Bi Maokang asked Zhu Cijiong to look at more than just machine tools, with new machine tools can naturally produce better weapons, he is a weapons expert, and his enthusiasm for weapons even exceeds Zhu Cijiong.

After looking at the machine tool on the second floor, he took Zhu Cijiong to the third floor, looking at his excited appearance, it was clear that there was something good to offer, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but wonder, this new machine tool has been finished, is there anything more advanced than the machine tool?

There are no machine tools on the third floor, but divided into a lot of single rooms, with a few clear windows, very much the taste of the office of later generations, and the staff who are also dressed in formal clothes are busy inside, a little checking parts, some are inspecting drawings, and some seem to be discussing something together.

Zhu Cijiong took a look at their epaulettes, and they all had military ranks, which means that they were all core researchers of the military factory trained by Bi Maokang and Sun Yuanhua and others!

There is a system for wearing Chongzheng clothes in military factories, because the width of ordinary robes is easy to twist into the machine tool, so since Chongzheng clothes were designed, they have become work clothes in military factories, but ordinary people have no military ranks, not even officials of the Ministry of Industry, only core researchers have military ranks and equivalent military ranks.

There is also a rule in the military factory, that is, no matter how big an official is, he doesn't have to kneel, just make a military salute, but it seems that many of these people have seen Zhu Cijiong, and the emperor is not an official, so it is estimated that it will be messed up.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhu Cijiong thought of this, someone recognized him, originally those people were ready to continue working after seeing Bi Maokang just gave a military salute, but when they saw the emperor next to Bi Maokang, they were immediately excited.

Zhu Cijiong hurriedly raised his hand to stop him: "No need to be polite, everyone continue, continue." “

Walking all the way, I don't know how many people recognized him, and his arms were almost sore, so he walked for almost a stick of incense, and Bi Maokang finally led him into a large room, where the people inside were holding parts to assemble "Ka Ka Ka", that skilled appearance, just like the special forces of later generations to perform firearm disassembly.

Coming here, Zhu Cijiong finally understood what Bi Maokang was going to take him to see, it turned out to be a sniper rifle!

In fact, the idea of this sniper rifle was told by Zhu Cijiong to Bi Maokang a few years ago, and Bi Maokang had also experimented, but at that time, it was impossible to make a qualified sniper rifle.

First of all, the processing accuracy is not up to the requirements, the firing distance of the sniper rifle is hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters at every turn, as long as there is a small deviation in the inner wall of the barrel and rifling, it will affect the accuracy, the barrel made of ordinary steam machine tools, within one or two hundred steps, can basically hit people, to more than two hundred steps, the deviation is large, to a mile of distance, the deviation is more than one meter, how wide is a person, more than one meter, can not hit people at all!

The barrel processed with precision machine tools is different, not to mention the inner wall and rifling, even the outer wall is smooth as a mirror, it can be said that it is not bad at all, in this way, the shooting accuracy can be guaranteed.

Then, the material at that time was not up to the requirements, the basic strength of ordinary cast iron and cast steel was not enough, the loading capacity of sniper rifle gunpowder was much more than that of ordinary rifles, plus the barrel was longer than that of ordinary rifles, and the pressure near the chamber was several times greater than that of ordinary rifles, so the probability of exploding the chamber was very high, no matter what material was used, it would definitely blow up after a few shots!

Of course, after forging with high-carbon steel, the barrel made will never explode, this kind of steel is not impossible to make at that time, and the steel forged many times, the common name is Bailian steel, which was available in the Han Dynasty more than a thousand years ago.

However, after the high-carbon steel was forged, it was the material used to make knives at that time, and the barrel was as hard as the knife, so how to process it, so Bi Maokang didn't try it at all, and under the conditions at that time, such a hard material could not be processed at all.

Now with a new type of alloy material, it is different, Song Yingxing according to the requirements of the barrel, in the steel to make the barrel of the steel added a little manganese and chromium, after many experiments, finally made manganese and chromium alloy steel suitable for the production of firearms, the problem of the bore can be said to be completely solved.

Zhu Cijiong took an assembled sniper rifle in his hand and looked at it carefully, how to describe this gun, it feels a bit like a simple enlarged version of Bartlet, weighing about thirty catties, if he hadn't practiced, he really couldn't hold it, but the processing was very fine, and the blackened barrel and body exuded a black and faint metallic luster, which looked similar to the firearms of later generations.

This gun is really textured, Zhu Cijiong couldn't put it down and looked at it, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, he couldn't help but ask Bi Maokang: "Meng Hou, how is this gun produced now, and when will it be equipped for the army?" “

When Bi Maokang heard this, he said embarrassedly: "If you go back to the emperor, this, this, the processing process of this gun is too complicated, and it has not yet been officially mass-produced." “

Complex? I am from a craft background, and I am not afraid that your processing process is complicated, Zhu Cijiong heard this, and asked with interest: "Oh, how complicated it is, tell me about it." “

Bi Maokang immediately explained: "The barrel and the parts inside are made of new alloy steel, and the output of the alloy needs to be improved; Then, the blank of the barrel is not directly cast, but die-cast after forging, and the materials of all parts must be forged, otherwise there is a danger ......of exploding the chamber. “

After listening to Mao Kang's explanation, he immediately gave solutions one by one according to his own experience, such as forging, if you rely on pure manual forging, the efficiency is naturally low and terrible, and it will be solved by making a special forging equipment, steel in front of the machine, it is not the same as kneading dough!

After solving the problem of mass production, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but ask Bi Maokang to arrange someone to go to the shooting range to demonstrate to him.

Good guy, this power, within one mile, the iron plate used for armor can be pierced, and within two miles, you can easily pierce a thigh-thick wooden stake, and the accuracy is also good, at least seven or eight out of ten shots can hit the target.

Zhu Cijiong was very satisfied with the experimental results, and personally named this gun Thor, and later used the length of the barrel to distinguish the specific model, for example, the barrel length of this gun is 2 feet 8 inches, and the full name is Thor 280.

If each Wu is equipped with a Thor 280, it will be invincible, and it can be done two miles away, and when the enemy arrives, it is estimated that there will be no more left!

Of course, this is almost impossible to achieve, even if the process is optimized, it can be officially mass-produced, with the current scale of Wang Gong factory, it can produce up to 3,000 pieces a month, and the output is basically difficult to increase, because many processes need to be done by skilled old technicians, otherwise the quality cannot be guaranteed at all.

3,000 a month, only 36,000 a year, and now the regular corps of the Ming Navy and Army can add up to 2.1 million, that is to say, even if it is fully produced for a year, it can only guarantee that each regiment has one.

However, it can also achieve good results, and in the future, the enemy's front-line commander will be unlucky, as long as he is discovered, it will be a death!