The leaders of the Jurchens of the East China Sea saw musket fire for the first time, and they were so shocked that they couldn't close their mouths from ear to ear.
The place they live in is no different from thousands of years ago, with basically no much development. How people lived hundreds of generations ago is how they still live today.
Fishing in the river, hunting in the mountains, digging a hole in the ground to survive the winter.
Because they didn't know how to herd cattle and lacked horns and tendons, they couldn't make advanced bows and arrows. There is not even bamboo here, and the materials for basic high-end bows and arrows are not produced here.
But God will not starve the bird to death. There is no pastoralism here, no cattle. But the northeast has the material of England's longbow, yew. Yew is called Northeast yew in the Northeast. Mainly distributed in Gaoguanbaishan District of Jilin and eastern Liaoning; southeastern Zhangguangcai Mountains and Laoyeling Mountains of Heilongjiang Province, with a small amount distributed northward to the southern Xiaoxinan Mountains.
To the west of Shuangchengzi are Changbai Mountain and Laoye Ridge. Therefore, although their hunting bows are single-piece bows and are short for ease of use in the forest, the excellent power storage function of the purple shirt makes the performance of the bow and arrow acceptable.
At this time, Mao Zi's Far East pioneering team had not yet arrived here. They would not reach the Buryat-Mongolia area until the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, which was still far away from here. The firearms of Jiannu were mainly used to defend against the Ming Dynasty, so naturally they would not be displayed here.
It was the first time they had seen firearms discharged.
Three sections of shooting, continuous firepower, deafening sound, and rising fire and smoke. It scared them badly. They could not understand the power of smoke and fire.
Seeing these leaders, the people were already calmed down. Yang Fan waved his hand and asked the field artillery battalion stationed in Shuangcheng to pull out eighteen twelve-pound guns and conduct artillery training on the spot.
Chief Hezhe Rihara is the leader of the Hezhe people from the Ussuri River. Their tribe makes a living by fishing in the Ussuli River. The Wusuli River is a tributary of the Heilongjiang River and is located in the eastern part of the Heilongjiang River Basin.
It was called "Anju Gushui" in the Tang Dynasty, "Alimen River" in the Jin Dynasty, "Hulvugu River" in the Yuan Dynasty, "Asu River" and "Suli River" in the Ming Dynasty, and it was called "Wusuli River" in the Qing Dynasty.
It is rich in large freshwater fish and migratory fish. There are many kinds of salmon, pike, salmon and sturgeon. The skin of these fish is so thick that it can be made into clothing. They are the people who wear fish skin clothes. The Ewenki people in Xiaoxing'anling and Jiangbei wear clothes made of deerskin.
Hezhe Rihara stared and said: "The Ming Dynasty's muskets are too terrifying. My warriors were killed fifty steps away before they could even charge forward. Our bows and arrows couldn't reach them."
Chief Tataharaqi, who made the deer Ewenki, also echoed: "Yes, our bows and arrows and muskets cannot hurt the Ming army. Their muskets have a too far range."
These smoothbore flintlock rifles have reached the highest technical level of smoothbore guns. It is more advanced than the muskets of the French Napoleonic era in history.
The total length of this flintlock gun is about 1.5 meters, the barrel made of seamless steel tube is about 1.1 meters long, the caliber is 16 mm, and the bayonet length is usually slightly more than 0.4 meters. The length is nearly two meters when used as a bayonet. It can be used as a spear.
Except for the lack of rifling, all available technologies are used. The barrel is made of steel and drilled with a boring machine. It has very high precision and has a service life of more than 30,000 rounds, far exceeding the 12,000-round service life of French flintlock guns in the Napoleonic era.
There is an important indicator of whether a gun is accurate or not. That's where the bullet was when it flew out of the gun's barrel.
No matter how accurate the gun barrel is, there is still play in the bullet. Zoom in on the barrel and bullet. You will find that both have zigzag outer surfaces. Rather than being absolutely flat.
The bullet actually moves forward in a jumping style in the barrel of the gun, that is, in the internal ballistic trajectory. If the centers of the cross-sections of the gun barrel are connected in a straight line. The bullet moves along this line in an up and down sinusoidal motion.
If the bullet is exactly on this center line when it flies out of the gun barrel, it is the most accurate position. This gun will shoot very accurately, because the bullet has no up and down pitch angle when it comes out of the chamber, and flies straight out. The reason why the Mosin-Nagant rifle is super accurate is because the moment its bullet comes out of the chamber, it is on the center line of the barrel.
If every barrel could be made to achieve this performance, it would produce a gun of the highest quality designed for performance. Yang Fan's flintlock gun can meet this standard. Although not as good as a rifled gun, it has reached its peak among smoothbore flintlock guns.
The lethality of muskets far exceeds that of crossbows and other projectile weapons. As long as it hits, it can directly cause the opponent to withdraw from the battle, and it can effectively penetrate all kinds of armor. Hit is almost guaranteed to kill.
The Brown Bess flintlock gun can hit a humanoid target at 137 meters, while Yang Fan's flintlock gun can hit a humanoid target at 170 meters. Because he used cylindrical bullets. The tail part of the bullet is concave soft lead with built-in steel balls. When firing, under the pressure of gunpowder gas, the tail of the bullet expands and seals the barrel to prevent air leakage. The range is relatively long.
In this exercise, the chest target was a hundred meters away. With the level of training of the Jia Ding Regiment, the target was almost always on target. This directly made these savages see the gap. Their bows and arrows no longer have much lethality at this distance.
However, as the eighteen field guns were pushed into the shooting range, they found that there were many things that shocked them.
Boom boom boom! Eighteen cannons made a huge noise when activated by pulling the match rope. The ground was shaking so hard that you could feel it even standing on the city wall. My ears were buzzing even more.
These leaders looked at each other with shame, and everyone was shocked and inexplicable.
There are hundreds of sheep grazing three hundred meters away. Eighteen actual spherical bombs flew by, causing a bloody storm. The shells directly cut out eighteen flesh-and-blood alleys. After being plowed by the shells, the scene was horrific. The sheep that were hit were smashed to pieces. Broken meat and bones, and blood sprayed everywhere. The snow was dyed red.
"This, this, what kind of weapon. This is too scary." Head Enrique said tremblingly. He could imagine that his stockade built of logs was nothing but dregs in the face of such terrifying firearms. It was blasted into a pile of broken wood in minutes.
But what frightens them even more is what lies behind.
The engineer platoon launched a gas tank mortar that had been sent from the Horn of Africa. This is the same model that Ali copied from Syria. This homemade large-caliber mortar, which uses chemical fertilizers and sugar as propellant and explosives, is light and powerful.
This thing can be said to be very powerful. It is the trump card of the Shuangchengzi garrison. There are only three doors in total. Plus two thousand rounds of artillery shells.
The gas tank cannon is a heavy mortar modified by the Syrians using gas tanks. It has a huge caliber and can even seat a person on the muzzle. The explosive power of a 10-liter household gas tank is equivalent to 150 kilograms of TNT explosives. It is also equivalent to 3,000 grenades. Three cannons can easily blow up a complete residential building.
With bursts of muffled sounds. The ground shook violently. Three gas tank shells flew towards the target with tail fins, a circle drawn with black coal powder on the hillside of a distant mountain. There are also crosshairs inside the circle.
This distance is a full two kilometers away. Three cannonballs accurately fell into the circle.
Although the circle is very large, a hundred meters in diameter. But a huge explosion raised a mushroom cloud. The fireball completely covered the circle.
"This is our most powerful weapon, with a range of fifty meters to two thousand meters. That is about fifteen to six hundred steps as you said. All cities are a joke with this kind of weapon." Yang Fan looked frightened. The more than a hundred heads who were unconscious said calmly.
