Of course, it's not that he is directly not allowed to be an officer because he is left-handed, but he is not allowed to train soldiers, and he can still supervise the training of his deputy, and he has been training for two days, and he is still distinguishing between left and right, but the news finally came from the fire gun workshop, Li Qingyuan ordered them to take the soldiers with him to divide the left and right first, and he went all out to make fire guns.

After two days of busy work, the rifling was finally completed, and the newly drilled barrel was also sent, and the next step was to make a flint structure, which was simply a bird's beak line that stuck the flint, and then pulled the trigger to jam the flint's beak and hit the iron sheet under the action of the spring.

This spring is not the kind of coil spring, but the leaf spring is a kind of iron sheet, there is no special spring steel in this era, in fact, this is not a profound principle, ordinary steel sheet is OK, but it is not as easy to use as spring steel, thicken it a little.

Li Qingyuan instructed the production of parts of the flintlock mechanism here, and taught another part of the craftsmen to make bolts, screws are a European invention, but for Huaxia is not unfamiliar, the tapper has been made when making musket processing tools, and now what needs to be done is to tap the wire at the bottom of the rod, and then make a bolt to screw him on, so that a small hole is drilled in the side wall of the bolt for ignition, and a rod is 95% completed.

Then there is the test release, the gun tube is fixed on a wooden board, aimed in one direction, poured gunpowder and lead bullet compacted, and then poured a gunpowder line, the person hides in the distance and ignites the gunpowder, and the gunpowder ignites to the ignition eye and fires.

After firing, check whether there are cracks in the pipe, if it is intact, the pipe is considered to be qualified, and then the charcoal mixing process, that is, it is burned red and buried in the charcoal.

After testing, it was found that the first gun pipe was made very well, and there were no problems after firing, and then the flint structure was made.

The principle of the flint firing structure is very simple, the person pulls the beak to make the spring accumulate, the trigger is stuck with a semicircular stopper, in order to prevent the musket from hitting by mistake, there is a small card slot in the middle, when the beak is pulled, the first time half of the trigger spring is pulled to jam the small card slot, and then buckle it after completing the charge, and the flintlock pistol is in a state of waiting for a few rounds.

The flint is clamped with two iron sheets, the tail of the iron sheet is connected to the beak body, there is a screw in the middle to adjust the tightness, and the fire door is covered by an erected iron sheet, so that it does not affect the launch in light rain weather, when the flint hits the iron sheet, the iron sheet is hit and removed from the fire door and leaks, and the spark that hits the fire door falls on the gunpowder in the fire door, and the gunpowder ignites the primer to complete the whole firing action.

The fire door is opened on the right side of the gun, a groove-type structure, only need to pour the primer and then shake the slight side of the gun, you can complete the connection between the primer and the bottom of the primer, so that after the flintlock mechanism is made, there is only the last part of the butt.

Because the flintlock and flintlock mechanism are made by hand, the butt cannot be produced in a standardized manner, and can only be made according to the size of the flintlock mechanism and the flintlock tube, but this job is the easiest, because only carpentry is required.

It took only one day for the carpenter to make the butt according to Li Qingyuan's requirements, and after applying tung oil and waxing, the barrel and the wooden butt were fixed together with iron sheets, and then the top of the gun was tightened with screws and the front sight was installed.

Front sightsight, back look at the slot, this is expected to be installed first, but it is difficult to calibrate, this needs an excellent sharpshooter to do, and the current rebels can't find much if they want to find someone who can put a gun, let alone a sharpshooter, but these will be there in the future.

With a throughbar, a pot of gun oil is a set of guns, and Li Qingyuan is still very happy to get the first musket, although it is only the general level of the current world, and even people's machinery is a little more advanced.

But in the Qing Dynasty, this is the most advanced, not to mention that Li Qingyuan also has a big killer weapon like Mini bullets. Of course, it is not yet the time to take it out, and Li Qingyuan plans to give this special ammunition to the snipers to use.

In fact, rifled guns are not as easy to use as imagined, and the reason why rifling has not been popularized as an invention in Europe in the fifteenth century is because rifled guns want to achieve the effect of bullet rotation, only the bullet is completely consistent with the gun chamber or even slightly larger.

But then loading becomes a laborious chore, and a good smoothbore gunner can shoot two to three rounds per minute, but rifled gunners often need three to five minutes to shoot a shot.

Although the accuracy of rifled guns can reach 400 meters, the shortcomings of this inefficient shooting are fatal when pursuing the rate of fire in large-scale wars, so rifled guns were invented very early but did not become popular on a large scale.

However, this was not a problem for Li Qingyuan, because the United States invented a new method of loading at this time, that is, using oil-soaked linen or deerskin sheets as gaskets, so that even if the bullet was slightly smaller, it could have a stronger air tightness.

In this way, when it comes to a big battle, a slightly smaller bullet can be used to reduce the trouble of loading, and the airtightness will be increased, so that the gun has a slightly stronger range than a smoothbore gun, and in the case of cold gun and cold artillery battle, you can slowly load a slightly larger ammunition so that you can achieve greater shooting accuracy.

Coupled with a sniper equipped with Mini bullets, Li Qingyuan's multi-purpose plan with one shot can be realized, which is also the reason why Li Qingyuan has to go to great lengths to engrave rifling in the chamber of the gun.

With a good musket, the next step is to need better gunpowder, the gunpowder of the Qing Dynasty has been considered good after years of research, only need to be granulated, and then make a paper shell fixed ammunition then it is basically alive.

However, the production speed of muskets is too slow now, even after such a simple division of labor, the production efficiency of the entire workshop can only reach one shot in three days, so that more than 100 shots are produced in a year, what a fart!

However, for small workshop production, this kind of mechanization has reached a bottleneck, and if you want more advanced machinery, it is not something that a science student like Li Qingyuan can handle.

However, we can't improve efficiency, we can also increase the machine, after the manufacture of a whole gun, Li Qingyuan found that there are only two steps that require a master blacksmith, one is the manufacture of the barrel, and the other is the production of small parts such as the flintlock mechanism.

Therefore, a working group needs two skilled blacksmiths to complete, and Li Qingyuan now has dozens of blacksmiths in his hands, and after picking and choosing, there is no problem in forming ten working groups.

Such a month can produce a hundred muskets, although it is still not enough to use, but it is much more efficient than a group, and the remaining blacksmiths are expected to be able to do this job soon after three months to six months of training.