People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 275 Lao Zhu is shocked! A hundred meters away, a flintlock shot smashed through the target and penetrated the wooden board!

The group followed Zhu Gaochi to the weapons testing site of the Military Academy of Daming Engineering Institute.

This is a fairly empty flat land.

There were targets, there were gauges, there were flintlocks ready for test firing.

Before reaching the venue, I could smell a strong smell of gunpowder from a distance.

There was also a large amount of burned saltpeter left on the ground.

This shows that they have tested here countless times.

It can be seen that they must have gone through countless test firings here.

Zhu Gaochi has a very good quality. He loves to delve into all kinds of novel things.

His personality is also calmer and he is able to concentrate on studying.

Chen Han was very relieved to hand over these things to him, like flintlock guns and red cannons, which were weapons and equipment that were hundreds of years ahead of their time.

When Zhu Gaochi led the guys to the test site, it was already ready.

There were more than a dozen soldiers standing there like javelins.

To their right stood a musket almost as tall as them.

It should be noted that the so-called three-eyed blunderbuss in the Ming Dynasty was completely different from the long spear style similar to the Sanba Dagai seen today.

The so-called musket in the early Ming Dynasty looked like a long bamboo tube with a three-eye iron pipe inserted into the front end that was thicker than the bamboo tube and about the same thickness as an arm.

When it's time to launch, put gunpowder in the iron pipe, fill it with iron, and then have a lead at the bottom of the iron pipe.

When you want to use it, light the fuse and then aim it forward. After the fuse burns and ignites the gunpowder, you can launch it.

Although such a three-eyed gun can also play a certain role, the lethality is within fifty meters, and it is still very powerful.

But what is very troublesome is that firstly, it takes a long time to fill the gunpowder, and secondly, it is not powerful enough and accurate enough.

The bird blunderbuss used in the later Ming Dynasty was the Rumi blunderbuss from Turkey until the Jiajing period to the Wanli period, and even in the Tianqi period in the late Ming Dynasty.

The blunderbuss appeared only after imitation by Xu Guangqi, a scientist of the Ming Dynasty, and the muskets at that time had a similar style to the long guns used in modern times.

And even in that form, it is filled with gunpowder.

At that time, such muskets could be classified as matchlocks.

Even the matchlock gun has its advantages. It improves the power and range of shooting. With the addition of a cover, the accuracy is also greatly improved.

Because it lengthens the barrel, the bullet forms a relatively stable trajectory after it is fired.

So the accuracy is greatly improved.

However, the filling method and ignition method are similar to those of the three-eyed gun. The gunpowder still needs to be filled slowly.

Then you have to use a long iron bar to compact the gunpowder from the front opening, fill it with bullets, and then light the fuse to launch it, which is still very slow.

It was not until the emergence of post-loading muskets that this shortcoming was finally made up for.

No more filling that slowly.

However, a problem arose at this time, that is, this kind of post-loading musket was very troublesome in rainy days.

If you can't light a fire, you can't use it. At that time, the musket becomes a fire stick.

And after another one or two hundred years, the method of using flint to ignite gunpowder finally appeared.

This is the flintlock gun Chen Han wants to use now.

The flintlock gun was invented by the French clockmaker Mahan in the mid-16th century.

Mahan added a piece of flint to the jaw of the hammer of his breechloading musket.

He also has a firing anvil next to the fire hole, so he can pull the trigger when he needs to shoot.

Under the action of the spring, the flint was hit hard against the fire door, causing sparks to ignite the gunpowder.

This firing mechanism is called an impact flintlock engine.

The advantages of percussion flintlock guns are self-evident.

It greatly simplifies the design process, improves the firing rate and shooting accuracy, is easy to use, and has low cost and facilitates mass production.

This is the flintlock gun that Chen Han asked Zhu Gaochi and others to test.

Even if Chen Han has given a complete set of drawings, there are still various troubles that will be encountered.

But when it came to actual production, I discovered that there were many problems to be solved.

The first is airtightness and the materials, even the flint, need to be precisely measured.

It is impossible to show these things bit by bit through data.

Therefore, Zhu Gaochi and others need to polish and improve bit by bit.

Why did Chen Han spend a lot of effort and money to introduce a large number of gunpowder scientists and engineers from the private sector?

Just because many modern technologies seem simple, but when they were actually implemented in the Ming Dynasty, you will find that materials alone have stumped many technological inventions.

Zhu Gaochi led a team of more than 100 people to work on it for a full year, and he still tried it day and night for a year before he finally succeeded.

And this is one of the inventions that Zhu Gaochi is most proud of today.

So after they completely succeeded in the experiment, they couldn't wait to invite the old man to come over and take a look at their results.

Zhu Yuanzhang also ordered mass production immediately after hearing about this incident.

And now he wants to show Chen Han and the others how powerful their grandson is.

Even if the old man knows that these are actually the design drawings given by Chen Han and has made great contributions, this does not prevent the old man from showing off.

Lan Yu has also been exposed to firearms, especially three-eyed blunderbuss, and has installed many of them in his army.

So when he saw the ten soldiers holding muskets that were completely different from what he imagined, he was stunned for a moment.

The iron piece of the three-eyed gun they saw before was only as long as a forearm, and the rest was just a bamboo tube.

But what Zhu Gaochi and the others showed now were actually muskets that were more than one and a half meters long, and most of them were made of iron pipes.

This has greatly exceeded Lan Yu's cognition.

As he walked, he said to his son Lan Chun: "Isn't it right for my father to call you to study in this engineering college? Look at this flintlock gun suddenly appearing. It is impossible for us generals who often fight in wars to recognize it.

If I don't go to the battlefield for a few years, I probably won't know anything. "

When Lan Chun heard what his father said, he nodded quickly, "No, father, you made a wise decision."

Chen Han also said later: "With the rapid changes in our Daming Institute of Engineering, it is true that it is different every day. If we do not keep up with the times, we may really fall behind as you said.

Even if you really go to the battlefield, if you don't know these things, it will be quite troublesome. "Chen Han didn't mean to show off here, he was just stating a fact.

Nowadays, as Daming Institute of Engineering invests more in science and technology, it can be seen that many technologies that will subvert people's imagination will definitely be produced in this process.

When Zhu Yuanzhang and others were ready, Zhu Gaochi immediately became the most professional commentator: "Grandpa Huang, sir, the general, and my brothers and sisters,

After a year of hard research and development, we finally completed the research and development of the flintlock gun with qualified materials, up-to-date technology, gratifying power, and gratifying accuracy.

After the flintlock gun was successfully developed, we went through a month of testing and hundreds of improvements, and finally presented the most perfect aspect of the flintlock gun.

Now, at the request of Grandpa Huang, and with the joint efforts of the Military Academy, the Academy of Sciences, and our task force, the test firing session is once again held.

The purpose is to let everyone fully understand the power of the flintlock gun developed by our Academy of Sciences. "

Zhu Gaochi is now a seventeen-year-old young man. He was an adult in the Ming Dynasty, so his tone is very calm and he can even talk eloquently.

It can be seen that staying in the School of Engineering for the past two years has allowed him to fully develop all his abilities.

Zhu Yuanzhang was particularly pleased.

What are the elderly people most proud of?

Isn’t it the children and grandchildren who have achieved all the achievements?

Compared to his own achievements, those are all in the past tense.

It would be even more gratifying for him if he could train his children and grandchildren to become talents.

Zhu Gaochi said again, "Everyone, the position where you are standing now is a full one hundred steps away from our target, which is thirty-three feet.

Within this range, the flintlock gun we developed still has huge lethality.

Our target is made of pigskin, filled with a large amount of hay. Hitting this human-shaped target is equivalent to hitting a human body.

Behind the pigskin target, there are wooden boards.

I won’t say much now, let’s take a look at its power. "

After Zhu Gaochi finished his introduction, he picked up the red triangular flag on the side and raised it with a bang.

The ten well-trained soldiers instantly raised their guns and aimed at the target about a hundred meters away.

Then the flag in Zhu Gaochi's hand fell hard: "Let go!!"

Bang bang! !

Ten gunmen pulled the triggers almost at the same time.

Under the shocked eyes of Lan Yu and the others, they were activated without using a fire stick to light the fuse.

What shocked them even more was that they saw targets a hundred meters away through the telescope, and at least seven of them hit the target directly.

The target was scattered with a crash. After the bullet penetrated the pigskin human-shaped target, it hit the five-centimetre-thick wooden board behind the target, and the wooden board was directly penetrated.

Lan Yu took a deep breath after seeing such power.

It's really awesome.

At such a distance, it can actually penetrate the target.

It can also penetrate the wooden planks behind it.

If this is really applied to the battlefield, one shot can kill the enemy a hundred steps away.

This is a battlefield artifact.

Lan Yu didn't see the soldier take out the fire stick and light the fuse just now.

Then the flag in Zhu Gaochi's hand was raised, and the soldiers immediately began to fill the gunpowder.

When he waved the flag again, he shouted: "Let it go!!"

The soldiers immediately opened fire.

The interval in between was only a short ten seconds.

This is six or seven times faster than the previous three-eyed firecracker that required a minute to fill the preloaded ammunition, compact the gunpowder, and then light the fuse to launch.

Although it is not yet ready to be loaded and fired like modern muskets.

But it only takes about ten seconds to launch once, which is already very fast.

When the sound of muskets sounded again, Lan Yu and these second-generation soldiers finally understood the power and practicality of this flintlock gun.

The reason why those muskets with pre-filled gunpowder are slow is because a lot of time is wasted in loading gunpowder.

And in order to save time and effort, they also saw that these musketeers had specially prepared gunpowder bags and bullet bags on their waists.

These things are specially set up for flintlock guns.

Everyone was shocked after seeing this scene.

Because this is the shock brought by crossing the times.

Because this is the effect Chen Han needs.

Finally succeeded! !

In fact, other industrial achievements were not as successful as the flintlock gun today, and the surprise to him was even greater.

Chen Han understood very well that the Ming Dynasty must have powerful weapons if it wanted to expand to the outside world. This may be his wishful thinking, but he must abide by this rule.

Now that he had seen the success of the flintlock, he was ignited with a raging flame of war.

He knew that with this batch of flintlock guns he would be ahead of the times.

When the time comes, let Lan Yu and the others equip themselves with such guns and go to fight the pirate army led by Chen Zuyi on the sea. They will probably be able to beat the crap out of them.

At that time, the prospects of the Ming Dynasty will be very bright.

Moreover, such flintlock guns are also quite useful when used to defend against the Tatars and Oaras in the north.

From now on, we will use the economy and the weapons in our hands to make the nomads in the north understand that cooperation with the Ming Dynasty is the most correct way they can choose. Otherwise, they will be ended by the era.

After Zhu Yuanzhang saw this scene, he was stunned for a moment, and then clapped loudly, "Good, good, good, very good!!"

We have never been so happy in our lives. Well, with such good things, we can already imagine what kind of situation our Ming Dynasty will face in the future.

Flintlock, flintlock, if only we had such a weapon when we were young.

Who are the Beiyuan Tatars in the north?

What do Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang mean?

Okay, that’s really great!

I really didn’t expect to see our Ming Dynasty possess such good weapons in our lifetime. "

Lan Yu and the others also stepped forward and picked up the flintlock gun. They looked at it carefully in their hands. After looking at it over and over again, they were amazed.

Although this was just a small change, the shock it brought surprised everyone.

Zhu Gaochi said directly, "The reason why we can study it is because of the drawings and materials provided by Mr.

No steel, no sealing provided by Eucommia rubber,

There is no way we can complete the improvement of the musket so quickly.

So this low credit belongs to Mr. "

Chen Han waved his hand: "No, no, no, without your arduous efforts over the past year, there would be no flintlock gun.

I have only given you a foundation, and it is you who have given wings to this foundation, so there is no need to be modest. The credit should be yours, and it belongs to you. "

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(End of this chapter)