Seeing Marin's slutty self-satisfaction expression, Kohler was speechless, so he asked Schwartz's question:
"Young Master, if all European countries master this tactic, how should we deal with it? Is this what you said, 'As long as the price is high enough, merchants are willing to sell ropes that hang themselves'?"
Marin's face suddenly froze and she said angrily:
"What do you know? Didn't I say that you can use 'slew' on the side?"
Kohler shook his head:
"Didn't you say that it's because the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow has no plate armor, so it's easy to shoot through a swarm of arrows? If it's not good to replace it with France, which has a very high plate armor equipment rate..."
Marlin was stunned. Yes, the emperor defeated the French with the cannon chain formation, and the French would definitely learn it. After all, the French also had a lot of artillery, so it was easy to learn.
But letting the black-shirt knights attack from the side with a swarm of rushing, it is indeed effective for the Moscow army that does not wear plate armor. However, there are tens of thousands of French soldiers, which are effective, but the effect is not that good...
Moreover, it is easier to imitate it. If you are learned, the Beihai Army will easily be rushed to the face...
It’s nothing to use in Eastern Europe. Anyway, the relationship between East and Europe is not close, and the news is difficult to spread. But if you use it in Western Europe, you will also achieve great victory. Others are not fools, so you must copy it.
Moreover, even if the modified version with wings cannot be copied, the ordinary version can still be copied. Although the effective range of the ordinary version is relatively close, it is still very terrifying if it is close to the face. When encountering a tactical master, you can resist waiting for the opponent to put it within 45 meters before firing together, the damage caused is no less than the damage suffered by the modified version of the 100-meter range.
In addition, once Marin uses a swarm of killing weapons to deal with the battle formation of chain chain artillery vehicles, the artillery will quickly lose the market. Because, it is not invincible, it will naturally no longer be sought after.
Therefore, using a swarm of rushing against the chain artillery array will not only cause the artillery to lose market pursuit, but also cause the enemy to imitate. After all, the technological content of this thing is really low. As long as you get an unburned sample, you can successfully imitate it.
Marin didn't dare to bet that Europeans did not find a gang of generals who used the correct way, just like the Ming Dynasty. What if they found the correct way to use it?
At that time, the consequences will be serious. If the Beihai Kingdom is defeated, it will cause uncontrollable serious consequences. Because the reason why Marin can speak the same thing in Beihai Kingdom is that he is invincible. This leads to no one in Beihai dare to rebel because no one is confident that he can beat Marin. This is also true for the princes outside, who have no confidence in defeating Marin. Previously, the coalition forces of Saxony and Brandenburg, as well as the coalition forces of the eight vassal states, were defeated by Marin, which gave a great impact on the outside world.
But if Marin's invincible character collapses, then the princes will regain their confidence and may unite to attack the Beihai Kingdom again. What's bad is that once the invincible myth is broken, the morale of the Beihai Kingdom's army may become disintegrating.
Just like France, during the Napoleon period, established invincible confidence. However, after the defeat in the French-Prussian War, France's invincible self-confidence collapsed. Since then, it has always been passive in the face of Germany. Although there are tactical reasons, it is undeniable that self-confidence is also very important to war.
Therefore, Marin did not intend to take out a very uncertain weapon in Western Europe, which would not only bring unpredictable consequences, but also affect the artillery business.
"But how can we ensure that the French and princes of various countries can be defeated while maintaining the artillery business?"
Marin thought of using a single-headed bullet musket, but the problem is that even the leaky Folang cannon installed in the rear has a range of about 200 meters. The single-headed bullet and Folang cannon fire at the same time, and the range of the two sides is not much different, but the power difference is too big. If you kill a lead bullet and kill a person, the iron ball can kill several of them, and the benefits and deterrent power it brings are incomparable.
At that time, you can use an ordinary front-mounted three-pound cannon and a rear-mounted Folang machine cannon. After all, the effective range of the front-mounted three-pound cannon is about 365 meters, which is much further away than the rear-mounted Folang machine cannon.
However, even if the front three-pound cannon has a range that exceeds the opponent, the hit rate is the same as the smoothbore gun, which is as terrible as the smoothbore gun. After one or two hundred meters, it can only be blessed by God whether the front three-pound cannon cannon can hit the target. After all, the front three-pound cannon is also smoothbore, and the hit rate is not good.
Although artillery was later called the God of War, in the era of smoothbore guns, shells were more reliant on the dense crowds of people on the opposite side to strike a range rather than precise bombardment. There is no way, smoothbore guns are just like this, and their accuracy is not high.
Unless there are rifled guns, or use the Minie rifle with a longer range and higher accuracy to solve the opponent. But Marin is unwilling to take out the ultimate killer such as the Minie rifle early. If the opponent is generally equipped with the Minie rifle, then his "Jiangnan Leather Factory" armor will not be able to resist.
As for rifled cannons? That thing is too difficult to process, so you have to use a lathe to cut it in the barrel. As for manual rifling, it is okay to use it on muskets, but it is impossible to use it on cannons. After all, the rifling depth of the cannons is very high, and the processing is very difficult, so it cannot be done by hand.
In addition, copper cannons are not suitable for making rifled guns. Because once the barrel becomes hot, the copper cannon's body tube will easily soften. If it is a smoothbore gun, it is okay, rifled gun... the shells can easily squeeze and deform the heat-softened rifle... At that time, the cannon will be scrapped... and in history, rifled guns are generally cast in steel, such as the Pierot gun. Napoleon cannons have been built to 12 pound cannons, but they are still smoothbore bronze cannons. It is not that they don't want to rifle, but once the barrel becomes hot, the rifle will be squeezed and broken by iron balls.
If you want to get a rifled cannon, you have to use steel. However, Marin wants to sell copper cannons, which makes a lot of profit, so...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Use Napoleon cannons to deal with the Florence machine cannon?" Marin thought for a while and shook his head. Why? Although the Napoleon cannon is powerful and has a long range, it consumes copper materials. One or two or even dozens of them is nothing, if it is hundreds of them... it will consume too much copper materials...
In addition, you can use large-caliber bronze cannons, and other countries can do it too. You should know that in this day, the 12-pound bronze cannon technology is not difficult. It is just because of the inconvenience of land transportation and the fact that there are almost no roads in this era, ordinary countries did not bring the 12-pound bronze cannons to land. But at sea, on ships from Spain and Portugal, the 12-pound cannons are just very ordinary caliber.
If you want to suppress your opponent by caliber, others can learn to suppress them back. At most, the main gun uses mud molds, which is a bit higher than yours.
But if you use a rifled cannon, you have to use a steel cannon. But taking it out is not good for the sale of copper cannons...
Marin was very upset and opened the wooden box on the table and wanted to take out a cigarette and light it. But he made a mistake in his busy schedule. He opened another wooden box and took out a steel nail and shot it alone...
"What's this..." Marin was speechless and planned to put the single-headed bullet back into the box.
But suddenly, Marin stopped in the air with his single-headed bullet...
"One-headed bullet...one-headed bullet..." Marin murmured to himself.
"What if... use the single-headed bullet technology to transform the shell?" A light flashed through Marin's mind...
...
He did it right away. Marin found a carpenter to carve a wooden box. This wooden box was actually a mold used to make cement shells.
Malin is reluctant to use iron to make shells, which is too luxurious. Nowadays, iron is a strategic resource. The shells made of cement are cheap and can be ignored if they are knocked out and are too lazy to recycle them. Moreover, the power of cement shells is similar to that of stone shells, and they are also very powerful. They may not be powerful enough to bombard city walls or warships, and they need to replace iron balls. However, people who are used to hit flesh and blood are definitely enough!
After drying the cement single-headed shell with a rifle on its head, it was directly pulled to the shooting range for testing, and then fired with a three-pound cannon in front. Then, the people participating in the test were stunned to find that the single-headed shell had a range of more than 500 meters. Moreover, the shooting was accurate!
It can be said that if you shoot against the enemy's artillery position, use a three-pound cannon with a single-headed artillery shell and hit wherever you point, you can easily destroy the opposite artillery position.
The only thing that makes people worried is that if a single-headed shell hits the sand and swamps, it is easy to get samples and successfully imitate them. At that time, it will be terrible...
What to do? On the shooting range, Marin saw the artillery officer beside him pinching a canned fruit wax, unplug the cork, and prepare to enjoy the canned food...
"Have it! Put a hat on the head of the shell!"
Then, Marin made the cement shell into an oval warhead of a very ordinary pistol shell, but left two sockets.
At the same time, Marin arranged for people to use molds to make wax "hats". On the "hats" are the yang rifles, which are the so-called wind grates.
Before firing, the gunner will insert the made wax "hat" into the two sockets of the cement shell, and let the cement shell have a wax "hat" with a breeze on the head.
After firing, the cement shell began to rotate because of the rifle on the wax "hat". However, due to the high temperature caused by friction with the air, the wax "hat" is easy to melt. At the same time, if the bullet hits the target, the wax "hat" will also be easily smashed...
If shells hit the sand pile or swamp in time, the wax "hat" that is extremely fragile and afraid of high temperatures will be severely damaged, making people unable to see the intact shape. In this way, there is no imitation.
After testing, the performance of this cement single-headed shell with wax "hat" was very little affected. After firing, the wax "hat" will basically be seriously damaged, and it is impossible to tell what it originally looked like, so there is no way to talk about being imitated. Even the cement shell itself will be broken by the fierce impact, let alone the extremely fragile wax "hat".
"Hehe, I didn't expect that the single-headed bullet technology can be used on shells. This single-headed bullet is really sharp!"
Kohler and Schwartz, who accompanied the whole process, immediately gave the rainbow fart. But this time, they really praised it. Because Marin's "brain" is really powerful. And this single-headed shell is really powerful.
Moreover, the two discussed with Marin that if the single-headed artillery shell technology is used in siege and naval battles, it will be as powerful as the same. Just change cement to cast iron, and then change the artillery to a larger caliber artillery. The iron single-headed artillery shell similar to the cone can bring greater damage and damage to the city walls or enemy warships... In order to enhance the ability to break the defense, the oval warhead can be made sharper, similar to the pointed rifle bullets in later generations...
Chapter completed!