Reborn Tang Emperor Li Chengqian

Chapter 243 Musket (2)

"Report to the director! Everything is ready for the experiment." The assistant came to report.

Director, usually the first supervisor in a certain field, was used by Li Chengqian as the official title of the person in charge of the base.

It belongs to the first class of Liuwai officials, the highest rank.

"Hmm!" The person in charge of the base turned to Li Chengqian and said, "Your Highness, please move to the laboratory to watch the musket experiment."

"Yeah!" Li Chengqian got up, and followed the person in charge of the base to a spacious room. Except for one door, there were two large windows on each side of the room.

At this time, the window was wide open, and through the window, one could still clearly see the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers outside, and mosquitoes and the like came and went unscrupulously in and out of the window.

Li Chengqian withdrew his gaze from the window and carefully looked at the furnishings in the house.

As soon as you enter the door, you can see a simple table made of wood randomly. On the table is an ordinary long wooden box, which contains the musket used for this experiment.

On the opposite wall hangs a circular wooden board with a red dot drawn in the middle of the board, which is the target for the experiment.

"Your Highness! Do you want to start now?" the person in charge of the base asked for instructions.

"The space here is not bright enough!" Li Chengqian shook his head and said, "It's better to experiment in an open place outside. In the future, all experiments on new weapons will be carried out outside, not indoors."

In addition to being empty, it is more convenient and safer to conduct experiments than inside the house. If there is any accident, it is too late to escape inside the house.

In addition, the air in the house is not as smooth as that outside.

"No!" The person in charge of the base took the order to move everything in the experiment outside.

The air outside is fresh, the sky is impoverished, cloudless, the sun is shining brightly, and the mountains and rivers are beautiful. The scenery here is not bad.

"Your Highness! Everything is ready. Do you want to start?" After setting up the target and placing the musket, the person in charge of the base asked Li Chengqian again for instructions.

Originally, such an experiment did not require him, the director, to follow up in person. He just had to wait for the results of the experiment from the people below.

As for any problems or areas that need to be improved, there will naturally be scientific researchers in charge. He only needs to write the final results in a written report and submit it to his immediate boss, the prince.

Others have no right to interfere with the affairs of the base, and he does not need to obey anyone other than the prince, and is directly responsible to the prince.

Now that the prince wants to personally test the power of the musket, he naturally wants to accompany him.

"Then let's start!" Li Chengqian said, sitting on the chair prepared for him, watching the firearm experiment.

This will be an epoch-making moment that will remain in the annals of history forever.

After receiving the instructions from the prince, the director nodded to the experimenters beside him and said, "Let's get started!"

"No!" The experimenter took the order, walked to the table, took out the musket from the wooden box, and then clumsily filled the medicine and waited for a while.

Finally, light the matchlock and pick up the musket, put the butt on the shoulder, aim at the target 100 meters ahead, and prepare to shoot.

A moment later, with a bang, an iron ball shot out from the barrel and shot at the target 100 meters away.

As far as the speed is still too slow, the main thing is to load the ammunition and light the match, which is too much time-consuming.

"Cough, cough" Immediately after, a burst of thick smoke came out of the musket, choking the experimenter to tears, but fortunately, this was an empty room outside.

If the experiment is carried out indoors, it is very likely to cause poisoning.

A gust of wind blows away the smoke.

After several experiments, the final result is that the effective distance of the musket is 100 meters to 200 meters.

The effective killing distance is 50 meters, and the power is acceptable, not much stronger than the lethality of bows and arrows. This obviously did not achieve the effect Li Chengqian expected.

"This kind of musket is not good. You need to speed up your research and manufacture the bird gun recorded in "Tiangong Kaiwu" as soon as possible."

"A musket like this one must be eliminated. If our army is equipped with a large number of guns, once the gun is fired, the thick smoke from the gun can kill a large number of soldiers in our army."

"There is no need to wait for the enemy to attack, our army will be defeated directly, so this musket is basically useless." Li Chengqian said.

Although there is a record of the production process of the bird gun in "Tiangong Kaiwu", it does not describe in detail how to operate it.

It would be nice to be able to research muskets when there is nothing!

Now it is only necessary to improve the musket according to the records in "Tiangong Kaiwu", and I believe that a qualified bird gun will be manufactured soon.

Then equip a firearms force of 1 horses first, and it will definitely be able to sweep the surrounding countries.

At that time, let alone Goguryeo and Tubo, even the Arab Empire, one of the two empires that claimed to coexist with the Tang Dynasty, would have to kneel in front of the musketeers.

"No! Please rest assured, Your Highness! I will definitely lead the scientific research personnel to improve the existing muskets according to "Tiangong Kaiwu"."

"I can assure you that as long as Your Highness gives me three months, I will be able to transform the musket into a blunderbuss." The person in charge of the base said loudly.

"Don't worry, you handle the matter! Three months is too tight, don't put too much pressure on yourself, take your time."

"How does this musket damage the iron armor? Have you tried it?" Li Chengqian said.

"It's just an experiment of shooting wooden targets, and no experiment on armor. I don't know the specific results." The person in charge of the base said humanely.

"Then take a pair of armor and try it out, what's the result?" Li Chengqian said.

"No!" The person in charge of the base took the order, turned to the assistant beside him and said, "Go get a pair of armor."

The assistant led the order to retreat, and fetched a pair of armor used by the generals of the Tang Army. After arranging the armor, the experimenters fired with muskets again.

After a few shots, he brought the armor in front of Li Chengqian. Judging from the traces on it, the musket can effectively break through the armor within 50 meters and cause damage to the target.

50 meters away, within 80 meters, only a single hole of different shades can be left on the armor, and beyond 80 meters, there is basically no effect.

The results of the experiment still did not satisfy Li Chengqian.

"Okay! Let's stop here today! After these experiments, the musket still needs to be improved a lot."

"For example, you need to rely on external force to ignite the match to launch ammunition. If you improve the aspect of not using external force to ignite the match, the effect will be better."

"Add front sights to the front of the musket, and rear sights, etc., so that the accuracy of shooting can be improved." Li Chengqian said a lot.

The assistant of the person in charge of the base recorded them one by one. The words of the prince will be very helpful for improving the musket.

(End of this chapter)