It's no wonder that John Tong said that. You know, the bayonet only became popular after a hundred years, and at most there are bayonets stuck in the barrel in Europe at most, which are very troublesome to use.

And now except for the Ming army, there is no flintlock infantry line tactics, and everyone must have a great distrust of using bayonets against cavalry.

Gao Xiang still wanted to argue, but Qiao Weili didn't give him a chance at all, and opened the next topic, "Also, you actually use one-ounce muskets!" How can this work?! ”

An ounce is slightly less than six coins, and in order to resonate with John Tong, Qiao Weili deliberately used European units.

John Tang and Kolotov nodded almost together, "That's right, two-ounce muskets are the mainstream of the battlefield." ”

"An ounce of guns is only enough for hunting."

Gao Xiang listened to the interpretation and relayed, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "At the beginning, General Ke of my family also had eleven money guns, but it was not at all advantageous to shoot against the six thousand guns of the Ming army......

"That's because your soldiers are too poor," Qiao Weili proudly interrupted him, "heavy muskets have an incomparable advantage over medium and light muskets, which is the experience of European theaters after hundreds of years. With that defeat you fought and you want to overturn the judgments of countless military geniuses? ”

John Tang and the Rakshasa nodded at the same time. At present, the infantry weapons of European countries have almost been dominated by Spanish heavy muskets, and it is simply common sense that "heavy is best used".

In fact, they have all fallen into a misunderstanding. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Europe was generally armed with heavy muskets for a reason.

Europe is sparsely populated, but it has a huge amount of superior iron ore. This has led to a very high armor rate among their soldiers, especially the plate cavalry, which has always been a high ace class, and the fire gun does not have a caliber of about ten dollars, and it is difficult to kill it within fifty paces.

If two European armies were engaged, the side armed with medium and light muskets would most likely not be able to completely shoot the enemy's heavy cavalry. Then once the opponent's heavy cavalry breaks into his own army formation, it is easy to form a rout of the whole army on that side. So for the Europeans, the effective penetration of plate armor was a requirement that the musket had to meet, for which all other indicators could be abandoned.

As a result, the Spanish heavy musket, weighing 20 pounds, became popular in Europe.

In fact, if there is no factor of heavy plate armor, the bulky eleven coin gun is not the opponent of the six-coin gun with a full weight of only ten catties, because the latter has absolute advantages in terms of soldier movement speed, operation flexibility, and rate of fire.

This is also the reason why, in the eighteenth century, after the heavy cavalry gradually retired from the stage of history, European countries began to use one-ounce muskets.

As a latecomer, Zhu Lin naturally knew that in the Eastern Continent, because of the large amount of impurities in iron ore and the small reserves, there were almost no troops armed with heavy plate armor, and the medium caliber was the most suitable. Therefore, he chose six coins as the standard caliber of the Dragon Guard's guns from the beginning.

But because of Wang Yingshi, a traitor, he had to find a way to disrupt Jianyu's idea of developing weapons, and replacing the medium-sized firecrackers with heavy firecrackers that were not suitable for the East was an important part.

Seeing that his opinion had won the support of the majority of the people, Qiao Weili asked John Tang worriedly: "John, how much is a one-ounce musket made now?" ”

John was John Thompson's real name, John Adam Schal von White.

"There are about more than 12,000 pieces, and more than 4,000 pieces are being made by craftsmen in the North and South Beijing Ordnance Bureaus."

"Good thing I happened to be here to see you." Qiao Weili glanced at Gao Xiang again, "Otherwise, the Qing army's army will be destroyed by this guy."

"But it's not too late, hurry up and let the craftsmen remodel the two-ounce muskets, and replace the one-ounce guns that have been issued to the soldiers as much as possible."

When he said this, Cai Shiying on the side couldn't sit still with more than 10,000 guns! How much will it cost to do it all over again? The above held accountable, and the first unlucky person was himself, the principal.

He squinted at Gao Xiang and said, "General Gao, what do you think?" ”

The latter was stunned by several Yiren, and after thinking about it, he felt that what they said was indeed true, and at this time he began to wonder if it was really because of Ke Yongsheng's weak soldiers that he would be defeated by the Ming army, "This, maybe ......"

On the side, Wang Yingshi helped him out of the siege, and arched his hand: "My lord, if you use an eleven money gun, I am afraid that the whole weight will exceed twenty catties, how can you raise it and use the short sword to resist the enemy?" ”

"What kind of dagger do you use?" Qiao Weili waved his hand and said, "That's just a way to cut corners for the leftover silver." ”

He began to "fool" Cai Shiying into giving up the technical points of the "bayonet" again, "Just that little dagger, hanging on the mouth of the gun, can there be a spear?"

"The best thing to do is to switch to two-ounce muskets, one spear per soldier, and the cost is much lower."

What he said sounded right, but it was actually nothing on paper.

The biggest advantage of the gun with the bayonet is that it is convenient, the gun can be fired all the time without worrying about other things, and the enemy can immediately raise the gun and use the bayonet to meet the battle when the enemy is approaching.

But if it is a firebolt and a spear alone, the gunner will have to estimate the distance between the two sides at any time. Once the enemy approached, they had to put the fire gun on their backs and then take off the spear to face the enemy, although the whole process only took ten or twenty seconds, but it would cause confusion in the whole formation.

In addition, the speed of each person's movements is different, and it will take at least a minute or so to fight again with a spear. And if the enemy does not rush up at this time, then it will have to be changed back again...... After the invention of the bayonet, almost all musketeers were no longer equipped with other cold weapons.

Kolotov replied loudly: "What kind of spear is used, the soldiers of our Rakshasa country all use axes!" When firing, the handle of the axe is stuck in the ground, and the musket holder is at the fork of the axe, and the axe is the musket holder. In melee combat, pick up an axe and get it on it, it's much more powerful than a spear! ”

Qiao Wei said in his heart that this person wouldn't also be sent by the Auxiliary King, otherwise how could he be so cooperative? With an axe? Not to mention the cost, just this weight, the Qing soldiers will complain.

In fact, that's what the Russian musketeers of this era did, and Kolotov just told the truth. However, the Russian race is relatively burly, and they don't care about the weight of the axe, but if these more than ten catties are pressed on the Jianzhou soldiers, the effect is afraid that it will be completely different.

Qiao Weili nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes, it's not bad to use an axe." ”

He saw that Cai Shiying was still frowning and hesitating, and immediately offered the trump card taught by His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King, "You will know which is better and which is worse and which is worse." I would like to ask Lord Cai to find a few hundred soldiers and see who is more powerful according to the equipment that I and this General Gao said. ”