I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 227
Li Tian was a little confused, "The firecracker is the firecracker, why are the names of the lengths different?"

Seeing Li Tian was puzzled, Liu Baohe hurriedly explained to him,
"Your Majesty may not be aware that the gun generally refers to a musket that can be held in one hand, and is generally used for close combat.

Most of the long-barreled muskets are used to fight cavalry, and the range is relatively long, so they are mostly called muskets. "

After listening to his explanation, Li Tian finally understood. It turned out that there were still these sayings in the early days of the birth of firearms.

The first two so-called muskets were far from the muskets he had imagined, so Li Tian looked at the last box and asked,

"What's the last one?"

The contents of this box seemed to be very heavy, Liu Baohe spent a long time trying to take out the contents.

On a long iron rod, there are three things similar to the first firecracker inlaid on the front.

Holding this thing in his hands, Liu Baohe introduced with a gratified expression,
"Your Majesty, this is the best three-eyed blunderbuss in current military battles. It can fire three bullets at the same time, and its lethality is much stronger than that of a single-barreled musket!"

After finishing speaking, his expression darkened, and he smiled wryly,
"It's just that these three-eyed guns are troublesome to load, and they have a limited range and are heavy. They are useful for defense, but they are just..."

Li Tian was scornful in his heart, "This thing is like a mallet, if it works well, it will be hell."

The more I looked at it, the more I was disappointed. At this time, Daming, not to mention the flintlock gun, hadn't even invented the serious matchlock gun.

Although, at this time, the gunpowder was also fired with a matchlock to ignite the gunpowder in the powder store.

But now the firecracker is just a straight tube, and it doesn't even have the shape of the musket of later generations.

If you want to use this kind of thing to enhance the combat effectiveness of Longxiang Four Guards, you are not afraid to make a joke.

Although he was very disappointed, he had never seen the true power of this kind of thing. Even if Li Tian wanted to help them improve their muskets, there was nothing he could do.

So he said to Liu Bao,
"You can shoot, show me a few shots."

Hearing what Li Tian said, Liu Baohe hesitated a little.

The early firecrackers had various problems, the most common one being that the gunpowder was filled too much and the chamber exploded.

No one can guarantee that this kind of problem will not happen to every firecracker.

If something goes wrong when you play it yourself, you will be hurt if you get hurt.

It's no big problem, but if Li Tian is hurt, it will be a serious crime to punish the Jiuzu.

He quickly knelt down on the ground and begged, "Your Majesty, this thing is too dangerous, although this slave will use it.

But in case His Majesty is hurt, even ten thousand heads are not enough to atone for the slave. "

Jiang Bao also persuaded from the side,

"Your Majesty, firecrackers are dangerous. According to this old servant, Your Majesty still..."

Li Tian was rich and powerful at this time, and he was determined to come up with a musket suitable for the current Ming army.

Although I know it may be difficult, it is impossible to give up without experimenting once.

"Needless to say, I know the danger, I just watch you operate from a distance."

Liu Baohe had no choice but to order his subordinates a few times, and with the firecrackers and gunpowder, Xinxin, Li Tian and others came to the school grounds of the inner court guards not far away.

The school grounds are very spacious, and there are two or three hundred paces of targets for marksmanship practice.

This distance is already safe enough.

But Jiang Bao was still worried. He stood in front of Li Tian, ​​making him want to take a closer look. There was no way how the firecracker was fired at this time.

Angrily, he kicked Jiang Bao's ass hard, which made the blushing Jiang Bao move away.

Not far away, Liu Baohe skillfully cleaned the inside of the one-handed gun with an iron rod with a brush.

First plug the match, then fill the primer and compact it before starting to fill the propellant.

Finally, it was compacted with an iron rod, and then filled with iron beads, gravel and other things to enhance the lethality.

Looking at this step by step, Li Tian's scalp felt a little numb.

It took Liu Baohe about a minute and a half to fire just one shot.

Although this was also in front of him, he didn't dare to be sloppy in the slightest, and deliberately slowed down the various steps.

But Li Tian estimates that even if he completes the loading at the fastest speed, it will take at least 1 minute to complete a round of launch.

Although impatient, Li Tian didn't say much, only discovered the problem.

Only then can he find a solution, he still read it patiently and carefully.

After finally loading it, Liu Baohe held the firecracker with one hand and came to a place about ten steps away from the target and stopped.

Like Li Tian asking for instructions, after getting permission, he took out the fire folder from a small box beside him, and lit the matchlock.

Like a pillar, standing there straight and waiting for the moment when the matchlock burns to the medicine storehouse.

For safety, the speed of burning the matchlock is not fast.

About ten seconds later.

There was only a bang, and the muzzle of the firecracker, which was only about [-] centimeters long, suddenly burst into dazzling sparks.

A large group of jet-black things shot towards a target ten paces away in scattered pieces.

Then there was only a crackling sound.

On the targets made of straw, some places were penetrated by iron beads, some places were not, and there were still a lot of iron filings inlaid on them.

The sound of the firecracker firing was so loud that Li Tian couldn't help covering his ears.

After the launch, Liu Baohe ran back to Li Tian with an excited expression on his face, Xian Bao seemed to say to Li Tian,

"Your Majesty, how do you feel, the power of this firecracker is not bad!"

Li Tian curled his lips, and rubbed his humming ears again.

I couldn't help but sighed in my heart, "It takes 1 minute to fill it up, and it doesn't matter if the combat distance is only ten steps.

But with this power, it can't even penetrate a straw target, so it's okay to be so fucking powerful? "

He didn't say much, and then let him experiment with the so-called long gun and three-eyed gun.

There is nothing to say about the three-eyed gun, it is just an enhanced version of the one-handed gun.

It's just that the sound is louder, and the chance of hitting people is a little bit more.

It was the 1.5-meter-long spear that gave him a little surprise.

I don't know if it's because of the lengthened trajectory, or if this thing is indeed well-made.

Twenty paces away, this thing hits more than seven or eight out of ten times.

At present, the three mainstream firearms of Daming have been tested one by one, and Li Tian finally has a deep enough understanding of Daming's firearms at this time.

Generally speaking, if there is only one word, it is poor, if two words are very poor, and if three words are quite poor.

Perhaps the only redeeming feature is that the craftsmen of Daming are now able to forge 1.5-meter seamless iron pipes by hand.

This is the only place where Li Tian feels comforted.

(End of this chapter)