Hearing Deng Kui say this, Su Hao turned his head to Tu Wenhuan and asked, "Old Tu, do you think what Deng Kui says makes sense?"

Tu Wenhuan said: "They are all from the ranks, they are generous and don't know the rules. Please don't mind Brother Su. However, I think there is some reason for what Deng Kui said. You said that the Japanese pirates may violate my Ming Dynasty with tens of thousands of people. I think this is a bit possible. Thinking about the Folang Ji, which is what you mentioned in Europe, may be thousands of miles away from my Ming Dynasty. Even if you can cross tens of thousands of people to my Ming Dynasty at one time, how can you fight against my millions of powerful soldiers?"

Su Hao said: "Old Tu, if I say 6,000 Folang Jimen can fight from Guangzhou to the capital, do you believe it?"

"Of course I don't believe it." Tu Wenhuan said frankly, "Manpower is always limited. Even the Oirat cavalry back then were unable to drive straight into our Ming Dynasty with only a few thousand people."

Su Hao shook his head. The war logic in the Firearm Age is not something that people in the Cold Weapon Age can understand. During the Opium War, the British team relied on thousands of people to defeat tens of thousands of Qing troops. In addition, the Europeans have now occupied the coast of India and established colonies there. It is not a long way to attack China.

Su Hao said: "Old Tu, you don't know that Europeans rely on the benefits of firearms. Although the number of people using firearms to deal with our cold weapons is small, they also have a chance of winning."

"Firearm?" Deng Kui laughed sarcastically from the side, "Su Xiucai, do you know what a firearm looks like?"

"I know a little bit." Su Hao replied, kidding, as a modern person, can you not know what a firearm looks like?

Deng Kui said: "The firearms of the Folang Jiren are nothing more than the Folang cannons and the messile guns, which are actually just the muskets in our army. These firearms do have some power, but they are difficult to load and are troublesome to ignite. If you don't hit a single blow, you can only wait for death. The muskets in our army are also equipped with a lot, but guess what?"

"How is it?" Su Hao asked.

Deng Kui replied: "Those muskets can be used when fighting elsewhere, but when they arrive in Yunnan, they are simply useless. Yunnan is said to be sunny for three days. When it rains, the fuse is wet and the muskets cannot be fired. In the end, the soldiers have to rush to kill with big swords and spears."

"Why, are the muskets in the army still ignited by a fuse?" Su Hao asked Tu Wenhuan.

"Of course...why, Brother Su knows other methods?" Tu Wenhuan asked sensitively. From the previous conversation with Su Hao, he felt that this person had some unusual knowledge, so he guessed that Su Hao might know other methods.

Su Hao thought for a while and said, "I heard that the Folang Ji people have improved the traditional musket and fired with flint, without flint. Muskets with flint firing have a much faster firing rate, and can be fired once in about 2 small minutes."

"Is there such a powerful weapon?" Tu Wenhuan said in surprise, "Brother Su can you tell me in detail?"

Su Hao saw something like a flintlock in the movie. He didn't know when the Europeans invented the flintlock, nor did he know what the flintlock really looked like. However, from a principle analysis, he could still explain it clearly.

Traditional muskets use fire-drugs to trigger them after they are put into the chamber and ignited fuse. In Europe, there was a saying that musketeers took a large plate of fuses several miles long to fight. The principle of flintlock rifles is to use a piece of flint and a firing device instead of flint. When the firing device hits the flint, the flint will burst out of Mars, which can ignite the fire-drug in the chamber and complete the firing.

Su Hao was not sure about the firing speed of the mesh gun, but he remembered that the flintlock gun could shoot 2 guns in one minute, which should be much faster than the traditional mesh gun.

Here, we have to talk about the timing issue in ancient China. Before Western clocks were introduced to China, the Chinese divided the day and night into 12 hours, and at the same time divided the day and night into 100 moments. In this way, each hour is equivalent to eight and one-third of a moment, and each moment is equivalent to 14.4 minutes in later generations. Below the titanium, there is also a unit of "minutes", which is divided into 60 minutes, also called "small minutes". According to this, a "small minutes" is equivalent to 14.4 seconds in later generations. Su Hao said that 2 small minutes are fired once, and converted into the time unit of later generations, it is only half a minute.

In addition to the fast firing speed, the flintlock rifle has another advantage, which is that in the case that Deng Kui mentioned, the flintlock carried by the musket soldiers is easily blown out or extinguished in windy and rainy weather, but the flintlock rifle is not affected by the weather.

The principle of flintlock rifle is actually very simple to say. It was just that predecessors had not thought of it, or even if they thought of it, it could not be realized due to the manufacturing process. Su Hao felt that with the technical level of China in Ming Dynasty, it was not difficult to manufacture a flintlock rifle.

"The general principle of the flintlock rifle is like this..."

Su Hao took out the paper and charcoal pen and drew a rough schematic diagram for Tu Wenhuan. He had never studied firearms, so he could not draw real drawings, but the idea of ​​using flint firing was not complicated and could be expressed in the drawings.

Tu Wenhuan has been in the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of War, and is considered a technical talent. As soon as Su Hao draws the picture, he understands it, and his face can't help but show mixed expressions:

"Brother Su, are you saying that the Flang Jiren has made such a musket?"

Su Hao's face turned slightly red. He really didn't know if Europeans had developed flintlock rifles. However, the large-scale application of flintlock rifles should have not begun. He shook his head and said, "I just heard the Flang Ji missionary mentioned this. Judging from his meaning, it seems that they have just started designing, and there are still some craft problems that have not been solved. This should be the situation a few years ago. I don't know what the situation is now."

Tu Wenhuan took the drawing and looked carefully. His face was gloomy and clear. Deng Kui looked at Tu Wenhuan's expression from the side and couldn't help asking: "Mr. Tu, does this Su... what Brother Su said really make sense?"

Deng Kui was originally a little unhappy with Su Hao, so he only called him Su Xiucai. Now, seeing Su Hao draw a schematic diagram of a flintlock rifle, Tu Wenhuan fell into deep thought and felt a little respect for Su Hao. Deng Kui actually didn't care about the matter of caisson. Even if Su Hao was a top Feng Shui master, Deng Kui would not take it seriously. But it was different when it came to muskets. Any improvement of any weapon would affect the lives of thousands of soldiers, and Deng Kui cared very much about this.

Tu Wenhuan pondered for a while and said slowly: "This matter is of great importance... In my experience, the flintlock rifle mentioned by Brother Su should be able to be made. Once this gun is made and equipped in large quantities in the army, the pattern of war will be completely changed.

If one shot can be fired in 2 minutes, then using three rows of alternate shooting methods can almost create a rain of bullets in front of the two armies. Neither the light cavalry of the Tartars nor the Japanese pirates can break through such bullets... On the other hand, if the opponent is equipped with such firearms, then our Ming army will be helpless."

Su Hao couldn't help but be respectful to Tu Wenhuan. The other party had not experienced the age of firearms, but was able to foresee the combat characteristics of the firearm era from the improvement of a firearm. The tactic of using a firearm to perform three-stage shooting was already used in the Ming Dynasty, but because the reloading speed of the firearms was too slow and the ignition was troublesome, this shooting technology did not bring about the revolution of the entire war mode. Now, when Su Hao talked about firearms with higher shooting frequency, Tu Wenhuan immediately thought about what its application in war would mean.

"What Mr. Tu said is so, and students think so too." Su Hao said, "If the flintlock rifle can be equipped in the army in large quantities, then the era of cold weapons that pursues the supremacy of strength will end. The Mongolian army, which is known for riding and shooting, will be vulnerable in front of the musket."

A personal soldier named Hao Tong on the table said, "Shi Ye Su, you just said this new type of musket... Well, or a musket. It is still quite difficult to fire one shot in 2 minutes. The musket fires slowly. In addition to the ignition stage, there is also the fire-medication stage.

In order to speed up the loading of medicine, our army uses paper bags to pack the fire-drug in advance. Each time it is fired, pour a paper bag into the musket, which is more than twice as fast as weighing with a horn spoon in the past. Even so, it takes 3 to 4 minutes to load a portion of medicine. How can you complete this loading in 2 minutes?"

"Brother Hao is the musketeer?" Su Hao asked casually when he heard Hao Tong speak so professionally.

Hao Tong touched his waist, took out a hand gun, placed it on the table, and said, "At the bottom are Lord Deng's personal soldiers. They need to practice the skills of swords, horses, riding and shooting. Using a musket is just one of the skills."

"Is this the musket in the army? I wonder if I can let me see it?" Su Hao said curiously. He had seen many modern guns, but he had never seen them in the Ming Dynasty.

"Brother Su, please check it out." Tu Wenhuan took Hao Tong's pistol and handed it to Su Hao.

Su Hao took the hand gun and looked up and down carefully, and said, "It is indeed exquisite in workmanship. With the Ming Dynasty... well, with the current craftsmanship of our Ming Dynasty, this musket is indeed a fine product."

Su Hao said something praise, but in Hao Tong's ears, it was not the case. Su Hao's subtext actually said: Based on the current craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty, it is considered a fine product, so if you look at it from other standards, it is not enough for a fine product.

Hao Tong made great contributions in the battle, and Deng Zilong personally rewarded him. Among Deng Zilong's army, this handgun was the most outstanding, and the workmanship of other fire guns was much worse than this handgun. It was this handgun that made Hao Tong feel extremely proud, but did not arouse Su Hao's amazement, which made Hao Tong bear.

"Since Master Su's words, have you seen a better musket than this?" Hao Tong asked unhappily.
Chapter completed!