In the face of Chen Xin's question, the person in charge of the ordnance factory explained with some nervousness, "Your Majesty, this is the case, military rifles have a hard and fast rule on the rate of fire, and with the previous combat methods of the kingdom, even if the rifle used by the militia troops, it must at least reach a rate of fire of more than three rounds in two minutes to be considered qualified." Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Rifled rifles are fired every two or three minutes, and even sometimes when something goes wrong, one shot in five minutes is possible.

Such an extremely slow rate of fire, in the eyes of the army, is naturally unqualified.

However, if it is used as a civilian rifle for hunting, this rate of fire is no problem at all. ”

Chen Xin finally understood, and while disappointed, he once again asked the question he had just asked, "Is there any difference between the civilian rifle you are talking about and the military rifle?"

How do you limit the power of civilian rifles? We can't disperse a large number of weapons that can compete with the army to the people.

We are not indigenous to this land, and we are still a country of constant migration, and a large number of displaced people are sent every year. ”

The person in charge of the ordnance factory turned his head and glanced at the technician next to him, and motioned for the other party to explain.

The young man was a little restrained, and his throat rolled up and down a little before he spoke, "That's right, after our experiment, we directly reduced the caliber of the barrel." ”

Chen Xin is very interested in this point.

In later generations, I was accustomed to seeing 14 or 5mm; 12、7mm； 11、43mm； 9mm； 7、92mm； 7、62mm； 6、8mm； 6、5mm； 5、8mm； 5、56mm； Chen Xin, who has 5, 45mm and other large, medium and small caliber weapons, has always wanted to change his army's 18.5mm caliber rifle to a smaller caliber rifle to reduce the burden on the soldiers and the difficulty of shooting training.

You must know that in later generations, 18.5mm is the caliber of the No. 12 shotgun, and according to the standard of PLA, the caliber is 1.5mm, which can be regarded as entering the ranks of artillery.

However, now the United Kingdom of China is not able to be equipped with rifled rifles on a large scale for economic reasons.

Smoothbore weapons, on the other hand, are inherently less powerful than rifled weapons by at least 30% in terms of power.

And the main enemy of the kingdom now is Hou Jin, and the most feared thing about Hou Jin is their cavalry.

The vitality of horses is naturally much stronger than that of humans, and in the case of using smoothbore guns that are much weaker than rifled rifles, they can only rely on the huge kinetic energy brought by large calibers to limit the charge of the Houjin cavalry.

Therefore, after 5 years, Chen Xin still continued the strange super-large caliber of 18.5mm as the standard of military rifles.

Now I heard that the rifled rifle that the ordnance factory was preparing to introduce to the market had directly reduced the caliber, although he knew that there was no reference for military weapons, Chen Xin still couldn't help but ask curiously, "Oh?" How much have you shrunk the caliber? ”

"Your Excellency, we finally decided to use a small caliber of 5 or 5mm."

"Sss Chen Xin took a breath of cool air, the ordnance factory really dared to innovate, in this era when all firearms were not smaller than 10mm, directly reducing the caliber to 5 or 5mm, it was simply subversive.

You know, this is the era when black powder is used as a propellant.

Although the granulated black powder of the kingdom has reached a very fine level, and the power has reached the peak of black powder, the ignition method of the rear ignition hole determines that the current rifles are very serious air leaks.

In the case of air leakage, what can you do with 5 or 5mm caliber? It doesn't work, who will buy it?

Chen Xin directly asked what he was thinking, "What is the use of such a small caliber and a civilian rifle?" Who will come and buy this civilian version of the rifle? ”

"Your Majesty, this problem was decided at the beginning of our development."

"Tell me about it."

"Yes, Your Majesty. The civilian rifle we are going to launch is for the people to fight rabbits. ”

"Rabbit hunting?" Chen Xinzhong moved, and immediately understood, "You guys are developing this rifle to solve the current problem of hare flooding?" ”

The young technician nodded a little shyly, "You can say that, so to speak."

Anyway, it is very affordable to use this rifle to hit rabbits, and after hitting the target, it is enough to solve a rabbit with one shot, and at the same time, it can also ensure that most of the meat on the hare's body is not destroyed, and it can add food to everyone.

In the current situation that the supply of meat in the kingdom is not too abundant, it is a good thing to let the people fight rabbits independently, firstly, to limit the number of hares, and secondly, to allow the folk to have an additional stable supply of meat, which is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone. ”

The person in charge of the ordnance factory interjected: "Selling rifles can also increase the production capacity of the ordnance factory and give more benefits to the workers, which is a triple win." ”

Chen Xin couldn't help laughing, this is a sleepy pillow, just now I felt that the army to exterminate hares, the number is too small, and large-caliber rifles to fight rabbits is too wasteful, the ordnance factory has sent a solution -- let the whole people participate in the work of fighting hares.

Chen Xin couldn't help but take a deep look at the head maid and the housekeeper, the two smiled and nodded, and the reserved smile in their eyes made Chen Xin understand that this was not pie in the sky.

Chen Xin smiled with satisfaction at the head maid and the butler, and then continued to ask, "What is the effective range of this civilian rifle?" ”

"Your Majesty, we have used the design of a short-barreled rifle with a larger ignition hole than a military rifle.

Therefore, the effective range is limited to 100 meters, of course, because of the ammunition, this value is not constant, fluctuating around 100 meters.

However, the floating value is no more than 15 meters on the left and right. ”

"Isn't it more than 115 meters?" Chen Xin nodded, very satisfied with this distance limit.

If the effective range of any gunpowder firing weapon of the kingdom's army exceeds this value, forming a crushing advantage, then there is no fear that someone will use this civilian rifle to rebel.

However, now there is also the question "You designed a civilian rifle that uses lead bullet?" ”

The two people from the ordnance factory who made the report on the other side don't know why, didn't they say it a long time ago? However, when the king asked, they answered honestly, "Yes, Your Majesty, we designed it to use buckshot." ”

Chen Xin's brows furrowed, and after a long pause, he asked, "Can't you use ammunition of other materials?" ”

The person in charge of the ordnance factory didn't dare to answer, and the technician seemed to see that Chen Xin was approachable and didn't have the slightest king's shelf, so he relaxed a little and took the lead in speaking, "No, your lordship, this is a civilian rifle for the people, used to let them fight rabbits and fight teeth."

This rifle needs to be cheap enough, and the ammunition it uses needs to be cheap enough.

Now this mature civilian rifle product is already the limit after we reduce various costs.

It is also a civilian rifle that we think is the most realistic after a lot of market research. ”