Chapter 9 Firearms

Minister Yang went everywhere to pull out arrows, his younger brothers and sisters clapped their hands and followed, Yang He shook his head, he grabbed the previous seized package: "Look at what's there." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

He shook off the package, and things fell with a thud, first the waist knives of the three soldiers.

Yang He took out the knife and looked at it, the blade was made of fine iron, which was better than the iron of the gun, and it was estimated that it would cost about two coins of silver per catty. This kind of iron is good for making guns, but it is ordinary when used to make knives, and there is no clad steel in the key parts, so there will be a gap in the knife edge after a battle.

Moreover, the scabbard is just an ordinary hardwood, only painted on the outside, and Yang He is going to take one to Minister Yang, and the remaining two as a spare.

Then he looked at the handcuff.

Yang He had already noticed this handcuff, after all, he almost died under it.

He picked up the handcuff and looked at it carefully, the handcuff was beautifully made, and it was carefully polished everywhere, and many places were wrapped in brass, which made the whole gun of grade quite high, Yang He could be sure that this pistol was not the soldier's, and he didn't know where he grabbed it.

Moreover, Yang He always felt a sense of weirdness.

He stroked the hammer and watched it carefully.

Eventually, he knew where the weirdness came from, and the gun was originally supposed to be a flintlock pistol, then an arquebus.

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The firing method of the general arquebus is slightly different from the flintlock pistol, the arquebus relies on the power of the open flame, and the spring plate is not high, so when it is to be fired, the reed of the general arquebus is in a relaxed state.

When the arquebus pulls the trigger, the arquebus on the hammer faucet ignites the primer on the fire door, and the spring blade is compressed, so that when the trigger is released, the hammer faucet can automatically return to its original firing position.

It is not necessary to pull the hammer to the position to be fired after the flintlock pistol, as is the case with a flintlock pistol, and to prepare for the next shot.

The firing method of this gun is similar to that of a flintlock pistol, after pulling the trigger, and then firing and reloading, the hammer will be pulled back, which is very different from the ordinary arquebus.

The hammer structure also has the smell of a rooster dog lock, with a thick bolt on the side of the mouth, which should have caught the flint, but at this time it was the fire rope.

Yang He also saw that there seemed to be traces of the fire sickle hitting the iron on the side of the primer plate, and then it was pulled out alive.

"Kakaka."

Yang He pulls the hammer to the maximum position to be fired, and then pulls the plate.

He tried several times, feeling the force, listening to the sound, and finally shook his head.

I don't know if a spring steel sheet of this quality can be ignited three times out of ten times, no wonder......

He doesn't have a taste in his heart, just like Wang Mang's reform, untimely measures and techniques always make people sigh.

In fact, there is not much difference between the flintlock pistol and the arquebus in structure, the barrel is basically the same, just a set of firing devices, but because of the use of flint ignition, it requires a very powerful hammer reed to ensure the impact force.

The elasticity and toughness of the spring are related to the material of steel, and only by using steel as the firing reed of the flintlock pistol can we ensure that the spark from the flintlock is enough to ignite the primer.

In other words, in order to achieve a high degree of flint ignition, the elasticity and toughness of the spring steel sheet need to meet the standard of medium carbon steel, and at this time, even the drill bits for drilling the barrel are generally used when low carbon steel......

Therefore, at this time, the dumb fire rate of flintlock pistols is extremely high, and the firing rate is generally only three or four percent.

In view of this, in the mid-17th century, King Louis XIV of France ordered a strict ban on the use of flintlock pistols, and ordered the development of flintlock arquebuses. The official adoption of flintlock pistols by the British was close to the eighteenth century.

The real maturity of the flintlock pistol is the result of industrial progress, with better quality steel to make springs, at this time, the gunpowder formula, the barrel building technology has made great progress.

This is the comprehensive progress of science, not only the reason for changing the arquebus to flint, everyone will not know the use of good things, the firing rate of mature and sophisticated arquebuses is at least eighty percent, and your firing rate is less than thirty percent, who will use it.

As a result of the use of steel that was not up to par, the flintlock pistol, which was now good, was changed to an arquebus.

Holding this handcuff, Yang He thought about when to find a good steel to make a spring sheet, this kind of steel is not nothing, but it is very expensive, a conservative price of three to five taels of silver.

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Put the handcuff away, Yang He picked up the three-eyed gun again, the wooden handle of this gun is broken, but it doesn't matter, just put it on again.

He looked up and down, left and right, and could see that this gun had been used for a period of time, and there were traces of time on it, and there was an inscription on the gun: "Chongzhen thirteenth year November 癸巳日, weighing six catties and eight taels, three coins per acupoint, two lead pills, and gold in the craftsman's iron." ”

Yang He specialized in the study of firearms in later generations, and in his eyes, this gun was not excellent, but it was not shoddy, and the materials used did not meet the standards of fine iron, but it also used wrought iron, and there were drilled holes in each chamber, which belonged to ordinary quality.

At this time, the three-eyed guns are also filled with sub-medicines, and the three fire doors are also equipped with leads, and there are loose medicines to twist them tightly, just like firecrackers, so that the fire door primer leads will not be scattered.

The advantage of this is that you can always be ready for battle, and if the lead is longer, the fire fold will not be burned soon, and you will not even need a fire rope in case of an emergency, just like the ruffian you killed earlier.

Of course, there are also disadvantages, if the time is put for a long time, the inner gunpowder and the outer lead may be stagnant, or damp, and there will be no sound or ignition.

Yang He poured out all the gunpowder in the three-eyed gun and the lead on the fire door, and carefully sorted it out with a whole strip, he carefully looked at the situation of each chamber, estimated that the life of this gun still has dozens of rounds, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, it's not the kind of seven-dollar goods, otherwise it's the same as the kind of two-two-three-dollar bird gun, which is a shoddy product, and it will explode at every turn, and the life span is less than fifty rounds.

In fact, the cost of a good three-eyed gun is not less than how much a qualified bird gun, and a good three-eyed gun is the same as a fine bird gun, which requires the use of fine iron, and the bore needs to be drilled, and even the amount of lead bullet gunpowder is the same.

"The three-eyed gun tube is about a foot long, and the mouth is as big as a bird's gun, which can hold three buckshot coins. The iron should be smelted, and the two cylinders should be wrapped so that the seams are dense and the size of the eyes is appropriate. It is also slightly turned with a steel drill, so that the light in the eyes is straight, and the bullet is accurate. Three pipes are gathered into one, with three hoops or only one hoop. The eyes should be drilled from the bottom so that they do not sit back. After the gun, a wooden handle is loaded with a reservoir hoop, and an iron drill or an iron hoop is used after the handle. ”

This is the method of making the three-eyed gun in many places at that time, and in Yang He's opinion, it is still a little short of two catties.

The fine-grained three-eyed gun, which is one foot three inches or one foot long, is actually quite powerful, and under the same amount of gunpowder and lead bullet as the bird's gun, it can cause serious damage to unarmored targets at a distance of 35 to 40 paces.

Thirty steps, can break cotton armor, chain mail.

Twenty steps, can be broken inlaid with iron cotton armor.

Fifteen steps can break ordinary plate armor.

Within ten steps, several layers of heavy armor can be broken.

The Three-Eyed Gun also has the advantage of putting two or three lead coins in each gun, which can be used as a shotgun.

If it is made well, the three-eyed bird is equivalent to a short-barreled bird's gun, or a three-pole short-bird gun is bundled together. After the fight, it can be used as a stick, a combination of hot and cold weapons, no wonder the three-eyed gun is very popular on the nine sides.

However, you can't have both fish and bear's paws, after all, the three-eyed gun is inconvenient to aim, and Yang He appreciates the winged tiger gun more, and at the same time has the advantage of arquebus and three-eyed gun.

Picking up those bottles and cans again, Yang He shook his head, the purity of these gunpowders is problematic, and there are many impurities in them, which will seriously affect the power of firearms.

Zhao Shizhen has done experiments, at the same time, the use of qualified birds, the use of willow ash gunpowder, a hundred steps can penetrate two layers of one inch thick plank, that is, a thickness of 66 millimeters of wood, the use of inferior hemp straw ash gunpowder, can only penetrate one layer.

Mao Yuanyi also said that although the car shield veneer is two or three inches thick, it cannot be used as a bird gun, which is the power of qualified firearms and gunpowder, and both are indispensable.

But for now, it is enough to use these three-eyed guns and gunpowder to deal with bandits who do not wear armor.

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