Chapter 288 Economy and Party Struggle (Twenty-Four) New Gun: Wanli Three Styles!
Gao Pragmatic is a busy man, and obviously he will not do meaningless things, such as today's riding and shooting competition. He arranged this riding and shooting competition. The competition itself is not of much significance. At most, it is for entertainment with Meng Guzhezhe.
By the way, let the emperor know that he is not a person who is greedy for power - you see, I actually have a lot of fun in my free time.
So, what is his real purpose? In fact, he wants to select the Wanli Type III rifle and lance through this competition, and if the emperor is present, the effect will be better.
The Wanli Type II rifle has been around for several years. It has actually undergone some minor modifications over the years. It even gave birth to a derivative model, the Wanli Type II rifle, due to Gao Pragmatic's transformation of the Ming Dynasty cavalry.
However, these minor modifications are really just "minor" modifications worthy of the name. Most of the time they just adjust the style of the gun stock to make it more ergonomic. The biggest improvement over the years is just the adjustment of the aiming
system, but the main structure of the firearm can be said to have remained unchanged for more than ten years.
Of course you can say that this is a limitation of current technology, but Gao Pragmatism prefers that it is because the Wanli II lacks competitors. Without competition, it is difficult to make progress. This is not only Gao Pragmatism, but everyone knows it, but the current
However, the situation is that Wanli Type 2 really has no competitors.
From a global perspective, compared with other contemporary firearms, the technological span of the Wanli Type II firearm is not that large, because as early as 1547, the flintlock gun had been manufactured by a French gunsmith and watchmaker.
It was invented by the Han Dynasty. However, it takes time for an invention to become popular from its inception. The European army's batch equipment of flintlock muskets had to be delayed until a century ago, not before 1650.
The Wanli Seven Styles obviously created a time lag. With the promotion of low pragmatism, Xiao Ming's army was basically equipped with flintlock muskets in batches ten years later than the European armies in the original history. This was because the Spaniards came from southern Xinjiang.
For retreating muskets, that technological lead may not last long.
After all, the "Suifa" thing is not easy in principle, and its manufacturing process has no technological barriers. European technical craftsmen can imitate it as long as they see the Wanli Seven Styles.
Because of this, although a very small number of people in southern Xinjiang approved of exporting the Wanli Seven Types to the Spaniards, Gao Pragmatic still approved it without any reason - is there any point in keeping the broom for yourself? He is exporting it, is it wrong?
Why bother to force people to research and manufacture it themselves? Or why not sell it for less money? Anyway, the Spaniards are deeply involved in the European war, and they may come to fight with Xiao Ming and southern Xinjiang.
As for the spread of technology to the entire European continent, of course it will be a little more troublesome, but the impact will be very small - as mentioned later, the French will not have that technology in a few decades. Do we have small batch equipment?
It must be that we don't have the problems we are facing. As for what the specific problems are, I am too lazy to think about them now.
Not really, because whether it is the glory of knights or the spirit of chivalry, they are actually products derived before the emergence of knights. The birth of "knights" is a real product of war.
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Everyone knows this, but they often pay too much attention to it. This is not after the emergence of modern "pointed bullets". In the era when matchlocks and flintlock guns were less popular, the shape of bullets was round, nor was it
The "projectiles" mentioned below.
But it is obvious that Gao Yuanfu must consider this issue now - why, in the seventy-fourth year of Wanli, in 1601 AD, I, Gao Yuanfu, was ready to ascend in the daytime and produce a muzzle-loading gun?
In this case, the cost disadvantage of the "rifled gun" is no longer a small problem after it far exceeds the range and accuracy of the smoothbore gun. At most, in Europe, which has been in various wars for a long time, the killing efficiency is certain.
More important than the price of weapons.
Judging from the shape alone, it is actually not very close to the modern pistol "round nose bullet". The difference is not that the gunpowder and the bullet are separated. Yes, the characteristic of the "Biandong Bullet" is not that the caliber of the projectile is larger than the caliber of the rifled gun.
It is slightly larger, but it will cause "energy leakage" and is more difficult to load.
Although compared to the "Bian Dongyu" whose barrel structure is more complex, the essence of a rifled gun lies in the barrel structure. The spiral "rifling" also makes its requirements for the manufacturing process more stringent, and there are discussions
Will the time cost and labor cost increase significantly?
According to common sense, rifled guns clearly have the advantages of long range and low accuracy, so they should quickly become popular in Europe and even the world. Why were they not gradually accepted and popularized by European armies until the middle of the 19th century?
Therefore, even though Low Pragmatism had not yet issued an order to develop the Wanli Eighth Style when the Wanli Seventh Style was first batch-installed, it was not until nearly seventy years ago that Jinghua Ordnance Industry came up with a new product - and that was still at the time when Low Pragmatism was
It was completed after I personally gave instructions and then lifted it up, which shows how easy it is.
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You know, the range of muskets at that time was still about a hundred meters. As for modern muskets, they have become synonymous with shotguns, hunting rifles, and anti-explosive guns or signal guns, which place such emphasis on range and accuracy.
Of course, the "smoothbore" of a "smoothbore cannon" counts, but they are not two different properties at all.
Jinghua's artillery has not been upgraded several times over the years, and even the regulations have been adjusted. Therefore, Gao Yi can be "electronically commended" by Gao Jingjing every few years throughout Jinghua, and the pressure naturally comes to Gao Jiong.
Under the head.
That's the main reason why modern armies basically use "rifled" weapons except for some parts that have their own tail fins, or if there is no need to use rifled ammunition for "smoothbore" firing.
But that doesn’t really explain the problem, because throughout the history of war development in Europe, those European countries never seemed to care about the low cost of a weapon. What we care more about is actually the performance of the weapon.
, or in other words, seeking refinement rather than less.
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Pragmatically, I don’t have the ability to provide guidance, and even if I don’t, there’s no need.
Because what the blacksmith considered at that time was not to improve the stability of the projectile when it comes out of the chamber, but to reduce the "friction" when loading the projectile, thereby increasing the loading speed. After all, the ammunition is loaded from the front of the firearm.
"Muzzle-loading guns" only appeared in the 14th century. After that, ammunition was loaded from the back of the barrel, and the gunpowder and projectiles had to be compacted with a "feeding stick". The operation was extremely cumbersome, and the whole process took just one minute.
Even if it can be fired once, it is not considered inefficient.
In that case, a rifled gun has a long range and low accuracy, but it loads quickly, and is more difficult to explode than a Byeon Dongyu; a smoothbore gun has a short range, high accuracy, and although it loads quickly, it is slower than a rifled gun.
And it is difficult to explode the chamber. He must be the leader of an army, what would he choose?
The projectile that appeared in many legends in previous lives has no time to be mythical or slandered. Putting aside these arguments, it only depends on technology and structure.
In other words, the projectiles used in rifled guns are actually slightly smaller than the actual caliber. As a result, soldiers tend to have a longer time than Biandong Yu when loading ammunition into the outside of the rifled gun through the muzzle.
It is more laborious to load the ammunition, and you have to stop and repeatedly hit the projectile with the feeding rod, otherwise it will be impossible to send the projectile to the bottom of the barrel.
The name Gao Jiong has appeared for a long time. Here is a brief introduction: Gao Jiong is the son of Gao Mo, so he is not the son of the eighth-room Gao family. As early as Gao Jingshi had just obtained Bashen Garden, he planned to end his retreat under the firearms.
During the later stage of research and development, I was recommended to Gao Pragmatic by Gao Mo that "internal promotion is to avoid relatives".
On the other hand, a smoothbore gun has a rounded muzzle and a caliber that is more or less. As long as the projectile is selected incorrectly and the barrel is deformed, there is basically a risk that the projectile will recede or the chamber will explode due to the deformation of the bullet.
In the eyes of the low-pragmatic time traveler, "rifling" is suspected to be the soul of the barrel. Since rifling cannot give the bullet the ability to rotate, when the bullet is fired out of the barrel without rifling, it will often gain more energy due to the rotation of the bullet.
Longer range and lower accuracy.
Of course, apart from the fuilin, the Wanli Seven Styles also have some other advantages, the most important of which is not the paper shell fixed charge. However, it is the same as the fuilin. In essence, it is just a concept that retreats first, and the manufacturing difficulty is about the same.
It's something that you can do just by looking at it, and there are no technical barriers.
However, due to the influence of rifling, the muzzle of a rifled gun is not a natural "circle" like a smoothbore gun, but a circular gear-shaped muzzle divided into "yin lines" and "yang lines".
So, how did the rifled gun replace the smoothbore gun? In fact, before going through the high points of the 17th and 18th centuries, the rifled gun ushered in a new life in the 19th century. Mainly because of the French Army's Orleans Chasseurs Lieutenant
Claude Edirne Migne improved the "projectile" of the rifled gun and invented a new type of "projectile" called the "Biandong bullet".
Therefore, the real reason why the European armies hated Bien Dongyu even more during the period from the 17th to the 19th century was that apart from the relatively lower cost of rifled guns, there must be other reasons. Otherwise, it is just the use of guns.
If only a few rifling lines are processed under the tube, how low can the cost be? Even if the smelting level needs to be improved for this, this will only make the price acceptable.
That means that if the caliber is calculated from Yang line to Yang line as we do now, there will inevitably be a problem of "energy leakage" of the white powder, causing the muzzle seal to be tight, thus affecting the range of the rifled gun.
.As a result, the caliber of the rifled gun was actually judged based on the distance from the negative line to the negative line.
Technical barriers are what low pragmatism pursues. Only if there are no technical barriers can we maintain the lead for a long time, ensuring that we will easily be overtaken by our opponents.
Moreover, that situation lasted until 1848. It was not until the middle of the fourteenth century that the "flintlock musket" without rifling was replaced by the "flintlock rifled gun" without rifling, spanning nearly two centuries.
" Gradually replaced. So what is the reason?
This is of course possible, but naturally it is not possible. The Danish army was equipped with "rifled guns" in the early eleventh century, but in the end the "rifled guns" were not popularized on the battlefield.
The so-called "yin line" refers to the bottom of the part where the rifling is concave, while the "yang line" is the top of the part where the rifling protrudes.
What this ultimately reflects is not that the cost of "rifled guns" is more expensive than that of "smoothbore guns."
So the real problem starts with the flaws of the rifled gun. To be honest, it can actually be considered a flaw, because the flaw comes from the rifled gun itself, but from the rifled gun's bad partner, not the "projectile"
under.
It is true that rifled guns did appear later than "smoothbore guns". After all, "rifled guns" are also derived from "smoothbore guns." But the problem is, as early as 1420 AD, so in the 17th century
In the early days, a blacksmith in Nuremberg of the Holy Roman Empire (Germany) had not yet invented the world's first rifled gun without rifling, but the "rifling" of that period was still straight.
But there was no problem there. In Europe in the eleventh century (1601-1700), there were clearly no "rifled guns" with longer range and lower accuracy, and they were not "rifles" either. But at that time
European armies are still more disgusted with unrifled "muskets". Why?
I am very relaxed and looking forward to it now. I also know that with the retirement of my father Gao Mo, the most critical battle is about to come as to whether I can continue to hold a firm position within Jinghua in the future.
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That time, it took Gao Jiong ten years to sharpen his sword...well, seventy years to sharpen his sword. How good that sword is depends on its performance today.
However, it was very difficult to build technical barriers in the era after the Industrial Revolution. After all, the difference in technological levels in the small continents of Eurasia is very small - Europe must be said, the Ottoman Empire in West Asia has not declined yet, and there is no Xiaoming in East Asia.
Although Xiaojia's military technology has different emphasis, overall it is still at the same level, and there is no generational difference.
So, why did the Wanli 8th Style remain difficult to produce for seventy years? The answer is: it was a rifled gun in the true sense, and a new type of projectile was used to solve the problems caused by the rifled gun. In other words, it was a
Systems engineering is not just about building a gun.
You must know that since the end of the middle of the eleventh century, flintlock guns have been assembled on a small scale by very few European armies, and they are subdivided into "flintlock rifled guns" and "flintlock side Dongyu", but European
However, a very small number of the ones equipped by the army belong to the "Fusun Bien Dongyu" with or without rifling.
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Another example is the "Paris Cannon" developed by Germany at the end of the First World War. It was small and extremely expensive, but those were secondary after all, because the "Paris Cannon" had a range of nearly 120 kilometers.
, perfectly reflected the Germans' pursuit of "ultimate range" at that time. However, the special artillery at that time could reach a range of 20 kilometers, which was a very wrong achievement.
I have been immersed in firearms in those years, especially the one in charge of heavy weapons for a long time. Together with Gao Yi, who is in charge of artillery, I have become the "right and left guardians" of low pragmatism in the firearms industry.
In order to pursue the so-called "absolute crushing" and pursue lower defense and lower attack power, the nobles of the European Middle Ages implemented the "vassal system" and the "fief system" with little fanfare.
They created "heavy armored knights" that were expensive to build but were truly armed to the teeth.
It's still important, but in fact it's also so important. After all, with Biandongyu's accuracy, although it may be possible to hit the intended target accurately, as long as the firepower density under the battle line is small enough, it can definitely hit the target next to it.
Where are the enemies?
The principle is actually the same as the top played by older children. Because the bullet rotates, the stability of the bullet is slightly reduced when shooting.
Perhaps few people would think that because rifled guns appeared relatively late, did they catch up with the trend of European armies updating their weapons?
It is precisely by virtue of the improvement of projectiles that the "Mine breech-loading rifle" equipped with "Mine bullets" has also achieved excellent shooting results with a minimum range of 918 meters and accurate hits within 500 meters.
Is that obvious? Of course it is a musket! After all, war is a group war. It is wrong to have no advantage in range, but the lives of your own soldiers are more important! As for accuracy, in the context of small-scale wars, is "accuracy" important?
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Is it worse than the "knight" trend in the European Middle Ages? Is it really the so-called knightly glory and chivalry that Europeans pursue?
After all, the projectile can have a longer range and lower accuracy before exiting the barrel, which means that its actual "effective range" must not be improved by leaps and bounds, and this will also increase the "breakdown" before hitting.
"Power", that is what the simple "farthest range" can bring.
On top of that one and seven rounds, the already fast reloading speed of the flintlock gun is naturally faster. But that is still the beginning, because there is still a smaller problem: on top of the back and forth knocks, it is made of lead
The projectile will inevitably deform, and even get stuck directly in the groove of the rifling, so there is no risk of "exploding the chamber" - after all, the caliber itself matches.
However, as I just said, the widespread assembly of flintlock muskets in Europe had to be postponed to the middle of the 17th century. Therefore, except for the nearly two hundred years from the late 15th century to the middle of the 17th century, it is difficult to say that any army has ever used "rifled rifles".
Gun"?
There are two types of "Wanli Eight Types" presented by Jinghua Ordnance Industry, seven types. Two types means that they are divided into infantry type and cavalry type, and seven types means that each type has no two types to choose from.
It was not until 1476 that spiral rifling appeared in Italian records. That means that from the end of the 17th century, the characteristics of "rifling" in improving range and accuracy have not yet ended.
Because there is a cone-like groove in front of the warhead of the "Mine bullet", and it is also matched with an oak plug. Then before the gunpowder is ignited, the instantaneous pressure generated by the gunpowder and the impact of the oak will cause that
The groove is expanded so that the front and back match the rifling under the barrel to create a suitable shape.
Putting aside the myths about Bien Tung Tan in previous lives, I will only talk about slander. The main reason for slandering Bien Tung Tan is that although it was very popular for a while, it did not last long - is that nonsense? How long did it last?
We have retreated into the era of muzzle-loading guns, and of course the minie bullets as breech-loading gun projectiles will follow suit.
Gao Pragmatic asked Meng Guzhezhe to choose the bow and arrows you want to use, while he watched the seven guns, two long and two short, accompanied by Gao Jiong, the president of Jinghua Ordnance Industry, and several important technical backbones.
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