Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 91
The firearms drill is very lengthy and boring. It is not as "passionate" as a cavalry charge at all. It is to release cannons, small cannons, firecrackers, and crossbows in sequence, and then reload, release, and reload in an orderly manner as much as possible. to loop.

Guo Kang's only requirement for them is to be as stable as possible.

He imitated the "cheats" in the hands of his adoptive father, and split the process of loading, aiming and shooting various firearms into the most basic movements.In order to prevent the soldiers from lacking in education, or from expressing themselves unclearly, I also specially imitated the appearance in the cheat book, and drew all the moves one by one.

Usually, he took the soldiers to practice these movements in front of models of artillery and muskets every day like doing exercises.Don't stop until everyone can do it with their eyes closed.

Among them, the casting tricks of artillery are the most complicated.Guo Kang found many skilled gunners and officers, modified and tested it many times, and finally settled on 28 basic movements.Everyone also nicknamed it "Guo's Zhentian 28 Style".

Guo Kang doesn't ask how fast they are.After all, firearms are so slow these days, no matter how much time is spent, it won't be much faster.Instead of chasing the time for a few breaths, it is better to try to do all the movements in place first.

He even actually found a water clock that could beat drums regularly, moved it to the venue, and watched everyone follow the rhythm.

This mechanical clock-like movement is quite boring in Li Xuanying's view.He couldn't stay any longer, and ran to lie down on the nearby haystack, unwilling to move.

Guo Kang took a pen and counted while recording.Seeing that Li Xuanying had slipped away, he stood up and tried to pull him back.

"Why are you looking for me?" Li Xuanying complained about this: "Can't you just watch them practice repetitive movements there? I have to watch this kind of basic skills too?"

"This period of time is no longer practicing basic skills." Guo Kang pointed out: "I have already started practicing distance calculation and position adjustment."

"I don't think it's the same anyway?" Li Xuanying obviously didn't believe it.

"The hit rate is much higher than before, can't you see it?" Guo Kang was a little surprised.

He flipped through his notebook and read: "Three months ago, all the guns here fired a volley, and a total of 36 shells could be fired in an hour. For the area occupied by a common 500-man formation, the average hit was 1.89 rounds. This month, All the old-fashioned guns have been replaced, and the lower gun mounts have been changed, and now they can fire an average of 41 rounds per hour, with 2.93 hits."

"The main problem is that the guns are not working, the reloading is too slow, and there is something wrong with this batch of gun barrels. The observation post said that the ballistic curve does not match the expected, and the end drops very abruptly. I adjusted the shooting table, and it is estimated that this time the hit expectation can be raised to 3.73 rounds The above. Of course, if you want to obtain the actual blocking effect, you still need to try..."

"Okay, okay, don't read it." Li Xuanying hurriedly stopped him: "It sounds like my head is getting bigger. You are fighting a war like doing arithmetic problems. I can't help you even if I think about it..."

"Why can't I help you?" Guo Kang turned his notes to another page: "The regular marching speed of infantry on the battlefield, the regular marching speed of cavalry on the battlefield, the charging speed, the time to cross the trench. Mobility, including common plains and muddy land in Eastern Europe, mountainous areas in Asia Minor, sandy land that may be encountered..."

Seeing that Li Xuanying was about to faint again, he had no choice but to end the topic: "Anyway, I asked Tuo Huan to help me measure these. Now he is very busy, so it's up to you."

"Then call me when you really need my help." Li Xuanying began to bargain: "You have someone to watch, and you are motivated, but I don't. I just practiced with the little princess for a long time, and I was exhausted. Let me Let's talk later."

"Who is looking at me? Why are you looking at me? I don't know how to spray cannonballs." Guo Kang disagreed: "Look at the cannons."

"Hey, don't you understand?" Li Xuanying shook her head and said, "Zhu Dajiao really likes these iron guys, but the princess doesn't understand artillery. I can't stand you pretending to shoot here for a long time, you Guess why she can watch it? You don’t think she’s really here to watch the guns, do you?”

"Uh……"

"Okay, let me rest for a while." Li Xuanying continued to lie down, ignoring him.

Guo Kang had no choice but to complete the daily shelling test by himself, and then shouted him when he started to move.The crowd marched slowly in a formation with carts on both sides and artillery carts in the middle.

This time, they also brought two more trench bridges in the team, which are carts used for bridge construction.Because the so-called "plain" terrain is actually not flat at all, it is normal to encounter various pits and ditches in the wild battlefield.

During the last rehearsal, Guo Kang miscalculated a natural slope, causing a long cannon to fall directly into the ditch. Afterwards, he found several cows before pulling it out.

In such a situation, infantry and cavalry can go directly, but artillery vehicles are very troublesome.Sometimes it can be bypassed, but sometimes it is too time-consuming, it is better to build a bridge directly on the ditch.

The load capacity, span, and mobility of the trench bridge, of course, have to go through some calculations.Guo Kang made preparations in advance, but the scene was still very busy.

Guo Kang doesn't have a permanent staff yet, so basically he has to figure everything out by himself.After finally delivering the cannon cart to its destination and firing at the target in time, he was relieved and felt more tired than Li Xuanying.

He sent someone to notify the tower, saying that the drill was over and everyone could come down.

Theodora saw that he was a little tired, but before he had time to comfort him, Zhu Wenkui also took a notebook that he did not know where, and walked over on his own, and started talking to Guo Kang without even saying hello. to the data.

Theodora was quite dissatisfied, but the two of them were focused on cannons, and they had no time to control her for the time being.

Zhu Wenkui questioned Guo Kang's artillery configuration, thinking that the cannons and small cannons should not be marched together, which would slow down the speed too much.

Guo Kang believes that it is more reasonable to match firearms of different ranges and sizes, but Zhu Wenkui believes that weapons that cannot be brought to the battlefield do not exist.Field battles are not sieges. Instead of using a heavy artillery with a range of three miles and an hour of action, it is better to bring a light artillery with a range of one mile and an action of two to ten minutes, and then push it in front of the enemy.

As for the heavy artillery, there is no need to consider letting it go too fast, just stay behind and scare each other with the enemy.Zhu Wenkui believes that this kind of weapon mainly plays a psychological role. In field combat, the actual killing ability is very limited, and it is basically just luck.

Its main effect is to make soldiers think "we can fight back"-because being beaten and not being able to fight back is a very demoralizing situation, even if it does not cause many casualties.In addition, there is no need to think too much, because according to calculations, after the entire battle, the lethality of the heavy artillery is far inferior to that of the front-line light artillery.

Guo Kang could not accept this, and believed that there was a problem with his algorithm, did not consider the impact of position on the performance of artillery, and underestimated the real killing effect of heavy artillery.

The two began to recalculate on the spot, so that Theodora couldn't get in the conversation at all.

To make matters worse, Jeanne rode the pig and came back from nowhere.

She said that she found a high place just now and has been watching the drill here.Although she hadn't calculated it before, she seemed to have a good understanding, and she was able to sum up Guo Kang's intentions and estimate the approximate result.So, she also smoothly joined the discussion directly.

For ease of description, she pushed Theodora aside and began to draw diagrams on the ground.

Theodora tried to join in, but Jeanna felt that she was in the way, and said that Nurhachi knew more about artillery than she did, so she was asked to stay aside.In this way, he successfully pushed her away.

Theodora was furious, but she really didn't understand this.And Guo Kang is indeed very busy now, and he doesn't even have time to talk to her.Forcibly interrupting him at this time, I'm afraid it will make everyone unhappy.

At this time, Li Xuanying yawned and passed by.

Theodora turned her head and found that everyone was very busy, even Captain Jeska and Brother Zerick were climbing up and down on the chariot, checking equipment.

Theodora became more and more angry, so she turned around and reprimanded Li Xuanying.

(End of this chapter)