Coming out of the [Prayer Silver Tower], Ouyang Shuo turned around and left the royal city and walked towards the southern city district. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Nancheng District is the expanded military industrial area.

Research Institute No. 7 is located here.

It has been a month since Black Snake Wei searched for the [Ming Dynasty Firearms Manufacturing Technology Manual] from the Heavenly King Palace, and I don't know how Liu Mo and others have studied this manual.

Back in Shanhai City, Ouyang Shuo naturally wanted to inspect it.

Firearms represent the highest level and main direction of the territory's future science and technology.

There are two main categories of firearms in the Ming Dynasty: the first type is the firearm and bird gun that are set up with a hand-held point, which are small in shape and caliber, and are generally filled with lead bullets and iron bullets, etc., and their range is only tens of steps to 200 steps.

Converted into meters, the farthest is two or three hundred meters.

Among the fire guns, the more representative ones include the three-eyed guns, the Lianzi guns, the abduction guns, the thunderbolt guns, the five thunder god machines, the Lumi guns and so on.

Among them, I have to mention the crutch gun.

The abductor is a repeating arquebus with a crank, 37.5 cm long, using a loading method similar to the Franc machine, which can be fired three times in a row with a range of 150 meters, and was called "Wansheng Franc Machine" in the Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that the Kidnapper is already the closest to the Western musket.

The second type is the artillery that is mounted on the pedestal and fired with a large caliber and shape, most of the barrels are filled with stones, lead, iron and other materials, commonly known as "solid bullets", and a few are loaded with explosive balls, the firing range is generally hundreds of steps to two or three miles away, mainly used for defending the fortress and attacking the city, and also used for field warfare, water warfare and naval warfare.

Hong Xiuquan's main attack before was the second type of artillery.

The artillery of Tianjing City has all arrived in Shanhai City for physical research at the No. 7 Research Institute.

Among the more representative artillery of the Ming Dynasty, including the Tiger Squat Cannon, the Franc Machine and the Hongyi Cannon.

Among them, the Hongyi cannon, known as the general cannon, was manufactured by the introduction of Western technology in the late Ming Dynasty, with cannon ears and sights, which can adjust the firing range, the gun body has a long life, the large one weighs 1.6 tons, and the firing range can reach 1.9 kilometers.

In addition to firearms and artillery, there is also a class of firearms, that is, rockets, including cluster rockets, divine fire crows, fire dragons out of the water, and so on.

The Divine Fire Flying Crow is filled with gunpowder in the crow-shaped body, and the gunpowder line in the gunpowder passes out and is connected in series with the gunpowder in the gunpowder cartridge of the take-off rocket.

When launching, first ignite the gunpowder line of the take-off rocket, so that the rocket flies to the enemy, and detonate the gunpowder in the crow's body, killing and burning the enemy's men and horses, which is a sharp weapon for breaking the formation and attacking the city.

The fire dragon out of the water, as the name suggests, is a sharp weapon in water warfare.

It is a multi-stage rocket in the Ming Dynasty, with a paper paste tube tied to the first stage of the rocket, there is a second stage rocket in the dragon's mouth, after the launch of the increased range to hit the enemy ship, for water attacks, the range can reach 1.5 kilometers.

It seems that the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were extremely developed, and they were very comprehensive, and they could be used in actual combat. However, compared with the West at the same time, it is more than a notch behind.

Let's start with the firebolt.

The three-eyed gun is the mainstream fire gun in the Ming Dynasty, but its real lethal range is only less than ten meters, and it only has a strong power within two zhang distance, and it is not accurate at all, but it has the advantage of being used as a mallet for hand-to-hand combat.

Let's talk about the aforementioned abduction gun, which was a musket introduced from the West in the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately limited to the level of science and technology at that time, it was basically impossible to imitate.

Even if the imitation is successful, both the safety performance and the power are greatly discounted.

The first one is in the material.

Take metallurgy, the Chinese use pig iron and wrought iron very rarely, and the barrel of the musket must be forged with wrought iron or steel, which makes the Chinese extremely difficult and finally has to give up.

And this point has long been solved by Shanhai City.

Before Ouyang Shuo left Shanhai City, he had already started to arrange the steel industry. Up to now, the ten steelmaking plants he planned have all been completed and put into operation one by one.

The Financial Services Department spends a huge amount of gold coins every month to buy millions of tons of iron ore and coal, which is enough to support the production needs of the steel plant in the early stage.

Let's talk about artillery.

The so-called tiger squat cannon, because of the tragedy of metallurgical technology, made the barrel of the cannon extremely thick, and could only hit a stone pellet the size of a billiard ball for 100 meters, and there was no distance at all, and there was not even a wheel.

The artifact Franc machine is a small naval gun on a small Western merchant ship that has been eliminated, and is known as "the toy of sailors without actual combat ability", but this thing became a great firearm when it was passed on to the Ming Dynasty.

For the Ming Dynasty, the Franc machine was a super high-tech product that exceeded its national scientific and technological capabilities, and it could not even be produced without the guidance of foreigners.

Moreover, the domestically produced Lang machine often blew up, and the number of people killed by the bombing far exceeded that of the enemy who was killed.

It can be described as a complete tragedy.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Western technology was introduced, and the counterfeit Hongyi cannon was the strongest firearm in the entire Ming Dynasty. In essence, the Hongyi cannon is no different from the big Buddha machine, but it is just longer and bigger.

The level of casting large artillery in the Ming Dynasty is very inferior, the quality is very bad, and the large artillery cast is often cracked waste, so it is necessary to ask foreigners to help guide the gradual pouring success, but the quality is still inferior, so the cannon body is extremely thick, the Ming Dynasty cast Hongyi cannon, the length is more than two meters, in the Ming Dynasty at that time, it belonged to the giant cannon, known as ten miles of range, in fact, only about one mile.

For comparison, the super-mobile artillery cast by the Mongol Mughal dynasty was three meters high, with a barrel twenty meters long, weighing fifty tons, and a firing range of more than twenty kilometers.

Between the two, there is no comparison at all.

Therefore, after Ouyang Shuo got the "Ming Dynasty Firearms Manufacturing Technology Manual", he never thought about manufacturing all kinds of firearms in the manual one by one.

Although it is said that for the current Shanhai City, it is not difficult to do this at all.

What Ouyang Shuo wants is to use the "Ming Dynasty Firearms Manufacturing Technology Manual" as a blueprint, combined with the existing scientific research strength of Shanhai City, to upgrade and transform firearms again.

His first goal was to develop a musket that could catch up with the average of the West, and a new artillery to match it.

That's all.

As for other things like firecrackers and rockets, Ouyang Shuo really didn't have the heart to think about it.

Only in this way can Ouyang Shuo lead the Chinese region, and in the future national war, he will not repeat the humiliating tragedies in history because of the great backwardness of weapons and equipment.

To achieve this, Shanhai City must establish a complete and relatively complete industrial system. The construction of steel plants is only the most basic step in the industrial system.