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Kan Shu knocked on the door with a report.

"General, the statistics are out, more than 2,700 enemies were killed and wounded in this battle, more than 500 were captured, and our army suffered a total of 72 casualties, including 63 wounded and 9 sacrificed."

Chen Xin raised his head, not caring about the enemy's casualty figures, and asked with a frown, "What's the matter?" How can our army have such large casualties? ”

"General, most of the wounded are only bruises on their chests, and they do not delay the battle at all, they are only included in the list of the wounded for observation, and if there are no other problems, they can be discharged from the hospital tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

The only serious ones were 3 chest bone fractures, 5 leg bullets, a total of 8 wounded, requiring long-term treatment, and most of the wounded were hit by stray bullets when the enemy rushed within 200 meters with bows and arrows and arquebuses.

There were also 9 soldiers who died, and after counting and inquiry, it was found that all of them were shot by the enemy when the enemy rushed to within 100 meters. ”

Chen Xin's heart was full of helplessness, obviously the long-range firepower projection density had reached the top level of this era, but when encountering a fierce and tenacious enemy, he would still be forced to within 100 meters, and there were already many weapons at a distance of 100 meters in this era that could cause casualties to his side.

This is just infantry, if it is the cavalry unit of the Houjin, it will be even more difficult, under the rapid impact of the overwhelming mountains, our army will shoot less, I am afraid that it will eventually fall into close range of fire, or even melee hand-to-hand combat, at that time, according to the bow and arrow shooting ability of the Houjin army, their own troops will suffer a lot of casualties.

Originally, when steel production began to increase significantly this year, the whole army could begin to replace the flintlock pistol, which did not need to be ignited by the arquebus, so the queue between the soldiers could be more dense, and the firepower output could be about doubled.

However, at that time, a meeting was held to discuss, and after discussion, everyone believed that in the future, the whole army would definitely be replaced with rifled guns, and at this time, it would be too wasteful to replace the flintlock smoothbore guns, and if they could directly replace the rifled guns, they could save a lot of military spending.

In desperation, Chen Xin remembered that the best solution now could only be a rifled gun, and asked to the side, "How is the development of a rifled gun?" ”

"Three hours ago, a warship sent some reports by the way, including the Ordnance Factory, according to the latest report they provided, the Ordnance Factory still has no way to solve the problem of hanging lead, after firing two lead bullets, the lead hanging on the rifling line will seriously affect the shooting accuracy, and after 10 rounds, there will be an explosion of the chamber. If you choose other harder metals, you can't guarantee airtightness, and the ammunition won't fit into the chamber. ”

The staff officer's answer made Chen Xin very helpless, the lead bullet was very soft, after making the shape of the Minne bullet, it was fired with a rifled gun, and the wooden butt squeezed the cavity behind the lead bullet, forcing the lead bullet to expand and fit the rifling, and then rotated and shot out, which did have a very high range and accuracy.

However, because of the "softness" of the lead bullet, it will leave some residue when it passes through the uneven rifling, which is commonly known as hanging lead, which will seriously pollute the barrel, cause a decline in accuracy, and even cause an explosion after accumulation.

However, this kind of small lead hanging in the rifling is very difficult to clean, and it cannot be cleaned at all when it is cleaned with a whole strip, so it can only be sent to the ordnance factory to use complex machinery to slowly hook out of the rifling line little by little.

The armory factory also tried to use other ammunition, but the effect was not ideal, without the use of Minne, this era can only use a projectile slightly larger than the muzzle caliber, forced into the barrel, this kind of loading speed can be almost dead. Even less reliable than the Mine bullet.

Now that more than half a year has passed, the rifled gun still looks far away, although Houjin has not launched a war against his own side this year, but when he can't keep it, he will have to fight against Houjin, holding the current arquebus, there will definitely be great casualties at that time.

Chen Xin kept roaring in his heart, "When I used to read books, how did those traversers solve the problem of hanging lead, I have hundreds of technicians here, and they have been studying for more than half a year, why is it still not good." ”

Chen Xin was unwilling, and asked with luck, "Isn't there any good news for the ordnance factory?" ”

Kan Shu flipped through the folder and said with some uncertainty: "General, the rifling problem has not been solved, but the pistol has made some progress." ”

Chen Xinzhong moved, and hurriedly asked, "What is the progress?" ”

"The Ordnance Factory has developed the revolver you mentioned to them, the technology is relatively mature, and some samples were sent with the ship."

The joy in his heart couldn't be suppressed, and Chen Xin anxiously ordered, "Quick, show me." ”

"Yes, my subordinates will pick it up immediately."

About a quarter of an hour later, Chen Xin finally got the "revolver" made by the ordnance factory, which was personally delivered by a technician sent by the ordnance factory.

This revolver is single-acting, that is, before shooting, you need to move the hammer to the position to be fired, and then pull the trigger, and so on, until the ammunition in the chamber is fired, and then reload the ammunition.

The gun carriage uses a fixed wheel mount, which means that the top of the wheel mount is fixed and cannot be opened, which increases the safety of the pistol.

There are crosshairs and illuminators in the front and rear of the barrel for easy aiming and shooting.

The grip is a round grip similar to that of later revolvers, and the wooden patch feels very good to the touch.

Since the runner is not designed to be posed, when loading, you need to open a reloading cover on the right, and then load the cartridge into the empty chamber, and then move the hammer to let the runner understand it, revealing the next empty chamber, and the entire runner can be loaded with 6 rounds of ammunition.

The most important thing is the firing mechanism, Chen Xin carefully looked at the hammer slightly to the right behind the pistol, as well as the anvil that stood up, Chen Xin was a little speechless, "This is a flintlock pistol?" ”

The technician sent by the ordnance factory to deliver the pistol replied seriously: "Yes, General, this is a flintlock revolver. ”

Chen Xin covered his forehead with his hand, covered up the green tendons on his head, and forcibly suppressed his anger and asked, "So, please tell me, how does the flintlock mechanism launch continuously?" Sprinkle a shot on the fire hole for each shot? ”

This technician not only didn't hear the sarcasm in Chen Xin's mouth, but he was also relatively wooden, and didn't care about Chen Xin's next sentence at all, and explained seriously: "We used a goose fuse tube, degreased the coarse goose feathers with alkali, and then set them at high temperatures, and then loaded the propellant into the hollow goose feather tube, and finally sealed it.

Each chamber of the runner has a small hole, which is inserted into the goose fuse tube and fixed when the chamber is turned to the top and aimed at the barrel.

When the trigger is pulled to fire, the flintlock mechanism sends the spark to the fire transfer hole and ignites the goose fuse tube, which then goes deep into the paper shell to ignite the ammunition.

This can also ensure that when the chamber and barrel are not in a straight line, pulling the trigger will not fire the cartridge in the chamber, which can be regarded as an unexpected additional protective measure. ”

Chen Xin was a little dumbfounded when he heard this, how did these technicians come up with such a desperate method?

But in an instant, this idea was thrown out of the clouds, no matter how he came up with it, as long as he invented useful technology, he would be rewarded, but now that the system is perfect, he doesn't have to worry about this aspect.

So Chen Xin turned his head and asked curiously, "Has the specific data of this gun been tested?" ”

"Back to the general's words, it has been tested, the whole gun weighs 2 catties and 3 taels, is 318mm long, the barrel is 190mm long, the caliber is 11mm, and the paper shell fixed ammunition uses the Minne bullet style, which can accurately shoot at the target within 30 meters, and a skilled shooter can shoot at the heart and face of the humanoid target at 30 meters."

Chen Xin felt that something was wrong, "No, didn't you say that the problem of hanging lead was not solved?" Why do you still use Minne? ”

The technician still explained unhurriedly, "General, this pistol is not rifled, so there is no problem of hanging lead." ”

Chen Xin was even more puzzled, "Without rifling, what is the use of using Mine's bullets?" ”

"General, in fact, on the smoothbore gun, the Migne bullet also has a very good effect, this pistol is the best example, when using round lead bullets, due to the lead bullet and the barrel caliber do not match, the air leakage is serious, it is impossible to shoot more than 10 meters of human-shaped targets, but after the replacement of the Migne bullet, the air leakage is significantly reduced, and the accurate shooting distance of the point target has suddenly increased to 30 meters, if it is against the surface target, it can reach a range of more than 50 meters, and even can deal with a cluster target of more than 100 meters."

Chen Xin understood that this was like a shotgun that had reached a very high precision in later generations, and a person with a little training could use it to accurately shoot targets at a distance of 200 meters, but one was made of precision machining, and the other was to make the bullet expand itself to the extent that it completely fit the barrel.

Thinking of this, Chen Xinzhong moved, since there is no way to solve the problem of hanging lead now, and the Mine bullet can also greatly improve the range and accuracy of the smoothbore gun, then it is acceptable to replace the flintlock smoothbore gun first, as long as the Mine bullet is used, the smoothbore gun can also make your own shooting accuracy rise to a step, and if you use the flintlock smoothbore gun, you can arrange twice as much firepower on the upper line.

The most important thing is that after solving the problem of hanging lead in the future, this batch of flintlock guns can be returned to the factory for reprocessing, engraved rifling, turned into rifled guns, and re-equipped with troops, which not only improves the combat effectiveness of the army, but also saves a lot of military expenditure.

After Chen Xin said this idea, the technician of the ordnance factory looked a little strange, as if relieved, and whispered: "General, I won't tell you anything, it took more than half a year and a large amount of experimental funds, but we couldn't solve the problem of hanging lead in rifled guns, and we were also very guilty, so we put forward a suggestion internally, first design an excessive gun type, this time everyone asked me to come, in addition to sending a revolver that has matured technology, I also want to recommend you a rifle we designed." ”