please make me king

Chapter 1105 New Riding Guns
"Is it okay for this long?"

"No problem, it's much more comfortable this way." Wei Congyi waved a gun-like object on the horse, and replied helplessly.

"Okay, the length of the blunderbuss is best between three feet and three feet four inches, and it must not exceed three feet and five inches!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but write and draw.

Then he hesitated for a moment, and wrote down the reason: "If it is too long, it is not conducive to carrying it, it is not conducive to loading, and it is not conducive to cleaning the barrel."

"Do you have anything else to add?"

"That...it's best to imitate the rope tied to the spear, and equip the riding gun with a belt for easy carrying." Wei Congyi played with the "full-scale model" made by blacksmiths and carpenters, and couldn't help suggesting.

The cavalry of this era used long spears, and most of them liked to tie a rope to the second half of the barrel, just like the picture of A Yuxi holding a spear in Zhang Shun's previous life, so that they could carry long spears.

The blunderbuss cavalry envisioned by Wei Congyi did not only use blunderbusses as weapons, but were also equipped with bows, arrows and spears.

If you don't use the bird gun, you should consider its carrying problem.

"Okay, that's a good idea!" Zhang Shun nodded, then bowed his head and added, "According to the suggestion of the trial users, add a gun belt to make it easier to carry the gun."

"By the way, do you have any thoughts on the weight of the blunderbuss?"

"The one that weighs five or six catties is the cheapest. If you can't, the lighter the better!" Wei Congyi quickly suggested.

"Try your best, but you can't expect it to be as powerful as a three-coin bird gun." Zhang Shun thought for a while, then shook his head in response. "The Lumi gun still weighs seven or eight catties, and the new riding gun is not expected to be too light!"

After thinking for a while, Zhang Shun couldn't help turning his head and said to the blacksmith: "How about this, you guys build me a one-two gun barrel first, no need to drill the bore, it's all for testing."

"One or two barrels?" The blacksmith was startled when he heard the words, and couldn't help asking, "How do you make such a barrel?"

"In the past, there were three-coin bird guns. According to my opinion, it is enough to make a four- to five-coin."

"If you grow up, you'll be fat and useless..."

"Just hit one or two!" Zhang Shun couldn't help frowning and said, "The length is two feet!"

"Okay!" The blacksmith frowned when he saw that this guy was not listening to persuasion. He chose a red-hot iron block and began to jingle it.

The waiting time was boring, but Zhang Shun didn't make Chen Changzhu and Wei Congyi too boring.

Zhang Shun took the opportunity to ask again: "Other than the blunderbuss, how do I choose bows and arrows and long spears?"

"I'm quite proficient in bows and arrows!" Chen Changliang couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "Since there are firecrackers that can pierce armor, then bows and arrows can be relaxed."

"As the saying goes: soft bows and long arrows, I think you can choose a soft bow, and equip some plum needle arrows appropriately to deal with chain mail."

The so-called "plum needle arrow" is a general term for a type of slender arrowhead, which can penetrate into the gaps of chain mail, and poses a certain threat to nomadic tribes that mainly use this type of armor.

"Yes, it should be equipped with a soft bow!" Wei Congyi also nodded and said, "If the opponent has no armor, he can use Lianzhu arrows to kill like hemp!"

Zhang Shun also knows something about the so-called "Lianzhu Arrow".

The "Phoenix Seizing the Nest" that Chen Changliang became famous for is a typical Lianzhu arrow.

If you distinguish carefully, his "Phoenix seizes the nest" is actually different from three arrows and nine arrows.

The three-arrow shooting method is to catch three arrows at a time with the back hand, pinch them with your fingers, and shoot them out very quickly.

The nine-arrow shooting method is to catch nine arrows with the bow hand, hold them together with the bow, and then take and shoot them with the back hand, like lightning.

If he encounters an opponent with poor protection on the battlefield, he will turn into a ruthless "harvester", taking the lives of eight or nine people in an instant, which is terrible.

"Success, the bow and arrow will be based on the standard of common war bows, and it will be lowered a little bit, and equipped accordingly!" Zhang Shun nodded.

In terms of riding and shooting, both of them are professionals. Zhang Shun is a person who can't let his hands go, so don't give me any advice.

"As for the long spear, we agreed to choose a Xiaoqi long spear measuring one foot, three feet and seven inches!" Chen Changzhu and Wei Congyi said in unison.

"This Xiaoqi long spear was made in the early days of the country. Later generations are not good at learning skills, so they often shorten the barrel of their spears."

"For example, the line guns commonly used by cavalry nowadays are no more than nine feet long, with a handle one inch thick, and weigh no more than three catties. When fighting against a waist knife, the outcome is only five or five. It is definitely not advisable."

"Another example is the hooked sickle spear that the captives often use, but it is only nine feet long, and it is not lawful."

"Those who are not skilled in martial arts and who are difficult to use long spears are not good enough. If King Shun wants to build Xiaoqi, he must choose carefully."

"Okay, you two will be very skilled soon, and I will leave this matter to you," Zhang Shun thought for a while, seeing that he couldn't come up with any good suggestions, he simply let them do what he wanted.

"His Royal Highness, the blunderbuss has been made, but it has not been drilled, so I am afraid it will be useless." After a long while, the blacksmith held a blunderbuss horizontally and offered it tremblingly.

Zhang Shun took it over and saw that the structure of the gun mechanism of the fire gun is the Lumi gun style, which suits him quite well.

"Try the length first!" He stretched out his hand and threw it to Wei Congyi.

Wei Congyi reached out and took the new riding gun, the barrel was still warm.

Immediately after, he did design, loading and carrying actions on the horse, and galloped back and forth for a while.

Only then did Wei Congyi return in surprise: "What a firecracker, it weighs no more than five or six catties, and it's actually almost the same as a bird's blunderbuss."

It turns out that the main weight of this firecracker is all in the barrel. Normally, the barrel of a bird's blunderbuss is more than three feet long, while the Lumi blunderbuss is astonishingly four feet and five inches long.

But Zhang Shun's new type of bird gun has a barrel of only two feet, and the weight has dropped unexpectedly.

"Okay, let's test shoot first!" Zhang Shun originally asked the blacksmith to make one or two gun barrels, originally for testing purposes.

He never expected that the size and weight would just fit in his hand, so he couldn't help but have the idea of ​​simply making a riding blunderbuss that fires a pair of lead bullets.

Although the barrel of the riding blunderbuss has not been drilled out and cannot be used in actual combat, it is still sufficient for testing data other than shooting accuracy.

"Decree!" Wei Congyi smiled when he heard the words, took a tael of gunpowder and poured it into the breech chamber, and then took three three-coin lead bullets and put them in. After sending the ball of paper, he got on his horse.

Not long after, he put his shoulder against the gun and released it once. He only felt as if someone pushed his shoulder hard, and then everything returned to normal.

Wei Congyi frowned, took it out and reloaded it again, this time put in four three-coin lead bullets, and fired the gun again.

Not long after, he rode back and said, "King Shun is really talented, almost gifted by heaven!"

"This blunderbuss is really exquisite. If you put one or two of the medicine and one or two of the lead bullets, there should be no danger."

"If you encounter an unarmored person, you can also load more than a dozen one-money lead bullets, and those who are incapable of defense."

It turns out that Zhang Shun designed the riding gun, which can fire one or two lead bullets. The inner diameter of the barrel is 12/[-]mm, which is roughly equivalent to the caliber of the later [-]-gauge shotgun.

It just so happens that one or two lead bullets in the Ming Dynasty combined with the later generations weighed 37.3g, which is slightly less than the 12g weight of the No. 37.8 slug.

In later generations, this is just a hunting thing, and it is nothing.

However, in this era, it is a big killer for cavalry battles.

At the same time, in distant Western Europe, many national cavalry were also equipped with similar weapons, called "carbines".

It's just that these carbines are mostly made of flints driven by delicate spring wheels. The craftsmanship is more complicated than that of Zhang Shun's matchlock-ignited riding blunderbuss, and the requirements for riding skills are slightly lower.

However, Shaanxi is located in a border area, and there are not many people who are good at riding and arching. This small technical gap can be fully made up for by personal martial arts.

"You don't need to sing me praises. If there is anything that needs to be improved, please bring it up quickly and improve it as soon as possible." Zhang Shun didn't agree with him at all, and asked calmly.

　There are so many big brothers among the readers, and I haven’t written it yet. What “low-speed reloading”, “modern shotguns”, and “steel bullets” have all come out. How does the author write it?

　　
　
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