The shotgun's inherent smoothbore and projectile dispersion defects, its accuracy is already unsatisfactory, the tactical requirement of the shotgun is to deal with the enemy within 30 meters, so the optimal range of action is only 50 steps, and the maximum lethality within 20 steps.

In order to allow the shotgun to be sent to 60 paces away and improve the target rate, Bailiyan increased the diameter of the cartridge to 25 millimeters (about 225 mm), loaded with ten rounds of 9 millimeter lead bullets, and the length of the gun reached 1250 millimeters (about 1125 mm), which can be equipped with a three-edged sleeve bayonet of Yongxing rifle to make it have the ability to fight stabs, and generally all meet the technical requirements at the beginning of the design.

In order to simplify the process and facilitate production and unloading, the ammunition uses a half-cut brass cartridge and a half-section hard-shelled paper wax-plated bullet, which is loaded in one round. In order to avoid the embarrassment of being unable to exit after the charge is too large and the all-brass cartridge case bursts.

said that it was impossible to penetrate the cowhide hard armor from a hundred paces, and Bailiyan did not deny that the armor-piercing ability of the lead bullet shotgun was indeed limited.

However, taking a step back, there is no problem in penetrating the existing steel plate armor within twenty or thirty meters. What's more, at present, the Central Plains is still stuck in the army system dominated by cold weapons, and the formation battle is mainly short-handed battle, and the face-to-face battle distance after the formation is no more than 50 steps. At that time, tens of thousands of shotguns fired at the same time ten paces away, not just like hitting a big rabbit.

Of course, if you have to mention the power of Zeng's projectile, it is not impossible.

It is possible to change 10 rounds of lead bullets with a diameter of 9 millimeters to lead bullets of 22 millimeters (about 20 millimeters), and the effective range of the projectile is less than 300 meters away. However, the problem is that the outer diameter of the front-end cardboard cartridge is 25 millimeters, the diameter of the inner hole is 22 millimeters, the wall thickness of the paper cylinder is 1.5 millimeters on one side, and the bilateral wall is 3 millimeters.

The inner diameter of the barrel is 25 millimeters, and as soon as the 22 millimeter projectile is discharged, it is faced with a gap of three millimeters, and the bullet does not go in a straight line in the chamber, but drives a go-kart. The accuracy of the projectile after it is discharged is a question of whether it can hit the target within 50 meters, and it is impossible to expect to hit the target at a distance of 100 meters.

Even if you shoot from a platoon gun, the hit rate of a smoothbore gun with a gap of three millimeters is probably comparable to the probability of a coin falling into the cracks of your hand.

If it must be compared with the armpit musket in the northern hemisphere, the two are not the same variety, and the accuracy and lethality of a hundred meters away, the shotgun can naturally not compare with the accuracy and power of a single projectile.

But something is better than nothing, not to mention that this gun still has a good penetration of unprotected targets at a distance of 100 meters, and the efficient rate of reloading in the rear hall, firing seven or eight rounds in a minute is simply a piece of cake. If the double-barreled shotgun is reproduced, the rate of fire of ten rounds a minute is by no means boastful.

Su Fangyi felt dissatisfied, in the final analysis, it was a layman who watched the excitement, and he didn't have a backache when he stood and talked.

The man-hours required to produce a Yongxing rifle are three to four times that of a single-barrel shotgun, the former requires more than a dozen models of equipment to participate in the production, the latter only needs half of it, but the effect of the latter can reach 80 percent of the former, and the production of shotguns is more in line with realistic needs.

Handing the gun to Jiang Jie and taking it, Bai Liyan continued Su Fangyi's words

"The strange gun of the armpit man has lagged behind my Yongxing rifle, but the Yongxing rifle consumes a lot of machine time, and this gun is easy to produce, and the effect can reach seven or eight percent of the Yongxing rifle within seventy steps, and the overall is not inferior to the strange gun of the armpit man, and it is very convenient to produce it in large quantities. Mr. Su might as well take a few back to the main hall to test them, and it's not too late to make a conclusion. ”

"Okay, according to what Yongxing Hou said, Su sent someone to ask the main hall as soon as possible."

Because the monster described by the white man has eyes under the left and right armpits, it is called an armpit man.

At this time, Tang Zhao answered

"How many guns can be produced in a month, and can they be manufactured in large quantities in wartime?"

"This ......" Bai Liyan hesitated a little, he really hadn't calculated it, and after thinking about it carefully, he said cautiously, "Actually, I am not in a hurry to produce, but also to free up time to produce more machines." If we extrapolate based on the movable productivity of Yongxing Machinery at the beginning of next year, there is no problem in making 20,000 Yongxing rifles a year, and this shotgun should be able to make more than 60,000 or 70,000 guns. If the wartime state is mostly converted to firearms production, it will not be a problem to at least triple it.

This is still next year, if more machinery is added in three or four years, there should be no problem with an annual output of 100,000 Yongxing rifles, and if we continue to add machines in the future and switch to firearms production, it is also possible to produce 200,000 300,000 guns per year."

Hearing Bai Liyan say this, Tang Zhao was shocked, he said

"According to what the Marquis of Yongxing said, within ten years, not only will the Xian army be equipped with new firearms, but the military strength will completely surpass the princes of the Central Plains, and then the world will not be certain."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked. There were no fools present, and the weapons were superior and inferior, and the blue waves were clear, and with the current national strength of the Xian country, it was more than enough to raise a million soldiers, and ten years later, a million rifles swept the world, and the trend of unification was a foregone conclusion at this moment.

In this regard, Su Fangyi was cautious, and he said meaningfully

"At this time, it is still too early to talk about the unification of the world."

Bai Liyan nodded affirmatively in agreement

"What Mr. Su said is extremely true, it is not easy to unify the world, let alone after unification......"

Su Fangyi was not in a hurry to express his position, and the starting point of Bailiyan's statement was the same.

First of all, although the national strength of the Xian State is not the same, it is bound to be diluted when looking at the vast Central Plains region. It is not realistic for 11 counties to swallow 3 or 400 counties in the short term, and neither economic nor military pressure will be enough to firmly rule the vast territory stretching from the East China Sea in the east to the Boling Sea in the west within 20 years.

Secondly, after the unification of the world, it will immediately face three problems, what to do with Liang Tianzi, what to do with the monarch of Xianguo, and who will be the emperor in the future.

Finally, what kind of system is implemented in such a large territory, and now the mainstream trend of thought is more and more deeply reflecting on the drawbacks brought about by the sub-feudal system.

If there is no separation, there must be other strong rights system, especially the communication technology must keep up with the pace, without the guarantee of communication, tens of millions of square kilometers of land can not be effectively ruled and governed at all, it is still the central centralized power to talk about itself, and the local soil emperor is self-aggrandizing, which is no different from the division of feuds.

Su Fangyi thinks more about the first two, and Bailiyan thinks more about communication technology.

He can know the forward-looking technology of wired electricity and radio, and in his lifetime he will inevitably promote the development of electrification and wireline telegraph technology; if he cannot solve the communication problem, he would rather not unify it, maintain the existing status quo, and strengthen the technological blockade to widen the gap in science and technology until the communication problem is solved.

As for who will be the emperor, he has already cut off his children anyway, and it will not be his turn to be the emperor, what can he want.

At noon on the twenty-seventh day of June, Bailiyan returned from Yongxing City to Chenling and began to hold the Dragon and Phoenix Meeting. The previous "plague" had a false alarm, and Lu Hou urged several times, hoping to tie up the daughters of the Yongxing Hou Mansion to the Lu Hou Mansion one by one.

Since the news had leaked, the four women of Aromatic Cai Yunxuan were all highly nervous, and they all found one excuse or another to escape from the Hou Mansion and hide outside. When Bailiyan rushed back to the mansion, the four girls didn't even have a figure.

"Kong'er, where are Fang'er's people?"

Bailiyan asked Zhou Kong, and Zhou Kong said with his hands crossed on his chest

"I went out with Xu Rong early in the morning and never returned."

"This kid knows how to play all the time."

"You're wrong, she's learning a lot now, and Sister Rong can't talk about her."

"Hmph, just her little bit of trivial ink, it's okay to bluff people, it's really good to be able to use it without harming yourself. Wei Qi. ”

Wei Qi stepped forward and said

"What does Master Hou command?"

"Go, call the eldest lady and Xu Wei back to Benhou."

"No."

After finishing speaking, Bai Liyan and Zhou Kong continued to go to the backyard, talking as they walked

"Is there any news in the city in the days I've been away?"

"What do you mean, the plague or the political matter."

"In the streets, there are rumors in the market and the like, I may not be able to hear all of them."

"That's a lot of work, but there's one thing that I find a little strange."

"Oh." Bailiyan stopped and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"I also heard that it was said that there were living dead people on the merchant ship that came from Xu to defend the country, and no matter how the sword was cut and killed, it would not die, which is quite mysterious. You are proficient in medicine, and you say that there are really living dead people in this world? ”

"Hehe......"

Baili Yanfu smiled noncommittally, shook his head and continued to walk, Zhou Kong didn't know what he meant, and asked again

"You say, you don't have it."

"Let me ask you first, where did this news come from, this merchant ship from Xu Guo to Weiguo is 108,000 miles away from Chenling, don't you think it's strange that the news can reach here?"

"That's why I think it's weird. If it weren't for the merchants of Xu Guo who talked about it when they went to the street, how would I know. ”

Bai Liyan stopped again and looked at Zhou Kong and asked

"What, this is what the merchants of Xu Guo said?"

"Yes, many people now know that the rumors outside are quite fierce."

"Hiss......" Bailiyan's scalp was numb, he didn't think there was any zombie virus in this world, but he was afraid of some bizarre strange disease.

The so-called living dead may be an inaccurate statement of the horror of witnesses, and the real internal cause is that the patient has lost his sense of pain due to a certain disease, or has some abnormal phenomenon that is incomprehensible to the people of the world, so he is described as a living dead.

While thinking, a guard ran from the direction of the front yard

"Lord Qiqi, the envoy of the country asks to see you."

"It's coming so fast."

Zhou Kong said on the side

"You didn't invite a guard, so it's not a good thing to come uninvited."

"Those who come are not good, and those who are good do not come, they must come to test the bottom line for whether to send troops to Xianguo. Go, invite the envoy of the guard to the middle hall of the front yard, and Benhou will go later. ”

"No!"

Waiting for the guards to run away, Zhou Kong said again

"It's not good to have private dealings with foreign ministers. Even if the king doesn't pursue it, others will give you the charge of fornicating with the enemy's foreign ministers, which is enough for you to bear. ”

"If you want to say it, let them say go, accompany me to change my clothes first, and then go to meet this Luja."

Lu Jia is a madman, he can come uninvited, there are only two possibilities, one is to say all the good things and say the benefits, and even do not rule out the bribery of Bailiyan by some bribery means, but it is obviously unlikely to use money, with Bailiyan's wealth, it is more than enough to buy half of the country, and the money is not in his eyes at all.

The second can only be hysterical ranting. And the latter is obviously not very wise, if Bai Liyan is a mediocre and cowardly person who holds real power, Lu Jia's set may be useful, Bai Liyan has both a skill, and is a famous general in the world of Wen Taowu strategy, intimidating Bai Liyan can only be counterproductive, so the former is more likely.

But to bribe him with something other than money, and move his heart, Bai Liyan really couldn't think of what it could be.

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