With a single gunshot, a 15mm buckshot flew 20 paces away, accurately hitting a humanoid target made of thick wooden planks.

Propelled by strong chemical energy, the lead bullet pierced through the 20-millimeter-thick locust wood, creating a large hole in the left shoulder of the humanoid target.

This is the weapon test site of the fifth tun of the Xu family.

Xu Shiyang is leading a group of officers and craftsmen to test new weapons here.

"The power is undiminished."

After firing a shot, Xu Shiyang held the newly made flintlock pistol in his right hand, pulled the hammer in his left hand, and buckled it once, watching the flint slam on the fire sickle of the bolt, splashing a little spark and falling into the open medicine room.

Of course, at this time he did not load the primer, nor did he load the propellant and bullets, and he could not fire at all.

Xu Shiyang praised with satisfaction:

"The strength of the leaf spring is also good, Lao Zhang, you are amazing!"

Blacksmith Zhang, who was standing on the side, finally put his mind at ease, he arched his hand towards Xu Shiyang, and said with a smile: "This is all the credit of my boss, the leaf spring actually doesn't have to use good steel, and the wrought iron is actually okay with a little carbon (wrought iron carburizing is indeed enough), in fact, some threads in the bolt are more troublesome." ”

"Your boss?" Xu Shiyang nodded: "I don't care who you want to give credit to, what I want is results, and now that there are results, I will reward you." Since you say that it is his credit, it is him, he is promoted to a higher level, and he is given the treatment of a sergeant. ”

"Lord Shebao!" Blacksmith Zhang's face bloomed with a smile.

"If you have time, you can gather all the craftsmen to do public relations together, and then think of a way to see if you can build a machine for tapping threads, this thing really can't be done by hand, if you can do it, let me give it to a major."

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of everyone present turned red.

The major ranks 7th in the 18-level system, and is now at the level of the master of the dock fort or the commander of the new army, you know, now there is only one colonel and one lieutenant colonel in the whole family, if there is really a major level, the status can be ranked in the top ten in the whole family.

"Once the precedent is set, it should be much easier in the future." Xu Shiyang waved the flintlock pistol in his hand and said loudly: "The production of the bolt is on the agenda, and people with blacksmith experience are recruited from the homeless people, as well as half-grown children aged 14 to 18, to supplement the craftsman team." ”

"The flintlock machine is going to start mass production now, whoever thinks of any good way can take it out and try it, it doesn't matter if it's wrong, I'll give a reward if it's right, what's the problem?"

"Commander, the primer of this flintlock pistol can't use our old gunpowder." Gongsun Sheng whispered: "In the past, the musket and arquebus were directly ignited by open flames, but this flintlock pistol relied on sparks to splash into the medicine pool, and the gunpowder was too rough in the past. ”

This is also the truth, the gunpowder used in the shot fired by Xu Shiyang just now is obviously much more detailed than the one used before.

"Fine medicine has to be finely ground, which is both time-consuming and dangerous." Gongsun Sheng continued: "The yield is very low. ”

"I don't know much about the details of craftsmen, but I think it's all difficult to solve." Xu Shiyang said with a grin: "Before the production of fine medicine increases, introduce the fine medicine for medicine and launch the old medicine for medicine, and first top it for a while, but I definitely think that your gunpowder group should think of a way to increase the output of fine medicine." ”

In the history of another plane, Europe began to be equipped with flintlock pistols on a large scale in the middle of the 17th century, and their gunpowder technology at that time was not necessarily much better than Xu Shiyang's, there is no reason why what they can do, Xu Shiyang can't do.

It's nothing more than a question of technical rustiness and scale of production.

Xu Shiyang can grasp some general technical directions, but don't expect him to search out papers and drawings like a search engine and throw them to craftsmen.

The technical details can only be left to the craftsmen to figure out their own solutions, and at most Xu Shiyang advocates everyone to work together and brainstorm.

As for the army, it is still in the stage where the craftsmen can use what they provide, and there is time for the craftsmen to slowly lay a solid foundation.

"Not this year yet." Xu Shiyang loudly announced to the leaders of the New Army and the Fifth Tun: "By next year, I plan to ask the head of the family to gather all the craftsmen and apprentices in the family in one place to form a new army craftsman battalion." ”

"The craftsman battalion is at the same level as the field battalion, but who this battalion commander belongs to depends on your performance this year."

Wow.......

There was an exclamation at the scene.

……

After seeing the flintlock pistol, Xu Shiyang immediately rushed to the Luoshui River, where a group of craftsmen were also building a waterwheel.

No matter what it is, if you want to make it on a large scale, the most basic problem is how to increase the motivation.

It is not for nothing that the other plane sees steam and electricity as symbols of the two industrial revolutions.

After all, manpower and animal power are limited, and the continuous output power can never be compared to the machine, and the waterwheel that directly uses the power of nature is much better in this regard, and in the case of the steam engine is not daring to think about it, Xu Shiyang can only choose to use the water power as much as possible.

On the way to the construction site of the waterwheel, several leaders of craftsmen were still by his side, and Xu Shiyang instructed the future production of weapons as he walked.

"Flintlock pistols should be made, but if the production of bolts cannot be increased, the production of arquebuses should not be stopped."

"Let's build twenty flintlock pistols first, and the barrel of the rifle is directly truncated, and I will soon go to Jiangnan, and I am in a hurry."

"Make a batch of short flintlock rifles for the cavalry first, so that the cavalry can use them, and the barrel length of the rifle is only half or two-thirds of the rifle."

It is basically impossible to operate the arquebus smoothly on a horse, so the cavalry musket must at least be a reed wheel gun or a flintlock gun, since the Xu family's technology tree directly skips the reed wheel gun, it becomes a logical thing to equip the cavalry with a flintlock pistol.

"How's that rifle I said?" Xu Shiyang asked whatever he wanted.

"It's not that hard to wire the rifling." Tang Long, who has faintly become one of the blacksmith leaders, replied: "It's just that I've seen those guns, and pulling out the rifles is actually a bit more than worth the loss." ”

If you want to give full play to the power of the rifled gun, you have to use a small hammer to forcibly knock the large lead bullet into the barrel, so the rifled gun fires one shot, which is enough for the smoothbore gun to shoot three shots.

Moreover, if the reload is not successfully fired, when you want to get the bullet out again, I am afraid that you can only hehe.

"Let's try out a few first." Xu Shiyang instructed: "You can try to make some improvements in the bullet, such as wrapping a piece of leather on the bullet, so that the bullet is easier to bite." ”

The best way is of course to use Mine, which is actually not difficult to make, but Minne's bullet bites the chamber and requires strong chemical energy to change the shape of the warhead, and the airtightness of the flintlock pistol cannot exert the power of Minne, which is why the rifle with Mine's bullet is almost always a fire cap to fire the gun.

The Xu family's current chemical industry is simply impossible to provide a sufficient number of fire caps, so the Mine technology can only be pushed behind.

However, this does not mean that you can't use a rifled gun, just like Xu Shiyang just said, wrapping a spherical bullet with a piece of textile or leather can still bite the chamber, increase the rotational speed and muzzle velocity, and increase the range, power and accuracy, but it is not as exaggerated as the performance improvement of Migne.