Chapter 839: If you want to build a private army, you will come out with a new weapon first (I)
Once a person with a strong will and a firm belief has made a decision, even if there is a sea of swords and fires in front of him, he will overcome all difficulties to work hard for that decision.
Liu Xing's has always been firm enough, and his belief is also very firm. In the face of such a Liu Xing, Seed Master Zhong and Zong Ze could only reluctantly choose to uniformly approve the recruitment and formation of the nine major firms and trading companies in the Hunter Valley.
The affairs of the court were in charge of the courtiers, and when the two elders left, Liu Xing immediately summoned Su Quan and Bi Jin to the front.
The two of them stood still, and Liu Xing immediately went straight to the topic unequivocally, looked at Su Quan and said: "Su Quan, you said to me yesterday that now I have made a lot of Shenwu three-type firearms in the Hunter Valley. Let me ask you, how many people can be armed with those firearms? ”
Su Quan answered, and immediately blurted out without hesitation: "Yu Taifu, the latest firearms in the valley can now be used to arm 20,000 people at any time. ”
After a slight pause in the middle of his sentence, Su Quan looked at Liu Xing and showed a strange smile: "Dare to ask the Taifu whether he is going to put those expensive new firearms into the battlefields of Saibei, Jiangnan, or the Western Regions?" Hehe, no matter where those new firearms are thrown, they will become even more invincible. ”
The latest firearms, that is, Liu Xing has been strictly secreting them from the outside world for the past six months, so that Yelu Bashen has mobilized all the craftsmen in the valley to work overtime to make sharper firearms while trying not to affect the normal supply of firearms to the royal army.
Among those firearms were heavy artillery with a caliber of 7 inches and a range of up to 2,000 paces, field artillery with a caliber of 5 inches and a range of 1,200 paces, and mountain artillery with a caliber of 3 and a half inches and a range of 1,000 paces.
Different from the previous weapons, this time the raw materials of these three kinds of artillery have almost reached Liu Xing's expectation, and the special alloy steel is used as the gun body. Therefore, whether it is durability, range and rate of fire, or its stability, especially in terms of lethality, it has almost reached the high level expected by Liu Xing.
In terms of name, Liu Xing also abandoned the old Shenwu title and named the city "Jingwei Heavy Artillery", "Jingwei Field Artillery" and "Jingwei Mountain Cannon".
As long as the Jingwei artillery is used, Liu Xing firmly believes that judging from the military strength and urban defense strength of all countries today. There will be no city that can hold out three rounds of bombardment under the guns of ten Jingwei guns......
The use of artillery as the main means of battle was determined by Liu Xing when he had already made up his mind to build his own merchant army. In addition to the Jingwei cannon, there are now several sharp firearms in the Hunter Valley.
The first is the Jingwei Lianzhu rifle manufactured by Yelu Bashen according to the drawings given to him by Liu Xing after mastering the means of smelting and molding alloy steel.
The name of the bead rifle is first of all thousands of years ahead of its time, and its positioning is very clear. The gun will be mainly equipped for infantry units. It is used in field battles, siege warfare, positional warfare and other operations.
In terms of the design of the gun, Liu Xing basically copied the classic rifle of a hegemonic country in the West for many years and the battlefield for many years in the later world.
Yelu Bashen also did not live up to Liu Xing's expectations, and the Jingwei Lianzhu rifle was mass-produced under his auspices, and the effective range of the real thing reached 800 steps.
With its rotational pull-back firing, five-round magazine stock, its stable performance, and a barrel that can fire at least 10,000 rounds, Liu Xing believes that "Jingwei is a surprise to the world, sweeping all directions and breaking ten thousand cities"......
With infantry guns, naturally there must also be cavalry guns. Like the Jingwei infantry serial gun, Yelu Bashen also followed Liu Xing's setup drawings, and at the same time achieved mass production, and is secretly manufacturing another new firearm for individual main battles. Its name is "Jingyuan Riding Spear".
The Jingyuan riding gun is also five consecutive shots, and its performance, range, and stability are even higher than the "Jingwei gun" to a certain extent. However, the barrel of the Jingyuan gun is three points shorter than the Jingwei gun, and the weight is much lighter, which determines that the cavalry will not affect the speed of the cavalry charge and the mobility of the cavalry due to the weight of the gun after use.
In terms of range, although the Jingyuan gun is weakened compared with the Jingwei gun, with a range of only 600 paces, its firing speed and loading performance are somewhat higher than those of the Jingwei gun.
Therefore, when Yelu Bashen sent three sample guns and 300 rounds of bullets that were mass-produced by all machinery into the Taifu Mansion, Liu Xing excitedly cheered after the test firing, "Jingyuan guns are everywhere, and there is no life in the distance." Who dares to stand in my way. This shot to destroy his clan"......
In addition to these two new types of firearms for individual combat, the Hunter Valley can truly be called a single weapon of mass destruction. Actually, there is something else.
The two more powerful individual combat weapons are the "Wind and Fire" type one rocket launcher and the other "Thunder" type blasting canister.
The bazooka is now equipped in all parts of the Xinwang Army, but the caliber of the "Wind and Fire" type is half an inch larger than it, and the firing range is 100 steps farther.
The large caliber determines that the lethality of the "Wind and Fire" type is greater than that of the bazooka currently used by the royal troops, and the long range determines that the attack power of the "Wind and Fire" type is also stronger than that of the bazooka used by the royal forces.
The most important thing is. Although the lethality and attack power have been strengthened, the weight of the "Wind and Fire" after being loaded and the weight of the rocket are two-thirds of the current bazooka.
What is the point of the bazooka becoming lighter? The significance of this is not only to increase its lethality and attack power, but also to increase the speed of individual soldiers with this bazooka.
The most important point. Or the "Wind and Fire" formula no longer needs two auxiliary loaders, normally only one person can operate and reload.
If you have a Supporter to help you reload your ammo in the event of a fierce battle, it will be twice as powerful as the current Bazooka......
Bazookas aren't a novelty, so what are blasters?
The blasting canister is actually a metal canister containing explosives, which is composed of metal canisters, explosives, and fuses, and is mainly used for breaking obstacles, clearing mines, and blowing up city walls.
The blaster relied on the detonation to destroy, and the individual soldiers sneaked under the enemy's walls. According to Liu Xing's idea, as long as ten blasting canisters can be erected under the city wall at the same time.
Even the thick walls of Bianjing City will be torn open in the city wall after the ten blasters detonate at the same time, so that the infantry can no longer climb the city wall and rush directly into the city to kill the enemy.
The birth of this new type of blasting weapon is destined to bring to an end the solid city walls and the city defense tactics with the first goal of defending the city walls, and it is destined to make all the enemy troops in the cities attacked by this blasting team in the future have to choose to abandon the city walls to fight this army and strangle it head-on...... (To be continued.) )