Disappointing birdshots

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A skilled archer can't be trained at all without a few years, and a trained skilled bird gunner, just give me a month is enough, and this advantage alone is too important.

Liu Chong, think about it, if this thing can not explode, the range can be increased, and even the time to reload gunpowder can be greatly shortened, do you say that the archers can compare to it? ”

After Liu Zhong listened to Li Zixiao's words, he was stunned for a moment, and then said: "If as the big boss said, almost all the shortcomings of that kind of bird gun have been made up, it can be called a perfect distance firepower."

But, big boss, is it possible for what you said to be realized? Don't let the bird gun blow up, this is simpler, as long as we have a craftsman who can make bird guns, strictly control, and do not deduct materials, we can also make it if we want to.

But how to increase the firing range, shorten the gunpowder reloading time, etc., I don't think it's reliable. ”

Liu Chong obviously does not fully agree with Li Zixiao's ideas.

But of course, Li Zixiao won't tell him that he really has a way to do this, and what he lacks now is time for him to have the conditions to make up all this.

And with the appearance of the old man who was captured by Li Zixiao from the one-eyed dragon before, Li Zixiao saw that he had the opportunity to cause a bird gun.

Now what Li Zixiao needs is a quiet environment, sufficient money and food, to support him to complete the manufacture of the bird gun, and even he has plans to improve the bird gun, in Li Zixiao's heart, the flintlock pistol is his most ideal gun.

As long as the so-called automatic rifle in later generations, Li Zixiao didn't even dare to think about it, the technological leap was too big to be made at all, but at this time, the flintlock pistol had every chance to be made.

Now Li Zixiao can't help but think in his heart, when will he be able to have a thousand flintlock musketeers under his command, what Manchu Tartars are he afraid of at that time, and how many people will be killed.

Even the Eight Banners Army of the Manchu Tartars, all of them grew up on horseback, and they were skilled in bows and arrows, but in the face of the power of science and technology, they were also vulnerable, and the appearance of flintlock pistols would be a nightmare for cavalry!

Therefore, Li Zixiao is now eager to lay down Lin Jiabao, so that he can have the opportunity and money to realize his heart's desire step by step.

At this time, Li Zixiao picked up a bird gun, first stabbed the chamber with a strip, cleaned up the residue in the chamber, and then began to load gunpowder.

He had already seen the One-Eyed Dragon's men demonstrate how to reload gunpowder, and he poured out some of the gunpowder first, loaded it into the chamber, took a projectile, filled it into the chamber, and tamped it with a strip.

Then he poured the primer into the fire door and covered the lid of the medicine pool, and then the fire was lit with the fire fold, stuck on the faucet, and was ready to be fired.

When Liu Chong and the others saw that Li Zixiao was going to shoot in person, they all came up to stop him, for fear that the bird would hurt Li Zixiao.

However, Li Zixiao didn't believe that his luck was so bad, the first shot, the bird gun would explode, and he still insisted on trying it himself.

Li Zixiao took the bird's gun, took a deep breath, still secretly prayed in his heart not to explode, and then picked up the gun and aimed at a big tree thirty paces away, and after aiming carefully, he pulled the bolt.

Bang!

Li Zixiao only felt that the fire flashed in front of him, and his shoulder was slightly hit by recoil, and a cloud of gunsmoke immediately erupted from the muzzle, and a muffled sound was heard in his ears at the same time.

After the gunpowder in the medicine pool burned, the gunpowder in the chamber of the gun exploded, and the projectile was ejected, and the smoke from the chamber of the gun, and the tears of Li Zixiao flowed down.

"Ahem, this thing is really choking!" Li Zixiao put down the bird's gun, coughed with tears over and over again, and immediately ran towards the big tree.

After he ran to the side of the tree, he lay on the tree and searched for a long time, but he was stunned and did not find the projectile he had hit, and finally found that a piece of the bark on one side of the tree had been scraped off.

"You're a girl, I didn't shoot the tree, I just scraped off a piece of bark!" When Li Zixiao saw such a result, he was immediately disappointed and almost threw the bird gun to the ground.

"What a thing, it's clear that Lao Tzu is aiming very accurately, it's only thirty paces away, why did he miss it? This bird is really hard to use! ”

Li Zixiao muttered in his mouth, looking depressed.

Liu Chong also walked over at this time, with a reasonable look on his face, and said to Li Zixiao: "Big boss." You still don't know much about birds.

This thing is really not easy to use, the trajectory of the projectile shot is very biased, this is only thirty steps, it is difficult to hit people, the first time the big boss played with the bird gun, this shot can also rub the bark, it is already very good.

If you are fifty paces away, you can only rely on luck to hit someone, and if you are seventy steps away, you can only scare and scare people, and if you don't get it right, you can easily blow up the chamber, and you will not kill the enemy, but hurt yourself.

Besides, the power of this thing is limited, the penetration of the projectile within fifty steps is okay, thirty steps can pierce armor, fifty steps can shoot someone without armor, seventy steps away to kill someone, it is basically impossible. ”

After listening to Liu Chong's words, Li Zixiao was really disappointed in the power of the bird gun in this era, this thing really didn't have much advantage over bows and arrows at this time.

The shooting accuracy is not as good as that of a skilled archer, at least a skilled archer can control the accuracy of the arrows, but the shooting accuracy of this thing cannot be seen directly.

Moreover, there is gunpowder that can be reloaded for half a day when a shot is fired, and it cannot be used in rainy days, and the bird soldiers have to risk exploding the chamber, and accidentally kill themselves!

Now Li Zixiao finally understands why Liu Chong is so unkind to see the bird gun, at this time, the bird gun made by the Ming Dynasty is really rubbish.

"It seems that I still have a long way to go to complete the road of a thousand musketeers, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with firearms for the development of the battlefield.

However, in a short period of time, it is not possible to rely on firearms to gain superiority on the battlefield, and in the final analysis, at this time, the end of the Ming Dynasty was still in a stage of transition from cold weapons to hot weapons. ”

Although Li Zixiao was disappointed by the effect of this test gun, he still did not give up his plan to prepare for the development of firearms, but he knew that firearms would dominate the battlefield in the future.

In the previous life, because of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Tartars entered the customs, and the narrow vision of the nomads made them unable to see the huge development potential of firearms, and they stupidly worshiped their invincible bows and arrows!

The Manchu Qing Dynasty did not attach importance to the development of firearms, so that China returned to the cold weapon period, which is also more than 200 years later, the Chinese people were used by the West to invent their own gunpowder cannons, knocking on the door of the country, how sad!

No wonder Li Zixiao remembered that in his previous life, he had read a famous sentence, 'Every nomadic sub-race invasion of the agrarian world will cause a great regression of human civilization!'" It really makes sense.

"That's it, it's better to have this bird gun than nothing, let's make do with it first, which can be regarded as temporarily making up for the lack of long-range firepower in our hands.

It's a pity that the quality of these bird guns is too poor, and the maintenance is not good, if it is Seiko built, it should be much more powerful, not so bad.

When this battle is over, I will find a way to get some better firearms than this bird, and when the time comes, I will open your eyes.

Go and gather the archers and firecrackers of the One-Eyed Dragon, and organize them into a team to use as our long-range strike firepower, and we will use them in the next attack. ”

Li Zixiao reluctantly threw the bird gun to Liu Chong and said to him.

At the beginning, Li Zixiao really planned to join forces with the one-eyed dragon to break through Lin Jiabao, after all, this was his first time going out of the mountain to attack the village, hoping to let the one-eyed dragon take the lead, so as to reduce the casualties of his men.

But he didn't expect to break with the one-eyed dragon in the end and annex the one-eyed dragon, but now he had to find a way to attack Lin Jiabao by himself.

After all, there is really not much food in his cottage, and he can't survive this winter at all, plus he still has an agreement with Qi Wei, so he can only do it himself now.

Now he can only continue to support himself by breaking through Lin Jiabao and obtaining enough money and food, otherwise, no matter how benevolent and righteous he is, his subordinates can only starve when they follow him, and it is impossible for anyone to be willing to follow him again.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, this world is like this, if you have money and food, someone will follow you, no money and no food, few people will follow you to starvation, all for survival!

Fortunately, by observing the attack and defense of the One-Eyed Dragon and Lin Jiabao one day yesterday, as well as some knowledge that Li Zixiao saw in his previous life, this made him have some ideas in his heart.

By the time Li Zixiao finished rectifying the men left by the one-eyed dragon, it was already past noon.

After eating, everyone was gathered by Li Zixiao again, and Li Zixiao's three teams of soldiers were neatly arranged, standing in front of Li Zixiao with their heads held high.

On the other side, there were only more than two hundred one-eyed dragons' subordinates who were looking at Li Zixiao's side tremblingly at this time, and the fierce aura of these soldiers made them very afraid, also because they were afraid of being killed before.

Even those tenants outside the Lin Jiabao Village also gathered in a small group at this time and came over, but all the men who came over, and the old and weak women and children did not follow.

Li Zixiao regathered his people and began to assemble outside Lin Jiabao, which made the atmosphere tense again.

"Brothers, the one-eyed dragon has been defeated and slaughtered by us, and now these grievances are over, but now you remember what we came here for?"

Li Zixiao stood on a mound in front of the team and asked everyone below loudly.

"Come and hit Zhuangzi." The people below immediately replied loudly.

"Very good, you haven't forgotten that this is the real purpose of our descent this time, that's good.

Now I tell you that today I will take you to attack Linjiabao, and then we can get enough food to survive this cold winter. ”

"Whoa, break through Lin Jiabao, break through Lin Jiabao!" As soon as Li Zixiao finished speaking, everyone below shouted in unison, and the momentum was huge.