A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

When he arrived at the warehouse, Kunibei pointed out that there were six cylinders on the left and ten cylinders on the right (it seems that the cylinder means two, but the writer is not sure). Let Xiao Pingtai see for himself.

There are not many iron cannons in the warehouse, and it is not like the modern Shenju or Baiwenli, where a large and exquisite wooden box is filled with straw and cloth is used as a cushion, and then two iron cannons are stuffed in it, and it looks amazing when taken out. It makes Japan’s famous names look like country bumpkins, and they still have the delusion that an iron cannon can deceive a samurai’s identity. If the iron cannons were so expensive, there would be no ordinary people in Kunitomo Village but samurai daimyo.

The iron cannon is placed on the wooden shelf without any rain or dust cover, so you can take it out and look at it immediately. Xiaopingtai took a six-barrel and looked at it. It was indeed similar to the European matchlock gun in his impression. Sure enough, it is a direct imitation of the Portuguese matchlock gun, and the caliber is not bad.

What do you say about this thing? The Japanese sometimes do it to the extreme. They increase the caliber of the iron cannon and make it into a hundred barrels, which is a large hugging barrel. This thing is used by the Shimadzu iron cannon team in a certain game. It is really not ordinary people. Can play and move.

In fact, the most widely used ones on the battlefield are the six-cylinder and ten-cylinder cylinders. Xiao Pingtai only needed to buy two samples. So they bought one each, and Kunibei didn't think it was missing. He asked an apprentice to put a bag on Xiaoheita and put it in it.

And don’t think about taking this thing casually. Xiaopingta is only 1.4 meters tall, and this Kunyou tube is only 1.4 meters. When you put it up, you don’t know who is taller and who is shorter. You can only put it in a cloth bag and use it. The frame is carried on the back.

It stands to reason that in Europe, with sixpence a week's salary, one can find someone to serve as a musketeer. It seems that any individual would be enough. But this thing doesn't work in Japan. At present, the average Japanese farmer is not considered short if he is 1.3 meters, but he is tall if he is 1.4 meters. The iron cannon may be taller than the ashigaru, and the soldiers may not even be able to operate it smoothly. In the end, tall and fit soldiers must be selected to serve as the iron cannon ashigaru.

As for the price of the iron cannon, it is very affordable. It only costs twelve taels of gold, so it is not too expensive. (At the same time, the British brown bass cost just over one pound, and the Japanese one was a little more expensive). Xiao Pingtai also paid for a set of match ropes, lead bullets, and medicine pots for the iron cannon. As for the gunpowder, he only bought a few rounds. He just had to fire a few shots to see the effect. However, for a brand as big as Guoyu, there will be no such thing as the first shot being fired.

Speaking of this little Heita reminds me of the mentally retarded plot in some novels. The mentally retarded and suffocating protagonist can make 200 iron cannons a month with some manpower, not to mention the scale of the monthly production of 200 cannons. The mentally retarded male protagonist has been fighting for years, and the second year he dared to write that he had a 5,000-person iron artillery team.

Mathematics is good. Two hundred per month, twenty-four months in two years, will have 4,800 iron cannons. Then they can run rampant in Japan and wipe out all the heroes. Xiaoping Tai had nothing to say about this except hehehehe.

To put it bluntly, after two years of bad fighting, the iron artillery team can still exceed a thousand, and Xiao Pingtai will twist off his head and give you shit. After you finished defecating, Xiao Pingtai went up to defecate himself. He is too mentally retarded. It is better to use this head to look at garbage than to use it as a chamber pot to defecate.

An iron cannon is called a blunderbuss in China. Marshal Qi said that the Northern Army did not like to use blunderbuss. In addition to the complicated operation, the chamber explosion rate was extremely high. (One more thing, I am not a Japanese gun. In addition to saying that Chinese cannons are terrible, Marshal Qi specifically mentioned that Japanese iron cannons are of excellent quality and can shoot far and accurately. If anyone wants to say that Marshal Qi is both Ribuki, I have nothing to say) The most exaggerated ten bird cannons exploded ten times. Of course, this situation is very extreme. It can be said that the worst thing is for a bird gun to be useless in the first shot.

Then, due to poor air tightness, poor materials, etc., some iron cannon barrels were deformed and scrapped after firing dozens of rounds. Better ones can fire a few hundred rounds and then be scrapped, but they can also cope with frequent wars for a period of time.

The most troublesome thing about the iron cannon is the barrel. When made by hand, a qualified barrel takes a month or even a month and a half to complete. The other wooden supports, fire doors, medicine pools, and bolts are actually easy to make. .

For example, if you use an iron cannon to defend the city, you can only fire about 20 rounds a day, not counting you. With Japan’s level of bad fighting, the city was destroyed after ten days of fighting. A total of 200 rounds were fired. Congratulations. Your iron cannon is basically useless. If the gun barrel fires continuously, the gun barrel itself will be unable to withstand it. If you fire again, you will not be attacking the enemy, but you will die with yourself. In short, after firing a few hundred rounds, twelve taels of gold will be considered a write-off.

Those mentally retarded writers who built a musket and thought they could use it for a lifetime felt very sad for their parents. Of course, forget about the cool articles you wrote. If the pictures are cool, no matter how nao can you come up with them, anyway, there are plenty of beeps to blame for beeps.

Moreover, the iron cannon cannot be used in rainy days, foggy days with high humidity, strong winds in autumn and winter, and countless other unsuitable occasions. During the Battle of Saarhu, there was heavy fog. If the Ming army wanted to light the cannon, they had to keep a close eye on the match rope to ensure it burned. As a result, the bits and pieces of light in the fog were particularly conspicuous. The Qing army dozens of meters away were all using strong bows and did not need to be fired at all. They aimed at the Ming army's sparks in the mist and shot accurately, while the Ming army's blunderbuss could only shoot blindly because they could not see the people at all.

Speaking of the shortcomings of this musket, I couldn't finish it in three days and three nights. But this does not prevent it from becoming a new weapon to replace cold weapons. And it is increasingly becoming a mainstream weapon on the battlefield, whether in the East or the West.

This is also the reason why Guoyu Village, which now produces thousands of iron cannons every year, has no worries about sales. The iron cannons have been consumed a lot due to the continuous battles outside, so they are not worried about not being able to sell them. Anyone with a sharp eye can discover the effectiveness of iron cannons, and the price is not prohibitively expensive.

Since you can spend money to consume the enemy's life and increase your own strength and chance of winning, the daimyo who regard samurai as their treasures will not be reluctant to part with this small amount of money.

After successfully buying the iron cannon at Kunitomo Village, Koheita only stayed for one night before setting off again.

The main reason is that there is no one in particular that I am looking for in Omi. Although I finally came to Omi country, Kamao Fuhide (Ujigo) should not have been created by his father Kamao Kenhide, and Toudo Takatora may still be a child or an unknown liquid. . Ishida Mitsunari should also be a liquid.

As for the Miyazawa Heihachi, the god of war in Zichuan, Tsune Shumasakaya, a master of internal affairs, even dare not think about it. Who knows where they are? Anyway, Xiaoping Tai doesn’t know.

Then there is no one to find.

The only way to go to Sakai is via Kyoto.

There’s a lot of grumbling in this chapter, I’m sorry!