Baron Beric shot with a longbow for a purpose, otherwise no longbowman would shoot an arrow at the plate armor like a nervous man.

The Knights of Full Plate Armor are the enemies of knights, crossbowmen, and infantry phalanxes, and the true meaning of the longbow is to destroy the infantry legions as much as possible...... Although it is difficult to shoot through the plate cuirass with light and heavy arrows, what about the arms, legs and neck?

It's just that Beric didn't expect Pan Sheng to be so confident, and put the target forty steps away, which was a distance of sixty-five yards.

Now the problem arises, the baron doesn't think he can shoot accurately.

Pan Sheng used a very standard posture to complete the action of loading ammunition and lighting the arquebus with beautiful and fast movements.

Although it is a little more cumbersome than the commonly used flintlock machine, it is not a problem for him, and the Beiyang Military Academy begins its initial training with arquebuses.

Pan Sheng was very thief, not only wanted people to see his skillful movements to have a good impression of this Ming made arquebus old bird gun, but also didn't want people to pay too much attention to his movements, and spoke while loading, and said: "This is the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau of the fifth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, it is the best bird gun three years ago, the gun tube is long and straight, but this batch of guns has a small problem, and the tenon of the tong bar will be shaken off after shooting." ”

"There are so many copies of our birds, those muskets look the same but are far less useful than them, so each batch will have its own unique shortcomings, such as this batch, when you use it, you have to remove the whole strip and insert it into your belt."

This is the rhetoric that Pan Sheng thought of on the road, and even laid the groundwork for future arms sales, although he didn't know if Chen Dashuai would allow Tang Er to sell it from the Changsheng Weapons Bureau, but if he wanted to sell it, it would definitely be a problematic defective product.

This batch of guns was actually renovated in Changsheng last year, and Changsheng's warcraftsmen made tenons according to the new guns, and the old guns could not be used, so this kind of problem would occur.

He knocked on the cuirass, the material was similar to the ordinary cuirass used by the Ming soldiers, or even a little thinner, and he did not believe that the wrought iron skills of England could be stronger than their steel-making skills, if the bird gun could punch a hole in the Ming army's cuirass in thirty steps, then forty steps could also pierce the English cuirass.

The biggest problem is precision.

After five years of Wanli, the Beiyang Military Government accepted the suggestion of Xuanfu Jiangwutang and changed the flat-headed rod used to a Qi Jiguang-style copper concave hemispherical rod, which completely fitted the shape of the lead shot to avoid the lead shot being squeezed and deformed when advancing the barrel.

The putter he uses is still an old-fashioned iron-flat-head hardwood, so he has to be very careful when pushing the shot.

This will also bring about the consequences of a huge gap between the accuracy of training and the battlefield, and you can carefully keep the lead shot spherical in peacetime, but you can't care about it so much on the battlefield, and you can slam it in three times hard, and the lead shot in the chamber will be flattened...... Thirty paces, who knows where the lead will fly?

Raise the gun, top the shoulder, all in one go.

Aim, pull the trigger, and calm down.

Pan Sheng is very experienced in this matter, he has practiced.

When I first trained, I was scared and trembling because of the half-breath between the gunpowder ignited by the fire rope and the explosion of the powder room ignited by the gunpowder in the medicine pool, and as a result, I was deducted money for every training, and I was punished for dragging down the whole Xiaoqi and washing socks and foot water.

Of course, he was not the only one who had this problem, at that time, there were old acquaintances every day in the water room where the Beiyang camp was equipped with a press pump.

The low-level officers do not prohibit this, and it is no wonder that others look down on you if you don't put the gun well as a soldier, but Ye Mengxiong has forbidden this kind of flag army to punish in private, and it turned out that after the ban, the flag army with poor training and punishment for others is even worse, and it is rare to be added by others.

The final military law customization is to remove from the military and confiscate one year's military salary in private fighting, and the training punishment and continuous sitting still exist, but the punitive military training of the punished flag army has been increased, and the education of low-level officers has also been increased.

Bang!

Forty paces away, the cuirass was knocked to the left.

Pan Sheng's expression was as usual in the admiration of everyone, and he handed the bird gun into the hands of his subordinates, and bowed lightly to the baron.

The servant retrieved the cuirass, there was a hole on the right side of the front of the breastplate, Pan Xiaoqi sighed in his heart, and decided that he would never use this gun to open it a second time - the lead pellet was still deformed by the whole bar when it was loaded into the chest.

He was aiming for the middle, but at the moment of releasing the gun, there was a slight feeling that his hand was deflected to the left, and this gun should have missed or hit the left side of the breastplate, and the breastplate should have been knocked to the right.

Of course, there is also a possibility that the gun tube is biased to the right, but this possibility is very small, in the end, the gun pipe was made in the era of Chen Mu in charge of Nanyangwei, and the name of the craftsman engraved on the gun tube was only polished off last year, and the quality is guaranteed.

In the final analysis, there are two reasons why the gun is not accurate, either there is a problem with the gun, or there is a problem with the person.

The progress of technology is to try to avoid problems while making people less problems.

Looking at the hole left by the lead bullet in his cuirassa, the baron put down the musket he had just held in his hand, although his musket looked like it had an intricate pattern of etching, but it was actually a work of art, and the blacksmith of his village could make the pattern on the wooden handle extremely beautiful, but he might not be able to drill the barrel of the musket as straight as the one in Pan Sheng's hand.

Moreover, just as Pan Sheng was not confident in his ability to use a longbow, the baron, who had been practicing martial arts since childhood, believed that he could throw a dagger at that cuirass if he took a few steps further, but he might not be able to hit it with a musket.

"It's a good weapon, but I still don't think it's worth three pounds, is it better than buying six of these breastplates for my soldiers?" The baron smiled, raised his hand and pointed to a heavily armed squire behind a knight, and said to Pan Sheng: "A quasi-lance knight's armor with a cuirass, wall guards, leg guards, and a helmet with neck guards like that is only forty-five shillings, and I can buy him another horse with the rest of the money, and I will have one more knight." ”

Old Taylor, who worked as an interpreter, sighed and looked at the poor baron, who knew very well that the 'merchant' from the Ming Empire behind him did not understand pounds, shillings and pennies at all, and even the price of three pounds for a musket was casually set.

Selling weapons? Whether you sell it or not, it depends on fate.

But old Taylor explained to Pan Sheng with great dedication: "A pound is three taels of silver, twenty-two shillings, and two hundred and forty pence." ”

Even so, Pan Sheng was unwilling to relax on the price, he just said in the eyes of the baron as if he were stating the facts: "Knight? It's useless, as long as a peasant carries a bird gun and lets out a knight, it's gone. ”

Only Pan Sheng knew that he was not like, but indeed stating the facts, and this was how the Wang Ba Shells of the French Royal Army who were riding on horses were killed by Yang Ce's black soldiers who could not do anything except walk, turn, and release.

He raised his hand and said, "A bird gun, with three fire ropes and a hundred lead pellets, you can see its quality; If I want a baby like that, I can think of a way to go back, and the price may be a little more expensive...... Truth be told, Jazz looks like a good guy. ”

"Firearms are used all over the world, and the Ming Dynasty, North Korea, Burma, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Your Excellency should also prepare some bird guns, even if it is only ten shots."

Baron Beric looked a little loose, but he eventually shook his head and said, "You don't understand, just like the second soup asked me why we used a longbow instead of one of the multi-layered composite bows. ”

"The kind of bow that cracks quickly in England, whereas the longbow is easy to make, and a large number can be made in three years; My farmers all use bows and arrows, and there are hundreds of good men with bows when recruited, but muskets can't be used, and it takes a lot of gunpowder to practice to your level, and I don't have that much gunpowder for farmers to practice. ”

Pan Shengle said: "Gunpowder, if you need Tang Er, you should be able to get it, he has a good way." ”

Buric still shook his head, he was laughed at by Pan Sheng's look of 'we have everything', and said: "If you really want to do business like this, I have a business for you, the Royal Armory and the Tower of London Armory together proposed to the House of Lords to increase orders for purple shirts to Europe." ”

"Portugal has the best purple shirts with Spain, but now we can't get fir from Spain because of the relationship between the queen and Spain, I heard...... There are a lot of fir trees in the New World, and we need them a lot. ”