Bang - A gunshot rang out on the small shooting range in the center of the armory.

The wooden target thirty paces away was directly pierced, leaving a small hole in the target surface, and there was still a slight green smoke.

"Good!" Liu Hong let out a loud shout and took the new musket in the hands of the test-firing soldiers.

An ordinary flintlock pistol is not enough to penetrate the target, at most the projectile is embedded in the target, which is enough to see the power of this rifled gun.

Liu Hong gradually carried the newly developed rifled gun and observed carefully, the body of the rifled gun is still made of walnut wood, which not only reduces the weight but also reduces the recoil and prevents hot hands.

However, unlike ordinary flintlock pistols, which are easily damaged by ordinary materials, the barrel of this rifled pistol is made of steel.

Liu Honggradually looked in with the barrel of the gun, and could clearly see the rifling inside.

The drawings that Liu Hongjian handed to Song Yingxing were hook knife broaching, a rifling method used by early American colonists.

Compared with the combined ring knife broaching method, which is more efficient but requires the cooperation of the machine tool, the hook knife broaching method uses manual wooden machinery, and Song Yingxing only took a few days to figure it out.

But this method is very inefficient, and if you want to pull out a qualified rifling, you have to broach at least hundreds of times.

Rifling is the soul of the barrel, which gives the warhead the ability to rotate, so that the warhead can maintain a given direction after discharge.

Liu Hong gradually took the special bullet for rifled guns from a craftsman behind him.

"My lord, this is the Minnie bullet made according to the drawings you provided, the material is lead, and this bullet can shoot three hundred paces away!" Song Yingxing saw that Liu Hong was gradually confused, and hurriedly explained.

"I'm the next Olympian, this thing has also come out? It's okay, Song Lao! Liu Hongjian can't express surprise at this moment.

The effective range of arquebuses and flintlock pistols was only a drop away from the bow and crossbow, and even with the new black powder formula provided by Liu Hongji, it was only about one hundred and fifty steps.

Three hundred steps! This is not a one-and-a-half boost, which means that when charging against cavalry, you can fire early.

In fact, Liu Hongjian is still a layman, if rifling is the soul of the barrel, then Nimi bullet is the soul of the rifled gun, and the two can hardly be separated.

Historically, when rifled guns were first invented, the biggest problem was that due to the presence of rifling, the projectile either could not be stuffed or could not contact the rifling well.

And the Mini bullet can be made smaller than the barrel, and it is loaded with it.

The Mini is a cone-shaped projectile with a conical cavity at the bottom of the warhead.

The metallic lead is soft, and when fired, the conical cavity at the bottom of the projectile expands under the pressure of gunpowder as well as the chamber, so that the bullet fits snugly against the rifling, thus solving the problem of loading breech guns with rifling.

Mini bullets can be poured or pressed, and it is not difficult to make.

"It's all the credit of the drawings provided by the adults, and the old man is just a gourd to draw a scoop, so he can't be praised by the adults." Song Yingxing said modestly.

"Song Lao Mo should be more modest, his own country said that he deserved it, and the rifled gun came out as a blessing of the Ming Dynasty, and his own country will give the Ming Holy Lord tomorrow to ask you to be awarded the martial honor!"

Whether there is merit or not, Liu Hong can gradually distinguish it, and the distinction between rewards and punishments is the most basic system of the Ordnance Institute, and no one understands the significance of rifled guns to Daming better than him.

It is conceivable that if the whole army of the Ming Dynasty can be equipped with rifled guns, what mites clear wild boar skins and what ancient soldiers of the Tartar League are all scum!

"Song Yingxing thanked my lord! It's just ......" Song Yingxing bowed and saluted Liu Hong.

He was originally born as a person, and he has endured the warmth and coldness of officialdom for half his life, and if he can build martial arts when he is old, it can be regarded as the glory of the Song family.

"Just what?" Liu Hong gradually looked at Song Yingxing and stopped talking.

"My lord, it's just that this rifling broaching is extremely difficult, and it will be scrapped if you are not careful, and it took the old man two days to make such one, and the steel is currently used to make cannons......"

Song Yingxing reported truthfully.

Steel is extremely difficult to refine, rifling is limited to the process, and today's situation in the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult to achieve mass production in a short period of time.

At present, with his production speed, even if he is proficient, he can only carve one a day, and how many musketeers are there in the musket workshop?

"It's okay, then we will first select fifty good players from the musket workshop, and you will be responsible for the training, and the steel refined will be given priority to these fifty craftsmen, and the excess will be used to produce cannons."

Liu Hong thought for a while.

One cannon is made of enough steel to make hundreds of rifled barrels, and if you can produce fifty front-loading rifled guns a day, why not slow down the cannon.

Although it could not be assembled into the Ming army, at least the brothers of the Thousand Households should first use the most advanced Ming muskets.

The bulk of the musket workshop still produces flintlock pistols, at least hundreds of thousands of Ming soldiers must be assembled first, and then slowly replaced.

For now, for a long time, the flintlock pistol will be the standard musket of the Ming army.

"Oh yes, my lord, the kind of short gun you handed over to the old man, Sun Bantou of the workshop said that it can be done, and it is basically the same as our standard Suifa spear."

Song Yingxing said suddenly.

A few days ago, Liu Honggradually handed him a short gun and told him to see if he could copy it, and this fire gun was extorted from Zhang Jinna, Zheng Zhilong's subordinate.

"Then spare time to produce three thousand, the main thing in the musket workshop is still to produce flintlock guns!" Liu Hong said gradually.

It seems that the Dutch were not only heavily armed with flintlock muskets, but even this pistol was a chess game, plus their advanced warships and artillery.

Alas, you can't just make mite removal a target!

Measure the material resources of China and form the joy of the country.

Mites Qing is just a bed bug, the real enemy of the Ming Dynasty is in the west!

Battleships, battleships, Dutch battleships have run all over the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean.

As for the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the battleship, even a sailor like an arm and a finger is wooden.

Zheng Zhilong's fleet is a bull fork, but it is just a matter of winning by quantity, most of them are merchant ships equipped with artillery, and they don't listen to the Ming Dynasty's calls.

"Old Song, how is the construction of the treasure shipyard in Tianjin?" Liu Hong gradually frowned.

The water master is the pain of Daming, but Daming is unaware, not only the imperial court does not pay attention to it, but even Uncle Chongzhen does not care, this is simply a beep dog.

"My lord, Tian Jinwei's treasure shipyard is now half completed, and if it wants to be put into production, it will take at least a month.

However, the old man found more than a dozen old shipwrights from the abandoned treasure shipyard in the south, and they were all very hard-working and very willing to join us. Song Yingxing said.

"Then let's start with the old-fashioned Daming treasure ship, increase the encouragement measures, aren't the five warships that Zheng Zhilong promised already delivered, let them imitate them first!

When they become proficient in the future, the prince of the country will have his own explanation, remember to send someone to keep an eye on them, and find out their family history. Liu Hong gradually became very cautious.

Whether it's a treasure ship or a Galen ship, he doesn't care, these old shipwrights are the fundamentals.

As long as they pick up the ability to inherit the family again, as long as they are sincere enough, as long as Uncle Chongzhen is willing to give silver.

He naturally has a way to build a strong army of sailors for the Ming Dynasty.

Because, he has drawings!