The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 437 The Short Spear Comes Out
After Yang Zhen arrived in Dengzhou, he was evacuated, all the soldiers and horses were gathered together for training, and he himself had nothing to do all day long.

On the contrary, Ding Yi's subordinates often found chats and drinks, and Yang Zhen began to refuse, but he came every other day and stalked him, and Yang Zhen had no choice but to be fine and boring.

Within a few days, Ding Yi sent people to take his family members in Laizhou to Dengzhou, and Yang Zhen had no choice but to stay in Dengzhou obediently.

The imperial court does not pay much for Dongjiang Town now, but it still pays for Xu Fuzuo in Denglai and the soldiers and horses in Yangzhen. '

The pay and rations were distributed to Xu Fuzuo first, and Xu Fuzuo did not deduct Yang Zhen's money, so he distributed it to Yan Xiong.

Because Yan Xiong is the person in charge of the Dengzhou camp here, and Zhou Yougen, who has a higher official position in the court than him, is the deputy.

Yan Xiong gave him double Yang Zhen's salary every month.

Yang Zhen refused once, twice, and finally did not refuse the third time.

Three months later, he was allowed to visit the training camp once. The soldiers and horses under him changed drastically, but out of 3000 people, only about [-] remained, and the other [-] had disappeared. Only later did he know that they were all dispatched by Ding Yi. Go to mine and do coolies.

Those who couldn't bear the hardship and couldn't serve as soldiers were all taken away.

When he went to see him again in six months, many people didn't know him very well, and they didn't have much respect for him.

A year later, when his soldiers and horses were trained, he obviously felt that his servants were unfamiliar with him.
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Besides, at the end of August, Ding Yi returned to Lushun. Not long after he met his family, Li Zhongyi sent someone to call him the next day, saying that he had made two wheel-wheel guns, and they were quite powerful after a test shot. Do you want Mr. Ding? to see?
Of course, Ding Yi was overjoyed. He didn't expect it to be so soon. It's only been more than a month.

When we arrived at Pig Island, we could hear the sound of firing guns and testing guns from afar.

Cannons and blunderbusses were built on the island, one after the other, often ringing non-stop.

After arriving at the scene, I found that there were many craftsmen, including master craftsmen, craftsmen, craftsmen, and ordinary craftsmen.

Both Li Zhongyi and Zhou Dahu were there.

Zhou Dahu's wife, Mrs. Li, is now the director of the school, a teacher who specializes in gunplay, but this time she also participated in the research on the wheel-wheel gun, and asked someone to substitute a few lessons.

Ding Yi also saw many students, both men and women, most of them were men. After asking, he realized that they were all students in Li's class.

"Come here, and meet Mr. Ding." Li said with a smile.

All the students came forward to see him one after another, and Ding Yi responded with a smile. Everyone asked for their names and family members.

Most of these students were fourteen or fifteen years old, some were the children of craftsmen on the island, and some were the children of Liao people who first came to Lushun. Anyway, they were all from Ding Yi.

Because Ding Yi requires girls to also go to school, there are both boys and girls, but those who learn how to play guns are basically boys. There are two girls here, both of whom were selected by Mrs. Li, saying that they can be trained to be teachers in the future. Perseverance is pretty good.

These students participated in the process of making the spring wheel gun, which is equivalent to the practice practice in the previous life, laying a standard foundation for their skills in shooting guns.

According to the exchange and arrangement of Ding Yi, Li Zhongyi and others, every year the school's artisan students will come to practice to improve their skills.

The classes they train craftsmen are four-year, and basically spend half of each year practicing in various factories.

After graduating in four years, you can make a qualified blunderbuss or cannon with your own hands, and you are a qualified craftsman.

At this time, no matter how old you are, even if you are fifteen or sixteen years old, you can still get a relatively high salary in Lushun.

After meeting the students, Ding Yi came to the target.

There are several tables in front, with many parts on them, and two wheel-wheel guns.

Originally, what Zheng Zhilong took over was dismantled by the artisans long ago.

Now they make two wheel-wheel guns, one can penetrate armor at 20 meters, and the other can penetrate armor at ten meters.

The 20-meter armor-piercing one is slightly larger than the European one, about [-] centimeters in length, and looks scary.

Li Zhongyi introduced Ding Yi one by one.

A large spring wheel gun weighs more than four catties, which is relatively heavy.

Bigger and heavier than European ones.

However, many places are made of fine steel, and the parts are mainly made of brass, which ensures the service life.

"If you shoot continuously, you can probably fire ten shots before you need to replace the parts."

"Without bursts, you can fire 25 to [-] shots. It's time to change parts."

"The ignition rate was very high, indeed higher than that of a flintlock. We fired ten shots and nine shots were fired."

It's okay if it doesn't start, just rewind it.

Then Ding Yi shot three shots.

Hit the iron armor 20 meters away at close range, and barely penetrated it with a bang.

This is why the gun is so heavy and the barrel is so long.

This thing is so long and so heavy, it is only suitable for cavalry to carry it on horseback. It is very convenient to shoot with gunpowder and lead bullets loaded in advance.

Ding Yi tried firing the small spring wheel gun again.

This small one is about the same as the European one, with a slightly longer barrel, forty centimeters long, and weighs about three catties, barely resembling a pistol of later generations.

The barrel is slightly longer to increase the range.

Barely breaking the iron armor within ten meters.

Li Zhongyi said "reluctantly" means that if the opponent is wearing iron armor and barely penetrates at a distance of 20 meters or [-] meters, the opponent will not be seriously injured, or if the opponent is wearing two layers of armor, it is basically impossible to injure the opponent.

Therefore, the best shooting range is within ten meters for the former and five meters for the latter. This distance can penetrate two layers of armor and severely injure the opponent.

Of course, considering that no matter the Ming army or the Jin army, it is impossible for everyone to have iron armor, not everyone has two or three layers of armor. Under the current conditions, it is considered good to be able to do so.

And in this era, as long as it is broken by lead bullets, it is easy to be infected and die.

Like many soldiers in Dongjiang Town, they all had a blood feud with Hou Jin. They learned from Hou Jin, they would soak the lead bullets in dung water before the battle, wipe them dry before hitting them, and they were even more vicious.

After the trial shooting, Ding Yi discussed with a group of craftsmen.

Listen to their difficulties and difficulties.

The craftsmen agreed that there are many parts and they are fragile, so the replacement rate will be high in the future and the cost will be relatively high.

Fortunately, Ding Yi's copper and iron mines can come from Japan in a steady stream, which greatly reduces the cost. Otherwise, if you rely on buying minerals to do it, Ding Yi's expenses will definitely double.

Ding Yi said that the cost can be ignored now, the key is labor and manufacturing progress, labor cost is also cost, he can grab copper ore and iron ore from Japan, but labor has to be paid.

For this wheel-wheel gun, the parts need to be replaced after ten bursts of fire, and maybe every single fight. This frequency is too high.

His flintlock gun can be fired for a year without changing it, which is completely different.

The craftsmen also told Ding Yi that the most difficult thing to make of this wheel-wheel gun is the barrel. Although there are many other parts, they also thought of a way.

But, the barrel is made to be durable, and a single barrel can last for a long time. According to the standard of a flintlock, it will only break after [-] shots.

But the parts need to be replaced frequently.

The parts need to be replaced because the standard of the parts is really not high and not fine enough.

"Take me to have a look." Ding Yi followed them to see where the gun barrel and parts were made.

(End of this chapter)