Steel Dynasty - Chapter 308

[Chapter 308]

The waves crashed against the huge hull of Galen’s ship, and the strong wind howled.

In the distance, a dark cloud is approaching, which indicates that a storm is coming soon.

“Bah, our Highness doesn’t need support from people with ulterior motives like you.”

The words translated by the translator made Yue Yun spit hard.

Now the facts are very clear. The King of Chu has become the lackey of the Dutch. It is no wonder that the King of Chu has become more and more domineering in recent years. He has long been confident.

“What should I do?” The translator looked at Yue Yun.

“Follow the plan just now and ask his companions to exchange things for him. Neither they nor the Dutch are good people.”

Looking at the sea dyed black by dark clouds, Yue Yun felt heavy. Whether it was the Dutch or the British, This all confirmed what Xiao Ming told them in school.

Now the Western powers have extended their sphere of influence to the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and according to Wilson, flintlocks have become common equipment in the West, and sailing warships sail around the world.

In Dayu, the Dutch had introduced the matchlock gun to the King of Chu’s fiefdom. This news was extremely important, and it was enough to give the King of Chu a fatal blow in the court.

Sighing, he looked at Qingzhou on the sea map, hoping that King Qi would have produced the flintlock gun by now.

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Qingzhou, military workshop.

After a sound like a firecracker exploding, there was a burst of cheers at the military workshop test firing range.

At the test firing range, Xiao Ming held a brand new flintlock gun, with green smoke still coming out of the muzzle.

The butt of the flintlock gun is made of brown peach wood. There is a bayonet on the barrel. The position of Xiao Ming’s finger is the silver shining movement. The entire flintlock gun barrel is 107 cm long, 0.75 caliber, and weighs 4 kg. , containing a bayonet sixty centimeters long.

While he was busy planting cotton these two days, the first gun barrel was also officially produced. Zhang Liu sent the barrel to the military workshop without stopping.

Song Changping, who had completed assembling the remaining parts, assembled the barrel, and a flintlock gun was officially born.

After receiving the news, Xiao Ming also rushed to the military workshop, and Lu Tong also brought ammunition.

“Your Highness, where did this bullet go?” Chen Qi looked ahead, wondering where Xiao Ming’s target was.

“I don’t know either.” Xiao Ming played with the flintlock gun in his hand with satisfaction. “The accuracy of this flintlock gun is very poor. It needs concentrated firepower to exert its power. I don’t know where the bullet just flew.”

Although Song Changping made the flintlock gun, he didn’t know how to use it. It wasn’t until Xiao Ming came over that they realized that it was almost the same as an artillery gun.

The only difference now is that the rear of the gun is flint fired.

“So, bows and arrows are not as good as anything?” Chen Qi looked strange, “Then why does Your Highness produce this thing? It would be better to let Song Changping follow me to produce artillery.”

Song Changping pulled a group of people to produce muskets, which made Chen Qi feel distressed. It didn’t work. Now seeing that muskets were inferior to artillery, he took the opportunity to say that he wanted to recover the loss.

“You can make artillery, but you don’t know how to march and fight. This flintlock gun is much more important than the artillery. I can count on it to drive away the barbarians.” Xiao Ming gently stroked the flintlock gun.

The flintlock gun was finally produced, and Xiao Ming immediately relaxed. At least Qingzhou had once again narrowed the gap in Western weapons.

Everyone was talking happily about the muskets, when suddenly the sound of horse hooves sounded outside the military workshop.

The figures of Niu Ben and Lu Fei appeared in front of everyone.

“Your Highness, has the flintlock gun been produced?” Niu Ben looked forward to it.

Xiao Ming nodded and threw away one of the other two flintlock guns.

“Your Highness, this guy is worthy of a spear.” Lu Fei held a flintlock gun, and the first thing he noticed was the bayonet on the wall.

Niu Ben nodded, “No wonder His Highness said that the pikemen will be disbanded, and the musketeers formed now are pikemen.”

“Old General, now you understand, the musketeers are both long-range and short-range arms. Facing the barbarian cavalry For charging, the musketeers can shoot from a distance and can fight hand-to-hand, so they won’t be easily massacred by the cavalry.”

Niu Ben’s eyes were filled with excitement. Xiao Ming said that this flintlock gun was very magical. He said, “Your Highness, what’s wrong with this gun. Use it?”

Xiao Ming smiled and said to Chen Qi: “Get a set of plate armor and hang it eighty meters away.”

Chen Qi got the order and fetched a set of plate armor and hung it eighty meters away. On the target, this position is almost the maximum effective range of the flintlock gun.

Then he said to Niu Ben and Lu Fei: “You stand on both sides of me and follow my example.”

While speaking, Xiao Ming handed the ammunition of the flintlock gun to the two of them.

Although Niu Ben and Lu Fei were surprised, they still followed Xiao Ming’s words.

At this time, Xiao Ming stood the flintlock gun on the ground, bit open the ammunition and poured the gunpowder and projectiles into the barrel of the flintlock gun. He then used a purge bar to compact the gunpowder and projectiles, and sprinkled some gunpowder in the gunpowder pool. , raised the flintlock gun and aimed it at the plate armor.

Niu Ben and Lu Fei followed suit and raised their flintlock guns.

“Fire!” Xiao Ming gave the order and pulled the trigger. There was another gunshot and smoke, and there were two gunshots on both sides of him.

It’s just that Niu Ben and Lu Fei’s gun-raising postures were a little wrong, and they almost couldn’t hold the guns steadily.

“It’s quite powerful.” After seeing the artillery, Lu Fei was no longer as shocked by the flintlock gun as when he first saw the artillery.

And like Chen Qi, he thought it was a shrunken artillery piece.

“Did you hit it?” Lu Fei said excitedly as he put down the gun.

Niu Ben also showed a look of expectation. They all had high expectations for the flintlock gun.

But the people who went to investigate came back quickly and missed.

“It shouldn’t be, my aim was very accurate.” Niu Ben didn’t believe it.

Xiao Ming did not respond, but said, “Second round of shooting.”

Niu Ben and Lu Fei scratched their heads and had no choice but to load the ammunition again and shoot again.

“Shot.” The person who went to investigate took the plate armor back.

After two rounds of shooting, Niu Ben felt that the flintlock gun was not as accurate as a bow and arrow, but when he saw the holes in the plate armor, he fell silent. The bullet actually completely penetrated the plate armor.

“Old General, now you must disdain the accuracy of this flintlock gun, but I am not here to show you this.” He said to Chen Qi, Song Changping and others: “You three should do it too.”

Chen Qi, Song Changping and Zhang Liu nodded excitedly, immediately took the flintlock guns and stood where the three of them were.

“The old general has been on the battlefield for many years and has unparalleled arrow skills. He can naturally pierce the enemy with a hundred steps, but with the flintlock gun, even a man like Chen Qi who has never touched a sword can kill an experienced barbarian cavalry at such a long distance. “

Bang bang…”

As he was talking, Chen Qi and others had already opened fire.

“Hit!”

The investigator quickly came back to report. When Niu Ben heard this, his face suddenly became heavy.

(End of chapter)