"What?" Yu Qiuping once again met Charlie's suspicious gaze without wavering, "Do you think the hit rate of fire blunderbuss is not as good as that of bows and arrows?"
"Yes." Charlie nodded firmly.
"Bows and arrows are obviously not as easy to operate as fire guns!" Yu Qiuping immediately analyzed it clearly, "If you are shooting at a close target, both fire guns and bows have a high hit rate! But if you are shooting at distant targets, bows and arrows are difficult to operate.
Much higher than a musket!"
"The bow and arrow fly in an arc!" Yu Qiuping said while exaggeratingly drawing an arc with his hands. "When aiming, the archer must also consider the upward angle of the bow and arrow and the angle of the parabola! Moreover, the bow and arrow are very light and easy to use.
Affected by the wind, the archer must also consider wind speed and other factors! But it is different with a fire gun! I only need to aim straight at three points and one line!"
"Your Highness, this is not what you imagine." Charlie shook his head firmly, "If you don't believe it, you can let me have a try with that gentleman."
The gentleman in Charlie's mouth is the iron cannon instructor sent by Tennojiya's people, named Tsuda Kazuki. According to the display cabinet of Tennojiya's shop in Tsushima, he is an expert in using iron cannons, even in the entire Sakai town.
They are all somewhat famous.
"Okay!" Yu Qiuping was a little annoyed by Charlie's confident look, "Master Tsuda, please give it a try with that long archer."
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Two archery targets were placed twenty feet away from the two of them. Charlie and Tsuda Kazuki were each doing preparations before shooting. Charlie maintained his bow and arrows every day, so there was no need to bother and he simply tried it.
Just test the strength of the bow string and you're ready. But what Tsuda Kazuyoshi has to do is much more troublesome.
He first poured out the gun chamber and cleaned out the gunpowder residue left in the gun chamber from the last shot. Then he took out a brush similar to the test tube brush of later generations and reached into the gun chamber to clean the residue again.
After that, he poured the gunpowder from different small bags into the gun chamber in proportion, and poured in a projectile. Then, he compacted the projectile and gunpowder with a pipe. After that, he began to ignite the gun.
He first rubbed the flint in his hand to start a fire, and then used it to ignite the match rope clamped on the hook of the iron cannon.
After all the work was finally completed, Tsuda Kazuyoshi raised his hand to Yu Qiuping - during this time, nearly a minute had passed.
After Yu Qiuping nodded, Charlie and Tsuda Kazuyoshi shot at the same time! The sound of the bow and arrow being lifted was quickly overwhelmed by the roar of the iron cannon, and many of the Ashigaru people around who had never heard the sound of gunfire were suddenly frightened.
It's quite annoying.
The arrows and projectiles shot towards the target at a speed that was almost invisible to the naked eye, making a crisp and dull collision sound. Yu Qiuping and the officers of Tokiwa Bei walked to the target to check the results of the shooting - they were all hits.
Find the red circle of the heart.
In order to compete, Charlie asked the target to be moved back another 20 feet, and he and Tsuda Kazuki finished shooting again. This time, Charlie still shot steadily in the red circle, but still slightly to the side.
However, Tsuda Ichiyoshi's iron cannon was not so accurate at the moment, and it only hit the seventh ring.
When the shooting distance moved to 60 feet, Yu Qiuping already understood that Charlie had won. In this era, the effective shooting distance of fire blunderbuss was only about 150 meters, and most soft bows were about the same distance. And crossbowmen, or longbows
The range will be longer - Charlie's ultimate range is nearly 300 meters.
Sure enough, Charlie shot at the junction of the tenth and ninth rings this time, while Tsuda Kazuyoshi only hit the target and almost missed the target. Yu Qiuping understood that Tsuda Kazuyoshi's kung fu was already quite good.
, it is the iron cannon itself that determines that it cannot aim with high accuracy at such a long distance.
"Your Highness, this is the result." Charlie clenched the long bow in his hand with some pride, "Archers are a more powerful long-range unit than musketeers. Regardless of whether the musket is powerful or not, its accuracy is indeed not as good as the musket.
.Archers can kill him before he reaches shooting range."
"Thompson," Yu Qiupian, who was slapped in the face, felt a little embarrassed. He didn't want to lose face in front of so many people. He argued again: "That's not because iron cannons are not as good as bows and arrows! It's because your archery skills are so good, Thompson."
!A normal archer would definitely not be able to shoot Tsuda-sama!"
"But according to what I heard, Master Tsuda is also a great musketeer." Charlie pointed out Yu Qiuping's mistake without mercy. People around him couldn't help laughing after seeing Yu Qiuping's failure - everyone thought
Iron cannons are definitely not as good as bows and arrows. Those southern barbarian gadgets are just for the rich daimyo to play with, how can they really be used on the battlefield?
"No, no, no! You don't understand!" Yu Qiuping seemed to have found an idea and loudly said again: "The fire gunners don't need a high hit rate! We can use group shooting to increase the hit rate! Maybe one
A fire gunman cannot hit an enemy ashigaru from a distance of thirty feet! But if 100 fire gunners shoot 100 ashigaru from a distance of thirty feet, a dozen people on the other side will fall in one salvo!"
"Archers can also fire volleys to increase their hit rate." Charlie retorted without changing his expression: "The volleys of our British longbowmen make all countries on the continent frightened."
"But the longbowmen are not powerful!" Yu Qiuping keenly discovered the loopholes in Charlie's logic. "You can't kill a person wearing a gun from a distance of thirty feet! But the fire gun can definitely kill with one hit! Even if it doesn't hit directly
Death, so much dirty gunpowder, fragments, and iron slag are enough to infect the ashigaru on the opposite side, causing him to die of tetanus soon after!"
After Charlie listened to Yu Qiuping's eloquent talk for a long time, he did not refute directly, but asked Yu Qiuping to let him compete with Tsuda Kazuki again. Yu Qiuping didn't understand, but still agreed to his request.
The archery target was set up twenty feet away, and Charlie and Tsuda Kazuyoshi stood still again. However, this time, the situation was different from last time. Tsuda Kazuyoshi had just started to clear the barrel, and Charlie had already bent his bow and nocked an arrow.
Shoot at the archery target. The cleaning and loading of the iron cannon took a long time, and it was much more convenient for the archers. Charlie shot one arrow after another, quickly took aim after drawing the bow to full, and then let go. In Tsuda Ichiyoshi
Finally completing the shooting preparations, after shooting one projectile, Charlie shot five arrows back and forth, all hitting the bullseye!
"Your Highness, this is the truth." Charlie slowly drew back his bow and stood up. "The time it takes for a musketeer to shoot once is enough for an archer to shoot four or five times. Even if Your Highness uses a volley method, it is still inferior to the archer.
"Charlie's words aroused the approval of many officers and archers around him.
"That's right," Omaezaki Nakahide, who was watching the excitement and didn't mind the chaos, also added: "After the two armies were engaged, the archers could still throw shots from behind to cover! The trajectory of the iron cannon was a straight line, but it was blocked by the people in front.
Now! What else can the iron gunner do? Just stand there and don't move?"
"No!" Yu Qiuping shook his head and said, "If the opponent has good armor or has a shield! It will be useless no matter how many rounds you shoot, it will not cause any damage! But the fire gunman is very powerful, but it can kill with one blow! Don't you think it's okay?
Have you forgotten that when encountering the opponent's elite troops with strong armor and powerful troops, our archers are almost useless?"
"And archers will get tired!" Yu Qiuping found a new argument, "Archers usually lose their energy after shooting for more than ten rounds, but iron gunners will not have such trouble!"
"Haha... Your Highness, don't be ridiculous!" Nakahide Omaezaki pointed at the iron cannon next to Yu Qiuping and laughed, "With the reloading speed of the iron cannon, the enemy can only shoot twice at most before they rush forward! I also want to shoot a few.
My hands are sore after doing it more than a dozen times!" Omaezaki Nakahide's words immediately aroused laughter from the surrounding Tokiwabi soldiers.
"That's not the case!" Seeing that his advanced technology was rejected, Yu Qiuping protested in a panic: "We can also adopt methods to improve the loading efficiency of the musketeers! For example, we can allocate the gunpowder in proportion to the amount of a single shot.
Okay, put it in a small paper bag. When you use it, tear open the paper bag and pour everything directly into it, which saves a lot of time!"
"Also! We can still rely on training! We, Tokiwa Bei, can all rely on training to change our formations. If we practice marching so well, we can definitely improve the reloading speed of our fire muskets!"
"It really doesn't work, there is another way!" Yu Qiuping slapped his head and thought of his advantages as a time traveler. Oda Nobunaga, I'm not polite to copy your method: "We can arrange the fire gun hands.
Form three rows! Everyone takes turns to shoot! After the people in the first row finish shooting, they will retreat to the last row to reload, and rotate row by row! This way, we can maintain continuous firepower. It is absolutely possible according to our queue change level of Tokiwa Bei.
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Just when Yu Qiuping finished saying this, he suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps. Yu Qiuping turned his head and saw the disheveled Sena Shiyoshi rushing towards him with one bare foot.
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"Don't think I didn't hear it!" Sena shouted angrily.
"It's another formation, and another row-by-row rotation, how many iron cannons do you need to buy like that!" Sena rushed to Yu Qiupei like crazy, grabbed the latter's shoulders and kept shaking: "One handful
30 iron cannons! How many do you want to buy? Do you want to destroy all our wealth?"
"No! That's not what I mean!" Yu Qiuping has been tortured half to death by the crazy Sena Jiyi in the past few days. When he saw him rushing over like this, he immediately panicked: "We can give Hanamaru the musket.
Them! Let them dismantle a few firecrackers and try to imitate them to keep the cost down!"
"Red leaves! 30 pieces of stuff! You still want to tear it down!" Sena Ujiyoshi was completely angry and roared loudly at Yu Qiuping, causing the surrounding onlookers to laugh.
Imagawa Kaede also stood aside, smiling as she watched Yu Qiuping work hard to promote for a long time, but was finally made fun of by everyone. At this time, Naoe Tadahira walked to her side at some point and asked her: "Mother, mistress,
Why does His Highness like these things?"
"Oh? These things?" Imagawa Kaede looked at Naoe Tadohira with a smile, "You don't approve of this iron cannon either."
"Yes." Naoe Tadayei nodded, "These things look flashy and will not be of much use on the battlefield."
"Well, even Naoe-sama, who always understands His Highness the best, doesn't support him," Imagawa Kaede smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Nahira will run into a lot of trouble this time when he promotes this iron cannon."
"Huh?" Naoe Tadahei heard something in Imagawa Kaede's words and asked curiously: "Does the mistress think this iron cannon is of great use?"
"That's natural." A mysterious smile appeared on Imagawa Kaede's face, and he whispered: "I'll tell you quietly. As long as it is something new that your Highness has recognized, everything is fine."