"Sir, these must be female agents sent by the Jin Kingdom. They should be arrested immediately." Lu Junyi said.

"Don't disturb them yet."

Hua Ju thought for a moment and said to Qin Donghao: "Send someone to keep an eye on them and find out how many there are in total and where they are staying."

"I humble my duty and obey my orders."

"If you want to explain to our people, be sure not to let them find out." Hua Ju urged again.

"The humble duty will take care of them."

After Qin Donghao went out, Hua Ju took Lu Junyi and Yang Zhi to the fire gun test range in the military camp. Ling Zhen asked someone to bring over the new gun system that had been produced. Hua Ju took it and looked at it carefully and found that this

The length of a musket is almost the same as the rifle used in World War I.

In addition, the barrel of this fire gun has been nearly doubled in thickness. The large chamber used to fill the gunpowder can accommodate the fist of a three-year-old child. Two layers of sealing covers are installed on it.

The inner cover is buckled from top to bottom, while the outer cover is buckled from bottom to top. A buckle is also installed on it so that the sealing cover can be fastened when it is buckled up.

Except that this musket does not have a trigger, it is very similar to the muskets of later generations.

"General Ling, if you make the barrel of the fire gun so thick, the projectile will also become larger. Will this affect the shooting speed of the projectile?" Lu Junyi asked.

Ling Zhen smiled and said: "General Lu, as the barrel becomes thicker, the projectiles fired do not necessarily have to become larger."

Yang Zhi said: "With such a thick blunderbuss tube, if the projectile is not enlarged, when the gunpowder is fired, the power will be directly leaked from the mouth of the blunderbuss, and it will not be able to fully form an effective push for the projectile. This will instead affect the power of the blunderbuss.

ah!"

Xu Ning, Bian Xiang, Suo Chao and others also nodded in agreement with his statement.

Ling Zhen did not immediately answer Yang Zhi's question, but looked at Hua Ju and asked with a smile: "Sir, do you understand the idea of ​​magnifying the blunderbuss in a humble position?"

"You want to test me, right?" Hua Ju asked with a smile.

Ling Zhen said quickly: "I don't dare because of my humble position, please forgive me."

Hua Ju was not angry, because he knew that Ling Zhen didn't really want to make things difficult for him, but just wanted to see if he could understand his intention of making such a change. Then he looked at the gun in his hand and said, "gun

By making the tube thicker, more projectiles can be loaded inside, so that when launched, they will spread out to form a large attack range, thereby changing the original attack on one person to being able to attack an area of ​​people at the same time, making the killing

The force is stronger."

When Ling Zhen saw that Hua Ju had revealed his intention to increase the caliber of the gun barrel with just one word, he admired him very much. He clasped his hands and bowed and said, "Your Excellency is extremely intelligent. I admire you. I have this idea."

Hua Ju smiled and said, "Your idea is very good, but we still have to see the actual effect."

"I have prepared the wooden stakes for testing. Sir, please test them." Jin Dajian said.

Hua Ju nodded slightly and asked, "Where is your gunpowder?"

"Here."

Meng Qinghe took a bag and took out an iron object that had the same shape as the gun barrel but was slightly smaller. It was already filled with gunpowder and fuse needed for launch.

Hua Ju took the thing and looked at it carefully and said, "It's made of iron."

Meng Qinghe said: "We tried it with bamboo, wood, and stone. Bamboo and wood are easy to burn and need to be replaced after a few uses, while stone is also easy to break. Only iron is strong and durable, so

We just decided to make it with iron."

Hua Ju nodded slightly and said: "You have a good idea. Although the cost of making it with iron is a bit high, in the long run, it can actually save our usage costs."

"My lord is right."

Ling Zhen said: "Something made of iron like this can last at least one to two years if used frequently. If it is used intermittently, it can last several years or even more than ten years, thus saving a lot of costs.

"

Hua Ju opened the sealing cover of the gun in his hand, put the gunpowder device in, and removed the lead from

Place the reserved lead slot outside, close the chamber cover first, then fasten the inner sealing cover, and finally fasten the outer sealing cover.

"Put the wooden stake five feet further back!" Hua Ju looked at the wooden stake used as a target and said to the soldier.

The soldiers went over and moved the wooden stake back another five feet, which is equivalent to fifteen meters. Adding the original more than twenty-one feet, the entire test shooting distance has reached sixty-five meters, although it is still not enough

It's too far, but if it can effectively penetrate the double-protection wooden stakes at this distance, it will be considered very good. At least it will play a decisive role when the two armies are in close contact or defending.

Hua Ju asked all the soldiers standing around the wooden pile to leave, because the gun tube can hold at least more than thirty projectiles. When fired, it will form a blockade of the entire area. Therefore, if the wooden pile is too close, it will cause damage to the soldiers.

accidental injury.

All the soldiers within a dozen meters of the wooden stake withdrew. Hua Ju then loaded the projectiles into the blunderbuss tube, then raised it up and aimed at the wooden stake in front of him as if shooting with a rifle, and then lit the fuse.

Bang!

As a puff of green smoke came out of the gun's mouth, dozens of projectiles flew towards the wooden pile in front like a heavy rain, and there was a sound from the wooden pile.

Just as the projectiles flew out, Hua Ju's hand holding the gun also moved upward slightly. This was because the amount of gunpowder in the gun was too large and the force generated when it was fired was too strong. However, compared with

The recoil of later large-caliber rifles is still nothing in comparison, and has almost no impact on shooting.

Hua Ju led Lu Junyi and the others to the wooden pile. He carefully inspected the wooden pile and found that the fish scale armor and cowhide armor covering the wooden pile had been shot into a sieve, and every piece of armor that had penetrated into the wooden pile had been shot into a sieve.

The projectiles are more than two inches deep, and this power is already very powerful.

"What a powerful force!"

Lu Junyi's face changed slightly and he said: "This wooden stake was shot with at least a dozen pellets, and each pellet was more than two inches deep. If it were shot on a person, no one would survive."

"It's not just that no one can survive."

Yang Zhi said: "This wooden pile is definitely stronger than the human body, and it is also covered with chain mail and cowhide hard armor. Even this protection has been penetrated. The human body would have been rotten long ago.

, then you can still survive.”

Xu Ning couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "In the past, in wars, a general with strong martial arts could deal with dozens of soldiers, but now as long as the soldiers hold this thing, they can in turn deal with dozens of generals with strong martial arts at the same time.

It seems that in future battles, firearms will be the main factor that determines victory or defeat, and the level of generals' martial arts can no longer play a role in affecting victory or defeat."

Lu Junyi, Yang Zhi, Bian Xiang, Suo Chao, and others all nodded after hearing this, because after seeing the power of gunpowder, they all understood that the role of martial arts on the battlefield will no longer be as important as before.

In the future, combat firearms will be the key to determining victory or defeat.

"Although firearms play an important role in the outcome of a war, the strength of an individual's martial arts is also very important."

Hua Ju was worried that Lu Junyi and the others would only pay attention to firearms in the future and neglect the cultivation of his own martial arts, so he said: "The final determinant of the outcome of any war is not the powerful weapons, but the people. Because no matter how powerful the firearms are, they are still dead objects, and firearms are still dead objects.

There is a lot of noise when launching, so it is not practical in certain situations.

For example, when you need to carry out covert operations, using firearms will expose your whereabouts. At this time, people with high martial arts skills are needed to carry out the operations. If the martial arts skills are too low and cannot defeat others, not only will the purpose not be achieved, but it will cause heavy casualties and actions to one's own side.

Exposure will have an adverse impact on one's own plans.

Therefore, we must not only focus on the development of firearms, but at the same time we must not relax in the cultivation of our own martial arts. Only by achieving a two-pronged approach can we be invincible against any opponent."

"Don't worry, sir, we will continue to practice martial arts diligently and never let up," Lu Junyi said.

Lu Junyi and the others did feel that the martial arts they had practiced hard for so many years could not match the power of firearms in the end. They felt a little negative in their hearts, but now after listening to Hua Ju's words, they

They suddenly felt that their martial arts still had room for use, and then they regained confidence in the martial arts they had practiced, and decided that they would still have to practice diligently in the future.

Seeing that they had regained their confidence in Wu Yi, Hua Ju was relieved, and then said to Ling Zhen: "Move the wooden stakes back another five feet, and put a few more wooden stakes at the same time. In addition to covering them with armor and cowhide,

In addition to hard armor, hang a shield on each wooden stake to see if the firecracker projectiles can penetrate it again."

"yes."

Ling Zhen immediately asked the soldiers to move the wooden stakes back another five feet, and then placed eight more wooden stakes on the left, right and back of the wooden stakes, and then put armor and cowhide hard armor on each wooden stake.

Finally, a shield was hung in front of the wooden stake.

"Sir, everything is ready for the test firing," Ling Zhen said.

Hua Ju reloaded the gunpowder and iron pellets, then raised it to aim, and lit the fuse. With a "bang" sound, green smoke came out of the gun's mouth, the pellets flew out, and all the wooden stakes in front of him instantly fired.

sound.

"It seems that all the wooden stakes have been hit." Xu Ning whispered to Yang Zhi. Yang Zhi did not speak, but nodded slightly.

Hua Ju took everyone to the wooden piles again and inspected them carefully. He found that seven of the nine wooden piles had been hit, but only the three wooden piles near the middle had a larger number of pellets, and the remaining four had been hit by more projectiles.

The number of pellets hit was relatively small, with only about three or four pellets hitting each one.

In addition, although these projectiles all penetrated shields, armors and cowhide hard armor, they only sunk into the wooden stakes for about half an inch. This means that the lengthening of the distance and the obstruction of the shields greatly weakened the penetration of the projectiles.

If the distance is further extended and the opponent's protection is better, the power of the fire gun will be greatly reduced.

However, if the distance is further lengthened, the opponent's attacks on one's side will not pose much of a threat. If the protection is continued to be strengthened, their load-bearing capacity will be increased, thereby weakening their maneuverability and flexibility, and making their combat effectiveness correspondingly weaker.

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Chapter completed!