Chapter Seventy-Seven: Knocking on the Bamboo Pole
"It's finally done", Young Master Liang wiped the sweat on his forehead, the originally handsome little face was already a little gray, and the sleeves of his hands had become stained because of countless wiping of sweat, and there was a sour smell of sweat all over his body.
He has been working continuously for a day and a night, and his body is a little tired at the moment, but his spirit is extremely excited; Although the materials are well prepared, it is difficult to go through dozens of processes and ensure that each process is exactly the same.
Yes, that's the bullet. On January 17, 1869, the world's first all-metal shell bullet was born!
But this is not the most advanced bullet, because the gunpowder it contains is still black; Of course, smokeless gunpowder has already been made by Young Master Liang, and everyone must have guessed that this first batch of bullets filled with black powder was provided to little Mauser.
Only with this all-metal shell bullet, which is completely different from previous bullets, can this "Made in Hanyang" show its true power!
Hainan Base Shooting Training Range. Young Master Liang unhurriedly filled the "Hanyang-made" with five bullets, put the rifle on the fortification, aimed at the target a hundred meters away, stabilized his breath, pulled the trigger, and fired the epoch-making first shot! Then he quickly pulled the bolt, the cartridge case automatically ejected, the next bullet automatically reset, and after a little aiming, he fired a second shot; This was repeated five times, and all five bullets were fired in just a dozen seconds.
Although the little Mauser who was watching from the side was mentally prepared, he was still surprised by such a fast rate of fire; After Master Liang finished firing five shots, he made a pause gesture and quickly rushed to the target, he wanted to see how accurate his shooting was.
After all, Master Liang is shooting with a new gun for the first time in his life, so this time the shooting results are a bit unsatisfactory, they are all at the level of seven or eight rings, but at least the gun is on target. But this kind of achievement is already amazing in the eyes of Mauser Jr.; Because all the rifles in the world now have no precise accuracy, and the accuracy when shooting is completely dependent on the gunner's feelings, Young Master Liang can already be called a shooting genius if he can have such a result in his first shooting.
The excited little Mauser hurriedly ran back, and hurriedly asked Young Master Liang if he could let him test shoot once? After getting the consent, the little Mauser also learned from the young master Liang just loaded five bullets, and the young master Liang explained to him a few essentials of aiming and shooting, and the little Mauser who had been holding this rifle in his hand for two days quickly figured it out, the rifle design master's gun sense was naturally very good, and soon he fired the first shot, and then he also pulled the bolt in the same way, returned the bullet on the cartridge case, aimed, and fired the second shot······
Depend on! After seeing the shooting results of Little Mauser, Young Master Liang couldn't help but complain; It was also the first time to use this gun, Xiao Mauser actually hit him more accurately than him, Master Liang's five bullets hit one eight rings and four seven rings, and Xiao Mauser hit three eight rings and two seven rings, it seems that the physical fitness of the foreign devil is relatively good, and he can withstand the strong rear impact brought by the nine-millimeter bullet.
And the little Mauser, who saw his shooting results, raised his hands excitedly and shouted loudly, refusing to stop screaming for a long time; Let everyone on the shooting range look at each other, somehow; Many soldiers of the Liang family army are thinking that this foreign devil will not be crazy, our regiment commander is amazing, try the new gun and make this foreign devil crazy.
Young Master Liang, who has been a man in two lifetimes, naturally understands the mood of Little Mauser, this girl is happy! He was attracted by that drawing, came all the way to China, and took the risk like a gambler to sign an agreement with Master Liang, and stayed in China for so long, it was inevitable that there would be apprehension and even torment in his heart after waiting for a long time; Now that the dream has come true, only he knows the taste of this surprise.
Just let you vent slowly, Young Master Liang smiled secretly, the next thing Young Master Ben will make you want to die.
"Ronnie, you are really great" Xiao Mauser, who is also a gun designer, couldn't help but admire his peers, and even felt a little embarrassed, because compared to this harvest, he felt that his contribution was not much, and the total value of the machinery and equipment provided to Young Master Liang for free was not more than 100,000 taels of silver; For this purpose, the more than 30 technicians were recruited, and the Mauser company only took a little effort and did not spend any cost; In the future, it will only cost a little to train 30 Chinese workers. However, it will soon become clear to him that there is no such a free lunch in the world, there are no such cheap technology patents, and this oriental wonder boy is not a generous fool.
Now that he has learned about the production process of this rifle and has a full set of design drawings, the little Mauser, who is already like an arrow, naturally wants to return to China as soon as possible. The next arrangement was to apply for a patent and mass produce this new rifle, and their Mauser company would soon become famous all over the world.
But he suddenly remembered that this rifle needed a special matching bullet, but he didn't have the production technology for this bullet; Looking at the contract signed with Master Liang, the contract does not include the production technology of bullets; Little Mauser secretly hid in the room, carefully dismantled a bullet, and found that this bullet was very finely made, brass cartridge case, leaded bullet, black powder, the key is that the bottom process of the cartridge case is very complicated; He watched for a long time, figured out the procedure when shooting, figured out that the thimble of the rifle hits the bottom of the bullet, triggers the detonation of the primer, and then detonates the gunpowder in the bullet, pushing the bullet out of the barrel.
The military master immediately saw that the process of this bullet was very complicated, far from being comparable to the paper shell bullets used in previous rifles, and the most complex was the design and production of the bottom of the cartridge case, especially the production process of this primer, which even he could not understand.
Little Mauser hurriedly opened the door and went out to find Master Liang, without the matching bullets, it was useless for him to bring back the production technology of the rifle.
Young Master Liang had expected that he would come to the door, and waited for the fish to bite the hook in the office with Erlang's legs crossed.
"Ronnie, are we missing one thing, the last time we signed a contract, we only had the technical patent and production technology of this rifle, why don't we have the production technology of bullets?" Little Mauser also hoped that Young Master Liang could generously make up for his bullet skills.
"Mr. Mauser, bullets and rifles are two completely different products, and last time we only talked about a cooperation agreement for rifles, naturally excluding the technology of this bullet."
"Ah", at this time, Xiao Mauser, who had already understood that it was impossible to get the bullet technology for nothing, could only accept his fate: "Then let's sign another agreement, how much does it cost us to transfer the bullet technology to us?" ”
spent a lot of money in Guangzhou, at this time the young master Liang was strictly bankrupt, and he was naturally unwilling to let go of this unique money-making secret easily.