The new rifle may not be new.

In fact, the muskets made by the Dalian Arsenal have always been based on Enfield P1853 as the standard, and even the drawings were downloaded by Zhu Guoqiang from an old gun website in the lighthouse country on the other side.

However, the previous one was not rifled, it was just a smoothbore gun. Now it is the standardized Enfield P1853 that will be manufactured. Although it is an "antique", it is undoubtedly an epoch-making weapon in this era, and its rifling combined with the hollow Mini bullet at the bottom makes its accuracy and effective range greatly improved.

Although the benefits of rifled guns have been known for a long time, due to technical difficulties, under his suggestion, Zhu Guoqiang chose a bullet with a rifled lenek single-head structure on the periphery to make up for the shortcomings of the smoothbore gun.

But he did not give up the pursuit of rifled guns, and even the Dalian Arsenal has been making technical preparations since its establishment.

Smoothbore to rifling is not a small problem, this is not only related to the technical level of the processing hardware - the lathe, but also related to the mechanic, although there is a rifling machine, but it is not fun to engrave a standardized rifling on all muskets. In fact, in the 1850s in another world, British military factories were prone to frequent strikes because of the cumbersome manufacture of rifled guns and the high rate of defective products, and the production could not be maintained stable, and rifled guns were in short supply, which is why until the Crimean War, Britain did not fully equip rifled guns, and France simply inked until 1857.

This was even after the two countries imported new machine tools from the United States, where American inventor Eli Whitney used standardized parts in the production of firearms to ensure that the parts were interchangeable. Until then, guns were made entirely by hand, and each gunsmith made a unique gun. It wasn't until the World's Fair of 1851 that the British discovered that the Americans were making guns far faster than they could with Whitney's production system. And standardization also paved the way for rifled guns and mini rounds.

Historically, Britain solved the problem of rifled gun standardization by introducing American machine tools, but it is obviously unlikely here, although Zhu Guoqiang downloaded the machine tool drawings invented by Whitney from foreign geek websites, and commissioned a small factory to customize a batch of equipment in the name of the museum, but it is a long process from workers mastering production technology to producing parts that meet the standards.

"Shizi Ye, to achieve zero interchangeable, the first is of course to determine the reasonable tolerance of each part, in the maximum and minimum range, the ordnance must still work normally, now our workers, need to be proficient in the operation of machine tools, the production of parts to meet tolerances, which needs to be calibrated......"

A same part, as long as it is the same type of firearm, can be put into use, not only for the ordnance maintenance system, of great significance, can greatly reduce the ordnance maintenance resources, but can also improve the production speed, but just have machine tools and tools precision enough to produce parts that meet the tolerances is not enough, and finally there must be proper quality management, all non-compliance must be returned to redo. This sequence of procedures must be in place in order to produce replaceable parts.

Even if the P1853 parts have large tolerances, without proper quality control, it doesn't make any sense, and there is also the proficiency of the workers, it all takes time!

Time!

And what Zhu Guoqiang lacks now is time. Wait until Chen Yujie finished speaking, he said.

"We must produce the first batch of rifles as soon as possible, and this year, we have to fight a big battle!"

A big battle!

It's inevitable!

In fact, the cooperation with Huang Taiji was not only to sell him artillery for him to equip the sailors, but also to cooperate in intelligence, he provided Dalian with a lot of information about Dorgon. Of course, there was a ...... between such cooperation and Dolgon Even a little earlier than Huang Taiji.

Thanks to this, now Zhu Guoqiang can accurately grasp their movements, although there is a certain delay, but at least the strategic intelligence is still relatively accurate, just like Dolgon's side sent the information that Huang Taiji was going to cross the sea to the east to plunder the Japanese a while ago, at least it confirmed that it was not only Huang Taiji who wanted to invade Japan eastward, but also the Manchu magnates under his command.

After all, wealth is moving!

"Last year, after withdrawing from Guannei, Dolgon, who occupied Shenyang, began a crusade against the Jurchens of Jiangbei, and they went north to the mouth of the Ussuri River, and to the east to the coast, and no less than 30,000 Jurchens in the mountains, forests, rivers, and coasts were recruited by them and moved to the surroundings of Shenyang, and these Jurchens were all bloodthirsty barbarians in Rumao......"

When mentioning the birth of Jurchen, Zhu Guoqiang naturally thought of the "fish skin tartars" mentioned by Chen Wushu and Qian Degong, those people are savage and do not know life and death, they hold maces, axes and other blunt weapons, rampage on the battlefield, the Iron Man Army may be human tanks, but those "fish skin tartars" who do not know life and death really do not know what death is.

Originally, there were hundreds or thousands of people, and they felt a headache, but now there are more than 40,000 people under Dolgon's command!

In order to strengthen the Jurchens, he even crossed the sea to Sakhalin Island, if he was given another year, he wouldn't go to the Arctic Circle?

"Dolgon, who feels that he has great strength, has set his sights on Mongolia, he is ready to defeat the Khalkha Mongols in Mobei this year, and the date is also set, and after spring, he will immediately send troops to Mongolia!"

"Lord Shizi, he is really good at picking the time!"

Staring at the map, Chen Wudi sighed.

"After a winter, when the Mongol horses were at their weakest, where could they carry Dorgon's army? Even if the Mongols fled, they could not escape, there was no way to graze, their livestock would not grow fat, as long as he pursued along the water and grass, the Mongols would only surrender in the end. ”

"It was Dolgon who defeated the Mongols and turned the Mongols into loyal dogs of the Manchus, and when he knew about the Mongols, since he wanted to start, he would definitely pick the weakest time for the Mongols."

Qian Degong paused, and then said.

"Lord Shizi, they send troops, we also send troops, as long as he Dolgon, send the elite to the Mongolian faction, we will send troops, with those remnants of Shenyang defeated, where is the opponent of our Pingyu army!"

"Lord Shizi, now Dolgon can be described as a strong soldier, if he is not suppressed, let him seize Mongolia, with a million people in Mongolia, he is bound to become the henchman of the Ming Dynasty, this wolf, must be defeated!"

How many people are there in Mobei Mongolia?

There is no accurate number, but it is certain that in history, after Geldan defeated Mobei Mongolia, its strength could even challenge the Manchu Qing, and after the Manchu Qing repelled it for several years, the Mobei Mongol princes encircled no less than 300,000 people, and seven or eight out of ten were "coerced" by Geerdan to Jungar. Of course, those people died in the end, and Qianlong ordered the slaughter.

Zhu Guoqiang suddenly said:

"This year, we are recovering Liaodong."

"Huh?"

Liu Hanyi, Wan Shouqi, and Yan Ermei were all stunned.

"Recovering Liaodong?"

"That's right, it's to recover the entire Liaodong!"

Zhu continued:

"This year, well, it should be said that this year and next year, we will recover the entire Liaodong. Let's put it this way, everyone has seen the chaos in the Guannai this year, the thieves fell into Luoyang, King Fu was killed, the world was shaken, and now the chaos in the Guannai is worse day by day, if we can't solve the Jiannu in this year and next year, when the situation in the Guannai completely collapses, how can we get out of the Guannai? Only by completely solving the Jiannu in Liaodong can we wave our troops into the customs when the situation in the customs collapses, pacify the liukou, and appease the world! ”

Of course, by that time, Chongzhen has been martyred as in history, and the Ming at that time will be a Ming who will completely open the door to himself.

As long as he waives his army into the capital, those people will take the initiative to persuade him, and at that time, the throne of the Ming Dynasty will naturally be branded on his body. However, sometimes you must be able to withdraw from the outside of the border and use all your strength in the gate, only in this way can you completely eliminate the rogues in the shortest possible time and end the turmoil in the country.

"But now there is one more problem......"