On the sixth day of the second month of Longdao.

The naval shooting range west of Dengzhou City was flying flags. Xu Shiyang led a group of naval and army officers in Dengzhou and officials of the Ordnance Department of the Ministry of Works to observe the test fire of new rifles here.

Xu Shiyang stood on the rostrum behind the shooting range with his arms in his arms. He was surrounded by officials from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works. A few meters below the rostrum, with two new rifles, two standard flintlocks in total, and four guns.

Behind the long table were four veterans. These four were famous sharpshooters with outstanding achievements and high shooting skills.

In addition to these four people, there were several surrendered Tartars from the Blue Army, who were responsible for comparing the combined bows commonly used by the Tartars with the weapons of the Qi army.

Xu Shiyang's guards were all over the three sides of the shooting range. All the guards were equipped with double pistols, flintlock rifles and at least one cold weapon. They were wearing breastplates and steel helmets, and they were all majestic.

The shooting range itself was surrounded by a thick layer of earth walls to prevent the test-firing projectiles from flying out of the walls, causing casualties among the onlookers. In the past, every time the Qi army tested the weapon, the walls were filled with ordinary people. However, this time it was a new weapon comparison experiment that Xu Shiyang attached great importance to, so the shooting range security personnel did not allow any unrelated people to come and watch.

Opposite the long table, a row of targets were placed in five positions: thirty, fifty, seventy, one hundred and fifty steps.

The target is made of wet clay to a normal human size, with a thick layer of linen and a set of thick armor on the outside, which can not only test the accuracy of the weapon, but also test the power of the weapon.

"It's time to start." Xu Shiyang gave a light order, and Tang Long, the director of the arsenal next to him, immediately waved a small flag.

The soldiers at the long table immediately began to prepare for shooting. Since the fire hat rifled rifle and Minie bullet were only made today, even veterans were not familiar with this new weapon, so today's test firing does not consider the rate of fire, but only depends on the range, power and accuracy of the weapon.

After the flintlock gunman was loaded, he stood at the same place, waiting for the two firing gunmen to complete the load under the guidance of the arsenal technicians.

Then two firing gunmen, two flintlock gunmen and two archers shoot together.

The goal of the first round of shooting is a target that is thirty steps (45 meters) away. At this distance, the veterans use the same weapon. Therefore, in order to test the accuracy, all four gunmen have to shoot the same target three times, while the archer can shoot five rounds.

After a burst of ping-pong shooting, the arsenal's target operator ran over to check the damage to the target.

There were six targets, and three or four heavy arrows were inserted into each of them, but only one of them hit the target's face without armor protection, causing damage. The other armor-breaking cones failed to penetrate the target's armor at this distance.

The four targets used as musket targets were obviously much more miserable. The two flintlock targets were hit twice and 3 times respectively, and all the hits were penetrated through the armor. If they were on the battlefield, these two armored soldiers would be dead.

The other two firing gun targets were hit 3 shots each, and they all penetrated, and four shots actually hit the target to pass through!

In other words, at such a close distance, the Minie bullet fired by the large-caliber firing gun even has a high chance of breaking through two layers of iron armor and killing a strong warrior!

The shooting results were counted on a large blackboard next to the rostrum. At this time, the smoke of gunpowder had also dissipated. The second round of shooting at the target fifty steps (75 meters) away began.

The musketeers still shoot three rounds each, and the archers change two to avoid lowering their arm strength and reducing accuracy. They still have five arrows per person.

The shooting distance this time was much longer, so the accuracy of the flintlock rifle and the bow and arrow was reduced, while the firing rifle remained in full swing.

When shooting the target seventy (105 meters) in the third round, the heavy arrows shot from the joint bow were no longer effective. Therefore, the two Blue Army soldiers chose light arrows. Although they scored several hits, all the heavy armor targets remained motionless and none of them broke through.

The shooting accuracy of the flintlock rifle also decreased significantly, and the two gunmen only hit one shot.

The firing gun is still recorded!

At this time, all the officials watching changed their faces.

Everyone is an army or military-related affairs officer, and each knows very well how accurate the fire of muskets will decrease as the distance increases. In fact, as for flintlocks, shootings over 100 meters have nothing to do with the gunman's shooting skills - at this distance, the hit accuracy of a single gun or two depends on the gunman's luck.

However, the firing gun was completely shot out, and it also penetrated the iron armor...

No wonder Commander Xu attaches so much importance to this weapon.

The shooting continued, this time it was a hundred steps (150 meters). The two descending archers simply gave up the precise shooting and used light arrows to shoot at the target.

As a result, a target was hit by two arrows, but according to the sign, the two arrows came from two different archers, that is, someone shot someone else's target...

The flintlock rifle simply off the target, and the two soldiers who used the firing gun only fired one bullet each!

"This achievement is enough to catch the target of fifty steps of the flintlock rifle!" Navy Chief of Staff Luo Haitao shouted in disbelief: "This gun is too strong, right?"

"If this gun had been given a few months earlier, Liaoshen would have been better off." Li Jinghuai also said: "What a pity, the Tartars are now finished, and there are not many places to use this gun."

"The war has not been finished yet." Xu Shiyang said calmly: "Don't think it would be comfortable to destroy the Jurchens. It's still early. Let's continue watching now."

The last round of shooting was a target that was 150 steps away (225 meters). At this distance, the hit accuracy of the flintlock and the bow are the same, completely zero, and there is no need to think about it.

In fact, according to the current Qi army infantry rules, anyone using a rifle to shoot targets a hundred steps away is an act of violating military discipline, let alone shooting targets a hundred and fifty steps away.

Therefore, the Flintlock Gunner and the Archer gave up shooting very simply. In this round, only two firing gunmen continued to shoot. They shot three shots each, and then changed the flintlock Gunner to use the firing gun and then three shots. The four people hit a total of 6 shots, with a hit rate of exactly half!

"Can you still hit this distance?"

"This is a shooting range, and the actual hit rate on the battlefield will be reduced by more than 30%. " Xu Shiyang smiled and reminded him indifferently.

The firing gun is indeed very powerful, but it is not so powerful. The reason why this achievement is purely because the shooters selected today are all old non-commissioned officers. Everyone has fired hundreds of bullets on the battlefield and has more shots on the training ground.

Such veterans can naturally shoot more calmly on the shooting range without any danger, and it will be easier to achieve good results.

In fact, in the real battle, there are only a few months of training, and it is good that soldiers with no more than thirty shots of live ammunition can have half of their hit rate.

Xu Shiyang turned to face his officials and asked lightly: "Okay, it turns out to be out. You guys will tell me how to use this gun?"
Chapter completed!