Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 791 Musket (please subscribe!)

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When any object is not subjected to any external force or the force it receives is balanced, it always maintains a uniform linear motion or a static state until an external force acting on it forces it to change this state;
When the acceleration and mass are constant, the acceleration of an object is proportional to the force, inversely proportional to the mass of the object, and proportional to the reciprocal of the mass of the object.The direction of the acceleration is the same as the direction of the force;

The action force and reaction force between two interacting objects are always equal in magnitude and opposite in direction, acting on the same straight line.

Not long after the industrial revolution that Li Yan forced out broke out, Li Yan proposed the three laws of force to solve the theoretical basics for the manufacture and application of machines.

Soon after, Li Yan added to the three laws of force he proposed:
Force is what changes the state of motion of an object;

Force causes an object to gain acceleration;

Forces are interactions between objects.

As for the specific mechanical equations, there are so many years that Li Yan also forgot, so he did not provide them, and let people in the future slowly summarize them.

A revolution cannot be accomplished by one or two people, it must be jointly promoted by countless people.

For example, the textile machine launched by the imperial court.

That loom was originally only three to five times faster than hand weaving.

However, through the continuous improvement of folk masters, its production capacity has continued to increase. After only a few months, its production capacity has exceeded ten times that of hand-woven textiles.

Moreover, this industrial revolution broke out not just at one or two points, but in an all-round way.

Coal mining, iron smelting, steelmaking, and even agriculture have been greatly improved.

but--

Then again, it is only the initial stage of the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution, and what kind of prairie fire Li Yan ignited will turn into a prairie fire in the end, we have to wait and see in the future.

After igniting the industrial revolution, Li Yan obviously invested much less energy in industrial research and development.

This is first of all because Li Yan's ability is almost as great as it is. No matter how much it is, Li Yan can provide some suggestions on the direction of development. Specifically, it depends on the general public.

Secondly, Li Yan's job is the emperor, not a scientific researcher. It is impossible for him to devote too much energy to scientific research. That would put the cart before the horse, and possibly ruin his rule.

Of course, what should be paid attention to, Li Yan is still paying attention.

After withdrawing his energy from industrial research and development, Li Yan put the energy originally devoted to industrial research and development back to weapon research and development.

in fact--

Over the years, Dazhong's weapon research and development has never been interrupted.

Like the steam engine-powered steamship that Dazhong has been developing, once this kind of steamship takes shape, one of its main uses is for war.

Like Dazhong's unconscionable cannon, after so many years of unofficial improvement, its rate of fire, range and accuracy have all been greatly improved.

Like Dazhong's Hongtianlei, after so many years of improvement, it is not much different from the grenades in the later anti-Japanese period.

And Dazhong's biggest research achievement in terms of weapons is that Dazhong has developed a musket, to be more precise, it should be a flintlock.

The musket alone is actually nothing difficult to research, and it wouldn't take Dazhong so much time to develop it.

In fact, as early as a long time ago, Dazhong had already developed a matchlock gun.

Hmm... It is not entirely accurate to say that it was developed by Dazhong.

Before Dazhong started to develop firearms, in this era, there were already the earliest firearms—many years ago, someone invented a simple bamboo tube, with one end sealed, filled with gunpowder, and left in the place where the gunpowder was filled. A small eye that draws a fuse that burns the enemy with the open end when ignited.

but--

The earliest muskets were not powerful enough to injure people, and the bamboo tube was particularly easy to explode, and it was easy to injure yourself or your own people.

Later, someone was injured by the burst bamboo tube, and found that the burst fragments were more lethal, so someone put small iron balls in the front of the gunpowder, which is the burst gun.

The large and medium firearms were developed on the basis of the burst firearms.

Most out of the improvements is relatively easy.

Under the guidance of Li Yan, who has a vision for future generations, the scientific research personnel of Dazhong developed a very mature matchlock gun in only a few months.

However, this matchlock gun has too many disadvantages.

First of all, since a matchlock gun needs a piece of matchlock, the gunner has to carry a matchlock several meters long on his body. Before the battle, the gunner must first light the matchlock before he can shoot. It is extremely difficult to ignite a matchlock, and it is also very dangerous when a matchlock is lit. If you are not careful, sparks will ignite the belt on your back, causing an explosion that injures the shooter himself, or even his accomplices. It is easy to expose yourself, so it is almost impossible to sneak attack the enemy at night.

Secondly, the operation of the matchlock gun is extremely complicated - it is difficult for a fast-trained gunner to fire more than two shots in one minute, and with this time, a fast-trained archer can shoot more than ten or twenty arrows, which is the crossbow The rate of fire is much faster than this matchlock gun.

Again, this arquebus can't be used at all in rainy weather-in fact, not only can it be used in rainy days, but it can't even be used in strong winds, because the wind will blow away the powder on the fire door, and because it uses pyrotechnic powder, Therefore, when shooting, it is like a smoke bomb that will seriously blind the sight of one's own army.

Finally, the biggest disadvantage of this arquebus is that the range is short, especially the effective range, which is very short, far from being comparable to the crossbow.

This is also the reason why although Dazhong has developed muskets long ago, they have not been equipped for the army.

After seeing the arquebus developed by the researchers, Li Yan provided the researchers with two main directions of research - ballistics and ignition.

In other words, Li Yan asked researchers to increase the fire rate and accuracy of muskets.

And the goal in Li Yan's heart was this flintlock.

Compared with the matchlock gun, this flintlock gun greatly simplifies the shooting process, improves the firing rate and shooting accuracy, and is easy to use.

Only such a flame gun can replace the crossbow and become the standard weapon of the army.

The point is that flintlock guns are relatively cheap and easy to mass produce.

In Europe in the previous life, after the flintlock gun was developed, it took a full 200 years to equip it before being eliminated.

After nearly ten years of research, Dazhong's flintlock guns have finally matured and can be equipped with troops.

but--

Li Yan did not change all the troops immediately.

First of all, at this stage, it is impossible to manufacture so many flintlock guns, and it is impossible to change equipment for all troops.

Secondly, it is impossible to have only weapons without tactics—Dazhong’s current tactics are summed up after many years of actual situations and the collective efforts of countless soldiers, and all the soldiers have adapted to this tactics. , at least not completely changed.

Once again, Li Yan is going to use this flintlock as a secret weapon, ready to use it at a critical moment, and then use it to sweep the world.

In the end, Li Yan only equipped two troops with flintlock guns—that is, Li Yan's pro-army Jie Fan Army and Ta Bai Army.

At the same time, Li Yan sent Yue Fei, Liu Qi, Wu Jie, Han Shizhong, Zhang Xian, Wang Yan, Wu Lin and other generals each with a thousand flintlock guns, as well as his own understanding of muskets and the knowledge of muskets. The understanding of the use of this weapon on the battlefield allowed Yue Fei and others to explore the tactics after muskets joined the battlefield in actual combat.

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(End of this chapter)