“Nephew, the bayonet combines the cannon and the cold weapon into one, really extraordinary. However, I don’t understand why nephew designed the bayonet into such a strange shape, like a slotted thick awl, can only be used for stabbing, not suitable for chopping, uplifting, cutting and other actions, the bayonet into a knife shape can’t it?”Duke Wei played with the bayonet for a while and asked with some doubt.
“Uncle, the reason why the bayonet is made like this, is because of two reasons. One is the reality, the bayonet that accompanies the cannon is relatively long and thin, the steel requirements are relatively high, with today’s iron smelting materials, if it is made into a blade shape, it will be soft and brittle, and if you try to slash against the Japanese sword for a few times, the bayonet will be broken, and this thick cone shape is strong enough to withstand the fierce slashes against the Japanese sword without being damaged.”Zhu Pingan smiled faintly and returned with an arch.
In the beginning, after Zhu Pingan came up with the idea of the bayonet, the bayonets forged by the equipment battalion were all blade shaped as well.
However, due to the limited iron smelting technology of the Ming Dynasty, even with a thousand hammers, the strength of the steel was not strong enough, and there were many impurities, so the bayonets made were soft and brittle, and the Japanese swords were tested, and after a few cuts, the bayonets broke.
Zhu Pingan is not a science student, for the knowledge of steelmaking, almost zero, do not know how to improve the level of steelmaking, do not know how to remove carbon and other magazines, and even the local steelmaking do not know how to engage in, can only scratch their heads.
At the impasse, Zhu Pingan thought of the famous five-six type three-pronged military spikes, thought of three-pronged military spikes structure than the other bayonets are stronger, more ferocious and durable, and the production process is also relatively simple, must be to today’s technology can be made.
So, Zhu Pingan drew a sketch, made some gestures and introduced it, and let the equipment battalion try to make two three-pronged military barbs.
In the end, the three-pronged bayonet made by the equipment battalion was still different from the five-six three-pronged bayonet in Zhu Ping An’s memory; the three prongs of the bayonet made by the equipment battalion were not as prominent, and the deep blood grooves on the three sides were not as rounded, which was comparatively much rougher.
This is also no way out, let the equipment battalion craftsmen with manual hard to knock out three-pronged military barbs to, probably knocking blood can not do, can only do this degree.
However, after testing the bayonets, Zhu Pingan was satisfied that the bayonets made by the equipment battalion were strong enough to be mounted on the cannons, and could withstand the Japanese and the stripes and cut continuously.
“You two try the bayonet.”
Wei Guo Gong tossed the mounted bayonet to Zhang Bao, and pointed at Wei Liangyi, instructing them.
The Duke of Wei had long noticed Wei Liangyi accumulating Zhang Bao’s two people secretly poking and muttering their little antagonistic actions, so he deliberately pointed the two of them out, indicating that he would let the two of them test the hardness of the bayonet.
Wei Guo Gong to Zhu Pingan is still very trusting, Zhu Pingan said that the bayonet is strong, that is certainly strong.
Zhang Bao diagonally raised bayonet, Wei Liangyi pulled out his sword, the two used all their strength to cut each other, bam bam bam bam, cut the straight sparks ……
After seven or eight times of such intense hacking, Duke Wei called them off and checked the bayonets and belt knives.
After a fierce chopping, the bayonet left a mark, while the waist knife, the blade has appeared gap.
“Well, not bad, the bayonet is indeed sturdy.”Duke Wei nodded with satisfaction and signalled for Zhu Pingan to continue.
Thus, Zhu Pingan continued on, “Secondly, the power. The reason for opening these three blood grooves, one is to prevent the bayonet into the body, muscle tightening, blood adherence will have to bayonet is not easy to pull out, with three blood grooves, stabbing can be easy to pull out the bayonet, resulting in wounds that bleed more, but also more difficult to deal with; secondly, it is possible to reduce the weight of the bayonet, but also make the bayonet more sturdy.”
“As the saying goes, it is better to hear than to see, it just so happens that it is also about to be dinner time, so I will kill a pig today to give the generals an extra meal, and I would also like to ask the Governor General and all of you to not be too shy to try our battalion’s cauldron rice.”
Zhu Pingan said, causing a fat pig to be brought in, and casually ordered a soldier to kill the pig on the spot with a cannon mounted with a bayonet.
“Kill!”
The soldier took a deep breath, held the fire yuk bayonet, shouted, aimed at the belly of the fat pig, and jutted forward with force.
With all eyes on him, the bayonet in the soldier’s hand, without much effort, stabbed through the big fat body.
Then with one pull, it came out easily.
At the moment of pulling it out, the pig’s blood flew out along the three blood grooves, just like a fountain.
Fat pig stomach ate a bayonet piercing, not the heart, mind and other vitals, did not die on the spot, the pain of howling in the schoolyard running wildly, while wailing wildly, while ZiZi out of the blood spray …..
However, the fat pig that seemed to be alive and well, within a few minutes, it collapsed and died from blood loss. The fat pig was like this, it can be imagined that if the Japanese invaders ate such a bayonet, even if it didn’t hit the Japanese invaders’ vitals, the Japanese invaders would have to die from blood loss.
“Well, the power is indeed not bad.”Duke Wei and the others couldn’t help but nod.
After the fat pig died, the people from the Firehead Battalion skilfully pulled the fat pig down to disembowel it and take care of the extra meal.
“Zi Hou, although after the cannons are fitted with bayonets, they also have a fighting chance against the enemy charge. But the bayonet of your Zhejiang army has a single function, it is not suitable for chopping, uplifting, cutting, against the battle, it is still not as good as cold weapons. You can appropriately increase the proportion of firearms, but the idea of relying so heavily on firearms is still open to question.”
Zhang Jing said to Zhu Pingan, heartily still disapproving of Zhu Pingan’s tactical attitude of relying so heavily on firearms.
“Thank you, Governor Sir, for your guidance, however, my humble servant still thinks that firearms are worth paying attention to develop.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand and insisted.
“You ah ……” Zhang Jing couldn’t help but shake his head, looking at Zhu Pingan with some hatred, “Originally, taking into account your achievements and self-care in defending the city against the Japanese several times during your Jingnan tenure as well as the last time you annihilated the Japanese pirates that attacked Yingtian, I would have liked to allocate aI also wanted to allocate a group of guest troops to be under your command to give you more opportunities to display your tactics. After today’s inspection, your camping and army management are all praiseworthy, and are also sufficient to take on more people. However, you rely so much on firearms, no matter the weaponry or battle formations, whereas the guest army is reliant on cold weapons, battle methods and tactics are diametrically opposed, which makes me feel uneasy about allocating the guest army to your command.”
A chance to command more soldiers?!
Zhu Pingan froze for a moment, his heart instantly moved a little, but still quickly shook his head, not compromising, choosing to stick to his own views, “My humble servant is ashamed to have fallen short of the Governor General’s high expectations.”
Wolf soldiers, although stronger than the guardsmen, but …… think of the history of the history of the opium war as the beginning of the modern humiliation history, or did not hesitate to shake his head.
Zhu Pingan did not want to compromise on this and change his attitude towards firearms.
Zhu Pingan understood better than everyone else in this era that firearms were the future!Firearms were the masters of war!
Zhu Pingan was going to be the butterfly of this era, fiercely flapping and re-flapping his wings, allowing everyone in this era to see the future of firearms, accelerating the development of firearms, accelerating the tactical shift, and realising the leap from cold weapons to hot weapons.
To catch up with, and even surpass, the world’s development of firearms.
Don’t believe in the tradition of “bow and horse” anymore, and don’t let the tragedy of backwardness and defeat of modern China happen again.
This is the most important thing.
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