According to the statistics of the General Staff, in actual combat, the average firing rate of arquebuses did not exceed 70 percent, and flintlock pistols were much better but not more than 80 percent, because of the extinguishing of the arquebus, the recklessness of the flintlock, the reduction of the strength of the bolt leaf springs, the blockage of the fire port in the medicine room, and the emotional tension of the soldiers.

However, if a firing pistol is used, the problems of arquebus, flint, leaf springs and the vent of the medicine chamber are completely solved, and the soldier does not need to fill the chamber with propellant, and the loading process is easier, so most of the common problems can be solved.

Therefore, it is conservatively estimated that the fire cap firing gun can reach a ninety or even ninety percent firing rate.

The Navy Arsenal decided that the new musket was a very practical weapon, and invited Xu Shiyang to visit it and suggested that he exert influence to re-equip the front-line troops with this weapon in large quantities.

Of course, it is feasible to change clothes, it is rare that this is a qualified weapon developed by the designers of this time and space (although Xu Shiyang has been guiding this direction intentionally or unintentionally), and it is also a G-life type upgrade that fires from open fire to dark fire, and this alone is enough for Xu Shiyang to feel gratified.

What's more, the fire cap firing pistol has just appeared, and the arsenal has not yet discovered its deeper ability - because it is a dark fire fire, the energy lost by the traditional arquebus and flintlock pistol due to not sealing the medicine chamber can be saved on the fire cap firing pistol, and all of it is released on the bullet head (the barrel clearance will also lose part of the energy, which is unsolvable before the appearance of the metal cartridge case), which can make the warhead obtain a greater muzzle velocity, higher effective range and stronger power.

What's more, after the advent of the fire cap firing gun, the rifle has been able to fully enter the era of the Minne bullet!

In the arquebus/flintlock period, because of the insufficient thrust of the propellant, it was difficult to rely on chemical energy to change the shape of the warhead to fit the chamber (historically, there were flintlock rifled guns and firing smoothbore guns, but Migne must have been a firing rifle because of this), so the flintlock rifled guns equipped with a small number of flintlock rifles equipped by the Qi army used a through strip and a small hammer to forcibly knock the warhead wrapped in silk into the barrel and forcibly change the shape of the warhead - it is easier to change the shape of the silk than to change the shape of the lead bullet, and the silk burns sufficiently and will not leave too much residue in the barrel, Historically, Europe wrapped warheads in deerskin.

This reload was too cumbersome, and the low rate of fire was frightening, so although front-line soldiers generally reported that the rifled gun fired farther and more accurately, it was still very unpopular at the front - the flintlock rifled gun was slow enough, but the flintlock rifled gun fired twice was still enough for the musket to fire again.

However, this is not the case with the fire cap firing pistol, and the extra kinetic energy of the flintlock pistol can be used to directly change the shape of the lead bullet, so that the conical Mingne bullet with cork stuffed into the bottom hollow can enter the column (the grooves of the Mingé bullet are really not used to fit the rifle).

And the advantage of firing rifled gun Gamini bullets can even change the strategy.

First of all, the Migne rifle could reach three times the effective range of the flintlock smoothbore gun, and even at a distance of 200 meters, it still had a certain accuracy.

This means that the side with the Mine no longer has to stick to the "line up and shoot" tactic, and can carry out a larger-scale skirmish offensive operation - if necessary, an entire division of skirmishers will do.

And in the era of flintlock pistols, a single gun was practically meaningless.

This leads to a second strategic advantage: militias with Mine guns do not have to assemble a platoon of guns to ensure the most basic firepower output to fight the enemy, and even if there are only one or two guns and single-digit manpower, they can exert a high combat effectiveness.

If the Minne guns are popularized, as long as a migrant village has the most basic defensive measures such as walls, and dozens of strong men and a few guns, even hundreds of nomadic fishing and hunting robbers will have no way to take this kind of village.

The era of nomads singing and dancing is coming.

For Qi Guo, the benefits of the Minegun are not limited to these, because the production of the Legon fire cap requires a certain chemical industry foundation, and the conical bottom hollow Migne is not a simple set of molds that can make a lot of them by themselves.

As a result, the cost of the enemy's capture of our weapons, in turn, to strike at us has increased significantly.

In the era of flintlock pistols, the enemy could make gunpowder and projectiles by himself until the gun was snatched back by the Qi army or the gun was completely scrapped.

But the firing gun is not good, as long as one of the captured projectiles and fire caps is used up, the gun is equivalent to being scrapped, and if you want to reuse it, you can only dismantle the firing bolt and reinstall the flintlock gun or even the arquebus.

In the same way, as long as the buyer does not have the ability to produce fire caps, then the supply of weapons for his army is actually in the hands of Xu Shiyang.

If war breaks out in the future, and the Qi State cuts off the fire cap to the other party, the most powerful weapon in the enemy's hands will become a burning stick!

To sum up, the mature fire cap firing rifle is not just a tactical weapon for Xu Shiyang, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a "strategic rifle"!

This weapon is so important that after Xu Shiyang saw the fire cap firing the gun, he immediately made up his mind to change his previous technical development style of only guiding as much as possible and not directly plagiarizing.

"Rack up this gun."

Xu Shiyang ordered Tang Long straightforwardly:

"I'll give you a bullet drawing by tomorrow, and I'll make some bullets according to what I drew on the drawing—twenty rounds first, and then prepare a rifle of the same type without rifles, and we'll go test tomorrow afternoon."

"Bullet blueprints?" Tang Long asked suspiciously: "Aren't all bullets lead shots?" ”

"Don't ask about this, I'll talk about it tomorrow after the test launch."

Xu Shiyang asked:

"Who designed this firecap bolt?"

"It is a craftsman named Dai Zi, he is a native of Jiangnan, he used to be a master craftsman in the Ordnance Supervision of Jiangnan, and he was originally incorporated into the team of relatives, and he was left with us."

"Tell him to go to the shooting range tomorrow."

……

In the afternoon of the same day, Xu Shiyang received a letter from Quancheng, the person who wrote the letter was His Royal Highness the King of Qi, saying that he was asked to return to Quancheng as soon as possible to report on his work, and the palace was waiting for Xu Shiyang to officially inform everyone of the good news of the destruction of the Jin Kingdom.

Xu Shiyang scoffed at this, the news of the destruction of the Jin Kingdom had already spread to the whole world, which royal official still needed to personally report the news that had already been determined?

With his eyes closed, he could guess what his father wanted to discuss with him - it was nothing more than that now that the Kingdom of Jin was destroyed, the King of Qi wanted to know when he would explicitly support him to ascend the throne and become emperor.

Claiming the title of emperor may be a big deal for King Qi, but in Xu Shiyang's eyes, this kind of logical thing is far less important than the Migne rifle that is enough to improve the strategic environment.

Therefore, he decided to stay in Dengzhou until the next day, and then return to Quancheng after confirming the finalized production of the Minne gun.