Time Travel: After Seizing the Throne, I Lead the Ming Dynasty to Take Off

Zhu Yunhuan also watched every step very carefully.

As the second round of "bang bang bang bang" sounds echoed across the entire test site, Zhu Yunhuan shook his head and muttered, "Firing a single projectile takes too much effort and time."

At this launch speed.

The gap of a few hundred years is also a world of difference. The things in later generations can just go "bang bang bang bang bang" directly.

And this thing in front of me... damn it... it can fire about one shot per minute, two shots at best.

Although Zhu Yunhuan was talking to himself in a low voice, Fu Youwen must have been paying attention to his every word and action. He actually heard it at this moment. Sitting in the stands and looking into the distance, the corners of his mouth twitched again.

However, he could tell that Zhu Yunhuan was just complaining to himself. He didn't want to offend him, so he simply pretended not to hear it. He only sighed inwardly and complained, "This is the fixed process... It's slow, but there's nothing I can do about it, little ancestor."

Zhu Yunhuan muttered this, but his eyes lit up slightly: "Light the fire... isn't that the key point?"

Those were some details that I paid special attention to before.

The real progress in firearms lies in three aspects.

The first point is the improvement of the ignition method. At the beginning, it was like this in the current era, where a hole was drilled in the tube wall and a wire was inserted to ignite the fire.

Later, the "snake rod ignition device" appeared, which used a mechanical device (snake rod) to press the fuse into the powder pool to achieve semi-automatic ignition.

This ignition method does more than just slightly increase the firing rate.

More importantly... it can improve the user's concentration and free up extra energy for the user to aim.

Because of the current ignition method, the user needs to hold the gun in one hand and operate an external fire source such as a fire starter with the other hand to ignite the fire. Both hands cannot be freed, and the user needs to do two things at once, leaving no time for aiming.

The semi-automatic ignition mode allows the shooter to be more focused.

It was also because of the emergence of this ignition method that people began to consider adding sights and rear sights to the use of firearms, and the shooting accuracy was upgraded from "rough aiming" to "three-point and one-line aiming".

As for the "snake rod ignition device".

It is a flintlock rifle, which uses the rapid friction between flint and steel to produce sparks, igniting the primer in the powder pool, and then igniting the main charge in the gun barrel.

Completely get rid of the dependence on matchlock.

It can be used even in rainy days or in hidden places at night.

Further down the line... there are things like "needle guns".

……

Generation after generation of advanced concepts, generation after generation of iterations... led to the mature development of various advanced thermal weapons hundreds of years later.

However, correspondingly, the technical difficulties that need to be overcome are also great.

"When the time comes, I'll explain all these concepts from beginning to end to the bunch of idiots below. It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, or if it catches mice, it's a good cat. No matter what level of understanding they have, as long as they can create something that's reasonably usable based on the concepts I provide... that's progress."

"Then we will continue to improve and develop step by step."

"History has taken hundreds of years, and now with me as a catalyst, firearms technology can continue to flourish!"

Zhu Yunhuan had already sorted out a general outline in his mind.

and feasibility plans.

Of course, improving the ignition method is only one of the three most important points, but it is the most appropriate starting point.

the second.

It is an improvement from a muzzle-loading gun to a breech-loading gun.

A muzzle-loading gun is just like the current muskets and bowl-mouth guns. The gunpowder and bullets are loaded into the muzzle, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

When loading the gun, an openable and closable barrel structure (such as a horizontal wedge or rotary locking mechanism) is required to achieve rapid loading of ammunition and airtightness control.

As for the third one... it's even further away, involving the improvement from smoothbore gun to rifled gun, which involves greater technical difficulty.

These are all things for later.

Zhu Yunhuan just went over it roughly in his mind to have an idea in his mind first. He didn't expect these things to be figured out immediately. It was just a long-term plan for the future.

After all.

Firstly, these improvements require not only conceptual support, but also the simultaneous improvement of technology and production levels.

As for the second reason... As for the Huaixi nobles, there is no need to be so cruel when attacking your own people. In the future, those who can be used and should be used should be turned into swords in your own hands, and there is no need to let these swords break directly.