"Heavy smoothbore gun?"

Song Changping was a little surprised when he learned the name of this musket.

Chen Qi stared at the picture on the ground for a while and said, "Master, isn't this a bigger musket? And this musket looks very bulky, and it's better to use it than to use artillery."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ming explained: "This heavy flintlock rifle has a long range and is powerful, and can shoot many projectiles at once, and can even directly penetrate the cavalry's armor from two to three hundred meters away. The range and power of the artillery are of great importance, but the disadvantage is that it is bulky and expensive. This heavy smoothbore rifle is easy to produce and can be operated by two people, and the effect will be better when used in the vehicle array."

The two nodded. Now they understood that Xiao Ming's purpose of manufacturing this heavy smoothbore gun was for the defense of the vehicle array.

After pausing, Xiao Ming continued: "If you want to defeat the barbarians, you must go deep into the grassland. Using heavy smoothbore guns to cooperate with the vehicle array will have unexpected results. At the same time, in order to cooperate with this heavy smoothbore gun, you must transform the combat chariot."

"I hope the emperor will make it clear."

Xiao Ming started drawing on the ground again at this time, and the emergence of modern tanks and machine guns ended the cavalry. Now he obviously cannot make modern tanks and machine guns, but he can make heavy smoothbore guns and armored chariots."

The transformation of the chariot this time mainly focused on two aspects. One was to add a shooting hole for heavy smoothbore guns on the chariot, and the other was to add a blade stab on the outer iron armor. The purpose was mainly to prevent the barbarian slave soldiers from climbing.

After using the chariot formation to defeat the barbarians in Jizhou, he believed that the barbarians must also be looking for ways to crack the chariot formation.

The simplest and most brutal way for barbarians is to use the lives of barbarian slave soldiers to fill it out.

Although the barbarian population is only four or five million, the barbarians have always liked to acquire slaves, and this slave soldier is also an existence that cannot be ignored.

It is precisely because of this that he considered focusing on building an armored chariot array during the next period. This kind of chariot is equivalent to a movable bastion on the grassland, and the heavy smoothbore gun can load dozens of normal musket projectiles at one time, which is no different from a shotgun. Combining the two, coupled with the cooperation of musketeers and cavalry in the chariot array, this is a fortress guarded by heavy troops.

After telling the two of them about their thoughts, they agreed.

Song Changping sighed and said, "The emperor is ambitious and the lower officials are impressed. It is just that the border troubles of the northern grasslands in all dynasties have never stopped. After driving away this grassland tribe, another tribe will become stronger in decades, and it will be repeated like this."

During this period, Song Chang often went to Bowen Academy to read books. In addition to the manufacturing of this firearm, he also read some historical books. He couldn't help but feel a little moved for a moment.

Chen Qi knew nothing except artillery technology, but Song Changping was a little worried about saying this, "Your Majesty, what Song Changping said makes some sense, but no one is willing to settle down in this bitter and cold place in the north, and only the barbarians are willing to go there."

Xiao Ming frowned when he heard this. Chen Qi's words were the problem he had now. The barbarians were different from the vassal kings such as King Zhao and King Yan.

The vassal kings became powerful by collecting taxes from their own feudal states, so losing the feudal states means nothing.

But the barbarians are different. This is a semi-herd and semi-cultivated group, and the strategy pursued is expansion and plunder. It can be said that the barbarians are already on the road of colonization, but unlike the overseas colonization of the West, the barbarians have been engaged in bloody colonization on the Eurasian continent.

Such a barbarian cunning rabbit has three holes. Even if he destroys the barbarian tribes near Changbai Mountain, the remaining barbarian tribes can still migrate into the vast grassland, waiting for the land to appear again in the rights vacuum.

But this was intolerable to Xiao Ming because his purpose was to solve the northern problem once and for all.

Otherwise, he would be attacked from both sides and would not be able to concentrate on competing with Western powers for colonies overseas.

As he stood up and paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, Xiao Ming said, "I have an idea and will not give the barbarians another chance to breathe."

Song Changping scratched his head. This was not his duty, so he said: "Emperor, the lower officials just said casually. For the lower officials, doing their best to produce firearms is equivalent to attacking the barbarians."

"This is a good thing. It is enough for you to provide the army with quality and quantity firearms." Xiao Ming smiled. At this moment, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, what's the fire hat I asked you and Lu Tong to study?"

When they mentioned this, the two of them looked excited. Chen Qi said: "We and Lu Tong have experimented in the laboratory three times and have achieved some initial results. Simply put, we can already replace flint with fire hats."

"That's good, you must create the fire hat as soon as possible." Xiao Ming nodded. He and Lu Tong have studied the manufacturing of this fire hat many times. It is precisely because of this that the research on this fire hat will be so smooth.

Song Changping said at this time: "Master, the development of the fire hat has been made. The officials are preparing to produce fire hat-type muskets. This musket only uses fire hats and paper-shell bullets. Each time a fire hat is installed, eliminating the step of pouring gunpowder into the medicine pool."

Xiao Ming was not surprised at all about Song Changping's words. For him, with the current industrial ability of Qingzhou, he could only develop muskets to the level of fire hat-style rear-loading guns.

As for metal fixed charge, it was the product of the production leap after the Western power revolution, and the cost of production is too high now.

At that time, the huge amount of bullet consumption will be unbearable. After all, this bullet is a copper shell. According to his estimate, a metal fixed-loading projectile of such an estimated cost of about two taels of silver.

So after weighing the trade-offs, he could only work hard on fire-cap guns before the electric power revolution came.

After all, compared with flintlock rifles, the fire cap gun improves the reliability and rate of firing, overcomes the problems of unreliable firing of flintlock rifles, high blazing rate, slow firing rate, and lack of strict breathing. And there is no need to worry about the failure of the musket on rainy days. If it can be equipped with a large-scale army, it means that his musket is one of the Western generations higher.

However, although this fire hat firing gun is an improvement, it only has some advantages in firing rate and stability, and cannot change the mode of war. It can only be said that it has some advantages on the battlefield.

"I asked you to have this idea when you were studying the fire hat. Since the fire hat has made progress, let's start. Moreover, the rules that the military workshop follows in the future are to use one generation, develop one generation, and design one generation, so as to ensure that there will be no faults in weapons." Xiao Ming sets rules for the military workshop.
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