Chapter 436: Innovations in Weapon Technology
Don flipped over and over with his dwarf musket.
Kloto laughed, "Oh, my friend, this thing should be relatively new to you, you have to be careful, it's not that simple-uh-"
Kloto and the others suddenly saw Don skillfully reloading gunpowder and projectiles, and then aiming at the demonic beasts outside, as if they were stuck in their throats, their eyes widened and they couldn't speak.
Feeling the recoil from the musket, Don frowned slightly, the gunpowder of this world is not the same as the gunpowder of the earth, Klotto They used to make gunpowder is not one sulfur, two nitrate and three charcoal, but uses a more efficient burning material, I don't know if it is because of the high energy concentration in this world, or because of the higher combustion efficiency of this burning material, the power of gunpowder used by the dwarf is much stronger.
Tang En nodded secretly, no wonder this simple musket bullet can penetrate such a hard bone shell, it turns out that gunpowder is different.
It stands to reason that this kind of gunpowder is so powerful that it should have a lot of potential to be tapped...... Tang En suddenly thought of the unknown energy source of the dwarf degeneration ray, and "hehe" in his heart, the technology tree is crooked like this, and he still expects them to engage in normal research and development?
He shook his musket and said, "It's good, but don't you think it's slow to reload?" ”
The potential of the Gnome Musket is now limited by the front-loading method, and Donn thinks that if he gives Cloto a hint, he may be able to get the backloader and even the Assault Rifle in two days.
Kloto shrugged: "It's very slow, so we have developed multiple groups of formation shooting, when one group shoots, the other two groups are loaded successively to ensure that each round of suppressive shooting." ”
"If you play against the Rangers, their arrows will pierce your heads before you can fire your second bullet."
Don pointed to Kloto's head and gestured, in the high demon world of Plandal, ordinary thermal weapons can't hit the Apocalypse, and the threat to the Apocalypse is basically equal to zero, but on the other hand, a Apocalypse Ranger, their arrow speed can reach more than ten rounds a second in the burst situation, even faster than the pistol on the earth - can you believe this speed?
In contrast to the slow-loading musket, the Ranger can use a variety of archery techniques to hit the musketeer in the split second of avoiding bullets, and the two sides are not comparable at all.
The only advantage of the musket is that it does not require cultivation, and after a short period of training, even ordinary people can use it.
Krotto said unconvinced: "Before the rangers attacked us, the gnome degradation ray had already made them idiots, and even the gnome freezing ray could limit their movements. ”
"Well, if you can hit them."
Donn nodded, and Klotto had nothing more to say.
Tang En shook his musket: "Then again, in addition to marshalling and shooting, haven't you thought about improving the process?" ”
Klotto's eyes lit up: "Why not!" The Mini Shark you're holding in your hand is an upgraded version of my carefully designed rifling and re-sizing the projectile. ”
"Mini Shark ......"
The corners of Donn's mouth twitched, and he was embarrassed to say that it was a mini shark with this shooting speed?
Don said casually, "Actually, when I just saw you shooting, I suddenly had an inspiration. ”
Krotto looked at him with excitement on his face, and when Don talked about it just now, Kloto knew that this guy had a proper idea: "What inspiration!?" ”
Croto now had no doubts about Donn's engineering prowess, and he was so sure that Donn's ideas would definitely transform the dwarf musket, and his thirst for advanced technology made him cling to Donn's thighs like a thirsty student.
Nokia covered their eyes, and couldn't bear to see Master Kloto look like this.
"Can you let me go?"
Don looked at Krotto speechlessly, Klotto let go of him with a sneer, and then Donn pointed to the junction between the butt handle and the chamber of the gun, and said, "Have you ever thought about how much more efficient it would be if you cut this place off and make a connection point, and then reload bullets from here?" ”
"Loading from behind?"
Klotto stared at the musket, and the original structure of the musket quickly came to mind, disassembled and evolved with Donn's prompting, the chamber and butt welded together separated from each other, and then folded down in half, and the projectile was loaded from behind......
Krotto suddenly exclaimed: "This can be done!" ”
Donn shrugged, the progress of the project is like this, many innovations are just a hint, as long as you put it thoroughly, it is actually nothing.
Nokia said quickly: "After my calculations, after the reloading transformation, the shooting efficiency can be at least doubled!" ”
"Double? At least twice as much as the base! ”
Klotto got excited, and didn't care about the heat outside, so he took out a pen and paper and began to calculate: "If you reload from the back of the chamber, then you need a movable link here, and in order to increase the power, the reloading port must also ensure a certain sealing effect after recovery...... My friend, I may need to buy a batch of rubber gaskets from you! ”
Tang En smiled slightly, and said lightly: "Rubber may be needed, but the gasket is not necessary, don't you think that filling gunpowder itself is a very troublesome and inefficient redundant action?" ”
Kroto was stunned: "But if you don't even load gunpowder, how can you shoot?" ”
"Of course, it's not that you don't need gunpowder, but that you can load the bullets at the same time as you finish the gunpowder."
Tang En smiled and said, "Isn't it more convenient to turn two steps into one?" ”
Donn's words made Kloto and the others fall into deep thought, and Fiona next to them said with a blank expression: "Accomplish two things at the same time? It's troublesome, right? Without the help of spells, it would be difficult for the dwarf to have that kind of speed on its own, and it must have to be in order. ”
Don shook his head: "You're thinking from the wrong angle, think about it from another angle, why do you have to do two things at the same time?" In addition to using spells to increase speed, how can you do both at the same time? ”
Fiona thought for a long time with a blank face, and shook her head in frustration, she couldn't think of it.
The smiling Don didn't care, this is normal, many people will follow the inertia of thinking when thinking about something, so it feels like many things are impossible, but as long as you change the angle, after finally figuring it out, you will find that it is not so difficult.
If he was allowed to come by himself, he would not have figured it out, and now he can pretend to be like this because he stands on the heads of countless great people on the earth.
"My friend, I vaguely felt an idea, but I couldn't say it, and there was a fog between the feeling and the truth!"
The ground was a mess drawn by Klotto, and all kinds of gun-shaped structures and parts were reduced and disassembled by him, and he stared directly at the structural drawings of those parts, turning around very anxiously.
Tang En sighed and said directly: "If you want to reduce two steps to one, in addition to using magic to increase speed and reduce time, there is another way, and that is to turn the problem that needs to be solved in two steps into one." ”
"Turning into one?"
"Yes, two steps because you need to reload gunpowder and bullets, but if the loading becomes one, doesn't it reduce the time?"
"But the problem is back to before-"
Klotto's voice stopped abruptly, and he stared at the gunpowder and bullets, and suddenly froze there.
"Looks like you've pretty much figured it out."
Tang En gestured to the half-dead demonic beast below the city wall and said with a light smile: "As long as the gunpowder and bullets are fused, this purpose can naturally be achieved." ”
"Integrated...... Merge with! ”
Kroto frowned: "But in this case, how can the bullet be fired......"
Donn was speechless: "How did your missiles be launched?" ”
Krotto said with a blank face: "Missiles? There's a miniature trigger on it, but it obviously doesn't work with bullets......"
Miniature triggers......
Don felt the muscles in his face jump, could the tech tree stop being crooked? He sighed and said, "Well, think about it differently, what is the purpose of loading gunpowder?" ”
"Ignite the expansion and fire the bullet."
"That's right, in other words, as long as the gunpowder acts as a propelling bullet, its mission will be accomplished."
Don casually swiped his right hand in the air a few times, and a simple bullet profile appeared on the ground, and he said, "If you use a malleable metal...... For example, if you make copper, make a shell, fill it with gunpowder, and then make a warhead, and combine the two into one......"
Donn looked at Klotto, his hint was obvious enough.
"Gunpowder and bullets are fused into one...... Then ignite the gunpowder......"
Krotto looked up suddenly: "What about the ignition method?" How can the gunpowder, which is sealed in a copper sleeve, ignite? Lead? ”
Tang En was completely helpless, so he simply said directly: "Design a miniature igniter at the bottom, fill it with a small amount of gunpowder, and then improve the igniter of the musket, change it to a firing pin, and use the impact ignition ......"
"Hit the ignition!"
Kloto suddenly realized: "In the sealed space, there is really only this way!" But ......"
Croto frowned: "If you say it, the whole musket needs to be redesigned!" ”
"Isn't that a matter of course?"
Don had a mysterious smile on his face: "An industrial progress will inevitably bring about an industrial innovation, but don't worry, although it is convenient to reload later, I think the step of loading bullets can continue to be simplified......"
"Keep simplifying!?"
Klotto was completely dumbfounded: "How else can it be simplified?" ”
Tang En said lightly: "Use the magazine." (To be continued.) )