Zhu Pingan shook his head slightly, he was not satisfied with this round of firing, not to say that he was not satisfied with the gunpowder, although the gunpowder was smoky, but the power of the improved granular black gunpowder had actually been very great, what made Zhu Pingan dissatisfied was that this round of firing was not flush.
The first three platoons of soldiers, a full quarter of the soldiers firing time lagged behind half a beat, before cracking the gun.
However, after counting the bullet marks on the target, Zhu Pingan’s dissatisfaction was slightly calmed back.
Firing at a distance of fifty metres, the hit rate of the Zhejian army is still possible, three rows of targets hit rate of eighty per cent, especially the first row of targets with hundreds of holes hit rate of almost one hundred per cent, only three targets missed.
If they were on the battlefield, this round of firing would have caused a large number of Japanese pirates to fall down like wheat. Even if the Japanese were wearing Japanese-style large armour, in front of the black powder cannons at a distance of fifty metres, they would still have to be shot with a bloody hole, the power of black powder was not something that ordinary armour could protect against.
“Load!”
Zhu Pingan again ordered the first unit of the third platoon to load and fire, because of the oil-paper gunpowder packs, the efficiency of loading ammunition was more than double than the contemporaries of the Europa and the Japanese, and so on. Moreover, because of the ration of gunpowder wrapped in oil paper in advance, there would be no mistakes such as too little gunpowder with insufficient power or too much gunpowder blowing up the chamber.
In less than a minute, all the generals of the first unit’s third platoon loaded the ammunition under Zhu Pingan’s command.
“Ready, release!”
After Zhu Pingan gave the order, the generals of the first unit of the Zhejun army fired another round of volleys, and black smoke filled the air once again.
This second round of firing was much better than the first, more than 90% of the generals managed to fire in unison, with only less than 10% of the generals lagging behind by half a beat or so.
Then came the third round of firing, which was even better, with only seven or eight generals lagging behind by half a beat, and the rest of the generals firing in unison.
After three rounds, the black smoke caused by the firing became a bit big, and the sight was inevitably affected.
Before the second group of generals fired in unison, Zhu Ping An had to temporarily change the firing position, moving twenty metres to avoid the smoke. Of course, this is also training, if the actual battle, is not free to change the position, hard to also have to fire in the smoky shooting.
This time Zhu Pingan made people re-establish three rows of brand new targets in order to do hit rate test.
The second group of generals, Zhu Pingan made them to carry out three sections of the hit, the same is fifty metres from the high, the first row of generals fire, back to the back to concentrate on loading; and then the second row of generals to the front of the flat end of the gun two firing, and then back to reload, the third row of generals to the front of the fire, so that the three rows of generals to take turns to fire.
Bang Bang Bang ……
Bang Bang Bang ……
Bang Bang Bang ……
Three rows of generals fire in the middle of the pause time is not more than five seconds, almost uninterrupted firing, firing efficiency is indeed increased by three times, but compared to the first unit of generals, the density of fire is reduced by 30%. Of course, this is for sure, the first unit is three rows firing in unison, this second unit is three rows firing in turn, the density of one row firing is definitely 30% lower than three rows firing in unison.
After the round shooting, Zhu Pingan checked the bullet marks of the target, the hit rate is slightly lower compared to the first strand, but overall the difference is not too big, but considering that after all, it is a fixed target, if the enemy on the opposite side of the enemy is moving, the hit rate will surely hit a discount.
In addition, on the battlefield, soldiers will inevitably be nervous and excited, the hit rate will have to hit another discount.
Zhu Pingan pondered, and then waved his hand to order the second unit to continue the rounds of shooting, continuous rounds of two waves of six shots.
Zhu Pingan found that the first wave of three shots, almost able to do relatively continuous shooting.
But after the second wave of smoked new loading, that is, the third shot and the fourth shot in the middle of the time interval is obviously longer.
After all, this era of cannon loading is relatively troublesome, although Zhu Pingan brought ahead of the oil paper packets of ammunition, but this era of cannon loading is still cumbersome,
in order to maintain the effectiveness of the shooting, after the cannon is fired, and then reloaded before the use of an iron bar to clean up the chamber, to poke out the residual gunpowder, to avoid the impact of impurities in the cannon to shoot again the accuracy and power.
Therefore, this led to a pause of close to a minute after the third shot before the fourth shot sounded.
Zhu Pingan believed that if the Zhejian army trained for a while longer, the gunpowder loading speed would be able to go up another level, and by then the interval between the third and fourth shots would be shortened to less than half a minute.
However, Zhu Pingan shook his head after studying it carefully.
Although the three-stage strike was stronger than the Europa-style three-row volley in terms of continuous firing, the cannons of this era were very cumbersome to load and had a limited rate of fire, so the number of just three rows could not maintain the continuity of firepower.
Moreover, the three strikes fired in rounds, row by row, were far inferior to the three rows of flank fire in terms of fire density and lethality.
Can imagine, on the battlefield, the use of three strikes a row of a row of round shooting, shooting speed can be relatively continuous some, but the enemy is a one by one down: but three rows of flanking fire, the enemy is a batch of batches of down, in the battlefield of these two killing effect on the enemy’s deterrent is different. The enemy is to see the side of the comrades fell one by one shock, or to see the comrades of a dead piece of shock? There was no doubt that it was the second one.
The reason why the Yongji Formation was adopted was to improve the shooting accuracy and density of the cannons, to ensure the firepower output, and to make up for the shortcomings of the current cannons.
At a certain time, the more bullets fired, the greater the lethality, this is the obvious reason.
Therefore, after this verification, Zhu Pingan considered an incense, and then decided to use the European style of three rows of firing.
Thinking about it, the European platoon shooting tactics have been tested by more than a hundred years of bloody battles, the British with their platoon shooting tactics were able to dominate the world for more than a hundred years, and surely they have withstood the experience of actual battles.
Although I dare not say it is the best tactic, but it is definitely the most suitable tactic for smoothbore guns.
However, taking into account the terrain characteristics of the southeastern coastal area with many hills and ravines, rivers and canals, narrow roads, etc., this terrain may not necessarily be able to accommodate the Zhejian army in a three-platoon long formation lined up horizontally; as well as the characteristics of the Japanese invaders who are accustomed to melee combat and good at running, if the Japanese invaders fearlessly burst into the Yongji Formation, I am afraid that the trouble will not be small.
Therefore, Zhu Pingan added two variations to the Yongji Formation, namely, the six-row thick formation and the nine-row thick formation, with three rows as one strand, six rows as two strands, and nine rows as three strands. After the first strand and three rows fired in unison, they retreated and concentrated on loading, and then the second strand and three rows of generals stepped forward to fire in unison, and then one strand and one strand were rotated in order, which improved the triple-strike.
This balanced firepower and continuity, but also adapted to the terrain of Jiangnan, but also restrained the combat characteristics of the Japanese invaders.
After some experiments, Zhu Pingan nodded with satisfaction and fixed it there.
