After Zhen San developed the flintlock pistol, it came to a standstill, which has nothing to do with Zhen San's knowledge, and it has to do with his vision, and it is almost impossible to expect Zhen San to find a solution in a short time.

In fact, in Zhen San's research records, he also thought about adopting the structure of flying arrows, but this idea that surpassed this era was obviously not supported by technology, and he was confused about how to increase the range and stability.

On the premise that the current barrel tightness and fire cap cannot be solved, the rear-loading gun simply does not appear, and the front-loading gun will exist for a long time.

Zhen San bit open the fixed paper packet, poured the gunpowder inside into the barrel, stuffed the Mini bullet into the barrel, and pressed the projectile in the barrel with an iron rod with grease, and took the gun to aim at the target one hundred and fifty steps in front of him.

After listening to the roar of the artillery, the explosion from the musket did not seem too loud, only a crisp "bang" sounded in the ears.

Everyone's eyes looked into the distance, and at this moment a soldier ran over and took the humanoid target in the distance, with a strange expression on his face, and the whole target was intact.

"Off target!"

This is expected, Zhen San is a little embarrassed, and is ready to launch again.

"Let me try!"

Zhen Qian took the musket from Zhen San's hand, and if you want to say that the familiarity with the musket is clearer than Zhen Qian's in this era.

"This ......", Zhen San doesn't think that Zhen Qian will be more familiar with this musket than himself, all muskets must undergo several safety tests after they are manufactured, and no one dares to pat their chests to ensure that there is no problem with the muskets made in this era.

"Don't worry!"

Zhen San reluctantly handed the musket into Zhen Gan's hands, watched Zhen Qian pick up the iron rod and skillfully clean the barrel, tear open the fixed gunpowder bag, pour it into the barrel, stuff it with Mini bullets, and then compacted it with an iron rod with grease, and the proficiency was not inferior to Zhen San.

Zhen San's mouth grew bigger and bigger, Zhen Qian had experimented with the original arquebus, and he had never touched other muskets since, Zhen San didn't think that Zhen Qian had other opportunities to use muskets. However, looking at Zhen Qian's skill in movements, he was not a novice, and he was secretly surprised in his heart, but it was not surprising that he would be proficient in using the musket when he thought that the principle and structure of the musket were all proposed by Zhen Qian.

Zhen Qian loaded the ammunition, took a half step forward with his left foot, leaned forward, put the butt of the gun on his shoulder, squinted one eye, and aimed at the distant target through the lookout mountain in front of the muzzle.

"Bang!"

A gunshot rang out, his body just shook slightly, the recoil did not push Zhen Qian backwards, all this fell on Zhen San's eyes, and he couldn't help but light up, it turned out that the shooting was like this?

A soldier quickly ran into the distance, took the humanoid target, and said with excitement on his face: "The lord has hit the eighth ring!" ”

"The results seem to be pretty good!" Zhen Qian felt a little proud in his heart.

"Eight Rings!"

The people around him didn't look surprised, which made Zhen Qian a little depressed, these people didn't know what the meaning of shooting the eight rings meant at all, they just looked at the hole in the target paper that was pierced by the projectile, and were surprised that this musket could shoot so far.

One hundred steps is already the limit of ordinary cavalry soft bow throwing, if it is a fine strong crossbow is a distance of one hundred and fifty steps, the problem is that such a strong crossbow is not easy to manufacture, it takes three months just to finalize, it takes more than half a year to make a bow and arrow, and the cost is as high as more than 30 times, and it is easy to damage it with continuous high-intensity shooting, and at the same time there are high requirements for the arm strength of the crossbowman.

"Not bad! This Huaxia Type 3 musket is very good, Zhen San, how much does this musket cost, and how many can it be produced in a month? Zhen Qian** asked with a musket.

Zhen San's eyes regained his calmness, and he said plainly: "At present, the cost of Huaxia Type III musket can be controlled within fifteen guan, if the difficulty of drilling and rifling production can be solved, the price can be reduced to less than ten guan, according to the current production capacity of the wolf's den, if it is fully put into manufacturing, one hundred such muskets can be manufactured in a month!" ”

The price of ten times is already the upper limit that Zhen Qian can afford.

"A hundred a month?"

Zhen Qian had 10,000 grass and mud horses running wild in his mind, and there were as many as 1,000 craftsmen in the wolf's den camp, and he could only make a hundred in a month, Zhen Qian didn't know whether to be happy or cry.

"That's too much efficiency, isn't it?"

Zhen Qian originally thought in his heart, how can a craftsman make a musket in a month, he also used many later generations of assembly line technology, there should be at least a thousand a month, and it took a year to form a musket army of 10,000 people, and this beautiful bubble was ruthlessly extinguished.

Zhen Qian said depressedly: "Why is it so slow? ”

Zhen San shook his head bitterly and said: "This is also the reason why I came to the Wufeng Islands, the most time-consuming process of the musket is drilling holes, and it takes four days to ensure that the barrel of nearly one meter long is not wrong, even if there are more craftsmen, it can't increase the speed much, plus the need to carve rifling on the inner wall, the scrap rate of the barrel is extremely high, for every qualified barrel manufactured, there are nine scraps, and there are only ten hydraulic drilling machines in the wolf's den, which cannot meet the processing needs of the barrel at all, so I am ready to build a large reservoir here, To meet the demand for more hydraulic drilling machines, perhaps to increase the output of muskets by several times? ”

In order to drill a qualified barrel in the iron pipe, the problem of power must first be solved, and there are no such conditions in the wolf's den. Secondly, there is the strength of the drill bit, many problems are encountered for the first time, and they are not at all what Zhen Qian can solve now, and now there is only waiting.

"So be it!" Zhen Qian said helplessly.

Next, under Zhen Qian's demonstration and guidance, Zhen Jiu and the others quickly mastered the basic shooting method of the musket, and only after these people shot did they find that the shooting of the musket was similar to that of a bow and arrow, and it was not much easier than a bow and arrow to shoot the bull's-eye within 150 steps, and even Zhen Qian did not score a good result in the eight rings.

This time, Zhen San came from the wolf's den and brought a total of 100 Huaxia Type 3 muskets, these muskets are not enough to equip an army of 100 people, and can only be used for training in peacetime.

However, fortunately, there is no shortage of saltpeter and sulfur here in the Wa Kingdom, and there is no need to worry about the problem of gunpowder, and even now the number of craftsmen on the Wufeng Islands has reached more than 5,000, and the manpower reserve is sufficient, as long as the craftsman battalion is formed, the manufacture of muskets is only a matter of time.

(End of chapter)