Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 826 Condemnation (please subscribe!)
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Under Li Cha's narration, Li Qianshun and others knew that in the battle of Xining, their Xixia defenders in Xining City were attacked by [-] cavalry led by Guo Hao, and they robbed the city gate and entered the city. But it's not to say that their Xixia army didn't resist at all. On the contrary, their Xixia army immediately organized street fighting, and even organized a cavalry composed of [-] warriors in an attempt to drive Guo Hao and the others out of Xining City go.

however--

Among Guo Hao's surprise attack troops, 3000 people were equipped with muskets!

These 3000 people used muskets and thunderbolts as their main means of attack, and simple unconscionable cannons and simple flying thunders as suppressive weapons. When they got close, they fought bayonets with Xixia warriors.

The attack method of these three thousand musketeers is almost invincible.

In addition, Guo Hao personally led [-] cavalry to attack places that the [-] Musketeers could not attack, and provided ammunition support for the [-] Musketeers.

As a result, Xining City, which had [-] to [-] sergeants and [-] to [-] fearless soldiers, was forcibly taken away by Guo Hao.

After telling the story of the Battle of Xining, Brother Li Cha looked at the musket in Li Ganshun's hand, and said: "This musket has a longer range and greater power than a crossbow. The key is that its armor-piercing ability is too strong. , even the heavy armor on the iron kite can't defend against it, and when it gets close, it can also be used as a long spear. The Chinese army equipped with it is simply not something that our Xia army can defeat. This is me Why do you not agree to go to war with the Chinese army?"

Li Qianshun didn't believe it, and said, "Is this musket so powerful?"

Brother Li Cha nodded solemnly, and then said: "It may be more powerful than what I said. The Chinese army should be equipped with muskets not long ago, and they are still figuring out how to fight with muskets. When the Chinese army fully masters the musket In terms of tactics, I think that no army in this world should be able to defeat the Chinese army."

Hearing Brother Li Cha's words, Li Qianshun's pupils shrank!
After being silent for a while, Li Qianshun's eyes moved, and then he looked at Brother Li Cha, and asked, "This musket only has a piece of wood, an iron pipe and some miscellaneous things. The cost should not be high, right?"

Brother Li Cha knew what Li Qianshun wanted to say.

To be honest, Brother Li Cha didn't want to hit Li Qianshun, but he couldn't hide this matter at all, so Brother Li Cha could only say: "It shouldn't be high, but... we Daxia can't imitate it."

Li Qianshun was puzzled and said, "Why can't it be imitated?"

Brother Li Cha said: "I asked our Daxia craftsmen, and they said that this wooden support is not difficult to make, even the seemingly complicated ignition device, given enough time, they are sure to imitate it. The biggest problem is the barrel."

After a pause, Brother Li Cha continued: "First of all, we don't have the material to make this gun barrel in Daxia. The craftsmen said that the fine iron used for this gun barrel is the only one they have ever seen in their lives. It is not only hard, but also resistant to high temperatures. , and has a strong toughness, this kind of refined iron must be refined by a special method, and it is absolutely difficult for our Great Xia to refine this refined iron without years of exploration."

Brother Li Cha took the musket from Li Ganshun, pointed the barrel at himself, and said at the same time: "The material is only one aspect. The craftsmen said that if you really can't make this kind of fine iron, you can force it." Using ordinary iron, the result is nothing more than the fact that the gun barrel often cannot withstand the high temperature of the gunpowder and hurts itself. The reason why we can’t imitate this musket is technical. The craftsmen say that the gun barrel is not cast, nor It is not forged by the iron-clad method, but drilled out abruptly. The craftsmen said that this requires extremely high precision, otherwise it would be impossible to drill this straight and deep hole. The craftsmen also said that it is the top craftsman. , Drilling such a deep hole may not have a [-]% success rate, the most important thing is that it takes too long, it may take dozens of days to drill such a barrel."

Having said that, Brother Li Cha took the musket to the oil lamp, then pointed to the unclear rifling inside and said to Li Qianshun and the others: "Did you see that there is actually another universe in this thin hole, This is a circle of thin lines. The craftsmen separated a gun barrel and saw that these thin lines were engraved on the inner wall of the barrel. How did you do that."

Brother Li Cha asked someone to bring a few more paper bullet casings, and then tore one of them to show to Li Qianshun and others, and said at the same time: "This is called a paper bullet casing. It is a paper bullet, covered with grease on the outside, and filled with A certain amount of gunpowder and a bullet. When using it, the sergeant only needs to bite the bullet open with his teeth, pour part of the gunpowder inside into the fire pool, and then stuff the remaining gunpowder and bullet into the barrel with a cleaning rod. That's enough, it's very convenient. This kind of paper shell is also very difficult for us to imitate in Daxia. First of all, the gunpowder in it is something we haven't been able to completely conquer over the years, and the oiled paper outside, the craftsmen said, also passed Manufactured and processed by special techniques, and the projectile is not made of iron, and the iron one cannot be so heavy."

After taking a deep breath, Brother Li Cha concluded: "In short, this musket cannot be imitated by our Great Xia, at least not within a short period of time."

Li Qianshun looked at the seemingly insignificant musket in Brother Li Cha's hands, with a look of disbelief—he really didn't expect that muskets were so difficult to make.

Li Renzhong asked: "Is there no weakness in this musket?"

Brother Li Cha said: "Yes, its rate of fire is not as fast as that of a bow and arrow. It shoots once, and a skilled archer can even shoot five or six arrows."

After hearing Brother Li Cha's words, everyone, including Li Qianshun, breathed a sigh of relief, and thought, "Then there should still be a fight."

however--

Brother Li Cha was not as optimistic as Li Qianshun and the others.

Brother Li Cha quickly said again: "But it takes several years to train an archer. The best archers rarely can be trained for less than ten years, and I only spent three hours on this musket. You can achieve two or three out of ten."

"His!"

Li Qianshun and the others all gasped!
They are all extremely intelligent people, and they understand what Brother Li Cha's words really mean.

If muskets are so easy to master, and Dazhong has hundreds of millions of people, then Dazhong has one of the most terrifying abilities-war endurance.

Just imagine, even if Xia Jun can barely draw with the Chinese Army, both sides will always die the same people.

But Xixia's warriors need several years to replenish one, while Dazhong's warriors can replenish one in just a few hours.

With a total population of just over 300 million, how could Xixia consume too much Dazhong?
Therefore, what Li Qianshun thought before, dragging down Dazhong, was a complete joke.

Li Qianshun sat down on his dragon chair!

After a long while, Li Qianshun said: "Let's discuss how to condemn Dazhong's reckless use of weapons..."

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(End of this chapter)