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"Is it okay for it to be so long?"

"No problem, this makes me feel a lot more comfortable." Wei Congyi responded helplessly, waving a gun-like object on his horse.

"Okay, the best length of the riding gun is three feet to three feet four inches, and it must not exceed three feet five!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but write and draw.

Then he hesitated and wrote down the reasons: "If it is too long, it will be difficult to carry, reload, and clean the gun chamber."

"Do you have anything else to add?"

"That...it's best to imitate the ropes tied to the spears, and equip the riding guns with gun belts for easy carrying." Wei Congyi suggested while playing with the "full scale model" made by the blacksmith and carpenter in his hand.

In this era, the cavalry used long spears. Most of them liked to tie a rope on the second half of the gun barrel, just like what Zhang Shun saw in the picture of Ayu Xi holding a spear against the bandits in his previous life, so as to facilitate the carrying of the long spear.

The blunderbuss cavalry envisioned by Wei Congyi actually did not only use blunderbuss as weapons, but were also equipped with bows, arrows, and spears.

If the gun is not used, the issue of carrying it should be considered.

"Okay, that's a good idea!" Zhang Shun nodded, lowered his head and added, "According to the trial user's suggestion, add a gun belt to make it easier to carry the gun while riding."

"By the way, do you have any thoughts on the weight of your riding gun?"

"The one weighing five or six kilograms is the cheapest. If not, the lighter the better!" Wei Congyi quickly suggested.

"Try your best, but you can't expect it to be as powerful as a three-coin gun." Zhang Shun thought for a moment and shook his head. "The Lumi gun still weighs seven or eight kilograms, and the new riding gun is not expected to be too light!"

After thinking for a while, Zhang Shun couldn't help but turned to the blacksmith and said, "Let's do this. First, you can make me a one-tael blunderbuss tube without drilling the bore. It's all for testing purposes."

"One or two blunderbuss?" The blacksmith was startled when he heard this, and couldn't help but asked, "How do you make such a blunderbuss?"

"In the past, they used to be three-dollar blunderbuss. According to my wishes, it is enough to make a four- to five-dollar gun."

"If it's big, fat and useless..."

"Just one or two!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but frowned and said, "Two feet is the measure!"

"Okay!" Seeing that this guy was not willing to listen to advice, the blacksmith couldn't help but frowned, selected a red-hot iron block, and started banging it.

The waiting time was boring, but Zhang Shun did not make Chen Changzhen and Wei Congyi too bored.

Zhang Shun took the opportunity to ask: "Aside from blunderbuss, how do I choose between bows, arrows and spears?"

"I'm quite proficient in bows and arrows!" Chen Changzhen couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "Since there are fire blunderbuss that can break armor, then I can be more relaxed about bows and arrows."

"As the saying goes: soft bows and long arrows, I think you can just choose a soft bow and equip it with some plum needle arrows to use against chainmail."

The so-called "plum needle arrows" are a general term for a type of slender arrowheads that can penetrate into gaps in chain armor, posing a certain threat to nomadic tribes who mainly use this type of armor.

"Yes, you should be equipped with a soft bow!" Wei Congyi also nodded and said, "If the opponent has no armor, you can use a flurry of arrows to kill people!"

Zhang Shun also knew something about the so-called "chain of arrows".

Chen Changzhen's famous stunt "Phoenix Seizes the Nest" is a typical chain of arrows.

If you distinguish carefully, his "Phoenix Seizing the Nest" actually has three arrows and nine arrows.

The three-arrow shooting method is to catch three arrows at once with the back hand, hold them with your fingers, and shoot them out at high speed.

The law of nine-arrow shooting is to use the archer to catch the nine arrows, hold them together with the bow, and then take them with the back hand and shoot them with lightning speed.

If he encounters an opponent with poor protection on the battlefield, he will turn into a ruthless "harvester" and take the lives of eight or nine people in an instant, which is terrifying.

"Okay, the bows and arrows will be based on the commonly used war bows, slightly downgraded, and equipped according to the law!" Zhang Shun nodded.

In terms of riding and shooting, both of them are professionals. Zhang Shun is a person who can't take off the reins yet, so there is no need to give any advice.

"As for the spear, we have agreed to use a Xiaoqi spear that is one foot, three feet and seven inches long!" Chen Changzhen and Wei Congyi said in unison.

"This heroic cavalry spear was made in the early days of the country. Later generations often cut the barrel of the spear short because they were not good at it."

"For example, the line gun commonly used by cavalry today is no more than nine feet long, one inch thick in the handle, and no more than three kilograms in weight. In a battle with a waist knife, the outcome will only be between 50 and 50, so it is definitely not advisable."

"Another example is the hook-and-scythe spear commonly used by the bandits, which is only nine feet long and is not legal."

"Those who are not skilled in martial arts and have difficulty using spears are of no use. If King Shun wants to build a knight, he should choose carefully."

"Okay, you two will be good at it soon, I'll leave this matter to you," Zhang Shun thought for a while, and seeing that he couldn't come up with any good suggestions, he just let them go.

"Your Highness King Qin, the fire blunderbuss has been made, but the bore has not been drilled, so I'm afraid it won't be useful." After a while, the blacksmith held a blunderbuss horizontally and cautiously offered it to him.

Zhang Shun took it over and took a look. The structure of the fire gun was in the style of the Lumi gun, which suited him quite well.

"How about trying the length first!" He stretched out his hand and threw it to Wei Congyi.

Wei Congyi reached out and took over the new riding gun. The barrel was still warm.

Then he started designing, loading and carrying the horse, and then galloped back and forth for a long time.

Wei Congyi then returned in surprise: "What a fire gun. It only weighs five or six pounds. It's actually almost the same as a bird gun."

It turns out that the main weight of this fire gun is the gun tube. Usually the gun tube of a bird gun is more than three feet long, and the Lumi gun is an astonishing four feet and five inches.

The new gun barrel made by Zhang Shun was only two feet, so the weight was unexpectedly reduced.

"Okay, let's test fire first!" Zhang Shun originally asked the blacksmith to make one or two gun tubes for testing purposes.

He never expected that the size and weight just fit his hand, and he couldn't help but have the idea of ​​simply making a riding gun that fired one or two lead bullets.

Although the gun tube of this riding gun has not been polished yet and cannot be used in actual combat, it is completely sufficient for testing data other than shooting accuracy.

"That's your order!" Wei Congyi smiled when he heard this, took a tael of gunpowder and poured it into the barrel of the gun, took three three-cent lead bullets and put them in, handed over the paper ball, and then got on his horse.

Not long after, he put his shoulder against the gun and fired it once. He felt as if his shoulder was pushed hard, and then everything returned to normal.

Wei Congyi frowned, took it out and reloaded it again. This time he put in four three-cent lead bullets and fired again.

Not long after, he rode back and said, "King Shun is really extremely talented, almost given by heaven!"

"This gun is really exquisite. If you put one or two ounces of powder and one or two lead bullets, you will be fine."

"If you encounter an unarmored person, you can still load more than a dozen one-cent lead bullets, and you will be incompetent."

It turns out that the inner diameter of the barrel designed by Zhang Shun, which can fire one or two lead bullets, is 5/8 centimeters, which is roughly equivalent to the caliber of a 12-gauge shotgun in later generations.

It just so happened that one or two lead bullets in the Ming Dynasty weighed 37.3g in later generations, which was slightly less than the 37.8g weight of the No. 12 single-headed bullet.

In later generations, this is just a hunting thing and nothing.

However, in this era, it is a great weapon in mounted combat.

At the same time, in distant Western Europe, many national cavalry were also equipped with similar weapons, called "carbines."

It's just that most of these carbines use delicate spring wheels to drive flints to ignite. The craftsmanship is more complicated than the matchlock-ignited riding guns designed by Zhang Shun, and the requirements for riding skills are slightly lower.

However, Shaanxi is located in a borderland, and there are many people who are good at riding and shooting. This small technical gap can be fully made up for by personal martial arts.

"No need to sing my praises. If there is anything that needs improvement, please bring it up quickly and improve it as soon as possible." Zhang Shun didn't take his advice at all and asked calmly.

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