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In fact, if we talk about the effective range of the Miné rifle alone, the effective range of this gun should be within 400 to 500 meters. It can maintain sufficient power and accuracy, but it allows the shooter to easily shoot at this distance.

It is not easy to hit a single individual target. Even if Liu Wang's marksmanship is very good, it will be very difficult to hit a target at such a long distance without special training.

After all, even if Liu Wang and the others trained regularly in the past, the farthest shooting target was only within a hundred steps. They never thought of aiming at a target three hundred meters away. Therefore, failure to hit a target three hundred meters away was considered inappropriate.

Normal things.

This situation made everyone a little disappointed, but even if they can't hit the target three hundred steps away, this new flintlock gun is still very powerful for them, and it can instantly increase their shooting distance.

This was enough to give them an advantage on the battlefield.

However, Yu Xiaotian still refused to let Liu Wang stop and said to everyone: "Don't rush to conclusions yet. Just because Liu Wang can't hit a target three hundred steps away doesn't mean that this kind of gun can't work!"

I can guarantee with my head that the effective range of this gun is much farther than you think! It is said to be three hundred steps, but even if it is four hundred steps, as long as you are hit by it, you will still die!

If my estimate is correct, the range of this kind of musket should be about 500 steps. What I am talking about is that it can hit the target with relative certainty!

Even at a distance of 600 steps, it is estimated that the projectiles fired by this kind of gun can kill people as long as they hit the vital part of the person!

Get Liu Wang a table and chairs, and prepare a sandbag! Let’s try!”

Some people don't quite believe Yu Xiaotian's words. He can hit someone four hundred steps away. What happened to this musket? You must know that the six-pound cannon and twelve-pound cannon they are using now, not counting the twelve-pound long cannon, are not worth mentioning at sea.

The effective range of the cannon is also stipulated to be within four hundred steps. When on land, it can only hit the shells to a distance of two miles. This is already quite terrifying. Even the Hongyi cannon used by the Ming army on land may not be able to hit it.

It can hit this far.

And when Yu Xiaotian said that this kind of musket could kill people at a distance of 600 steps, they really didn't believe it.

While someone was looking for tables and chairs and preparing sandbags, in order to prove his words, Yu Xiaotian simply found a pile of wooden boards, ran five hundred steps away, arranged the wooden boards densely, and erected them.

It has become a wooden wall. This target is big enough. It is about a mile away from five hundred steps. Although there is no guarantee that it can accurately hit a target the size of a human body, it should still be possible to hit this wooden wall.

No problem.

After a while, everything was ready. Someone brought a rough wooden table and a chair, and a small sandbag was also placed on the table. Yu Xiaotian asked Liu Wang to load it again, then sat on the chair and placed the gun on it.

On the sandbag on the table, perform a supported aiming shot.

Because of the structural problems of muskets in this era, muskets had to be loaded while standing, so musketeers mostly used a standing position to shoot, or at most a semi-crouching shooting method. Furthermore, due to the limited range accuracy of muskets, they had to rely on volleys of muskets to ensure

The lethality of muskets is to kill enemy personnel with a dense rain of bullets, so shooting with support is not taken seriously.

However, the stability of relying on shooting is unmatched by other shooting methods. Because Liu Wang used a standing shooting method just now, it is difficult to effectively aim at the target at a long distance, so if he wants to shoot accurately from three hundred meters away, even if

Even using a sniper rifle from later generations requires a long period of training, not to mention using a standing unsupported shooting method.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian asked Liu Wang to switch to a seated shooting position, which could effectively improve the shooting accuracy. If he aimed carefully, he should still be able to hit a static target 300 meters away.

Liu Wang had calmed down by this time, and worked hard to adjust his condition. Following Yu Xiaotian's instructions, he placed the gun on the sandbag and began to aim carefully again.

With a crisp gunshot, everyone took out their monocular binoculars and began to observe the human-shaped target three hundred meters away.

Soon a soldier reporting the target appeared at the target in the distance. After observing the target, he waved a small green flag, and everyone was immediately amazed.

The small green flag means that the shooter hit the target, which means that Liu Wang's shot still hit the target 300 meters away. Everyone was even more surprised.

The soldier who reported the target ran back panting and carried the target back. Everyone immediately gathered around and began to inspect the target that was delivered.

On this human-shaped target, there was a clear bullet hole that was not too big. The minie bullet hit the target just below the left shoulder, some distance from the ten-ring white dot in the center.

But although he failed to hit the tenth ring, everyone was very satisfied with being able to hit the target three hundred meters away. This shows that Liu Wang is indeed quite talented. In a short period of time,

, and basically mastered the performance of this new gun. After switching to supported shooting, the accuracy immediately improved a lot.

After everyone marveled, they discovered that after hitting the wooden target three hundred meters away, the bullet still effectively penetrated the wooden target. According to the target person, after the target was penetrated,

Although the bullet failed to penetrate the second wooden target, it was still embedded deeply into the wooden board and almost penetrated the second wooden target.

Everyone once again exclaimed. Three hundred steps away, this new gun is actually so powerful. It can still effectively penetrate ordinary iron armor at this distance, not to mention leather armor.

The ability to preserve distance was still quite impressive, and now they began to believe Yu Xiaotian's words.

Compared with the old-fashioned flintlock gun, the power, accuracy and range of this new gun are not doubled or tripled. After adding these engraved lines in the barrel, this gun

It can be said that the performance of the gun is significantly improved compared to the performance of the musket.

Meng Fei once again exclaimed: "Oh my God! What is this! Why is it so powerful! I never dared to think that a musket could be so sharp. If the army had this thing, how could it be so powerful in the future?

There is no way to fight! If you can't see anyone, you will be beaten to death!

Fortunately, this thing is ours. I never want to run into such a powerful guy in front of the battle in my life. Now that we have this guy, who should we be afraid of? As long as he has as many as he can, just let them go.

This thing is afraid of them! It can cut them down piece by piece from a long distance!

By the way, aren’t the Jiannu powerful? Aren’t they said to be invincible in cavalry and shooting? They are still hopeless against ours!..."

Others also nodded in agreement. At this moment, everyone had expressions of shock and excitement on their faces. They all held these three new guns and couldn't put them down.

Yu Xiaotian also personally took a new gun and started loading it. Then Meng Fei used one, and Liu Tong also took the one he just used from Liu Wang. All three raised their guns and pointed at Five Hundred Steps.

They fired one round on the wooden wall outside, then each loaded the gun again, and aimed at the target a hundred steps away and fired another round.

After a few shots were fired, the target reporter reported that all three of them had hit the 100-meter human-shaped target, all of which penetrated three layers of wood. However, only one bullet hit eight rings, and the other two

One shot hit the lower abdomen of the human-shaped target, and the other shot hit the shoulder of the human-shaped target.

Although their shooting accuracy is not as good as Liu Wang's, after all, they are all people who have played with guns for a long time, and their accuracy is not bad. In the past, if they were allowed to use old-fashioned smoothbore flintlock guns to shoot at a target a hundred steps away, the three of them would be

No one dared to say that they could hit the target, but today they all hit the target easily with this new gun.

Everyone was very happy, put down their guns and walked towards the wooden wall five hundred paces away.

After they walked in front of the wooden wall, they began to look for bullet holes in the wooden wall. After some inspection, they only found two bullet holes in the wooden board. The other one was shot by someone who didn't know who it was. Now the son was shot.

Don't know where it flew to.

Yu Xiaotian felt that one of the two bullet holes that hit the target was his. After careful observation, he felt that the effective range of this newly-made Minie rifle could only reach so far.

At this distance, the Mini bomb still has a certain amount of stored energy and can kill and injure people, but the penetration has been greatly reduced. Neither of the two warheads effectively penetrated the wood, but was embedded deeper into the wood.

Such power can only be slightly lethal to unprotected targets.

If the opponent is wearing iron armor, then it is estimated that the iron armor cannot be penetrated at this distance, but the leather armor can still be barely penetrated, but after penetrating the leather armor, the damage to the person has been reduced to a low level.

, as for unprotected living targets, after being hit by a bullet, unless it is a vital part, it can only be injured.

But if you want to hit a single human-sized target at this distance, the requirements for the shooter are quite high. Even the modern rifles of later generations will be difficult to effectively hit the target at this distance. The shooter needs to go through a long period of training to be able to do so.

To improve the hit rate, you may even need to add a scope to assist aiming to ensure accuracy.

Nowadays, this new type of flintlock rifled rifle still uses black powder, and the accuracy of the projectiles is definitely not as good as that of later bullets. At this distance, it is basically not considered to accurately shoot a target the size of a human body.

However, if you use supported shooting, there is still a high probability that an excellent shooter can effectively hit a target of about 300 meters. If your character is really good, you may even be able to hit a live target of about 400 meters.

At this point, the first test firing of the new guns was almost over, but everyone was still unfinished and still took turns to test fire the three new guns.