Yang Shiyilang: What is the wet mixing method, what is granular medicine, and what is maroon medicine.
Beautiful girl with Chinese style: Sajia will explain it to you.
A detailed document was then sent.
Yang Fan took it in, opened it and saw that it was like this.
A sudden realization.
Yang Shiyilang: What are the benefits of granular medicine?
Chinese style beauty girl: stable, well combined, and will not fail due to vibration during transportation.
Powdered medicine is easily squeezed together when it is stressed in the barrel. In this way, it will not be completely burned due to lack of oxygen when ignited. A lot of unburned medicine will be sprayed out of the barrel along with the bullet. This reduces the potency of the medicine. The waste is serious and raises military costs.
In order to solve this problem, early gunners would avoid filling the gun too tightly, but it would not work too loosely, because this would also reduce the power of the gun.
The best operation is to deliberately not fill the gun chamber too full or too tightly when loading the gun. However, although this can bring out the power of the gun, it requires a high level of experience and skill on the part of the gunman and is difficult for ordinary people to learn.
The granular medicine has large gaps, sufficient oxygen, and complete combustion. The combustion lasts well, and the energy output is stable and not easy to explode.
Emperor Sauron: Later, with the advancement of medicine, the gun could be made longer and the range increased.
The British experimented, using a late 13th century recipe. The medicine is prepared by dry mixing method and wet mixing method respectively, and the bullets are divided into lead pellets and steel pellets (used as armor-piercing bullets in the late Middle Ages).
The shooting target is a 2.54 mm mild steel plate, and the shooting distance is 9.1 meters. The misfire of the medicine mixed with dry powder is quite high, a quarter of the misfire.
The medicine made by getting it wet and stirring will have a very low misfire rate. Wet-mixed ammunition performs more reliably, with a misfire rate of less than 10% in tests, a faster burning rate, and a higher muzzle velocity.
During the test, the muzzle velocity of the lead bullet fluctuated greatly, which may be caused by the irregular shape of the lead bullet. During the test, it was found that the fire door gun was fairly accurate at a distance of 9.1 meters, but beyond this distance it was not clear.
The muzzle velocity of the 15-inch portal gun representing the late 15th century portal gun is 50% higher than the 5-inch portal gun representing the 14th century portal gun. This is mainly due to the advancement of gunpowder.
Moreover, the 5-inch fire door gun hit the steel plate five times, but never penetrated the steel plate. The 10-inch fire door gun hit the steel plate 14 times and penetrated only 6 times. The 15-inch fire door gun hit the steel plate 8 times and penetrated the steel plate 5 times.
In other words, the front loaded shell of your nine-knot repeating gun must be no less than 381 mm away from the muzzle to ensure its power. And the distance should not exceed ten meters, otherwise you won’t know where it hit.
Yang Shiyilang: I understand, so my design is a failure.
Emperor Sauron: Not necessarily. I think your design still has great value, but it’s just wrongly positioned and used in the wrong situation.
When the First Infantry fought at close range, the precise range of the nine-barrel musket exceeded the length of a spear, and the firepower was continuous and powerful. Still of great value.
It is recommended that you install a handguard and stock on this gun. Use it simply as a rifle, shoot with the butt of the gun on your shoulder, and the other hand can be freed to light the gun. And it doesn’t get hot even if it has a handguard.
In addition, this kind of gunner needs sword and shield soldiers to cover in front. He fires from behind, which works better. A third row of spearmen can also be added.
As he said this, he sent a picture, which was an exploded view of the 98K rifle.
You see, just use the wooden part of this modern rifle. The design is very reasonable and has reached perfection. There's no need to use those weird ancient designs. The one-meter-long barrel can be fixed on it with iron buckles.
Can even be designed to quickly change barrels. Usually the gunner carries a loaded barrel on his back and can quickly replace it after firing. 18 rounds are enough for one round. No need to reload.
It is specially used for the battle between two armies, and during hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons, it is specially used for queuing up and shooting within ten meters.
Yang Shiyilang: Got it. Thank you all great gods. I have another question, why can't the fire portal gun deal with bows and arrows?
Pharaoh's slipper-bearing officer: You must first understand that there is a difference between a bow and a crossbow, although they are both tools for shooting arrows. But their usage is completely different.
The bow is most commonly used as a deflection weapon. The most commonly used method for crossbows is direct-fire weapons. Just like howitzers and tank guns.
Although the fire door gun is powerful at close range, its range is an issue. The heavy steel crossbow of the 15th century could shoot the crossbow bolt 380 yards (1 yard is about 0.91 meters) at an elevation angle of 45 degrees, and the range could reach 70 yards (63 meters) when fired flatly.
Because the crossbow is mainly used for horizontal shooting, the range disadvantage of the long-barreled door gun using high-efficiency gunpowder is not obvious enough, but it pales in comparison to the British longbow. A 100-pound longbow has a range of about 250 yards, and a 160-pound longbow can even shoot up to 350 yards.
Moreover, the shape of the lead bullet causes the speed of the bullets fired by the fire door gun to attenuate quite seriously, which means that when shooting at long-distance targets, the power of the fire door gun will be greatly reduced. In addition, the reloading process of the fire door gun is cumbersome and the rate of fire is slow.
Compared with the above problems, the poor accuracy of the fire door gun seems less important. On the battlefield, the gunners faced enemies in dense formations. Hitting these targets was far easier than shooting a single enemy. This is also the reason why the early fire gate guns were rarely equipped by the army despite their poor actual power.
Yang Shiyilang: Then why did the matchlock eventually eliminate the crossbow?
Medici beauty: That’s because the barrel of the matchlock is forged, and the barrel is drilled with a steel drill and carefully polished and bored. At the same time, gunpowder technology also advanced. The barrel was greatly lengthened, increasing bullet travel. The range can reach about eighty meters. Beyond the direct range of the crossbow, the crossbow was eliminated first. Then the rifled gun came along, making the bow obsolete at range.
Fat Tiger: Your design is actually good. It is very useful for supporting soldiers in melee combat at close range. It has strong firepower and fast firing speed. It can even deal with cavalry within thirty meters. Rapid ignition in sequence is enough to finish the fight. Five rounds of lead bullets. Moreover, it is enough to penetrate iron armor at a short distance, and it is no problem to kill a horse at a distance.
Yang Fan closed the notebook with satisfaction.
His confusion was clear.
Tomorrow he will find the fifty carpenters he brought to make the gun stock.
Change the nine-section repeating gun into a rifle style.
At the same time, a large wooden shield was made and equipped with one hundred and fifty sets of captured armor and long swords.
Then put the gun head on a long wooden pole and stab it with Jiannu.
Those magic guns that have been made cannot be discarded, these are all silver. You can let the soldiers wear an extra bracket, which can at least make up for it.
Yang Fan felt relieved and fell into a deep sleep.
