The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 438 The Threat of Rifled Guns
The few surviving people heard Di Qing's questioning, and heard that he was King Qin's general, and that His Highness King Qin wanted to avenge them, and they all cried loudly again.

After crying for a while, they began to wipe away their tears. Intermittently, you talked to each other, telling Di Qing about the Japanese pirates they saw.

In the end, according to what several people said, Di Qing made a comprehensive judgment and concluded that the number of Japanese pirates who attacked Weihaiwei was not too many, about 1000 to 500.

Most of their weapons are Japanese swords and muskets, and they even carry small cannons. It was they who used these cannons to bombard the city gates to scare away the temporarily organized teams.

In addition, like the information collected in the past, the Japanese swords of these Japanese pirates are very sharp.

Moreover, they all hold knives in both hands, and with one knife, they can split people in two.

When some people resisted, the iron objects in their hands were often cut in two by Japanese swords.

So this also confirmed why Di Qing saw a lot of corpses, and the cuts on them were very smooth.

The news provided by one of the women made Di Qing feel a little unusual.

According to the woman, among the Japanese pirates were the kind of fast-firing muskets.

And the range is said to be around two hundred paces.

At the time, Di Qing thought that this woman had never seen a musket before, so she felt that the Japanese pirate's musket was very sharp.

Because in Di Qing's impression, Qin Jun's muskets were already very sharp, and now they are flintlock muskets.

But when he showed the woman how to shoot a flintlock from one of his soldiers, the woman shook her head and said that the muskets of the Japanese pirates fired faster than this musket.And she saw with her own eyes that the Japanese pirates filled the ammunition from the back of the gun, instead of still filling from the front of the barrel like they did.

Di Qing was very surprised by this news. Could it be that the firearms of these Japanese pirates were even more advanced than those of the Qin army?
Don't they have breech-loading flintlocks now?
If so.That will pose a huge threat to the Qin army.

Di Qing kept this news in his heart, and was going to report the news to Jiang Chuan in the capital.

He questioned the few survivors carefully, and concluded that the way these pirates attacked the city was to use artillery and guns to threaten to attack the city gate, and at the same time use various ziplines and eagle claws to climb the city wall and fight in close quarters.

After the gates of the city were opened, they rushed into the city, killing anyone they saw, raping and looting, and committing all kinds of evil.

After killing people, he began to loot the city, robbed most of the property in the city, and kidnapped more than 1000 women.

Those who did not want to leave were hacked to death immediately.

These scattered information quickly formed in Di Qing's mind, and gave an intuitive outline of the image of this group of Japanese pirates: These Japanese pirates are a group of extremely fierce and inhuman bandits who aim at looting and massacring without occupying the city Pirate group.

And they have advanced muskets, and they suddenly appear from the sea to attack.At present, the lair is unknown, the situation of the leader is unknown, and the distribution of specific forces is unknown.

These messages are completely unable to determine the location of the Japanese pirates' lair and more news.

In the future, we can only report the musket incident to the capital and wait for the black platform to arrive before making any plans.

After Di Qing appeased the few surviving civilians, on the one hand, he sent a troop to continue the vigilance and search to prevent the Japanese pirates from returning again, and on the other hand, he ordered all other people to enter the city to help the people bury the bodies of the victims and clean up the ruins.

He ordered to clean up the entire Weihaiwei in the shortest possible time and turn it into a military fortress with basic functions.

Although large-scale camp construction is not good for combat troops, the navy carrying the engineering battalion is quickly advancing along the sea route to Weihaiwei.In less than two days, we should be able to reach Weihaiwei.

At the same time, Bai Jinxiu also took the Black Ice Terrace, and was rushing towards Weihaiwei at high speed.

The governor of Qingzhou, Hu Zongxian, also began to mobilize people to supervise the transportation of grain and grass.It will arrive at Weihaiwei in a few days.

Di Qing quickly reported the news to Jinan Hu Zongxian's office.

Hu Zongxian was also shocked after receiving the news, and immediately ordered people to report to Jiangchuan in the capital without stopping.

After Jiang Chuan received the news from the front line, he was also shocked, and his brows furrowed deeply.

He didn't expect that there would be breech-loading flintlock guns among the Japanese pirates. Although breech-loading flintlock guns were nothing new to him, after all, he had seen too many automatic weapons and even laser weapons in his previous life.

The breech-loading flintlock can only be regarded as an antique.

But in this era, in this time and space, the rear-loaded firearm is the most advanced firearm he knows so far.

Because the muskets that he himself equips the army now are also front-loading guns.Although it is a flintlock, it is still a front-loading musket.

Although the front-loading musket adopts the flint firing mode, which greatly improves the shooting speed, compared with the rear-loading flintlock, the shooting speed is much slower.

Moreover, Jiang Chuan was keenly aware of another strange point from the information sent by Di Qing.

If the statements of the survivors and common people are correct, then the muskets of the Japanese pirates not only have a fast rate of fire, but also are very likely to be breech-loading rifles according to the statement that the range is two hundred steps away.

What is a Rifled Gun?The barrel walls are smooth now.

When the bullet is shot out of the gun chamber, it relies on the explosion of the gunpowder to produce a pressure drop in the chamber and the bullet is shot out. In this way, the range and accuracy are limited, and the speed of the bullet is not too high, so it does not have good penetration.

With a rifled rifle, the bullet can be shot farther and more accurately because of the blessing of the rifling, because the bullet rotates spirally with the rifling in the barrel when it is shot out of the barrel, and The rotation will accelerate, so that the bullet will maintain a considerable centripetal force within a certain distance, thus ensuring the range and accuracy.

If the Japanese pirates really possessed a breech-loading rifle, it would undoubtedly be a huge threat to the Qin army.

The only thing we can hope for now is that the Japanese pirates don't have too many rifled guns, and they don't have large-scale equipment, so they won't pose too much threat.

After all, at the industrial level of this world, the production of rifled guns is still very complicated.

If there is no lathe, the rifling in the barrel still has to be engraved by hand.In this way, the efficiency will be very low, so the cost will be very high, so it is destined to be unlikely to be equipped on a large scale.

Even so, the sense of crisis in Jiang Chuan's heart is still very strong.

He urgently needs technical support from the system now, to see if he can upgrade the front-loading smooth-bore gun to a rear-loading rifle in the shortest possible time, so as to gain an advantage in equipment.

He didn't want his soldiers to die in vain under the advanced weapons of a group of inhuman pirates, and as far as he was concerned, he always thought that the weapons equipped by his army were the most advanced in the world.Now it seems that we still underestimate the technological level of this world.

(End of this chapter)