Chapter 514

In the firearms workshop, song Changping is seriously teaching a craftsman how to pull rifling.

A loud voice came. He looked out of the door and saw that it was Xiao Ming. Song Changping was stunned and turned to Xiao Ming.

"Your Highness." Song Changping saluted Xiao Ming and said with a smile, "I've been looking forward to your Highness's return for a long time."

"Yes? So your rifles must have made progress, otherwise I'll come back to curse you. " Xiao Ming said with a smile that before he left, he told song Changping about the problem of the rifled gun and asked him to improve it. I don't know how song Changping changed it in the past two months.

Song Changping is also a man with a strong personality. He laughs twice and says to Xiao Ming, "I'm not idle, your highness. Please see, this is the rifles now."

When song Changping opened his hand, there was a conical bullet on his palm. This was the later miner's bullet. The invention of this bullet changed the shortcoming that it was difficult to load the flint gun.

"Mini bomb, you made it?" Xiao Ming said pleasantly.

Song Changping nodded, "with your Highness's instruction and the drawings on the books, if you can't recreate them, you can go home and farm the land."

"Well, that's true. It should have been a long time." Xiao Ming said, "now take a rifled gun. I want to try the power of this rifled gun and the mini bullet."

Song Changping immediately asks his craftsmen to get a rifled gun for Xiao Ming. With the rifled gun, Xiao Ming goes to the school yard of the military workshop.

When he was in the city of geranque, Claire was a big loser with his rifles. Now his rifles are much more advanced than theirs.

After putting the rifles on the ground vertically, Xiao Ming finished loading the powder in order, and finally successfully put the bullet with a slightly smaller caliber into the barrel.

This is the advantage of the mini bomb over the lead bomb.

After filling the ammunition, Xiao Ming raised the rifles. Like the artillery, the rifles now have a sight and a light gate, through which he can aim at the target in front of him.

"Your Highness, our rifles can shoot at a distance of 500 meters, and the effective range can reach 300 meters, so your highness can directly shoot at a target 300 meters away." Song Changping said confidently.

"Five hundred meters." This number makes Xiao Ming happy. The range is half the distance of the mini rifle. He is very satisfied with this data.

"Bang." Aiming at the target, Xiao Ming pulls the trigger. After a burst of fire and white smoke, the bullet flies to the target 300 meters away. The bullet drills a hole outside the first ring.

After the gunfire, the craftsman who was responsible for checking the target quickly made a sign.

Song Changping then said: "Your Highness, how about this rifled gun?"

"It's interesting."

Xiao Ming picked up the bullet and loaded it again, but he was very surprised. The biggest difference between a rifled gun and a smoothbore gun is accuracy.

Compared with the deviation of muskets, soldiers can use rifles to kill the enemy accurately after training, which is absolutely a terror in this era.

"Bang." Xiao Ming fired more accurately this time, and the bullet fell outside the seventh ring road.

"Your Highness, are you satisfied with this rifled gun?" Song Changping is more confident.

Xiao Ming nodded. He had to say that this time the rifles had reached the standard he required. Although the range was closer, the range could only be so before the gunpowder made progress.

After all, the more gunpowder explodes, the higher the bearing capacity of the barrel is required. Therefore, the alloy technology has to continue to improve.

Satisfied with the gun, the following key point is the production speed of the rifled gun, he said: "the gun is good, but how about the production of bullets and guns?"

Song Changping's face was a little unnatural. He said: "Your Highness, this bullet is nothing, but it can be made by pouring the mold, but it's really hard to pull the rifling. In the past two months, the lower officer just made 120 rifles."

"Four or five thousand muskets a month." Xiao Ming said that with the increase of orders, the number of craftsmen in the firearm workshop has increased a lot, which has increased the production of the firearm workshop.

Compared with the number of muskets, the number of rifles is too small.

After a pause, he continued, "but don't worry. You'll soon be able to overcome the rifling problem."

"Overcome?" Song Changping doubts: "does your highness have other ways?"

Xiao Ming nodded. Of course, what he said was the steam engine, but now he doesn't want to say. After all, the use of the steam engine has to wait.

He said: "the specific method will soon be available. In this way, you will send all the rifles to the Qingzhou army. In addition, how many flint guns are there in the warehouse?"

"Back to your highness, since the last time you sent 3000 flint guns to the Youzhou army, the lower officer has been stepping up production according to your Highness's orders. Now there are 9000 flint guns in the warehouse."

"Five thousand for Youzhou army, three thousand for Dengzhou army, and the remaining one thousand for Yunzhou army." Xiao Ming divided it according to the priority.Now the armies of all States are crying for weapons, and the output of military workshops can't keep up. Thinking of this, he thinks that the steam engine should be started as soon as possible, otherwise the production capacity of the fiefs will be out of line with the demand.

Two people are talking about guns, seems to be attracted by the gunfire, Chen Qi came out from the artillery workshop.

"Your Highness."

See Xiao Ming and song Changping together, Chen Qi immediately ran over.

Compared with Chen Qi's face two months ago, Xiao Ming asked, "what's the matter? Looking at you like this, it seems that these two months have been very hard. "

"Your Highness, it's not that song Changping has forced him. The range of the rifles he produces now is 500 meters, which is almost catching up with the artillery. I can't lose to him, so I've been thinking about how to improve the range of the artillery all this time." Chen Qi said.

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

Chen Qi continued: "Your Highness, I think this gun barrel can have rifling. Why can't artillery have rifling? If artillery has rifling, can it improve its range?"

"It will definitely improve." Song Changping said to Chen Qi, "rifles have been proved."

Chen Qi hears the speech and looks at Xiao Ming again.

Staring at by Chen Qi, Xiao Ming said, "you can study this conveniently. Maybe you can succeed."

According to historical records, at the beginning of the 17th century, Czarist Russia made bronze "pishali" guns with a diameter of 3 Russian inches. There were 10 spiral rifles in the gun bore. Throughout the 18th century, both Germany and Britain carried out experiments on rifled guns, and some of them were rear mounted guns.

Although the caliber of these guns is small, their efficiency is very good. In 1776, the British 2-pound afterloading rifled gun fired at a distance of 1300 yards with a deviation of only 2 feet.

According to these records, Xiao Ming thinks it's time for Chen Qi to study rifled guns, because maybe some of them have been installed in Europe.

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