Chapter 1067 Forming the Musketeers
On March 28, the sixth year of Tianxuan, Qu Mao came to Liandao. According to Qu Mao's request, Kong Ming, Zhao Pan, Zhang Da, Sylvia Ocean, Su Buqing, and the Minister of Military Affairs Silta Delta all exist.
Moreover, the five commanders-in-chief had already selected 50 elite fighters from each army in accordance with Qu Mao's request, with outstanding military exploits, bravery in combat, and incomparable loyalty to the territory. When Qu Mao came to the scene, there were a total of 200 elite soldiers. The soldiers are forming five square formations, standing fifty meters away from several heroes.
Sylvia Oushen, Su Buqing, Zhao Pan, Zhang Da, and Silta Delta were all surrounding Kong Ming before Qu Mao came, pointing at the 10 cuboid wooden boxes at Kong Ming's feet.
Seeing Qu Mao approaching, Kong Ming cupped his hands from afar.
Qu Mao waved his hand and said, "Kong Ming, tell the experimenters to open all the wooden boxes."
The wooden box was opened, and several heroes looked inside the box, and turned their suspicious eyes to Qu Mao.
In the ten boxes, there are ten iron pipes with wooden supports at one end.
Ignoring the puzzled eyes of several heroes, Qu Mao walked to the side of the box, reached out and drew out a matchlock gun, placed it on his right shoulder, squinted one eye and aimed for a while.
After a long time, Qu Maocai asked: "Kong Ming, is the safety performance enough?"
Kong Ming nodded and said: "After each barrel leaves the factory, it has been tested 100 times before it dares to add a **** and assemble the finished matchlock gun.
Currently still in the stage of laboratory production, so each finished matchlock gun will be tested by real fire. These hundred matchlock guns have been tested 100 times, and the safety performance is absolutely guaranteed.
Some barrels are blasted, so they cannot be used as matchlock guns, even if the reason for the blast is due to improper operation by the experimenters. "
Qu Mao nodded and asked, "How far can the shooting range be?"
Kong Ming said: "My lord, within 75 meters, hang a whole fan of pork on the target, and the iron ball can shoot 5 cm into the pork. The subordinates think that this has sufficient lethality.
Without the target, the iron beads can fly as far as 150 meters away. After group tests, the lethality will drop sharply after 75 meters, and basically no effective killing can be formed beyond 100 meters. "
Qu Mao nodded and said: "It's already very good to reach this level, let's improve slowly in the future."
Zhao Pan approached and asked: "Master, is this musket really as amazing as you said?"
Qu Mao shook his head and said, "Zhao Pan, there is still a long way to go.
However, now that there is a finished matchlock gun, it can be regarded as a breakthrough from zero to one, and then from 1 to 100, the breakthrough will be much faster and more convenient.
This is why I ask all of your armies to select the best fighters to form the musketeers. Let these 200 excellent fighters be our musketeers first. After the muskets are further upgraded in the future, we will train more people who can use muskets warrior. "
Sylvia Ocean thought for a while, and said, "My lord, you didn't select outstanding fighters from the Magic Army to join this seeded team..."
A total of 200 fighters were selected from the navy, army, garrison and imperial guards to form the firearms team, because in the future, these four troops can be equipped with firearms, and the use of firearms can greatly improve the soldiers of these four armies. combat capability.
Today's 200 people, the future is the seed. "
Sylvia Ocean asked: "My lord, does the musketeer team you newly formed belong to the army or the navy?"
Qu Mao glared at Sylvia Ocean, and said, "How can I tell the difference? There's no way to tell the difference. It doesn't belong to the navy or the army, but to me.
In the future, the navy will definitely also be equipped with muskets, but in the early stages, the navy's deployment of firearms is mainly artillery used on warships, while the army mainly uses muskets.
Before the artillery has been upgraded and iterated, I am not planning to install artillery for the army. A artillery weighs 2000-3000 catties. It is too laborious to transport, and when it is launched on land, the recoil may cause the artillery to self-destruct. The probability is extremely high, and if it is loaded on a warship, these problems will not exist.
In addition, naval soldiers stand on the deck and use arquebus guns. Because of the turbulence of the waves, the probability of self-injury increases, so let’s be sure in the early days. "
Sylvia Ocean nodded thoughtfully, and said, "My lord, it depends on what you mean. In the future, whether it is cavalry, infantry, ranged soldiers or melee soldiers, will their weapons be replaced with this kind of musket?"
Qu Mao nodded, and said: "It is inevitable, but the premise is that our musket update iteration has reached a certain level, at least it can be convenient for loading and shooting."
Kong Ming smiled wryly and said: "My lord, I understand what you mean, you are forming the Musketeer Team now just to cultivate seed players for the future army to use muskets.
It’s just that the subordinates don’t know how long it will take for your grand wish to come true. Now we can only say that it is the original matchlock gun, and even the musket factory has not been built. The 100 original matchlock guns used to form the musket team are all It's a lab product.
And you selected 200 fighters, but our laboratory only successfully produced 100…”
Qu Mao waved his hand to stop Kong Ming, and said: "The firearms team formed is mainly for training. It is already very extravagant for 200 soldiers to train with 100 primitive matchlock guns."
Kong Ming said: "My lord, you may not be clear: the barrel of the original matchlock gun will be very hot every time it is fired.
The subordinates have tested: after firing 5 times in a row, if the barrel is not cooled, then the barrel is very likely to explode if you continue to fire, and the barrel cannot be cooled with water, because the hot barrel comes into contact with cold water It is easy to cause the barrel to deform. "
Qu Mao nodded, and said: "Let's train slowly first, and call the soldiers together.
The improvement of the gun barrel has to start from the material, let’s improve step by step. "
After receiving the order, 200 outstanding fighters quickly approached Qu Mao.
Qu Mao gave a speech to the 200 fighters on the formation of the Musketeers, and officially announced the establishment of the Yihou Territory Musketeers.
Although these soldiers did not know what challenges they were about to face, they were full of energy and held their heads high.
Qu Mao was very satisfied with the spirit of the newly formed Musketeers, and said to Kong Ming: "Kong Ming, continue to produce the original matchlock guns for the Musketeers, and try to select a military hero to manage this team."
"Yes! Your Excellency!" Several heroes had no choice but to agree to Qu Mao's request.
(end of this chapter)