The standard version of the Thirteen-year-old flintlock gun was jointly developed by R&D institutions such as the Royal Institute of Technology and the Firearms Research Institute. The five major weapons companies can obtain patents and related technical data for production.

This kind of flintlock gun is the first type of flintlock gun in the Chu Empire with a high firing rate. Its performance is very good, and its firing rate far exceeds that of a matchlock gun.

Once it was released, it became the standard rifle of the Dachu Empire Army. The production volume is very large. At present, the five major weapons companies have produced a total of at least 800,000 units, covering most of the main army units, namely the A-class division and the B-class division.<

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In addition, there are sub-models developed by major weapons companies based on the 13-year-old flintlock musket, such as the 15-year-old flintlock musket, which is based on the 13-year-old flintlock musket and is designed to meet the needs of coastal and tropical operations.

A targeted improved tropical rifle.

There is also the 14-year-old cavalry flintlock developed by Hebei Weapons Company, which is also improved based on the 13-year-old flintlock.

In fact, in addition to the standard Army model, the Thirteen Years Type flintlock musket also has a short-barreled model used by cavalry, that is, the Thirteen Years Type Cavalry Musket.

However, it is not popular with cavalry because the barrel of the 13-year-old cavalry musket is very short. The original intention is to allow the cavalry to load and shoot directly on horseback...

However, the cavalry of the Da Chu Empire now do not use flintlocks on horseback... They must either dismount and fight on foot, or charge directly with sabers...

If you develop a cavalry musket that can be fired on horseback, the cavalry will not even bother to pay attention to you!

In response to this situation, Hebei Weapons Company developed a cavalry model with a barrel that is shorter than the army model, but longer than the 13-year-old cavalry model... Just such a small change has won the approval of the cavalry.

Its barrel is slightly shorter than the basic model, allowing cavalry to carry their horses while marching, but it is not too short to avoid losing range and power when dismounting and fighting in formation.

In order not to suffer losses when fighting with bayonets, a longer bayonet was specially issued.

Therefore, the 14-year-old cavalry flintlocks in the Chu army's cavalry are not issued with bayonets, but with lances.

To put it bluntly, this is a conventional rifle that can be carried on horseback and then dismounted for use. Compared with the basic army model, the barrel is slightly shorter, but if an extended bayonet is added, the overall length is no different from the basic army model.

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The cavalry just uses this thing as a basic model of the army and then engages in line combat. They have never considered using this kind of musket on horseback!

Currently, the Chu army is equipped with three types of flintlock muskets in the Thirteenth Year series on a large scale, namely the Thirteenth Year type army flintlock, the Fourteenth Year cavalry flintlock, and the Ten

Five-year-old tropical style flintlock.

These three muskets come from the same source, and the bolt structure is almost the same. The only differences are the length of the barrel, processing technology, bayonets/spurs, etc.

This is only talking about the Thirteen Years-Type series of flintlock muskets... In fact, the army, navy and Guards of the Great Chu Empire were equipped with more than Thirteen Years-Type series of muskets.

Production has been discontinued, but it has not been retired. There are still hundreds of thousands of subsequent improved versions of the 2-year-old flintlock gun still in service in some second-class divisions and third-class garrison divisions.

The various improved models of the 2-year-old flintlock musket are more numerous and more complex. The military has successively equipped more than ten improved models of the 2-year-old flintlock musket, and four are still in service.

Its later improved models, especially those that have undergone bolt action modifications, are quite reliable, and the firing rate is not much worse than the 13-year-old flintlock gun.

There are currently two major series of main muskets used by infantry, with as many as seven sub-models.

Then there are pistols. The pistol is also a large-scale weapon in the Chu army. It is mainly used by artillery equipment and officers. The current main models are the 14-year-old Suifa pistol and the 16-year-old Suifa pistol.

, the former is an ordinary pistol issued to artillery and other technical arms and grassroots officers for self-defense.

The 16-year-old Suifa pistol is a more exquisite and more reliable pistol. It is specially issued to mid-to-high-level officers. The output is relatively low. It is better to say that it is a weapon than a handicraft.

Then there are the 15-year-old cavalry pistols, the 13-year-old tropical pistols used by the Navy and Marines, etc. There are four total models...this is still a new model.

If you count the old models that have not been retired, there are even more.

In addition to the three main muskets: rifles, lances, and pistols, the military actually has a lot of muskets that are messed up for various special purposes or for testing.

In the winter of the 19th year of Chengshun, the Army had just purchased a large-caliber short-barreled flintlock gun for testing equipment.

This thing is very special... its barrel is very short, and the muzzle is bell-shaped... so it is also called a trumpet gun.

The reason why the trumpet gun has such a special muzzle and such a short barrel is purely because this kind of musket was developed for cavalry.

After the 13-year-old cavalry model was despised by the cavalry, not only the Hebei Arms Company targeted the cavalry muskets, but other weapons companies did not give up, and the Northeast Arms Company also joined the competition.

They believe that the reason why cavalry hates using muskets in combat on horseback is because it is inconvenient to load and the hit rate is very low on horseback, especially when in motion. As long as this problem can be solved, the cavalry can be happy to fight on horseback. Muskets are used on horseback.

Regarding the loading issue, in addition to continuing to keep the barrel short, they simply gave it a bell mouth, which makes loading more convenient.

As for the hit rate issue, they imitated the shotguns in artillery and directly issued shotshells to the new cavalry muskets. This shotshell is custom-made and contains multiple small steel balls, so that the bullet can be expanded after firing. Cover area to improve hit rate.

After reading it, the generals of the Army Ordnance Department felt that the idea was sound, but they had to give it a try to find out whether it was useful or not, so they ordered a few hundred for testing equipment.

In fact, the new experimental muskets purchased by the Army Ordnance Department for cavalry use are not just this one, but there are several others, but they are all pistols used by cavalry.

The top brass of the Ordnance Department have never given up on the research and development and equipment of cavalry firearms...even if the frontline cavalry particularly dislikes muskets.

Especially the cavalry pistol. The cavalry has almost never used it in large-scale actual combat in the past ten years...it is only used in sporadic special circumstances.

The reason is basically the same as their dislike of the 13-year-old cavalry short-barreled muskets, that is, they never use muskets on horseback...

If anything happens, he rushes in with his saber, and even shoots nonsense...

When dismounting for defensive operations, they directly use the 14-year-old cavalry musket with a barrel that is only slightly shorter than the standard version, or they simply use the army's standard version of the long musket, and directly transform into line infantry to play with you. ……

After being tricked by pistol cavalry and dragoons in their early years, the Chu army's cavalry were quite repulsive to the use of any firearms on horseback. In their own words: Only fools play shooting on horseback!

This also led to the way the Chu army’s cavalry fought, which was different from the cavalry of other contemporary countries...

For standard large-scale cavalry, cavalry artillery is often the first to intensively bombard. After the cavalry artillery shakes the enemy's cavalry formation, our own cavalry will directly line up and charge forward with sabers or lances...or it may be unable to do so or other situations require defensive operations. Or something, then just dismount and play line combat...

Basically, any organized cavalry combat force does not have the option of shooting on horseback.

Only in very rare special sporadic battles, cavalry will fight on horseback with guns blazing, but very rarely.

However, cavalry generals, especially some traditional cavalry generals with backgrounds in cavalry and archery, always believe that cavalry who can shoot on horseback are the future...

Although mounted archery is now unusable, the fault lies not in the mounted archery tactic itself, but in the lack of a more efficient mounted archery weapon than the traditional mounted bow.

It would be great if there could be a cavalry-specific musket with high power, high accuracy, low recoil, and the ability to shoot continuously like a bow and arrow.

Then your own cavalry can ride their horses while raising their guns, and kill enemies hundreds of meters away through continuous shooting!

The problem is, such a musket cannot be produced!
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