When the Seawolf gun is made to build the barrel, it is not that the barrel is built and the assembly starts directly, it must go through a live ammunition test to check whether the seam of the barrel forging and the barrel can withstand the pressure of the gun, and the barrel must be stuck on a fixed table, and the test shot is carried out twice to ensure that there will be no unqualified barrel to be assembled and sent to the soldiers.

When conducting the test, it is necessary to check the shooting accuracy of the barrel by the way, aim at a wooden target 30 paces away on the fixed table and fire, select the barrel with the best shooting accuracy, store it separately and assemble it into a gun with high accuracy, mark it, and distribute it to the top shooters in the army for use, so as to improve the efficiency of the musket.

These measures have greatly ensured that the muskets produced by the sea wolf's guns will not easily explode in use, so that the sea wolf people can rest assured when using them, so as to avoid the sea wolf people being afraid of using the muskets, and in addition, the precision of the muskets handed over to the people who are good at using them can play a greater role in wartime.

The barrel of the rifling that Blacksmith Zhang chose this time was a barrel that had already passed the inspection, so there was no need for another inspection, and after installing the screw plug directly in the back, it was assembled into a finished flintlock pistol.

However, on the surface, this flintlock pistol is no different from a normal flintlock pistol, except that there are four left-handed rifling wires in the chamber.

While Blacksmith Zhang was assembling the new gun, Yu Xiaotian was also busy preparing ammunition for the new gun.

When rifled guns were first manufactured, although they had the advantages of long range and shooting accuracy far exceeding that of smoothbore guns, they were not popularized in the initial stage, and the most critical problem was that they could not effectively solve the problem of difficult reloading.

The projectile of the rifled gun, no matter what the shape, must be slightly larger than the diameter of the bore, in order to insert the projectile into the rifling, to hold the breath and to rotate the projectile when firing, improve the stability of the projectile when flying in the air, improve the accuracy and range.

However, this makes it very difficult and embarrassing for the user to reload the projectile, and if there is a blind fire, the user is basically unable to dig the projectile out of the barrel in a short time on the battlefield, so that the gun in the user's hand becomes a burning stick.

Therefore, for a long time after the rifled gun was invented, this gun has never been able to replace the dominance of the smoothbore gun in the army, and this gun has increased the production time and cost greatly after the process of drawing rifling, which is even more unpopular.

It was not until the middle of the nineteenth century that the Frenchman Minne invented the Mineer bullet to solve the problem of projectile loading, and the army that tried this gun achieved an unimaginable victory on the battlefield against the enemy who tried the smoothbore gun, which made the rifled gun begin to be valued by all countries, and gradually replaced the dominance of the smoothbore gun in the army, becoming the most effective weapon in the hands of infantry.

And these problems are not a problem for Xiaotian, he has already begun to prepare, and as soon as the rifled gun is successfully produced, he will start to produce Minne bullets.

Yu Xiaotian had already made a plan, and once the rifled gun was successfully trial-produced, he changed the shape of the projectile of the gun from a round to a columnar conical warhead.

The mass of such a projectile is increased by two to three times compared with a round bullet of the same caliber, so that its penetration can be increased by several times, the firing range will also be increased by several times, and the accuracy will greatly exceed that of a circular warhead.

The key to the Minne bullet is in the tail, the diameter of the Mine bullet itself is not thicker than the inner diameter of the chamber, but slightly smaller than the chamber, so that the Igne bullet can be easily loaded into the chamber and sent to the bottom of the chamber, and its tail is hollow shaped, loaded with a cork, with the bullet loaded into the chamber.

When the gunpowder is detonated, the cork expands under force in an instant, stretches the tail of the bullet, exceeds the caliber of the rifle, and firmly inserts the bullet into the rifling, which effectively plays the role of holding air, and at the same time, it also makes the bullet start to rotate when it flies out of the chamber, so as to completely solve the problem that the rifled gun warhead is not easy to load into the chamber.

For the time being, you only need to make a mold, melt the lead water and cast it, drill a part of the tail and insert a cork, and it can be made.

It will be a little more troublesome and expensive to produce for the time being, but once you start to manufacture in large quantities, you can design a set of molds and make them in batches, and then you can reduce the cost and greatly increase the output, which will not be much more laborious than making a round projectile.

For making a small amount of this projectile, as long as Yu Xiaotian instructs, the craftsman will naturally quickly get it out, and after measuring it with a standard caliper made by the sea wolf, it can be used completely.

So Yu Xiaotian rushed to the shooting range with these dozens of newly made Minne bombs.

The three brand-new flintlock rifles had been assembled at this time and transported to the shooting range, and Meng Fei, Fang An and others were also invited to the shooting range to watch the effect of the test guns.

Everyone gathered in the shooting range, this shooting range is the new battalion's special shooting range, covering a large area, in the north of the shooting range, there is a dirt mountain, can prevent the projectile from flying out of the shooting range, causing accidental injury to uninformed people, and there are no idle people around the shooting range to enter, and there are special mobile posts to patrol.

Meng Fei went to the upper logging site a few days ago, and with a group of soldiers, he conducted a jungle warfare training in the mountains and forests on the pretext of retaliating for attacking and disturbing the natives of the logging site.

And this guy got a few dogs from somewhere, the training is quite good, very obedient, let them sit and sit, let them stand and stand, let them bite, they bite, the best thing is that these dogs don't like to bark and bark, they are very quiet.

Yu Xiaotian liked it very much after seeing it, so he asked Meng Fei how these dogs came from, and Meng Fei then told Yu Xiaotian that he had two guys under him, who used to be hunters on land, and they would train dogs, so he got a few good dogs and let them train, and found that the trained dogs were very useful in the jungle.

These dogs have a good sense of smell and are scary, tracking the enemy in the forest, it is very convenient, much faster than searching for the enemy's traces in the forest, these dogs have helped them recently, caught a lot of natives in the forest, and captured a lot of prey, the next step he plans to get more dogs, train and train, and become their good helper in the jungle in the future.

When Yu Xiaotian heard this, he was immediately happy, isn't this a military dog? Although these dogs are native to China, but these dogs are not necessarily bad, they are also very smart, the sense of smell is very sensitive, some dogs are quite large, quite fierce, not worse than the common German black back in later generations, as long as you are good at training, you can still use it as a military dog.

And in the jungle with the help of this thing, it can be said that it is half the effort, compared to relying on manpower to search for the enemy, it is much faster, as long as they smell it, the enemy basically has no way to run, and if there is a small group of natives who dare to attack the territory of the sea wolf, there are these military dogs, there will definitely be no place for them to escape.

So Yu Xiaotian immediately affirmed Meng Fei's approach, and ordered the two soldiers who were good at dog training to be singled out and used as dog trainers alone, and also gave the two of them meritorious service and rewarded silver, this kind of precious talent must be rewarded, and it must be reused in the future, and it must be properly protected, Taiwan Island is full of mountains and forests, and military dogs are too useful for them.

Fang An, Meng Fei, Liu Tong and others didn't know what Yu Xiaotian wanted them to do at the shooting range today, after seeing the three flintlock pistols sent, they were also a little strange, picked up these three guns, looked carefully, and did not find that these three guns were different from the Nan Japanese style flintlock rifles they were equipped with, at most, these three guns had a little change in the details, the operation seemed to be more comfortable, the machine was more sensitive, and there was also an additional safety device to prevent soldiers from being too nervous when they were about to fight, causing accidental misfire, only when the gun is aiming, the safety is opened, so that the fire can be carried out, but other than that, it seems that there is no big novelty.

So they all asked Yu Xiaotian, what did they come to see this time, this gun is nothing too new!

Yu Xiaotian pretended to be mysterious and smiled: "It's different for a while, you will know the Tao, and letting you come today is to let you see for a long time!" Wait a while, you'll know how powerful these three guns are! Liu Wang, your marksmanship is good, you try it first! ”

When Liu Wang heard this, he immediately stepped forward and took a gun, took a bamboo tube for gunpowder, bit off the plug, loaded the gunpowder into the chamber, and then took out a Minie bullet from the side, loaded it into the muzzle, and used a strip to send the Minie bullet into the chamber, and gently pounded it a few times to compact the ammunition.

Then he put the butt of the gun under his armpit, took out the ignition powder and opened the fire door cover, poured the ignition powder into the fire door, pressed it with his thumb, covered the fire door, completed the loading action, clicked open the nose stuck with the flint, and was ready to fire, all the movements were very skillful, but there was no difference from the ordinary flintlock operation.

At this time, everyone found out that the gun that Liu Wang took out was not the round gun they usually used, but a cylindrical round-headed projectile made of lead, so Meng Fei took a Mine bullet and muttered, "Can this thing also work?" It seems to be a lot heavier than the average gun! Isn't that far away?

Big boss, our flintlock pistol can't shoot far in the first place, can it be done with this kind of gun? If you can only take twenty or thirty steps, wouldn't it be a big trouble? ”

(It's really been a chrysanthemum all the way!) It's already more than fifty! I can't do it, my ass hurts! ）