Hearing Wang Shao say this, Lu Chengqi laughed and said, "Commander Wang, this rifle is not a firecracker, it is used to scare the barbarians." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info it is a real killing weapon, if it can be fired in a row, it is truly invincible! ”

Shen Kuo frowned and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that although this rifle is extremely powerful, it has a short range. Even if it can be fired in bursts, it may not be as good as a barbarian bow and arrow! ”

Lu Chengqi waved his hand and said, "The bow and arrow have developed almost to the peak, no matter how powerful they are, they are nothing more than that." But the power of black and gunpowder, you only understand a little, dare to make such a conclusion, is it against the way of science? The way of science lies in daring to question, dare to innovate, and dare to be the first, have you forgotten? What's more, this is just a test gun, it has not yet been finalized, and the performance has not been better developed, how can you come to conclusions? ”

Shen Kuo was taught a lesson by Lu Chengqi, and defended unconvincedly: "Your Majesty, the cost of making a rifle is much greater than the cost of making bows and arrows. ”

Lu Chengqi still sighed at the stubbornness of the ancients about the existing knowledge, and patiently explained: "Shen Qing, Commander Wang is the leader of the army, he is proficient in the way of military training, I will tell you about the way of military training, why spend a lot of money to make rifles." Training an archer requires a certain amount of arm strength and talent, and it takes at least one year for an archer to be able to go to the battlefield from the time of training. But the rifle, which does not require much arm strength, can also be used by children to knock down strong men. and the duration of training is not more than three months. If I have 100,000 rifles, I will have 100,000 elite soldiers with a little training. Even if three are exchanged for one, against Shangyi, it is our Dashun that has earned. How many people are there to eat? Besides, if the range of the rifle is raised to 150 paces, or even 200 paces, or 300 paces of the bow and arrow, at that time, are you still afraid of the barbarian cavalry? ”

Shen Kuo was shocked by Lu Chengqi's words, he didn't think about this aspect. Wang Shao pondered for a moment and said, "If that rifle is really as Your Majesty said, it is really an artifact. The last general also explored why the Khitans were so powerful, because they were for the people in peacetime and soldiers in wartime. If I have a rifle, I can become an army in March, so why be afraid of the Khitan? ”

Lu Chengqi nodded and said, "That's the truth. But whether the rifle is good or bad depends on your vigorous research, otherwise everything will be in the mirror. ”

While speaking, the three of them had already arrived at the testing ground. Su Song was letting people test the gun, and he was recording the data on the side. After Lu Chengqi arrived, the test gun immediately stopped, for fear of injuring Lu Chengqi by mistake.

Lu Chengqi didn't care, and asked someone to take the first real rifle in this different time and space, and looked at the body made of good mahogany, the black and shiny barrel, and the well-polished butt, every place made Lu Chengqi love it.

This rifle uses a ramming flintlock pistol designed by Lu Chengqi himself, and the ammunition is loaded by a rotating magazine, and the bullet wrapped in paper is loaded through the lever, and then the trigger is pulled to issue the bullet. This is not so much a rifle as it is an oversized left-handed rifle. If it were to follow the course of history, there would have been arquebuses, then flintlock pistols, and then smokeless gunpowder. But Lu Chengqi, as a reborn person, naturally knows that even if it is a flintlock pistol, it can be made in one step now, so why bother to go far?

The only regret with this rifle is that Su Song thought that rifling could not increase the range, so he did not engrave rifling. And in this era, there were no machine tools, and it was very difficult to carve rifling. It takes a craftsman to use a drill knife, a knife to carve, a little bit of grinding and polishing, to make a barrel, which is time-consuming and laborious.

The bullet is pre-wrapped in black and gunpowder, and the main lethality lies in the lead bullet inside the paper package. In this era, the production of lead was extremely low, and lead was also a precious metal, even if the national mining volume was not high. In fact, China's lead reserves are not low, but the mining is not effective. If Lu Chengqi gave an order to produce bullets in large quantities, then the lead production would definitely increase. The hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit. It's just that I don't know how much of the miner's blood and sweat there is.

Lu Chengqi didn't have time to sigh, he couldn't wait to pull the lever, after loading the bullet, he aimed it through the crosshair, a target sixty steps away, and after holding his breath, he pulled the trigger.

"Bang !!"

A loud bang came from the barrel of the rifle, and with a puff of black smoke came out, accompanied by a burst of fire, and the bullet whistled out at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

"Smack!!

After a soft sound, a deformed lead was embedded in the huge wooden target sixty paces away. Then, Lu Chengqi pulled the lever with his left hand again, the wheel rotated, and after feeding the bullet into the chamber, less than ten seconds, fired another bullet.

In less than ten seconds, two shots were fired in a row, comparable to the magic skill of a continuous arrow, which shocked Wang Shao's mouth wide and he couldn't speak. After removing the bullet from the magazine, Lu Chengqi handed the rifle to Su Song and ordered someone to bring it to the target. If it is shot at a Khitan cavalry without iron armor protection, it will definitely cause a lot of damage.

There is an empirical saying on the battlefield: "It is better to strike three arrows than one sword; I'd rather take three knives than a single shot. This shows that the lethality of bows and arrows on the battlefield is not so strong. As long as you don't shoot the vital point, you generally can't die. If you stab a spear, according to ancient medical technology, even if it is a penetrating wound that is not in the vital part, and a large amount of blood loss is equivalent to being helpless. And the blow of the rifle is equivalent to a spear striking at a distance, and it is also a penetrating wound, but the wound is a little smaller. At this time, medical technology, this kind of injury to the upper body is also a dead end.

Lu Chengqi fired two shots and regained the feeling of shooting a gun during high school military training, but he still felt the shortcomings of this rifle. First of all, as a rear-loading gun, the sealing of this bar rifle is not good, and there is a feeling of air leakage, resulting in insufficient power, the firing range is not far enough, and there is no kinetic energy at about eighty steps. In the long run, I'm afraid it will blow up. In addition, there is no rifling, and the accuracy is worrying.

After Lu Chengqi said these two shortcomings, Su Song and Shen Kuo fell into deep thought. Tang Xun, who was recording the data on the side, said: "Your Majesty, the ministers are also making the rifled guns that Your Majesty said, and it is expected to come out the day after tomorrow." His Majesty said that the tightness, the ministers also have an idea, and they also use it on the rifled gun, what does Your Majesty think? ”

Lu Chengqi nodded and said, "Your task now is to find a rifle with superior performance that can be used for actual combat." It doesn't matter if it's finalized and mass-produced later, the main thing is that the rifle range and accuracy must be good, otherwise I will waste so much money and silver, and I can't say anything to the household. ”

After asking about the problems in steelmaking, Lu Chengqi and Wang Shao said goodbye. On the way, Lu Chengqi asked Wang Shao: "Commander Wang, what do you think of the rifle?" ”

Wang Shao sighed: "Your Majesty's ingenuity is really a heavenly man. If these rifles are eighty or a hundred paces away, the minister dares to say that the Khitan cavalry is not to be feared! ”

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