Lord of Rot

Chapter 243 The Musket Is Very Powerful
After receiving Li Qi's order, Quick Blade led his soldiers and followed Li Qi to the shooting range that had been planned in the dense forest.

It is extremely far away from the residential area, so we are not afraid of shooting to disturb the people.

After the queue arrived, everyone saw neatly arranged wooden and iron pipes.

There is also a porcupine soldier's breastplate.

Target paper was pasted on tree trunks in the distance, but they found no bows and arrows.

Is it to practice throwing with these iron pipes?

Some of the soldiers present have seen the level of the lord's throwing with their own eyes, and some have personally experienced it. No matter how thick the armor is, as long as they are hit, they will be overwhelmed with pain.

Li Qi walked to the gun rack and picked up a musket.

This is a flintlock gun made after design.

By pulling the trigger, the flint strikes ignite the gunpowder and ejects a metal pellet from the barrel.

The flintlock gun is still in its infancy. Although the inconvenience of using a matchlock to ignite the gunpowder has been basically eliminated, the usage in other aspects is not much different.

For example, projectiles still require muzzle loading.

Load the projectile from the muzzle at an angle.

Then pour the gunpowder into the medicine pool.

The basic working principle of the whole flintlock gun is to strike the fire sickle with a spring-loaded flint clip to ignite the gunpowder. This design is not too difficult, but there are many small details in the design.

Especially the spring, even with Li Qi's own description, or even drawing it out with a pen, the whole copying work is very difficult.

The method of using flint to ignite gunpowder is much worse than Betty using magic to release it. First of all, it is accuracy. Magic can effectively help adjust the angle. It is not an exaggeration to say that the bullet comes from the heart.

The second is to increase the power.

It can be said that with the same gun, the power of the bullets fired by ordinary people is completely different from the bullets released by magic.

But in the same way, the cost of training a spellcaster and the cost of training an ordinary person who can shoot are completely different things.

Ordinary people can shoot, which is more cost-effective, easy to train, and not afraid of damage.

After making the flintlock, if Li Qi needs it, he can pull out a team that can shoot within a day, and achieve very terrifying results in battle.

Li Qi first poured the gunpowder into it. The gunpowder was filled in a ox horn bag, airtight and waterproof.

The cost of such a bag of gunpowder is 2 silver months, and the real gunshot is worth ten thousand taels of gold!

Let the soldiers present have a bag of gunpowder, excluding other costs, it will cost 2-3 gold days.

Then stuff the projectile wrapped in paper from the muzzle, then remove the stick stuck on the muzzle, and stab it from the muzzle.

It didn't take a few seconds in total.

Finally, he set up his gun, roughly aimed at a distant target stuck on a tree, and pulled the trigger.

"bang"

The thunder-like sound startled the soldiers present.

Thick smoke came out of the muzzle, with a pungent smell.

"Go and have a look." Li Qi blew on the hot and smoking gun barrel, and pointed to the tree in the distance.

The target on the trunk was blackened, and everyone could see it as long as they turned their heads.

After hearing Li Qi's order, some soldiers walked over to watch.

They stretched out their fingers and dug into the hole made by the musket, but they couldn't dig out the bullet inside.

"It's so deep!" the soldier exclaimed.

Quick Blade knew that Li Qi had been researching new weapons, but he didn't expect it to be so terrifying.

If this iron shot hits a person, can the armor hold it up?

Can the powerful armor of the porcupine collar be resisted?
Li Qi gave Kuai Ren a look, Kuai Ren understood, and blew his whistle fiercely.

"beep--!"

The soldiers returned quickly and stood up neatly.

It has become their subconscious behavior to obey the whistle.

Li Qi held up the gun in his hand and said, "This is called a musket, a kind of alchemy weapon."

"Alchemy weapon?!" The soldiers were horrified.

That is something that only scholars can make, full of wisdom that others can't understand at all.

No wonder there is such a terrifying power, there is not only wisdom in it, there must be magic, otherwise why can such a terrifying power be released?

They did not see bowstrings on muskets.

"The method of using this weapon is very simple, as simple as I just demonstrated, and each of you, become a musketeer!"

Li Qi planned to use the musket as the basic long-range weapon of the porcupine soldiers.

Now he has been able to get the alchemy materials of the Three Forks River Fort at the lowest price possible, and the cost of shooting has been reduced to the lowest.

He would definitely lose money if he lost a battle with muskets, but as long as he agreed, even if only a lot of corpses were left behind, he would make a sure profit.

The soldiers were excited when they heard that they could also become users of this alchemical weapon.

Because there are not enough muskets, we are temporarily in groups of three, each with a musket.

Then Li Qi taught step by step, and seriously explained the precautions.

In particular, eyes are not allowed to look into the barrel of the gun, that is courting death.

Following the steps taught by Li Qi, the soldiers who couldn't wait stood up in a row and shot at the tree trunk in the distance.

"Bang bang bang!"

The shots were fired at the same time, and the huge explosion sounded, resounding through the entire sky.

It's just that after each shot, there will be a force on the barrel of the gun. In order to adapt to this force and to make their aim more accurate, they can only try to find experience.

Every gun has its own temper, and everyone must find their own shooting habits to better adapt to the gun.

Li Qi walked towards the quick blade who loved muskets, and asked, "Do you feel the difference between this weapon and a crossbow?"

"It's not as accurate as bows and arrows." Kuai Ren nodded and said, "The shooting range is farther than that of crossbows, and the accuracy is a bit worse."

"But!" Quick Blade's emotions were suddenly agitated, his cheeks flushed slightly: "The musket is effortless to use! Although the sound is loud and you can't sneak attack, as long as you have enough gunpowder and bullets, you can shoot all the time, and the gunpowder and bullets are empty. After the projectile, the person will not be exhausted."

This is the first very huge advantage of the musket, which saves effort to use.

The training of archers is definitely not cheaper than that of cavalry.

How many arrows can an archer shoot in a battle?And the more you shoot, the worse your accuracy will be.

The problem with the crossbow is similar, it is easier than the bow, but pulling the string is also a laborious task, and the speed cannot be compared with the musket at all.

During the time from pulling the string to the crossbow, loading the arrow, and shooting, the musket has already fired 2-3 shots.

If you use the classic three-stage strike tactic, you can almost achieve non-interval and non-stop shooting.

Quick Blade continued: "A person without training can quickly master a musket in a short period of time."

This means that if you let a group of militia farmers train for half a day, they can become a decent musketeer and go straight to the battlefield, and their lethality is no less than that of a crossbowman.

And the range of muskets is obviously greater than that of small crossbows.

Large ballista?

Li Qi has a target weapon, which is a gun that has not yet been manufactured.

(End of this chapter)