Chapter 36: Fully armed
"Dashuai, the inventory has come out, a total of five hundred muskets, all of them are self-generated muskets, according to the confession of the red-haired ghost, it was not ordered by the Tartar Emperor, but Shi Lin, the governor of Liangguang, after knowing that you injured the Tartar Emperor, bought it to show his loyalty, because he knew that he couldn't pass us by sea, and it took too long to take the land route, so he simply let the red-haired ghost deliver it to the door."
Lao Chen said, carrying a flintlock pistol.
At this time, Kang Mazi also had a flintlock pistol in his hand, that is, the self-generated musket that appeared in the Ming Dynasty, but it was not for the army, but for the imperial camp in Beijing.
"Are there any bullets?"
Yang Feng asked.
"No, only guns, nothing else."
Lao Chen said.
"I'll just say, they can't even take out paper bullets."
Yang Feng said with a smile.
"Send all the muskets into the Shuaifu, this kind of thing is too bad, I have to renovate them, and besides, you get all our craftsmen who make guns, bullets and gunpowder, and I have to let them learn to make a new bullet."
Then he added.
As for the new bullets, of course, they are his Mini bullets and paper shell bullets, the latter is actually just a package of quantitative gunpowder and projectiles, which is not difficult to manufacture, and the real trouble is the Mini bullet and the matching barrel rifling.
Fortunately, this is also very simple, after introducing the principle of paper shell bullets to his craftsmen and asking them to go down to prepare materials, Yang Feng immediately dismantled a few barrels, and then opened the window in the study, just as Lin Qian was working in front of the computer, he immediately took out a locked telephone, and then threw the other end of the telephone line to Lin Qian, who connected to a telephone on her side, and a time-space dialogue channel was established.
"What do you want to do?"
Lin Qian looked at the wrought iron pipe that Yang Feng threw in front of him speechlessly and said.
"Pick out the rifling for me, and then get me a batch of bayonets, which don't need the bayonets of modern rifles, just search for the kind of Vauban that the earliest French used on flintlock muskets, and make me a batch of mini bullets with rifling."
Yang Feng said.
"How do you clean all this? And it's a wrought iron pipe, so you can't replace it with a steel pipe? ”
Lin Qian said speechlessly.
"My enemy is only worthy of being dealt with with rags, but you said that it would be good to change the steel pipe, so just change it to a steel pipe for me, make 10,000 sets first, and then say, the speed should be faster, as for the Mini bullet, how can you make a million 100,000 pieces, anyway, it is a small lead pellet, and it must have nothing to do with bullets in your place."
Yang Feng said.
"Okay!"
Lin Qian readily agreed, anyway, just like Yang Feng said, this thing is not a weapon in them, it is nothing more than a few steel pipes with wires on the inner wall, some worthless lead beans, that is, the bayonet is not easy to explain, but it is indeed illegal for them to make guns and cannons without permission, but it is not a law at all to make knives, not to mention the spear stabbing of knives, she will not be cared for even if she makes the Qinglong Yanyue Knife.
Even when Tuo Linqian was foundry, Yang Feng didn't stop on his side.
He is not in a hurry for other things here, the key is the paper shell bullet, fortunately, this thing is simple, oiled thick paper, gunpowder are not worth mentioning, his current gunpowder production except charcoal is here, and other soil nitrate, that is, potassium nitrate and sulfur, are all purchased from Lin Qian. As for how to manufacture it, there are also craftsmen here, and even he even set up a special Ming royal weapons factory, and circled a house where the original flag man was clothed in the mountains near Zhoushan, and gathered all the relevant local craftsmen to make all kinds of weapons for him.
And it has been divided into several departments.
The main work of the Artillery Casting Department at present is to cast the twelve-pounder army cannon from the copper given to him by the Japanese people, and cast it directly in brass, the style is modeled after the one used in the American Civil War, including the gun carriage is also being manufactured, but it also has to wait for the boring machine. This boring machine can be said to have become a symbol of his industrial start, itself is not complicated, the key is to build a dam first, otherwise it is difficult for the local stream in Zhoushan to provide enough power, and now a large number of people are busy on the construction site!
The gun department, this is actually only repairing some arquebuses at present, and the next step Yang Feng's requirement for them is to make two rifling wires in the barrel by themselves, no matter what method is used, even if it is etched, it must be made, although Lin Qian can send him a steady stream of better ones, but the technology is still more reliable to master step by step.
The Ministry of Ammunition, this department is currently the most intense production, the main work is to cast flowering bullets and produce gunpowder, and then to manufacture paper shell bullets, this work is easy to do, it is possible to hire a large number of ordinary migrant workers and even female workers to roll paper tubes, weigh gunpowder, and wrap it up like candy, this is a paper shell bullet, Mini bullets can be divided into packs, and this bullet can also be cast by itself, in short, this department will be the busiest next.
There is also the cold weapons and armor department, the main work of this department is to make bayonets and sabers, of course, it will not be made of wrought iron, and now there are steel knives.
As for the armor, it didn't make much sense to do it, but Yang Feng still decided to equip his army, mainly for the image, after all, the common people don't know what modern military is, they can tell whether an army is strong or not, and the most intuitive thing is whether the armor is bright enough. Since this is the case, then give them the brightest, all army soldiers have a plate cuirasse, and they don't use that kind of wrought iron armor, they just go to nickel steel, and ask Lin Qian to order a batch of one-millimeter nickel steel plates, the density of this thing is not much higher than that of wrought iron, but the hardness is definitely not a level, one millimeter thickness is enough, and modern bullets can't stop lead and iron sand?
It is stamped and polished according to several fixed specifications on her side, and then brought here to make the lining, and then some additional decorations, including helmets, are also used in this way, anyway, this is just a steel plate for her to press into the press and come out.
This set is definitely enough to brighten up the armor.
Imagine your own army in the future wearing a red robe, a plate cuirass, a richly decorated silver helmet, and a flintlock rifled gun with a bayonet on the shoulder, the bayonet is absolutely dazzling enough, and they are definitely muddy legs compared to the Qing soldiers wearing cotton armor, and this year is also playing eyeball economy, for ordinary people, such a heavenly soldier and the return of the Ming army is obviously enough to excite them.
Soon, Lin Qian's side processed the first batch of barrels, bayonets and bullets.
This is too simple for her, the round steel car is just picking wires in the outer diameter of the bore, and the bayonet is also forged with alloy steel, and then quenched and welded to the steel casing.
After getting the first batch of goods, Yang Feng quickly re-assembled his rifle, and at the same time, his craftsmen also made the first batch of paper shell bullets for him, and then Yang Dashuai personally tested the gun. I saw that he took a rifle and bit the bullet, first poured it into the ignition powder pool, then took out a bullet wrapped in flannel and loaded it from the front, and then took a special strip to compact, and then raised the gun to aim at the humanoid target 100 meters away and pulled the trigger, and in the thick smoke of the black powder spray from the muzzle, the bullet instantly flew out of the target.
There was an immediate scream behind him.
It was clear that the rifle was more accurate than his subordinates had imagined.
In fact, the muskets of these years could not be hit from a distance of dozens of meters, otherwise they would not have come up with such a terrible tactic of lining up to shoot, it was purely forced, since they could not hit the target, then everyone simply stood in a row next to each other and fired, anyway, even if the bullet missed the side, there were people who were hit, and it was almost unimaginable to hit accurately at a distance of 100 meters like this.
Yang Feng completed the second round of loading at the fastest speed and then fired the second time, a similar humanoid target one hundred and fifty meters away was hit instantly, in the exclamation, he quickly completed the third round of reloading, and then the humanoid target two hundred meters away was also hit, and at this time the time he consumed was only a little more than a minute, of course, this is the rate of fire in training, but considering that he only learned from the movie for a few days to reach this level, then it is estimated that there is no problem for a well-trained soldier to reach the speed of three rounds a minute on the battlefield.
This rifle was already a mortal threat to the cavalry, and he set the target as far as 200 meters just to demonstrate accuracy, but in fact the effective range of this rifle was close to 500 meters.
At a distance of 500 meters, even if the cavalry charges at full speed, it has to run for forty seconds, which is enough for one soldier to complete two shots, and a thousand soldiers can shoot at least two thousand bullets, even if a quarter hits a person or a war horse, that can also make five hundred cavalry useless, not taking into account the resulting self-trampling casualties. It can be said that on the battlefield, a thousand such infantry are completely capable of fighting a thousand Qing cavalry, after all, the latter's bow and arrow can only shoot accurately at a distance of a few tens of meters, and there is no pressure on Mini bullets.
If these 1,000 men are equipped with cannons and flowering shells, then these 1,000 cavalry will fail miserably.
At this time, Yang Feng was a little considerate of the defeat of Monk Greenqin at Bali Bridge, and his less than 10,000 ancient cavalry rushed to the opposite side of the 8,000 British and French army, if he was not defeated, it would be really unreasonable.
Well, don't say he still has tens of thousands of troops, you know why.
However, it is useless to solve the problem of light guns, his soldiers still have to be trained, and only now that his army has just walked the right steps can barely be seen!
"Go, send it to the brothers, tell them to train hard, and when they train well, I will take them to Beijing!"
Yang Feng threw the gun to Lao Chen and said.