In the firearms workshop, Song Changping is seriously teaching a craftsman how to draw rifling. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

A noisy sound came, he looked out of the door, and when he saw that it was Xiao Ming, Song Changping was stunned for a moment, and turned to walk towards Xiao Ming.

"Your Highness." Song Changping saluted Xiao Ming and smiled, "Xia Guan has been looking forward to His Highness's return during this time." ”

"Really? In this way, your rifled gun must have made progress, otherwise this king will come back and curse. Xiao Ming said with a smile, he told Song Changping about the problem of the rifled gun before leaving, and asked him to improve, and he didn't know how Song Changping had changed it in the past two months.

Song Changping is also a person with a wooden personality, he laughed twice, and said to Xiao Ming: "Xiaguan is not idle, Your Highness, please see, this is the current rifled gun bullet." ”

Song Changping spread out his hand, and at this time on his palm was a conical bullet, which was the later Minne bullet, and the invention of this bullet changed the shortcomings of the flintlock pistol that it was difficult to load bullets.

"Migne, did you make it?" Xiao Ming said in surprise.

Song Changping nodded, "With His Highness's teachings and the drawings in the books, if the lower officials can't rebuild it, they can go home and farm." ”

"Well, that's right, it's time to make progress." Xiao Ming said: "Now bring a rifled gun, this king wants to try the power of this rifled gun plus a minigine." ”

Song Changping immediately asked his craftsmen to bring Xiao Ming a rifled gun, and Xiao Ming took the rifled gun to the school yard of the military workshop.

Claire had taken a rifled gun to him when he was in the city of Geranza, and now his rifled gun was much more advanced than theirs.

Placing the rifled gun vertically on the ground, Xiao Ming loaded the gunpowder in order, and finally successfully stuffed the bullet with a slightly smaller caliber than the barrel into the barrel.

This is where the advantage of the Minne bullet over the buckshot bullet lies.

After loading the ammunition, Xiao Ming raised the rifled gun, like the artillery, now the rifled gun also has a front sight and a door, through which he can aim at the target in front of him.

"Your Highness, our rifled guns can shoot a distance of five hundred meters, and the effective range can reach three hundred meters, so Your Highness can directly shoot at a target three hundred meters away." Song Changping said confidently.

"Five hundred meters." This number made Xiao Ming happy, this range was already half the distance of the Mine rifle, and he was very satisfied with this data.

"Bang." Aiming at the target, Xiao Ming pulled the trigger, and after a burst of fire and white smoke, the bullet flew to the target three hundred meters away, and the bullet drilled a hole outside the ring.

After the gunshot, the craftsman in charge of the target inspection quickly played the flag, a ring.

Song Changping said at this time: "Your Highness, how is this rifled gun?" ”

"It's kind of interesting."

Xiao Ming picked up the bullet and reloaded it, saying this, but he was already extremely surprised, the biggest difference between a rifled gun and a smoothbore gun was accuracy.

Compared to the deviation of the bullet of the smoothbore gun, the soldier can use the rifled gun after training to accurately kill and injure the enemy, which is an absolutely terrifying existence in this era.

"Bang." Xiao Ming's shot was a little more accurate this time, and the bullet landed outside the seventh ring.

"Your Highness, are you still satisfied with this rifled gun?" Song Changping's face became more and more confident.

Xiao Ming nodded, I have to say that this rifled gun has reached the standard he requires, although the range is a little shorter, but before the gunpowder has not made progress, this range can only be like this.

After all, the more gunpowder explodes, the higher the requirements for the bearing capacity of the barrel, for which the alloy technology must continue to improve.

Satisfied with the gun, the next focus is on the production speed of rifled guns, he said: "The gun is good, but how is the production of this bullet and gun?" ”

Speaking of this, Song Changping's face was a little unnatural, and he said: "Your Highness, this bullet is nothing, but it can be made by pouring molds, but it is really laborious to draw rifling, and in the past two months, Xia Guan has only produced one hundred and twenty rifled guns." ”

"I can produce four or five thousand smoothbore guns a month." Xiao Ming said that with the increase in orders, the number of craftsmen in the gunsmith has increased a lot, which has increased the production volume of the gunpowder workshop a lot.

Compared to the number of smoothbore guns, this rifled gun is really too few and too few.

After a pause, he continued: "But don't worry, you'll be able to overcome the rifling problem in no time. ”

"Overcome?" Song Changping was puzzled: "Could it be that His Highness has other methods?" ”

Xiao Ming nodded, he said naturally the steam engine, but now he doesn't want to say it, after all, the use of the steam engine has to wait.

He said: "The specific method will be available soon, so let's send all these rifled guns to the Qingzhou Army, in addition, how many flintlock guns are there in this warehouse?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, since the last time I sent three thousand flintlock pistols to the Youzhou Army, the lower officials have been stepping up production according to His Highness's orders, and now there are nine thousand flintlock pistols accumulated in the warehouse."

"Five thousand are only for the Youzhou army, three thousand are only for the Dengzhou army, and the remaining one thousand are for the Yunzhou army." Xiao Ming divided it according to the order.

Now the armies of the states are shouting for weapons, and the output of the military workshop cannot keep up, thinking of this, he feels that he must get the steam engine on the ground as soon as possible, otherwise the production capacity of the fiefdom will soon be out of touch with the demand.

The two were talking about firearms, and as if attracted by the sound of gunfire, Chen Qi walked out of the artillery workshop.

"Your Highness."

Seeing Xiao Ming and Song Changping together, Chen Qi immediately ran over.

Compared with Chen Qi's face two months ago, his face was a little haggard, Xiao Ming asked, "What's wrong?" Looking at you like this, it seems like these two months have been hard. ”

"Your Highness, it's not for Song Changping to force it, the rifled guns he has produced now have a range of five hundred meters, which is about to catch up with artillery, and Xia Guan can't lose to him, so he has been thinking about how to increase the range of artillery for this time." Chen Qi said.

"Oh? So what do you think. Xiao Ming said.

Chen Qi continued: "Your Highness, the lower official thinks that this barrel can be rifled, why can't the artillery be rifled, and if the gun has rifling, can it increase the firing range?" ”

"It can definitely be improved." Song Changping said to Chen Qi: "The rifled gun has been proven. ”

Hearing this, Chen Qi looked at Xiao Ming again.

Being stared at by Chen Qi, Xiao Ming said, "You can study it here, maybe you can succeed." ”

According to historical records, at the beginning of the 17th century, Tsarist Russia produced a bronze "Pixiali" gun with a caliber of 3 Russian inches, with 10 spiral rifling wires in the breech, and throughout the 18th century, both Germany and Britain carried out rifled gun experiments, and some of them were breech-loading guns.

Although the caliber of these guns was not large, their effectiveness was good. In 1776, a British 2-pounder breech-loading rifled gun fired at a distance of 1300 yards with a directional deviation of only 2 feet.

According to these records, Xiao Ming felt that Chen Qi should also study rifled guns, because maybe Europe was already partially installed.