But Li Zhi didn't need them to understand, as long as they built according to the drawings. Under the guidance of Li Zhi www.biquge.info five blacksmiths made parts according to the drawings, and it took another ten days to build five broaching beds each.

An iron rod is fixed on the top of each broach, and the rod is cast with threads, and the threads must pass through a fixed dead card door on the broaching machine when the rod moves back and forth, and the rod can rotate at a uniform speed under the action of the thread and the card door. At the end of the rod, there is a steel ball stretched into the barrel, and multiple layers of thick paper can be padded under the steel ball, and a little thickening of the paper can gradually raise the protrusion of the steel ball to grind the inner chamber of the barrel, and grind out the rotating rifling in the barrel little by little.

This kind of broaching machine does not require high accuracy, as long as the drawn rifling can force the bullet to rotate. Even the gunsmiths of the 19th century used pure handwork to create such broaching machines.

The reason why Li Zhi wanted to build five broaching machines was because he didn't know what the angle of rotation of the rifling of the inner rifling of the Mini gun was. The angle of rotation of the threads of the five broaching machines is different, and Li Zhi can finally choose the one with the best effect.

It didn't take much time to ripre, and in mid-August, the craftsmen created the first five Minnie rifles of the era. The five of them also made a casting mold according to Li Zhi's design drawing, and made hundreds of Mini bullets with hollow tails out of lead.

On the day of the test launch, the effect of the Mini bullet almost made the five craftsmen drop their jaws.

Li Zhi erected a one-man-high wooden target on the sand outside Fanjiazhuang and placed them at 150 meters, 200 meters, and 250 meters respectively.

The five Minnie rifles were test-fired, and the worst one hit the target 150 meters away again and again, knocking out holes in the one-inch-thick wooden target.

Such an achievement has already made the craftsmen cry out for magic. You must know that the Da Ming Bird Gun they are familiar with can hit a maximum of 50 steps, and if it hits a target 70 steps, or a target 100 meters away, the hit rate is only 5 or 60%. Hitting a target of 100 steps, or about 150 meters, is purely indiscriminate, and one of the ten shots will burn high incense.

And the worst of the five rifles can also hit a target a hundred paces away, which is amazing. They almost feel that half of their lives have been made in vain, and only today do they feel like they have seen the light of day.

When the rifle was test-fired, many military households in Fanjiazhuang also came out to see the excitement, and when they watched the musket penetrate the wooden target a hundred steps away again and again, their eyes lit up with excitement.

And the Minny rifle, which performed best in the test firing, made these blacksmiths and military families even more stunned.

This best-performing Minnie gun could not only hit a target of 150 meters, but also accurately hit a target of 200 meters, or 140 paces away, again and again, and beat the thick wooden target into a sieve. Not only that, this gun can also hit humanoid targets at a distance of 250 meters, and the hit rate is also 60%, which is comparable to piercing wooden boards.

You must know that shooting at a distance of 250 meters is not a question of whether the gun is accurate at all, but whether the shooter can aim at such a distant target. In other words, if the shooter is in perfect condition and aims accurately, the gun has a theoretical range of more than 250 meters!

If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, how would these five craftsmen dare to believe that such a rifle was made by their own hands.

Even the crowd of onlookers stared at each other when they saw this scene, and they were so surprised that they couldn't even let out an exclamation. What is the concept of taking a person's life more than a hundred steps away? The storyteller doesn't dare to blow it like this in the story! Seeing the back, the military households seemed to see the divine soldiers descending to earth, and they didn't dare to come out one by one.

Not only that, but this Mini rifle does not use an ignition rope and uses a flintlock bolt machine. The situation in which the Bird Gun Shooter was always guarding against burning his eyes and eyebrows with arquebus when aiming has changed, and the Gunner can aim steadily. Moreover, with the flintlock gun machine, there is no need to install the fire rope, ignite the fire rope, blow the primer fire plate, and test the fire rope when shooting, which saves several steps, and the shooting speed is also greatly improved.

The craftsmen finally understood why Lord Hyakho emphasized secrecy so much, this rifle was an unprecedented artifact. All the existing firearms, in front of this Mini rifle, can only bow down and admit defeat. An army armed with such weapons, how powerful is that?

With such a Mini rifle armed army, wouldn't the future of the Lord of the Hundred Households... The five craftsmen were shocked by the effect of the Minnie rifle, and thought about it in their stomachs, and looked at Li Zhi with admiration and respect in their eyes.

Seeing the effect of the Mini rifle, Li Zhi was also very happy. This is the first weapon he has successfully built since the crossing. With this powerful weapon, his future career has a bright future.

However, with the idea of excellence, Li Zhi asked the craftsmen to adjust the thread angle of the five broaching machines, and fine-tune them near the angle of the broaching machine with the best effect, and strive to make the rifling broaching machine with the most perfect angle.

Li Zhi didn't know that the majesty of his test shooting of the Mini rifle had changed the psychology of many people in Fanjiazhuang.

Jiang Chong, the Zhuang soldier of Fanjiazhuang, finished the drill this morning, and stood at the gate of his yard boredly, but saw Fa Xiaohuazhang coming over. Hua Zhang saw Jiang Chong, walked up and punched Jiang Chong's arm.

"Your uncle replied that you didn't!"

Jiang Chong glanced at Hua Zhang, and said lightly: "No news yet!" ”

Hua Zhang blinked and asked, "No news yet?" It can't be that they don't want you to go, so they deliberately drag it out and don't give the news. ”

What Jiang Chong and Hua Zhang discussed was that Jiang Chong fled from Fanjiazhuang and went to Xingji County to join his uncle.

The life of the soldiers is too hard: although nominally the battalion soldiers in TJ Town have a monthly salary of two taels of silver, this money is simply an illusory pie. The imperial court's salary was already insufficient, and officials at all levels had to exploit it layer by layer, and less than five yuan was paid every month. And it's still a good month, sometimes the officials are so greedy that the monthly salary is not paid at all.

If you don't wait for the time to fight and fight hard, the officials of the Ming Dynasty will not pay the monthly salary in full. Sometimes, even if they are about to go into battle, the salary is still not paid, resulting in the soldiers having no fighting spirit and will collapse at the touch of a button.

Originally, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the training in various towns was slack, and although the local soldiers could not get paid, they could still go home to farm and support their families after training. However, the officers everywhere refused to let go of the soldiers, and they occupied the soldiers one after another, forcing the soldiers to work in the officers' private fields during the day, so that the soldiers could only busy their fields at night. The work of the official family is their own work, and the sergeants have to work for more than ten hours a day, and such a hard life is only a mouthful of food, and the daughter-in-law cannot afford to marry.

Because of such poverty, there are more than 200 men in Fanjiazhuang, but only 160 women, and dozens of old men can't find wives.

Those who were strong and had a way out in the village basically fled. The rest are either old and frail and dare not travel far, or Jiang Chong and Hua Zhang have nowhere to go. Jiang Chong wanted to go to the only uncle with a better family, so he asked someone to pass the word, but he waited for several months without replying. Hua Zhang has nowhere to go, his family has been passed down for three generations, and he doesn't even have a relative who can take refuge, so he can only stay in Fanjiazhuang and be exploited by the officers.