The rise of the prince

Chapter 729 New Guns and New Tactics
After the Spring Festival, there were officials from all over the country who were late one after another. Everyone was naturally panicked, but Li Xingzhou didn't blame too much. A few words of blame are necessary. There are no rules, so being late is definitely not worthy of praise.

He also specially went to see Yelu Dashi and Yelu Yali, and invited them to the palace as guests.

Yelu Dashi has gone through vicissitudes and experienced the collapse of the Liao Kingdom. He seems to be much older at once. He is clearly a man in his prime and looks like an old man. Chinese.

He said frankly that he felt that such a comfortable life was not bad. Li Xingzhou asked him if he wanted to go to the New Army to help him train cavalry, but he refused, so he didn't insist.

As for Yelu Yali, Li Xingzhou suggested to them that they could arrange a decent marriage for her. The other party was a prince and noble of Jing Kingdom. After all, she was also a princess of Liao Kingdom with a noble status, or she could choose one by herself.

This Princess Rongguang, who is now thin and recovering, also has a lot of troubles. She has experienced so many things at a young age, and she also suffered from the subjugation of the country.

Yelu Dashi and Yelu Yali didn't say much about it, so he didn't ask more. After all, it's a family matter, but Yelu Dashi didn't go to the new army, and he really felt a pity.

Yelu Dashi's Wen Tao Wu Lue is definitely the top figure of this era, but he did not go to the West, and Central Asia lost another overlord, so the Seljuk Empire will not suffer failure, and Khwarazmo may be difficult to rise , the Crusades may be even worse than in history.They have already been defeated by the Seljuk Empire once, but when Seljuk was in full swing, Yelu Dashi came from the east and cleaned up Seljuk
In short, Li Xingzhou can't predict the direction of the matter, and Central Asia is too far away, he can't see, whether it will cause a series of domino reactions, I don't know, whatever, it's far away anyway.

On the ninth day of the lunar new year, Di Zhi, Yan Shen, Shen Lin, Wei Yubai and other senior military officers all gathered in the backyard.

Zhao Si is demonstrating his new gun to everyone.

The chamber and barrel of this new gun are bored out using a lathe driven by a second-generation steam engine. The machining accuracy and difficulty are far beyond that of manual work, and it can also be mass-produced.

Zhao Si adopts the design of post-loading, the firing pin excites the thunderbolt, and ignites the gunpowder. In terms of design structure, it is very close to the rifle of World War II, but there is still a gap in the design of the bullet and the layout of the barrel.

The main problem is that the processing technology is not mature enough, and the second generation steam engine cannot meet the finer processing in terms of vibration and power.

Manual processing of bullets is unreliable, so this generation of breech-loading muskets still uses oiled paper to wrap the propellant, the bottom is filled with passivated thunder mercury, and the front is wrapped with an integral bullet that wraps the warhead.

After each shot, the breech was pulled to remove debris (by mouth blowing), then reloaded.

Zhao Si fired ten shots in a row, and after ten shots, the barrel of the gun smoked.

His shooting speed is obviously not comparable to the quick-fire guns currently equipped by the new army. After each shot, he only needs to pull the bolt, let the gun chamber half open, blow off the remaining residue, put the bullets, and close the gun chamber. Can hit a shot.

On average, each time he fired a shot, it took about six or seven seconds. Zhao Si's movements were not proficient. If the soldiers practiced hard, Li Xingzhou would definitely be able to hit each shot within five seconds!
In other words, after ordinary soldiers are trained, they fire a shot every five seconds!
This is simply an earth-shaking change!Li Xingzhou's heart was surging.

If soldiers from Yidu are taken as an example, a hundred new army soldiers, using the previous quick-fire guns, the top ones can fire one shot in about 15 seconds, but that is the top one. On average, each person can fire three shots per minute. .

A soldier in the capital can fire about 1 rounds of ammunition in one minute.

And this kind of rear-loading new gun, as long as it is trained, everyone can definitely shoot within five seconds, and the fastest one can be fired in about three seconds.

Even if the difference is five seconds, a soldier can fire twenty rounds in one minute!

A soldier in the capital can vent 1 rounds of ammunition in one minute!
In other words, after being equipped with this new gun, a group of soldiers will be able to fire more powerful firepower than the previous battalion of troops.

This change is simply a qualitative change!

The previous upgrades of the Wangfu's firearms were only quantitative changes. Although the continuous improvement of the firearms has improved the combat effectiveness, it has not affected the tactics and tactics at all. After this change, the new army is another new army up!

The three-stage shooting in the queue is no longer suitable for such weapons. When each soldier can fire 1 rounds in one minute, more advanced and matching tactics can exert its power more.

Li Xingzhou was excited, thinking about the future of the new army.

Over there, Yan Shen was already drooling, and went up to him one by one. Mr. Zhao got a new gun from Zhao Si's hand one by one, and started to fight himself excitedly.

Yan Shen was experienced in the battlefield and was very experienced. After several adjustments, he quickly found the key point of shooting. His speed was faster than Zhao Si's. There was an endless stream of bang bang bang gunshots, and he could fire every three or four seconds.

Everyone was stunned, and flattered Zhao Si one after another, just to grab him and shoot a few shots.

Di Zhi went up and fired a few shots excitedly, before being snatched away by Shen Lin.Everyone was very excited, asking around Zhao Si, only Di Zhi stopped talking after firing a few shots.

"What's wrong?" Li Xingzhou asked him.

Di Zhi came back to his senses, and said afterwards: "My lord, this subordinate just feels that with this new gun, it can't just change the gun."

"Oh, why?" he asked curiously.

"My lord, I think if the soldiers all use this kind of gun, and ten of them can fire as much as the previous fifty, then it would be a waste to use a line array." Di Zhi said seriously.

Li Xingzhou was pleasantly surprised, "Tell me carefully."

Di Zhi arched his hands, "Your Majesty, in the past, our soldiers used to shoot in three stages, with hundreds of people and hundreds of people in formation, in order to make up for the density of firepower, but at the expense of mobility and flexibility. In fact, I was afraid of fighting several times. We lined up like this. It is really powerful to defeat the enemy in front of the formation, but what if the enemy goes around and outflanks or sneaks up on the flanks?

For the sake of powerful firepower, we actually sacrificed a lot. Last year when we fought against the Liao Kingdom, fortunately we lined up on the water, and the right wing was a mountain. The Khitan people didn't understand our style of play, and thought that we could defeat it with a frontal charge of cavalry. We lost a lot as a result.

After the battle of Yanshan Mansion, everyone in the world knows our style of play, and next time they will definitely seek outflanks and attack the flanks instead of fighting us head-on. "

Speaking of this, he frowned with some worry, but then he was relieved: "This subordinate thinks about this every day when he is convalescing, but now that Master Zhao has a new gun, he immediately feels that it is not a problem.

The subordinates feel that after the new guns are replaced, the soldiers can be separated into a team of 30 people, and they can be scattered to fight. This will not only make the enemy unable to deal with it, but also if they want to outflank, they can move flexibly, move places, and want to fight head-on. The firepower of 30 people is equivalent to the hundreds of people before, and they are going to die! "

Li Xingzhou laughed loudly after hearing this, and patted Di Zhi's shoulder heavily: "You are so fucking talented!"

Di Zhi said in his heart that the three-stage shooting of the line array is a kind of compromise, because the performance of the musket is not enough, the accuracy, and the firing speed are low, so a lot needs to be sacrificed in exchange for concentrated firepower.

But once a new gun is installed, there is no need to sacrifice mobility and safety in exchange for firepower. Di Zhi is a sensible person, and he can see the key at a glance.

When all the new troops are equipped with such new guns, he will be fearless even in the face of a large-scale cavalry group.

But looking back, Yan Shen and Shen Lin were still fighting to shoot.
Li Xingzhou shook his head amusedly, his brain grew up, and he didn't know that he was free to think about it like Di Zhi.

(End of this chapter)