The development process of human muskets is roughly in three steps: smoothbore muskets, rifles, which are what we usually call rifled gunpowder guns, and then breech guns.

The gunpowder gun that truly changes the course of human war should be a breech rifle, because the gunpowder guns in the first two stages have their own defects and are serious defects.

Let’s first talk about the smoothbore gun. This gun is indeed the first time that humans have put into war on a large scale, and is quite famous.

However, the wars fought in the era with this gun as the main weapon are also quite funny, and can be seen often in some movies that reflect this era.

The enemy and us met on the battlefield in an orderly manner. When both sides marched to about a hundred steps left from each other, both sides heard it at the same time and began to load bullets at the barrel clumsyly.

After loading the bullets, everyone on both sides fired at the other side at the same time. After the gunshots, they were surprised to find that the other party had died more than theirs.

This formation is a famous dense line array. Of course, there are also an improved version of this formation, which is to divide people into three rows when there are many people, shoot in the first row, prepare in the second row, and fill in the third row. This tactic is called three-stage shooting, and of course it was invented by the Chinese.

However, three-stage shooting can only make up for the shooting speed of the line array, but it cannot make up for one of the biggest flaws of the smoothbore gun, which is the shooting accuracy.

The reason why the line array that seems a bit funny to future generations is that the shooting accuracy of the smoothbore gun is so bad.

The shooting accuracy of smoothbore guns is so bad that it is that when the projectile flies out of the muzzle, it depends on God's intention. The ballistic trajectory of this gun can only be described as erratic, and it is very susceptible to external factors. It is possible that a gust of wind can blow the projectile to a place you have never thought of.

Therefore, we have to use a line array, which seems unscientific, to make up for the shooting accuracy of the gun, and to make up for the majority and large areas.

Moreover, there is another great disadvantage of smoothbore guns, which is to load the front chamber. There is a very important step when loading the gunpowder and the projectiles into the chamber. After the gun is filled with a strip, it must be stabbed into the porcelain.

This means that the butt stock must stand against the ground for leveraging force, so the gun holder must stand when loading. Standing on the battlefield means that the person is a living target who will not move at least for a short time.

However, someone later solved the problem of shooting accuracy, and this solution was to improve the barrel and bullet. There was something called rifling in the barrel, and the bullet was no longer a spherical bullet, but became a combination of cones and cylinders. This kind of gun was later called rifling guns or rifles.

The emergence of rifles greatly improves the shooting accuracy and range of the gun, because the rifle gives the bullet the ability to rotate, allowing the bullet to fly in a predetermined direction after it flies out of the barrel, reducing the outside world's intervention in the bullet, especially the wind.

However, although this gun has such good accuracy and range, the loading speed of this gun is still worrying, even worse than that of a smoothbore gun.

Because the rifle is a bore gun, like a smoothbore gun, but the rifle has the presence of the rifle, which causes severe friction to increase. When loading, no longer throwing the projectile into the barrel and waiting for it to reach the bottom of the barrel directly by gravity.

Instead, each bullet needs to be wrapped in a cloth soaked in lubricating oil, and then knocked into the barrel with a wooden hammer, which makes it more time-consuming to load.

This means that even though the rifle appeared in the fifteenth century, it was not popular until the eighteenth century.

What really saved rifles in the eighteenth century was another new gun technology, that is, the birth of breech gun technology.

When the breech gun technology was produced, all the shortcomings of the rifle were avoided. The ammunition was loaded directly from the back of the barrel, saving the cumbersome filling process.

Because it is a breech loading, all gunmen no longer need to load bullets on their feet, and can also load ammunition in a lying position, which greatly enhances the survival probability of gunmen when loading.

In this way, after the weaknesses are avoided, all the advantages of the rifle are infinitely magnified. High precision and long range are the war finally enters a new chapter, that is, it becomes very easy to seize a person's life on the battlefield.

However, these will not be truly completed in the original human history until the eighteenth century.

However, in this historical time and space, a guy who traveled through time appeared. Zhao Weiji, who came from the 21st century, naturally no longer needed a smoothbore rifle, a rifle, and a breeze rifle.

Although this guy doesn't have the ability to directly create Maxim now, there is no problem in directly pointing out the breeze rifle in the technology tree.

When the Central Plains was in a state of being replaced by the emperor, Zhao Weiji silently created a breech-renched rifle in Xinhua City.

Moreover, after Zhao Weiji evaluated the production capacity of Xinhua City, he jumped directly to the later classic rifle Mauser rifle. Although Xinhua City is still in the steam engine era, it has already had a very skilled technical level in the forging ability of metals. Zhao Weiji almost concentrated all the most brilliant blacksmith's sect in the Central Plains into Xinhua City.

In addition, batches of students who graduated from science and engineering have combined the two to rapidly improve the forging level of steel.

This gave Zhao Weiji sufficient confidence to step into the Mauser rifle in one step. However, Zhao Weiji was still restricted by certain technology, so the Mauser rifle he produced was only the original version, which means that he could only load one bullet at a time.

But even such guns also caused a huge sensation in Xinhua City. When the first Mauser gun was released, no one except the people in the factory knew what it was.

However, when Zhao Weiji brought the gun to the school ground, found a door panel erected in the center of the ground, and then stood two hundred meters away and shot through the door panel, everyone present took a breath.

The door panel was removed by Zhao Weiji from his own house, and the thickness is as long as half a thumb. Ordinary bows and arrows are nailed to the top at the same distance, so it is almost impossible to shoot through them.

Even the iron-arm crossbow may not be able to shoot through the door panel, and this thing that I don’t know what it was actually shot through the door panel directly.

This made the people present who participated in the army and went to the battlefield suddenly shudder. If they could pass through such a door panel, ordinary armor might not be able to block it.

Soon Zhao Weiji made their nightmare reality because he found a scarecrow and put a piece of basic armor worn by ordinary soldiers on the scarecrow.

Then Zhao Weiji replaced the gun with a bullet, stood at the distance he had just shot, aiming at the scarecrow and shot. Then, in addition to hearing the bang of the gun, everyone present also heard another metal impact sound.

And at the same time, I saw the wooden pillars supporting the scarecrow broke in response to the sound, and the scarecrow flew back a foot away.

At this time, someone went up to check the scarecrow's condition and found that a hole was shot out of the armor on the straw man's chest. After seeing the hole, the person who inspected it pulled the armor off the scarecrow's body, and then found a deformed bullet in the position of the scarecrow's body corresponding to the hole just now.

This made the entire school audience completely unable to speak, while Zhao Weiji smiled with satisfaction.

Zhao Weiji's aides have never figured out why this is the case. In their impression, although Zhao Weiji has made many outstanding achievements on the battlefield, he himself is not a bloodthirsty person.

If he was a bloodthirsty man himself, then there would not be so many Indians working peacefully in Xinhua City now, because facing those Indians, with the military strength of Xinhua City at that time, as long as all the men were armed, they could easily defeat these Indians and capture them.

However, more often when conflict arises, Zhao Weiji seems to be more willing to solve things through strategies rather than force. Although sometimes using force can be easier and faster.

So after the demonstration was over, the staff asked Zhao Weiji why he wanted to make such a terrifying weapon at this time. Did he want to fight back to the Central Plains by force?

However, Zhao Weiji's explanation was that this kind of gun was not used to kill back to the Central Plains, but to deal with the Khitans.

This makes people very curious because the Khitans are too far away for Xinhua City, so far away that everyone almost forgot that there is such a kind of human existence.

Just when everyone had forgotten the existence of the Khitans, Zhao Weiji suddenly brought them back to everyone's memory and invented such a terrifying weapon to deal with the Khitans.

So at this time, some smart people had already guessed Zhao Weiji's intention, and at this time, Zhao Weiji no longer concealed some of his thoughts.

He clearly told everyone here that there would definitely be another war between the Khitans and the Song Dynasty. But he did not tell the time of the war.

However, Zhao Weiji clearly stated that when this battle broke out, it was time for Xinhua City to fully demonstrate itself in front of the Central Plains, which was the time for them to return to the Central Plains.

This made everyone here feel a little excited. Although they lived well in Xinhua City, who wouldn't want to return home in glory?

However, when I was immigrating, many people never thought that they could return to their hometown one day, because in the concept of many people, this is not immigration, but exile.

So even if you live in Xinhua City, the concept of exile has always existed, so no one has ever thought about going home. However, if Zhao Weiji, the highest leader of Xinhua City, said that he could go home, then he could really go home.

However, before this, there were still many things to be prepared. In addition to the Mauser rifle, the cannon should be released the same.
Chapter completed!