On the eighth day of November in the twenty-seventh year of Chongzhen, Li Zhi stood on the shooting range and looked at the new rifle he had designed.

In fact, the upgrade of the gun is not the largest, because this gun is still essentially similar to the rear-loading rifle of the Jinwang rifle. The most important thing is that the bullet of this rifle is completely different nowadays.

The rifle has begun to use all-metal cartridge cases, using all-in-one cartridges.

Li Xing walked over and picked up the two spare guns on the table next to him with curiosity.

Cao Yu and the other gunsmiths did not dare to stop Li Xing, so they could only let Li Xing rummage on the table.

However, the rifle could not see the specific details, and Li Xing was quickly attracted by the bullet next to the rifle, and raised the copper-shelled bullet to look at it carefully.

Teardrop-shaped copper-metal warhead with a cylindrical shell bottom. The whole bullet seems to be pressed as a whole, and it is full of a special industrial feeling. Li Xing put the bullet case flat and looked at it, and found that there was a small depression in the tail of the bullet, and there was something silver inside, and at first glance it was impossible to see what it was.

Li Xing pursed his lips and praised: "It's so beautiful!" “

He walked up to Li Zhi with a bullet and asked, "Big brother!" How is this bullet designed? It's completely different from the previous paper bullets! “

Li Zhi smiled, took Li Xing's bullet, and said, "This new bullet is loaded with a warhead, a primer and a propellant. “

Li Xing's eyes lit up and he said, "Where is the primer?" “

Li Zhi pointed to the bullet and said: "The primer is at the tail of the bullet, and the place where the tail of the bullet is dented is filled with mercury thunderate." After the bullet is loaded into the chamber, the firing pin at the tail of the chamber is aimed at the mercury heloate primer. “

Li Xing looked at the tail of the bullet with a focused expression.

Li Zhi said: "The mercury thunderate at the tail of the bullet is a flammable and explosive firing charge, and the mercury thunderate is loaded with a propellant in front of it. The propellant is the smokeless gunpowder produced by Fanjiazhuang, if the firing pin of the rifle hits the primer, the mercury thunderate will be hit and explode, igniting the propellant in front. “

Li Xing nodded vigorously.

Li Zhi continued: "The propellant is contained in the cartridge case, and when ignited, it will cause the cartridge case to expand rapidly. Shells will fly out of the bolt. When the copper bullet stuck in front of the cartridge case is squeezed, it will separate from the cartridge case and shoot out of the chamber at high speed. “

"During the process of firing out the chamber and the rifling in the chamber of the gun, the bullet will rotate at high speed, so that the warhead will remain stable when it is in the air."

Li Xing took a breath and said, "Big brother, this is amazing, this is a combination of the previous bullets, propellants and primers. This allows the Soldier to reload in a single reload to perform an action that previously required three operations. “

Li Zhi nodded and said, "That's it." ”

After a pause, he added, "But don't underestimate this metal bullet. The production of this bullet is extremely high-tech. That is to say, we now have a large precision punch, which can accurately press the explosive and unstable mercury thunderate primer with the propellant and warhead, and tightly combine them in the shell. “

"If the accuracy of our punch is slightly off, the primer will explode during the pressing process, igniting the bullet and causing an accident."

"Only if the machine tool factory now uses an electrically driven press can we achieve this kind of accuracy."

The machining accuracy of metal cartridge shell bullets is very high. In the original history, it was only between 1860 and 1870 that metal cartridge bullets appeared.

Li Xing took a breath, took the bullet from Li Zhi's hand, and looked back and forth.

"Big brother, our bullets used to be all lead. The lead is soft and does not hurt the rifling. Nowadays we use copper bullets, which are harder than lead, will the rifle break after a few shots? “

"No!"

Li Zhi replied: "Although the lead is soft, the lead is too soft and the melting point is too low, and there will be a phenomenon of hanging lead. Our previous rifles fired hundreds of bullets, and the rifling was filled with molten lead, filling it all in. So in the past, our rifles had to be sent back to the arsenal to clean the rifling in a short time, which was a lot of work. “

"But copper, although slightly harder than lead, has a high melting point. If copper is used as a warhead, there will be no problem of hanging lead and copper. “

"And our barrel steel has been upgraded many times now, and now the barrel is widely used as a raw material with low content tungsten steel. Tungsten steel has high hardness, good toughness, wear resistance and high temperature resistance, basically no deformation at 500 degrees, and can maintain its basic shape at a high temperature of 1,000 degrees. The copper warhead of the metal warhead can be said to be very soft in front of tungsten steel. “

"The rifling of this new rifle has been tested to withstand a thousand shots of copper metal bullets."

Li Xing was amazed, raised his rifle and looked at it carefully.

The other officials next to Li Xing listened to Li Zhi's introduction, and they really admired Li Zhi. They really couldn't understand how Li Zhi could create so many incredible inventions, the invention of this metal integrated bullet seems simple, but in fact, it completely changed the shape of the bullet, which can be said to be an epoch-making invention.

Zheng Kaicheng took a breath and said, "The prince is really a star..."

Cai Huaishui, Gao Ligong and others bowed their hands in unison and said: "The prince's means reach the sky, and we are dazzled and forgetful. “

Li Zhi smiled, waved his hand and said, "Let's see the effect." “

A Tiger Soldier stepped up and raised his new rifle.

He opened the chamber of the gun, slipped a metal bullet into it, then closed the shot, raised the rifle, aimed at the target two hundred meters away, and fired the rifle with a snap.

The first shot, did not hit the target.

The soldier's face turned red, reloaded again, and shot again.

The target from 200 meters away fell in response.

The soldier breathed a sigh of relief and reloaded and fired, finally firing a total of ten rounds and knocking down eight targets.

The crowd estimated that the soldier fired ten bullets, and it took no more than thirty seconds to shoot them.

That is, a soldier can shoot a shot in three seconds.

The officials, who had never seen such miraculous rifles and bullets, turned pale with shock, and one by one they were speechless.

You must know that time is of the essence on the battlefield, and every time you double the firing speed, the firepower of the troops can be doubled, and the combat effectiveness can be directly doubled.

Three seconds of rapid-fire results are terrifying.

The officials were dumbfounded, unable to speak as they looked at the rifles in the soldiers' hands.

After a long time, Li Xingcai exclaimed: "This is too sharp." With such a rifle, the enemy with cold weapons is completely eliminated. “

Cao Yu arched his hand and said, "Please name the new rifle!" “

Li Zhi smiled and said, "Let's call it Qi Wang Style!" “

With a wave of his hand, Li Zhi said: "Organize production as soon as possible, and strive to let the troops use this powerful new bullet and rifle as soon as possible." “