Daming pirates

Although muskets have many shortcomings due to current technical reasons, such as being greatly affected by weather, low fire rate, limited accuracy at a distance, slow reloading speed, and slow firing interval, compared with weapons such as bows and arrows, they have training capabilities.

The advantage of short time.

To cultivate a qualified archer, not to mention a sharp archer, it takes at least two years. The nomadic people have lived on horseback since childhood, leading a life of nomadic herding and hunting. They are born with this ability.

Everyone is a qualified cavalry and archer, but the people of the Ming Dynasty are basically farmers or fishermen. They usually have no contact with bows and arrows at all. It is impossible to train them to become qualified archers in a short time, even if they are trained.

, compared with others, it is also much worse.

But muskets are different. As long as the quality of the muskets is up to standard, the time to train musketeers is much shorter than the time to train archers. As long as you tell them how to load and aim, and then train them, it can take up to a month or a minimum of a few days.

, even a person who has never touched a musket can learn how to use it in one day.

As long as the production speed of muskets can keep up, a large number of qualified musketeers can be obtained very quickly.

What's more, although the production cost of muskets is not low, the production cost of weapons such as crossbows is also not low. A good bow requires exquisite materials, such as excellent wood, horns, tendons, glue, silk, paint, etc.

The production requires a lot of technical skills from the maker, and the production process is even more complicated. It takes about two years at the longest to make a good bow.

Archers also need to have quite strong arm strength to shoot a hard bow. If the arm strength is not good, they can only use soft bows and light arrows. Moreover, even archers with strong arm strength have limited physical strength. After shooting the bow several times in a row, they will gradually

When your physical strength decreases, you must rest for a period of time to recover your physical strength before you can continue shooting arrows. In terms of sustained vitality, it is not much better than a musket.

Musketeers, on the other hand, do not need such high skills and physical strength. As long as they can hold the musket and learn to aim and load, they can fire. As long as the musket does not overheat, they can continue to fire.

Therefore, it is only a matter of time before firearms replace cold weapons, and in the future he will build a purely firearms-based army so that it can dominate the world. Without a large-scale firearms production factory, it will not be able to meet his needs.

So he nodded and continued: "It's best. The most critical thing about a musket is the making of the barrel, which is related to the output of the musket! Trying to train as many craftsmen as possible to make barrels is the key to your gun production. You can grasp this point.

What a place!

After you get to Tamsui, you have to pay close attention to this matter. The more muskets the better, as many as you need! You will not be left idle!

After the gods are stabilized over there, I still have something good for you to try out. Once it can be made, it will be as easy as picking up something from a bag within two hundred steps!"

Zhang Tiejiang was born to be an iron maniac, and what he loved most in his life was tinkering with new gadgets. In the past two or three years, he followed Yu Xiaotian and first tinkered with the matchlock gun, and then tinkered with the current flintlock gun.

Guns, and last year they developed flintlock muskets.

In the past two years, he has not been idle. In addition to tinkering with these new muskets, he also tinkered with some tools and simple machinery specifically used to make muskets according to Yu Xiaotian's ideas from time to time.

Nowadays, in gunsmithing, several simple machines have been built specifically for making muskets, replacing some of the processes that used to be entirely manual by craftsmen, such as manual drills for drilling bores, twist drills for drilling holes, and special tapping tools.

wire machines, as well as human-powered stamping machines that specialize in producing some small parts.

The trial production of these simple machines was successful. After they were put into use, Zhang Tiejiang himself modified them to make them more usable. Even though Zhang Tiejiang didn't know a few Chinese characters, this guy was a natural mechanical control, and he had many things in his hands.

Once God tells him, he can understand it, and it can be made by hand, and it can be improved according to his understanding.

We have to admit that some people are geniuses in this area, and Zhang Tiejiang is definitely a genius in this area, so much so that even Yu Xiaotian has to admire the things he sometimes comes up with.

But during this period of time, Yu Xiaotian had no time to take care of things here. Naturally, there was nothing new to teach Blacksmith Zhang. As a result, Blacksmith Zhang felt a little bored during this period, repeating the same thing day after day.

This kind of work is obviously not something he likes very much.

Now when he heard that Yu Xiaotian said that he had to tell him about a new gadget, and that Yu Xiaotian also said that it could ensure that taking someone's life within two hundred steps was as easy as picking something out of a bag, his appetite was instantly whetted.

You must know that the best flintlock guns they have built now, even the most accurate ones, can only guarantee a distance of about fifty to seventy steps, and can hit human-sized targets relatively accurately. Most muskets exceed fifty steps.

steps, accuracy cannot be guaranteed.

And Yu Xiaotian said that he wanted to teach him a new kind of guy that could shoot accurately within 200 steps. This time, Zhang Blacksmith became excited again, so he nodded in agreement, as excited as if he was about to get one.

Like a child with a new toy, he grins and laughs happily.

Yu Xiaotian likes this Blacksmith Zhang very much, but now he feels that this Blacksmith Zhang is not suitable to be the manager of this gunsmith. He is more suitable to research some new weapons. Otherwise, it would be a waste of his talents.

Thinking of this, he secretly decided that after the Tamsui Village gun production was put into production, he would remove Zhang Tiejiang from the position of manager, replace it with someone who is good at doing this kind of thing, and let Zhang Tiejiang take charge of tinkering with some things in the future.

For new gadgets, we should set up a research and development center and let Blacksmith Zhang work hard on it.

And when he walked to the artillery factory, the production here was still in full swing. There were not as many things that needed to be moved here as there were not as many things as there were on the gun factory.

They mainly want to transfer some craftsmen to the chicken coop and fresh water. The iron furnaces used for melting and making iron cannot be transported away. They can only build new ones there, and they have already been built there.

For the furnace and cannon production, we only need to transport a few sets of newly cast cannon molds, plus some ready-made crucibles and some lifting tools.

Therefore, the production of cannons here has not been affected too much. All the iron melting furnaces are still feeding materials, continuously melting various iron materials and then pouring them into molds.

The current artillery factory has five casting stations, which can cast five sets of gun molds at the same time. New cannons are cast every day, which can basically be used by the Sea Wolf.

Moreover, Seawolf's artillery production is not simply producing one or two types of artillery. Nowadays, their products are also quite rich.

In addition to the Western-style six-pounder cannon and the 12-pounder long and short cannon, they have now also developed two sets of gun molds for light Franco cannons, specifically casting light Franco cannons to equip the navy and combat barracks.

After all, although the Fran cannon has a short range and low power due to sealing reasons, this weapon has its natural advantages after all, that is, it has a fast rate of fire and is easy to load. It is a very good medium and short-range suppression weapon on the battlefield.

Weapons can effectively make up for the shortcomings of heavy artillery's slow rate of fire.

Therefore, he did not completely abandon this Fran cannon, but used it as a light secondary gun to equip ships. It was specially used to kill living targets on the deck of enemy ships before boarding battles. The effect was quite good.

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Moreover, the war barracks have repeatedly requested to be equipped with some light Franco cannons so that they can have stronger combat capabilities. Therefore, in order to meet these needs, Yu Xiaotian asked the artillery manufacturer to imitate the two calibers of light Franco cannons.

gun.

In addition to these, Paozuo is currently producing a lightweight Tiger Crouching Cannon. There is no fundamental difference in shape between this Tiger Crouching Cannon and the Tiger Crouching Cannon invented by Qi Jiguang. It is just because Seawolf uses high-quality materials and uses more high-quality materials.

The pig iron produced in Fujian and Guangdong, coupled with the use of iron mold casting, rarely produces bubbles in the cannon wall, so the quality is much better than the previous iron cannons cast in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the tiger crouching cannon now cast by Sea Wolf has a slightly thinner wall than the previous tiger crouching cannon, and its length has increased by about half a foot. The body of the cannon also imitates Western-style cannons, gradually thickening from front to back, eliminating the need for

Several lines originally used to strengthen the gun body

The iron hoop, while ensuring the quality, increased the charge of this tiger squatting cannon, and its range and power far exceeded the tiger squatting cannon used by the Ming Dynasty before, but the weight did not increase much, even with the addition of

The gun mount only weighs about forty pounds.

With the physical strength of the Sea Wolf soldiers, only two people are needed to carry it, and if necessary, even one person can carry it and run. There are five people in a gun crew, and three people are dedicated to carrying ammunition, which is enough to ensure that it can be used in one battle.

Moreover, this kind of squatting tiger cannon is relatively small. Even if it is equipped on a merchant ship, it is not eye-catching. Although it is not very powerful, it is still quite a deterrent against small groups of pirates at sea. Therefore, this kind of squatting tiger cannon is not only equipped with

In addition to being used for war camps, it is also equipped with some equipment for fleets, mainly for merchant fleets. It does not cost much to install four or five doors on each ship, and it also allows merchant ships to gain considerable self-protection capabilities.

Therefore, the current scale of artillery production is already quite large, and the products are quite rich. However, considering that the consumables of heavy artillery are too large, so far, only one eighteen-pound cannon and one twenty-four-pound cannon have been cast for heavy artillery over twelve pounds.

The production of pounder artillery was stopped and all efforts were concentrated on casting these artillery pieces that were urgently needed.

Nowadays, the production of artillery is still continuing. The production here will not be reduced until the artillery production in Jilongzhai and Tamsui City is put into operation. However, when the artillery production there starts to be put into operation, Yu Xiaotian is ready to put it into operation.

The production of artillery here was gradually reduced, and eventually only two casting stations were retained, and they were specialized in the production of monkey version artillery for delivery, making it a revenue-generating artillery for Sea Wolf.

Nowadays, Blacksmith Lei is no longer the manager of this artillery factory, because this guy can't change his habit of eating shit. As soon as his life became comfortable, he started to eat, drink and gamble again, so Yu Xiaotian masturbated this guy.

After that, an apprentice of Blacksmith Zhang came to take over the place.

This Blacksmith Zhang's apprentice works much more conscientiously than Blacksmith Lei. After he took over the affairs of Paozuo, the production of Paozuo has improved a lot compared to when Blacksmith Lei was in charge, no matter the output.

In terms of quality, it has surpassed the past. Nowadays, Blacksmith Lei can only work on a casting platform in the artillery operation with a disgraced face. He no longer has the freedom he had some time ago.

Yu Xiaotian looked at the situation at Paozuo and chatted with the steward here. He was very satisfied when he learned that the affairs at Paozuo had not been greatly affected and praised the craftsmen here.

Then, he looked at the carpentry workshop here that specializes in making gun mounts for artillery, and then walked towards the gunpowder workshop.