Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 105 Baojia training musket (46)

In mid-October, the weather began to become cold and cloudy. At first it rained continuously, and then the temperature suddenly dropped, so the rainwater froze on the ground, making it very slippery to walk on.

The agricultural production in the village is proceeding in an orderly manner. When the first snow began to fall in late October, the village welcomed two guests, one from Laizhou and the other from Qingzhou. Both came to look for them. Sun Xin discusses agency rights.

For a while, Hu Cheng was preparing to open the pharmacy in Yuncheng County, and there was a lot of noise. After hearing about it, both of them became concerned. After inquiring about Sun Ji in Dengzhou for a while, they decided that Sun Ji's business here was really good, so they came to talk together today. Sun Kee operating rights in both states.

This time, Sun Xin gave the two the same proportion as Hu Cheng, but he didn't promise them that there would be [-]% of the dividend after the expansion, but even this made them quite happy.

After discussing the agreement, the two signed a contract with Sun Xin on the same day, and went back to prepare their own pharmacies.

The weather was cold, and the work on the land gradually stopped. With free farmers to train, there was no shortage of medicine workers in Sun Xinzhuang. In his free time, he came to an open space in Zhuangzi, which had been It was transformed into a barracks, and Luan Tingyu took turns doing military training with the farmer.

Seeing Sun Xin coming, Luan Tingyu quickly got off his horse and asked his subordinates to continue to lead more than [-] dealers to practice the offensive formation, while he walked up to Sun Xin.

The difficulty of popularizing military equipment is far higher than imagined. The basic equipment that Sun Xin chose for his own armed forces did not include rifled guns, but smoothbore guns equipped with bayonets. .

Not only because of the high production cost of rifled guns, but more importantly, Sun Xin discovered that with the logistical capabilities of this era, it is impossible to support rifled guns for war.

Gunpowder is cheap, and the main cost of equipping firearms is to buy guns and ammunition.

First of all, the barrel of a rifled gun should use good iron, while the barrel of a smoothbore gun only needs to be made of poorer quality wrought iron. The cost difference can be doubled after the difference in materials.

In addition, the rifled gun needs the best miniature bullets, at least the binding made of very high-purity lead, otherwise there is a slight problem with the bullets, and the rifling that is so hard to get can be smoothed out in just a few shots. up.The lead bullets of musket guns are much more convenient, just take a small mold and pour them casually.

A series of more complex investments such as maintenance on the battlefield and early military training will increase the cost of training riflemen several times.

After considering the training cost, equipment cost, and logistics supply cost, Sun Xinyi chose the rifled gun without hesitation, and even gave up the Kayfalcon bayonet.

A socket bayonet can be made in ten minutes, but it takes a craftsman half a day to grind it out.As for the question of what kind of bayonet sleeve may be skewed and loose after the battle, Sun Xin and Tang Long found after research that the simpler the thing, the higher the fault tolerance rate. After a battle with the bayonet, pick up a stone and beat the sleeve The bayonet can be reinstalled tightly, and a smoothbore gun is used, so why use a complicated tenon structure?
It is impossible for the quality of soldiers these days to require them to be able to memorize too complicated content of firearms.Being able to train the peasants and soldiers to know how to listen to the golden drum to unify the guns has already consumed Luan Tingyu's countless brain cells.

After some practice, Sun Xin finally understood why the early Musketeers had to line up to shoot, not only because of the formation requirements, but more importantly because of the convenience of command.When everyone stands together, the officer can see at a glance who did not fire the gun, and then yell at him.

Doing movements with everyone will make it much easier for farmers these days.

Just point to the shooting direction the officer said, and mechanically fire the gun.

For everyone to learn to shoot independently with a rifled gun, and even learn the three-three system, that is not at all the level that a non-production farmer may be trained to these days.

And Luan Tingyu has been amazed since he came to Sun Xinzhuangzi and saw the muskets Sun Xin equipped for the army.

Although Luan Tingyu has never served in the army, he has been a teacher for a long time and has led Zhuang Ding in many small-scale battles. His understanding of military affairs is far deeper than ordinary people.

After carefully listening to Sun Xin's series of theories, he quickly determined that what Sun Xin said was revolutionary in this era.

The issue of which is stronger, the smoothbore gun or the bow and arrow, is not a problem for Luan Tingyu at all. The difference between the smoothbore gun and the crossbow is not the difference in range and speed of fire. There is only one fundamental difference between the two—that is power source.

No matter how much bows and crossbows are improved, they cannot change the fact that their power source is human arm strength, while the power source of musket is chemical energy encapsulated in gunpowder.

This difference determines the inevitable future of cold weapons and hot weapons. As long as there is enough gunpowder, a person can continue to fight with a musket, but for archers, heavy arrows are no more than a hundred.

A person with a loaded musket can aim at the target and wait for an hour before firing, but no matter how capable an archer is, it is impossible for a bow and arrow to aim at the target and take ten breaths to ensure that the bow and arrow shot out have enough power .

What's more, this thing is actually cheaper than a good crossbow, and a musketeer can carry hundreds of rounds of ammunition with him, and the lead bullets shot only cost a penny, and the maintenance work is even more expensive than a delicate crossbow. Easy, the training cost and supply difficulty can make crossbowmen envious.

What Luan Tingyu paid more attention to was the series of rules for queuing and shooting that Sun Xin introduced to him.

In Sun Xin's opinion, this rule seems a bit too simple compared to the various tactical actions of later generations, but in Luan Tingyu's opinion, it is very easy to use.

He only needs to teach these peasants and soldiers what kind of actions each team needs to do when they hear a password when they shoot in three bursts, and then he can use a set of passwords to make an army continuously shoot towards the target he pointed at. There are almost unlimited sub-drugs.

When the enemy is approaching, as long as you shout two more passwords, your long-range shooting army can immediately transform into a melee team with everyone holding short spears. This is simply amazing.

In Luan Tingyu's view, the most shining aspect of this method of warfare is that it is stupid enough.

Luan Tingyu knew that the real source of the army's combat power was that the army could unify the strength of all soldiers on one point and output quickly. Clenching five fingers into a fist is always better than poking people with five fingers separately. The real reason why an army of ten can defeat ten rogues.

And this set of stupid and stupid system requires one direction, advancing and retreating at the same time, firing guns together, which is the ultimate in considering the combination of sergeant forces.

Luan Tingyu confidently looked at the peasants and soldiers who obeyed orders to turn left and right in the distance and said to Sun Xin: "Although these peasants are still moving slowly, if they are pulled out, they can win even against twice as many bandits. There are more than 100 soldiers in this group who can fight in the village after training, do you still want to practice?"

Sun Xin recruited farmers to train, not only to take care of their food, but also to supplement their food. Luan Tingyu thought it would be enough now that he had such a combat power.

"Naturally, you have to practice."

Sun Xin said with a smile: "Our Zhuangzi is getting bigger and bigger, how can we get a foothold in the future without any capital?"

(End of this chapter)