427 is a hundred years ahead of the times

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Machine guns are one of the most important technologies in the history of gunpowder weapons, and they are also the most powerful murder weapons ever invented by mankind. The wars of the two world wars and after were mostly brutal and unforgiving, and the role of machine guns should not be underestimated, among various other factors. With such a machine, each soldier can shoot several hundred warheads per minute, and in just a few rounds it can eliminate a platoon. In order to withstand such barrage fire, the army even had to develop heavy combat equipment such as tanks.

This weapon alone has had a profound impact on the way humanity wags war.

With its extremely high rate of fire, continuous firepower, and relatively low cost, machine guns have become a nightmare for infantrymen and have always been a super weapon for harvesting human lives.

The idea of having a machine gun, even Zining didn't even think about it in his wildest dreams, or rather, didn't dare to think about it.

After all, he was just a military enthusiast in his previous life, but he didn't graduate from the mechanical industry, and there was no pressure on a well-read person like him, but he was a little embarrassed to let him carve a rifling. The popularity of machine guns began in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, and before that, it was still the world of flintlock muskets.

If this thing were to be made, it would be more strategically important than any existing firearm.

Lian Zining forced himself to calm down, but even so, the way he looked at Dai Zi was extremely weird, like looking at a mountain of gold.

Dai Zi made his heart furious, and asked cautiously, "My lord, ......?" ”

"Oh!" Lian Zining turned around and smiled with a disguised smile: "I remembered something just now, it's okay, you go on." The official is very interested in this Lianzhu gun. ”

When Dai Zi heard Lian Zining's words, he couldn't help but get excited, since he studied firearms, he was treated coldly and sneered by others, and few people affirmed his achievements at all, and now not only someone affirmed, but also a person with such a high status, after listening to Lian Zining's words, Dai Zi felt like a confidant.

He said excitedly: "This Lianzhu made by Xia Guan, now only one is made, and it is placed at home, my lord, you are proficient in firearms, and you will definitely know the value of it at a glance." ”

Lian Zining nodded, and he was already eager to see the world's earliest machine gun immediately.

When the group entered the city, it was noon, and the army settled down in the barracks in the city, and the officials of the great city of Zhubang had already prepared their meals, and the army traveled a long way, and rested after eating.

Lian Zining's residence was arranged in the prefect's yamen, and Zhang Xiju let his house out early, cleaned it up, cleaned it up, and gave it to Uncle Wu Yi to live in.

As soon as he entered the city, Lian Zining went to his house to protect Dai Zi and go to his house to get Lian Zhu Gong, and now in Lian Zining's eyes, he is already a big baby, and he can't go on a business trip anyway.

After settling in Amber Ye Nai and other relatives, Lian Zining took a bath, and he didn't even care about the reception banquet in Linjiang Building, so he found a spacious and empty courtyard with Shi Dazhu, and waited for Dai Zi's arrival in the mansion.

About a tea time later, Dai Zi was escorted by a group of guards, he was still holding a big wooden box in his hand, Lian Zining's eyes shrank after seeing it, and his heart couldn't stop pounding, is he about to see the world's earliest machine gun?

Dai Zi walked up to Lian Zining, opened the large wooden box, and took out a handful of things that looked slightly strange, but it was obvious that it was a firearm.

Dai Zi took out the Lianzhu Gong with a little difficulty and handed it to Lian Zining, and said with a smile: "Look, my lord, this is the Lianzhu Gong!" ”…,

Lian Zining's hand trembled a little and took the Lianzhu gun, took it in his hand and looked at it carefully.

This Lion, purely from the outside, is not much different from the flintlock pistol, it is a long barrel, and then the structure of the butt is behind it. The caliber seems to be larger than the flintlock pistol, and the weight is heavier, and the biggest difference is the butt, adhering to Lian Zining's design concept, the butt of the flintlock pistol is very thin and streamlined, while the butt of the flintlock gun is quite wide and longer, and its overall appearance is surprisingly similar to the large sniper rifles of later generations.

The whole Lianzhu gun, the butt is made of high-quality sour pear wood, the barrel should be a rare stainless steel in this era, the surface of the butt has been rubbed very smooth, this gun is very well maintained, it can be seen that Dai Zi has put a lot of thought into this gun.

Lian Zining was a little fascinated.

Dai Zi smiled: "My lord, come, let me explain it to you." ”

Lian Zining handed the gun back to him, and Dai Zi pointed to the bolt and said, "Speaking of which, this Lianzhu gun can be studied, and you still have something to do with it?" ”

"Oh? Something to do with me? "Lian Zining Daqi.

Dai Zi smiled: "That's right, it has something to do with you, you see." ”

Speaking, he pointed to the bolt and said: "Xiaguan's father likes to study these things, and there are no less than dozens of various firearms hidden in the lower officials' homes, according to Xiaguan's observation, in the past, our Ming Dynasty, including Fusang's bird guns, used arquebuses to ignite, hehe, if you continue to use the fieryrope, Xiaguan will never be able to study this Lianzhu gun." You see, this flint and hammer, Xia Guan heard that the firearm used by your troops is called a flintlock pistol, no use of fire rope, only need to be fired, Xia Guan was inspired in his heart, and after many visits, he learned the general appearance of the flintlock pistol, which is what this series of guns came out. ”

As soon as he said this, Lian Zining immediately understood, and suddenly had a very wonderful feeling in his heart, could it be that it was his little butterfly that contributed to the birth of the world's first machine gun?

"This is a flint shot. Look, my lord! Dai Zi said that he slashed on the right side of the butt against the bolt, and a small door about the length of a finger appeared. Dai Zi said: "You see, this is the magazine, from the tail of the butt to the wheel, the inner wall is polished very smooth, one foot four inches long, about half an inch in diameter, its diameter is slightly larger than the diameter of the bullet." In the magazine, there are a total of 28 lead bullets, which is just enough to fill. Look at it again......"

Dai Zi said: "This is the propellant magazine, two inches and three minutes long, eight minutes wide, the right side has a cover, which can be opened and closed, and there is also a hole in the propellant compartment that can be passed through the engine." ”

Lian Zining said clearly.

He had now roughly guessed how this kind of bead gun worked.

Dai Zi then began to talk about the engine, which is mounted at the tail of the gun chamber and can be rotated, and the wheel is slightly conical and can be inserted into the cone hole of the gun body, which fits tightly and has no gaps. There are two small circular grooves on the wheel, which are connected with the outlet hole of the magazine and the outlet of the propellant compartment respectively, which are used for storing projectiles and launching medicine. The left end of the wheel, which is the thinner end, is equipped with a square nut and a wrench on it, which is about eight inches long. There is a thin handle at the right end of the wheel, and there is a powder tank on it, and the fire door is in the center of one end, and the fire door is connected with the stored charge tank through the inside of the wheel.

There are two holes in the back of the inner wall of the cone hole of the gun body, the upper hole is used for projectiles, the diameter is about six minutes, that is, about 1.6 centimeters, and the lower part is the projectile hole, the diameter is about 4 minutes, that is, 1.3 centimeters. There is another hole in the front part of the inner wall of the cone hole of the gun body, that is, the rear hole of the breech, and the diameter is also six points. …,

The bolt adopts a percussion-type flint to ignite, the nose is sandwiched with flint, there is a lighter sickle in front of the nose, there is a powder chamber in the middle of the bolt, the lid on the top is opened and closed, and the chamber is also just in line with the powder tank on the thin handle of the engine.

Dai Zi almost dismantled the beads and explained them in detail, so that Lian Zining had a very intuitive understanding of it.

After finishing speaking, Dai Zi looked around twice and said, "Is there a target?" The next official came to demonstrate it to the adults? ”

"No!" Lian Zining smiled and waved his hand: "Let me come!" ”

Dai Zi then remembered that he was also a good expert in playing with firearms, so he stepped aside with confidence.

A guard had already moved a large round table and unloaded the table as a target, Lian Zining asked, "What is the range?" ”

Dai Zi said with a hint of pride: "Because of the use of the adult's flintlock pistol technology, the firing range can hit a hundred steps." ”

Lian Zining nodded and beckoned, "Hang the target fifty steps away." ”

Soon, the target was hung.

Although it was the first time to operate this Lianzhu gun, Lian Zining was not handy, and there was always something to figure out between the guns.

As for the ammunition, Dai Zi also brought it, and took a bag of it, Lian Zining saw that its casting skills were quite average, and in terms of the smoothness of its surface, it was much worse than that of Wu Yijun's use of the droplet casting method.

Lian Zining held a projectile and played with it for a moment, and said, "Your projectile is a great damage to the barrel!" ”

Dai Zi smiled, and there was a bitterness in his smile that couldn't be hidden: "Xiaguan makes these things by himself, it's not as good as adults, gunpowder is difficult to do, gun barrels are difficult to do, and projectiles are also difficult to do, don't be afraid of adult jokes, these projectiles are cut out by Xia Guan himself with soil molds one by one, and it is inevitable that they will be rougher." ”

After listening to this, Lian Zining was also a little embarrassed.

He first opened the hatch of the ammunition compartment, and then filled the lead bullets in his hand in turn, a total of twenty-eight rounds. The front one was just right the hole in the back of the cone of the barrel. Then he opened the lid of the propellant compartment and filled it with propellant, but this thing didn't need to take Dai Zi, the propellant stored by Dai Zi had a lot of impurities in it, the purity was not high, and the grinding was not very uniform and meticulous. Lian Zining asked Shi Dazhu to take a propellant, and the propellants used by Wu Yijun were extremely delicate, just like black noodles, without a trace of impurities, and Dai Zi, who saw it, praised it again and again.

It was filled with propellant, and then the lid of the powder compartment was opened and filled with the primer.

Lian Zining dialed the wheel, aimed the small round groove on the wheel at the bullet hole and the discharge hole, and then tilted the muzzle slightly downward, so that under the action of gravity, the projectile rolled into the bullet groove smoothly, and the propellant and ignition powder also fell, filling the charge tank respectively.

When the preparations were ready, Lian Zining pulled the wrench forward with his left hand to rotate the wheel for half a circle, so the projectile entered the chamber first, and then turned the wheel forward, aiming the propellant tank at the bottom hole of the chamber, and then the ignition powder tank was also upward to be burned.

Lian Zining pulled up the head of the machine, and an iron hook connected to it hooked up the fire sickle in front of it, in a ready manner.

Lian Zining took a long breath, held the bottom of the butt with his left hand, sandwiched the back of the butt with his arm, aimed at the target in the distance, and pulled the trigger heavily.

The trigger was pulled, the tunnel stone ignited, igniting the gunpowder, and with a dull gunshot, the tremendous pressure pushed the projectile out.

Lian Zining's marksmanship has always been good, and ten rings were drawn on the table hanging fifty paces away according to his meaning, and Lian Zining's shot hit seven rings. The projectile was deeply sunk into the plank, almost half of the volume smashed into it, and there was this power fifty paces away, and the power of Lianzhu was not inferior to that of a flintlock pistol. …,

Lian Zining nodded secretly, this shot can test a lot of things, not to mention the burst function of the Lianzhu gun, just this power and range are already beyond the ordinary bird gun.

Lian Zining was satisfied, his posture did not move, and he pulled the trigger again, but he didn't expect that this pull, Lian Zhugong did not react.

Lian Zining looked at it in surprise, and his face was a little unsightly.

Dai Zi hurriedly stepped forward and said, "My lord, you can't do this. ”

As he spoke, he took the Lian Zhu gun from Lian Zining's hand and said, "You see, after this shot was fired, the engine became the same as it was at the beginning, so it had to be like this." ”

As he spoke, he continued to rotate the wrench backwards for half a week, so that the wheel was restored to the position of loading ammunition, the projectile was in place, and the propellant was filled, and then Dai Zi also pulled the trigger, and the projectile hit a ring and barely hit the target, which made Dai Zi blush.

Lian Zining didn't expect that the Lianzhu gun, which was called the first machine gun, would be like this, first it was seriously inconsistent with the beautiful vision he had just conceived, which immediately made his face a little unhappy, and said in a deep voice: "This can't be fired in a row at all, what is Lianzhu Gong?" ”

He was unhappy, and Dai Zi was even more unhappy, for this technical maniac, the fruits of his hard work were denied by Lian Zining, which made him feel very uncomfortable. If what Lian Zining said is justified or there is a better repeating weapon than his Lianzhu gun, then it is okay, but he has also understood that although the rifles in Wu Yi's army are powerful, they are all single-shot flintlock guns, and the guy who needs to reload ammunition after a shot, compared to that, his firing speed is more than ten times faster!

Why isn't it a bead?

But all those who engage in science have a stubborn temper that ordinary people do not have, and of course, if it weren't for this stubborn temper, they would not have been able to produce such research results.

As soon as the cow's temper comes up, the king of heaven is not afraid! Dai Zi didn't care if Lian Zining was a Shangguan who could easily decide his life and death, whether he was an uncle, holding a Lianzhu gun, pulling the wheel again and again, and then shooting.

It's just a short fifty breaths, that is, two and a half minutes in the later generations, and the remaining twenty-six lead bullets have all been fired, although their hit rate is miserable, but this rate of fire is to make all the onlookers Lian Zining's guards are dumbfounded, they are all experts who are used to using the five thunder god machines, and they don't look down on ordinary firearms at all, and they know how difficult it is to raise the rate of fire of guns.

And now, it can shoot 26 rounds in a row!

It's incredible!

Suddenly, the eyes that looked at Dai Zi were full of awe.

"Xia Guan once specially understood that although the adult's flintlock pistol was canceled and replaced with flint and hammer, it was still a very backward way of preloading, and this way was destined to make it impossible to increase the rate of fire. In about fifty breaths of time, Xia Guan fired twenty-six rounds of lead bullets with a Lianzhu gun, and Xia Guan had done experiments, even a very skilled flintlock gunner could fire up to five rounds in this fifty breaths of time, but it was less than 20% of the rate of fire of Xia Guan's Lianzhu gun. Of course, Xia Guan knows that the adults treasure five hundred Five Thunder God Machines, which can be fired five times in a row, but the Five Thunder God Machines are still the settings for projectiles and gunpowder to be loaded in front, and after the five shots are completed, it will take five times the time of ordinary flintlock guns, which is only suitable for small-scale battles, if it is a big battle, it is better to have a flintlock pistol! ”

"Xiaguan's continuous bead can shoot twenty-eight rounds of lead bullets within fifty breaths, and it is not difficult to reload after shooting. Five Thor planes need to be reloaded five times to shoot twenty-eight rounds of lead bullets, what a gap this is?! The two are not the same at all! Dai Zi stiffened his neck and asked: "Xiaguan dares to ask uncle, why can't Xiaguan's Lianzhu Gong be talked about as Lianzhu Gong?" ”…,

Dai Zi asked loudly, a thin face was flushed, and the green tendons on his forehead were violent, and he was the image of a parent who was extremely angry after seeing that he was a very good and excellent child but was unreasonably belittled by the teacher as worthless.

"Presumptuous!" Shi Dazhu shouted angrily in a low voice, and those guards immediately took their sabers out of their sheaths, although they all admired Dai Zi a lot, but there was no doubt that now that Lian Zining gave an order, Dai Zi would be in a different place.

Lian Zining's long-term wise decision-making, step by step on the management of the Wu Yi Army, and the invincibility of the Wu Yi Army, made most of the officers and soldiers in the Wu Yi Army worship Lian Zining like a god.

Lian Zining waved his hand slightly, stopping the movements of the soldiers, he patted Dai Zi's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Old Dai, look at your stinky temper, I just said that just now, why react so violently?" ”

Dai Zi couldn't help but be stunned with Lian Zining's current status, and the sentence just now was already a very low-profile apology.

Dai Zi felt a wave of emotion in his heart, today, with Lian Zining's status and status, what if he won himself with those few words just now? Why apologize to yourself?

The only explanation is that he really values himself as a person, and he values a firearm like Lianzhu.

Dai Zi's face was flushed again. This time, however, it was not because of anger, but because of a mixture of several emotions such as shame, surprise, and confusion.

He looked at Lian Zining and said cowardly: "Uncle, Xiaguan, Xiaguan......"

He fell to his knees suddenly, knocked his head heavily, and then raised his head, his eyes were already red: "Thank you, uncle, for lifting up." ”

Lian Zining smiled and helped him up: "Old Dai, it's not me who lifts you, but my own ability to lift you up!" ”

After a short period of dissatisfaction, Lian Zining immediately realized the tremendous power of this Lianzhu gun, and of course, the extremely advanced design concept and genius advanced concept contained in it.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is at least a hundred years ahead of the current era of firearms.

The reason for this is that the structure - it is equipped with magazines and medicine magazines on the buttstock and reloads ammunition from the rear of the chamber through the trigger wheel, although this structure is not complicated and difficult to understand, but it shows a trend in the development of firearms - reloading.

This structure greatly simplifies the process of loading ammunition, and the muskets before that, including the flintlock pistol developed by Wu Yijun, belong to the front-loading musket, and the flintlock pistol is the best in the front-loading musket. Each round of ammunition requires at least five steps: take out the gunpowder canister or gunpowder gourd, gunpowder bag and other contents, and pour a certain amount of gunpowder at the muzzle; Then the gunpowder is tamped through the muzzle of the gun with a tracing rod, that is, a strip; Then take out the lead bullet and put it in the muzzle, and stab it in the bottom of the chamber with a retrospective staff; Then, take out the ignition powder and put it in the medicine pool at the fire door; The last thing is to aim and fire.

The Lianzhu gun designed by Dai Zi simplifies these complex processes into three very simple actions: turning the wheel with a wrench, tilting the gun downward, and firing, and these three actions can be completed with two hands in turn, so that the most intuitive effect is naturally to greatly increase the rate of fire. Among them, the design of the wheel is quite ingenious, and the continuous bead gun solves the problem of multiple loading through the repeated rotation of the wheel.

A small wheel is enough to change many things.

It's magical.

This principle is actually very simple, Lian Zining understood it after reading it.

But the truth is like this, it is difficult to reach the sky before it is broken, and it is like that after it is broken. The most rare thing is not to understand, but to be able to think, otherwise why didn't so many craftsmen in the Ordnance Bureau study any of them? I didn't even think about this stubble!

Its strategic value and lethality in this era are also unparalleled.

Lian Zining didn't think about making breech-loading firearms at the beginning, but after all, he didn't know much about this thing, so he could only talk about it roughly, but it turned out that Gonzalez and others were surrounded by clouds and fog, and they were confused, after all, breech-loading firearms were too far away from this era.

In desperation, I had to give up.

Unexpectedly, Dai Zi made this quietly.

It is a huge leap forward in the history of firearms.

In Lian Zining's view, this Lianzhu gun is not like a machine gun, but like a Mauser rifle that expands the magazine capacity to 28 rounds - the classic Mauser rifle also pulls the bolt after firing a bullet, while here it turns the wrench with a single shot.