Water Margin: I, Wang Lun, will have many children and many blessings in Liangshan.

The next step in the musket is the arquebus, which has a more stable launch, better airtight performance, and a rapid improvement in the construction process.

From a killing distance of dozens of steps, it is not as powerful as a bow and arrow, and it has developed to about 100 steps, which is on par with a strong bow.

This was the development of firearms in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

This led to the fact that the Wa kingdom still retained archers, as well as the English longbowmen.

But people of insight in various countries understand that it is only a matter of time before cold weapons are eliminated, that is, bows and crossbows are eliminated.

The next step is to eliminate auxiliary cold weapons such as spears.

Sure enough, when the flintlock pistol was stabilized, a bayonet was added, and in less than a hundred years, the cold weapon was completely eliminated.

At the same time, naval artillery developed by leaps and bounds.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, British first-class battleships could be equipped with more than 100 heavy guns, the lightest of which were 18-pounder guns.

In addition, there were fortress guns, field artillery and so on.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, when King Gustav II of Sweden and the HRE Empire and the Russian Empire were vying for hegemony, they were the first tactical leaders to concentrate the use of artillery.

Sweden was a standard image of a small country in later generations, but in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, it was a hegemon in Europe.

Especially at the time of Gustav II, Sweden really became a hegemon, although its army was only tens of thousands of people, but because of its excellent training, 23 veterans were more elite, and the artillery was used properly, it really became an invincible strong army!

It can be seen that it is not that the bigger the country, the stronger it is, otherwise it would not have been beaten by small European countries in turn at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Naval artillery at sea developed rapidly, but infantry firearms were not, until the end of the Ming Dynasty, the use of firearms was only an auxiliary branch of cold weapons, but Gustav II attached great importance to the development of army firearms, not only to increase the number of their use in military formations, but also to invent a new type of smoothbore gun.

Old-fashioned arquebuses weighed 15 to 25 pounds and had to be placed on a wooden fork stand to shoot, which was extremely inconvenient.

Gustav managed to reduce the weight to 11 pounds, and the length of the smoothbore gun to 4 feet, and later to 3 feet, using gears to fire them, so that there was no need for a bracket at all.

In order to cooperate with the new type of firearms, he also invented the paper cartridge, that is, a cartridge with a quantitative charge, which contained carefully weighed gunpowder and projectiles, which could save loading time. The improved smoothbore gun was lighter, easier to reload, and fired much faster than the arquebus, reaching more than 1 round per minute.

At the same time, the Ming army was still using the old and stupid fire door gun and three-eyed gun, which was a low-power and extremely clumsy firearm, and later generations boasted that it could be used as a hammer to smash the enemy, which really didn't know what to do.

The arquebus imitated by the Ming army, that is, the bird gun, was of uneven quality, suffered from insufficient range or explosive chambers, and was pressed and beaten by the clear bow, which was simply a shame for the firearms troops.

However, to be fair, early firearms were indeed comparable to strong bows, so they needed the assistance of artillery.

At that time, the traditional artillery in Europe weighed about half a ton and required two or three horse-drawn four-wheeled vehicles to load, and it was extremely inflexible to move on the battlefield.

As for the artillery imitated by the Ming army, it was a European naval gun, which was even heavier, and a cannon weighed several thousand catties and was almost impossible to move.

Later, the Qing army fought and hauled artillery, and the Qing army had a large number of horses, even so, when fighting Tongguan, the artillery set off from Beijing and walked for nearly half a year to reach the battlefield.

In the southern battlefield, only there were some artillery pieces in the cities along the river, and Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangzhou basically couldn't use artillery.

Gustav's idea of reforming artillery was to reduce the weight of the gun and increase its flexibility, and he invented a gun that weighed only 400 pounds, which could be transported by a horse or three or four people, saving time and effort, and being much more convenient to use. Gun cartridges have also been improved, allowing them to reload and fire faster.

As for the leather cannon, it weighs only a few dozen pounds, and the bronze cannon body is covered with fur, and one person can carry it and fly away.

In fact, it is more powerful than the tiger squat cannon of the Ming army, and the Ming army uses shotguns, and the Swedish artillery uses solid bullets.

Many people don't know that the military innovation implemented by Wang Lun is basically following the path of the second master Gu.

Strict military discipline, which the famous generals of ancient times are doing.

Pay attention to logistical replenishment.

The uniformity of military uniforms advocates the sense of honor of soldiers.

The cavalry charged from three rows on both flanks.

Create artillery for independent use.

The musket unit was six columns in depth, and when the battle was imminent, three lines in the rear row forwarded to form three columns, and then they attacked in three sections with dense firepower.

Line tactics are nothing in later generations, and any military fan is like a treasure.

But at the time, it was still a pioneer.

Gu Erye's theory is: You must play a thunderbolt-like firepower output!

Under this military reform, the Swedish army became the earliest, most thorough, and most advanced Nordic power in terms of firearms.

It successively defeated Poland, Denmark, the HRE Empire, the Russian Empire and other military powers at that time, and also achieved the highlight moment of Sweden, a small Nordic country.

It can be seen that not only the times create heroes, but heroes are also enough to create the times.

For Wang Lun and Liang Shan, the time was not yet ripe for large-scale musket building.

Muskets were more elaborate and required higher skill and a large number of craftsmen.

Unlike artillery, a skirmish can change the tide of battle with just a few guns.

Like Gustav II's war against Poland's Volkhov, both sides were about 10,000 troops, the Swedish army only had 6 guns, the Polish army had more than 3,000 infantry, more than 2,500 hussars, and 5 guns.

By the time of the Thirty Years' War, in September 1631, Gustav commanded a Swedish army of about 47,000 men and about 80 artillery pieces against the almost evenly matched army of St. Rodtili. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Instead of evenly disposing his forces, he placed seven infantry regiments with musketeers, focusing on the direction of his right flank.

After the battle began, the two sides shelled each other. The Tilly attacked after the shelling, but all seven of their cavalry attacks were repelled by salvo fire from Swedish smoothbore guns.

After that, Tilly's army detoured to the weak left flank of the Swedish army and launched an attack of 990 strikes, and Gustav hurriedly transferred his second-line forces to support the left flank, and volleyed head-on under the cover of artillery fire.

Just as the left flank of the Swedish army was fighting fiercely and the Saxon army was fleeing, Gustav quickly seized the fighter plane and urgently ordered his right flank troops to quickly attack the left flank of the Tilly army, and personally led four cavalry regiments to rush towards the enemy. The Tilly army was routed, suffering 12,000 casualties and 7,000 prisoners, and all the baggage and artillery were captured by the Swedes, while the Swedes suffered only 3,000 casualties.

Tilly himself was wounded and fled south, shaking Europe, and Gustav was given the nickname "Lion of the North".

By the time of this war, the Swedish army had completed reforms and defeated the enemy many times, and was at the peak of its strength.

But that is, 80 guns, and it is impossible to be all heavy artillery, it is divided into three calibers and powers, such as siege artillery, field artillery, and regimental artillery, among which regimental artillery is a small artillery that hits three or four pounds, relatively speaking, two hundred years later, Napoleon cannons are small artillery that plays six-pound shells as the main force of field artillery.

Maneuver comes first, followed by firepower output.

The Liangshan battleship in the eyes of Ling Zhen and the others in front of him, the bow, stern, and both sides are equipped with artillery, and the black muzzles point to the river, one after another battleships and fleets that can't see the end at a glance, and countless artillery pieces are cast and concentrated on this fleet.

The poor are interspersed and exhausted.

Rich is covered by firepower, and a head-on breakthrough is made!

This time, the water camp is the meter, but the basis of the plan is that the water camp can crush the Song army on the water and on the shore!