"9 out of 10, is he still not satisfied?" Liu Meng asked in surprise.
Kong Tai smiled awkwardly. He didn't know why artillery commander Jacob was so harsh. In fact, artillery commander Jacob was too nervous. After all, before departure, Marin repeatedly emphasized that he should perform well in front of Ming officials. Therefore, he was so excited when he saw the eighth cannon shot missed.
This situation is similar to the military parades in later generations. Usually you have nothing to do with it, but if you make a bad name in the military parade in the square, then the problem will be big. Based on this consideration, Jacob was so angry that he drew the observer of the eighth cannon.
However, Jacob's move scared the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty - Damn, the artillery of the Beihai Kingdom is so powerful? I am not satisfied with 9 of 10 out of 10? Do you have to hit all the hits to pass? That's a hundred steps away!
Therefore, this unexpected scene made the artillery and artillery of the Beihai Kingdom suddenly become higher in the eyes of the Ming officials and soldiers. Even many civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were thinking that although the Beihai Kingdom is a barbaric country, its artillery technology is still quite powerful...
You should know that in the Ming Dynasty, the artillery did not have sights such as Wangshan and Shinsight, whether it hit the gun depends on the personal quality of the artillery. In other words, it depends entirely on the feeling of the artillery. Most of the soldiers in the Ming Dynasty were illiterate, did not know the angle, and did not have sights for them. Therefore, within 20 steps, these artillery might be able to measure with their eyes. It would be more difficult to get out of 50 steps. At a distance of 100 steps, novice artillery basically had more grey weapons, and hitting was definitely a mystery. Even those artillery soldiers who had been more than ten years old could achieve the level of 50 shots.
Of course, if it is really on the battlefield, the hit rate is actually not important. Because the enemy will definitely be rushing around. As long as there is no problem with the angle of the muzzle, as long as it shoots flat in front, it will definitely be able to hit the enemy...
Therefore, the artillery of the Ming Dynasty paid the most attention to the vertical angle of the muzzle, rather than the specific hit rate. Anyway, as long as the muzzle is aimed at one side of the enemy, you can even hit a few unlucky guys. "Mistake the sub-car" and other things are not unusual at all in the era of local cannons.
However, without comparison, there is no harm. You are only five or six out of ten artillery soldiers. A group of young people were beaten nine out of ten, and the gap is a bit big...
So Liu Meng asked curiously:
"Why are your country's artillery so accurate?"
Kong Tai is here to offer cannons, so he naturally has to brag about cannons:
"Nothing else, good-looking guns!"
"Can the Ming artillery be tried?"
Kong Tai rolled his eyes and thought to himself, he was here to offer a cannon, so of course he could:
"Of course! Since these cannons are tributed to the Ming Dynasty, the lord can naturally control them at will!"
Liu Meng nodded and said:
"That's good."
Then, he turned to Xu Yong and said:
"Call a few experienced artillery soldiers to come over and learn how to use artillery from those people. In addition, those artillery soldiers do not speak differently, so I have to ask the messenger to help translate."
Kong Tai nodded, but said:
"Sir, I'm afraid that the artillery soldiers will not speak Mandarin..." His concern is not unreasonable. Those soldiers are uneducated and basically do not speak famous Mandarin. However, the local language and Mandarin in Guangdong and Guangxi are too different, and it is indeed difficult to communicate.
Liu Meng thought about it, waved and said:
"Liu Xiucai, please accompany the envoy for a while!" Liu Xiucai was a local, Liu Mengzhao's personal aide, that is, the master. Xiucai naturally knew the official language. As a local, he had no choice but to speak the local language, and he was just used as a translator.
Xu Yong quickly selected five old gunners in his thirties and forties from the avant-garde firearm battalion in Guangzhou. He brought a group of young gunners to Fran's machine cannons and received training from the Beihai National artillery.
With the help of Contai and Liu Xiucai, Jacob explained the usage of the Fran machine cannon to these old Ming cannons in detail. Then, he asked several old Ming artillery soldiers to try it out. However, before the test of the cannon, Jacob repeatedly emphasized that more medicines are never allowed. Even Jacob took out a wooden spoon and stipulated that only three spoons of medicine cannons can be filled. Moreover, when charging, the medicine powder is not allowed to rise, and can only be level with the edge of the wooden spoon.
This was actually Marin's idea. As a liberal arts student who was familiar with history, Marin knew very well what kind of virtues were the gunners and musketeers of the Ming Dynasty. For these uncultured ancient gunners, the deterioration of musketeers, the loading of medicine was purely following the feeling. The loading of medicine was all about looking at the loading of medicine.
Therefore, it is best to equip them with containers for taking gunpowder powder and strictly specify the amount to control the amount of medicine.
This idea was personally experienced by Marin in his previous life. Of course, it was not an experience of shooting, but an experience of cooking. Marin's cooking skills were very poor at the beginning of her previous life, mainly because she had poor control over adding salt and sugar. She often shook her hands, and she put too much salt or too much sugar...
Later, he went to the supermarket to buy a very small spoon to measure the seasonings. For example, one pot of dishes, two spoons of salt, and three spoons of sugar... After repeated practice, Marin never had the problem of putting more salt when cooking...
This method is also great to restrain ancient gunners and musketeers. For this reason, Marin asked the carpenter to make a special wooden spoon. The artillery used a large wooden spoon and charged three spoons. The musketeers used a small wooden spoon and charged one spoon. In this way, the amount of medicine can be controlled.
Of course, musketeers deliberately load less medicine in the late Ming Dynasty, so they should not blame musketeers. Because the musketeers made by the Ming Dynasty's Ministry of Works are too trash. If they load enough medicine according to the requirements, it is easy to explode and kill the musketeers themselves. Therefore, musketeers in the late Ming Dynasty were forced to load less medicine. However, in this way, musketeers really became bird guns, and they could only kill birds, not people...
To this end, Malin planned to help the Ming Dynasty introduce the system of inscribed names in the barrel. That is, when each barrel is made, the craftsmen who manufactured must engrave their own name and work number. Once the barrel is blown up in the future, they will find the relevant responsible person based on their name and work number, and then severely punish them...
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It was through this strict system of accountability that Europe effectively controlled the quality of the barrel and avoided the sorrow of the musketeers in the late Ming Dynasty.
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It took only an hour to make strict regulations, and those artillery soldiers themselves were veterans and had a good foundation. The five veteran artillery soldiers of the Ming Dynasty quickly mastered how to control the Fran machine cannon.
Then, with the assistance of his disciples, these five old Ming artillery soldiers began to fire artillery themselves...
"Boom-Boom-Boom..." After a few shots, the Ming officials and soldiers present were surprised to find that these five old gunners all hit targets a hundred steps away...
"So evil? Come and see it a few more times!" Liu Meng, the right governor, said in surprise.
Then, the five old gunners fired a few more guns. As a result, the five old gunners fired a total of 5 rounds and a total of 25 guns, and only one shot was a little bit off.
All the Ming officials and soldiers present were shocked...
What shocked them was not only the high hit rate of this artillery, but also the high firing rate of the experts present...
Because, Liu Meng and other experts were shocked to find that these old gunners actually fired 5 guns within 50 breaths, and the average one gun was fired once in 10 breaths...
What a speed this is? It shocked all the experts present...
You should know that every time the Ming Dynasty's local cannon is bombarded, it takes about 120 breaths (that is, two minutes) to fire one shot. And this Fran machine cannon can actually reach 10 breaths per shot, which is simply terrifying...
Of course, this is not calculated like this. According to Kong Tai's explanation, this is because all the five sub-guns can be completed in one breath. The reloading time of sub-guns is not that fast. Moreover, according to the cannon rules, after each round of 5 sub-guns is finished, the artillery must use a wet sponge to cool the cannon body and sub-gun to prevent the gun barrel from overheating and causing the explosion. Then, a dry sponge must be used to absorb water and dry it...
By this calculation, the Fran machine cannon is actually only three or four guns per minute on average. It is only one gun that takes about 20 breaths.
Despite this, a group of experts from the Ming Dynasty, including Liu Meng and Xu Yong, were still shocked by this rate of fire. Because this rate of fire is six times that of the Ming Dynasty's local cannon...
Moreover, after testing, this Fran machine cannon can indeed hit two hundred steps (300 meters), with a range of twice that of the Ming Dynasty earth cannon...
(Note: The 300 meters here are the effective range, which does not include the last range without killing. If the full range is calculated, it will be farther. As for the Fran machine cannon recorded in history, the range of 2,000 feet, that is, 666.7 meters, it should be the total range, including the weak range at the last range after the effective range. Because most civil servants of the Ming Dynasty do not understand artillery, and when recording the range, they only follow the total range, rather than the effective range.)
Chapter completed!