my magic industry

Chapter 94
"Don't worry! Your Royal Highness, the purpose of these new troops is to kill the charging knights within range, so it is enough for them to use leather armor."

Xia Lin nodded and said, in his opinion, this configuration is enough for knights.

After all, facing the knights with muskets, the chance of victory lies in the formation of a dense barrage within the range to quickly eliminate the enemy. If the knights are allowed to cross this distance and face the high-speed impact of medieval tanks, the soldiers of the new army will be wearing armor. Armor doesn't increase the odds of survival much either.

Moreover, wearing plate armor requires too high a soldier's quality, which does not meet the design concept of a simple and easy-to-handle weapon such as a musket.

Although the cost of the 1391-style rifle is not cheap, compared with the knights who exercised in all directions since childhood, took various potions to stimulate the body to break through the limits of the human body, until they obtained magic power and various extraordinary powers, the musketeers obviously needed more. Much cheaper.

Knights can only be cultivated slowly even if they have money, and musketeers can explode thousands of people in a short period of time as long as they have money. Compared with knights who are naturally more conservative, musketeers are business The most suitable choice for the alliance.

After completing the demonstration of the two rifles, the next step is to demonstrate the power of the 80mm caliber breech-loading artillery.

Since there is no need to consider the factor of the primer, the machining accuracy of the outer circle of the gun body and the breech can also meet the requirements. Xia Lin directly adopted the modern design of the breech of the gun body, and the breech block adopts a combined type.

When firing, the breech block needs to be turned open, then a wedge iron is taken out, a fixed paper shell cannonball is put into the breech block, and then the wedge iron and the breech block are closed.

The gunner hits a spring structure above the cannon tail with a small wooden hammer, so that the magic stone inside comes into contact with the flame spell rune disk to generate flames. The flames enter the gun bore through a passage equipped with a one-way valve, and ignite the shells to be fired.

It can be said that the entire firing process is quite modern, but because the current boring machine is not very accurate in processing such a deep inner circle structure, there are still some problems with the sealing between the barrel and the shell, which affects a lot of range and power, and also makes the The weight of the gun body had to be greatly increased.

After the commander gave an order, the 80mm breech-loading artillery was driven back by the strong recoil force. A 3kg shell passed through the 5m-long barrel at an elevation angle of 1.5 degrees, flying towards the ground at a high speed visible to the naked eye. far away.

Finally, it landed on a large circle with a diameter of 1500m drawn with limestone about 50m away. After three bounces, it destroyed a series of obstacles used to demonstrate the power of the circle, and finally stopped.

It is predictable how much damage such a heavy projectile can cause to a dense phalanx on the battlefield.

"My God, the power of this cannon is astonishing! And the range is comparable to the bow and arrow equipped with magic equipment! No wonder Sir Xia Lin called the cannon the king of war!"

Earl Karen was so surprised by this terrible power that he began to pray to the gods. With a full range of 1500m, he could destroy a series of steel plates, wood and other obstacles at the farthest point of the range. This power is really terrifying.

"Sir Charlene, how much does such a cannon cost?"

After watching the scene of the cannon firing, Princess Dorothea turned her head and asked Xia Lin solemnly.If she was only satisfied with rifles, she attached great importance to artillery.

"Such an 80mm caliber breech-loading gun requires 130 pounds of steel, and the cost is about 25 gold lund."

Xia Lin knew that Princess Dorothea had seen the value of cannons on the battlefield, and explained to her.

"Hey! Why is this cannon so cheap? Isn't it possible to exchange 25 rifles for one cannon?"

Earl Stewart gasped when he heard the quotation, and immediately asked in confusion.

"This is because the cost of the rifle is mainly concentrated on the flame spell rune disk used as the ignition device, and one such rune disk needs 80 silver Maar.

The cost of a cannon is mainly the steel that makes up its gun body. The cost of a heavy steel is close to 12 silver Maar at the cost of our steel factory. An 80mm caliber breech-loading artillery needs 130 heavy steel, which is almost 16 Jinlun. special cost.

In addition, labor costs, rune disk costs, and follow-up processing costs were added, and it reached 25 gold lunt.

If the price of the rune disk can be lowered, the cost of our rifles can be quite low.

I even have an arquebus that uses a matchlock to ignite. This kind of musket only needs 12 silver mals.

Although the power is similar to the two rifles I showed before, this kind of arquebus cannot use cardboard fixed bullets. It is very troublesome to load, the rate of fire is extremely low, and it is completely useless in rainy days. "

Xia Lin carefully explained the reason why the cost of a slender rifle is not much different from that of a huge artillery.

"So that's the case, then if all the soldiers use that kind of matchlock gun, wouldn't it be able to create a great advantage over the knights?"

Princess Dorothea nodded in understanding, and then hurriedly asked, obviously because she liked the low cost of the matchlock gun.

"I think this is impossible, because it is impossible to aim precisely, and the accuracy of the arquebus is not high. It needs a salvo to cause damage to the fast-moving knights, but their firing rate is not fast, and it is difficult to have a chance to form a barrage.

Perhaps the combined firepower of ten soldiers is not as good as that of a soldier using a 1391-type 2 rifle, and I am afraid that it will not have an advantage over the knights on the battlefield.

Without other arms, such as pikemen, the knights only need to charge in a loose formation, and they can easily disperse and divide hundreds of soldiers using arquebus, and then there will be a massacre.

Moreover, matchlock guns cannot be used in rainy days. This restriction is too great.

It would be fine to equip the army with arquebus soldiers on a small scale, but our business alliance can only use the name of the northern military to train 1000 new soldiers at most, and we can only take the route of elite soldiers, which has nothing to do with us. "

Xia Lin shook his head and vetoed:

"In my vision, limited by the organizational factors, the new army should adopt an improved model of the Type 1391 Type 2 with a bayonet and a medium-to-close-range throwing grenade, with an 80mm caliber breech-loading artillery as a weapon.

Because the Type 2 rifle fires fast and has sufficient firepower, I am also planning to reform the formation of the new army so that they can form an army that is more suitable for this kind of firepower. "

"Reform? How to reform?"

Earl Stuart asked curiously.

"In all aspects, first of all, the military system needs to be reformed, and the pikemen, which are usually closely arranged, need a large formation of dozens of people.

Our new army soldiers only need a group of 3, a squad of 12, with a deputy squad leader and a squad leader, that is, a squad of 14.

All members of such a squad use 1391-type 2 rifles, which have enough firepower to stop a cavalry squad of 30 people.

A platoon of 44 people in three squads, a company of 134 people in three platoons, a battalion of 404 people in three companies, and an artillery company of 134 people in two battalions, plus 58 people responsible for managing materials, transportation, cooking, and medical treatment The logistics platoon is the organizational structure of the new army that I have planned. "

"Sounds very interesting, but why are there three three?"

Count Karen touched his chin and asked a little strangely.

"This is because we all have two arms. The most suitable thing on the battlefield is for one person to command two people. In this way, the three-three system is the most suitable management system."

"Another interesting statement, but Sir Charlene, I think you can do what you want.

After all, there are not many people in our alliance who have insights into your new weapon and the new army. I think only Viscount Hart can assist you. "

Princess Dorothea said after pondering for a moment.

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