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    I saw Li Min walking to the first row of shelves on the right side of the door, holding the first musket in his hand, looking at it with a strange expression, and found that it was not so much a musket as a steel pipe with one end closed.  Only on the closed end was a piece of wood that seemed to be the butt of a gun, and then a small hole was opened on the upper end of the steel pipe.

    Seeing that Li Min was very interested in this gun, Liu Rengui came over and introduced: "Your Highness, this is the first gun successfully made on the island. When using it, you must first insert the medicine primer into the small hole, and then load it."  powder, compaction, and finally ignite the powder primer, ignite the gunpowder, and fire the projectile. However, due to the sealing, the range of this gun is very short, only fifty steps at most. In addition, the operation is too complicated, so  It has no practical value."

    Li Min nodded after hearing this. This kind of gun is actually a smaller version of the artillery. Even the ignition method is exactly the same. Moreover, the production of this kind of musket is too rough. The range of fifty steps is probably not even comparable to the pistols of later generations.  If you want to use this kind of musket to kill an enemy, it is only possible if the opponent stands motionless in front of you.

    After putting down this primitive musket, Li Min walked around the warehouse with his hands behind his back. He found that although there were many guns here, they were generally divided into two categories. One category was like the one he saw just now.  One is to use medicine to ignite the fire, and the other is to strike the fire, which is the flintlock gun of later generations.

    In fact, if we follow the history of the development of firearms, before the flintlock gun, there was a kind of matchlock gun. The structure of this gun is similar to that of the flintlock gun, except that the flint at the front end of the hammer is replaced by a lighted matchlock.  When using it, pull the trigger and the lit match ignites the gunpowder in the ignition pool to launch.

    Compared with the flintlock gun, the matchlock gun not only requires a large amount of matchlock, but also is very troublesome to operate. Generally speaking, the firing speed of the flintlock gun is more than twice that of the matchlock gun.  Moreover, the matchlock is not safe. If the gunner is not careful, the ignited match may ignite the gunpowder, causing accidental injury. Therefore, after the invention of the flintlock gun, the matchlock slowly withdrew from the stage of history.

    Li Min has no research on firearms, and he is even less clear about the relationship between matchlocks and flintlock guns. However, he does know how firearms of later generations are ignited. It is a pity that copper-cased bullets of later generations cannot be made now.  This is not only a problem of craftsmanship, but also just a primer is enough to make Li Min scratch his head.  But doing the next best thing, Li Min thought of the principle of the old-fashioned lighters of later generations, so he thought of using flint to start the fire, which was the flintlock gun of later generations. After all, compared to the matchlock gun, the principle of the flintlock gun was very close to that of later generations of firearms.  .

    Li Min walked and looked in the warehouse, while Yifan was like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, touching this and looking at that. There were several relatively large guns.  She insisted on hugging him, but her small body almost collapsed.

    And Liu Rengui followed Li Min.  When he saw which gun Li Min picked up, he immediately talked about the advantages and disadvantages of this gun. There were at least hundreds of guns in this room, but it was difficult for him to remember them all so clearly.  However, from Liu Rengui's explanation, Li Min also learned about the development history of muskets on Perak Island, such as the flintlock gun as an example, although the flintlock gun was invented very early.  However, due to workmanship and other problems, the early flintlock guns sometimes failed to fire, but as they were gradually improved later.  This minimizes the probability of this happening.

    After Li Min walked around the warehouse, he did not choose any gun. Instead, he asked Liu Rengui: "Rengui, are there any guns used by the soldiers outside?"

    After hearing this, Liu Rengui immediately turned around and pulled out a box from under the innermost shelf. After opening it, there were more than a dozen guns inside, and then he said: "Your Highness, this box contains the guns used by soldiers. If you use it during training,  If any firearms are damaged, these spare firearms will be replaced.¡±

    Li Min walked over and picked up one, and found that the gun was indeed the same as the gun he saw at Lao Wutou's place just now, so he nodded with satisfaction and said: "Not bad, I will use this gun." Then he raised his head and faced  Yifan, who was already spoiled for choice, said, "Yifan, have you made your choice? Let's go out quickly and test our marksmanship!"

    Yifan stood in the middle of the warehouse with a frown, looking at so many muskets on the shelf, but he didn't know which one to choose. In fact, this is not surprising at all. Women generally have barriers to choice. For example, women in later generations often have trouble buying clothes.  She had to choose a few things that she liked, but ended up worrying about which one to choose. Now Yifan was stuck in this kind of distress.

    Li Min laughed when he saw this. He took out another gun from the box and handed it to Yifan and said, "Let's use the same one. This is a fair comparison."

    After hearing this, Yifan felt that it made sense, and stopped making any choices immediately. He picked up the gun and followed Li Min outside. However, the guns used by these soldiers were all made according to the height of men. Yifan, a little woman, was carrying Kuai He.  Her gun, which is as tall as hers, looks a bit funny.

    After arriving at the shooting range outside, Liu Rengui personally greeted the two of them.He demonstrated the use of the musket, and then took aim. With a "pop" sound, a puff of black smoke came out, and the projectile inside hit the target eighty steps away like lightning, which attracted Li Min.  He Yifan and others all cheered loudly.

    Seeing that Liu Rengui had such shooting skills, Li Min couldn't wait to take his musket over, and then picked up a chalk-thick paper tube from the plate on the table. As a future generation, Li Min  Naturally, he knew about bullets. Although he couldn't make them now, he understood the principle of quantitative ammunition, so he had what he had in his hands, which were paper-cased bullets.

    I saw Li Min imitating Liu Rengui¡¯s behavior just now, putting the end of the bullet into his mouth, trying to bite open the paper shell, but he didn¡¯t expect that when he exerted force, he almost knocked out his teeth.  At this time, Liu Rengui, who was standing next to him, kindly reminded him: "Your Highness, you are biting the wrong thing."

    Li Min¡¯s face turned red after hearing this. One end of the paper bullet was wrapped with a pellet, and the other end could only be bitten open.

    However, Li Min knew that he could correct his mistakes, so he immediately bit open the paper shell. When he bit it, Li Min smelled a strong smell of mutton oil. After biting open the paper shell, he found gunpowder inside. He poured some of it into the fire pool.  Then pour all the rest from the muzzle of the gun, stuff the bullets wrapped with oil paper into the muzzle, and compact the bullets and gunpowder with an iron bar. This is all preparation.

    While Li Min only made a small mistake, Yifan did not go so smoothly. When Li Min leveled the gun and began to aim, Yifan had just stuffed the projectile into the muzzle of the gun and was hurriedly inserting the iron bar into it.  To poke.  Seeing this situation, Li Min laughed proudly. After making sure that he had taken aim, he finally pulled the trigger.

    "Bang!" With the sound of a gunshot, Li Min felt the butt of the gun on his shoulder suddenly hit him backwards. Although he had heard Liu Rengui's words before and was mentally prepared for it, he did not expect the recoil to be so strong.  His hand lifted up involuntarily, and the projectile flew to nowhere.

    Seeing that Li Min missed, Yifan laughed happily. At this time, she was also ready. She raised the heavy gun with both hands, took aim for a long time and finally pulled the trigger.  Originally, she was not as strong as Li Min, and like Li Min, she did not expect the recoil to be so strong, so in the end she followed in Li Min's footsteps, and was even worse than Li Min, with bullets flying into the sky and hitting the stars.

    Seeing that Yifan had not hit the target, Li Min had no time to laugh at him. Instead, under the guidance of Liu Rengui, he cleaned the barrel of the gun, compacted the charge, and raised the gun again. As a result, although he  He was already prepared, but he still missed the target. The bullet flew out of the target and almost missed.

    This greatly increased Li Min¡¯s confidence, and he loaded the gun again and finally hit the target for the third time. Although it was still far from the target, it was pretty good to hit the target at such a long distance.

    "Congratulations to your highness, it seems that your highness is also very talented with muskets!" At this time, Liu Rengui finally showed a smile.  Although he also knew that Li Min's shot had a lot of luck involved, hitting the target with the third shot was not something that ordinary people could do.

    After hearing this, Li Min also felt a little carried away. He turned around and made a provocative gesture towards Yifan.  Only then did Yifan prepare his second shot. Seeing Li Min's proud look, he rolled his eyes angrily, took aim and fired another shot. The result was a little better than the first shot, but he still missed the target.

    At this time, Li Min let out a proud laugh again, loaded the gun again, but unfortunately, his good luck may have temporarily run out, and the next three shots in a row failed to hit the target, but Yifan's  I was very lucky. On the fifth shot, I finally hit a shot by mistake.

    Li Min originally thought that shooting would be an easy and fun thing, but after firing more than a dozen shots in a row, his shoulder was already hurting from the recoil, and Yifan was even more unbearable. He was hit by the fifth shot.  After that, I never played again. Firstly, I wanted to maintain this good result, and secondly, it was because my shoulders really couldn¡¯t bear it.

    After Li Min endured the pain and fired a few more shots, he felt a little unbearable. Finally, he put down the gun and rubbed his shoulders and said, "Ren Gui, your shooting skills are so good. You must have suffered a lot, right?"

    Liu Rengui smiled after hearing this and said: "Your Highness is serious. As a general, if you can't show off to these soldiers, you won't be able to subdue these rebellious young people!"

    After hearing this, Li Min laughed and patted Liu Rengui on the shoulder. He also valued this skinny middle-aged man even more. Although his temper was a bit unpleasant, with his seriousness and persistence, he was worthy of being a famous general.  With the name.  Although he is not well-known yet, today he is going to send this army out. This army will definitely shine on the Japanese battlefield in the future, and Liu Rengui's name will also be known as this army.  Well known.

    But if you want to attack the Japanese country, you can only rely on thisAn army is not enough, even if you add the slave army and the Silla army that are under preparation, but Li Min has already thought of a way, and there is a ready-made army waiting for him to gather!
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