Chapter 310 43. Seven-Rotor Mother Harpsichord

What can I say about the big gun? Oda Nobunaga in another parallel plane will also make it in a few years, and even blow up other people's city walls.

It is definitely a bluff when firing. This thing is as powerful as a small cannon, but the barrel is short, which means that the range is not too far. The killing distance of 40 to 50 meters is obvious and does not need to be explained.

Secondly, there is a problem that is not easy to solve. The bullets of the iron cannon are all lead bullets, which everyone knows. But lead is not so stable, and it often breaks after being fired.

Those are only small bullets of six, eight, and ten cents. Today's big guns can shoot bullets weighing hundreds of cents. If you make a big bullet with lead, it may be destroyed as soon as it is fired. So Imagawa Yoshichika used shotgun shells, dozens of small bullets, to hit a fan.

It's not that shotgun shells are bad. Xiao Pingtai even thinks that shotgun shells are more in line with the wars of the Japanese Warring States Period. A cannonball can kill a bunch of people, but a round of shotguns can kill all the soldiers in the front.

In the armies of the daimyo, the front row is the best and most capable, and the small soldiers in the back are weakly armored or even armorless. Shotguns have a miraculous effect on the front.

However, shooting shotguns will further reduce the range of the cannon. At a distance of dozens of meters, you can only fire one round before retreating. The battle between the two armies will not give you time to reload the cannon, nor will it give you the opportunity to fire a second round.

Moreover, due to the caliber and volume of the barrel, the fan of this shotgun is actually not very large. It may only cover a row of six or seven people in a row, which is really meaningless in a large-scale battle of tens of thousands of people.

Of course, if you have two or three thousand people fighting each other, a reserve team has only a hundred people. In this small reserve team, only a dozen or twenty people in the front row really dare to fight. If they are hit by a cannon, it is estimated that the whole reserve will collapse.

In the overall social environment of the Japanese Warring States Period, Xiao Pingtai felt that the big gun could still establish merit in small-scale contact battles and narrow mountain castle defense. As for the rest, it was just like that.

Because if you want to shoot shotguns, why do you need a big gun? Let's just use the 100-shot Portuguese gun!

A Portuguese gun has seven sub-guns, which can fire thousands or even tens of thousands of bullets in a few minutes, and the range is at least 100 to 200 meters. As long as the mother gun is thickened and lengthened, it is easy to shoot 200 to 300 meters.

That's so sour!

Xiao Pingtai just looked down on the big gun. Why play with the big gun when you have a 100-shot Portuguese gun?

"My lord, do you know the Portuguese?" "Hmm? Are you talking about the southern barbarians in Kyushu?"

"Yes, the southern barbarians are also divided into many countries, and this Portuguese is also a country."

"What's wrong?" "I have heard that the southern barbarians have bigger iron cannons on their merchant ships."

"Bigger?" Everyone present looked at the devilish big gun, and the three words "bigger" began to roll rapidly in their minds.

"In fact, the big cannon called Baizi Portuguese is already available in the country of Da Meng on the other side. It uses the method of sub-guns, equipped with four to nine sub-guns, and can be fired in a chain, with a distance of up to 150 rooms!"

"One hundred and fifty rooms!" This time, even Imagawa Yoshichika was stunned, and his mouth was wide enough to fit an egg! One hundred and fifty rooms is a full 200 meters, and any bow and arrow iron cannon is a joke at this distance.

"That's right. If a gun is equipped with seven sub-guns, the iron cannon can fire three times, while the Portuguese gun can fire seven times. Thousands of bullets rain down, covering a width of twenty rooms."

"Thousands? Twenty rooms?" Not to mention Imagawa Yoshichika, even Yamauchi Yoshiharu was so surprised that he couldn't speak.

Firearms have been circulated on a large scale since the Song Dynasty. The copper muskets of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties have been widely circulated. The Japanese have seen the matchlock guns quite early, but the effect of firearms at that time was not very good and not very stable, so they have never been circulated.

When the iron cannon was introduced, the Japanese who had fought for hundreds of years immediately discovered its advantages, and it became popular throughout the country in an instant.

And now the Portuguese gun that Xiao Pingtai said is more than ten times stronger than the iron cannon, how can he not be tempted.

"Southern barbarians? Portuguese guns!" Yamauchi Yoshiharu seems to be thinking about something?

"The Great Meng Kingdom is vast and rich in resources. If the Kanhe was still in the palace of His Majesty, we could try to make some plans. But the Kanhe ship has not been used for many years, and the Great Meng Kingdom does not seem to allow us to buy such a sharp weapon." Yamauchi Yoshiharu thought for a while.

"Kobayata, do you think it is possible to buy it in Sakaimachi?" "I don't know if it can be bought in Sakai, but it can definitely be bought in Lianhua Bay!" Yamauchi Yoshikatsu also seemed interested, and Kobayata was not opposed to it.

"Where is that?" "The Guangdong Provincial Administration of the Great Meng Kingdom." "Then you still have to entrust the Nanman people! What's more, the Great Meng Kingdom is willing to sell it?"

"Lianhua Bay is already a leased territory of the Portuguese. Although it is still the territory of the Great Meng Kingdom, countless Nanman Portuguese live there."

The Portuguese in Macau are black-faced and hard-hearted. If they can't beat the Great Meng Kingdom, they will rip off the guests. They dare to sell a red cannon for one thousand gold, which is crazy. But the nearest place for official and legal trade is still Macau, and there are no branches.

"Most of the domestic barbarian merchants and missionaries also come from Lianhua Bay. If they travel quickly, they can make a round trip in two to three months."

It is obvious that the Yamauchi family is interested, including Hosokawa Harumiya, who is also thinking carefully about the Portuguese gun.

Then the old man asked a soul-searching question: "A tepoon costs twelve taels of gold, so the Portuguese gun must be ten or a hundred times more than that, right? Koyata."

"Your Excellency is right. If we buy from the southern barbarians, I'm afraid it would be difficult to buy one even with three thousand taels of gold."

This number is so exaggerated, it's outrageous.

Yamauchi Yoshiharu subconsciously wanted to say that he couldn't afford it, but he felt embarrassed, so he shrank back when the words came to his lips.

"It's really too expensive. It's better to buy hundreds of iron cannons instead of this." Hosokawa Harumiya calculated very well.

"Father, why don't we go to Sakai and ask directly? Maybe it's a little cheaper?" Imagawa Yoshichika was still not discouraged after hearing the price and wanted to see it.

"Naya has some connections with the Kyushu trade route. Maybe I can introduce one or two." Of course, Koyata also wanted to get one. After all, Yamauchi Yoshiharu was reluctant to spend money, but Koyata was willing to spend money. He had become rich recently and had no place to spend money.

"Well, in that case, the gifts for the May Festival have not been sent to Kyoto yet, Saburo Goro, you and Kobayata should go there."

Imagawa Yoshichika was overjoyed and was very happy to go out and see the world. Kobayata didn't mind the trip, anyway, the properties in the mountains were arranged and taken care of, so there was no need to keep an eye on them all the time.

"I'll give you 3,000 kan when I get back to the city!"

Well, he said no, but his body was honest.