The knowledge you get after drinking is shallow, and you must practice it yourself if you know it.

So the next day of the Mid-Autumn Festival night banquet, Chen Shuren dragged his tired and sore body early in the morning and came to the group training camp outside Qizhou City very diligently.

Observe Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro's respective queue drill demonstrations, and take a look at the live ammunition tests of various musket tactics.

"Nee—" When Chen Shuren turned over and got off the horse in cotton armor, he still felt a little uncomfortable with his waist and secretly took a breath, but was not noticed by others.

It seems that young cannot be uncontrollable. With his physique who is now riding horses and archery every day, he was more than enough to deal with Chen Yuanyuan, but he was still fierce the next day.

The key is that I just dealt with Chen Yuanyuan last afternoon. When I went back in the evening, the atmosphere was under the moon. I couldn't help but comfort me again. I was excited in the middle of the night and taught Dong Xiaowan how to be a person. Out of pity for a long time, I couldn't bear it anymore.

Looking back now, the white moon is covered with simple and elegant moonlight, and the pitiful Dong Xiaowan is really a bit uncontrollable.

I have to work hard for a day or two to breathe a sigh of relief.

Chen Shuren was slightly distracted, and the basic queue formation demonstration on the school field was already half over. There was no urine point throughout the whole process, and there was no need for Chen Shuren to stop and question.

After reading it, Chen Shuren also had an intuitive understanding of the original Ming army musket formation and even the position of the Spanish large array—

Of course, this Spanish phalanx is just Pizarro who asked people to hold their weapons as required and stand in a position to pose, and there is no practical force. After all, it has only been half a day since he became the coach, so it would be great to be able to clearly explain the way he wanted to pose.

Then there were live ammunition shooting of various muskets.

Shen Shuren asked someone to bring a row of wooden archery targets that were commonly used in the army, and then asked Shen Jiajia Ding and Pizarro's Spanish entourage to conduct accuracy test shooting using various bird guns, muskets, and Spanish platydog guns, including Lumi guns.

"Bang bang bang--" For a moment, gunfire sounded loudly on the school ground.

The troops training next to them were all lively and they all looked at each other. It can be seen how loose the military preparations of the Huangzhou regiment were before Shen Shuren came. Usually, there was not much ammunition money for training. Many of them were temporarily busy firing on the battlefield.

The combat effectiveness of musketeers also requires a certain amount of training ammunition to feed them. How can they be able to have combat effectiveness if they are reluctant to leave money?

As the shooting test progressed, Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro also stood on the left and right sides of Shen Shuren, with their faces looking forward, trying to prove their correctness in front of Lord Tongzhi.

At the banquet last night, they each boasted about Haikou, saying that their tactics are the most realistic, and they just waited for this moment to prove themselves.

After a long time, the gunfire stopped, and both sides used their own methods to shoot fifty times.

The shooting process is very slow. You have to make a round of shouting and stop. Only after the person hiding in the trench behind the target position can you shoot another shot to ensure statistical accuracy.

Because if the target is tested uniformly after fifty shots, the data "the probability of at least one shrapnel being captured by a single shot" cannot be counted. There will be a problem of "some guns have two to three fragments on the target at one time", which confuses the statistics.

Fortunately, Shen Shuren arranged five targets for each group, so he could shoot five shots in each round, and each target was assigned one shot. If fifty shots were counted, ten rounds were counted.

After the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, the results were also counted. For convenience, Chen Shuren briefly taught his subordinates the percentage statistics of Western mathematics before the assessment.

"Bird gun/Lumi gun 50 steps, 50 shotguns, target rate 74%, and a total hit 93 shrapnel."

"Bird gun/Lumi gun 100 steps, 50 shotguns, target rate of 16%, and total hit 11 shrapnel."

"Folang Machine Turtle Dove Gun 50 steps, 50 shotguns, target rate of 86%, and a total of 132 shrapnel hits."

"Folang Machine Turtle Dove Gun 100 steps, 50 shotguns, a target rate of 40%, and a total of 39 shrapnel hits."

After reading the data, Chen Shuren's face looked a little gloomy, but then he accepted this reality. Zuo Zixiong, who was standing by, could not believe it.

The accuracy of the bird gun and Lumi gun is within Zuo Zixiong's prediction range, but he did not expect that the Folang Machine Turtle Dove gun used by Pizarro is so effective - the key is that Zuo Zixiong has not seen Turtle Dove gun before, and he has also used it.

The loading amount of Lumi gun is four cents each of lead and gunpowder, and the ordinary bird gun is three cents each of ammunition.

Although the turtledove gun has heavy ammunition and has more than one or two ammunitions, which is at least three times that of the bird gun, the hit rate of the shotgun should not be that big.

Chen Shuren thought about it for a while, and noticed that Zuo Zixiong's face was depressed, but instead comforted him:

"I didn't blame you. Now it seems that you have made suggestions based on your own real experience. They are very realistic and have a combat effectiveness, not your problem.

Zuodusi, I see that the turtledoon gun you saw before may be a Guangdong product imitated in the past few years. It may not be imitated properly, or it may be in shape and have no mastery of the supporting methods of essence. Only then will you think that the turtledoon gun is just like this with a shotgun.

The key now is to find the problem, solve the problem, and see why our bird gun fires shotguns are far less than the real original turtledove gun. Let's change it."

After hearing Chen Shuren's fair comments, Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro were also convinced and no longer responsible for the other party's tactical thinking.

Perhaps the differences between them at the beginning were because they had misjudgment on their understanding of weapons, and they were talking to each other.

Everyone quickly began to disassemble and analyze. Zuo Zixiong compared one by one based on his original experience and insights, and soon discovered several problems.

For example, he found that the shape of the shotguns used by various muskets of the Ming army did not seem to be very particular. The lead bullets of the Ming army muskets were only large single-headed bullets, which were relatively round. However, because the number of fragments required and the processing frequency was too high, the shotguns were too lazy to make the shape very regular, and many of them were strange-shaped iron filings.

The turtledove gun was imitated by the Han people. It was first imitated by Guangdong Governor Wang Zun in the first year of Chongzhen (1629), but it was used privately on the ground in Guangdong and was spread and presented to the capital. It was already the eighth year of Chongzhen (1636). Since then, generals from all over the country have formally contacted the turtledove gun, so it is normal for not knowing the correct usage in the past four or five years.

Previously, when the Ming army installed cannons, they just grabbed a handful of iron nails, iron filings or even gravels, pressed on gunpowder, and could shoot them out. There were enough fragments, and sprayed them against the face to kill more people. It was fine, and no matter how effective the range was paid. Even the cannons were so casual, it was not surprising that the imitation version of the turtledove gun was also equipped with iron sand, iron filings or even gravels to fire.

Chen Shuren continued to review the game, and soon noticed another important difference in Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro's shotgun installation-

Even if the Spaniards install shotguns, they will use a single-headed bullet that is large enough and has a good quality and is more suitable for the barrel to tighten the entire subsequent charge.

To put it bluntly, it is the BUCK plus BALL mode required by the standard operating rules of Western musket shotgun in the 18th century. BUCK is a small projectile, and the top must be pressed with a single-headed BALL.

When Zuo Zixiong uses shotguns, sometimes it is pure shotguns, and the quality of the pressing projectiles on the top is uneven. Sometimes he even just uses some broken lead to squeeze the surface.

The local military preparations in the 13th year of Chongzhen were indeed not required, and shoddy manufacturing was already very serious.

Chen Shuren has physics knowledge. After a little investigation, he figured out the reason.

"When I was designing the bird gun in Daming, I did not consider long-range shots to injure the enemy with shotguns, nor did I pay attention to the effective range of shotguns, so the adaptation technology of shotguns was a bit out of touch.

When firing shotguns, it is very important to have a press-up projectile with a good airtightness of the barrel. This can prevent the gas from exploding when the gunpowder gas explodes, and when the gas is inside the barrel, it leaks from the projectile up and down and left and right, blowing the projectile's flight direction.

Because the caliber of a single-headed bullet is similar to the inner diameter of the barrel, it will not be tilted if it is leaked, and it will be bound by the barrel to move forward. The caliber of the shotgun is much smaller than the inner diameter of the barrel. If gas blows through the next side, the shotgun will jump up and down, left and right in the barrel. Of course, there will be no accurate head when it is out of the barrel."

The best way to learn a knowledge is to pass on it to others after you have understood it. In the process of being a good teacher, your ideas can be sorted out more clearly.

As Chen Shuren explained, he suddenly understood and figured out why Michelle Lefayette had in mind during the Seven Years War, "had the smoothbore gun loaded two single-headed bullets of the same caliber" at the same time.

There are more projectiles and more shooting far. The key is the airtightness between the projectile and the barrel to prevent the projectile from leaking and jumping randomly.

It is not that the shotgun cannot be shot far, but that the shotgun cannot be shot far.

In modern times, whether it is S686 or Winchester 1897, after disassembly, you can see that each steel ball is as thick as the inner diameter of the barrel, but there will be 6 to 9 steel balls arranged in a straight line, with gunpowder at the tail.

Pizarro uses not so many projectiles now. I heard that at most four sub-caliber pellets are arranged in front and back, but the outside must be wrapped in leather to fill the gaps in the caliber.

The three of them discussed each other, and a temporary compromise quickly arose in Chen Shuren's heart:

You can also learn the so-called "paper shell fixed ammunition" that most time travelers can think of. Optimize it a little, use thicker paper or elastic leather to arrange several sub-diameter spherical projectiles in sequence and install gunpowder at the tail. Isn't that close to the launch effect of modern trolls?

However, in terms of loading, we still have to install the front and have to install it one round after another. In terms of firepower sustainability, it is still at the level of the Ming Dynasty, and it cannot reach the power of later generations of trolls.

Thinking of this, Chen Shuren immediately instructed Zuo Zixiong: "Zuodusi, if you were asked to learn the ammunition of the turtledove gun of Pizarro, and get multiple ball lead bullets with a diameter of 1 for bird guns, can you do it?

As long as the charge is not increased, the projectile will become smaller and smaller, so it will not explode? As for the seal, you can wrap the elastic and air-tight leather outside the lead bullet, just hold it for a while to prevent it from jumping."

Zuo Zixiong thought for a while: "This sounds not dangerous, but it is probably much more laborious to make the projectile. Nowadays, lead bullets are melted into lead water and poured into a mold to condense into balls. The same amount of lead bullets becomes several times, so it takes most of the mold casting. Originally, our Ming army used iron sand and iron filings to make shotguns because it was too troublesome."

With the industrial strength of the Ming Dynasty, each small bullet in the shotgun had to accurately control the shape and size, which was indeed a waste of production capacity.

Chen Shuren thought about it again and said, "Will sharpening a knife stop chopping wood? Let's make preparations. While creating a mold for a small bullet, try pouring lead water directly into the cold water.

I remember that the surface tension of lead is quite strong. If you pour it into cold water, it will be stimulated and condensed into small balls. It is quite round, but the diameter is not easy to control. However, if you have to wrap leather outside in the future, it doesn’t matter if the diameter is slightly worse.”

Zuo Zixiong and Pizarro both saw each other. They had never heard of this kind of adaptable approach.

But no matter what, it is indeed worth a try. Whether the shotgun is accurate or not, or whether the small projectile is round or not is the most critical factor, because only if it is round enough, the unstable flight direction caused by its own rolling and rotation can be alleviated and overcome the Magnus effect.

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PS: Oh, the update is too fast. The new book period in a month has not arrived yet. Just because it exceeds 200,000 words, I squeezed out the new book list in advance. Forget it, just squeeze out. Anyway, this time it was too low on the list.
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