After coming out of [Prayer Silver Building], Ouyang Shuo turned around and left the royal city and walked towards the southern city area.

Nancheng District is the expanded military industrial area.

Research Institute No. 7 is located here.

It has been a month since the Black Snake Guard found the [Ming Dynasty Firearm Manufacturing Technical Manual] from the Heavenly King Palace. I don’t know how Liu Mo and others have studied this manual.

When he returned to Shanhai City, Ouyang Shuo naturally had to inspect it.

Firearms represent the highest level and main attack direction of the territory's future technology.

There are two main categories of firearms in the Ming Dynasty: the first category is fire guns and bird guns placed with hand-held points. Their shape and diameter are small. Generally, the barrel is loaded with lead bullets and iron bullets, and its range is only a few dozen to 200 steps.

Convert to meters, the farthest is only two or three hundred meters.

Among the muskets, the more representative ones include the three-eyed gun, the Lianzi gun, the crooked gun, the Thunder gun, the Five Thunder God Machine, the Lumi gun, etc.

Among them, the one that must be mentioned is the crutch gun.

The crooked gun is a continuous grenade gun with a crank, with a length of 37.5 cm. It uses a loading method similar to a Franchise machine, and can be continuously fired three times with a range of 150 meters. It was called the "Wansheng Franchise Machine" in the Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that the crooked gun is already the closest musket to Western muskets.

The second type is artillery with large caliber and shape fired on the rack. Most of the barrels are loaded with stone, lead, iron, etc., commonly known as "solid bullets", and a few are loaded with explosive balls, with a range of several hundred steps to two or three miles away. They are mainly used for guarding villages and siege cities, and are also used for field battles, water battles and naval battles.

Hong Xiuquan had previously conquered the second type of artillery.

All artillery from Tianjing City has arrived in Shanhai City for physical research at the No. 7 Research Institute.

The more representative of the artillery in the Ming Dynasty include tiger squat cannons, Franc aircraft and red barbarian cannons.

Among them, the Red Cannon, known as the General Cannon, was manufactured by Western technology introduced in the late Ming Dynasty. It has gun ears and sights, which can adjust the range and have a long lifespan of the cannon body. The larger ones weigh 1.6 tons and can have a range of 1.9 kilometers.

In addition to muskets and cannons, there is also a type of firearm, namely rockets, including cluster rockets, divine fire flying crows, fire dragons coming out of water, etc.

The Divine Fire Flying Crow is filled with gunpowder in the body of the crow. There are gunpowder lines in the gunpowder and are connected in series with the gunpowder in the take-off rocket cartridge.

When launching, first ignite the gunpowder line of the rocket to fly to the enemy, and detonate the gunpowder in the raven body, killing and burning the enemy's troops. It is a powerful tool for breaking the formation and siege.

The fire dragon comes out of water, as the name suggests, is a powerful tool for water war.

It is a multi-stage rocket in the Ming Dynasty. It is a first-stage rocket with a paper-paste tube. There is a second-stage rocket in the dragon mouth. After it is fired, it increases the range and hits enemy ships. It is used for water attacks and the range can reach 1.5 kilometers.

It seems that the Ming Dynasty firearms were already extremely developed and very comprehensive, and can be used in actual combat. However, compared with the West of the same period, it is more than one level away.

First of all, let’s talk about the musket.

The three-eyed gun was the mainstream musket among the Ming Dynasty muskets, but its real killing range was only less than ten meters, and it had strong power within a distance of two meters. It was not accurate at all. It was just that it could be used as a hammer for hand-to-hand combat if it was fired.

Let’s talk about the crutch gun mentioned above. This was a musket introduced by the Ming Dynasty from the West. Unfortunately, due to the technological level at that time, it was basically impossible to imitate.

Even if the imitation is successful, both safety performance and power will be greatly discounted.

The first thing is in the material.

Take metallurgy for example. Chinese people use pig iron, and very few cooked iron, while the barrel of musket must be forged with cooked iron or steel, which makes the Chinese extremely embarrassed and have to give up in the end.

And this has been solved by Shanhaicheng.

Before Ouyang Shuo left Shanhai City, he had already started to arrange the steel industry. So far, all ten steel mills he planned have been built and put into production and use one by one.

The Finance Department spent a huge amount of gold coins every month and purchased millions of tons of iron ore and coal, which was enough to support the early production needs of the steel mills.

Let’s talk about artillery.

The so-called tiger squat cannon, because of the tragedy of metallurgical technology, made the cannon chamber extremely thick, and could only make a stone ball, the size of a billiard ball, with no distance at all, and there was no wheel.

The magical artifact, the Franco machine, was a small cannon on the eliminated Western merchant ships. It was called "the toy of sailors without practical combat capabilities", but this thing became an amazing firearm when it was passed down to the Ming Dynasty.

For the Ming Dynasty, Folang Ji was an ultra-high-tech product that exceeded its national scientific and technological capabilities. Without foreigners' guidance, it could not even be produced.

Moreover, domestically produced Lang Machines often explode, and the people who explode the chamber far exceed those who were bombarded to death.

It can be said to be a complete tragedy.

In the late Ming Dynasty, Western technology was introduced, and the counterfeit Red Cannons were the strongest firearms in the entire Ming Dynasty. In essence, there was no difference between Red Cannons and Big Buddhas, it was just longer and larger.

The level of casting large artillery in the Ming Dynasty was very low and the quality was very bad. The large artillery casting was often cracked waste, so foreigners needed to help and guide them to gradually pour successfully. However, the quality was still poor, so the cannon body was extremely thick. The red and barbarian cannons cast by the Ming Dynasty were mostly more than two meters long. In the Ming Dynasty, it was a giant cannon, which was known as a range of ten miles, but in fact it was only about one mile.

In contrast, the super mobile artillery cast by the Mongolian Mongol Dynasty was three meters high, with a barrel of twenty meters long and weighing fifty tons, and a shooting range of more than twenty kilometers.

There is no comparison between the two.

Therefore, after obtaining the "Ming Dynasty Firearm Manufacturing Technical Manual", Ouyang Shuo never thought of manufacturing various firearms in the manual one by one.

Although it is not difficult to do this for Shanhai City today.

What Ouyang Shuo wanted was to improve and transform the firearms again based on the "Ming Dynasty Firearm Manufacturing Technical Manual" and combine the existing scientific research strength of Shanhaicheng.

His goal in the first phase was to develop a musket that could catch up with the Western average and a new matching cannon.

That's all.

As for other muskets, rockets and other things, Ouyang Shuo really didn't have the time to think about it.

Only in this way can Ouyang Shuo lead the Chinese region and in the future national war, he will not repeat the humiliating tragedies in history because of the significant backwardness of weapons and equipment.
Chapter completed!