Chapter 78 Telescopes and Flint

After Xiao Tianjian scolded Gao Su, Gao Su got on the horse and followed Xiao Tianjian. Xiao Tianjian once again turned the topic to the war. He asked Gao Su to explain to himself in detail the combat formation they used. When it came to the key, Xiao Tianjian simply got off the horse and took out a notebook and a carbon pen from his arms. Record the key points of what Gao Su said, even ordered the team to stop, find paper, spread it on the carriage, draw the formation, mark the positions of various soldiers, and discuss the use of firepower.

Gao Su increasingly feels that Xiao Tianjian is not simple. He even knows more about many concepts of war than him. He has never heard of some of the opinions put forward. For example, Xiao Tianjian attaches great importance to the application of artillery. He has repeatedly mentioned the cooperation of artillery, infantry and cavalry. His opinion is artillery. It is necessary to follow the infantry and even the cavalry, instead of just fixing the artillery and bombarding the enemy. These concepts are even novel.

In terms of tactics, Gao Su is somewhat limited to one point, and his thinking can't keep up with Xiao Tianjian's thinking. After all, he is a low-level officer of a mercenary, and his experience in tactics is not very rich. When facing Xiao Tianjian's jumping forward thinking, he can't keep up, and as a Portuguese The special relationship between Portugal and Spain, some of Gao Su's thoughts are limited by his knowledge. You know that Europe is not only the Spanish infantry, but also another super man in this era, Gustav. At the same time, there are many tactical thoughts that Dutch general Moris and Xiao Tianjian know. I think, it also includes some of their things, so it's much more complicated than what Gao Su knows.

Xiao Tianjian's biggest weakness is that he has not seen many things as believing, but more through paper talk. In terms of practical application, it is much less lacking than Gao Su, who has actually seen European infantry tactics.

Now that the two of them get together, Xiao Tianjian seized this rare opportunity to draw more nutrition from Gao Su like a sponge.

And Gao Su was more and more afraid to despise Xiao Tianjian. For some ideas about Xiao Tianjian, because of his one-sidedness, he would have some arguments with Xiao Tianjian from time to time. The two of them walked along the way, discussed, and even argued at the same time, so that the two of them disared from the horse and almost pulled their neck collar. It's a fight.

Tietou and other guards were not used to Gao Su's loud quarrel with Xiao Tianjian. They wanted to come up and beat Gao Su several times, teach him a lesson, and let him abide by the rules, but they were immediately retreated by Xiao Tianjian. The angry Tietou and other soldiers blew their beards and stared one by one by one, but they couldn't get a word in. They were even taken by Xiao Tian. Gao Su, who is covered by Jian, has no choice.

"So have the officers in your country's army used binoculars now?" Xiao Tianjian suddenly remembered a very important thing and asked Gao Su.

"Telescope? I don't know what it is. I haven't seen it!" Gao Su shook his head.

Xiao Tianjian thought for a moment. It's not surprising that the invention of the telescope should be in this era. He can't remember exactly who invented it, but it must have appeared, but this thing should still be a new thing. Even in Europe, it has not been widely popular, let alone It's Gao Su, a low-level officer among the mercenaries. It's not an incomprehensible thing to see this kind of advanced thing. If you want to rely on Gao Su to get a telescope, it seems impossible to complete it in a short time, so if you want to solve this problem, you can only find a way by yourself.

So Xiao Tianjian began to think about the problem of telescopes. If he wants to make telescopes, the most important thing is to solve the problem of lenses. Glass is the material for making telescopes in later generations, but now he has no place to do this kind of thing. Even in the West, I'm afraid glass is rare. Rare things, and I'm afraid that the only thing that can be called glass in China is glass. Glass usually has color, and the manufacturing process is only known by royal craftsmen. I'm afraid it's not easy to solve the problem of glass, not to mention it's better to use colorless optical glass?

Unfortunately, Xiao Tianjian only knows the raw materials of glass. He can say that he only has seven orifices and six orifices, but he doesn't know one. If he arranges someone to test the firing of glass, it will be difficult to make it successfully in a year or two. If he wants to achieve the optical glass used in the telescope lens. In terms of degree, I don't know when it will be.

To some extent, the war also pursues unilateral transparency of the battlefield. If the opponent can be found earlier than the enemy, it can even play a very key role in the victory or defeat of the war. Xiao Tianjian really hopes to get something like a telescope, so that he and his Xing Tianjun can Get more advantages when fighting with the enemy.

The glass that can make lenses is unlikely to be solved in a short time, so what can be done to solve the problem of this material? Xiao Tianjian sat on the horse and was silent.

Gao Su saw that Xiao Tianjian suddenly stopped discussing with him. He seemed to be in meditation, so he did not dare to speak any more. He pulled the reins and fell behind.

Tie Tou urged the horse to catch up with Gao Su with a cold face. He said to Gao Su fiercely, "Gao, listen to me. If you dare to let me see your disrespectful words to our general, I will break your leg!"

Gao Su shook his head and said seriously to Tie Tou, "Lord of the bodyguard, you misunderstood. I'm discussing tactics with the general, not arguing with the general! It's good for the general to do this!"

Tietou shouted and scolded Gao Su fiercely, "You red-haired ghost, why do you discuss with our general? You should know that our general is a god. In fact, a red-haired ghost like you can be compared with him? I don't care. If I see you shouting loudly with our general again in the future, I will ruin you!"

"Shut up, iron head! This is not Gao Su's business. I'm asking him for some questions. I can't be rude to Gao Su in the future! Gao Su is our distinguished guest. You have to respect him!" After Xiao Tianjian heard the iron head threatening Gao Su, he grabbed the reins and turned his head and scolded the iron head.

Tie Tou immediately bowed his head and replied reluctantly, "I'm obedient!"

Gao Su proudly picked up his chin to Tietou, as if he had won, while Tietou rolled his eyes and stared at him fiercely.

"Iron Head, send someone back to Jin Tong to ask, is there a very transparent crystal in our warehouse! If so, let him pick it out and keep it. It will be useful when I come back! Besides, send my order to find the jade mason among all our craftsmen, and then arrange him to go to Lianhuazhai. It will be useful when I come back!" Xiao Tianjian has thought of a way now. He has no place to make glass at present, but there is a thing that can replace glass and make telescope lenses, that is, crystals generated by nature. This is not rare. There are also many places in China that produce this thing. Rich families sometimes collect this thing. It is possible to find it now.

So he plans to find a jade mason, specially purchase some crystal stones and polish them into lenses to make telescopes. In this way, you can get the advanced 'weapon' of telescopes in a relatively short time.

Tietou quickly responded to the order, and then immediately arranged people to return to Lianhuazhai to find Jinfuzi. He asked Jinfuzi to immediately start to search the warehouse and find the crystal stone. In addition, he sent someone to go to Shuangfengzhai. Among the craftsmen in Shuangfengzhai, he looked for craftsmen who can carve jade and send back to Lianhuazhai Houming.

After Xiao Tianjian put down this matter, he immediately thought of a new question and recruited Gao Su to his side. As he walked forward, he asked Gao Su, "Gao Su, let me ask you one more thing. Among your mercenaries, except for those equipped with muskets, are you equipped with flectar guns?"

After listening to this, Gao Su thought for a moment and then replied, "We mercenaries all use muskets, but we have heard of flectar guns. It is said that there is no need to fire with ignited ropes on muskets. It depends on a set of complex machines, as if they are called rotary muskets. Those are all used by nobles, but listen to It is said that the Prussian army has used it, but the rotary musket is very expensive. We didn't use it, only the hands used by the officers. It seems that someone has used it! But I haven't used it, I've just seen it!"

"So that means you haven't had a large amount of equipment yet?" Xiao Tianjian continued to ask.

"Yes, we still use muskets! Only a few officers use this kind of musket, but it is said that the Prussian army once used this kind of musket. In a war, it defeated the Gauls, and the Gallic army was later equipped with this kind of musket! I haven't officially used this kind of thing before I came to your country. After thinking about it carefully, Gao Su said to Xiao Tianjian.

Xiao Tianjian nodded. Although he thought that the West should have used a lot of tidal torches, the armies of various countries should not have fully realized its advantages of new things such as tidal guns because of their different equipment levels and equipment ideas, so they did not use tidal bolts among the mercenaries where Gao Su used to be. The gun is a normal thing, but he is somewhat disappointed. In this way, if he wants Xing Tianjun to be equipped with a chry gun in the future, he will have to design the firing mechanism of the chry gun himself in the future. In that case, it will be enough for him to work for a while.

However, Xiao Tianjian is not very worried about this problem. With his mechanical knowledge, it should not be difficult to design a suitable flint gun ignition mechanism, and he also understands the development history of some flintlocks. The rotary tch gun mentioned by Gao Su should be the prototype of the flintlock, which is similar to the clock. As a firing mechanism, it provides the power to fire. The structure of such a rotary musket is indeed very complicated. Naturally, the cost will be very high, the output will be relatively low, and the requirements for craftsmen will also be very high. This is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that this kind of rotary musket is really too delicate. The failure rate is high, and the excitation rate is very low, so until now, the West has not been able to promote equipment, so it is not surprising that Gao Su has not seen it.

It is also because of the problems of rotary muskets that impact flimps will appear later, and flits will be an important weapon for infantry in the world army for a long time in the future. This trend is irreversible, and the unique advantages of flimps. It is bound to eliminate the musket into the garbage of history, so he must make this kind of flump in the future. Otherwise, once it rains and winds, his musketers will lose their due combat effectiveness.

For Xing Tianjun, equipped with a fl like-fire gun, you can basically get all-weather combat effectiveness. When the enemy can't fire, use a fl like-fire gun to kill the enemy. It is estimated that on the battlefield, it will greatly deter the enemy and easily control the initiative of the battlefield. And the flilator has another advantage, that is, It can be equipped to equip the cavalry, so that the cavalry will have one more chance to attack the enemy from a long distance than the enemy, and greatly strengthen the combat effectiveness of the cavalry. Therefore, the Xingtian Army will definitely need to be equipped in the future. However, now, you have to eat one bite at a time. You can't go straight to the sky and get this kind of tice gun, but first start with the new bird. Start and develop gradually, otherwise you must be in a hurry!

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