Second Chance Chapter 1690

After Zhu Pingan finished his speech, the scene was quiet for a while, but soon someone asked Zhu Pingan a question:
“Lord Zhu, the Yongji Formation has not yet been tested by fire, and we do not know the actual success of its geometry, In addition, even if, as Lord Zhu said, the Yongji Formation is the best use of the power of firearms military formation, but after the fire from a long distance, how to do when they meet in short combat? Can we use the cannons as firesticks to hit the enemy? At most, the enemy will be smashed out of a bag, there is no killing power. ”
This person’s words behind, many officials also followed the nod, you a word and I a word to open the mouth.
“Yes, even if the Zhejian army firearms operation is skilled, five breaths of time can fire a bullet so what, fifty metres of distance, the enemy rushed up is about ten breaths of time, as long as the number of enemies is large enough, you at most three waves of bullets, the enemy will be able to rush into the formation. The Japanese pirates are tough and brave, but they are not afraid of death, as long as there are enough of them, they will definitely be able to charge into your army’s formation.”
“Once the Japanese invaders enter the formation, your Zhejiang troops lined up with firearms, for the Japanese invaders entering the formation, it’s no different from inserting a label and selling their heads, but it’s just lining up to commit suicide.”
“Your army relies so much on firearms, once the short combat, that is a disaster, to suffer great losses.”
“So say ah, or that, although the power of firearms, although to pay attention to, but can not be like your army this reliance, the whole army firearms, that is an intolerable disaster.”
All the people said, words are saying that the Zhejian army relies on firearms in the wrong direction, once the short combat is a disaster.
Zhang Jing reached out to stop the crowd from arguing, turning his head to look at Zhu Pingan, faintly asked, “Zi Hou, what everyone said is not unreasonable, how to fight in a short battle with all firearms, how exactly do you consider it?”
When everyone heard this, they could not help but shake their heads.
How can all firearms cope with a short battle?! This was something that was impossible to do, so how could Zhu Pingan consider it!
In their view, all short combat, the enemy will not give you time to fill the gunpowder, your hands of the cannon is a burning stick, no lethality, encountered with the enemy with Japanese swords, it is suicidal, the only way is to put the cannon soldiers in the protection of the lance soldiers, shield soldiers, etc., when the short combat, cold weapons on the top.
But wouldn’t that be the same as other military camps?! Other military camps are also a mix of firearms and cold weapons, firearms limited use, the proportion of firearms up to 40%, at least 60% of cold weapons in order to protect the firearms, in order to be able to fight with the enemy short, in the final analysis, the battlefield cold weapons is the protagonist.
So, it’s insoluble!
Admit your mistake, Zhu Pingan! Turn back early and you can still make it to shore! If you’re stubborn, the battlefield is over!
This was the common sentiment of the crowd.
“Back to Your Excellency, to solve this problem, I’ll start from two aspects. On the one hand, I will continue to increase the power of firearms, increase the number of artillery pieces, increase the number of artillery sub-cannons, increase the number of cannon sub-cannons, load the sub-cannon ammunition well in advance, increase the efficiency of loading artillery and cannons, and make use of firearms to maximise killing and wounding of the enemy.”
Zhu Pingan slowly returned.
Right now the Zhejiang Army only had twenty new portable artillery pieces, and when the Zhejiang Army drilled, several battalions took turns using the artillery.
It is not that Zhu Ping An does not want to quickly increase the number of artillery, but the Zhejiang army has only Zhang Hong a specialised artillery smith, Liu Jin has only been involved in the casting of artillery guns, essentially still a cold weapons smith, can only help Zhang Hong to play the next; these twenty guns or Zhang Hong and Liu Jin and their apprentices sleepless day and night results, this is still in the use of bowls of cannons and other artillery on the basis of the back of the furnace forging and come.
These twenty guns have already consumed the old cannons such as the Bowlsmouth Singijeon, and after that, they have to start from scratch.
All handmade, thousands of hammers, repeated pounding, after the barrel is shaped, you also need to use a drill to polish the inside of the barrel round and smooth. ……
Liu Jin, they spent ten days, but only two small artillery casting the first shape only. According to Liu Jin, it will take at least five more days before these two small cannons can be tested on the ground.
Of course, as Liu Jin and the others became more skilled and mastered more of their apprentice skills, their efficiency could be increased.
This batch of new cannons are Liu Jin used Zhu Ping’an taught artillery doubling technology, improved, from the appearance of the cannon tube than the bowl cannon slender, the cannon wall is also thinner than the bowl cannon; from the effect of this batch of new artillery range, shooting accuracy and power than the bowl cannon more than doubled; and, due to the body of the cannon with iron hoops, the case of the cannon blowing up the situation is also reduced by a lot, although it still can not be eliminated.
In fact, Liu Jin forged twenty-two cannons in the first batch of cannons, one of which blew up during the test firing, and another one blew up due to the overheating of the barrel during the drilling as a result of frequent firing.
Fortunately, the blowing up of the two cannons only caused minor injuries to three generals and did not result in serious consequences.
Compared to the artillery and the cannons, the forging of the cannons is much less difficult, and the cold weapons craftsmen can assist in the forging.
The Zhejiang army has already stockpiled more than a hundred artillery cannons, and several hundreds of cannons have been forged.
Zhu Pingan is planning to forge at least two hundred artillery cannons; for the cannons, at least one general will have two cannons.
The cannons can be filled with gunpowder in advance, replacing the cannons is much faster than filling the gunpowder on site, and the efficiency can be more than doubled. Compared to loading gunpowder on the spot, if you replace the cannon, at least one or two more rounds of fire can be opened before the short battle.
This way the enemy would have to endure one or two more rounds of fire, harvesting one or two more rounds of enemies like cutting wheat.
This is definitely a great terror. In the Cold War era, the average army would collapse with one or two rounds of attrition. In front of this kind of firepower of the ZheJiang army, the enemy attrition of one or two percent was inevitable, and it was estimated that most of the enemies would collapse before they even had a short encounter.
However, before really seeing the lethality of the lined up shooting tactic, people couldn’t see this yet.
“This is treating the symptoms but not the root cause, even with the sub-guns, there is still no way to prevent the Japanese from rushing over to make short work of the enemy.”
“Indeed, even if you replace the Zi Cannon and fire it one more time, the enemy will still be able to rush over if they pay more.”
As soon as Zhu Pingan’s words trailed off, someone shook their head, dismissing this aspect of Zhu Pingan’s solution.
“What is the second aspect?”
Zhang Jing looked at Zhu Pingan expressionlessly, Zhu Pingan’s first aspect did not satisfy him.
“The second aspect is to add bayonets to the cannons. If you fight in a short battle, you will fight with bayonets.” Zhu Pingan arched his hand and returned.
“Adding bayonets to the cannons? Sparring bayonets?!”
“What is a bayonet?”
“How do you add a bayonet to a cannon? Is it stuffed into the cannon tube? How can you fire a cannon with a bayonet in the barrel?”
“Is adding a bayonet to a cannon converting it into a spear? Firearms and cold weapons in one? Ta-Jen Zhu is really heavenly and original.”
When the crowd heard this, they were all stunned.