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"Six shots!"

"Four shots!"

After checking the number of bullet holes, the craftsman told Song Changping the result.

"Not bad, two more shots than a flintlock pistol." Chen Qi pinched his waist and looked at the shooting results, today he and Song Changping have to test new weapons.

Song Changping nodded with satisfaction, in order to be able to compare the difference between the fire cap pistol and the flintlock pistol, he specially transferred two elite soldiers from the Qingzhou Army.

After testing, the fire cap firing pistols produced were faster and more effective than flintlock pistols after being sprayed with water.

"These two launches are enough to change a war."

Song Changping exhaled lightly, he had been busy for more than two months for this fire cap firing rifle, and now the first batch of 6,000 fire cap firing rifled guns has been produced and can be officially equipped with the army.

The reason why the production of the fire cap firing gun was completed so quickly was due to the steam engine.

With the skillful use of steam locomotives and the construction of two new production lines, it is now easy to manufacture barrels and riflings.

The production of muskets has been detached from the previous cumbersome process and directly transferred to the assembly and production of accessories, which greatly increases the production speed of muskets.

That's why the fire cap firing pistol was able to produce so many batches in a short period of time, and that they could have made many more if it weren't for the lack of materials.

However, in view of this, the Ministry of Military Aircraft has now issued an order that the muskets equipped by the army of the Great Chongqing State will be returned to the military workshop in batches for transformation to reduce the production cost of firearms.

In addition to the unrifled flintlock pistol, these firearms also included arquebuses captured from each campaign, and of course the substandard barrels had to be returned to the steel mill for smelting.

Chen Qi rubbed his eyebrows, "It's just that I don't think these two more times will have much effect, on the contrary, constantly innovating weapons will add a lot of burden to the imperial court's treasury." “

"Two shots are enough to change a war, we can't stop innovating weapons because of waste, we are lazy, but the enemy's firearms are constantly improving." Song Changping said: "Now the Great Yu Kingdom is only fighting with Goryeo and the Golden Horde, if it fights with the Dutch, it may not be able to gain much advantage under the same number of people, but it is different with new weapons." Song Changping retorted.

Chen Qi said: "The battlefield mainly relies on artillery, and this short-term battle mainly relies on the long range of artillery to disrupt the enemy's formation. ”

Song Changping's face turned red, Chen Qi's words made him unable to refute, he was right, during this time, the army of the Great Chongqing State mainly relied on artillery, and the musketeers did not play their full role.

However, thinking of the recent battle of Haigu City, he said: "But in this battle of Haigu City, Ye Qingyun used rifled guns to suppress the barbarian artillery, which shows that the range of rifled guns can already threaten artillery, if your artillery does not increase its range, it will also be eliminated by muskets in the future." ”

After a pause, Song Changping continued: "And now the musket has more powerful gunpowder, and now the rifled gun has a range of nine hundred meters. “

Chen Qi's mouth was in the shape of an "O", "Song Changping, are you bragging, how can the range of this musket reach nine hundred meters." ”

Smiling lightly, Song Changping said: "Yesterday, we used smokeless gunpowder to test the fire cap rifled firing gun, the effect is amazing, the range of 900 meters, the accuracy can be guaranteed within 500 meters, I asked people to look for you at that time, but you didn't come." ”

Chen Qi suddenly remembered that Song Changping had indeed gone to him yesterday, when he was discussing the rifled gun with the craftsman, and he didn't have time to pay attention to it.

"Are you going to let the artillery out of the battlefield?" Chen Qi smiled bitterly, "But fortunately, the rifled cannon has made progress now." “

Song Changping played with paper bullets, which were filled with smokeless gunpowder and conical projectiles, relying on rifled guns, the power of muskets was greatly improved.

When Chen Qi mentioned the rifled gun, he suddenly became interested and said, "Hasn't your rifled gun been making no progress?" ”

"I didn't have it before, but the emperor personally sent someone to send me a drawing, and this matter is no longer difficult."

"Why?"

Chen Qi shook his head, "In the past, rifled guns always let craftsmen load from the front, and the rifles would soon be smoothed out by the shells, until I read the drawings given by the emperor, I understood that this rifled gun should be loaded from behind the buttocks, so I am now studying the rear loading artillery." “

Song Changping couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "This person eats with his mouth, and he has a ...... with his ass."

Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped laughing, his expression was weird, he knew very well that artillery and muskets were actually the same, and now the emperor's intention to give Chen Qi this drawing did not seem to be simple, is this also telling him that artillery can be artillery, and muskets can also be?

Thinking of this, Song Changping no longer chatted with Chen Qi, but went directly to Xingyuan with a new type of firearm.

After the briefing, he met Xiao Ming.

"Is this a fire cap rifled firing pistol?" , Xiao Ming took the musket in Song Changping's hand with great interest.

In fact, after Song Changping's experiment, he obtained the data of this musket, with a firing range of 900 meters and an accuracy of 500 meters.

And this data finally reached the standard of the contemporary Miné rifle, which was not easy to get to this point, and for him, the musket also opened a new chapter.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Song Changping showed his color, this new musket surpassed the previous rifled flintlock pistol in terms of range and rate of fire, and it would not worry about blind fire because of rain.

Nodding excitedly, Xiao Ming laughed, he was actually not surprised that Song Changping took out this firearm, because now Qingzhou's industrial standards have been able to produce this type of musket.

This small change on the rifled flintlock pistol is simple.

"Now that the foreign enemies of Dayu are looking around, this musket came out in a timely manner." Xiao Ming played with this musket, he groaned for a while and said, "How about this type of musket called the Capture Musket?" ”

"Capture the musket?" Song Changping said: "Does the emperor mean that he is going to use this musket against the barbarians?" ”

"That's right, the Golden Horde has always been a big trouble in the north, until now, the Great Chongqing State can only use a defensive position, now with this long-range musket, it will be easier to deal with the barbarian cavalry, in the past two or three years, the military workshop will focus on modification, manufacturing this kind of musket, and when the Great Chongqing State recovers its national strength, I will wave the Northern Expedition!" Xiao Ming clenched his fists.

Only by excepting the border troubles in the north can he participate in the Age of Discovery with peace of mind, otherwise the barbarians will always contain most of his forces, which makes him very uncomfortable.