Just as the boat was turning back, several Yangzhou Guard's Japanese boats were on routine patrol on the lake.
After Qi Jiguang saw it, he turned around and asked Xie Kun: "Teacher, what is the name of this boat? Why does it feel a bit like a lucky boat to me!"
Xie Kun glanced at it and said: "This is called a straw boat, now it's called a sentry boat! It's actually a smaller version of the lucky boat!"
Xu He had been on a Japanese ship, but it was only today that he learned that the name of this kind of ship was a sentry ship!
Hearing this, he said curiously: "I didn't expect that my senior brother is still doing research on warships at such a young age."
Qi Jiguang is indeed very good, but Xu He always feels that Qi Jiguang in history also learned and grew up step by step during his military career. Unexpectedly, in this time and space, he has already begun to study weapons and warships.
Xie Kun smiled and said: "This is a warship. Yuan Jing, a northerner, doesn't know much about it. If it comes to swords, guns, swords and halberds, or even the formation of troops, Yuan Jing's knowledge, even if I am a teacher, I dare not say that he knows better than him." many!"
Qi Jiguang touched his nose and said sheepishly: "Teacher, you are so ridiculous. We warriors have been eating this bowl of rice for many generations, so we will always be influenced by it and know a little more!"
Next, Xu He knew how much this [slightly more] was!
"The bows used in our Wei army can be roughly divided into white birch bow, hemp back bow, yellow birch bow, black lacquer bow, Kaiyuan bow, Xiaoshao bow and Xifan wood bow."
"The bow is the first weapon. So when it comes to martial arts, the first one is bow and arrow. If we talk about arrows, there are more, including steel arrows, iron bone sharp cone arrows, rockets, armor-piercing cone arrows, and wolf tongues. Arrows, crescent moon arrows, rabbit arrows..."
Xu He asked curiously: "Aren't arrows the kind with feathers on the back and arrows on the front? What difference can there be?"
Qi Jiguang saw that Xu He really didn't understand anything, so he patiently explained: "The kind of arrows mentioned in Liangsheng should be point steel arrows. Indeed, this kind of arrows are more common, but there are many kinds of arrows in the army. There are those who fight, those who fight on water, those who shoot horses, those who shoot people, and those who shoot ship cables, to name a few.”
Xie Kun spoke up and said, "Yuan Jing also made two new types of arrows when he was in his hometown, which are very powerful. After he wrote to me and informed me, I made them in Zhejiang, and the effect of killing thieves is amazing!"
It turns out that Qi Jiguang invented two kinds of arrows, one is called the crescent arrow. According to his description, this kind of arrow is similar to the ordinary point steel arrow, but the arrow is sharp crescent shape. This kind of arrow is specially designed to shoot at the warship Pengsuo. .
You must know that although some of the warships of this era relied on human power to row, wind was actually the main driving force.
Once this kind of arrow shoots off the rope and drops the sail, the enemy warship will instantly lose power in the fierce battle and have no choice but to be captured.
"There is another type of arrow called the Rabbit Yao Arrow. As the name suggests, this kind of arrow has a [yao]-shaped mechanism behind the sharp arrow. It is shot into the human body. If you want to pull it out, the [yao] character will get stuck in the flesh and bones. If you take it out, The wound must be enlarged.”
Xu He was suddenly surprised when he heard this: "Isn't this a canine-tooth barb arrow?"
Qi Jiguang was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "The name my junior brother gave this arrow is quite appropriate! From now on it will be called the Canine Barb Arrow!"
The so-called canine barb arrow comes from a movie "New Dragon Gate Inn" that Xu He watched in his previous life.
In the movie, the East Factory uses prisoners to test arrows. One of the new arrows is called the canine barb arrow. Once it is shot into the human body, the wound will be enlarged if you want to pull it out.
There are no antibiotics in this era. Once there is a wound on the battlefield, it is still such a big wound. Even if the arrow is pulled out, the person is basically useless. Whether he can survive depends on God's will. If he can survive the high fever, there is still a glimmer of hope. …
Sure enough, the movie comes from life, and the director still put his heart into it!
"Where are the firearms?" Xu He was more concerned about firearms than these traditional weapons.
"If you want to ask about Yuan Jing's firearms, you've got to ask the right person! Yuan Jing's father has served as the general manager of Jiangnan Water Transport, the governor of Shandong Beiwa, the chief seal of Daning Dusi, and the deputy general of the Shenji Battalion! Seven years ago, Yuan Jing returned He spent some time with his father in the Daning Dusi Shenji Camp, so he knows the best about firearms!"
Qi Jiguang became humble again, and Xu He found that he really respected Xie Kun. Unlike himself, he was familiar with teachers like Xie Kun and Li Zhijie, and spoke very casually in private except for formal occasions.
But Qi Jiguang was different. Perhaps because of his status as a warrior, he was always cautious when facing Xie Kun and was afraid of making mistakes.
This is not to say that it is bad, it can only be said that everyone has his own way of doing things, and no one can use his own standards to demand others.
After some humility, Qi Jiguang said: "Nowadays, the army is commonly equipped with Lumi bird guns. The base of this kind of bird gun is made of mulberry wood first, followed by river willow. In the south, eucalyptus wood is mostly used. The length of the barrel is controlled according to the base. There are two or three iron buttons at the bottom, which lock it tightly so that it will not vibrate when it is released!"
"The back door of the gun has a screw-like bottom and is connected by an iron chain. The other front doors, fire door, and engine are also equipped."
"This kind of bird gun was also imitated from the captured Japanese gun in recent years!"
Xu He understood when he heard this.
The so-called Lumi blunderbuss should be what Japan calls [iron cannon].
Speaking of this [Iron Cannon], we have to mention the famous historical event in Japanese history - "The Coming of the Iron Cannon".
In another time and space, Japanese iron cannons were introduced to Japan in the twelfth year of Astronomy. Three Portuguese people drifted to Japan's Tanegashima Island due to a typhoon.
And also carried Western-style muskets at the time.
Tanegashima Tokiyasu, the fourteenth generation leader of Tanegashima at the time, and his father Tanegashima Megumi realized its power, paid a lot of money to buy it and gave it to the local blacksmith Hachiban Kinbei to imitate. Finally, they forged the first Japanese iron in the following year. gun.
That is the round shape of the Satsuma Gun.
The effective range of this iron cannon is about 200 meters, but in terms of hit rate, it is only 40 meters.
But even with such aiming rate and lethality, it surpassed traditional firecrackers and could be said to be the best firearm in Asia at that time.
On the Chinese side, firearms research began in the Song Dynasty.
According to records in the "History of the Song Dynasty", it is said that a firearm called the Tuhuo Gun was developed during the Song Dynasty. This Tuhuo Gun used a giant bamboo as a tube with a nest inside. When ignited, flames would spurt out, and the sound could be heard as far as more than 150 steps away. .
In the Yuan Dynasty, firearms began to develop, and they were no longer the kind of ornaments that could only scare people but had no actual combat effect.
But compared to the West at the same time, the West was obviously more successful in improving and developing firearms than China.
"Brother, besides this Lumi gun, what other firearms do we have? Do we have cannons?" Xu He asked.
"Cannon?" Qi Jiguang thought for a while, "There is a stone cannon!"
"No, it's the kind of cannon that's mounted on a car and can fire gunpowder!" Xu He shook his head.
"Yes, you are talking about the seven-star gun, right? That thing is useless. In fact, the principle is to tie the bird gun to a car, ignite it and launch it. It looks scary, but it is actually very lethal!" Qi Jiguang explained.
When Xu He heard this, he finally knew that it turned out that the Fo Lang machine gun had not been introduced to the Wei Dynasty.
