After drinking a lot of wine, you will eventually feel weak, but you must know that you have to do this.
So the day after the Mid-Autumn Festival Night Banquet, Shen Shuren dragged his tired and limp body very diligently to the regiment training ground outside Qizhou City early in the morning.
Watch Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro's respective queue drill demonstrations, and take a look at the live ammunition tests of various gun tactics.
"Hiss——" When he turned over and dismounted in his cotton armor, Shen Shuren still felt a little uncomfortable in his waist and secretly took a breath, but no one else noticed.
It seems that young people cannot be unruly. With his physique that he exercises every day on horseback and archery, he was more than enough to deal with Chen Yuanyuan originally, and he was still as powerful as a tiger the next day.
The key is that I just dealt with Chen Yuanyuan yesterday afternoon. When I went back to spend the evening, the atmosphere was great, and I couldn't help but comfort me again. I got up in the middle of the night and taught Dong Xiaowan how to behave. Out of sympathy, the eve was delayed for a long time, and I couldn't stand it anymore. .
Looking back now, Dong Xiaowan, who is so elegant and elegant in moonlight under the pure white moonlight, is really a bit uncontrollable.
You need to work a little harder for a day or two to catch your breath.
When Chen Shuren was slightly distracted, more than half of the basic formation demonstration on the school field had passed. There was no peeing during the whole process, and there was no need for Chen Shuren to stop and question.
After reading this, Shen Shuren had an intuitive understanding of the original Ming Army musket formations and even the positions of the Spanish square formation——
Of course, this Spanish phalanx was just Pizarro asking people to hold their weapons and stand in positions and poses as required, and there was no actual combat capability. After all, it had only been half a day since he became the coach. It’s good to make it clear in how you present it.
Then came the live firing of various muskets.
Chen Shuren asked someone to bring a row of one-foot-diameter wooden archery targets commonly used in the army, and then asked the Shen family members and Pizarro's Spanish entourage to use various bird and fire blunderbuss, including Rumi blunderbuss. There is also a Spanish turtle dove gun for accuracy test shooting.
"Bang, bang, bang—" Suddenly, there was a loud sound of gunfire on the school grounds.
The regiment training next to them all watched the lively training, and they all looked up. It can be seen that the Huangzhou regiment's weapons were lax before Shen Shuren came. They usually didn't have much ammunition for training, and many of them only rushed to fire live ammunition when they arrived on the battlefield. .
The combat effectiveness of the musketeers also requires a certain amount of training ammunition. How can they have combat effectiveness if they don't give up money?
As the shooting test progressed, Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro stood on the left and right sides of Shen Shuren respectively, with expectant faces, trying to prove their correctness in front of Lord Tongzhi.
At the banquet last night, they each boasted a lot, saying that their tactics were the most realistic and they were waiting for this moment to prove themselves.
After a long time, the gunfire stopped, and both sides used their own methods to shoot a total of fifty times.
The shooting process is very slow. You have to stop after one round and let people hiding in the ditch behind the target check the target before firing the next round to ensure statistical accuracy——
Because if the target is inspected uniformly after fifty rounds are fired, the data "the probability of a single shot hitting at least one shrapnel" cannot be calculated. There will be a problem of "some guns have two or three fragments hitting the target at one time." ,confusion statistics.
Fortunately, Shen Shuren arranged five targets for each group, so five shots could be fired in each round. Each target was assigned one shot, and fifty shots only needed to be counted in ten rounds.
After the smoke cleared, the results were tallied. For convenience, Shen Shuren simply taught his subordinates to use Western mathematics to calculate the results using percentages before the assessment.
"50 steps for the bird gun/lumi gun, 50 rounds of shotshells, 74% target accuracy, and a total of 93 shrapnel hits."
"100 steps of bird gun/lumi gun, 50 rounds of shotgun, target rate of 16%, cumulative hits of 11 shrapnel."
"The Folang Gundove Gun has 50 steps, 50 rounds of shotguns, a target accuracy of 86%, and a total of 132 shrapnel hits."
"100 steps, 50 rounds of shotguns for the Folang Machine Turtle Dove, the target rate is 40%, and the cumulative hits are 39 pieces of shrapnel."
After reading the data, Shen Shuren's face became a little gloomy, but then he accepted the reality. But Zuo Zixiong on the side was a little hard to believe.
The accuracy of the bird gun and Lumi gun was within Zuo Zixiong's prediction range, but he didn't expect that the Franconian turtle dove gun used by Pizarro was so effective - the key is that Zuo Zixiong had never seen it before. He has also used the turtle dove gun.
The powder charge of Lumi gun is four cents each of lead and gunpowder, and the ammunition of ordinary bird gun is three cents each.
Although the turtle dove gun is heavy and has more than one or two ammunition each, which is at least three times that of the bird gun, the hit rate of shotguns should not be so different.
Chen Shuren thought about it for a while and noticed that Zuo Zixiong looked depressed, so he comforted him:
"I don't blame you. Now it seems that you are all making suggestions based on your own real experience. They are very realistic. The level of combat effectiveness is not your problem.
Zuo Dusi, I think the turtle dove gun you saw before may have been imitated from Guangdong a few years ago. Perhaps the imitation was not good enough, or it may have only its appearance. You have not mastered the precise usage of the turtle dove gun. That’s why you think the turtle dove gun is suitable Shotgun is nothing more than that.
The key now is to find the problem, solve it, and see why our bird gun fires far less shotgun than the real original turtle dove gun, so we can change it."
After listening to Chen Shuren's fair comments, Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro were also convinced and no longer blamed the other party for their incorrect tactical thinking.
Perhaps the initial disagreement between the two of them was due to their misjudgment of weapons, just like a chicken and a duck.
Everyone quickly began to dismantle and analyze. Zuo Zixiong compared them one by one based on his original experience and knowledge, and soon discovered several problems.
For example, he found that the shotshells used in various muskets of the Ming Army did not seem to be very particular about the shape of the projectiles. Among the lead bullets of the Ming Army muskets, only the large single-headed bullets were relatively round. However, the shotshells required a large number of fragments. If the processing frequency is too high, it is too lazy to make the shape regular, and many of them are iron filings with strange shapes.
The turtle dove gun was imitated by the Han people. It was first imitated privately by Wang Zun, the governor of Guangdong in the first year of Chongzhen (1629). However, it was only used privately on the ground in Guangdong. It was spread and presented to the capital in the eighth year of Chongzhen (1636). It is only in the past four or five years that generals have officially come into contact with turtle dove guns, so it is normal for them not to know how to use them correctly.
When the Ming army loaded cannons with shotguns before, they just grabbed a handful of iron nails, iron filings or even gravel, and pressed it on top of the gunpowder. If they could knock out the gunpowder, if there were enough fragments, they could spray to the face to kill more people. That would be fine. It doesn't pay attention to the effective range. Even the cannons are so casual. It's not surprising that the imitation turtle dove gun is loaded with iron sand, iron filings or even gravel and fired.
Chen Shuren continued to review, and soon noticed another important difference in the operation of loading shotguns between Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro——
Even if the Spaniards load shotshells, they will use a single-headed bullet that is large enough, of good quality and fits the barrel to compress the entire subsequent charge.
To put it bluntly, it is the BUCK plus BALL mode required by the Western musket and shotgun standard manual in the 18th century. The BUCK is a small projectile, and the top must be pressed with a single-ended BALL.
When Zuo Zixiong used shotguns, sometimes they were pure shotguns, and the quality of the compacted projectiles on the top was uneven. Sometimes he even just used some broken lead to compact and fill the surface.
The local armaments in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen's reign cannot be asked for more. They are already very shoddy.
Chen Shuren has physics knowledge. After a little investigation, he figured out the reason.
“When I was designing the Ming Bird Gun, because I fired single-ended bullets all the year round, I didn’t consider using shotgun shells to injure the enemy from a long distance, nor did I pay attention to the effective range of the shotshells. The adaptation technology for the shotshells was somewhat out of touch.
When firing shotshells, it is very important to have a barrel with good air-tightness to press the projectile. This can prevent the gunpowder gas from exploding and leaking from the top, bottom, left and right of the projectile when the gas is inside the barrel, and distorting the flight of the projectile. direction.
Because the caliber of a single-point bullet is similar to the inner diameter of the barrel, even if it leaks slightly, it will not blow out of the way, and will be restricted by the barrel. The caliber of the shotgun is much smaller than the inner diameter of the barrel. If there is gas blowing next to it, the shotshell will be in the barrel. It's jumping up and down, left and right, and of course there's no accuracy when it comes out."
The best way to learn a piece of knowledge is to understand it yourself and then relay it to others. In the process of becoming a teacher, your own ideas can be organized more clearly.
As Chen Shuren explained, he suddenly understood and figured out why Michel Lefayette came up with the idea of "making a musket load two single-ended bullets of the same caliber at the same time" during the Seven Years' War. operate.
To have more projectiles and to shoot farther, the key is the air tightness between the projectiles and the barrel to prevent the projectiles from being too small than the inner diameter of the barrel and causing air leakage and jumping around.
It's not that shotguns can't hit far, it's that shotguns that aren't round enough can't hit far.
In modern times, whether it is S686 or Winchester 1897, after taking apart the ammunition used in these shotguns, you can see that each steel ball is actually the same thickness as the inner diameter of the barrel, but there are 6 to 9 The steel balls are arranged in a straight line, with gunpowder at the end.
The turtle dove gun Pizarro is currently using does not have that many projectiles. I heard that up to four sub-caliber projectiles are arranged in front and back, but the outside must be wrapped with leather to fill the caliber gaps.
The three of them discussed each other, and Chen Shuren quickly came up with a temporary compromise:
You can also learn the so-called "paper shell fixed ammunition" that most time travelers can think of. Optimize it a little, use thicker paper with good air tightness, or elastic leather, and arrange several sub-caliber spherical projectiles in sequence. If gunpowder is installed at the tail, wouldn't it be close to the firing effect of modern spray guns?
It's just that in terms of loading, it still has to be loaded in the front chamber, and it has to be loaded one round at a time. In terms of firepower sustainability, it is still at the level of the Ming Dynasty and cannot reach the power of later generations of sprayers.
Thinking of this, Chen Shuren immediately told Zuo Zixiong: "Zuo Dusi, if you are asked to learn from Coach Pizarro's turtle dove gun ammunition and use smaller one-caliber ball lead bullets for the bird gun, can you do it?"
As long as the charge is not increased and the projectiles are made larger and smaller, the chamber will not explode, right? As for sealing, you can wrap the lead bullet with elastic and airtight leather to temporarily support it and prevent it from jumping."
Zuo Zixiong thought for a while: "This doesn't sound dangerous, but the projectiles are probably much more laborious to make. Today's lead bullets are made by melting lead into lead water, pouring it into a mold and condensing it into balls. The same weight of lead bullets To make it several times smaller, the molding quantity needs to be several times larger. It turns out that our Ming army used iron sand and iron filings to make shotguns because it was too troublesome."
With the industrial strength of the Ming Dynasty, the shape and size of each small marble of the shotgun had to be precisely controlled, which was indeed a waste of production capacity.
Chen Shuren thought for a while and then decided: "Whether sharpening a knife can make you a woodcutter? Let's make two preparations. While making a mold for a small bullet, we can try pouring the lead water directly into the cold water.
I remember that the surface tension of lead is quite high. If you pour it directly into cold water, it will be stimulated and condense into small balls. They are quite round, but the diameter is not easy to control. However, if the outside is wrapped with leather to block the air in the future, the diameter will be slightly different. It doesn’t matter at all.”
After hearing this, Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro's eyes lit up. They had never heard of this kind of adaptability.
But in any case, it is indeed worth a try. Whether the shotgun is accurate or not, whether the small projectile is round or not is the most critical factor, because only if it is round enough, the instability in the flight direction caused by its own roll and rotation can be alleviated and overcome Magnu. s effect.
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PS: Alas, the update is too fast. The one-month new book period has not yet arrived. Just because it exceeds 200,000 words, it has been squeezed out of the new book list in advance. Forget it, just squeeze it out. Anyway, it is not on the list this time. Very far back.