Chapter 284: Rifled Barrel
Li Dazhui's training has been on the right track, but unfortunately the barrel of the gun in the back hall has no rifling, which limits the distance and accuracy of shooting, which is a fatal wound and a headache for Li Dazhui. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
What is a sniper, is to be able to kill the enemy quietly from a long distance, so it is called a sniper. Flintlock guns like these unrifled simply can't do this. It is also a requirement that no matter how much he trains soldiers, he cannot meet.
The progress of the soldiers was rapid, but without the weapons to match them, the final result was also in vain. After thinking about it, Li Dazhui still found Tang Ming and spit out all the shortcomings he had discovered today.
Unexpectedly, Tang Ming was not in a hurry at all when he heard this, and after letting Li Dazhui calm down for a while, he led him to the treasure shipyard together.
In the deepest part of the northwest corner of the Treasure Shipyard, this area is two acres of land, all of which are fenced off by a wooden robber, and the only way in and out is only one gate. On one side of the door stood a stone tablet with the words 'forbidden land' written on it.
Ten large men were vigilantly guarded here, and anyone who entered or left had to be searched by them. Tang Ming's identity was naturally recognized by these guards, and they walked through unimpeded all the way.
Inside was an open field, surrounded by rows of two-story tiled houses, Tang Ming seemed to be familiar with everything here, and strode straight towards the house in the middle. Li Dazhui was numb and confused from beginning to end, I don't know what Hou Ye mysteriously brought himself for?
As soon as the two entered the house, a wave of heat immediately hit their faces, and they heard a very rhythmic hammer striking sound, and the sound of 'clanging' was endless. Following the prestige, I saw an old man, covered in dirt, banging beside a furnace with a blue flame.
The sweat on his face mixed with black ash had already covered the old man's face, and the old man wielding the sledgehammer seemed to be tired, even Tang Ming didn't know that he had come to his side, and he was still focused on the work in his hands.
A red-hot iron rod on the iron mat was beaten very neatly, but he was still not satisfied, and kept turning it over and over. Tang Ming didn't want to disturb when he saw that he was concentrating on touching the sample, but every time Lao Tie waved the hammer in his hand, he would always throw off a large piece of sweat.
Lao Tie's hard work made Tang Ming very unbearable, he looked left and right, saw a kettle not far away, and went over and poured a bowl and brought it over: "Lao Tie, let's rest and drink saliva first." ”
The old iron head didn't reply and said, "Let's put it first, I'll beat this stick and then rest." ”
After the words fell, Lao Tie seemed to realize that this voice was very familiar, and when he looked back, he realized that it was Tang Ming, and hurriedly put the stick back in the stove to burn, and as soon as he turned around, he was about to bow down.
Tang Ming put down the bowl to support his body, and said with a smile: "It's not polite." ”
"I didn't know that the Hou Ye was coming, and I lost my welcome." Tang Ming couldn't hold his hands and bow, so Lao Tie took advantage of the situation and stood back.
"Lao Tie, you are so old, so you still go into battle yourself. What about your apprentices? Why don't you let them beat it, these manual jobs should be done by their young people. "Lao Tie is the only blacksmith in the Treasure Shipyard now, and he is also the master that Tang Ming dug from the Ordnance Division, this will not allow him to make a mistake, otherwise his rifled gun will not be able to be built.
Lao Tie waved his hand, his old face suddenly became very excited, and he pulled Tang Ming and walked towards the warehouse on the other side.
Leaving the high-temperature furnace, Tang Ming suddenly felt a burst of coolness, and before he could wipe the sweat from his forehead, Lao Tie had already handed over a hollow iron pipe. Seeing this, Tang Ming's face was also happy, he knew that it should be the rifled barrel that Lao Wang had created.
Not even wiping the sweat, Tang Ming immediately took the one-meter-long barrel and looked at it. The method of iron-making Tang Ming had already told Lao Tie what little bit of poor knowledge he had when Lao Tie was forging the keel of the treasure ship.
In the end, although he failed to practice steel, it also greatly improved Lao Tie's iron forging skills by several steps. Lao Tie has reached a state of saturation in terms of experience and foundation, all he lacks is some new theoretical knowledge, and Tang Ming's seemingly pitiful knowledge has just become a key to open Lao Tie.
To open the door to another level for it, now Lao Tie's technology and forging method can definitely be called the first person in the world. It was also with this long progress that he could now barely build the rifling of the barrel for Tang Ming.
Tang Ming first looked at the rifling in the barrel, the nozzle shone against the light, the spiral pattern inside was not only neat but also polished very brightly, and no burrs were found under the naked eye. Tang Ming was surprised that the barrel with a diameter of only about two centimeters could be polished to such an extent, and he was also impressed by Lao Tie's technique.
"Master Hou, are you still satisfied with this barrel?" Lao Tie was asking questions, but the expression on his face was not the same, and his smug expression had already betrayed his heart.
Lao Tie's question stopped Tang Ming, to be honest, he had never touched a real gun in his later life, but he had played with some imitation guns, which could be described as a black eye, and he didn't know whether it was good or bad.
Like this rifled gun, he has only heard of it on the Internet, and as for whether it is good or bad, he has to try it to know. Thinking of this, Tang Ming returned the barrel to Lao Tie's hand and said with a wry smile: "I won't tell you, Master Hou, it's the first time I've seen this rifled barrel, and I really can't tell if it's good or bad." I don't know if you have done a good job here, Lao Tie, let's give it a try. ”
When Tang Ming said this, Lao Tie was stunned, he didn't expect that Hou Ye's whimsical ideas were all imagined out of thin air, and he had never seen them before. Lao Tie, who was still confident and proud just now, couldn't help but worry.
He had been busy for nearly a month for this rifled barrel, almost sleepless research, which he finally figured out. If he waits for the test to be available, isn't it in vain for him?
This barrel has only been built for a short time, and only three of them have been made in this attempt, and it has not yet had time to install the flintlock pistol.
"If Master Hou wants to try it, then wait another day, and I'll go get a ready-made flintlock pistol to replace the barrel. However, the caliber of this barrel is different from the previous one, and it is a little smaller than the previous one, so its bullet has to be reconstructed. ”
After waiting for a month, it was not bad for one more day, Tang Ming happily made an appointment with Lao Tie to test the gun tomorrow. Tang Ming, who said goodbye to Lao Tie, went to find a carpenter again, threw a drawing that had already been drawn, and asked him to carve it out of the best wood according to the pattern drawn in the drawing.
The carved thing is very simple, just a telescope shelf, with a rifled gun, it is natural to match a telescope, which is like a sniper rifle. (To be continued.) )