Only in this era do you know how smart the Chinese people of this era are, just like Dai Zi, in another time and space, his intelligence was completely buried, maybe the so-called invention of the "machine gun" is just a joke.

However, in the improvement of the rifle, he was far faster than Zhu Mingzhong imagined, and it took less than two years before and after the two inventions, and similar inventions were not invented by Europeans until almost two centuries later. Originally, Zhu Mingzhong had been waiting, waiting for his invention, but now, with the countdown to the attack of the Western Expedition, he couldn't wait.

"Well, that's true."

Nodding slightly, the bullet with the pointed tip was stuffed into the barrel, Zhu Mingzhong said with a smile.

However, although his invention had a certain effect, it was still insufficient! What do you think is different about this bullet of mine? ”

Looking at the lead bullet in his hand, Shao Wujie found that the biggest difference between this bullet and ordinary bullets was not just its appearance.

"Your Majesty, it seems that there is a wooden plug in the bottom of its bullet? What is it for? ”

Looking at the wooden plug in puzzlement, Shao Wujie didn't know what it was for.

The core of Dai Zi's invention is to deform the bullet into the chamber, but the method of deforming the bullet is too simple and crude, and even the columnar bullet cannot completely avoid the effects of irregular deformation. So there is still a certain impact on the accuracy. ”

Smiling slightly, Zhu Mingzhong looked at the target two hundred fathoms away with a fire hammer and said.

"And my invention is completely different from his, but it also borrows from his invention to a certain extent, and also uses a sub-caliber bullet slightly smaller than the bore caliber in order to be loaded, but there is a conical cavity at the bottom of the bullet, and a recessed cork is added to the cavity, and when firing, the gunpowder gas forces the plug in the cavity into the cavity to support the bullet, so that the bullet expands and the rifling tightly bites together, and the bullet rotates and flies out of the rifle under the pressure of the rifling, and the accuracy is greatly improved."

This is Mini Bullet!

Mini bullets that changed history, and it was the appearance of mini bullets that changed the fate of front-loading rifled guns in history. The invention of the Mini bullet solved the problem that the front-loading rifled gun was difficult to reload and the range accuracy of the smoothbore gun was too low. The Mini rifle is as easy to load as the smoothbore gun, but its range is more than three times that of the old rifle, and even reaches and exceeds the gun, because the rear end of the projectile is hollowed out and the center of gravity is shifted forward, the bullet trajectory is lower, the accuracy is more stable, and the recoil is smaller than that of the traditional rifled gun, because the bullet will only fill the chamber after the gunpowder explodes, and the rifling effect is more sufficient, which was a near-perfect weapon in that era. It became the decisive weapon on the battlefield of the Middle Ages in the 19th century.

In the earliest Mini bullets, the inner plug was a must, and it was not abandoned until the inner cavity was changed later. But now, Zhu Mingzhong did not carefully design the shape of its inner cavity, and this improvement is left to the technicians of the arsenal.

"This ...... Is this possible? ”

Almost when Shao Wujie's voice was behind, Zhu Mingzhong pulled the trigger, and with a loud "bang", the gun rushed backwards violently, and Zhu Mingzhong's shoulders retreated, which was indeed a lot lower than the recoil of ordinary rifled guns. A puff of white smoke emanated from the mouth of the gun.

200 fathoms away from the other side of the lake, a guard ran out of the sandbag wall not far away, looked at the target, and then picked up a flag and waved a flag.

"8 rings, left and up."

Looking at the flag from the other side, when Shao Wujie was surprised, Zhu Mingzhong nodded with satisfaction, this result is quite good!

The first shot was very close to the bull's-eye!

"There should be room for further tweaking."

Although Zhu Mingzhong is a layman for the adjustment of the firecracker, it does not prevent him from continuing to shoot at the target in the following time, not so much adjusting the weapon, but rather testing the fire cap, after all, the protagonist of today's test is the fire cap, as for the Mini bullet, before that, there have been many tests on the flintlock gun.

But today's luck is really good, it can even be said that Zhu Mingzhong has never played such a good result, almost every gun falls on the target, even if it is a long distance of 300 fathoms (meters), you can also accurately hit the target, as for the longer distance, you can only wait until the real shooting range for testing.

And Shao Wujie and the others were already dumbfounded, they are all soldiers, they naturally know the benefits of the rifled gun, and they also know that its biggest shortcoming is the rate of fire, and the rate of fire of this rifled gun is not slower than that of the flintlock gun, and even its reliability is extremely high - His Majesty hurriedly put twenty guns, and none of them were blinded, which is almost unimaginable for the flintlock gun.

What's even more surprising is its extreme precision, which is a perfect masterpiece.

"You try?"

After trying to release a few guns one after another, Shao Wujie was surprised.

"Your Majesty, I dare say that this must be the most perfect fire gun in the world! The minister estimated that it should be able to release its guns from 500 fathoms away, so that even the cavalry would not be able to break through the infantry's line, and they would not have a chance to kill the infantry at all. ”

Shao Wujie's tone was a little excited when he put down the rifle, as a soldier, of course he knew that the change brought about by this rifled gun with a rate of fire that was not inferior to the smoothbore line, it would even change the war. Changing the form of warfare.

When Shao Wujie mentioned cavalry, Zhu Mingzhong naturally thought of another time and space, as soon as Mini bullets were put into war, they changed the war, and of course changed the cavalry tactics.

"Cavalry?"

The corners of his lips lifted slightly, and Zhu Mingzhong smiled.

"In front of it, the cavalry is vulnerable!"

This kind of confidence comes from the understanding of the Minny gun, and his fingers gently caress this rifled gun that is very similar to the P1853, Zhu Mingzhong said quite proudly.

"Captain Shao, believe me, from now on, the war has been changed by it!"

It will change the war.

At the end of the sixth year of Xingqian, after many experiments, at the request of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the arsenal in Qinghe began to switch to the production of rifled guns, of course, the production of rifled guns was not all smooth sailing. First of all, unlike the use of wrought iron in the past, due to the advancement of steel technology and the increase in the production of stainless steel, the six-year type gun began to use steel as the main material for barrel processing, although this steel is still only soft steel, but it is more difficult to machine than wrought iron. As a result, the steel barrels became more susceptible to rust, so the barrels of muskets were usually blued before they were issued to the troops, so the barrels of the six-year guns were generally blackened, rather than the shiny and clear barrels of wrought iron in the past.

The change in materials is secondary, and the smoothbore is not a small problem in itself, which is not only related to the processing hardware, including the technical level of the lathe, but also related to the mechanic, for those who have just stepped into the door of the military factory to process the smoothbore barrel of the mechanic, to all the muskets engraved with a standardized and unified rifling, itself is a test, even if there is a focused rifling broaching machine, but for the barrel, rifling accuracy has its requirements, the workers in the arsenal are adapting to the new working conditions, It was also necessary to endure the increasingly harsh processing requirements of the supervisors, which directly led to the inability to maintain stable production, and the supply of rifled guns could not meet the requirements of the army.

According to the original plan, the three government-run arsenals in Qinghe, Benxi, and Guangzhou completed the equipment transformation in October of the sixth year of Xingqian, and began trial production, starting from the first month of the seventh year of Xingqian, to produce 15,000 pieces per month, and then began to hand over to the Ming army in various places, and the first to be reequipped will be the main elite troops of the Ming army -- within six months, there will be 100,000 guns to equip the Ming army. But in fact, the output of the three arsenals is only 7,000, and the lower output directly affects the army's redress. There were even quite a few troops, only at the end of the eighth year of Xingqian, they were replaced with six-year guns, and the arsenal of the Ming Dynasty did not make the army fully equipped with rifled guns in the eighth year of Xingqian, and as for the complete completion of the reloading, it was not until the ninth year of Xingqian, and in the process of this place, the hungry army and navy even ordered 150,000 rifled guns from civilian arsenals, which also opened a precedent for the army to purchase a large number of weapons from civilian enterprises.

Of course, for Zhu Mingzhong, who had been in the Xingqian for six years, of course he did not know that the production of rifled guns would encounter so many problems, and for him, all he saw was its excellent performance.

As a traverser, Zhu Mingzhong has mastered not only the technology of hundreds of years later, but also the experience of human society condensed for hundreds of years in the future. In many cases, this experience is even more useful than technology.

Almost as the emperor, when he asked the Ming arsenal to start producing this weapon that can change the shape of war, he also provided some suggestions to the arsenal, and most of these suggestions are related to the research and development of weapons and equipment, such as "whether the grenade can be used to pull the fire rope and use the artillery instead of the fuse tube", this suggestion seems to be inconspicuous, but it can shorten the time that the artillery ignition soldiers need to wait for about half a second to fire the cannon in the past to an instant, thereby further improving the combat effectiveness of the artillery unit. And that's with experience that transcends time. Sometimes, it is these seemingly inconspicuous suggestions that allow Daming to achieve leapfrog development in some aspects.

When entering the sixth year of Xingqian, Zhu Mingzhong, who was in the "Gewu Palace", looked at the drawings that had just been drawn in front of the case, and his expression was a trace of hesitation.

"Isn't it going to be a bit of a sprout?"

Again, he muttered, although this year, Daming has entered the era of steam, and in less than half a year, dozens of steam units have been put into use, but will this be too fast?

Although he was full of expectations for the steam era, Zhu Mingzhong couldn't help but hesitate a little when facing the invention on the drawings at this time......