"Heavy smoothbore guns?"

Song Changping was a little surprised when he learned the name of this musket. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Chen Qi stared at the picture on the ground for a while and said; "Your Majesty, isn't this just a bigger musket? And the musket looks bulky, and it is better to use it than to use it. “

Hearing this, Xiao Ming explained: "This kind of heavy flintlock pistol has a long range, great power, and can shoot a lot of projectiles at one time, and can even directly penetrate the armor of the cavalry from two or three hundred meters away, the range and power of the artillery are certainly very large, but the disadvantage is that it is bulky and expensive, this kind of heavy smoothbore gun is easy to produce, two people can operate it, and the effect of using it in the car formation will be better." ”

The two nodded, and now they understood that Xiao Ming's purpose in creating this heavy smoothbore gun was to defend the car formation.

After a pause, Xiao Ming continued: "If you want to defeat the barbarians, you must go deep into the grassland, and using a heavy smoothbore gun with a vehicle formation will have an unexpected effect, and at the same time, in order to cooperate with this heavy smoothbore gun, you have to transform the chariot." ”

"I hope the emperor will make it clear."

Xiao Ming drew on the ground again at this time, and the appearance of modern tanks and machine guns ended the cavalry, and now he obviously can't make modern tanks and machine guns, but he can make heavy smoothbore guns and ironclad chariots. “

The transformation of the chariot was mainly focused on two aspects, one was to add the firing hole of the heavy smoothbore gun to the chariot, and the other was to add a blade thrust to the outer iron armor, mainly to prevent the barbarian slave soldiers from climbing.

After Jizhou used the car array to defeat the barbarians, he believed that the barbarians must also be looking for a way to crack the car array.

And for the barbarians, the simplest and most brutal way is to use the lives of the barbarian slave soldiers to fill it.

It is said that the population of the barbarians is only four or five million, but the barbarians have always liked to keep slaves, and this slave soldier is also an existence that cannot be ignored.

It is precisely because of this that he considered the next period of time to focus on building an ironclad car formation, this kind of chariot is equivalent to a movable fortress on the grassland, and the heavy smoothbore gun can be loaded with dozens of normal musket pellets at a time, the effect is tantamount to a shotgun, the combination of the two plus the cooperation of the musketeers and cavalry in the car formation, this is a heavily guarded fortress.

After telling the two of them their thoughts, the two agreed to the matter.

Song Changping sighed and said: "The emperor is ambitious, and the lower officials are impressed in their hearts, but the border troubles in the northern grasslands of the past dynasties have never stopped, driving away this grassland tribe, and another tribe will become strong after a few decades, and so on." “

During this time, Song Chang often went to the Bowen College to read books, and in addition to the manufacture of firearms, he also read some history books, and he couldn't help but feel a little emotional for a while.

Chen Qi didn't know anything except artillery technology, but Song Changping said that he was a little worried, "Your Majesty, what Song Changping said makes some sense, but in this bitter cold land in the north, no one wants to settle down, and only the barbarians are willing to go there." ”

Xiao Ming frowned when he heard this, Chen Qi's words were exactly the problem he had a headache now, the barbarians were different from the vassal kings of King Zhao and King Yan.

The vassal kings relied on collecting taxes from their feudal states to form armies and become strong, so losing their feudal kingdoms meant that they had nothing left.

But the barbarians are different, this is a half-herding and half-farming group, and the strategy pursued is expansion and plunder, it can be said that the barbarians have been on the road of colonization, but unlike the overseas colonization of the West, the barbarians have been engaged in bloody colonization on the Eurasian continent.

Such a barbarian cunning rabbit three caves, even if he destroys the barbarian tribes near Changbai Mountain, the remaining barbarian tribes can still migrate to the vast grassland, waiting for a power vacuum to appear in this land again.

But this was intolerable to Xiao Ming, because his purpose was to solve the northern problem once and for all.

Otherwise, he would have been overwhelmed by the enemy and would not be able to concentrate on fighting overseas for colonies with the Western powers.

Standing up and pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, Xiao Ming said, "I already have an idea, and I won't give the barbarians a chance to breathe. ”

Song Changping scratched his head, this matter was not his duty, so he said: "Your Majesty, the lower officials just said casually, for the lower officials, doing their best to produce firearms is equivalent to fighting the barbarians." ”

"That's a good thing, it's enough for you to be able to provide the army with firearms of quality and quantity." Xiao Ming smiled, and then he suddenly remembered something, so he asked, "By the way, how about the fire hat that I asked you to study with Lu Tong." “

Speaking of this, the two of them looked excited, and Chen Qi said: "We and Lu Tong have been experimenting in the laboratory three times, and we have achieved some preliminary results, in short, we can already let the fire cap replace the flint." ”

"That's good, you have to make the fire cap as soon as possible." , Xiao Ming nodded, he and Lu Tong have studied the manufacturing of this fire hat many times, and it is because of this that the research of this fire hat will go so smoothly.

Song Changping said at this time: "Your Majesty, now the development of the fire cap has been seventy-seven eighty-eight, and the lower officials are ready to produce the fire cap type musket, which only uses the fire cap and paper shell bullets, and a fire cap is installed every time it is shot, eliminating the need for a flintlock gun to pour gunpowder into the medicine pool. ”

Xiao Ming was not surprised by Song Changping's words at all, for him, with the current industrial capacity of Qingzhou, he could only develop the musket to the extent of a fire-cap rear-loading gun.

As for the metal fixed ammunition, it is the product of another leap forward in production after the Western electric revolution, and the cost of production is too high now.

At that time, the huge bullet consumption will make him unbearable, after all, this bullet is a copper shell, and according to his estimate, the cost of such a metal fixed ammunition is estimated to be about two taels of silver.

So on the trade-off, before the electric revolution came, he could only work on the fire cap firing gun.

After all, compared with the flintlock pistol, the musket gun improves the reliability and rate of fire, overcomes the problems of unreliable flintlock firing, high blind fire rate, slow rate of fire, and poor breath-holding, and no longer has to worry about the problem of the failure of the musket on rainy days.

However, although this fire cap firing gun is an improvement, it only has some advantages in terms of rate of fire and stability, and it cannot change the mode of war, it can only be said that it has some advantages on the battlefield.

"I had this idea when I asked you to study the fire cap, and now that the fire hat has made progress, let's start, and the rules followed by the military workshop in the future are to use one generation, develop one generation, and design another, so as to ensure that there will be no fault in the weapon." , Xiao Ming set the rules for the military workshop.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Song Changping and Chen Qi bowed and said.