Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 880 Decisive Battle in Sand City ([-])
The reason why the Wanli Type I musket was delayed for nearly ten years and officially started to be installed is mainly because this gun has two major technological innovations compared with the past muskets.

One is the addition of the bayonet, which has been mentioned before.For the bayonet, the requirements for metallurgy can be described as "extremely high" in this era, and it is not an easy task.

In fact, for a long period of time in the original history, most of the bayonets equipped on muskets were not dagger-style bayonets, but the famous triangular army bayonet-type bayonets.

In the era when firearms had not yet been born, the mainstream move in cold weapon combat was stabbing.

According to Qi Jiguang's military training concept, the biggest advantage of stabbing is that it is easy to learn, suitable for recruits, but difficult to parry, very practical.Moreover, the action of "stabbing" is extremely lethal, and it is difficult to stop the bleeding and suture the wound.

Therefore, on the battlefield, weapons based on thorns accounted for the majority. Even in the era of hot weapons, military thorns were also the mainstream equipment for hand-to-hand combat. Later, it was even pushed to the altar and became the so-called most perfect weapon.

As for whether it is true or not, we have to start with the use of the three-edged army bayonet in history. The three-edged bayonet has been used in the army for quite a long time. It is the first and most widely used bayonet in history. The barrel and the subsequent collar bayonet are basically triangular.

At its peak, the bayonet of the brown bass fusiliers of the British Red Army was a three-edged bayonet, which gave many people an illusion that the killing effect of the three-edged bayonet was far superior to that of a dagger bayonet.

actually not.

On the contrary, the dagger bayonet appeared in the second half of the 19th century, and his birth was used to eliminate the three-edged bayonet. At that time, fighting the bayonet was still an important way of fighting. The military must replace it with a knife with better performance. Backward bayonet.

The reason why the three-edged army thorn is so popular is entirely because of its simple manufacturing process and low cost. In the era when the metallurgical industry was underdeveloped, the three-edged bayonet was the most cost-effective melee weapon, because the cross-section of the three-edged bayonet showed a three-dimensional shape. Prismatic, very strong, not easy to deform when stabbed hard.

This feature determines that even with poor quality materials, it can meet the needs of the bayonet.The sword-shaped bayonet itself is a sword (and thinner), and if it is to be done well, the cost will not be much worse than the sword.

In the flintlock era, steel was made by folding forging and carburizing and quenching. Many processes can only be completed by hand and repeated production. In this way, the price is of course very high. If every soldier is equipped with a dagger bayonet, That cost may be higher than equipping flintlock guns, so for the best cost performance, all countries uniformly equip their troops with triangular thorns.

In modern times, especially after the emergence of open hearth furnace and converter steelmaking, the metallurgical technology of major industrial countries has made a qualitative breakthrough, but all countries with strong industrial strength will use daggers and bayonets, and even Japan's new post-industrialized army is uniform Sword-shaped bayonet.

Only the equipment of the Soviet army at the end of World War II was relatively backward, and for the convenience of large quantities, it still mainly used three-edged bayonets.Due to historical reasons, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Hong Dynasty also copied the same pattern, but when it was done by itself, it was quickly replaced with a sword type.

Army stabs are generally prismatic and have blood grooves. They can be directly installed on individual long-barreled firearms, and can be folded and stored or disassembled for use.The point of military stabbing is to stab, so the front end is very sharp, and the contact surface of the front end will be very narrow, which is convenient for stabbing.Hence the name "stab" rather than "knife".

The bayonet, also known as the bayonet, is called the gun sword by the Japanese. It is also a cold assassination weapon installed on the front end of a long-barreled gun for an individual soldier. It is used for hand-to-hand combat and can also be used as an auxiliary tool for combat operations.The bayonet consists of two parts: the body and the handle.

According to the shape, it can be divided into two types: sheet-shaped (knife-shaped or sword-shaped) and prismatic (three-edged or four-edged); according to the connection method with the rifle, it can be divided into separate and portable ones that can be removed from the gun and put into a scabbard. There are two types of folding type hinged on the side of the gun.The detachable bayonets are mostly sheet-shaped, and some are engraved with serrations on the back, and can be connected with metal scabbards to form scissors, which have multiple functions.

Therefore, there are still some differences between military stabs and bayonets. Military stabs must be bayonets, but bayonets are not necessarily military stabs.

On the ancient battlefield, there was a saying that "three arrows are not as good as one sword, and three swords are not as good as one gun".Of course, if you want to say that the per capita Jebie shoots, all of them are Chataiji, and they are killed by one arrow when they bend their bows;

Generally speaking, on the battlefield of the cold weapon era, especially armored soldiers, the damage caused by arrows and knives is indeed not as great as that of spears and spears.

And if it is on the modern battlefield, the damage caused by military stabs is actually incomparable with modern firearms and bullets, and it is far from terrifying.

In the later generations of the Red Dynasty, there was a group of people in the country who had a myth about the five or six types of triangular army stabs. They bragged until the United Nations banned Barabara, and they didn't know what was going on.When asked why, they said that the wound was difficult to treat, the effect of bloodletting was exaggerated, it was coated with arsenic, and so on.

The arsenide coating is the funniest thing, you can paint it on the triangular army thorns, but not others?

As for the intractability of the wound, it is even more ridiculous. Why is such a standard and regular wound so difficult to suture?Surgeons face infinitely more complex situations than such wounds.

Take random examples, such as steel bar punctures on the construction site, children's wounds torn by dog ​​teeth, wounds smashed by factory machines, etc. Which one is not more complicated than this?It is completely inexplicable to say that the triangular army thorn is so lethal because of its shape. If such a regular wound is difficult to deal with, then all surgeons can be laid off, and all military doctors who deal with gunshot wounds and fragment wounds in military hospitals can also leave.

As long as the bayonet hits the vital point, no matter what type of bayonet it is, the effect is the same. If the bayonet does not hit the vital point, the three-edged stabbing is more likely to cause a penetrating wound. As we all know, for people, the most harmful and difficult to treat is the The three-edged thorn is obviously inferior to the flat bayonet for cutting blood vessels and letting blood.

Gao Yushi is also a person who has heard the myth of the May [-]th. Why he would rather spend ten years developing a dagger-style bayonet than using a three-edged bayonet? Naturally, he has carefully demonstrated it—besides, the military of all countries in the future have also done it. There is a choice.

The shape of the sword was finally determined after thousands of years of human use and cold weapon combat. Compared with the shape of the armor-piercing cone of the Triangle Army, the sword-shaped blade of the ordinary bayonet has a wider blade. , so the probability of breaking the blood vessels in the body and killing the internal organs is much greater.

Moreover, in terms of bayonet tactics, the sword-shaped blade is more suitable for actions such as slashing down, picking up, and turning the knife after being stabbed. It is also more suitable as a short sword when it is taken off alone, which can be cut or stabbed.During the special period of that year, the [-]-point bayonet of the Japanese Kokura Arsenal was much more powerful than that of the Triangle Army. It was the most feared bayonet in the world at that time.

Therefore, military stabbing does not matter whether it is scary or not. Knife is a weapon for killing people. The performance in combat is the most important indicator. For example, the British P1907 bayonet is 555 mm long. Very long, but the British soldiers didn't like it, because it was too long, it was very troublesome to load, unload and carry, and it was not easy to use.

During World War II, the Soviet army's stabbing level was the highest, because as early as the Tsarist Russia period, the Russian army had been training this stabbing technique, and this culture was also inherited by the Soviet army behind.

During World War II, the Mosin Nagant rifle was the standard equipment of the Soviet Union, and the 98k was a symbol of Germany, and the length of the Mosin Nagant rifle was the longest in World War II. In addition, the Soviets were generally tall and mighty. When facing the Soviet Union, they all suffered a lot, especially Germany, which is good at lightning tactics, but when it comes to positional warfare, especially bayonet fighting, it is really not the Soviet Union's opponent.

Correspondingly, the people in the Japanese army cannot be compared with the tall and mighty Soviets because they are relatively short. However, the Japanese are flexible in fighting and stabbing.

All in all, any weapon cannot talk about performance without practicality, not to mention multi-functionality and cost.The triangular army bayonet can only do one thing, and the dagger-style bayonet can also do this thing, and at the same time, the dagger-style bayonet can also do a few other things by the way, so it doesn’t matter who to choose?

The last issue of cost and production cycle is the biggest problem that restricts the standard bayonet of the Wanli Type I. However, as I said before, after Zhu Zaiyu was poached by Gao Yushi, the two worked together for several years to improve the steelmaking method. With the addition of carburizing and nitriding technology, the production cycle has been significantly reduced, and the production cost has also been reduced. Although it is not as cheap as the three-sided army thorn, it has reached the acceptable range for high pragmatism—of course Zhu Yijun still thinks it is very expensive.

In addition to the seemingly low-tech bayonet, which is actually extremely high, the biggest technological innovation of the Wanli Type I is the ignition method.

That's right, this time, Daming has entered the age of flintlock guns.

The flintlock gun first appeared in Europe. To convert the time, it was the 26th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, which was the year when Zhang Juzheng became a Jinshi.

The principle of flintlock is very simple, and there is no controversy, so I won’t go into details (for example, the strength of the three-edged bayonet and dagger-style bayonet above is controversial, so I will say more).

But knowing the principle does not mean that it can be made immediately. After Gao Pragmatic provided the idea, Jinghua Gun Factory spent several years to conduct experiments. At the beginning, there were problems of one kind or another. For example, the sparks from flint sometimes could not ignite black Gunpowder, whether to equip the fire cap, how to prevent the musket from entering water during rainy weather and make the ignition device invalid, etc.

Every kind of scientific and technological development does not mean that it can be achieved. In many cases, several technologies must meet the standards at the same time to lead to qualitative changes. Therefore, many inventions of Gao Pragmatic are slowly piled up with time.

As for the Wanli-style firearm, several factors must be taken care of in terms of performance: for example, the length of the barrel is related to the shooting accuracy and distance, and at the same time, hand-to-hand combat after the bayonet is equipped must be considered; the amount of gunpowder charge must be considered The strength of the barrel and the ignition efficiency As well as waterproof and airtightness, it is even necessary to consider the portability and storage, as well as the safety during the carrying and storage process, etc.

Therefore, it is not surprising that this kind of thing should be developed for several years or even more than ten years at a time. After all, practicality, versatility, ergonomics, production costs, maintenance and repair costs, and the possibility of reuse... all have to be done. considering.

One or two genius ideas may be able to push human society forward, but no one can be sure when this idea will show its value, but a good system can steadily push society forward and take effect immediately.

Therefore, Gao Pragmatism has never been in a hurry to produce a trial product with a very high cost to deceive others. What he wants is a product that can be installed in batches.

Especially in terms of weapons and equipment, it’s okay to slow down. Anyway, the speed of weapon evolution before the second industrial revolution was not very fast. He now has a first-mover advantage. As long as this research and development system is maintained, he is not afraid of future development. produce results.

The Wanli Type [-] should be unprecedentedly powerful both in terms of firearm performance and hand-to-hand combat performance. The only weakness is probably the high price, but Gao Pragmatic has done his best.

Now, the first battle to establish Wanli Yishi's name is about to break out. Whether "debut is the peak" depends on the performance of Zhang Bingzhong and Zhang Wanbang father and son today.

The father and son of the Zhang family have different personalities. Zhang Bingzhong, the father, is a very honest person. When he saw the smoke and dust billowing in front of him, he had already started to line up according to the rules, and at the same time started the pre-war mobilization.

"Boys! You must have received Jinghua's silver reward in Datong, five taels per person, right?!"

"Correct!"

"That's right!"

"Exactly!"

Zhang Bingzhong nodded in satisfaction, and continued to speak loudly: "But I will tell you that it is only half of the reward! In this battle, as long as you follow orders and act like the previous drills, after the battle, no matter whether you win or lose, life or death, you will be rewarded every day." Everyone still has a reward of five taels of silver to take, and Jinghua still gives it!"

The whole army was shocked and overjoyed—Jinghua's silver reward was different from that of the imperial court. The imperial court's silver reward was not high at first, but because of the troublesome process, it was always delayed for several months, and even often withheld.Moreover, you have to have a head to get the silver reward from the imperial court. Without a head, it will be very difficult to do.

But Jinghua's rewards are different. Jinghua is not only generous, but also not in arrears, and their request is not the leader, but just "whether to obey orders"-in other words, as long as you obey orders, Jinghua will definitely get the rewards!

In addition, there is another feature of Jinghua's silver rewards, that is, it will never swallow up the rewards of those who died in battle, and as long as it is confirmed that they were killed in battle, double rewards will be issued to express compensation.

When everyone heard that there were at least five taels left, they were very excited, and some even thought to themselves: If they are really unlucky and die here in battle, it will not be a loss, at least there will be ten taels of silver for the settlement.

Zhang Bingzhong, an honest man, directly used money to mobilize soldiers' combat enthusiasm.
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