Throughout the history of China, greedy and cruel but disciplined troops are common.
Brutal cruelty and strict military discipline are just like two sides of a coin, which is normal for an ancient army at the same time.
People in the society will never stop fighting bandits in troubled times and peacetime, and they will become natural prey of the participating troops in local wars.
Whether it is a Chinese army or a foreign army.
Local resources and local people’s wealth have become the focus of competition between the two armies. In this case, the winner naturally enjoys the fruits of his victory.
Not to mention the layers of oppression, it is also a routine for officers to properly let grassroots soldiers vent their dissatisfaction.
Of course, you can’t give everything you have, so that the people near the battlefield can "give" it.
The military commander will not restrain the military administrative bureaucrats, and of course he doesn’t have the guts.
Therefore, regardless of the victory or defeat of the war, both armies are cannibals to the civilians in the battlefield, and the civilians in different countries have never had the consciousness of being their own or "brothers and soldiers"
For the first time, Yue Fei, who realized the people’s power and added no looting to the military discipline, may have died for this reason.
Victory Army has been involved in military discipline since the beginning of the army building.
The so-called strict military discipline of Victory Army is not the same as that of the surplus army in this era.
Because of this, Su Yonglin is confident that those prisoners of war will join him willingly instead of being forced to join him.
The army was well arranged, and Su Yonglin decided to stay here, continue to stabilize the order, do the finishing work, and put the army behind.
Of course, even at this time, we can’t rest. There is still a lot of work to be done.
Su Yonglin’s rules of coming.
After every battle, whether it is victory or defeat, if everyone is not dead, if they can fight again, they will have a meeting to discuss the gains and losses of this battle and record them as witnesses along the way.
If it can really achieve great things in the future, this record must be kept intact to let future generations know how difficult it is for the Victory Army to create a new world along the way.
The eye is when the meeting is held.
The war gains have been almost counted before, so the next step is to reflect on what has not been done in this war and what needs to be improved.
It’s a cliche that the cavalry is short of training and so on. Everyone knows that these things can’t be solved in a short time, but they must be invested for a long time, that is, they are emphasized again and again.
And some things seem a little special.
"Soldiers have a lot of objections to flying muskets. They think that flying muskets are not so good weapons, and sometimes they are annoying, so many soldiers don’t like flying muskets very much. They think it is better to have fun with long guns."
Lin Jingchun gave his advice and opinions on flying muskets from soldiers.
Su Yonglin attaches great importance to this.
"Tell me about it"
"The main problem is gunpowder."
Lin Jingchun rubbed his temples and sighed, "Many soldiers have reacted that it is not difficult to ignite the flying musket, but whether it can emit enough flame after ignition depends on luck. Sometimes when it is ignited, it is smoke and not fire.
Sometimes it is lit, but it starts to smoke as soon as it is lit. When there is no fire, the eruption is not strong enough, which is far from being in the hands of comrades.
Moreover, after the explosion of the flying musket, the smoke in front of the army array was very disturbing to the soldiers’ sight and the smell was very pungent. A Lang, I think they argued that the two wars were not a big problem because of the terrain, but it might not be so simple to change places again. "
Su Yonglin nodded his head.
These are indeed the early problems of gunpowder weapons, and the powerful power of gunpowder will naturally be constantly updated and improved by the auxiliary constraints, so that it can move forward in less and more directions.
"Have you got all those muskets with problems?"
"Du"
"Take a look."
"here"
Lin Jingchun quickly got two cars to fly muskets later.
"This car didn’t breathe fire after it was ignited. This car did breathe fire too little and lasted too short."
Lin Jingchun wisely separated two kinds of flying muskets with different problems, which was praised by Su Yonglin.
Then everyone began to study these two problems, where is the problem of flying muskets?
Su Yonglin picked up a flying musket that failed to breathe fire, looked at it and didn’t see any problems. Then he took down the gunpowder barrel and poured out the gunpowder inside, and found a problem.
"This is naturally a little incombustible."
Su Yonglin looked gravely at this pile of "gunpowder" which has some levels.
Gunpowder is a mixture of nitrate, sulfur and charcoal according to a certain proportion, and the so-called mixing reflects the current concrete product, that is, simply stirring, and then it is gunpowder.
In this way, the physical and chemical properties of gunpowder are unstable.
In this way, the powder will bump through the transportation road after being packed, and it will even separate itself because the respective weights and densities of the ingredients are not the same. What’s the point of fighting when all the ingredients are separated?
This pile of gunpowder in front of Su Yonglin is like this.
It seems that this pile of gunpowder has produced a serious separation, and even if it is mixed together, it can play a role in gunpowder.
Su Yonglin doesn’t know whether gunpowder artisans have thought about how to solve this problem, but since the problem still appears, it is said that the Shaojin Kingdom has not taken this problem seriously and tried to solve it.
In addition, Su Yonglin also found that there were two situations in his failed powder cartridge: too much charge in the method of ignition, too little charge in the method of ignition and too short when erupting.
In this way, the three major problems of flying gun are powder separation, too much charge and too little charge.
The problem is not simple.
Chapter 11 gunpowder problem
Lin Jingchun, a logistics worker who was dissatisfied with the poor weapons, also had a headache.
Of course, this situation is not just a flying gun.
Any kind of firearm is likely to have such a problem.
"This kind of situation not only happens in the powder barrel of the flying gun, but also happens when we seize the gold thief, and it is very difficult to get wet and agglomerate."
Lin Jingchun complained to Su Yonglin.
Su Yonglin sat deep in thought.
Due to the lack of saltpeter victory arsenal, the gunpowder and firearms were all seized, which is one of the reasons why Su Yonglin did not want to use gunpowder and firearms.
The remaining reason is that the lethality of captured gunpowder and firearms is limited and it is difficult to maneuver, which makes it almost impossible to send troops to defend the city and attack the city.
The flying musket is the only field-type individual firearm that can be manufactured and assembled immediately at present.
The immature firearms technology made Su Yonglin abandon the option of giving priority to firearms.
Although the cold weapons are ancient, the skilled craftsmen are easy to find, and there will be no situation if the raw materials are abundant.
Bow crossbows are not easy to make broadswords and spears, but Su Yonglin can still make them.
Nevertheless, Su Yonglin also wants to make some innovations in firearms.
Tubular firearms were issued and had a certain practical effect. Before the Song, Jin, Xixia and Mongolian parties competed for heavy armor in the battlefield, it was the absolute mainstream.
Infantry has heavy armor, cavalry has heavy armor, and everyone is like an arms race to compare who has heavier armor and more defense.
All this changed with the birth and gradual popularization of tubular firearms.
Even the oldest flamethrower gun, its effective range is difficult for cold weapons to attack heavily armored soldiers.
Compared with the same heavy armor and heavy axe troops, it is ridiculous for a firecracker to maintain his achievements, but the impact on heavy armor is terrible.
Comparison of kinetic energy produced by gunpowder explosion with crossbows
It is the maturity of tubular firearms that makes the heavy armor of steel gradually become very embarrassing and meaningless, and finally it is abandoned.
If all the conditions are ripe, Su Yonglin really wants to train an army of matchlock or flintlock to give a heavy blow to the heavy armored forces of Song and Jin Dynasties.
However, it seems that even if several guns can be made by hand, they do not have the conditions for mass production and assembly, and it is meaningless without mass production and assembly.
Problems in musket manufacturing technology and iron and steel smelting aside, it is difficult to produce and improve gunpowder alone.