As early as a few years ago, Zhao Xing ordered the entire army to abide by the "three principles of firearm use.--()". Among them, Zhao Xing specifically emphasized the need to avoid the "invincible theory of firearms" and always adhere to the view that traditional war model is the main focus and firearm use is the auxiliary.

There is a reason why Zhao Xing asked so.

First of all, there are many difficult problems in this era, such as steelmaking technology, casting skills, and gunpowder performance control, which directly limit the research and development speed of advanced firearms. Moreover, due to the high production cost, new firearms cannot be used as popular weapons and can only be used as deterrent tactical weapons. What's more, before the moisture-proof problem of firearms is overcome, the use of firearms is very strict for the weather and battlefield environment. If you are not careful, you may miss the opportunity for combat.

Secondly, Zhao Xing was worried that after the "cheater" was opened too much, the troops would rely too much on firearms and relax their practice and attention to traditional tactics. Zhao Xing clearly remembered that the Ming Dynasty in later generations equipped with "red cannons" but failed to defend the defense line in the north, and eventually allowed the backward Qing cavalry to enter the pass. This was the same as when computers in later generations, many young people were only used to using keyboard input, but gradually forgot how to write some Chinese characters.

In the end, Zhao Xing did not want to make the pace of war technology too big, so that he far surpassed other technical fields of the same era, resulting in the adverse consequences of being top-heavy. Without corresponding national strength to support it, the research and development and use of advanced firearms became the root of the decline of the country. The best annotation was that two superpowers in later generations played a "space war". As a result, one of them was dragged into the quagmire by the other side, and eventually the country split and never recovered from then on.

It can be seen from this that Zhao Xing has always been very cautious in the research and development and use of firearms. He was not what he wanted. He asked his subordinates to develop whatever he thought of.

However, this time, Zhao Xing was very anxious to ask Ma Jun, Zhao Bu and others to develop the three weapons, "red-clothed cannon", "Franc machine cannon" and "bird gun". What are the purposes and intentions?

In fact, Zhao Xing had already clearly defined and divided the uses of these three weapons in his mind.

Zhao Xing was most interested in the "red-clothed cannon" for no other reason. This big guy weighing tons is a good tool to destroy the city wall fortress. According to the current national strength of Jin State, even if he invests a lot of military spending and craftsmen, it would be a top-up to be able to cast dozens of red-clothed cannons by the end of the year. Zhao Xing estimated that if he started to cast ten cannons at the same time, it would be good to have two of them successfully. The other eight will definitely either explode or do not meet the design requirements.

In view of this, the red-clothed cannon can only be rated to those vanguard troops that need to attack the city fortress in the future, and the number will not be large. Its biggest function is to reduce casualties between soldiers on its own and greatly shake the confidence of officers and soldiers on the defense.

What makes Zhao Xing more troubled is that a red-clothed cannon with all cast iron is as large as three or four thousand pounds, and it is not something that ordinary cattle and horses can drag. How to make the red-clothed cannon mobilize in the future is a very difficult task.

Zhao Bu, who was very flexible, came up with an idea. He suggested designing a special four-wheeled frame for the red-clothed cannon, and then let someone go from sea to Jiaozhou to buy a batch of tamed elephants, and use the elephants to drag the red-clothed cannon to move. Zhao Xing felt that Zhao Bu's idea was worth trying, so he immediately ordered someone to go to Jiaozhou to buy elephants.

Compared with the red cannon, the craft standard of the Fran cannon is significantly lower, but the same power will also be reduced a lot, but this is not the point. The advantage of the Fran cannon is that it can be manufactured in large quantities. Although the range of the shotgun shell it uses is a big killer to defend the enemy's attack if it is placed above the fortress on its own city gate.

Now looking around, Zhao Xing has few remaining opponents, but it does not mean that he can easily win. A few days ago, the Shadow Team members sent a tip back from Yangzhou, suspecting that Zhuge Liang's wife Huang Yueying had successfully created a weapon similar to the flamingos of Jin. If this situation is true, it will not be good news for Jin.

In the next battle of Yizhou and the Central Plains, both sides will invest huge forces, and the battlefield will be scattered everywhere, with all places. Perhaps Zhao Xing's troops desperately attacking Yanzhou in the east, but Cao Cao's troops appeared under Huguan, intending to directly attack Jin State's confidant. If Cao Cao's troops used gunpowder and weapons similar to "flamingo", wouldn't the Huguan defenders be in danger? But if "Fran Machine Cannon" was installed above Huguan for short-range defensive operations, they could not only defend Huguan smoothly, but also save a lot of troops to be deployed to the front-line battlefield.

From this point of view, Zhao Xing wanted to use the Fran machine cannon to replace the main weapons of the city guarding the city before. Of course, the replacement does not mean the demolition. When the cannon is not suitable for use in rainy weather, these traditional city guarding weapons have to work.

As for the purpose of the development of the last single-army firearm bird gun, Zhao Xing was for the consideration of rapid military formation. The weapon of bird gun, in terms of firing distance, may not be farther than the special large bows of Jin State, but its accuracy is higher than that of the bow and arrow, and its penetration is not low. It takes one to two years to train a group of long bow soldiers with skilled shooting skills, but training soldiers using bird guns is not so troublesome, one month is enough.

Since Sima Yi could unscrupulously recruit soldiers from ethnic minority tribes from southwestern Yizhou to participate in the war, Zhao Xing could also allow the troops entering Jiaozhou to recruit a group of indigenous soldiers locally. After equip them with bird guns, they could charge and fight with good combat effectiveness as long as they had simple training.

In later generations, even the "Three Eight Great Cover" that is much higher than the bird gun is nicknamed "fire sticks". It can be seen that once the troops holding muskets cannot get the supply of ammunition, it is better to be quick to hold the fire sticks. Therefore, Zhao Xing does not have to worry that the temporary recruitment of troops will backfire him, because how can the backward natives know how to produce gunpowder?

Zhao Xing has more far-reaching considerations about bird guns. In the future, when the Western Regions Legion crosses the Palacioles, they can also recruit indigenous people along the way to join the troops as "cannon fodder" holding bird guns. If they continue to move forward, they will sooner or later easily get the Roman Empire.

With the continuous improvement of the production and manufacturing process of bird guns, sooner or later, a more powerful rifle will be released. At that time, the Han Empire might have completed internal unification and can free up its hands and feet to sweep the world, and muskets can be used as individual soldiers' standard weapons.

After all, Zhao Xing tried every means to make advanced weapons to reduce casualties in soldiers. It was really a good intention.

ps: Some book friends think that the description of several firearms in the last chapter of Nandao is too long-winded and is suspected of making up the number of words. In fact, Nandao is looking for information about early artillery to allow military weapons fans to have more knowledge about the technology of ancient Chinese firearms. Readers who do not like to read this kind of content can scan it at a glance, so that the reading effect of the full text will not affect the reading effect.
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