The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 285 An Order for One Hundred Field Cannons
Fusiliers? These five words aroused Jiang Chuan's interest.

The emergence of flintlock guns can be said to be a key node in the history of musket development.Before the advent of the flintlock, all firearms were matchlocks.When firing, the soldiers first use the flint they carry on their bodies to ignite the matchlock at the end of the musket. The burning of the matchstick will cause the gunpowder in the medicine chamber to burn, which will generate a huge driving force and shoot the solid iron bullets or iron nails in the musket out of the muzzle to attack the enemy. form lethality.

The shortcomings of such a matchlock gun are obvious, such as slow loading, low shooting speed, short range, and poor accuracy. In short, there are a bunch of shortcomings.

It wasn't until the appearance of flintlock guns and mini bombs that the musket really became a big killer on the battlefield.Of course, this time is still a front-loading musket.

Later, breech-loading muskets appeared.Later, breech-loading rifles appeared.At this time, the musket was considered to have the appearance of a modern rifle, and it truly became the main weapon on the battlefield.

The greatest significance of the appearance of the flintlock is that it greatly simplifies the loading process of the musket, increases the shooting speed, and enhances the adaptability of the musket in rainy, snowy and wet weather.

Think about it, the original matchlock gun, the enemy rushed towards you, you just lit the matchlock, watched the matchlock burning, and imagined that the sound of the firecracker would make the enemy's face pockmarked.

The result was good, God suddenly turned his face, and a heavy rain fell as soon as it was said, and the fire rope was extinguished by you all at once.When you are in a hurry to change the matchlock and light it again, the enemy has already arrived, and a spear stabs at your heart, stabbing you so hard that you can only curse MMP before dying.

But with a flintlock gun, it’s different. After the ammunition is loaded, the trigger is pulled, and the trigger moves the flint to rub against each other, sparks are fired, and the gunpowder in the medicine room is instantly ignited. With a loud bang, the enemy has not yet fallen. In front of you, you were sprayed with pockmarks all over your face and blood all over your body, lying on the ground covering your face and yelling, and then your little friend went up and slashed you, isn't it very cool.

Of course, there are still many problems with flintlock guns, but after all, they are much better than the original matchlock guns.

Although from the perspective of Jiang Chuan, a modern society with highly developed firearms, there is not much difference between a flintlock gun and an arquebus, they are the same old antiques.

But when you look at something, you have to look at it in the era at that time and make a horizontal comparison.Instead of making a vertical comparison in the big history.

As far as Jiang Chuan knew, the muskets in this time and space were mainly matchlock guns, and he hadn't heard of flintlock guns appearing yet.Then if he equipped his infantry with flintlock guns, he would naturally have the upper hand.

Closer to home, Jiang Chuan stretched out his hand and slowly drew out the sword, holding the hilt and slowly drawing out the blade.

I saw the light flashing in front of my eyes, and a line of information appeared in my mind in an instant: Fusiliers are junior musketeers, and the training price is 50 gold coins, including the soldier himself and a full set of equipment.The full set of equipment includes a flintlock gun, a self-defense dagger handle, some ammunition flints, and a musketeer uniform.

I didn't expect the fusiliers to bring their own equipment, which is a bit interesting, and it seems to be worth the price.

And there is also a training instruction in this line of information: If the lord needs to train the fusiliers, he only needs to explain the number of training and the meeting place to the chief steward of the city lord's mansion, and the fee will be automatically deducted by the system.

Jiang Chuan asked Xiao Buyi behind him and confirmed that it was indeed the case.So Ming Ming was ordered to train [-] fusiliers, and the assembly point was at the barracks outside the city of Quang Ninh.

Thinking of this, Jiang Chuan asked Xiao Buyi again if he could just place orders directly with Xiao Buyi for the training of other arms in the future, and Xiao Buyi nodded to confirm this conjecture.

It seems that this so-called big manager is the agent that the system finds for itself in the territory.

After leaving the barracks, Jiang Chuan took Xiao Buyi to the gun foundry not far from the barracks.

The layout of the gun foundry is somewhat similar to the factories of later generations. The front yard is the exhibition area, and the back is the manufacturing workshop.

The person who received Jiang Chuan was a principal, and he took Jiang Chuan to the exhibition area first.

There was another huge booth in the exhibition area, and there were two things on it. One was a black pottery bomb that was smaller than a watermelon and bigger than a melon.

The other was a field gun.The structure of this field gun is actually very simple. A gun carriage composed of a barrel and two wheels constitutes the entire field gun.

According to the director, this kind of field gun is currently an eight-pound gun, a light artillery, and only needs a horse to pull it when marching.

When fighting, at least two soldiers are required to cooperate. They can fire solid shells or burst shells. The maximum range is about [-] steps, and the effective range is about [-] steps. It can be directed or curved.

The maximum range means that it can hit that far at most, and the effective range means that after this distance, it may not be accurate. Only God knows where it hits.

Of course, this thing is also a front-mounted smoothbore gun, and the range is not too far, and the accuracy is just that.

Although Jiang Chuan really wanted to directly equip the Jiang family army with an artillery regiment and artillery division, it would be best to have all kinds of modern mortars, field artillery, mountain artillery, cannons, howitzers, and even anti-aircraft guns, but he also knew that he was just thinking about it. .

Meals have to be eaten bite by bite, and the road has to be walked step by step. If you take big steps, it is easy to pull the egg.

Although the field cannon in front of him is also an antique, it can be regarded as a timely rain for the Jiang family army who lacks heavy field firepower.

Although the red cannon is powerful, it is too cumbersome to be used in sieges, but it is too inconvenient to use in field battles.

With this field gun, it made up for the lack of field firepower of the Jiang family army.The next time you encounter an enemy, you don't need to use the old and antique ballistas and trebuchets. You can directly set up a row of field cannons, and when the cannons blast his mother, it makes me feel happy to think about it.

I asked the master, and the package price of a grenadier and a number of matching bombs is also [-] gold coins.The full set of equipment includes a set of military uniforms, two bomb bags, a self-defense dagger and several bombs.

The price is not too expensive, Jiang Chuan directly ordered to train [-] grenadiers to attack [-] gold coins.

I asked about the field cannon, the price of the field cannon is not too expensive, two hundred gold coins per cannon, including the cannon itself, a number of shells, including solid bullets and flowering bullets, and corresponding loading tools.

But this price does not include artillery.According to the standard configuration of the system, each field gun is equipped with three artillerymen: one is the gunner, responsible for aiming and commanding, one is the loader, responsible for handling the shells and loading ammunition; the last one is the igniter, responsible for igniting and firing.

The three artillerymen are considered technical arms, so each of them needs fifty gold coins.

In this way, the total price of a cannon is 350 gold coins.

Jiang Chuan pondered for a while, and placed an order for [-] artillery pieces in one breath, which means a total of [-] gold coins.

After placing the order, the head of the gun foundry told Jiang Chuan that the artillery and grenadiers would arrive within five days.

　Thank you "Zhutuan" for your reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)