What’s more, this is the mainstream development direction of the future war. There is no better choice, such as stopping?

So Su Yonglin decided to practice these two hundred people in the dead.
When more muskets are made, more large and high-quality soldiers will be brought in to practice and prepare to build them into the first musket team, which is also the earliest reserve officer in the big army.
In the future, when the number of muskets rises, they will be able to immediately pull out a large-scale musket army and formally put it into battlefield warfare, which will kick off the war in the musket era.
Having said that, some difficult problems remain.
For example, hand-made muskets bring barrel size problems.
Without the era of machine building, two guns made by the same craftsman will have different barrel sizes, so the customized ammunition will be threatened.
What if the size is enough to fit in?
Stuck it in?
Then wait for the explosion.
Su Yonglin met this problem when training musketeers.
Some barrels can’t be filled with iron bullets, even if oil is used for lubrication, but some die-hard soldiers are still stupid and don’t report it. As a result, the guns were scrapped and several people were injured
fracture
After comprehensive consideration, Su Yonglin decided to abandon the iron bullet, change the projectile fired by musketeers into lead bullets with easier polishing and softer texture, and equip musketeers with polishing tools to let them master the technology of polishing lead bullets to better adapt to the barrel caliber.
Firearms control bullets and try to ensure that the barrel size is the same, but when the law is done, musketeers will have to polish their own guns with their own tools.
After a while, musketeers have mastered the skill of polishing lead bullets. They will polish the lead bullets to match the size of the barrel, and then wrap them in a thin linen cloth and put some oil on them.
Although most of their polished lead bullets are not very regular, such ammunition does have advantages
In the experiment, Su Yonglin found that when a lead bullet hit the target, it brought great lethality to the target.
For example, a wooden box can be broken directly.
When the pig was doing the mobile shooting experiment, ten musketeers shot together and one of them hit the running pig.
But it was this bullet that hit the lead bullet that directly exploded a pig’s belly with a few hundred kilograms of blood, and the pig died on the spot.
Su Yonglin feels that many modern firearms do not have such lethality.
Su Yonglin doesn’t quite understand the principle, but he thinks that this kind of hand-ground irregular round ammunition may cause such horrible lethality to creatures because of its irregularity, and once it hits the base, it will be a devastating blow.
The probability of death is high.
Although the shooting accuracy and range are far less than those of modern firearms, it will be very terrible to bring damage to the enemy if this kind of firepower is large enough.
Even if the matchlock gun has so many obvious shortcomings that it is difficult to solve, the low training rate and high mortality rate are enough for the ruling class to give up and continue to improve and develop this kind of individual musket.
Su Yonglin, of course, can’t be vulgar. He constantly transfers large and high-quality soldiers from crossbowmen to musketeers, and equips them with musketeers to practice musketeers every day. The purpose is to equip them with a battle array that can be matched with long gunners and knife shields.
By the middle of Hongwu four years, he had formed a musketeer army of 2,000 people.
On the other hand, in the middle of March, Hongwu had advanced technology accumulation, and Su Yonglin demanded the birth of the mother-gun light artillery.
The same iron core copper body is about one meter seven, the length is three or five hundred Jin, and the weight can be self-maneuvered by matching with wooden wheelbarrows, and the faster maneuvering can be realized by matching with manpower by packhorses or donkeys and mules.
Moreover, this kind of light artillery needs far less soldiers than heavy artillery, so it is relatively easy to put it into the battlefield on a larger scale.
Su Yonglin watched craftsmen and artillery conduct strategic test firing.
They put a lot of about 600 scarecrows in order, put them in an array posture, and then listed five light artillery pieces to be fired at a distance of about 200 meters.
After a roar, five iron bullets all entered the scarecrow army, which brought different injuries to the scarecrow army.
But this army base has been abolished, which is beyond doubt
Looking at the scattered scarecrow army array, Su Yonglin thought that if it were flesh and blood, the scene would be very bloody.
About a month later, Su Yonglin got some very accurate data.
For example, the ultimate effective range of the current heavy artillery, that is, the elevation angle does not exceed five degrees and the direct distance is about 700 meters.
Heavy artillery at this distance can cause effective direct attack on the target.
If the elevation angle is raised to make its range exceed this distance, then the shell can fly, but where it flies depends on its own ideas
It is freedom.
This is already the launch data after improving gunpowder and launch technology.
At first, the data didn’t reach this level, so Su Yonglin suggested that the iron bullet should be bound to the wooden base to facilitate their experience in launching Raytheon guns, so that the iron bullet and the wooden base could form a badminton-style top-heavy self-stabilizing structure to enhance stability and thus achieve high range.
Based on this, craftsmen improved the ammunition structure, so that the effective range of heavy artillery was improved and the accuracy was improved
With the addition of granular powder and self-stabilizing structure, the launching effect of heavy artillery has reached a satisfactory level for Su Yonglin.
The light artillery also benefited from the technology and achieved an effective range of 250 meters to 300 meters, which made Su Yonglin equally satisfied.
In the future, if we want to continue to increase the effective range and shooting accuracy, we need not only technical blessing, but also the door, sight and so on, and we need to calculate the trajectory, so that the artillery needs to master some professional knowledge and develop in a more professional direction
However, this newly established firearms unit does not have such strong professional strength for the time being, and many things have to be explored by them.
What Su Yonglin can do in this issue is to give them enough experience and enough training venues and materials to make them more skilled.
At the same time, he also asked officials from the Firearms Bureau who were educated and highly qualified in the imperial examination to come and give statistics to the officers and men to support them in mathematics and teach them basic mathematics knowledge.
After this accumulation, the artillery can play a decisive role after the battlefield is realized.
But anyway, times have changed.
Gunpowder and steel are changing the big army
Su Yonglin promoted the military-military revolution at full speed, making the army stronger and more professional, while at the same time, the Southern Song Dynasty did not make progress and even retreated.
After investigating the Xutong incident for a period of time, it was concluded that Fuyang county magistrate told the court what he knew, and when Jiande reported it to Song Ting, he finally figured out what had happened.
Chapter 924 What! ! !
In short, what happened some time ago was of course very humiliating to the Southern Song Dynasty.
A rebel army of 4,000 men set out from Jiangnan West Road and penetrated five state capitals all the way through the hinterland of the Southern Song Dynasty, killing officials and destroying warehouses, which directly nullified the war potential of these five States.
However, when the local chaos still spread to the neighboring state capitals for a long time, it was difficult for the Southern Song Dynasty imperial court to continue to wage war.
It’s hard to accumulate, and it’s all destroyed. I don’t know how long it will take to accumulate again. Anyway, according to the financial system of the Southern Song Dynasty, it is difficult to recover in five years unless they extort money and don’t want these places.
Xinzhou and Quzhou, the destroyed state capitals, are particularly serious.
"The thief army even broke Xinzhou, Quzhou, Yanzhou, Wuzhou, Lin ‘an Prefecture and other five state capitals, and more than a dozen counties fought for thousands of miles to kill officials and collectors, and destroyed warehouses. A piece of broken officials suffered heavy losses.
Seeing that the local government can’t effectively restore the local order, many people have moved directly to other States for refuge because of fear, and the local chaos is asking the court to send people and send troops to support. "
Ye Yiwen told Zhao Shen the news of his discovery.