After conquering the three states, the Shengjie Army seized a large amount of made gunpowder, as well as rockets, fireballs, fire caltrops and other firearms from the Jin army arsenals in various places.

However, from these captures, Su Yonglin did not see a tube-type firearm.

Shandong is located on the front line of the Jin and Song dynasties. If there is no pipe-type firearm storage, it only means that at present, at least in the Jin Dynasty, there is indeed no pipe-type firearm that can be used.

As for whether there was any Southern Song Dynasty, Su Yonglin was not sure. He had never seen it before, and he had never mentioned similar things to him before his grandfather passed away.

However, it is of course a good thing that the Jin ** team does not have a tube-type firearm that can be used, which shows that the Jin army currently uses firearms relatively rarely and does not pay much attention to them.

Perhaps because the current national defense pressure is not too great and the country's military situation has not fully moved into defense, the firearms that mainly play a defensive role are not paid attention to.

When the risen Mengwu tribe is in a hurry and has no way to fight the field, it is estimated that it will begin to pay attention to firearms just like the Southern Song Dynasty.

In terms of the types of seized firearms, in addition to the earlier Northern Song Dynasty firearms such as Fireballs and Fire Tribulus, Su Yonglin saw the most rockets, so it seems that the mainstream combat firearms of the Jin army should be rockets and other fire-driven objects.

Judging from this configuration, Su Yonglin believes that at this time, the biggest use of Jin arms is to burn fire, rather than to injure people. The gunpowder explosion that I encountered in Xintai County before should be accidental.

Thinking of this, Su Yonglin realized that at this time, the Jin arms firearms had not yet evolved further and had not developed in the direction of tube-type firearms.

Su Yonglin's mind was full of the history of the development of firearms, or the era of fire door guns to the era of melee guns, from guns and cannons to clear guns and cannons, from smoothbore era to rifle era, he knew the most representative firearms.

But what's the use of knowing?

Even in modern times, cavalry still had huge advantages.

What really ended the cavalry were machine guns and steel chariots. It was time for World War I, and even during World War II, the cavalry had performed well on some battlefields.

It can be seen that the advantage of cavalry over infantry is beyond doubt.

Su Yonglin doesn't think that his decades of effort can be used to dispel machine guns and tanks more than 800 years later, and directly end the cavalry era.

If he really could do that, he could directly unify the world as a ball captain. In front of him, the Jin Dynasty, Mongolia, the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Western Xia Dynasty were like paper.

Unfortunately, this is impossible.

Now, he is going to face an extremely severe war situation, a crisis situation where the enemy is strong and we are weak.

In this case, there will be no more room for him to endlessly invent and test the performance of the firearm.

It took time for early firearms to go from invention to practicality. Even if a slightly more advanced weapon can be made by hand and cannot be equipped, the input-output ratio will be outrageously low.

Not to mention that a skilled firearm unit also needs to undergo very rigorous training, even popularize mathematical knowledge, compile new tactics and tactics, and find terrain that can be used, which is definitely not something you can use by hand.

Not to mention defeating the highly mobile cavalry.

He must first be able to ensure his survival, and then others.

There is no doubt that what can make him survive in this situation is the mature tactics and tactics, the elite infantry formation, the divine arm bow with long range and high accuracy, and the constantly enhanced elite cavalry legion.

The cost-effectiveness of the firearm is too low for him.

It can only be said that we have made some favorable small innovations based on the existing foundation, rather than investing limited energy and resources into the bottomless pit of invention and creation.

The invention of firearms was very attractive to him. Despite this, it was also after he completely gained a foothold in the Central Plains and even successfully destroyed the Jin Kingdom.

Only then will he have enough resources and manpower to invest in the bottomless pit of invention and creation.

Not now.

Of course, in response to the possible battles with the Jin cavalry that Su Yonglin also considered the effectiveness of the firearm and ordered the arsenal to create a new type of weapon.

This should be the first used by the Jin Kingdom, but it has not been seen so far and may not have been invented.

This weapon is called a flying musket.

The principle is actually very simple. It is to tie a bamboo tube or iron tube at the front of the spear, and it is built-in gunpowder, iron slag, arsenic and other objects. When it is connected to the enemy, the gunpowder will ignite and erupt into a large number of Mars and other objects that can hurt people, which can erupt for more than one meter away.

After the gunpowder burns out, the flying musket becomes an ordinary spear, and you can continue to fight and stab.

In fact, it is equivalent to adding a magic damage skill to the physics infantry that is receiving the enemy.

Su Yonglin felt that this thing may have a good effect whether it is against the same infantry formation or the cavalry that dares to rush forward.

So when he was in Jinan, he ordered the arsenal to use existing gunpowder and infantry to use long spears to make flying muskets.

This time he came to the arsenal and saw a batch of flying muskets that had been rushing to make.

Su Yonglin took out a pole and looked carefully.

The spear is more than one meter long, with an iron or bamboo tube about two feet tied to the front end, with built-in gunpowder, and lead wires and packaging in front.

“Have you tried it?”

"After the test, after the gunpowder is ignited, the fire can erupt more than a foot away, and the eruption is very violent."

Su Yonglin nodded.

"I'll try."

So Su Yonglin held a spear more than ten feet long, and a craftsman took out the fire from a small iron can and lit the lead.

The lead burned for a moment, and the gunpowder in the iron tube burned violently, and then a large amount of Mars and smoke erupted. The eruption momentum was quite strong, and it was really more than ten feet away. A person had to stand in front of the flying musket, and he would have to be severely burned even if he was not burned to death.

Unfortunately, it doesn't last long, and it feels like it's only about one minute, but this effect should be guaranteed.

After burning, the iron tube is not damaged. After a little cleaning, it can be filled with gunpowder and continued to be fired. It can be recycled and utilized many times, and the loss is not large.

Then Su Yonglin tried the bamboo tube-style flying musket and found that the bamboo tube was damaged by serious losses and could not be used too many times. However, the material cost is low and it does not require reprocessing like an iron tube, which is also a good choice.

Therefore, both materials of the launch cylinder can be used.

The spear itself is more than 1 meter long, while the flying musket extends the attack distance forward by more than 1 meter. When the two armies meet the enemy, this round of eruption is enough to cause great chaos and considerable damage to the opponent's head platoon.

If the opponent does not have enough defense, he will even be directly broken.

"The effect is OK. According to the current situation, you can concentrate your manpower and create more, start with 10,000 yuan, and hand it over to the army for trial as soon as possible."

Su Yonglin was very satisfied with the lethality of this flying musket and expressed his satisfaction, intending to mount the army as soon as possible to increase the attack power of the infantry.

After the matter was settled, Zhao Guangsi talked about funding issues.

Regarding this issue, Zhao Guangsi hopes that the arsenal can get more funding.

However, Lin Jingchun, who was in charge of the finance department of the Jiejun, said that the finances were tight and it was very difficult to allocate more funds.

"There are too many places to use money now. It's not that I don't want to give it to you. There's really not that much money. Ah Lang, the accounts since the rebellion were clear and can stand the inspection."

In front of Su Yonglin, Lin Jingchun made an open and honest statement to show his innocence.

Su Yonglin had no doubts about this.
Chapter completed!