Historically, many conservative people did not recognize its great progressiveness when the rear-loading gun came out, a classic story. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe world's first standard-loading rear-loading rifle, the Dresser rifle, was secretly developed to equip the Prussian army and shine in the war. In 1848, the secret of the Dresser pistol was revealed. But for this excellent rifle, many people are against it. When a Swiss military delegation visited Prussia, the Swiss general, who had inspected the Prussian breech-loading units, exclaimed: "Eating by mouth is noble, and a Swiss shooter would never be so humble as to shoot with a tail-loading 'enema gun' (referring to a rear-loading gun)." ”

Later, in the Austro-Prussian War, the Prussian army relied on the superiority of the rear loading of the Dreiser pistol bullet and won the war in only seven weeks. After several battles in which front-loading units were beaten to pieces by rear-loading units, European countries that realized the power of rear-loading guns began to develop and equip rear-loading guns. Historical guns such as the Chasebo rifle and the Enfield M1853 were somewhat influenced by the Dresser rifle.

At that time in Switzerland, when someone asked the general who called the rear-loading gun an "enema gun" what he thought of the rear-loading gun, the general had to say: "The gun is the same whether it is front-loading or rear-loading, but eating is indispensable for the mouth." Soon the Swiss army decided to change the gun and he never dared to object.

The invention of rifled guns improved the accuracy and range of infantrymen's shooting, so that soldiers did not have to wait in line to shoot in the face of deadly enemy fire. You have to walk to a distance where you can see the freckles and pockmarks on the faces of the enemy soldiers, and then shoot. During the Battle of Saratoga in the historic American Revolutionary War, 1,600 British troops were attacked by the Continental Army's rifle regiment (rifled guns) in an open farmland. As the Continental Army hid behind trees and shot in various bunkers, their rifled guns had five times the range of their opponents, resulting in heavy casualties for the British, and their commander was killed by several bullets.

Of course, the rifled gun at this time was not faster than the smoothbore gun in terms of rate of fire, and it could even be slower. Its rifling is basically straight rifling, not threaded rifling as later generations. So the range and projectile flight stability are also limited.

The great advantages of rifled guns have long been recognized, but on the one hand, they are more difficult to process and more expensive. On the other hand, the rate of fire and reloading were really problematic, so they have not been able to replace the front-loading smoothbore guns of the people who lined up to shoot the party.

It can be said that the two rifles specially developed by NORINCO for export are designed to solve the loading speed of rifled guns. In particular, the bullets of the SC-2 breech-loading rifled gun are easy to carry. Easy reloading and fast rate of fire. Dearborn and others have been completely conquered.

"Great, this kind of gun, the soldiers of the Continental Army with this weapon, will definitely be able to defeat the British army!" Dearborn said excitedly.

Bai Nan interjected with a smile at this time: "We still have 200 SC-1 rifles and more than 2,000 SC-2 rifles in our arsenal, if you still want more SC-1 rifles, then you need to wait for a while, our factory needs to produce them, but it won't take too much time." ”

John Jay asked Dearborn, "Henry." You're our military advisor this time, so it's up to you to decide which one we want. ”

Dearborn said, "Mr. Jay." I think the SC-2 rifle is better, but it looks like the SC-1 is not bad, so let's just ask for 1,800 SC-2s and 200 SC-1s. ”

Dearborn was young, but he was very smart. He naturally felt that the rear-loading gun was more powerful, but he also had other ideas, New England has a certain industrial capacity, but it does not have too strong military standards, although there are man-made guns, but the level of guns is not high. The Datang rifle brought back, they will definitely imitate it, Dearborn was worried that the technology of the SC-2 was too high, and the gunsmiths could not imitate it, so he also asked for 200 SC-1 rifles, at least it seems that this gun is easier to make than the SC-2.

Bai Nan knew in his heart that the level of training was relatively poor, and the Continental Army, which was composed of militiamen, was actually really more suitable for using SC-2 rifles. As soon as they formed a European-like approach and began to line up to shoot, then it was a real waste of the advantage of weapons. In the historical Civil War, the veterans who formed the phalanx were often defeated by a rabble who had just picked up rifled guns, which actually meant that the line tactics had come to an end, and with the popularity of rifled guns, the skirmish line tactics were more suitable for the battlefield.

As long as it is equipped with a large number of SC-2 rifles, and tries to fight the British army at close range head-on, with its geographical advantages, effective use of mobility, and a series of tactics such as ambush and sneak attack, the Continental Army can completely beat the British army to the ground.

Later, Bai Nan showed Dearborn the SC1774 bronze smoothbore gun, this weapon is far less dazzling than the SC-1 and SC-2, and basically belongs to the bronze smoothbore gun of the Napoleonic artillery replica, although the performance is slightly better than the artillery at this time, but it is relatively limited. What really made artillery dominate the battlefield was the application of the concentrated use of artillery by Emperor Napoleon, rather than the performance of the artillery itself. In fact, after the Mini rifled guns and breech guns were massively equipped with troops, the rifle regained the throne of the key weapon that dominated the battlefield.

After all, NORINCO is a military industrial group with modern management experience and many advanced equipment, which carries out modularization, standardization, tolerance restriction and quality supervision, and a full set of assembly line operations, so that the number of muskets they produce per day may be comparable to the annual output of guns in some small countries.

As the top position in the domestic military industry, NORINCO has long successfully copied a series of weapons such as the M1903, Thompson, Browning, and M1 carbines, and even now they are developing semi-automatic SKS rifles (the predecessor of five or six and a half). It's just that these guns are very large in the Datang Army, such as S1 rifles, there are more than 20,000, and the Datang Army is not equipped with half of this number at all.

The main demand of NORINCO is to manufacture artillery and various ammunition for the military. However, it is a pity that the light weapons factories that have been built do not produce them. Therefore, NORINCO engaged in the SC series of rifles for export, and after approving the sale to Spain, they produced more than 2,000 rifles, and waited for Spain to officially approve the transaction and sell them to the Spaniards. Now I didn't expect that the Americans came first.

Although these weapons will be used for aid, but military aid also costs money, and the cabinet will transfer a sum of money from the treasury to NORINCO, although the price is definitely lower, but with production efficiency and technological advantages, the cost of producing these weapons is also surprisingly low. Even at a preferential price, it's ten times the profit.

Arms has always been a lucrative business, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Jensen and the others didn't really expect things to go so smoothly, they only had a few talks with the Tang people, and the Tang people generously took out 2,000 rifles and 20 artillery pieces. Jensen even prepared two gold and silver coins, ready to be used to buy weapons, and now that the weapons don't need money, Jensen even wondered if he could spend money to buy some Tang goods and get them back to New England to sell for a lot of money.

However, he always remembered his mission, although he was a profit-seeking businessman, Jensen knew that the more important thing now was to help the Continental Army win the war, so he asked Bai Nandao again: "Listen to Mr. Bai, your country still has extra weapons, right?" We also brought some money this time, although it is not much, but we hope to be able to use it to buy more equipment for the Continental Army, I don't know what the price of this kind of rifle, if it is sold. ”

Hearing this, Bai Nan has not yet said, on the other side, the people of North Industry have already danced with their eyebrows, military aid of 2,000 rifles, the price is actually very low, although it is already ten times the profit, but some people like to buy weapons in full, that is naturally something that should be welcomed.

Bai Nan looked at several personnel of North Industry who were about to be unable to hold back, so he asked them to speak, and a deputy manager immediately said with a smile: "The market price of the SC-1 rifle is 70 Tang Yuan, and the SC-2 is more expensive, 100 Tang Yuan, if you want to wholesale, we can press the former 56 Tang Yuan, the latter 80 Tang Yuan." A sc1774 artillery gun costs 1500 Tang Yuan, and when all the above weapons are sold, they do not include ammunition, and ammunition is counted separately. ”

As a businessman who is sensitive to monetary units, Jensen already knew what kind of purchasing power Tang Yuan was, and when he heard the quotation of North Industries, he couldn't help but be frightened. These weapons are very good, but the price is also ridiculously expensive, and the gold and silver he brought are only more than 10,000 yuan in exchange for Tang Yuan, and they can't sell too many things.

Dearborn, on the other hand, was shocked by the arrogance of the Tang people, two thousand rifles and twenty guns were an astronomical amount at this price, and the Tang people gave them them without blinking an eye.

John Jay saw Jensen's hesitation, he grabbed Jensen's arm and said, "Buy, you must buy!" When the money is returned to Philadelphia, the Continental Congress will return it to your Mr. Jensen, who now thinks that the Continental Army is buying equipment. An extra hundred rifles is equal to an extra point of strength, and maybe it is the key to deciding a battle! ”

Jensen smiled: "Mr. Jie, I'm not worried about money, I'm already determined to dedicate my family wealth to our independent cause, I'm just entangled in my little money can't buy too many weapons." ”

Dearborn gave a thumbs up to Jensen and said, "Mr. Jensen, you are such a noble man!" ”

In the end, Jensen gritted his teeth and used the money he brought to buy another 100 SC-2 rifles and related ammunition, and even NINCO gave them a thoughtfully explained how to make a simple paper shell cartridge. However, as for the formula of propellant and primer, it is naturally impossible to give them it.

Jensen and others only felt that Datang's weapons were expensive because they were advanced, but they couldn't imagine that the cost of an SC-2 rifle produced on an assembly line was less than 3 Tang yuan. (To be continued.) )