"Your Majesty, Wang Shunchen has always been the test gunner of Gongfang City, as well as the adjustment gunner."
Di Qing now belongs to the Martial Arts Hall, and the Martial Arts Hall is closely related to the Workshop City, not to mention the weapons.
Zhao Xi understood what Di Qing meant, which meant that Wang Shunchen was very familiar with this gun.
"boom……"
The sound alone was more intimidating than shooting an arrow with a bow, but Wang Shunchen's sight was blocked by smoke, so there was no possibility of rapid fire...~ Zhao Xi also didn't believe that the musket had the possibility of rapid fire.
Sure enough, at this time, a soldier came into the scene holding another long-barreled musket... Wang Shunchen didn't even need to load the bullets.
The bullet is not an arrow. It can hit the bull's-eye. Even from a hundred steps away, you can roughly see the trembling arrow.
The warhead is just an iron ball. Even if it hits the bullseye, it cannot be seen from a hundred steps away.
"Hit the target! The target's heart breaks!"
This step is very necessary. It is impossible to keep the warhead on a straw target. In order to reflect the position of each hit, it is even necessary to constantly replace the target with a new one.
It seems that Gongfangcheng and Jiangwutang have done these things a lot, and they placed the target smoothly again.
"The only bad thing about firearms is that they are too lethal. Unlike bows and arrows, as long as they don't hit the vital point, being injured by the bow and arrow will not be fatal. But muskets...~tsk tsk, once hit, it is probably difficult to survive..."
Comparing the straw target to the human body, Zhao Xi was bluffing, and the sound was quite loud, in order to be heard by the ministers of Beiliao.
In fact, if we compare today's muskets with bows and arrows, in terms of damage, they are really not much better than bows and arrows.
In fact, Zhao Xi also didn't understand. It is said that with today's muskets, even if it is a single-shot iron ball and lead ball, the impact after a hundred steps will not break the target...
In fact, new munitions guns have always been loaded with loose beads. Although Su Song achieved quantitative loading of gunpowder, the bullets were the same as the barrels, and there was no solution.
However, now, Wang Shunchen fired ten shots and hit the bull's-eye. Each time, he had to change the target. If the soldiers of Song and Liao had not acted together, Zhao Xi would have doubted whether his own side was cheating.
The archers of the Song and Liao Dynasties all completed their shooting, and they all hit the target. In terms of shooting speed, the Northern Liao Dynasty won, and it can be said that they were far faster than the muskets of the Song Dynasty.
But the lethality of the Song Dynasty's muskets was equally astonishing. Not a single bullet, including Zhao Xi's, was left on the target...
Zhao Xi intended to go and see the new gadgets in Workshop City on the spot. He felt that they were much different than the original muskets, and they might give him a surprise.
However, Zhao Xi knew that this was inappropriate. Even if Yelu Hongji of Northern Liao didn't care, his own ministers would not agree... The Song Dynasty was a country of etiquette.
But Beiliao really doesn't seem to care, and doesn't seem to mind being rude...~
Yelu Hongji walked down the steps to the high platform, walked straight to the marksman, and took the bow from the bowed marksman: "Three-stone bow, okay! I will try it too..."
After saying that, he held the bow in his hand and turned around to look at the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty on the high platform... All the people from the Northern Liao Dynasty had gone down, but the moment Yelu Hongji grabbed the bow, Di Qing actually moved half a step forward.
, blocking Zhao Xi’s sight...~
"Yes! If you want to show off, go and show off!"
How can I feel that Guan Jia's tone is excited.
The monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty went down, but they still maintained clear boundaries of longitude and latitude, and the distance of two or three meters between them and the monarchs and ministers of the Northern Liao Dynasty was still there.
Di Qing and Zhonge Guo Kui naturally separated Zhao Xi from Yelu Hongji, forming a human-shaped armor and human shield between the two kings... This is a three-stone bow!
And Zhao Xi also took the gun from Wang Shunchen's hand, almost snatching it.
It's different, it's really different. Zhao Xi didn't notice the difference in the material of the barrel, but the barrel was obviously longer.
The smell of gunpowder in the barrel had not yet dissipated. Zhao Xi looked at the inner wall of the barrel against the light... and actually saw rifling, and the inner wall of the barrel was smoother than before.
Looking at the bullet again, it is actually tapered, and the hardness of the material is also iron-lead, which seems to be an alloy.
"Zirong..."
"Your Majesty, Workshop City has changed the model. The craftsmen tried many times and finally adopted the porcelain model barrel. When making the porcelain model, they made a very weak rotating pattern."
"This not only reduces the time for polishing the inner wall of the barrel, but also improves the accuracy of the musket."
Porcelain? Zhao Xi knew that the porcelain of this era could be said to have reached the level of perfection, but he did not expect that porcelain could be used as a model.
Zhao Xi didn't comment because he didn't know how to be professional.
The new musket is equipped with a front sight and a flintlock. The trigger hook is much more refined than the original musket. It is very comfortable to insert your finger into it, and it is no longer the rough product like before.
Zhao Xi took out his gun and compared it. This new musket was no worse than his gun.
"Hand made?"
In fact, they are all purely handmade. What Zhao Xi wants to ask about is the labor cost.
"Your Majesty, it's true that it's not yet ready for production."
At this time, Beiliao was flattering Yelu Hongji with waves of flattery.
Zhao Xi looked at the target... I have to say that Beiliao is worth learning from in this regard.
Yelu Hongji, an emperor who was almost forty years old, could draw a three-stone bow at will, and could also perform the so-called piercing the poplar with a hundred steps... The arrow was still trembling in the target's bullseye.
Yelu Hongji once again drew his bow and drew an arrow...~
"Whoosh... buzz buzz..."
The string of the three-stone bow, after the arrow was shot, the bowstring vibrated and buzzed, and even the Song Dynasty seemed to be able to hear it.
"I am still old. Two years ago I could shoot more than a dozen arrows with a three-stone bow!"
He was quite humble, and seemed to be trying to stop the Northern Liao officials from complimenting him, but his eyes were looking towards the Song Dynasty. It meant: I can do it, can you do it?
Zhao Xi understood it, and so did the officials on the Song Dynasty side.
Di Qing wanted to take up this challenge, not to mention the mismatch of status, he himself knew that he couldn't do it. This was a competition between the Song Dynasty muskets and the Northern Liao bows and arrows, not a simple archery competition.
As for bows and arrows, even though Di Qing is over fifty years old, he can still draw a three-stone bow and hit the target.
You can't go over and say to the Northern Liao Emperor: Lend me your bow!
"For officials, the victory of Yanmen depends on strategy, not just the strength of firearms and bows!"
This is Han Qi's point of view. Saying it at this time seems to be a step down for Zhao Xi, and it also means ignoring the general's merits... Never forget to play tricks at any time.
Zhao Xi did not answer, but picked up the gun...
"boom……"
The gun went off and everyone looked at the target.
Although no one said it was a competition, when Yelu Hongji held his bow in his hand and played with the flowers, and looked at the Song Dynasty, it meant that the kings of both sides also entered the competition.
"Hit the target, smashed on the edge of the target!"
There was a burst of laughter from Beiliao. Yelu Hongji's two arrows hit the bull's-eye, while Zhao Xi only hit the side of the target. It was very contrasting...
Zhao Xi put down the gun, but stretched out his hand again... to give him the loaded musket.
"boom……"
"Hit, target heartbreak!"
"Bang...~"
"Hit, target heartbreak!"
After Zhao Xi calibrated, he didn't stop and fired one shot after another. The shots became more and more effective.
One hundred steps, that is, a distance of fifty meters. Although Zhao Xi's past, although not a sharpshooter, could not miss the bull's-eye of about fifty meters, the bull's-eye was as big as a bowl. Even the current muskets could not hit the target.