The bolt analogue of this rifle is the Carmel Ryder M1842 rifle, except that the firing cap is changed to the upper right side of the chamber. In order to prevent the bore from exploding, the bolt was divided into two parts, the front and rear, and the bolt and the powder chamber were made of particularly thick forged steel blocks.

The rifle was loaded with gunpowder in a paper case, which was required by Li Qi, which could greatly increase the rate of fire and avoid the explosion of the chamber caused by too much charge. The biggest disadvantage now is that the chamber is heavy, very heavy, and not very light when opened and closed.

Li Qi opened the chamber of the gun and checked it, then asked for another bullet rolled in an oiled paper shell, and after biting the paper shell with his teeth, he poured gunpowder into the medicine room.

Seeing this, Li Shouting hurriedly stepped forward: "Your Majesty, let's leave it to the students to operate." ”

Li Qi nodded after hearing this, smashed the gunpowder in the chamber with a wooden pole and a small wooden hammer, and then loaded it with a lead bullet wrapped in oiled paper, stuffed it into the chamber, and then struck it tightly with a wooden pole and a wooden hammer. After that, a layer of sealed oil was applied to the chamber of the cartridge, and then the chamber was pressed down with his finger, and then the chamber was pushed forward, and the lever was pressed forward and pressed to the chamber in front of him.

The bullet is a spherical lead bullet, and the soft texture of the lead bullet is used to reduce the friction damage of the barrel, and if steel balls are used, the life of the barrel will be greatly reduced. The ball-shaped bullet is also a feature of the smoothbore gun era, because there is no rifling, the bullet rotates irregularly in the air, and the ball-shaped bullet can effectively avoid the problem of the bullet flipping when it moves in the air.

The diameter of the lead bullet is slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the barrel, which is also due to the fact that the machining accuracy can only reach 0.1 mm, and the inner diameter of the barrel deviates greatly. However, after wrapping a layer of oilcloth or thin soft leather on the outside of the bullet, it can effectively solve the problem of loss of kinetic energy due to air leakage.

The whole operation process was very complicated, and Li Qi estimated that if it was a well-trained soldier, the entire assembly process could be completed in about fifteen seconds. Four rounds per minute, which is almost enough.

Li Qi watched from the side for a long time, and his heart was eager to try.

"I'll fight, no problem." He said to Li Shouting, who was loading the fire cap.

Li Shouting hesitated, but still handed the musket in his hand to Li Qi, which made Cao Xin feel nervous.

Li Qi was calm, raised the musket in his hand, the butt of the rifle against his right shoulder, squinted his left eye through the opening of the door, the crosshair, aimed at the wooden target 100 meters away for a while, and then pulled the trigger.

"Smack", the hammer struck on the copper-shelled fire cap.

"Phew!"

With a loud bang, a large cloud of green smoke came out of the muzzle, and the target of the wooden plank in the distance was already splashed with sawdust.

"It doesn't seem to be accurate, it's nearly two feet off the bull's-eye." Li Qi muttered a little dissatisfied.

"One shot hits the target, if Your Majesty is familiar with it for a while, he will become a marksman in a few days!" Xu Zhan and Li Shouting were clapping and patting their ass.

"What is the maximum range?" Li Qi was quite satisfied with the effect of the shot just now, nodded and asked.

Xu Zhan replied: "According to the test firing results of more than a dozen muskets currently trial-produced, the maximum firing range is about 300 meters, but the aiming and shooting accuracy within 100 meters is acceptable, and the further back it is, the greater the deviation, basically after 150 steps, the deviation from the target is large, and it is basically impossible to aim and hit the target." ”

Li Qi looked down at the rifle in his hand again and said with a smile: "The smoothbore gun can only be like this, it can't be higher, this is already a lot stronger than the crossbow." ”

Front-loading muskets of the Black Powder era did not have much advantage over bows and arrows, but muskets were able to completely replace steel crossbows for direct fire very early. Due to the weight of the arrows, the maximum direct shooting distance of the crossbow is only about 80 paces, and the penetration and speed of the bow and arrow when thrown will be sharply reduced, and the lethality will drop sharply.

In terms of penetration, the bullet kills much more. Arrows with a firing distance of more than 100 meters can be easily dodged or blocked, while projectiles do not have this possibility at all. Heavy cavalry or infantry may be able to charge with a crossbow, and if they are facing muskets, they will basically penetrate their armor with a single shot.

In addition, the greatest advantage of the musket is that with only simple training, an old man or teenager with little strength can easily shoot an elite soldier with a lot of training. It can be said that muskets are the nightmare of the steppe peoples, and since the muskets were popularized in the world, the results of the world's military wars have shifted from the competition of soldiers' force to the era of competition for the quantity of soldiers and the quality of equipment. In the era of the widespread use of thermal weapons, there have been virtually no more cases of nations with a population of only a few million conquering and dominating a large people whose population is several times their size.

Of course, the peninsula in the Near East is an exception.

This is also a major reason for the strict ban on guns in that minority dynasty after the death of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Zhan and several students also took turns to get off the field and test-firing in front of Li Qi, who was a little depressed to find that his shooting skills could only be said to be average in this group of people. In particular, a student named Xu Da fired three shots in a row, all of which hit the bull's-eye.

Back in the workshop's office, Li Qi inquired about the production of rifles.

The ironwork workshop in Huangzhuang in Tang Ming Dynasty was built on the basis of the river dam in Lanyu, the reservoir is not large, and the entire iron workshop is equipped with 16 water turbines, and the production capacity is not large.

"At present, there are more than 160 skilled craftsmen in the entire Tang Ming Iron Workshop, and there are 46 sets of various hydraulic machinery and equipment, if all of them are changed to gun manufacturing, judging from the previous trial production of firearms, about 100 muskets can be produced every three days."

Li Qi frowned after listening to the report: "In other words, an average of more than thirty rifles can be produced per day, why is the efficiency so low?" ”

"This is also because of the fact that there are several hydraulic drilling machines, which saves a lot of manpower in drilling the barrel. It's just that the bore finishing of the inner wall of the barrel still needs to be completed by manual fine cutting and grinding with a milling cutter, and each skilled craftsman can only process a little more than one qualified barrel every day. In fact, the most difficult thing is to process the semi-circular chamber and the medicine chamber part, which needs to be carved out of the rough blank on the machine little by little, and finally needs to be completed by manual fine chambering, which is the most labor-intensive place, and the chambering machines in the workshop are also very limited. Xu Zhan said.

After hearing this, Li Qi nodded, and then said to Cao Xin: "In addition to the power used by the iron and steel mills, about a quarter of the canal and dam of the Gujiao Fenhe Dam are currently idle, and another musket and ordnance workshop can be built there. ”

At present, this thing needs to be strictly kept secret when it is produced, so it can only be produced centrally near Jinyang first......

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