Chapter 63: Equipment Improvements

After leaving the garment factory, Chen Xin and several military supervisors went to the ordnance factory. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Seeing Chen Xin and others coming from a distance, Tian Yi, the workshop manager, trotted up to greet him, and saluted respectfully, "My lord." ”

Chen Xin smiled and nodded, this Tian Yi was a Han who fled to North Korea from Liaodong, and this time he was caught again in North Korea, when Tian Yi picked up the hammer and wanted to fight with Chen Xin, but Chen Xin heard something strange from the other party's accent, and he didn't kill him, and captured his whole family alive.

Later, after some investigation, I learned about his life experience, and Tian Yi's family had a good life in Liaodong, with parents reincarnated, married a wife, and had several children. But after the Tartars raised troops to occupy his hometown, a series of atrocities spread to the Tian Yi family, and his family almost died one after another, and finally he fled with his three younger brothers and sisters, and died nine times to North Korea, but only one little sister remained.

So when he saw that the Tartars came to plague his family again, Tian Yi finally couldn't bear it anymore, and he had to fight hard when he picked up the hammer.

However, after Chen Xin's long-term persuasion and education, Tian Yi's external identity is now that he is a craftsman under Jin Guobei Yucaspian Haihu, a member of the Common Will Youth League within the army, and the core identity is a member of the Chinese Revolutionary League, specializing in weapon development and improvement.

And almost all of his craftsmen were Mongols and Han Chinese who fled from Liaodong, and even a few Jurchens who could not bear the slavery system and fled, Chen Xin treated these people equally and hid them all, because if they were captured by the Jin State and found out to be fugitive slaves, they would definitely be killed.

Walking into the inside of the manufacturing plant, the heat wave is coming, the big guys in the winter are shirtless, and the sound of the hammer smashing the iron piece is like a music, constantly echoing.

"Lao Tian, how is the output of various equipment now? When will the needs of the whole army be met? ”

Tian Yi thought for a while and said, "My lord, now we can create 20 pairs of iron armor, 40 long-barreled firearms, 20 three-eyed guns, 40 knives, and 200 spears every month, if we want to meet the needs of the whole army, it will take about a year." ”

Chen Xinwen couldn't help frowning, but he also knew that he couldn't be in a hurry, weapons were the foundation of a soldier's life, and he couldn't tolerate any sloppiness.

After thinking about it, he said, "Can increasing the number of people increase production?" ”

Tian Yi shook his head, "My lord, there is still free manpower now, mainly because of the lack of raw materials." ”

Chen Xin could only sigh, he also thought about directly using the golden finger to create the weapons and equipment needed by the whole army, but now is the Xiaoice River period, there is a famine in the north of Daming and the north of Korea, there is no extra food to convert energy, can only occasionally or key parts use the golden finger, other times all rely on the manpower and material resources of this time and space to slowly manufacture.

After thinking about it, Chen Xin ordered his opponent, "Let the air reconnaissance platoon and the reconnaissance platoon send people to find out if there are mines around, and report back as soon as they are found." ”

The herald immediately recorded the order, asked Chen Xin to seal it, and after the formalities were completed, he went to deliver the order.

Chen Xin turned his head and continued, "Lao Tian, show you our new weapon. ”

When Tian Yi heard Chen Xin's words, he looked a little excited, turned around and picked up a firearm from the weapon rack that had been made, and introduced it, "My lord has already seen it, so I will introduce it to my colleagues, our firecracker." ”

Saying that, he led everyone to the shooting range outside, and explained while loading the bullet, "The caliber of this fire gun is 5 inches 8 minutes (18.5mm), the total length is 4 feet 9 inches (about 159cm), the gun tube is 3 feet 7 inches (about 117cm), and weighs 7 pounds. This gun can accurately hit the chest target within 30 steps, and it also has a certain accuracy within 50 steps, and when it is 80 steps away, although it is unlikely to hit, it can break the iron armor as long as it hits. ”

As he spoke, he fired a shot at a humanoid target 30 paces away, hitting him right in the chest, and then while quickly reloading his ammunition, he explained, "This firebolt abandons the arquebus and uses the flint ignition mechanism provided by the adult, which is convenient and fast, and most importantly, everyone can be closer together when they line up, and there is no need to be afraid that the fire rope hanging on the body will ignite the gunpowder carried by the person next to them." ”

Fired a shot at the humanoid target wearing iron armor 50 paces away, and hit the target again, but this time it was slightly biased to the shoulder, everyone walked to the target, Tian Yi opened the armor piece and introduced, "Ordinary iron armor can't stop such a large lead bullet at all, please see, the lead bullet completely passed through the iron armor, and then embedded in the wooden target." ”

Everyone looked at the words, and suddenly gasped, Da Chun stuffed his fingers into the hole made by the lead bullet, and exclaimed, "I actually passed through the iron armor and entered the wood a little deep, what a domineering firecracker." ”

Turning around, his eyes lit up, and asked Chen Xindao, "My lord, will we all use this kind of firearm in the future?" ”

Chen Xin responded with a smile, "That's right, that bird gun can only penetrate the iron armor within 20 steps, so close distance, only enough to shoot a salvo, what is enough, let's change the whole army into this kind of fire gun in the future, you can start a salvo from 80 steps away, how many more times can you fight." ”

Everyone talked excitedly, but the big cat was more stable, and asked the point, "My lord, just now the field manager said that the long live insect can only make 40 poles a month, and it can't be this kind of firecracker, right?" ”

Chen Xin smiled bitterly, nodded and said, "It's this kind of firecracker, I named it the flintlock smoothbore gun, and now the raw materials are insufficient, so I ordered to find iron ore." ”

Everyone sighed.

However, Chen Xin said again: "Lao Tian still has a three-eyed handcuff? Open your eyes to everyone. ”

Tian Yi immediately responded, took a three-eyed handcuff from the hands of a craftsman and said, "Three-eyed gun, a firearm commonly used by the Ming border army, was originally cast from iron, weighing 8 catties, and after improvement, we added a handle to the three-eyed gun, which is convenient to hold with one hand, and the barrel is made using the method of creating a smoothbore gun barrel, weighing 2 catties, one foot long (32cm), and can accurately hit the chest target within 20 steps, and pierce the iron armor." ”

Several officers each picked up a three-eyed handcuff and tried to shoot it.

On the other side, Chen Xin beckoned to Tian Yi, "You just said inside that you can only make 40 knives per month, how can you be so slow?" ”

"My lord, the curvature of the blade can only be mastered by the old craftsman, I have transferred all the veterans to fight the knife, but the skilled hands are still not enough, it takes a long time to practice."

Chen Xin pondered for a moment, drew a picture on the ground and said, "Look, if we design the knife in the style of a straight blade, but the length and width of the knife remain the same, will it be faster?" ”