In this era, it is a false proposition that the weapons used by soldiers are related to invention, science, and advancement.

The deliberate technological blockade is in vain in the vast majority of cases, and the sea connects the nations of the world, and it is difficult for people to have any new individual weapons that cannot be seen, as long as they are seen by others, they can be easily imitated.

Although artillery and warships are still high-end technology, muskets are really nothing, and most countries in the world can build them as long as they get a shot.

The Yuan Dynasty improved the assault musket of the Song Dynasty as a firecracker, and the earliest snake-shaft musket was improved by the Czechs, and even the arquebus and flintlock pistol have nothing to do with the Iberian Peninsula, but they are a country with a large number of arquebuses, why?

He needs it, and he has the money.

This is the reason why the sailors in Puli County have a particularly large number of three-eyed guns, because this is the last generation of standard weapons of the Ming Dynasty, the number of manufactures is very large, objectively it has a short range, weak killing, medium and near, less man-hours, cheap cost, and the environment is a certain threat to the barbarian bare-chested macho man or the leather cavalry of Altan, and the mounted cavalry is supplemented with artillery to deal with, and it is the best individual firearm for the armed troops in the poor financial situation of the Jiajing Dynasty.

However, now the internal financial and external environment have changed, and the old firearms, fast guns, and three-eyed guns have been replaced with arquebuses in China, and a large amount of silver and goods have flowed into the Central Plains and supplied to the imperial court to gradually replace all individual firearms with flintlock bird guns.

A large number of arquebuses were sold to vassal states and immigrants for their own use, but what about the three-eyed guns that were exchanged?

Maritime.

Although domestic ordnance workshops usually do not accept the purchase of firearms by maritime merchants, there are still many ways for maritime merchants to obtain firearms.

First of all, there were a lot of businessmen who had foreign official status in these years, and most of them got into an official position by donating silver and materials to the emperor, and it was easy to talk when they entered the yamen, and it was not a problem to get some firearms to go to sea to defend themselves, but there were generally few goods on this road, and they were not as good as purchasing them from the Nanyang Military Government and the Dongyang Military Government after going to sea.

The West is not good, the Western firearms are not enough for themselves, Yin Zhengmao attaches importance to trade routes and taxes, and does not pay attention to businessmen, especially disgusted with businessmen doing evil overseas, and it is enough for Lin Afeng to let him wipe his ass.

The things sold by Chen Lan of Nanyang and Chen Mu of Dongyang are indeed good in workmanship and large quantities, as long as they are registered and compliant, there is no problem in selling hundreds of old guns at a time.

But these two people are dark-hearted, and the price they want is too high, selling to Yin Zhengmao is one price, selling the country is another price, selling the vassal country is another price, and selling the maritime merchant is another price.

To put it bluntly, their brain circuits are different from others, and when others think of selling guns, they think of buying guns, and what should they do if they think of buying guns, and these two military governments are a systematic strategic guiding ideology, and they are not afraid of selling guns and thinking of buying guns.

Anyway, holding the Ordnance Bureau, the raw materials and silver earned by selling you a hundred arquebuses can make the Ordnance Bureau rebuild 200 flintlock guns, 20 Franc machine cannons, 40 Zhenshuo general cannons, and two 400 shark ships, and also train a skilled craftsman in the industrial chain.

If you rely on these weapons to arm a hundred-man bird guncorps, the Nanyang Military Government will immediately be able to add two gunboats and two hundred flag troops.

rebellion, rebellion; Mess up, pound it.

You just put aside the sea and became king, and you have to come back and call Dad.

Just Chen Lan, Nanyang divides one acre and three points of land, even if he calls the court Dad Chen Lan will not give a good face, don't be unhappy, Chen Lan is eager to call the king and then raise the banner to the Central Plains in the north.

If this army is suppressed, won't the arms be sold to Chen Luan's next family again? It is simply a perpetual motion machine for harvesting wealth.

The composition of the arms of the merchants who begged for a living in the East generally came from the Nanyang Military Government and the Oriental Military Government, and due to the environment in which they lived, the Three-Eyed Gun was more popular than the Arquebus.

There were very few heavily armored men on board, there were Franc cannons at long distances, and most of the sailors had no military training, so they might not be able to shoot accurately with bird guns.

Of course, it is not accurate to hit with a bird gun, but it is still inaccurate to change the three-eyed gun, but you can load an ammunition at least three times to fire, and maybe the person next to you will be accurate.

This is the case in the current city of Puley.

The English laboriously pushed a three-story siege vehicle with a ladder to approach the city, and the levies hidden in the body of the thick wooden board turned the winch, and the ladders were flattened on the city little by little, and under the leadership of a team composed of knights, servants, and veterans, hundreds of levies under the siege vehicles waited for the siege.

The catapult was ineffective, throwing six irregularly shaped cobblestones, only one of which hit the wall, and at that moment it seemed that the entire wall was shaken, but in fact only tiny cracks remained.

As for the other stone bullets that crossed the city and smashed into the city, no one knows whether they were killed or injured by the enemy, but even if they were smashed, but the forty or fifty pounds of stone bullets were extremely limited in the killing and wounding of the soldiers, whether they were smashed on the house or the land, they would fall into a big pit, and only the unlucky ghosts who were really hit would die.

If you really want to open a gap in the city wall, I'm afraid you will have to use the ancient means of climbing the city.

The nobleman in charge of the artillery, wearing a helmet decorated with a lion's head, urged the gunner to repeat the action of firing, cleaning, and loading, he was a nobleman from Yeovil, and he was more anxious than anyone else about the all-out siege caused by this accident.

Because these cannons were pulled out of his fiefdom, as was the case with all European countries except Sweden in this era, although he emptied the castle's stockpiles for the defense of the city, the stockpile of gunpowder could not guarantee a long shot, and he was even convinced that his gunpowder could not last a day.

Since there is little gunpowder, it must be used where it must be used, and bombardment of the city wall can be avoided during a confrontation, and at this moment, the most important thing is to use artillery to suppress the enemy troops in the position of the city, and help the infantry who have climbed the city to tear the gap, so as to achieve the victory of the siege.

But in reality he couldn't fight.

Although his cannon did blast through the two virgin walls near the platform, the cannon could not reach behind the female wall, and the elevation angle was fired to allow the cannonball to fly over the female wall and continue to fly into the sky and fall into the city.

Most people can observe an anomaly on the siege vehicle.

As long as it is not blown up or burned, usually at the moment when the ladder hits the city, all the infantry on the siege platform will set up a large shield and wave their weapons to rush to the city...... It doesn't matter if you have a crossbow, a bow, a musket, or an arquebus, it's hard to threaten a shielded plate knight.

Once the Plate Knights reach the top of the city, a steady stream of light infantry will be able to capture the head of the city and expand the victory.

But this time they had clearly heard the battle cry, and the moment the platform was lowered, they could indeed see that everyone was eager to try, but they did not move forward, but visibly froze.

After a brief pause, what did they see?

No one in the city knows.

All I know is that after that pause, the scream of cannons and gunpowder burning sounded from the city, and a large cloud of gunpowder smoke rose from the city, and several cannonballs pierced through the smoke from the wall at the other end of the siege platform, penetrated the crowd, and penetrated the siege platform wrapped in blood and minced flesh and smashed to the ground not far away.

The cannonballs were followed by dozens or hundreds of arrows fired one after another, flying in all directions with burning gunpowder, some piercing the soldiers on the siege platform, some flying in the air and falling to the ground, and some falling on the soldiers gathered below the city.

They burn, they kill.

They frightened the big brothers outside the city.