They burn, they kill.

They scare the big brothers out of town.

(End of this chapter)