Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 228: Meeting of Senior Relatives ([-])
Gao Yushi didn’t even know what the name of the column-shaped thing he drew was, but the function of this thing is really to adjust the height of the muzzle. Get inspired while tearing.

The object he painted, which he tentatively named the cannon support, is actually not a complete column, but a cylindrical iron column split from the middle, similar to the telescopic antenna of a later radio. There is a wheel mechanism in the middle, which can Adjust the telescoping degree and divide into several scales to adjust different muzzle heights.

"Qi Dudu, I am not a member of the army, and I am not very clear about the range of our army's various artillery, but in any case, the height of the muzzle must have an impact on the range and angle of the artillery." Gao Yushi sighed He breathed a sigh of relief: "I may be busy in the next period of time, and I will not be able to carry out this type of experiment. I can only provide you with such a blueprint. As for manufacturing and testing, etc., I can only ask Dudu Qi to carry out it himself."

Qi Jiguang's military acumen is so great, he can't say what the specific value of this "cannon support" is now, but as Gao Shidu said, it must have a great impact on the range and other aspects!
As for Gao Yushi's statement that he has no time to make and experiment, he is completely understandable. After all, he is now the prince's companion, and he is still in school. No matter how amazing and brilliant, it is impossible to put too much energy A lot of waste on these weapons-this thing can't make him a gold medal.

"How dare you treat this matter as a matter of Qi's duty? Gao Shidu must not say such a thing, Qi is really ashamed." Qi Jiguang said sincerely.

Seeing that the weather had turned cloudy, Gao Wushi was a little worried that it would rain later, so he stopped talking and changed the topic to the next genre.

"Fire guns—oh, I mean hand-held shooting firearms including all kinds of handguns—I don't know how equipped our army is now?" He originally planned to use a "fire gun" instead, but suddenly remembered that the Ming Dynasty was more used to it. Because it is called "gun", so I temporarily added a sentence.

Of course, Qi Jiguang couldn't be troubled by this aspect, and he said like a few treasures: "I have many types of fire blunderbuss..."

However, Gao Yushi directly interrupted him this time: "Don't talk about those various things, Dudu Qi, it's not that I slander the talents of firearms craftsmen in the past. Although many of these things are quite creative, they are all There are two questions."

Qi Jiguang was slightly taken aback, and asked, "Which two questions?"

Gao Wushi said with a worried look on his face: "variety is a very important issue in itself." He paused for a while and said: "I remember that when you were teaching the soldiers of the army to practice martial arts, Dudu Qi, you emphasized many times that fighting in front of the battle There is no need for gimmicks, you must pay attention to practicality, and it is best to defeat the enemy with one move, right?"

This is indeed one of Qi Jiguang's basic ideas for training Qi's army, so he nodded without hesitation: "Of course."

"The same goes for muskets, at most two or three models are enough, but the only ones I know right now are Saigong guns, Lianzi guns, swarming guns, double guns, double-barreled guns, three-barreled guns, and four-barreled guns... all the time. When it comes to ten-barreled guns, there are three-eyed guns, 36-barrel guns, etc., which seem to be spectacular, but how many of them have good actual combat effects?"

Qi Jiguang smiled wryly and said: "Our southern army prefers bird guns or Saigong guns improved based on bird guns, while the northern army prefers three-eyed guns. Other than that, they are still used in swarms. The rest... are in the warehouse. There are quite a few, but usually few people are willing to use them, and sometimes they will be taken out to decorate the appearance because they are not equipped enough for temporary battles."

Gao Wushi shook his head: "These various firearms have different charges, and the number reaches dozens of types. Which soldier remembers so clearly? Once there is no weapon in the battle, you have to go into battle with just one of them. I can’t even remember the amount of ammunition, so how do we fight this battle? That’s all. Their projectiles are not the same size. Do we have to divide them into dozens of ammunition and guns for temporary combat? How can we fight if the bullets don’t match? This is simply A disaster-like logistics system. Why didn’t all these miscellaneous goods withdraw, and only used two or three kinds—such as the Saigong gun, the three-eyed gun, and the swarm of bees that Dudu Qi just mentioned?”

The Saigong blunderbuss is a localized bird blunderbuss after Daming imitated and improved the imported western guns. From the perspective of technical indicators, it can be regarded as world-class. As for the manufacturing quality of batch equipment in the army, that is hard to say.

The three-eyed blunderbuss is relatively famous. Many Mingchuan novels have discussed it carefully, so I won’t mention it. Anyway, it is a medium-range musket (according to the average level of the era). After shooting, it can also be used as a cold weapon. The northern military master loves it.

As for the swarm, it is a close-combat firearm. It is even a bit embarrassing to call it a gun. It can shoot hundreds of bullets at a time, has a large dispersion area, and has many chances of hitting.From the perspective of future generations, it looks like a short and stubby disposable shotgun.

In fact, judging from the preferences of the northern and southern armies for hand-held firearms, the northern army seems to be more unrestrained, and its fighting style tends to shoot a wave of firearms in the middle and long distances, and then directly hit people with firearms in close combat; the southern army is more refined, Firearms specialize in firearms, and cold weapons specialize in cold weapons.As for the swarm, you might as well regard it as a pistol of later generations, which can only be used for short-range combat. Of course, due to the limited accuracy and power of firearms in this era, they are made into shotguns-I can't penetrate your body, so I will Launch a large piece, if it hits your eyes, throat and other vital points, wouldn't it be profitable?

From a long-term perspective, the Southern Army's combat methods are more reasonable, and there is no specialization in surgery.

However, since the development of hot weapons requires a process, and if there is no human intervention such as traversers in this process, it may take one or two hundred years to completely eliminate cold weapons, so in fact, the combat methods of the Northern Army cannot be said to be unreasonable.

However, the three-eyed gun must be outdated in the eyes of Gao Yushi, and sooner or later he will come up with a rifle with a bayonet to replace it.But before that, it is necessary to improve the thermal weapon combat capability of the musket itself, otherwise it may reduce the firepower density or the instantaneous delivery of projectiles.

In fact, Gao Yushi felt that Qi Jiguang's military talent should not fail to see this kind of disadvantage, so he asked this question.

It's not that Qi Jiguang can't see the problem, but he has a wry smile on his face: "To tell the truth, Gao Shidu, this problem is not only known to me, Qi, who can't see it? It's just...it can't be said. "

(End of this chapter)