Chapter 43: Firearms (3)

Seeing that the quality of the assault guns produced had greatly improved, and the lethality was incomparable, Shi Bin immediately began to think of a concrete and feasible form of combat.

If you can form a long-range and large-area deterrence from the Tiger Squat Cannon, a medium-range attack from the Assault Gun, and a close-range defense with a wooden handle that shocks the sky, the Yuan soldiers will have no way to start.

If a certain number of horses and carriages were added to increase the mobility of the army, then Shi Bin's army would be able to completely shift from passive defense to active attack.

Although it is certainly not possible to completely annihilate the Yuan people, it can at least achieve mobile confrontation.

Although Wang San also had such thoughts, he was a little worried, and said: "Big brother, the fire rate of this assault rifle is too slow, and the effective killing distance is only one hundred meters, and the effective killing distance of the Tiger Squat Cannon is only nearly three hundred meters, so there seems to be not much difference between the two?" ”

Seeing Wang San's doubts, Shi Bin was very happy and said, "Thank you, Brother Xian, for thinking about me so much, but there are some things you haven't taken into account yet." ”

Even those who have learned five cars don't understand, not to mention that he is a guy who has only studied private school for a few years and is a complete layman in firearms combat? After hearing this, Wang San immediately humbly asked for advice.

It turned out that the Yuan army was mostly cavalry, and the way of fighting with cavalry was actually like charging at a target stopped in front from a distance, and that target could give a huge wound to the cavalry rushing over without any power.

Because the cavalry's own impact force had already been brought to the target, the effective killing distance of this new assault rifle against the cavalry had reached two hundred and fifty meters or even farther.

The air tightness of the tiger squat cannon is too poor, more like a shotgun, although the effective killing distance of the cavalry charge can reach more than 500 meters. But it had a big drawback: the curved artillery led to a gap in the defense at medium range, so the advantages of this assault gun were manifested.

This kind of truth was obtained by Shi Bin from the car window throwing, of course Wang San didn't know what it was, but Shi Bin had to tell him. So he was ready to sacrifice a few bad horses to explain.

Place the three old horses about 600 paces away from the shooter and hang a string of firecrackers on their tails. When everything was ready, the horsetail firecrackers and the gunpowder on the assault rifle were ignited at the same time. The horse is frightened and immediately runs wild, and although it is not as fast as a good horse, it also forms a great impact.

After running less than two hundred and fifty paces, the horse let out a painful roar, and the effective damage really reached the longest range of the Tiger Squat Cannon. When they were about 120 paces away from the soldiers, all three horses fell to the ground.

When I got closer, I saw the shocking wounds on the bodies of several old horses that fell to the ground and wailed. Because the bullets of the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Assault Rifle are different, but both are deeply embedded in the flesh and skin of the old horse, it can be seen that the attack power of the Assault Rifle is also very strong.

Shi Bin and the others couldn't bear it, so they had to kill them immediately.

Facts speak louder than words, and everyone was overjoyed to see such a sharp weapon, and gave full support to the creation of a new assault rifle. As soon as he left the barracks playground, Shi Bin asked, "Brother Qiangbing, how does our armory workshop produce firearms?" ”

"Big brother, that is, the kind of production in the blacksmith shop, nothing has changed. A blacksmith specializes in building a new assault rifle, and we have three or five apprentices to serve as our spare talents. ”

"Does every craftsman know the production process of all our weapons?" Shi Bin asked worriedly.

Xie Qiangbing nodded yes.

"There are too many thieves in our Great Song Kingdom, I believe in it, brothers, but I am afraid of betrayal by the people below. Let's just separate the production process and only produce one part of each, and as for the overall secret, you will have it, and I will keep a copy for backup. Shi Bin immediately emphasized solemnly.

Knowing that Shi Bin was trying to improve the level of secrecy, Xie Qiangbing naturally agreed. However, he was still a little worried, and asked, "In this case, everyone is not a skilled craftsman, will it affect productivity?" ”

Shi Bin came from the era of assembly line production, and naturally understands that this production method is much more advanced than the traditional craftsman production method, and naturally it is very certain that it will definitely improve production efficiency.

Afraid that Xie Qiangbing would not resolutely implement it because of suspicion, he patiently reminded him that the process is simple and easy to get started, and it is easy for apprentices to become teachers, and it is easy to keep secrets.

Seeing that the eldest brother's explanation also made sense, and he was so sure that Xie Qiangbing no longer doubted and asked, after all, his eldest brother had not made any big mistakes.

There is also an obvious disadvantage of this assault rifle firing, that is, the rate of fire is too slow. And it's front-loading ammunition, not only do you have to bring a gun, but you also have to carry an iron strip to poke the projectile into the barrel.

made Shi Bin look a little crying and laughing, this is not like preparing to shoot, but like stabbing something. What's more, it is easy to damage the rifling with such force, resulting in a significant decrease in the power of the assault gun.

So he asked Xie Qiangbing if he had studied the rear-loading gun, and Xie Qiangbing replied that he had already made a sample. However, there was a bottleneck that was not overcome, that is, the airtightness of the rear-loading gun was not as good as that of the front-loading gun, and the rate of fire decreased although the firing range increased.

It turned out that the airtightness was also insufficient, Shi Bin, a firearms enthusiast, happened to understand the truth, and said with a smile: "Are our bullets very rough and inelastic?" ”

Xie Qiangbing was surprised that Shi Bin knew this, and immediately nodded but did not speak, just waiting for him to give a solution.

"Let's change the bullet and make the bullet elastic on the outside." Shi Bin continued, and after speaking, he drew the shape of the bullet and wrote out the production steps.

It turned out that Shi Bin plagiarized the Mini bullet invented by the French weapon master Mini. Instead of round iron bullets, use conical iron-lead alloy bullets. The diameter of the conical warhead is slightly smaller than the diameter of the chamber, which makes it convenient to reload.

Mini bullets, the diameter of the conical warhead is slightly smaller than the diameter of the breech, so it is convenient to reload. There is a conical cavity at the bottom of the warhead, a wooden plug blocks the bottom of the hole, and when firing, the gas presses the wooden plug to squeeze into the cavity, forcing the bottom of the bullet to expand, close to the rifling, and close the gap between the warhead and the rifle, so that the gas cannot leak out, and can make the warhead rotate at high speed under rifling pressure.

The Mini bullet solved the problem of the difficulty of loading the front-loading rifled gun and the low range accuracy of the smoothbore gun, which made the rifle surpass the artillery and become the decisive weapon on the battlefield at that time.

But there are some problems that cannot be solved with the Mini bullet, which can only be made of a very soft alloy such as lead, so that the warhead can expand easily. The warhead is soft, it deforms immediately after hitting the target, the stopping effect is good, but the penetration is too weak.

However, improving the shooting accuracy is the most important thing, and Shi Bin does not want to consider the issue of enhancing lethality for the time being. As long as there are cavalrymen with window parabolas, he is not afraid of no penetration.

According to Shi Bin's words, he made it carefully, and sure enough, he produced a gun with a longer firing range and higher accuracy, and Xie Qiangbing named it "Shi Bin Gun".

As soon as this arquebus came out, it was praised by his brothers as an artifact, but Shi Bin felt that the rate of fire was still not enough, after all, it was really embarrassing to watch an arquebus burn so much, and he had to carry a fire fold with him.

But he wasn't a science student after all, and even the Minnie bomb was remembered from the blow arrows used in the tribal wars, and it was impossible to come up with something else.

Looking at the arquebus in his hand, he thought that this was official, but unfortunately it was just a dream.

"I said Commander, what are you doing?" Jia Ling's naughty voice came from her ears.

Originally, he didn't have any ideas, he was really in a daze, but when he heard her words, Shi Bin had some thoughts and said, "I'm thinking about how to burn your little belly pocket." ”

Shi Bin is rarely so unserious, but now he is a little angry, which makes Jia Ling a little uncomfortable, it seems that he is suffocated, Jia Ling affirmed.

"Tell me, how do you think about it? I see how capable you are! Jia Ling also took over the conversation and said angrily.

I didn't expect Jia Ling to be willing to talk to herself, and Shi Bin didn't know how to talk, after all, she had no experience. I had to say it in a proper manner: "It's nothing, just think about burning the arquebus in the arquebus." ”

Burning the Rope? In Jia Ling's opinion, it is still very easy. It doesn't take long to burn after ignition before you can fire bullets. But the attentive woman soon discovered the problem - it burned too slowly.

After all, she had also ridden a horse, and knew that it would not take long for a sturdy horse to rush a few hundred paces, and perhaps the cavalry would be killed in the army before the arquebus was burned.

"Follow me!" took Shi Bin's hand and dragged him away, so that she and Shi Bin almost wrestled.

led Shi Bin to the blacksmith shop, I thought Jia Ling would have any creative ideas, but I didn't expect it to be an ironshop, and Shi Bin was very disappointed.

Seeing this, Jia Ling pointed angrily at the sparks splashing on the beaten iron bar.

"Can't you just think about what you can use to knock out the fire?" She asked angrily.

Knock out the fire? He only knows how to drill wood for fire and knock fire? He didn't realize it. At this time, Shi Bin's eyes were very confused, and he didn't know where to think.

As if looking at a mentally handicapped person, Jia Ling leaned forward and leaned back with a smile and said, "How can you, a mountain man, make a fire on the mountain?" ”

After being reminded like this, his thinking is no longer limited to the fire fold, wouldn't it be good to use flint and steel?

Thinking of this, which made Shi Bin very happy, he said that he wanted everyone to know that he had a good wife.

But Jia Ling is a traditional and virtuous woman, and said that let Shi Bin say that he came up with this method himself, and he was not allowed to mention her. and "threatened" that if she dared to mention her, she would ask Jia Ling to stop supporting Shi Bin's food and salary.

Shi Bin had no choice but to tell everyone that he had also made a major "invention", no longer burning the gunpowder in the tank by ignition, but installing a hammer in the same place and clamping a piece of flint on the jaws.

An anvil is set up next to the fire hole, and when shooting, the trigger is pulled, and the flint is hit heavily on the edge of the fire door, and sparks emerge, igniting the gunpowder and firing, becoming a flintlock pistol.

In addition, Xie Qiangbing specially arranged for some housewives to come to the armory workshop to work, and packed all the gunpowder in bulk in small cardboard boxes one by one.

A box of gunpowder is a shot, which greatly increases the rate of fire, so that the rate of fire reaches seven to nine rounds a minute, which is more than ten times the rate of fire of the original assault gun.

Shi Bin wanted to say this idea, but he didn't expect Xie Qiangbing to think of it, and he was very happy that he saved such a capable brother in Zhengzhou.

Seeing that the eldest brother was so happy, Xie Qiangbing was even more happy, and secretly determined to help Shi Bin make better weapons, so that he could conquer Mongolia and dominate the world.