Chapter 1694 Come out, bayonet

After Zhu Ping'an finished speaking, the scene was quiet for a while, but soon someone asked Zhu Ping'an a question:

"Master Zhu, the Yongji formation has not been tested by the flames of war, and we don't know its actual quality. In addition, even as Master Zhu said, the Yongji formation is the formation that can best exert the power of firearms. Fire, what should we do when the soldiers are in short combat? Do you use the firecracker as a fire stick to hit the enemy? At most, it can smash the enemy out of a bag, and it has no lethality."

This person's voice was lagging behind, and many officials also nodded, and you spoke at the same time.

"Yeah, even if the Zhejiang army is proficient in handling firearms, it doesn't matter if you can fire a bullet in five breaths. At a distance of fifty meters, it takes about ten breaths for the enemy to charge. As long as there are enough enemies, you Shoot three waves of bullets at most, and the enemy will be able to charge into the formation. The Japanese pirates are brave, but they are not afraid of death. As long as there are enough Japanese pirates, they will definitely be able to charge into your formation."

"Once the Japanese pirates rush into the formation, you Zhejiang Army will line up with firearms. To the Japanese pirates who rushed into the formation, it is no different from inserting a label to sell their heads, but queuing to commit suicide."

"Your army relies so much on firearms. Once the soldiers meet hand in hand, it will be a disaster and you will suffer a lot."

"So, let's say that, although firearms are powerful, although they should be taken seriously, they cannot be relied on as heavily as your army. The whole army's firearms will be an unbearable disaster when it comes to hand-to-hand combat."

Everyone was chattering, saying inside and out that the Zhe army relied heavily on firearms in the wrong direction, and once the soldiers came into contact with each other, it would be a disaster.

Zhang Jing stretched out his hand to stop everyone's debate, turned to look at Zhu Ping'an, and asked calmly, "Zi Hou, what everyone said is not unreasonable, it depends on how the firearms fight each other, how do you think about it?"

Everyone couldn't help shaking their heads when they heard the words.

How can you deal with hand-to-hand combat with only firearms?! This is impossible to do, how can Zhu Pingan think about it!

From their point of view, they are all fighting hand to hand, and the enemy will definitely not give you time to reload the gunpowder. The firecracker in your hand is just a fire stick, which has no lethality. There are gunpowder soldiers placed under the protection of pike soldiers, shield sword soldiers, etc. When the short soldiers meet, the cold weapons are on top.

But in this way, isn't it the same as other military camps?! Other military camps are also a mix of firearms and cold weapons. The use of firearms is limited. The proportion of firearms is as high as 40%. In the final analysis, the cold weapons on the battlefield are the protagonists.

So, there is no solution!

Admit your mistake, Zhu Pingan! Turn back early, and you can go ashore! If you are stubborn, the battlefield is over!

This is the common aspiration of everyone.

"My lord, to solve this problem, I will proceed from two aspects. On the one hand, continue to increase the power of firearms, increase the number of cannons, increase the number of sub-guns of artillery, increase the number of sub-guns of artillery, load the ammunition of sub-guns in advance, and increase the number of cannons and guns. The loading efficiency of the firearm is high, and the firearm is used to kill the enemy to the greatest extent."

Zhu Ping'an replied slowly.

Now the Zhejiang Army only has 20 new portable artillery. When the Zhejiang Army is practicing, several battalions use the artillery in turn.

It's not that Zhu Ping'an doesn't want to increase the number of cannons quickly, but that the Zhejiang Army only has Zhang Hong as a dedicated artillery craftsman. Liu Jin has only participated in the casting of artillery shells, and is essentially a cold weapon craftsman, so he can only help Zhang Hong; These twenty cannons are the result of Zhang Hong, Liu Jin and their apprentices working day and night without sleep, and they are still forged on the basis of using cannons such as bowl-mouth guns.

These 20 cannons have already consumed the old cannons such as the bowl-mouth guns, and then they will start from scratch.

Manufactured by hand, hammered repeatedly, after the barrel is formed, it is necessary to use a drill to smooth the inside of the barrel.

It took Liu Jin and the others more than ten days to cast the two small cannons into shape. According to Liu Jin, it will take at least five days before the two small cannons can go to the ground for test firing.

Of course, as Liu Jin and the others become more proficient, they will master more apprentice skills, and their efficiency will also increase.

These new cannons were improved by Liu Jin by using the cannon double diameter technology taught by Zhu Pingan. From the appearance, the gun barrel is thinner and thinner than the bowl-mouth gun, and the gun wall is also thinner than the bowl-mouth gun; from the effect Look, the range, shooting accuracy and power of this batch of new artillery have more than doubled that of the bowl-mouth gun; moreover, due to the addition of iron hoops on the gun body, the situation of the artillery bombing has also been reduced a lot, although it still cannot be eliminated. .

Actually, Liu Jin and the others forged 22 cannons out of the first batch of cannons. One of the cannons blew up during the test, and the other artillery was drilled. Due to frequent firing, the barrel overheated and blew up.

Fortunately, the explosion of the two artillery pieces caused only minor injuries to three soldiers, and no serious consequences were caused.

Compared with artillery and fire blunderbuss, the forging of sub blunderbusses is much less difficult, and cold weapon craftsmen can assist in the forging.

The Zhejiang army has already stocked up more than a hundred artillery sub-clusters, and hundreds of them have been forged.

Zhu Ping'an prepared to forge at least 200 cannons; for fire blunders, at least one soldier should have two fire blunders.

The gunpowder can be loaded in advance, and replacing the gunpowder is much faster than loading gunpowder on site, and the efficiency can be more than doubled. Compared with loading gunpowder on the spot, if you replace the gunpowder, you can fire at least one or two more rounds before hand-to-hand combat.

In this way, the enemy will have to bear one or two more rounds of firepower, just like harvesting wheat, harvesting one or two more rounds of enemies.

This is definitely a big horror. In the era of cold weapons, the general army has collapsed after reducing its personnel by one or two. In the face of this kind of firepower of the Zhejiang Army, it is inevitable that the enemy will reduce its personnel by 10 to 20%. It is estimated that most of the enemy will collapse before the hand-to-hand combat.

However, this cannot be seen until you have really seen the lethality of queue shooting tactics.

"This is treating the symptoms but not the root cause. Even if there are sub-guns, it is still impossible to avoid the Japanese pirates rushing to fight hand-to-hand."

"Indeed, even if you change the gun and fire one more time, the enemy will still be able to rush over if you pay more."

Zhu Ping'an's voice fell behind, and someone shook his head, denying Zhu Ping'an's solution in this regard.

"What is the second aspect?"

Zhang Jing looked at Zhu Ping'an expressionlessly, and Zhu Ping'an's first aspect did not satisfy him.

"The second aspect is to add bayonets to the firecrackers. When soldiers meet in close quarters, they fight with bayonets." Zhu Pingan clasped his hands and replied.

"Adding a bayonet to the firecracker? Combining the bayonet?!"

"What is a bayonet?"

"How to add a bayonet to the firecracker? Is it stuffed into the firecracker barrel? If a bayonet is installed in the firecracker barrel, how can you fire?"

"Adding a bayonet to the firecracker is to transform the firecracker into a spear? Combining firearms and cold weapons into one? Master Zhu is really unconstrained and ingenious."

Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

(end of this chapter)