The range of the cannon in this era is just, of course, can not be compared with modern firearms, but than the bow and arrow in this era of the longest range and effective range are much farther, thirty-five metres is not a problem.
With this thirty-five metre head start, the advantage of firearms is reflected, I can hit you, you can not hit me, and so finally into the bow and arrow range, you have been losing troops seriously, and at this time I then timely retreat to pull away, in the game is typical of the kite flying ……
accuracy is a problem.
This era of cannon technology is limited, are smoothbore guns, smoothbore gun shooting accuracy is limited, not the soldiers lack of training, but the inherent defects of the smoothbore gun, shooting accuracy is inherently insufficient.
In order to improve the accuracy of the cannon, there must be rifling, the rifling is the soul of the barrel, the rifling can make the bullet rotate at a high speed after firing, so that the bullet head will keep the established direction all the way to the front.
However, Zhu Pingan is not a science student, just know that the rifling can improve the shooting accuracy, as for what the rifling is like, round straight or spiral, Zhu Pingan is not clear, how to carve rifling in the barrel, Zhu Pingan also do not know: In addition rifling painted, bullets need to be adjusted, the steel of the cannon barrel needs to be adjusted and so on, Zhu Pingan also do not know anything.
However, these do not affect, I can put forward the idea, by the equipment battalion of the two firearms craftsmen to research and development. With this direction of thought and more fumbling, it should be possible to make it. Well, I’ll go to the two smiths later, as for the rifling theory. With a gyroscope can be convinced, the faster the gyroscope turns, the straighter it stands, has been around the axis of the rotation.
Just the time of the inter-world of wire rifling is not guaranteed, after all, it is an epoch-making thing, it is estimated that the two smiths need a longer period of time to do it, one or two years, two or three years, three or five years or even a longer period of time may not be able to say.
But right now the war against Japan will soon begin, but there is no time to wait for the line of the chamber to come out. I
The problem of shooting accuracy must be solved, in addition to particularly good marksman, the general soldiers seventy metres hit rate is only fifty-five per cent, almost half of the probability of hitting, that is to say, the enemy stood there not moving for you to aim at, there is only a half of the probability of being able to shoot, with the same throw the city; as for the one hundred and fifty metres of the hit rate is only one-third of thirty-five per cent, almost thirty per cent of the probability of hitting, the field of battle! The battlefield is a brutal battlefield, you have to be 100% to be able to kill the enemy, you can’t rely on the probability.
But how to solve it?
In fact, strictly speaking, the shooting accuracy of the bow and arrow is not as good as the Vulcan gun, now the martial arts examination, a hundred metres or so of the target, one of the three arrows will be qualified ……
Of course, the shooting accuracy of the crossbow is much higher, but the crossbow’s loading and firing speed is much lower than that of the bow and the cannon, which is a different story.
How is the shooting accuracy of the crossbow solved …… Zhu Pingan stroked his chin and contemplated, and the classic and shocking scene of the arrow rain inside the blockbuster film Heroes came to mind at the first time.
Then Zhu Pingan’s eyes lit up, the bow and arrow is a concentration of archers, 10,000 arrows, the same can be said for the cannon.
Accuracy is not enough, then the number to come together, a cannon hit rate is fifty-five per cent, two cannon it, three it ……
Then, the modern history of the famous queue shooting tactics appeared in the mind of Zhu Pingan.
The platoon shooting tactic may seem simple and stupid, but it is extremely cruel and effective. It was the most suitable tactic for the fire-rope gun, and was even extremely appropriate in the flintlock era.
Only when the accuracy and efficiency of firearms were raised to a certain degree did the platoon shooting tactic fall out of fashion.
The exact name of the platoon shooting tactics is the line-up tactics, and the platoon shooting tactics is just a later flirtation.
The so-called platoon shooting tactics, refers to the soldiers do not shoot in a wide and shallow row of the densest line column, a line column has two to four rows of soldiers, and then shoot in unison, and strive for the greatest firepower density to ensure the killing power.
This is the most advanced tactics that mankind can think of in the era of the musket, popular in Europe for hundreds of years, England Briton lobster soldiers with this tactic swept India and the Americas, rampant around the globe, played a span of the world’s seven continents of the first major colonial empire, known as the Empire of the Sun Never Sets. Back then, when Britain launched the criminal Opium War against our country, this tactic was used.
Now this tactic has not yet been developed and will not be available for at least another hundred years, but it is time to bring it forward.
However, the name of the line-up tactic is suitable for the western habit, but not suitable for the naming habit of Daming, the line-up battle great most test of courage and discipline, the so-called narrow road is brave, in future this tactic will be named as brave discipline formation well.
Impression of the British lined up shooting tactics, generally lined up in three rows of horizontal line, the first row kneeling, the second row stooping, the third row standing, a command, three rows of soldiers together to open fire, a round of shooting.
Remember the history, the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Mu Ying pacified Yunnan, in order to deal with the rebel elephants and other beasts, the use of firearms, with a sense of firearms loading is too slow, and the development of a three-stage strike, that is, the first row of cannons to shoot, retreated to the back of the team to concentrate on loading ammunition, the second row of cannons to the front of the hand to fire, and then retreated back to load ammunition, the third row of cannon hands to the front of the hand to shoot, the three rows of rotating loaded ammunition and fire to make up for the shortcomings of the cannons loading time long, keep the cannon to fire together! The shortcomings of the long loading time of the cannons were compensated for by keeping the firearms firing relatively continuously and finally winning a great victory.
After a few more decades, Oda Nobunaga of Japan also developed another kind of three-stage strike, he was to arrange soldiers in groups of three, letting the soldier with the highest shooting accuracy to act as the shooter, and after shooting, the second soldier took over the musket and loaded gunpowder from the front end, and then loaded bullets into the gun after pounding it solidly, and the third soldier adjusted the position of the fire rope from the back, and then moved the trigger to its original position, and then handed the musket to the shooter, and so on to achieve the purpose of relatively continuous shooting by rotating each of the three rows in turn, which is a good way of achieving a relatively continuous shooting. In the Battle of Nagashino, the Takeda cavalry was defeated by this three-stage attack.
Is the Yongji Formation using the English style, or is it a three-stage strike?
Zhu Pingan touched his chin and pondered.
Practice is the only means to test the truth.
Tomorrow, the Yongji Formation will be implemented, tested in practice, to explore the most suitable shooting method for the Zhejian army, Zhu Pingan made up his mind.
The parade is also coming to an end.
Zhu Pingan fulfilled the promise, will be the ten most outstanding soldiers called to the stage, public encouragement and rewarded the battalion commander level command knife, this is the equipment battalion recently built out of the waist knife, is Zhu Pingan in accordance with the impression of the Qi family army saber, mentioning the idea of the equipment battalion to build the name of the Zhejun army saber.
There is the style of the Japanese sword, blade curvature increased, width narrowed, but with the Japanese sword is different, Zhejun saber longer and more solid, the middle of the blade and the back of the knife were added a pick line and a dong line, the tip of the knife also retains the basic thickness of the knife body, the use of the V-shaped open edge, it will have to have a strong cutting force, with a strong chopping ability, this is the standard Chinese saber pedigree, than the Japanese sword is better than the Japanese sword.
Zhu Pingan did a test, with the improved Zhejiang army saber and the Japanese saber against the chopping, after several times of hard contact, the Japanese saber appeared to be nicked or even broken.
Due to the limited manpower of the equipment battalion, the Zheijiang army is slowly replacing this kind of saber, giving priority to the supply of officers, the officer’s command saber is more refined than the ordinary Zheijiang army saber, but also a few points of splendour, said that it is a good tool for pretending to be a man.
The parade of the best three Wu also received a commendation from Zhu Pingan, each person rewarded three taels of silver, the head of the Wu credit.
Parade the best performance of a post is led by the Yiwu bird Chen Dacheng post, let Zhu Pingan some unexpected, but think about it but in reason, Yiwu natural breed of soldiers, Chen Dacheng is Yiwu people in the outstanding, Zhu Pingan praised them vigorously, it is recorded in the record, the future expansion of the army, Chen Dacheng post all of them in the same conditions to enjoy the priority of the right of the Golden Sage.
Finally, killing pigs and slaughtering sheep, meat aroma camp, in a crowd of generals excited shouting in the end of the parade.
