When Wei Ze was young, he was very afraid of injections, and the slender needle tip that shone with a cautious light always made him feel indescribably uneasy and afraid. Even if I finally knew that the injection was nothing, the discomfort could not be completely eliminated.

But this uneasy feeling made Wei Ze more interested in how to make this hollow needle, in fact, the technology of this thing is very simple, especially the local method manufacturing that does not require so much precision, it is even simpler. To prevent iron from rusting, make a slender steel needle and wrap it around a thin sheet made of silver-copper alloy, which can be quickly processed into a needle by a more reliable silversmith.

As long as there are reliable silversmiths and coppersmiths, the syringe can also be relatively simple to manufacture. Even if a very round syringe cannot be manufactured, a square syringe can be manufactured, which solves the problem of airtightness between the syringe and the rear propeller.

Before Wei Ze came out, he had set a plan for making zuò. At this time, Wei Ze had no shortage of silver, no shortage of bronze, and no shortage of craftsmen. By the time he returned to Yongxing from Youxian, dozens of sets of medical equipment had been packed in boxes of military medical equipment created by carpenters. These devices include scalpels, probes, tweezers, syringes, suture needles, sheep gut, simple straight stethoscopes covered with membrane, and so on. Although Wei Ze is not studying medicine, the reality that Wei Ze can remember and the basic equipment he saw on TV are also roughly available.

Craftsmen not only make medical equipment, but also wrenches, screwdrivers and other tools.

As for stationery and drawing tools and drawing supplies, Weeser is more experienced. What he learned and did was propeller design, and he couldn't be more proficient in using a complete set of drawing tools. In this era, although Wei Ze did not dare to boast that he could immediately make the best set of drawing tools, he dared to pat his chest and say, "Brother has used more drawing tools than you have ever seen." ”

The drawing pen is a dipping pen, and Weser has been playing with this thing since he was a child. The nib of wrought iron is easy to rust, and the electroplating technology cannot be used, so Wei Ze uses an iron nib coated with copper. There are not many people in the army who can really use this thing for a long time, and a few hundred are enough. As for the compass. Various rulers and protractors can be made with a very fine pen as long as you don't care too much about accuracy.

The work of making zuò stationery began during the period when Wei Ze was entrenched in Jianghua and Yongming, but at that time there was a shortage of craftsmen and the apprentices selected by the Taiping army were not skilled enough. Now, along the way, Weser has got more craftsmen, and Weeser's own military department is becoming more and more familiar, and these stationery and drawing tools are becoming more and more refined.

The head of the logistics department is Chen Zhe, and this kid doesn't look like a soldier at all, but has the feeling of a stubborn reader. Wei Ze also saw him at a glance among many people at that time, and left a deep impression.

Chen Zhe has no fame, but he has read books, so there is a common problem of readers, that is, looking down on people. Just this problem, when he first learned culture with Wei Ze, he was not less beaten by military sticks. This year, the boss ordered the beating of military sticks, and those who were beaten would feel that they were at a loss. What's more, Wei Ze never beat the military stick to vent his anger, Chen Zhe also knows how bad it is, and every time he can't help but want to dictate to others, he will feel a faint pain in his buttocks. Now I can talk to people on a case-by-case basis.

Seeing Wei Ze come back, Chen Zhe first reported the progress of stationery and drawing tools, and said seriously: "Prime Minister, pulley block, iron chain, mold and leaf spring are ready." ”

In terms of weapons, Wei Ze has the greatest ambition, although he does not expect to be able to mass-produce weapons this time, but he must make a breakthrough anyway. This time, the weapons were divided into three categories, the Migne rifle, the five-barreled smoothbore gun, and the grapeshit.

In Weeser's view, before the advent of metal bullets, it was a shameful waste to invest a lot of technical power and energy in all kinds of excessive products. So Weezer chose the Migne rifle as the standard weapon that he could complete.

The Migne rifle is a front-loading flint rifle with three shallow rifling lines in the chamber. This is not the main thing, one of the two major difficulties in the technical content of this weapon is the cylindrical lead bullet. This bullet is slightly smaller than the caliber of the rifle, which solves the embarrassing situation of the front loading bullet of the old rifle because the bullet is too large to fit the barrel or block the barrel. The Mineer bullet can be easily pushed into the chamber with a ram lever, which greatly improves the shot. The bullet is threaded around the body to match rifling, the middle of the thread is stuffed with animal oil, and the bottom of the bullet is made of cork. When firing, the gunpowder gas hits the cork, and the cork is hit by an instantaneous impact, and the bullet is suddenly expanded. Therefore, at the moment of firing, you can rely on the bullet itself to complete the sealing of the chamber without leaking the gunpowder gas to guide the loss of kinetic energy of the bullet, which solves the problem of sealing the chamber of the old front-loading gun, greatly enhances the firing range of the gun, and reduces the danger of exploding.

The fans who lined up to shoot on the Internet have written a lot of posts with pictures and texts about the production of Mingé rifles in the local method, and these posts have experienced a lot of repeated discussions, and even many people have carried out actual operations, putting actual combat pictures and videos on it. What Weeser has to do is try to turn the practice of these people into reality.

The armies of Europe had long since completed the general equipping of flint muskets, but the Manchu armies still used arquebuses. The firearm of the flint gun was more difficult to make, and Wei Ze was not a fanatic of this weapon, so he could only roughly know that there was such a thing, and he didn't know exactly what the lighter of the real flintlock looked like.

But when he was in Yong'an, when Wei Ze was ambushing the Qing army's grain transport team, he snatched a double-barreled flintlock handcuff from the yellow jacket. Since then, Weeser has often disassembled the gun and carefully studied its internal structure. The drawings have been drawn many times, and the people in the military industry department have also studied them many times, and the one-to-one model carved from wood has been done many times. At this point, it was finally everyone's turn to try to imitate it.

Wei Ze heard in Chenzhou that there was a master blacksmith who could make steel, so he secretly "invited" this person to Yongxing. When the master started to fry steel, Wei Ze had already led his troops out. Seeing Chen Zhelai report that the leaf spring had been done, Wei Ze knew that the master really deserved his name.

If industrial production is followed, the manufacture of the barrel requires the smelting of iron first. Remake zuò out of iron sheets or iron pipes. Wei Ze omitted this step, and directly heated the barrel of the arquebus, and hammered it into iron bars with a hammer, which could be used to make a new barrel. The arquebuses of the Qing army had a problem, that is, they liked to make them thin and long. Theoretically, the larger the proportion of the body tube, the higher the range, but this is also a theoretical result. As a result, such muskets were often borechamberled. Wei Ze and the others would take off the barrel of the musket even if they were scrapped by the Qing army, so the troops collected quite a lot of usable talents.

Weeser took a very safe approach to the barrel, first taking an iron slat, hammering it into a thin sheet, rolling the long side around a long cylinder to form a long tube, so that the edges overlapped slightly, and then welding the two sides together.

This is just the beginning, and then a piece of iron hammered into a thin strip is taken and hammered on both sides, and this piece of iron is wound around the original round tube, so that the two sides of the hammer overlap each other, and finally the edge is welded.

Because a barrel has two layers, the inner wall weld is longitudinal, and the outer layer is welded laterally, so this kind of barrel is very strong. Although the design was simple, the blacksmiths of the logistics unit failed many times, and it took two days to build the first barrel.

The rifling is processed on a wooden broaching machine. The rifled guide with the carved threaded groove is pulled by two rings with a convex tenon and a diameter slightly larger than the guide, so that when the convex tenon slides through the threaded groove, it forces the rifled guide to rotate according to the thread on it. A slender steel post is mounted on the front end of the rail, passed through the barrel, and the other end is equipped with a blade slightly higher than the inner wall of the barrel, and then the rail is pulled and the blade is rifled on the inner wall of the barrel. After pulling, adjust the height of the guide rail, repeat the drawing in the original position, gradually deepen the rifling, and after repeated drawing more than 20 times, a rifling is pulled. Then, the steel pipe rotates 12o degrees and continues to pull the second rifling, and all three rifling are pulled, and this barrel is truly completed.

The blade is a high-carbon steel made by a master who can fry steel, and the quality of this high-carbon steel is really not good, only one barrel is pulled, and there is a gap in the edges and corners on it. But Weeser didn't care about it.

With the barrel and leaf spring, the rest is the butt, which is the best solution. The butt of the gun had long been ready, and the melted lead was also made into a Mine bullet according to the drawings. The bayonet was also simple to make, with the head and tail of the gun welded together with an iron ring.

With the joint efforts of more than a dozen people, it took three full days for a Migne rifle to be built! If the preparation time had been started earlier, the manufacturing process of this rifle could have been reversed even half a year ago.

The test process was very brutal, the barrel was filled with gunpowder, and it was pulled by a person from a distance with a long rope. The barrel of a gunpowder filled with gunpowder is like a detonator filled with gunpowder. Even if Weeser had seen someone do this, he knew that the European countries of the 19th world used this method to make gas pipelines, but he was also uneasy.

However, the barrel withstood this huge chamber pressure, and after a muffled sound, there was no explosion. Wei Ze ran over to remove the barrel and inspect it, but saw that the barrel was not deformed, and the welds that were knocked together were not cracked. He was relieved.

This is followed by live firing, in which the rifle is loaded and positioned 1oo paces away by stacking three wooden targets on top of each other. The people involved in the live firing were all Wei Ze's trusted subordinates, and before starting the test, Wei Ze repeatedly asked the gang to ensure that no information was leaked. So the final personnel were only five people in the General Staff, including Weese. Weeser personally operated the gun and shot.

The other four ministers of the staff department looked at Wei Ze's careful aiming, and they all felt that this action was too redundant. Everyone is used to muskets, even if they are extremely sophisticated arquebuses, after 1oo steps, the bullets have long been floating and disappearing. However, Wei Ze took this musket that wasted countless energy so seriously, and everyone was embarrassed to pour cold water on Wei Ze. They waited quietly to see the results of Weeser's test.

Weeser pulled the trigger, and the sound of the gun was very different from that of an arquebus, as was the fire and smoke from the muzzle. The target shook violently. The four of them were all shocked, they knew that Wei Ze would not say big things casually, and he would probably be able to hit the target 1oo steps away. But when they really saw this kind of musket, everyone was also shocked.

Seeing that Wei Ze walked towards the target with this slender musket after shooting, they all followed Wei Ze quickly. When he was still about 3o steps away from the target, Wei Changrong stopped, and Wei Changrong, who was known for his bravery, couldn't help but shout: "Oh God! ”

The other three didn't shout, not because they were calmer than Wei Changrong, but because the three of them were so frightened that they couldn't speak. The three targets were lined up in half-inch thick planks. At that time, when the three targets were shaking together, everyone thought that the target in front drove the back, and after approaching, they saw clearly that the three targets had been pierced. The eye-catching hole is silently telling the incredible power of this musket.

"Fourth Uncle...... The fourth uncle ...... "Wei Changrong was the first to react, he repeated this title repeatedly like a parrot, but he didn't know what to say next.

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