Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 315
The bayonet in front of him was more than half a meter long, in the shape of a triangle, with sharp edges on three sides, shining a kind of cold light.When loading the bayonet, put the handle on the muzzle of the gun, and put the bayonet into a special scabbard when it is not in use.

This bayonet is similar to the sleeve-type bayonets used by Western countries in the [-]th and [-]th centuries, and the slot-type bayonets of later generations are difficult to manufacture with current technology in terms of quenching and hardness, so this type of sleeve The bayonet is Huang Laifu's first choice.

Huang Laifu observed it carefully, and found that this bayonet was close to the weapon he had in mind.After checking the quality, Huang Laifu was still satisfied. After this kind of bayonet was equipped on a large scale in the future, his flintlock gunmen would not need the guards of sword and shield soldiers.

Jiang Dazhong, Yang Xiaolu and the others also gesticulated with this bayonet, discussing its future use.

Liu Tianlu, director of the Wuzhaibao Arms Bureau, had been watching Huang Laifu's face. Seeing Huang Laifu's expression of approval after playing with the newly made bayonet, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.

It seems that the governor is still satisfied with his job, and it is not in vain to spend all his time and effort in supervising the making of this bayonet.

Jiang Dazhong grabbed a bayonet in his hand and stabbed it a few times like a sword, then put it on a flintlock, stabbed it a few times like a spear, and excitedly said to Huang Laifu: "My lord, make a self-igniting fire!" Guns are already sharp, but now that they have this bayonet, the gunners will not be afraid to fight against thieves!"

The rest of the officers were also whispering, that people who originally had doubts about the independent fighting of the flintlock gunners no longer had any doubts after seeing the bayonet attached to the gunfire.

Although this kind of bayonet-mounted equipment on firecrackers is a bit new, and everyone has never trained it before, it must be no different from the training of spearmen, and the sergeants will soon be able to get started.And this matter of training the bayonet formation will naturally be the matter of He Ruzhen in the future.

For a while, everyone wanted to configure their battalion as this kind of flintlock soldiers with bayonets. After all, everyone could see the power of the tunnel firegun.

Huang Laifu realized the urgency of his subordinates, he just ordered Liu Tianlu to step up related work.

After looking at the bayonet, Liu Tianlu proudly took out a sharp weapon newly made by the military factory for Huang Laifu, the binoculars.

Huang Laifu cooperated with Emperor Wanli to build a glass factory in Gyeonggi, and soon built a glass branch factory in Wuzhaibao. With relevant manufacturing technology and talents, Huang Laifu naturally used part of the craftsmen in military factories to manufacture military products. telescope.

As for this telescope, he has long wanted to own it. Having a telescope is a great military aid.And because of Huang Laifu's arrival, this telescope was manufactured a few years earlier than in history.

The telescope in history was first invented by the Dutch in the early 17th century. At that time, the technology of grinding glass and gemstones in the Netherlands was advanced. The mirror maker Libisch accidentally made a telescope with a convex lens and a concave lens, and it spread quickly after that.However, most of those lenses are made of precious natural crystals, which are expensive.

Natural quartz or crystal, although pure and flawless, is very rare, and if all telescopes were made of this, the price would be astronomical.

Of course, Huang Laifu from later generations would not do this, and chose to replace it with glass!Of course, in the West at this time, it is absolutely impossible to use glass to make telescopes!At this time, although Western countries have mastered the method of making transparent glass, there will always be many defects when the glass is smelted, such as some air bubbles, gray particles, small stones, and lines are often entrained in the glass.These defects will change the direction of light travel, of course, can not be used to make lenses such as telescopes.

The texture of the glass is not uniform enough, especially the lingering air bubbles in it. This problem has plagued the West for hundreds of years. Even if the problem of uneven texture is finally solved, the stubborn air bubbles cannot be removed.

In the current world, of course only Huang Laifu knows how to remove the stubborn air bubbles in the glass. It is easy to say - stir!Simply stir the glass as you melt it.Historically, Britain kept this simple secret until World War I, and for hundreds of years, it has made a lot of money from it.

Huang Laifu will do the same, keeping this secret all the time, monopolizing the optical glass manufacturing in Daming and the world in the future.

Similarly, Huang Laifu's glass factories are now protecting the secret of melting glass very closely, and have formulated an extremely strict punishment system. I believe that the related secrecy can continue forever.Not only that, Huang Laifu is now ordering his factory to secretly study the manufacture of glass mirrors. He believes that after the glass mirrors are successfully manufactured in the future, they can bring him huge financial resources.

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At this time, several telescopes were placed in front of everyone's eyes. Each telescope's yellow metal outer copper surface and shining mirror surface were made very delicately.Of course, Huang Laifu, who came from later generations, would not be so surprised by this telescope, but he just felt that the single-lens telescope looked a bit inappropriate compared to the binoculars.

This is part of the works in the early stage, after Huang Laifu makes a final decision, they will be mass-produced.

Huang Laifu didn't say much, picked up a binoculars, stretched it long and short, and just slowly looked at the surrounding situation.

After watching it for a while, he smiled at Jiang Dazhong and the others: "Everyone, let's take a look too!"

Looking at Huang Laifu's appearance just now, Jiang Dazhong, Yang Xiaolu and the others had already felt itchy. Now that they grabbed a binoculars, they all followed Huang Laifu's example and looked at it curiously.

Suddenly Jiang Dazhong yelled: "Ah!"

He took a deep breath: "It's my daughter-in-law's baby!" He put down the binoculars from his eyes, looked ahead in disbelief, then put the binoculars back on, looked carefully, and said, "Ahhhhhhh !"the sound of.

Yang Xiaolu was also shocked and said: "I can't believe it, this telescope can see so far, the scenery in front of me is as if it is in front of me!"

The rest of the generals were also amazed, this telescope is really worthy of the name, it can see very far, everyone quickly realized the value of this telescope, they all looked at Huang Laifu, apparently wanting Huang Laifu to deploy it in the camps .

Huang Laifu smiled and said: "Don't worry everyone, this binoculars is a sharp weapon in the army, and it will definitely be equipped for everyone in the future!"

As before, Huang Laifu ordered Liu Tianlu to speed up the manufacture of telescopes. He was satisfied with this batch of products, and he decided on the second phase of manufacturing [-] telescopes.

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In the end, what Liu Tianlu showed Huang Laifu was his last masterpiece, the paper-shell cartridge that fires the blunderbuss!

As early as the Battle of Ulsan in the Korean War, Huang Laifu had the idea of ​​​​distributing paper-shell cartridges for tunnel-fired guns.After the military meeting some time ago, he ordered Liu Tianlu to start the development of bayonets and paper shell cartridges.

With the ideas provided by Huang Laifu, the related manufacturing is actually not a problem!Except for the telescope, which was a long-awaited project, the bayonet and the paper-shell cartridge were successfully developed in the past few days, and a batch of samples were produced in advance, and they were mass-produced only after Huang Laifu decided to approve it.

Looking at the paper shell cartridges in front of me, there is not much difference from the impressions of later generations. They are all packed in long paper, and each paper shell cartridge has a certain amount of gunpowder and projectiles all wrapped in it.In this way, the loading steps will be greatly saved. The flintlock guns of ordinary soldiers should be able to shoot 2 times per minute. If they are proficient, they may be even faster!

Moreover, the gunpowder and projectiles in each shot are fixed, so that the firepower of each blow can be maintained.

Looking at the cardboard cartridge, Huang Laifu was also very happy. A new chapter of history will be opened in his hands. Well, let the sergeants demonstrate it.

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In the military factory, there is a huge practice field. After all, every firearm produced needs to be tested here in advance.The management of firearms in Wuzhai Fort is very strict. Weapons that are not of acceptable quality must never leave the factory. Otherwise, if something goes wrong, the relevant craftsmen and management personnel will have to be severely punished.

At this time, on the training ground, pieces of wooden signs have been put up as targets for shooting.Although the firecrackers manufactured in Wuzhaibao are called tunnel firecrackers by Huang Laifu, and self-generated firecrackers by generals, they are actually the original bird blunderbusses, but they are turned into tunnel firecrackers by being ignited with a matchlock.

According to the current use of blunderbuss in the Ming army, if the quality passes the standard, it is actually used as the first sharp weapon. Even if Qi Jiguang fought back then, the enemy would shoot the blunderbuss when he was close to a hundred paces, the crossbow when he was sixty paces, and the crossbow when he was fifty paces. Archery shows the status of the bird gun at that time.

In the usual practice, Qi Jiguang's "Ji Xiao New Book" also clearly stated: "Try the bird gun, stand five feet high at eighty paces, two feet wide and one wooden sign, hit one shot in three shots, and hit seven hits in ten rounds." !
As for the crossbow, it is based on sixty steps, and a wooden sign is also erected, and two of the three arrows are good at shooting!
In the end, the bow only needs fifty steps, and the wooden sign is set up. If two of the three arrows are hit, it is a good shot!

Under the same accuracy, the shooting range of the bird gun is one-third longer than that of the crossbow, which shows why the qualified bird gun is popular.

In particular, the excellent tunnel-firing firecrackers of Wuzhaibao are the sharp weapons that everyone desires, not to mention the paper-shell cartridges, which are more advanced than the original charging method. If the paper-shell cartridges are really The success of Wuzhaibao will be a huge progress in the history of Wuzhaibao's weapons.

Therefore, this demonstration received widespread attention from the generals, and everyone gathered around Huang Laifu to watch.

Similarly, at this time eighty steps away, there are pieces of human-sized wooden signs, and the one demonstrating shooting at this time is Wang Guixiu, the chief executive. Wang Guixiu was originally only a hundred chiefs, but after the Korean War, he was also promoted due to meritorious service. In order to increase the general and leading troops from the original more than 500 people to the current [-] people.

This time he accepted the task of this demonstration, and personally led a round of 112 officers and soldiers to practice shooting with live ammunition!

The officers and soldiers of the first round were all armed with tunnel-fired guns, standing side by side in a row, close to each other. With the tunnel-fired guns, the original shooting formation was much closer than that of the arquebus.

As the commander, Wang Guixiu issued various passwords.

According to the information collected by Huang Laifu from his laptop, he also obtained the historical method and steps of using paper shell cartridges. At this time, Wang Guixiu and others were shooting according to these steps.

(End of this chapter)