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Chapter 54 It's not your temperament

Shen Shuren changed the topic, his original intention was to avoid reciting poems and fighting against each other.

But I didn't expect Zuo Zixiong, a rough man, and Pizarro, a barbarian, to discuss the art of killing at the Mid-Autumn Festival wine table.

Shen Shuren could clearly feel Chen Yuanyuan in his arms, and Dong Xiaowan who was leaning on the other shoulder, and after hearing a few words, he shrank a little.

Shen Shuren tightly clenched his arms around his waist, and Chen Yuanyuan calmed down.Shen Shuren also whispered in his ear appropriately:
"If you want to stay with me in Huangzhou, you have to gradually get used to this kind of topic. I'm not here to collect people's fat, I'm here to save the country and the people."

The girl who was trembling at first felt very at ease after hearing his domineering and firm words, and felt a little more admiration.So this is the real life of the frontline magistrates?

On the other side, Zuo Zixiong continued to explain: "My lord, I heard that you invited this coach Pizarro to teach Xiangyong how to fight with the blunderbuss and long spear.

But this afternoon, he and I just watched the musketry drills of the local soldiers, and found that many of his suggestions were empty talk and wrong things——

I am a Mingling gunner, and I always shoot salvos when the enemy approaches fifty paces. I am divided into two teams, with the front row aiming and the rear row charging.Or within [-] steps, divide into three teams.If the enemy does not retreat after the salvo, you need to prepare for hand-to-hand combat.

But this coach Pizarro insisted that in the country of Francine, turtledove blunderbuss were the mainstay, and the musketeers could fire together and reload together, and they could open fire at a distance of 140 yards, which is equivalent to [-] paces from my Ming Dynasty.Shoot as many rounds as you can, until the enemy approaches and falls into hand-to-hand combat with spears.

At the end of the day, this method is extremely absurd.Bird blunderbuss and turtledove blunderbuss are far less accurate than crossbow arrows, and they are inaccurate from a hundred paces away. It is a waste of ammunition, but it gives the enemy a chance to charge in. "

The step of the Ming Dynasty is one step with each foot on the left and right, which is equivalent to four Mingchi.Two hundred yards to the west is about 182 meters, almost 140 steps.

Shen Shuren listened carefully, and his first reaction was to support Zuo Zixiong's point of view.

Because when I was studying in my previous life, I had the impression that the accuracy of the smoothbore era was so bad. It is good to be able to shoot at tens of meters, and it is not nonsense if it is more than 100 meters.

Even if the kinetic energy of the projectile is enough to kill, it will either bounce into the sky or roll into the ground, which is completely useless.The error in the left and right directions is better, and you can still count on the enemy's army to be densely packed, and they will hit the enemy soldiers next to them.

The musket tactics mentioned by Zuo Zixiong is a very orthodox practice today, called "Fandi method".From the mid-Ming Dynasty to Qi Jiguang's time, this tactic was used.

In the early Ming Dynasty, there was also a "stacking method" tactic, which was invented by Mu Ying, that is, after all the muskets were loaded, they were fired in batches to ensure the continuity of firepower at extremely short distances.It is similar to the "three-stage strike" that appeared when Oda Nobunaga in Japan.

But the stacking method is not mainstream. The firearms in the early Ming Dynasty were basically ready for melee combat after one round, and repeated reloading was basically not considered.After the reloading speed of muskets became faster in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and the demand for reloading on the battlefield became stronger, the "Fandi method" was generally used.

After Shen Shuren reviewed the past and learned the new together, he curiously asked Pizarro on the other side:
"Mr. Pizarro, why did you suggest that our blunderbuss team should be trained to fire from 140 paces away? Don't you know that the blunderbuss at this distance is completely inaccurate?"

Pizarro stood up, raised his hand and bowed halfway, and said in strange Chinese: "Dear Master Tongzhi, decades ago, or even the last century, our traditional Spanish phalanx was also Fire was only considered within a hundred yards or even closer.

And if both sides are infantry, then they can maintain this distance for a long time until one side collapses.If the other party is cavalry, they will quickly approach at any cost and be forced to charge the melee spearmen of our army.

However, since the war between Lutheranism and Catholicism broke out in our Holy Roman Empire about ten years ago, the scale of the warring parties has become larger and larger, and it is no longer a battle between traditional knights and king's mercenaries.

The armor of these soldiers was getting worse and worse, and many German musketeers didn't even wear armor at all.As a result, the warring parties discovered that muskets no longer needed to use large lead bullets of more than one ounce like the original plate armor knights.

It is entirely possible to use a string of small lead bullets, or even shotgun shells. After firing, a piece of shotgun fragments can be caught at random, and a musketeer militia can be seriously injured and lose its combat effectiveness.In this way, with a heavy turtledove gun, it is absolutely possible to maintain a considerable hit rate at a distance of [-] yards. "

What Pizarro said was reasonable and well-founded, Shen Shuren analyzed it and found it quite reasonable.

The key point is that Pizarro's words seduced him into thinking of a video of a historical science popularization master named "Franklin 0793" that he had watched in the past life on the station.

"There is a rumor that has been circulating for a long time on the Chinese Internet, that is, as long as it is an ancient musket, the hit rate is pitifully low, so the queuing shooting tactic that wins by quantity has been born."

The reason why this logic can deceive many people at first glance is that it ignores one factor-no one stipulates that a musket can only hold one bullet.

What if the musket uses the "Buck&Ball" mode, that is, a slug is pressed on the top to ensure excitation efficiency and airtightness, followed by a bunch of small shotguns?
The hit rate of any single bullet is indeed pitifully low, but as long as one is sprayed with bullet fragments, the opponent will be crippled even if he is not dead.Actual combat is not a bloody FPS game.

In fact, later, relevant experts took out the smoothbore guns before the 18th century and conducted actual tests with the tactics of loading shotguns. They found that at a distance of 100 yards, aiming at a square target with a side length of 25 cm, the hit rate can be as high as 80%. !

Of course, this 80% does not mean "80% of the projectiles hit the target", but "in 80% of the shooting times, it can be guaranteed that at least one piece of shotgun fragments will cover the target", and the average Generally, two pieces of shrapnel can hit the target.As for the ballast slug on the top, the hit rate is still terribly low, only about 1%.

Those experts later conducted a smoothbore test at a distance of 200 yards, and they were still able to guarantee a third of the shooting frequency, and "at least one piece of shotgun shrapnel was covered."

Shen Shuren had seen these popular science literacy videos in his previous life, but after coming to the Ming Dynasty, he didn't think about it at first, and he didn't think deeply about why this "long-distance early fire" tactic didn't become popular in the Ming Dynasty.

At this moment, reminded by Pizarro and confirmed by each other, he suddenly realized that this kind of ammunition distribution tactics had only just sprouted in the West during the Thirty Years War.

Because before the Thirty Years War started in 1618, European wars mainly relied on knights and mercenaries.

Full-body plate armor appeared in Europe after about 1450. From 1450 to 15XX, it was the most glorious moment for European full-body plate armor knights.It's just that this moment is relatively short, and it will be gradually eliminated by muskets decades later.

Early muskets had to rely on powerful slugs because small shotguns had insufficient kinetic energy and strength, and had no killing effect on plate armor at all.

When the warring parties turned into a peasant religious war and the German musketeers had no armor, the shotgun sprouted.

Therefore, Shen Shuren's thoughts gradually became clear:
Whether or not you can switch to shotguns to increase hit counts is not up to the user, but your enemies.

The reason why the Ming army did not switch to shotgun on a large scale is also because the equipment of the Qing army in this era is far from what it used to be.The Qing army began to wear a large number of cotton armor with grid-shaped embedded iron sheets.

The so-called "cotton armor has a miraculous effect on firearm defense" in the history books does not mean that cotton armor can prevent slugs, but it just means that cotton armor can prevent small shrapnel that wins by quantity.

(Note: The kinetic energy of a slug can’t even be protected by a full-body plate armor. Even if it is a steel plate with a thickness of more than three millimeters, if it hits it and doesn’t penetrate it, it will make a big hole, and the people inside will be hit by a hammer. The same internal injury. So the so-called Qing army cotton armor can fire fire guns, not including anti-slugs)

However, the fact that shotguns are useless against the elite Qing army does not mean that convective thieves are useless!

The culprits such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, perhaps their main force, can equip the iron-embedded armor by capturing the Ming army.

What about second- and third-tier thieves like Gezuo Fifth Battalion?

Ma Shouying, as the leader of the Fifth Gezuo Battalion, was considered a second-tier thieves, and perhaps his confidantes also had iron wool armor.

But Liu Xiyao and Lin Chengcheng were only considered below average in the fifth Gezuo Battalion. To put it bluntly, they were third-line thieves. Except for officers, most of their troops would not have iron wool armor!

Moreover, they are still fighting in the mountains all year round, and they have been repeatedly encircled and suppressed before.After the repetition, it is estimated that there will be no channels to supply sophisticated equipment.

Even if you had iron armor when you were in the good times, you might have used up light armor and discarded your helmet and armor when fleeing for your life in the mountains.

Thinking of this, Shen Shuren's desire to equip the Musketeers with some shotguns became stronger than ever.

He also felt a little regretful—when Marshal Qi Jiguang Qi wiped out the Japanese pirates, he should have replaced the shotguns on a large scale!The Japanese wild warriors who came to China to plunder basically had no armor, or only bamboo armor!That kind of weak defense is simply the best place for the shotgun to show off its power.

For unarmored enemies, it is necessary to reduce the armor-breaking efficiency of firepower in exchange for higher firepower density.

Thinking of this, Shen Shuren immediately turned to Zhao Yunfan and asked earnestly:
"Zhaozhi County, I suddenly thought of a question. You have been in Huangzhou for many years, and you have dealt with various departments of the Fifth Gezuo Battalion, right? Liu Xiyao and Lin Yangcheng's department, what percentage of them can equip cotton armor? Can you tell me? know?"

Zhao Yunfan was stunned for a moment, he had been admiring the moon and the beauties just now, and he never expected that Master Tongzhi would actually care about the affairs of the state on this Mid-Autumn Festival and the beautiful scenery on a beautiful day.

He could only say quite ashamedly: "Please forgive me, my subordinates are really not familiar with these military details, so I can't know..."

As a civil servant, it is already the limit for him to care about how many enemies there are.As for how many enemies can wear cotton armor embedded with iron, I really didn't expect to care about it.

Shen Shuren shook his head helplessly: "Forget it, let's not talk about it, let's enjoy the moon tonight, Zuo Zixiong, Pizarro, you two will come with me to the school field tomorrow, and we will actually review the deduction.

By the way, Shen Fu, when recruiting soldiers a few days ago, you recruited those who claimed to be dock workers but couldn't swim, and who claimed to be hunters but couldn't shoot arrows. Have you finished the screening?If Liu Xiyao's secret work is discovered, he will be tortured, just in time to pry out Liu Xiyao's ordnance preparation information. "

Zuo Zixiong and the other three accepted their orders one after another. Shen Shuren was talking and laughing happily, and commanded quite neatly, much like Xie An, Yu Yunwen and other Confucian generals.

Chen Yuanyuan and Dong Xiaowan watched from the side, their eyes became more and more misty and loving.

"He's really talented in both civil and military affairs. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the flowers are blooming and the moon is under the moon, he ordered these killings in such a handsome and handsome way, it doesn't feel like a spoiler at all..."

(End of this chapter)