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Chapter 55

When you get drunk, you will always feel shallow, and you will never know that you have to do it yourself.

Therefore, on the second day after the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, Shen Shuren dragged his tired and limp body very diligently to the regiment training ground outside Qizhou city in the early morning.

Watch Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro's respective queue drill demonstrations, and take a look at the live ammunition tests of various musket tactics by the way.

"Hiss—" When wearing cotton armor and getting off the horse, Shen Shuren still felt a bit uncomfortable in his waist, and secretly took a deep breath, but no one else noticed.

It seems that young people can't be unrestrained. With his physique trained by horseback riding and archery every day, it was more than enough to deal with Chen Yuanyuan, but the next day he was still fierce.

The key is that I just dealt with Chen Yuanyuan yesterday afternoon, and when I went back to spend the night, the atmosphere was under the moon, and I couldn’t help but comfort me again. I got up in the middle of the night and taught Dong Xiaowan how to behave. Out of pity and pity, it took a long time, and I couldn’t take it anymore. .

Thinking back now, under the white moonlight, Dong Xiaowan, who was dressed in a white and elegant, lovely and pitiful body, was really a bit uncontrollable.

I have to be a little diligent for a day or two to catch my breath.

While Shen Shuren was slightly distracted, more than half of the demonstration of the basic formation on the school field had passed.There was no urination in the whole process, and there was no need for Shen Shuren to stop questioning.

After reading it, Shen Shuren also had an intuitive understanding of the original Ming army musket formation, and even the position of the Spanish square formation——

Of course, this Spanish phalanx is just Pizarro asking people to hold their weapons, stand in a good position and pose as required, without any actual combat power.After all, it has only been half a day since he came to be the coach, so it would be nice to be able to clearly explain what he is going to do.

Then, there was live ammunition shooting of various muskets.

Shen Shuren asked people to bring a row of wooden archery targets with a diameter of one foot that are commonly used in the army, and then asked Shen Jiading and Pizarro's Spanish entourage to use various bird blunderbuss, fire blunderbuss, and Spanish turtledove blunderbuss, firing for accuracy test.

"Bang bang bang—" All of a sudden, there were loud gunshots on the school grounds.

The regiment training next to them all watched the excitement, and they all looked forward to it.It can be seen how slack the Huangzhou regiment practiced before Shen Shuren's arrival. Usually, there is not much ammunition money for training, and many of them are rushing to shoot when they are on the battlefield.

The fighting power of musketeers also needs to spend a certain amount of training ammunition to feed them. How can they have fighting power if they don't want money.

As the shooting test progressed, Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro also stood on the left and right sides of Shen Shuren, looking expectant, trying to prove their correctness in front of Tongzhi.

At the banquet last night, they each boasted a lot, saying that their own tactics are the most practical, and they just waited for this moment to prove themselves.

After a long time, the gunfire ceased, and the two sides fired a total of fifty times with their own methods.

The shooting process is very slow. You have to call a stop once in a round, and let the people hiding in the ditch behind the target check the target before you can shoot another round to ensure statistical accuracy——

Because if the target is inspected uniformly after fifty rounds have been shot, the data of "the probability of being hit by at least one shrapnel in a single shot" cannot be counted.There will be "some guns hit the target with two or three fragments at a time", confusing the statistics.

Fortunately, Shen Shuren arranged five targets for each group, so he could shoot five shots in each round, and each target got one shot, so only ten rounds of fifty shots would be counted.

After the smoke cleared, the results were also counted.For convenience, before the assessment, Shen Shuren simply taught his subordinates to use the percentage statistics results of Western mathematics.

"Bird blunderbuss/Lumi blunderbuss 50 steps, 50 rounds of shotgun, hit rate 74%, accumulatively hit 93 pieces of shrapnel."

"Bird blunderbuss/Lumi blunderbuss 100 steps, 50 rounds of shotgun, hit rate 16%, accumulatively hit 11 pieces of shrapnel."

"Francis Turtle Dove Gun has 50 paces and 50 rounds of shotgun, with a hit rate of 86%, and a total of 132 shrapnel hits."

"Francis Turtle Dove Gun has 100 paces and 50 rounds of shotgun, with a hit rate of 40%, and a total of 39 shrapnel hits."

After Shen Shuren read the data, his face was slightly gloomy, but he also accepted this reality.On the other hand, Zuo Zixiong couldn't believe it.

The accuracy of the bird blunderbuss and Lumi blunderbuss was within Zuo Zixiong’s prediction range, but he did not expect that the Franjiguo turtledove blunderbuss used by Pizarro would be so effective—the key is that Zuo Zixiong had never seen it before. He also used the turtledove gun.

The charge of Lumi blunderbuss is four qian each for lead and gunpowder, and three qian each for ammunition for ordinary bird blunderbuss.

Although the turtledove blunderbuss is heavy, with more than one or two ammunition each, it is at least three times that of the bird blunderbuss, but it should not have such a big difference in the hit rate of the shotgun.

Shen Shuren pondered for a while, then noticed Zuo Zixiong's dejected face, and comforted him instead:

"I didn't blame you. Now it seems that you all made suggestions based on your own real experience. You are all seeking truth from facts. The level of combat effectiveness is not your problem.

Zuo Dusi, I think the turtledove gun you saw earlier may be a Cantonese product imitated a few years ago, maybe the imitation is not in place, or it is just in shape, and you have not mastered the subtle matching usage, so you think that the turtledove gun matches Shotgun is nothing more than that.

The key now is to find the problem, solve the problem, and find out why our bird guns are not as good as the real original turtledove guns, so we just need to change them. "

After hearing Shen Shuren's fair comments, Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro were also convinced, and did not blame the other party for their wrong tactics.

Perhaps the difference between the two of them at the beginning was because of a misjudgment of weapons, and they were talking about chicken and duck.

Everyone quickly began to disassemble and analyze. Zuo Zixiong compared them one by one based on his previous experience and insights, and soon found several problems.

For example, he found that the shape of the shotguns used by the Ming Army's various firearms did not seem to be very particular about the shape of the projectiles—only the large slugs of the lead bullets of the Ming Army's firearms were relatively round.However, due to the large number of fragments required and the high frequency of processing, the shotgun is too lazy to make the shape very regular, and many of them are strangely shaped iron filings.

The turtledove gun was imitated by the Han people. It was first imitated by Wang Zun, the governor of Guangdong in the first year of Chongzhen (1629), but it was also used privately on the ground in Guangdong, and it was diffused and offered to the capital. It was eight years after Chongzhen (1636). Only generals have formally come into contact with turtledove guns, so it has only happened in the last four or five years, and it is normal for them not to know how to use them correctly.

Before the Ming army loaded cannons with cannonballs, they just grabbed a handful of iron nails, iron filings or even crushed stones and pressed them on top of the gunpowder. If there were enough fragments, and more people could be sprayed to the face, it would be fine. Doesn't care about effective range.Even the cannons are so casual, it is not surprising that the imitation turtledove guns are also loaded with iron sand, iron filings or even gravel.

Shen Shuren continued to review the game, and soon noticed another important difference between Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro in loading shotguns——

Even if the Spaniards are loading shotguns, they will use a slug that is large enough and of better quality to fit the barrel to compress the entire follow-up charge.

To put it bluntly, it is the BUCK plus BALL mode required by the 18th century Western musket and shotgun standard practice code. BUCK is a small projectile, and the top should be pressed with a slug BALL.

When Zuo Zixiong used shotguns, sometimes they were pure shotguns, and the quality of the compacted projectiles on the top was uneven, and sometimes it was enough to just use some broken lead to compact and fill the surface.

Chongzhen's 13-year local military equipment really cannot ask for more, and the shoddy production is already very serious.

Shen Shuren has knowledge of physics, and after a little investigation, he figured out the reason.

"When I was designing the blunderbuss, because I fired slugs all the year round, I didn't think about injuring the enemy with shotguns at a long distance. Therefore, I didn't pay enough attention to the topping bullets with good airtightness when shooting shotguns. Good topping bullets can prevent gunpowder gas. When the barrel explodes, it leaks out from the top, bottom, left, and right of the projectile, blowing the flight direction of the projectile.

Because the caliber of the slug is similar to the inner diameter of the barrel, even if there is an air leak, it can still be bound by the barrel to move forward.The caliber of the shotgun is much smaller than the inner diameter of the barrel, and with the gas blowing beside it, the shotgun will bump up and down, left, and right in the barrel, and of course it will not be accurate when it exits the chamber. "

The best way to learn a piece of knowledge is to pass it on to others after you have realized something yourself.In the process of being a good teacher, one's own thinking can also be sorted out more clearly.

Shen Shuren was explaining and explaining, and suddenly he understood it, and he figured out why Michelle Lefayette would fiddle with the trick of "letting a musket load two slugs of the same caliber at the same time" during the Seven Years War.

To have more projectiles and to hit farther, the key is the airtightness between the projectile and the barrel to prevent the projectile from being too small than the inner diameter of the barrel and jumping around due to air leakage.

It's not that shotguns can't hit far, it's that shotguns that aren't round enough can't hit far.

The three of them discussed each other, and Shen Shuren quickly thought of a temporary compromise:

You can also learn the so-called "paper shell fixed ammunition" that most traversers can think of, optimize it a little bit, use thicker airtight paper, or elastic leather, and arrange several sub-caliber spherical projectiles in sequence, The tail is equipped with gunpowder, isn't that also close to the launch effect of modern sprayers?
It's just that in terms of loading, it still has to be loaded in the front, and it needs to be loaded one shot at a time. In terms of firepower continuity, it is still at the level of the Ming Dynasty, and it cannot reach the power of later generations of sprayers.

Thinking of this, Shen Shuren immediately ordered Zuo Zixiong: "Zuo Dusi, if you are asked to learn the ammunition of Turtledove blunderbuss taught by Pizarro, and make multiple lead bullets of a smaller caliber for the bird blunderbuss, can you do it?
As long as the charge does not increase and the projectiles are made larger and smaller, it won't explode, right?As for the seal, you can wrap the buckshot with elastic and airtight leather, and temporarily hold it up to prevent it from jumping."

Zuo Zixiong thought for a while: "This doesn't sound dangerous, but the production of projectiles is probably much more labor-intensive. Today's lead bullets are made by melting lead into lead water and pouring it into a mold to form a ball. The same weight of lead bullets If it is several times smaller, it needs several times the amount of mold casting. In the past, our Ming army used iron sand and iron filings to make shotguns because it was too troublesome."

With the industrial strength of the Ming Dynasty, the shape and size of each small bullet of the shotgun had to be precisely controlled, which was indeed a waste of production capacity.

Shen Shuren thought about it again, and decided: "Is sharpening a knife not mistaken for woodcutters? Let's make two-handed preparations, while making the mold of the small bullet, and trying to pour the lead water into the cold water at the same time.

I remember that the surface tension of lead is quite high, and if it is directly poured into cold water for a while, it will be stimulated to condense into small balls, which are quite round, but the diameter is not easy to control.However, if the outside is to be covered with leather to block the air in the future, it doesn't matter if the diameter is slightly worse. "

When Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro heard this, their eyes lit up. They had never heard of this kind of adaptability.

But in any case, it is really worth a try. Whether the shotgun is accurate or not is the most critical factor, because only if it is round enough, the instability of the flight direction caused by its own rolling and rotation can be alleviated and overcome Magnus. Adams effect.

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PS: Alas, the update is too fast, the one-month new book period has not yet arrived, and because it exceeds 20 words, it is squeezed out of the new book list ahead of schedule.Forget it, just squeeze it out, anyway, this time it was already very low on the list.

(End of this chapter)