Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 471 True Air Gun

Just when Yu Ji wanted to continue "talking", Bai Tu temporarily stopped him and reminded everyone that there would be another test.

What is to be compared with the artillery is not an ordinary white bus-what is the value of comparison?
In contrast, the only advantage of the Baigong Bus is that when the conditions are met, it can be made on-site with materials, and there is no need to consider the issue of moving!
Even taking into account the cost of cultivating an engineering company that can quickly manufacture Baigong vehicles, Baigong vehicles will not be able to take advantage of the cost...

What needs to be compared with the artillery is the Qi Cannon led by Huang Yueying!
Of course, although Bai Tu didn't pay attention all the time before, he also heard Huang Yueying mention that in the battle between firearms and true qi, it seems that Yu Ji has always been the leader in terms of "cannon"...

But since Huang Yueying didn't intend to give up, Bai Tu wouldn't directly pour cold water on it, whether it was a mule or a horse, they had to be pulled out for a walk!

Upon hearing this, Huang Yueying bit her lip and signaled to Xu Shu - Xu Shu was actually very familiar with all the new weapons, and he had already made up his mind.

But since it is up to the 26 people in front of him to make the final decision, Xu Shu will use the best posture to show the power of the two cannons!
Gao Shun's experimental cavalry has been replenished again...

The same 500 men started charging from 500 meters away.

But what he had to face this time was a series of infuriating cannons that looked even more "fancy". They were slightly larger than artillery by two circles, with a folding structure in the middle and steel chains and winches that fit the gun body around them. There is a huge zhenqi furnace at the end...

It seems that it is more expensive than those stupid big blacks!

When the cannon was fired, the infuriating furnace at the rear of the gun flashed, and then under the huge infuriating kinetic energy, the winch was locked, the steel chain was pulled, and there was also a loud noise, and the entire gun body suddenly shortened - The rear of the cannon slammed forward, causing the folded part in the middle to fold up. At the same time, there was a push rod at the tail extending out of the folded breech, and a shell was pushed out directly.

The source of the huge sound is the collision of the front and rear cannon bodies. Compared with the explosion of gunpowder, it is full of metal impact...

As for the effect?
Well, the fired shells are almost as effective as solid bullets...

The only difference from the artillery is that after the experimental cavalry approached, the Zhenqi artillery skillfully removed the front body of the gun and replaced it with a fan-shaped muzzle with an obvious organ structure!
This time the gun body was shortened from the beginning, and when the push rod was pushed out, it was pushed into the front-end machine structure.

The Qi output is not as violent as before, but it is more lasting, which causes the fan-shaped muzzle to continuously shoot out waves of arrows. It can shoot 36 short arrows in one round. The filling structure built into the muzzle can fill the Shooting six rounds of arrows in succession...

The firepower was indeed very fierce, and the experimental cavalry almost collapsed under the pressure!
The number of cavalry who finally rushed into the safety line was almost the same as when they faced the artillery before...

Although there were examples of artillery before, the generals were much less surprised, and they were able to focus on observing the performance of the true energy cannon, and analyzed the pros and cons of the two under the seemingly similar results, but... in Huang Yueying's specific After introducing the cost of the Qi Cannon, the generals were silent.

It is undeniable that the Qi cannon does have its advantages, especially the fact that the Qi furnace can be used as the power to drive the gun carriage to move, which is a great advantage.

but……

The cost of a true qi cannon is more than ten times that of an artillery piece, but its durability is only one-third of that of an artillery piece!

The control of the Qi furnace is no simpler than the control of gunpowder and ammunition loading. In other words, the training cost of the two types of artillery is the same.

As for the filling cost of the Zhenqi furnace, it is better than gunpowder. Especially if you want to use the locomotive function, the battle will be very difficult. It seems... it is better to push it yourself!
Even in terms of preservation, Qi has more advantages than gunpowder - after all, Qi furnaces don't have to worry about getting damp, and... a large amount of Qi is in the bodies of generals in the army, which are all potential reserves.

But it’s hard to convince everyone to accept it!

After all, if you choose Qi Cannon, it means that the equipment rate is much lower than that of artillery, and it also needs to be charged with warriors. In continuous long-term battles, it is not as good as gunpowder resistance, and the advantages are completely covered up...

Everyone's expressions already showed the result.

In fact, Bai Tu also knows that the reason why Huang Yueying thinks that he has lost in the "artillery" category is actually a more fundamental reason - under the guidance of Bai Tu, the continued development of artillery will at least have a direction. .

As for Huang Yueying's Qi Machine Cannon, it is still basically a machine gun, but it has an additional Qi Furnace as a kinetic energy provider...

Huang Yueying has reached a bottleneck when it comes to weapons of mass destruction.

In other words, unless energy continues to improve, Huang Yueying is very vague about the development direction of the Qi machine gun.

Therefore, in terms of "guns", Huang Yueying had no choice but to sigh and temporarily put the Zhenqi machine gun project on hold.

But in the next item, the "Musket vs. Airsoft" exercise, Huang Yueying is full of confidence!

The generals did not expect that there would be another item - after all, the "cannon" was already amazing enough.

At first it was said to be a "gun", and everyone thought it was some kind of long weapon, but after seeing it, they found that it was indeed long, and there was a triangular thorn in front of the musket, so it was indeed possible to use it as a short gun...

The air gun is much shorter, but it is almost the same as an ordinary Chu Dao.

And the biggest function of the "gun" is actually long-range attack!

This time, Gao Shun is not used to command the experimental soldiers. Instead, each army takes a hundred soldiers and the two armies confront each other!
The one using the musket is still Xu Shu, while the one using the air gun is Pang Tong.

Huang Yueying is not good at directly commanding soldiers, and... everyone has almost forgotten, and many people even don't know that Pang Tong, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, is actually a master of strategy and tactics. Seeing him appear on the testing ground, they were a little surprised.

This time, there are only a hundred people on both sides - of course, they are all Ji Zao soldiers. This is a duel with real swords and guns. Ordinary generals... swords and guns have no eyesight!
There is only one Gao Shun, an ordinary first-class general, which is the level of hundreds of Ji Zao soldiers.

In particular, Pang Tong and Xu Shu are both counselor-type generals. They directly command hundreds of Ji Zao soldiers without relying on banners, which is already amazing.

As for Xu Shu and Pang Tong themselves, they both hid in the trenches to avoid being accidentally injured.

The distance between the two armies was only 500 meters, which made the generals breathe a sigh of relief. Just now they thought that the range of the Zhenqi Crossbow would be exceeded...

Especially after seeing that after the test started, both sides rushed forward at the same time, I felt even more relieved - the range was still much worse than that of the infuriating crossbow.

When the distance between the two sides was about 300 meters, the air rifle side fell down collectively.

Because there is no artillery firepower to cooperate, and no fortifications are built, a direct confrontation looks more "cute (stupid)".

Pang Tong and Xu Shu also knew that the main purpose was to demonstrate muskets and air guns, and there was no fancy work involved.

The style of air rifles is quite different from that of muskets. They are generally long, but much shorter than muskets.

Generally speaking, the right-hand grip of an air gun is relatively bloated. The right-hand grip is a cylinder with a diameter of ten inches, and the front end of the cylinder extends out a slender gun shaft that is about two feet long...

(To put it simply, please imagine holding an enlarged version of the Dyson vacuum cleaner^_^)

That's right, Huang Yueying absorbed the experience of muskets, and gradually made major changes to individual long-range weapons, which looked more like "guns"

The grip of the left hand is also slender and is inserted into the back part of the slender barrel.

The bloated cylinder in the right hand contains the core of Qi and the mechanism for ejection, while the slender grip of the left hand is also the magazine for loading ammunition!

The killing range is about 300 meters, and... it can continuously empty six "bullets" in the magazine!
After all, she was born as a repeater, and Huang Yueying has amazing skills and talents in the design of repeater mechanisms.

Moreover, although the bullets fired by the air rifle do not have the gunpowder part, they are indeed similar to the bullet shape, only longer, and still have the shadow of a crossbow...

In contrast, Xu Shu also ordered the musketeers to lie down while the air rifles were lying down, but... in fact, the musketeers had no advantage at this distance, and they even raised the muzzle slightly and fired upwards.

Obviously, the range of the musket is closer than that of the air gun. The range of the air gun is at least similar to the non-air mode of the air crossbow, while the musket is shorter.

But since it can be pulled out for a walk, at least Yu Ji has "solved" the problem of rear loading, allowing the Musketeer to lie down.

but……

Yu Ji's musket is obviously far inferior to the real breech-loading rifled gun in history. Its range is only about the same as that of a smoothbore gun, and... each person has a pair of glass lens and wooden fit-type goggles!
Yes, the problems of gunpowder and sealing have not been completely solved.

In terms of sealing, Yu Ji just imitated the artillery and also used a screw bolt structure. However, in order to speed up the reloading and increase the cost, he did not dare to use a screw bolt that was too troublesome.

As for the problem of gunpowder smearing your eyes...

Yu Ji said that although I can't prevent the gunpowder from being smoked, I can protect my eyes!
It has to be said that after Yu Ji joined, the technology of glass firing has been greatly improved...

In general, Yu Ji's breech-loading rifle is currently... equivalent to a front-loading musket that can be loaded from the back, but has not made significant progress in other aspects.

It just has the power to lie down. It is not like a real breech-loading rifle. The range and rate of fire have increased several times!

In comparison, the rate of fire of an air gun is better than that of a musket - the main reason for an air gun is that it takes time to change the magazine. A six-shot burst is basically one shot per second, but like a repeating crossbow, it is a one-time shot. After pulling the trigger, you can only shoot until empty.

If you directly replace the magazine with a new one after one round of shooting, it will take about 15 seconds, which is about three magazines per minute. The rate of fire is three times that of the musket, which is equivalent to the rate of fire of a real breech-loading needle gun, not Yu Ji's copycat version only has a far lower range and power than a real breech-loading gun.

If you want to load the bullet into the magazine, it will take about 15 seconds, which is still faster than Yu Ji's rear-loading gun...

As for getting into close combat?

Xu Shu and Pang Tong also made a special demonstration - the musket was equipped with a triangular spur on the front end of the gun, which could be used as a spear for stabbing, while the air gun... in close combat, it held the muzzle part against itself, swinging a heavy round weapon. Swinging the barrel is equivalent to a short-handled page hammer!
(End of this chapter)