One hundred meters, the best shooting distance for a flintlock gun.
After hard training, these musketeers are of high quality.
Because Yang Fan didn't care about consuming gunpowder and breaking the musket.
Because Yang Fan is not short of saltpeter.
In this era, whether in Europe or Asia, the biggest bottleneck in the use of firearms was the scarcity of saltpeter. Without saltpeter, gunpowder would not be available.
In the early days, Europeans used to scrape urine alkali on the walls of toilets, which were those white things on the earthen walls of toilets.
Dissolve these things in water, then filter them, and finally dry them in the sun to purify them to obtain nitrate. Because the soil contains nitrifying bacteria, it decomposes urine to produce potassium nitrate.
Friends who keep fish should be familiar with nitrifying bacteria.
Nitrifying bacteria break down mammalian urine to produce potassium nitrate, which is the nitrate part of gunpowder.
Because China is one of the few countries in the world that has stone saltpeter ore, the Hanzhong area contains a large amount of saltpeter ore. Since the Tang Dynasty, large quantities of saltpeter ore have been mined for making ice in summer.
There are no saltpeter mines in Europe.
Before World War I, they used sailing ships to transport saltpeter ore from Argentina and Peru to Europe for use in making gunpowder and explosives.
The control of the sea is controlled by Britain, which means that Britain has blocked the ability of European powers to wage war.
Potassium nitrate is also needed to produce explosives in modern times. Potassium nitrate ore has to be shipped from South America. In this case, countries with sea rights will control everything.
It wasn't until the Germans invented ammonia synthesis technology that they used nitrogen in the air to synthesize the raw materials for explosives, which allowed continental European countries to achieve the freedom of explosives. Since they could make explosives at will, long-suppressed conflicts quickly intensified, and then World War I broke out.
Europeans even organized prostitutes to collect their urine in order to obtain nitrate. It is strictly forbidden to use wooden boards and slates in domestic toilets to avoid affecting the collection of potassium nitrate.
The amount of nitrate obtained in this way was definitely not much higher. Until they invented the nitrate field method.
The first recorded saltpeter farm was opened in Frankfurt, which appeared in 1388.
The method of making saltpeter from the field is actually very simple. It is to prepare a field, remove stones and other debris. Then dig some cellars and holes, and then bury wheat straw, fallen leaves, rags and other items into the field.
Then put lime and water into the dug cellars and pits to increase the temperature of the land and keep the temperature constant for a period of time to create an environment suitable for the growth and reproduction of nitrifying bacteria.
Pour human and animal urine into the field, wait for a period of time, about 10 months, and collect nitrate soil in spring. After the transformation of nitrifying bacteria, a large amount of nitrate will appear in the field.
Then dig out nitrate soil rich in potassium nitrate, mix it with plant ash, soak it in water, and finally boil the nitrate water to obtain potassium nitrate crystals.
But Yang Fan simply doesn't have the patience to perform such a complicated operation. This thing is time-consuming, laborious, dirty, and can easily pollute the environment and spread viruses.
He purchased thousands of tons of potassium nitrate directly from Hyundai. In Hyundai, potassium nitrate is a chemical fertilizer. It usually exists in the form of ammonia nitrate.
Especially with the establishment of the base in the Horn of Africa, freedom of explosives has been achieved. There is no one to control it at all, let alone fertilizers, and direct buying and selling of arms is commonplace.
Yang Fan is very interested in the gas tank mortars on the Syrian battlefield. He has asked the scammer to find a way to get the manufacturing method. He also told the scammer that as long as he can get the technology and formula, don't be stingy with spending money.
The masters there used household kitchens and woks to create explosives with four times the explosive power of TNT from sugar and chemical fertilizers.
Then load it into a gas tank, and one gas tank mortar can blow up half a building.
As long as he got the technology, Yang Fan could make it in Ming Dynasty.
Whether it’s sugar or fertilizer, it’s all available here in the Ming Dynasty. This kind of explosive can be fried in the Ming Dynasty. This is of great significance to Yang Fan’s future siege of cities. Think about it, throwing Syrian gas tank mortars into European fortresses,
It feels very cool to be on the little devil's fortress-like castle.
Gas tanks are not a problem. You can place an order directly on Moubao, and even if you buy a used one, it will not affect the modification.
China exports more than 200 million gas tanks to Asia, Africa and Latin America each year. At most, in the Horn of Africa, they secretly use electric welding to weld the tail fins of the projectiles. They use large-diameter seamless steel pipes to make mortars.
Just put wheels on it.
Yang Fan owns a steel factory and has accumulated tens of thousands of tons of discarded yellow steel sheets. He has no shortage of materials for making flintlock bolts.
If the musket is broken, it can be returned to the factory for repair at any time. Parts should be replaced, and barrels should be replaced. This is the benefit of having an industrial base.
As for gunpowder, it was more casual.
The ammunition factory is full of female workers, who work in three shifts day and night to produce fixed ammunition.
Now in Yang Fan's territory, female employment has truly been realized. They receive the same basic wages and piece-rate wages as male workers. The income of female workers has become an important part of the income of new-style worker families.
Women's economic independence has also brought about an improvement in their status. Girls at home are no longer ignored as before, and it is becoming easier and easier to persuade girls to send them to school.
The militiamen have half a day of intensive target training every week.
There are prizes for the top three. They are usually thermos bottles, kerosene lamps, high-thread cotton cloth and other rare things. These things are now considered luxuries and cannot be afforded by ordinary people.
The militiamen were attracted to practice shooting one by one, as if they had been beaten to death.
Those who can be recruited into the regular army are all the best in militia training. Their military quality far exceeds that of the armies of East Asian countries in this era.
Cheng Lin and Cheng Hu stood in the first row of the line. They acted as shooters. The second and third groups stood in the back and acted as loaders.
This section of the horizontal line is a small team. Three small teams form a squadron of 100 people.
Following the order, Cheng Lin and Cheng Hu were no longer nervous. They quickly entered the state.
The usual rigorous training has formed muscle memory. Unknowingly, as soon as I heard the order, I immediately acted according to the infantry drill. I followed the order and pulled the trigger.
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A burst of smoke filled the air, and 3,500 rounds of lead bullets were fired.
According to regulations, when shooting from a distance of fifty to one hundred meters, there is no need to specifically aim at a specific person.
Because, given the impressive hit rate of a flintlock gun, at a distance of 100 meters, the person you hit will never be the person you are aiming at.
Therefore, at this distance, the rate of fire is more important. Just take a rough aim and there is no need to waste time on aiming.
After firing a musket, I don't even look at the result. I don't look at whether it was a hit or not.
Anyone who looked around during training received a military stick.
What needs to be done at this time is to immediately turn around and hand the empty gun to the person behind, and then take the loaded gun from his hand. The person behind the shooter, after getting the empty gun, immediately starts loading.
Cheng Lin and Cheng Hu immediately put away their guns, turned back, handed over their guns to a row behind them, and then received their guns. They turned back and fired again.
Then it was repeated again, but this time the second row turned sideways and continued loading. The third row and the first row completed the exchange of guns.
The first row of flintlock flashes flashed, and the Mongols knew they were about to suffer.
The fire blunderbuss held by these people were different from the other frontier troops of the Ming Dynasty. They were neither three-eyed blunderbuss nor magic spears. They were bird blunderbuss.
The Mongols only knew about advanced firearms: bird guns. None of them had seen the Rumi gun. The only one who had seen the Rumi gun was Jiannu.
Thirty-five hundred people on the wide front formed a nearly two-kilometer-long horizontal front, completely covering the front of the Mongolian cavalry group. With the flash of fire, 3,500 steel-cored lead bullets were fired intensively.
These Mongols are extremely poorly equipped, and they rarely have iron armor. They have long lost their glorious history of having a large number of heavy cavalry in the Genghis Khan era.
Their leather armor couldn't stop lead bullets at all, let alone armor-piercing lead bullets with scrap steel balls inside.
This kind of steel-clad ammunition was designed to deal with the Jiannu who were wearing triple armor. It was a killing blow to deal with these Mongolian light cavalry.
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Thirty-five hundred rounds of lead bullets were fired densely, and the group of cavalry charging at high speed seemed to have been hit hard by a hammer, and seemed to be paused with the naked eye visible.
The steel-cored lead bullets flying at supersonic speed hit the person and directly penetrated the leather armor.
Because the lead bullet is composed of two metals with different specific gravity, once it enters the human body, it will immediately become unstable and start rolling inside the human body.
Immediately, the lead bullet in the outer layer burst and exploded. There was only a small hole entering from the front, and a big hole flew out from the back.
Although the bullet is not large, it will create a huge cavity in the flesh and soft tissue.
If it hits the internal organs, the internal organs will be crushed directly. If it hits the bones, the bones will be comminuted and fractured. Then, the broken bones will crush everything around them again.
As long as a lead bullet hits, the medical condition of this era cannot be cured. Even if you are lucky enough to survive, the lead left in the body will cause chronic lead poisoning.
The front of the entire cavalry group was in a mess. A large number of horses were shot, neighing and fell down, knocking the knights off their horses. They were trampled to death by the cavalry behind them.
Some of them hit the knight directly, directly smashing the limbs and torso. In front of them, there was a scene of heads exploding and limbs broken.
