After Liu Jun agreed to Mei Qing's request, Mei Qing became very pleased with Liu Jun again. He forgot about the unhappiness just now and surrounded Liu Jun and asked about the details of the battle at the Tiger Head Castle.

Mei Qing is obviously different from other ladies. She has no interest in female workers such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and is the most interested in these battles of fighting on the battlefield.

"I see that your bird guns are very accurate. How did you do it? Did you use a new type of firearm?" Mei Qing was very interested in the Jiutou Bird's firearm. She still remembers the series of firearms of the Jiutou Bird's gunmen before, and the bandits collapsed directly, but she did not hurt the Mei family who was fighting with it.

Liu Jun smiled and had a short time to get in touch with Mei Qing, but he fell in love with her a little. Of course, this love is not a love between men and women, but just a pure love for this person, a boy-like woman, she is so refreshing and innocent. Such a girl is hard to see in the future, let alone in this era.

"Actually, there is nothing special. We only use ordinary bird guns, but the quality is guaranteed, so there will be no frequent blowouts or inaccurate shooting. Secondly, our gunners have undergone long-term training, especially live ammunition training, so shooting has become a natural thing for them. The bird gunners among each of my official team members have a hit rate of more than 70% of the 80-step rakes."

Mei Qing was extremely surprised to hear that the hit rate of more than 70% of the 80-step rake was too amazing. Although she was a woman, she was not aware of firearms, but was familiar with them. He knew that the ignition rate of many government guns, even one fuse, was often only half. That is to say, in many cases, the fuse could not ignite the gunpowder, let alone the hit rate.

The half of the lit pointing often has an extremely low hit rate. Most government troops lack training, have less training time, and have even less live ammunition training. Therefore, when fighting, they are often busy and make mistakes in shooting steps. They either forget to pour gunpowder or load more lead. Some forget to open the fire door during firing, some forget to take out the strips, and some forget to plug the strips after loading the lead bullets, and the lead bullets often roll out of the barrel.

When shooting, he was even afraid of the fireworks in the gunpowder pool, so he turned his face aside, or simply pulled the trigger with his eyes closed. Not to mention strictly following the shooting method, and aiming at the butt on his cheek when shooting.

A musket is indeed an advanced ordnance. It takes a shorter time to manufacture bows and arrows, and its archer training time is also shorter, and the power of a time firearm is also huge. But at the same time, the firearm is more complicated to operate, requires high-quality, and has strict restrictions on weather, which requires excellent equipment, strict training, etc.

If you can't do these things, then the firearm will only become a waste. After all, a musket is just a weapon, and the key is the person who uses it.

There is no quality assurance and no sufficient training. The firearms are handed over to those who are undertrained, and they are just large firecrackers.

It takes at least three years to train an excellent archer, and archers also need strong young men to be suitable. Different muskets, with enough ammunition and quality-assured muskets, you can train a qualified musket soldier in three months. There is no need to require the gunner to be a young man, teenagers, middle-aged and elderly people in their forties and fifties, and even young women can become excellent gunners after training. This is the fundamental reason for the popularity of muskets.

"Your musket looks different from an average bird gun."

Mei Qing was very familiar with the bird gun and recognized the unusual gun that Liu Jun was carrying on his shoulder at first glance.

Liu Jun took off the musket from his shoulder and handed it to Mei Qing's hand, introducing to her, "This is called the Feilong Gun, originally named Lumi Gun, but this gun has been improved on Lumi Gun."

"I know the Lumi gun." Mei Qing said with a smile.

The so-called Lumi word in the Lumi gun refers to the Lumi Sultanate, to be precise, and some people say that Lumi is actually a trick of some merchants. Lumi in the Lumi gun is actually the destruction of the Rumi Sultanate. The merchants sold goods to the Ming Dynasty under the reputation of the Tuo Ottoman Turkish Empire. Therefore, the musket that was originally tributed in the name of Lumi was actually more likely to come from India or North Africa.

The biggest thing about Lumi Gun is that the fire door is aimed at the point where the eyes are slightly far away and the engine is only pinched, without pulling the ball, and the power is not moving. That is, the position of the Lumi Gun's bolt and the fire door. Once the bolt of Lumi Gun is pulled, it can bounce back without having to bend back with your hands. The second point is that the sparks splashed out from the fire door will not burn the shooter's eyes, which means that the shooter can not close his eyes or close his eyes less to increase the hit rate.

In addition, the Lumi gun also changed the original crooked stock to a square to reduce recoil. At the same time, it can also increase the length of the barrel as much as possible to increase the range and power. At the same time, the Lumi gun's caliber is larger than the traditional bird gun of the Ming army, so it is more powerful.

Mei Qing also used the Lumi gun. The Lumi gun was more accurate and farther than the bird gun, but the cost was higher. However, Mei Qing carefully looked at the flying dragon gun in his hand, but felt that there were still many differences from what he had used.

There is a sight in front of the gun and the rear is a gate. The gun is five feet long and weighs about six kilograms. These are basically the same as the Lumi gun she used, but the buttstock is more bent and wider. In addition, the fire door cover seems to be a little different.

"This is a little different. Is there any special use?" Mei Qing asked.

Liu Jun was surprised by Mei Qing's familiarity with the fire gun and explained, "The top of the fire plate of this gun has a disk cover that can slide forward and backward to open and close. It is specially designed to prevent the ignition powder from scattering and also has a safety function to prevent fire. When the medicine pool is equipped with the lead-in gunpowder, the fire door cover can be closed, and then when the trigger is pressed, the rotor shaft rotates, the disk cover opens the cam and pushes the disk cover lever to open the disk cover."

"In this way, you don't need to open the fire door cover with your hands before firing." Mei Qing suddenly understood the special thing about this device. Before each fire door cover, you must open the charge first, then cover it and then load the ammunition into the gun barrel. When you are ready, you must open it manually when firing so that the fuse can fall and ignite it. There will be a time difference between opening the cover until it is fired. Although the time is very short, if the wind is strong, the gunpowder will be blown away by the wind, and even when it is raining, it will be wet.

But with this device, it actually eliminates the last manual fire door cover action. Pull the trigger, the faucet clamps the fuse and falls down, the fire door cover automatically opens, the fuse ignites and fires. This saves one action, and also minimizes the exposure time of the fire door cover opening gunpowder, greatly preventing the possibility of the gunpowder being blown by wind and rain. As long as it is not heavy rain, some light rain will not even affect the ignition of the gunpowder.

On the battlefield, a reduction in one action is sometimes faster than a minute of shooting time. At this time, you can even shoot one more shot, or even save a soldier's life. Not to mention, the self-opening door cover is to prevent wind and rain. You should know that the reason why soldiers in the north refused to use bird guns was because the wind in the north was that the gunpowder of the combrot gun was easily blown, which was not as safe and reliable as the fire gate guns directly used wires.

"This seems to be the same as the Yin-Yang dual-machine on the Heji Gun." Mei Qing is also an expert in firearms, and she has seen all kinds of firearms.

Liu Jun was already a little surprised, and said, "It's true. In fact, it's not just borrowing the Yin-Yang dual-machine of the Heji Gun, but there are traces of the Xuanyuan Gun." These firearms were specially designed by Zhao Shizhen at the time because the general general of the northern border army suspected the ignition problem of the bird gun.

Liu Jun's chief craftsman was Zhao Shizhen's re-editor. He learned all of these. After improvement, he finally improved the spontaneous fire door cover on the Feilong Gun, and used the Yin-Yang dual machine to greatly increase the performance of the Feilong Gun.

"This stock is wider than the original Lumi gun. Is there any explanation?" Mei Qing asked.

"There is a reason to widen the butt stock." Liu Jun said proudly. The butt stock of the Lumi gun is originally wider than that of the bird gun. Of course, the purpose is not to look good, but to shoot with a wide butt stock that can be shot with the shoulders. The original musket was shot with cheeks. When firing, the face was used to reduce recoil and enhance stability and accuracy.

Liu Jun, who has been born in later generations, certainly knew that most rifles in later generations relied on their shoulders and cheeks to reduce recoil, especially when shooting with shoulders. At this time, most buttstocks were too thin and were not suitable for shooting with shoulders. Therefore, Liu Jun unceremoniously changed the flying dragon-style buttstock style to the large buttstock style of rifles in later generations.

In this way, the flying dragon-style shooting method has also changed from being on the cheek to being on the shoulder to shooting, which greatly improves the shooting accuracy.

"Can I try it?" Mei Qing couldn't help but itched when she heard Liu Jun say so many of the improved advantages.

"Of course." Liu Jun nodded with a smile. The soldiers were still cleaning the battlefield and bandaging the wounded. There was still some time left for the time being.

Liu Jun took the ammunition bag from his body and handed it to Mei Qing. Mei Qing took it and opened it. He saw not the familiar gunpowder tube, lead bullet, and medicine-guiding jar, but rows of paper tubes, and couldn't help but wonder.

She often uses firearms and is very familiar with the shooting process of muskets. Generally, the loading of muskets is very complicated. First, you have to take a pre-filled bamboo medicine tube in advance, pour the quantitative gunpowder into the gun tube, then take the lead bullet from the lead bag and put it into the gun tube, then stuff some rags into it and use a strip to fix the gunpowder and lead inside, so that the projectile will not fall out when the muzzle sags.

Then, fill some gunpowder from the induction pot and pour it into the gunpowder pool, then close the fire door cover, ignite the fuse and clamp it into the faucet. The entire loading process is completed. Then open the gunpowder pool, aim and shoot.

During this loading process, any error in any step will make it impossible to successfully launch. In such a tedious loading process, every shot will take half a day.

But now, there are only these paper tubes in front of Mei Qing, no fixed charge tubes, medicine induction cans, and lead bags.

Liu Jun took out a round-shaped paper tube, "This is a fixed-loading paper bullet, which contains gunpowder, launching medicine and projectiles." Liu Jun directly bit off the head of the paper bullet with his teeth. The paper roll of this ammunition is very tough and soaked in the grease. It tastes really not very good when biting in his mouth.

After biting the paper bullet, Liu Jun poured a little into the gunpowder pool, then covered the fire door cover. Then poured all the remaining gunpowder into the gun chamber, and poked it with a strip of threads, and then stuffed the remaining projectiles wrapped in paper into the gun chamber.

Because the paper shell is soaked with oil, it is more convenient to stab it in. Moreover, with these paper shells, you don’t need to stuff a strip into the gun to fix the lead bullet.

"Okay, the loading is complete." Liu Jun inserted the whole strip back and handed the flying dragon gun to Mei Qing.

Mei Qing stared at her big eyes, a little unbelievable. She is an expert in musket guns. Liu Jun's loading action just now saved several steps than the standard musket loading. The original lead bag, gunpowder can, and fixed gunpowder bamboo tube are now directly merged into an ammunition bag.

This not only reduces the time of two steps, but also allows the gunner to carry more ammunition at a time. Nowadays, a musketman carries 300 rounds of lead in wartime, but only 30 cartridges can be fixedly installed. During the battle, if you finish thirty guns, although there are gunpowder, it has to be re-measured. Not to mention the time-consuming and troublesomeness, but carrying two bags of gunpowder directly is really dangerous, especially when musketmen have to carry a lit fuse.

However, this kind of fixed-packing paper bullet is no longer limited to thirty rounds, and can be carried more at one time, and is wrapped in oil-immersed paper shells, which is not only moisture-proof, but also safe and saves time.

In the end, I didn't even have to stuff the cloth strips.

In addition to the time-saving spontaneous fire door cover and its wind and rainproof function, Liu Jun's flying dragon gun is much more advanced.

Mei Qing, who looked a little excited, held the flying dragon gun. She knew that if it was as Liu Jun said, then this musket would really make the musketman even more powerful.

Lift the loaded musket and press the gun against the cheek.

"Press the butt on your shoulder." Liu Jun helped her correct her posture. He stood behind her, walked around from behind to the front with his hands, grabbed her hand holding the gun, and helped her adjust to the new shooting method with her shoulder-to-cheek style.

The two of them were close together, both indulging in this new flying dragon gun, and for a moment they even forgot the fact that Mei Qing was actually a woman.

Mei Tingyou was shocked. He looked at the intimate posture of the two hugging each other tightly and holding each other, and his mouth was wide open, and he forgot to close it.

"It's over, something big happened. Why should I go back and explain to the master now?" Mei Tingyou really wanted to rush up and shout to the lady, "There is a difference between men and women, and it's not a kiss, Miss. Even if you are that, you have to avoid some people. It's not like this, but hundreds of people are watching. It's so polite to hug you like this. If this matter is spread, how can you still have the face to meet people in the future."

"Besides, Miss, have you never heard of this? Liu Jiye is already engaged to Miss Lu? How can you, the daughter of the governor, the lady of the Sima family, be so angry?"

Unfortunately, Mei Qing is now focused on this new type of musket. She forgot that she is an unmarried daughter, and that she forgets the intimate posture between her and Liu Jun at this time.

She held the flying dragon gun, pressed her shoulders and cheeks, aimed at a big tree dozens of steps away, held her breath and calmly pulled the trigger, and a bang exploded, and a stream of white smoke rose in front of her.

The two of them ran through the whistle and ran towards the tree.

"I've hit it"

On the tree pole, a lead bullet had turned into a flattened piece, and some had even cracked and separated.

Although this flat lead bullet is soft, it is extremely powerful. After it hits the human body, it will deform due to resistance, causing the damage in the human body to become larger than the wound. If it penetrates, it will form a wound several times larger than the diameter of the projectile in the part that is strung out. Even if the fragments of the projectile are not all taken out of the wound, it will also cause lead poisoning.
Chapter completed!