Future Starship: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 23 Front-mounted flintlock gun? Paper shell

Zhang Yu was quite happy these days. He never thought that he could get such a good situation.

It can be said that the Governor's Palace of Yizhou has made rapid progress under the governance of Zhou Yuan, changing every day. First of all, business roads have arisen in Yizhou.

Most people started doing business, opened many workshops, and took in many farmers who were causing trouble or who were poor, so that they could get a lot of food by letting them enter the workshops.

By allowing themselves to live in this world and make a fortune, these people have become rich.

Zhang Yu feels that Yizhou is now like a paradise in the domain of the Han Dynasty. Generally, other surrounding states are in rebellion, wars, famines, devastation of life, and constant deaths. Only in his Yizhou, the people live and work in peace and contentment, there is no traffic, and chickens and dogs hear each other. Like a peach blossom garden.

After Zhang Yu saw these people living and working in peace and contentment, he planned to train a strong army.

This time he completely obeyed Zhou Yuan's command. Zhou Yuan sent him a sample, and Chang Yu asked the craftsmen he recruited to study the sample.

This sample is made of steel, just like a tube, except that one side of the tube is closed, and the other side has an opening.

There is another handle on the closed side.

It seems to be a facility that people can hold.

In addition to the opening, the front end of the iron rod also has a long dagger. Zhou Yuan called this dagger a bayonet.

The sample Zhou Yuan gave to Chang Yu is called a flintlock gun.

This was a good thing that Zhou Yuan had studied for a long time before deciding to give it to Chang Yu.

Zhou Yuan and Chang Yu have a cooperative relationship. Zhou Yuan was able to reform simply because Chang Yu wanted a strong rear to fight the war. If Chang Yu keeps failing in the war, Zhou Yuan's reforms will be more troublesome..

So give Zhang Yu a gun and let him slowly study it and slowly build a musketeer team so that he can compete with the princes of the Central Plains for supremacy. In other words, with the help of this kind of thing, he can continue to fight west or south to expand his territory..

Changyu began to study, and he immersed himself in the group of craftsmen almost every day.

He felt that this thing was definitely the most important factor in his struggle to dominate the world. He must hold on to this factor tightly and not let it slip away from his eyes.

Zhang Yu's eyes were full of determination.

Never been more determined

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On a hot day, Chang Yu was wearing a straw hat and his trouser legs were lowered to around his knees. At this moment, he was resting in the shade under a big tree.

Beside him, several men with tanned skin, naked all their muscles, stood beside Chang Yu, all holding this strange weapon in their hands.

Zhou Yuan called this kind of weapon a musket.

Or called a flintlock gun.

Use the stone crusher to emit flames to ignite the gunpowder and launch the steel and iron bullets inside.

Zhang Yu grabbed a flintlock gun and wanted to play with it. The two strong men beside him were from the musketry team trained by Zhang Yu. These two strong men were trained with the security team of Zhou Yuan's own manor.

That's right, the team where Ma Chao was working at this time.

Zhang Yu looked at the guys sent by Zhou Yuan wearing strange clothes beside him.

"The guns in our hands seem to be different from the guns in your hands. The guns in your hands don't require so many steps, but the guns we hold now require many steps. The shooting speed is really too slow."

When Zhang Yu said this, there was a troubled expression on his face.

As the leader of the instructors, Lu Liushi walked out of the crowd and looked at the man speaking frankly:"You know bows and crossbows? What's the difference?"

Bows and arrows require a lot of strength to pull, and you have to take aim when pulling, so mounted archery has become a technology with natural thresholds.

But compared to bows and arrows, crossbows and arrows are It's very simple.

As long as you practice frequently, even children can master crossbows, and muskets work on the same principle as crossbows.

Generally, nomads need to hunt a lot, so they can survive in their daily lives. In the process, they developed very good riding and shooting skills, but the farming people had no choice and did not have this opportunity.

So these two peoples used a large number of crossbows and a large number of bows in the cold weapon era in ancient times.

Muskets, that is. The evolution status of crossbow arrows

"With a musket, you only need to train for a month to be able to shoot it well. The training cost is really low. As long as you have a musket, you can go to the battlefield. Lu Liushi said. After saying this, there was a look of contempt in his eyes,"If you are lucky, it is possible that the one you shoot to the front and kill is the enemy's commander. Take a shot from a soldier." In exchange for the enemy's coach's life, think about which is more important."

"Naturally, the weapons in our hands cannot be given to you right away. Even if we give them to you, you won't be able to use them. Even we can only equip them in small quantities. If we only equip small quantities of muskets, it is better not to go. The equipment will not have much effect on the battlefield, especially sir. If you want to capture a city, you will need a lot of musketeers."

Chang Yu was dubious about this, but in the end he could only believe it. He took a deep breath and practiced with the flintlock gun in his hands first.

He put the flintlock gun in his hand on the ground, and the barrel of the gun was facing Aiming at the sky, he took out the paper shell in his pocket, bit the paper shell open with his teeth, poured the gunpowder in the paper shell into the muzzle of the gun, and stuffed the fixed bullet into the gun. The steel bullet at the other end smashed the cotton After stuffing it in, he inserted the iron rod at the front of the gun into the chamber and poked it a few times. After pulling it out, he inserted the iron rod into the front of the flintlock gun.

After completing all these steps, he lifted He took the flintlock gun in his hand and pointed it forward.

There was a wooden handle about two hundred meters away.

He pulled the trigger.

The gravel was stimulated, and the sparks entered the gun chamber, igniting the gunpowder, and the gunpowder exploded instantly.

Huge. With such explosive power, the steel egg was ejected directly towards the wooden handle in front. The target hit the target and directly passed through the thick wooden board and the iron armor covered on the wooden board.

This kind of paper-cased fixed ammunition is still as accurate as the rifled flintlock gun. It's commendable.

As long as you can aim, there is a 90% chance that you can hit it.

Changyu put down the gun in his hand and praised him repeatedly for a while:"It can actually break through armor. This is really a top weapon. ah."

Chang Yu thought that if he had a group of musketeers with such weapons outside Jingzhou City last time, he would have been able to kill Liu Zhang in the chaos, and then attack the city. The bear city in the world has been conquered.

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