Originally, Li Hongfei didn't have much hope for the Yangzhou war before, but after Guo Sheng's reminder, it seems that there is still a turning point in this matter. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After all, Nanming in another time and space, because of Chongzhen's suicide, the situation was even worse, everyone was busy fighting for power and profit, so it was naturally difficult to work together to resist the Qing.

Today's Nanming is different, the emperor is still Zhu Youzhen, at least before Zhu Youzhen's braids, no one dares to think crookedly.

The second is that Zhu Youzhen implemented the commercial tax reform in this half a year, and the imperial court has money, and the speed of army expansion has naturally accelerated a lot, and now other provinces have not sent troops, and they can still garrison more than 100,000 troops in Yangzhou, which is a good proof.

This is much stronger than Nanming in another time and space, in terms of military strength.

If you add the sharp weapons provided by Li Hongfei to defend the city, Yangzhou City may not be without the strength to fight.

It's just that these things don't have much to do with Li Hongfei at present, even if Yangzhou City can really be defended, Li Hongfei doesn't have many troops to send over at this stage.

Therefore, just in case, it is better to stay in Suzhou and seize the time to train the troops.

First, if Shi Kefa can really hold Yangzhou for half a year, then the time is ripe for a counterattack, and then the new army in Suzhou will also have the strength to fight a war.

Second, if Yangzhou City is broken, the new army in Suzhou will not suffer much loss, and at the same time, it can also take advantage of the time won by Shi Kefa to develop and expand its strength, take over Shi Kefa's position, and serve as the main force guarding the Yangtze River.

After such an explanation, no matter how full of fighting spirit Guo Sheng is, he can only nest in the small town of Baoshan, training, training, and training..........

After explaining Guo Sheng's task, Li Hongfei rushed to the Suzhou Heavy Industry Firearms Research Institute non-stop.

The Firearms Research Institute, both in terms of equipment and talent reserves, is the first-class department in Suzhou, even so, Li Hongfei still feels that it is not enough, and is still asking Zhou Furen to increase investment, and strive to develop it into the first scientific research department in the country and even the world.

If Song Yingxing is an all-round talent in agriculture and chemical industry, then Bi Maokang is a mechanical specialized talent, and all kinds of firearms produced by the Ordnance Bureau are basically designed or improved by Bi Maokang.

And this time Li Hongfei came over, he made a special trip to find Bi Maokang.

"Bi Lao, the last time you sent a letter to tell the kid, that the revolver has eyebrows, how is it now, but you have made a sample?" Li Hongfei is very respectful to scientific researchers like Bi Maokang.

That's right, Li Hongfei came to the Firearms Research Institute in a hurry, just for this revolver, and it was also because of the appearance of the revolver that Li Hongfei came up with the idea of forming a special forces.

"This revolver has indeed been made, but it is more difficult to make, and the effective range is not even comparable to the three-eyed gun, so it cannot be manufactured in batches!" Bi Maokang was not very interested in revolvers.

The first single-shot pistols came from Europe in the 15th century, but arquebuses were popular at the time.

Over the next 100 years, arquebuses evolved several times, including revelor muskets and muskets, which used a mechanical structure to drive a piece of iron to ignite gunpowder by striking a flint. These firearms are relatively complex in structure, much more expensive than arquebuses, and not very reliable to use, and have no absolute advantage over arquebuses, so they have not been able to fully replace arquebuses.

The pistol, which was more practical and equipped with a large number of troops, was introduced in 1605, and this pistol was the flintlock pistol invented by the Frenchman Mahan.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were also samples of this flintlock pistol from overseas merchants, but this kind of pistol that can only be fired with a single shot and cannot be comboated, the Ming Dynasty army did not pay much attention to it, in contrast, the effect of the three-eyed gun is much better than those single-shot pistols, both in terms of range and rate of fire.

However, in his early years, Bi Maokang was inspired by the flint ignition of this pistol and created the first self-generated fire pistol (flintlock pistol) in China.

Therefore, Bi Maokang is also quite interested in Western pistols, and the reason why he is tinkering with revolvers now is because Li Hongfei proposed a small individual firearm that can fire six times in a row, which makes him quite interested.

The revolver developed today is based on the existing flintlock pistol, and the loading position of the ammunition has been changed from the muzzle to the revolver-shaped magazine.

The magazine is a honeycomb type, which can be loaded with six ammunition paper packs at a time, and for each shot, you need to turn the magazine by hand so that the next magazine is aimed at the barrel, and after all the shots are completed, you can turn out of the magazine to the left and reload again.

It's a pity that when the sample gun was actually made, Bi Maokang felt disappointed.

The revolver can fire continuously is really good, but it also has many shortcomings, because of the industrial level, the pistol's air tightness is extremely poor, so the effective range of the revolver musket is only 40 meters, and the armor-piercing lethality is less than 30 meters, which is almost half the range compared to the effective armor-piercing range of 50 meters of the three-eyed gun.

The other is the difficulty of manufacturing, the miniaturization of rear-loading weapons is a big problem, although there is now a simple version of the fixed ammunition, but the state of separating the primer from the propellant still cannot be easily solved.

Bi Maokang also borrowed the rear-loading principle of the Fran machine gun, and made many improvements, which finally made the flintlock revolver.

However, this is only a pistol with an effective range of only 40 meters, and it is simply not feasible to apply this structure to a flintlock rifle with a range of 150 meters, so Bi Maokang has no interest in studying the sample.

"Range is not a problem, the key is the rate of fire, the study of this revolver is to play a strong firepower advantage in a close-range dogfight, I don't know how this revolver is produced?" Li Hongfei was very satisfied with the revolver and began to inquire about the production volume.

"If a special production line is established, it will take about seven days, and then it will be able to produce about five per day, and the current cost is extremely expensive, I am afraid that it will take about eight taels of silver per piece." Bi Maokang said.

The cost of a flintlock pistol is only three taels of silver, and the cost of a revolver has reached eight taels of silver, which is already comparable to the price of a Furlong gun.

"Five a day? Fifty is only ten days, plus seven days of production line assembly, and the soldiers have a month and a half to get acquainted, which is completely enough! After thinking about it secretly, Li Hongfei finally said: "Then hurry up and let people prepare the production line, money is not a problem, the Suzhou New Army will order 300 revolvers in advance." ”

Li Hongfei originally only wanted to order 100 revolvers, so that 50 special combat personnel, two each, in the case of a short period of engagement with the enemy, the effect is tantamount to a group of special forces armed with submachine guns in later generations, facing a group of peasant troops with single-shot bolt-action rifles.

It's a pity that Li Hongfei was really embarrassed to open his mouth for a special production line for a hundred revolvers, so he willfully prepared to equip the officers in the new army in Suzhou with the extra revolvers.