I am a child of Daqin Xiong, who supervises the country at the age of eight

Chapter 145 Production Tools
What Brother Zheng said is indeed one of the biggest disadvantages of Bird Gun.

As an early firearm.

The biggest disadvantage of the bird gun lies in its rate of fire.

Its power and rate of fire are not bad.

However, his rate of fire is really too slow.

Compared with bows and arrows, it is not enough to lift shoes for bows and arrows.

You know, the shooting speed of bows and arrows is actually quite fast.

Skilled archers can even throw more than a dozen feathered arrows out of the entire quiver in one breath through the shooting method of continuous arrows in just a few seconds.

compared to archers.

The speed of the bird gun is simply too slow.

Therefore, there is no guarantee that Brother Zheng will mention this matter.

However, Ying Changsheng didn't care about it.

Because, of course, he knows that the biggest advantage of a firearm like a bird gun is not its rate of fire.

Compared with it, the advantages contained in it are enough to make up for its shortcomings.

I saw that Ying Changsheng lifted the blunderbuss in his hand, and then opened his mouth to ask Brother Zheng in front of him.

"Could it be that the father thinks that the shooting speed of the bird gun is too slow, so it is unusable?"

"Exactly!"

Ying Zheng nodded.

"That's what I think!"

"This rate of fire is so slow, if it goes to the battlefield, how can we fight?"

"Use this thing to kill the enemy, and you can only fire it once. If the enemy, after you shot the lead bullet, pounces on you again, then, is it possible that you will be slaughtered directly?"

"of course not!"

Ying Changsheng shook his head.

"Father, you still haven't understood the biggest advantage of this bird gun!"

"Oh?"

Brother Zheng was surprised, and looked at the body of the bird's gun, and couldn't help but be puzzled.

"This bird gun, what else is there, is there any hidden advantage?"

"Of course!"

Ying Changsheng said without thinking.

In all fairness.

Early gunpowder weapons.

Really not so good.

This blunderbuss is already considered to be a relatively recent firearm.

However, it's still not a good thing.

Compared with the gunpowder weapons developed in later generations.

This simple gunpowder weapon.

Not to mention comparing it with the machine guns of later generations.

Just to compete with bows and arrows.

He's also much worse.

But even so, in history, with the emergence of early firearms.

Whether it is the East or the West, they clearly know that early firearms are much inferior to bows and arrows, but they are still equipped with such weapons in large numbers.

And the reason for this.

It is because, compared to cold weapons.

The bird gun has an incomparable advantage to other weapons, that is, it is easy to operate!

Not everyone can be an archer.

The bow, I want to pull it away, and then shoot the feathered arrow.

That's not an easy thing.

Since ancient times, archers have been forced to hang up.

This sentence is not a joke of later generations, but a fact.

Because archers are often tall and strong men, only in this way can they have enough strength to draw bows and shoot arrows.

And, most importantly.

The training of archers.

too difficult!
A skilled archer.

Cultivated, its cost is high.

beyond imagination.

It takes at least three to five years of training to train a qualified archer.

Moreover, compared to gunpowder weapons.

The cost of bows and arrows is also quite high.

Well, the cost of bows and arrows is higher than that of firearms!
This is not talking.

First of all, bows and arrows in the current era, like bows, need to consume a pair of horns to make them!
Cows are not good!
Cattle are large production tools.

Moreover, it would take a long time to complete a horn bow.

At least one or two years before a batch of qualified bows and arrows can be produced.

As for arrows?
This thing is not easy to make!
The cost of an arrow is much higher than that of a lead bullet.

He needs straight wooden sticks, which are then finely processed, painted on them, baked to preserve them, and besides, feathers to make fletchings.

All of this is not easy.

It can be said that the cost of bows and arrows is much higher than that of firecrackers.

And the production cycle is too long.

At least, it will take a year or two to succeed.

In this situation.

The backwardness of bows and arrows is also inevitable, I only heard Brother Ying Changsheng Chaozheng say.

"Father, this blunderbuss can be used by a single person. You just saw that my son is only eight years old. He can take this blunderbuss and go to war, and then kill a soldier who has been fighting for a long time. !"

"This……"

Brother Zheng's eyes lit up instantly when he heard this.

Wu Zhiluo on the side repeatedly echoed, and then said to Yingzheng.

"That's right, the sharpness of your majesty's firecracker, the biggest advantage, in my opinion, should be that it allows a person who has no strength to restrain a chicken to easily kill a strong man!"

"This is perfect for the minister's caravan. Your Majesty doesn't know that most of the people in the minister's caravan don't know martial arts at all. If you give them swords and guns, they probably won't use them. However, if you give them If they have this kind of blunderbuss, they will definitely be able to shoot a lead bullet when they are about to fight..."

"That's really the truth!"

Hearing this, Brother Zheng slapped his thigh fiercely and said.

But Ying Changsheng secretly said in his heart.

In history, the biggest advantage of the bird gun is that it is beneficial to violent soldiers.

It would take a few years for a farmer to manipulate it into a regular army, at least.

I want to turn them into a feudal warrior who is proficient in killing skills.

The time consumed is even longer.

However, such a well-trained cold weapon soldier.

On the battlefield, he would be killed by a single shot by a soldier who had just learned how to shoot a blunderbuss.

In this situation.

He is a smarter military commander, and he will equip a large number of bird guns in his army.

At this moment, Brother Zheng also noticed this, and he said to Ying Changsheng.

"I roughly understand that the advantage of this blunderbuss is that it does not require training and can be used at any time. Even a three-year-old child can learn to shoot blunderbuss in a very short time as long as he is patient and learns. What I said Yes, right?"

"Father is wise!"

Brother Ying Changsheng Chaozheng said, cupping his hands.

Immediately, he murmured again.

"Furthermore, what my father doesn't know is that although this blunderbuss is slow to reload, it can be used as an ordinary weapon. It can be held in the hand and used in hand-to-hand combat..."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Brother Zheng showed surprise.

He looked at the bird gun in front of him and looked at it.

For the various advantages of bird guns.

At this moment, Brother Zheng already knew it clearly.

However, he really couldn't figure out how the blunderbuss could be used as a cold weapon for hand-to-hand combat. He only saw him, frowned and murmured.

"What did you say? Could it be that you hold this blunderbuss in your hand and use it as a stick to swing people around? I'm afraid it's not good enough?"

(End of this chapter)