Chapter 19 Preparing for the Modernization of the Army
[[[CP|W:384|H:257|A:C|U:http://file2.biquge.info/chapters/20143/10/3101220635300785636128750672800.jpg]]]] Li Jiancheng looked at the bird gun for a while, and said with a smile at the corner of his mouth: "Then try the gun, come and give me a shot to see the power!" ”
Fu Mingde listened to the emperor's words and nodded quickly and ordered a guard to bring gunpowder and projectiles, the Ming Dynasty bird gun is also the famous arquebus, this firearm from the Ming Dynasty was actually used by the Chinese to the Republic of China period, but overseas in 1578 the arquebus was replaced by the revolver, it can be seen that even now the Ming Dynasty's firearms have greatly lagged behind foreign countries, and the biggest failure in Chinese literary thought is to stifle the creative spirit and imagination of the entire famous nation.
Napoleon said it well, it is imagination that rules the world! A famous people without imagination is also a famous people without a future.
The guards prepared the gunpowder and projectiles to test the gun, Wang An hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, let's stay away, this barrel is easy to explode, it is very dangerous, and please take the dragon's body as the priority!" ”
Li Jiancheng frowned, blowing up! In this way, this barrel is not as good as you imagined! Li Jiancheng nodded and stepped back, and when Li Jiancheng retreated, the guard was busy filling the gunpowder, which probably took nearly a minute and a half, and then pulled the fire rope and lit it before he raised the gun and could shoot, 'bang', I saw a huge white smoke rising next to the guard, and the projectile ejected from the eye and hit the wall more than two hundred steps away, Li Jianchen scratched his head, this is the legendary arquebus, Li Jiancheng was so disappointed!
Not to mention anything else, just the distance of at least 15 crosshairs after the projectile came out of the chamber was enough to make Li Jiancheng speechless, and there was a large area of smoke, didn't the gunman become blind after this shot came out? This can also be used as a musket!
After Fu Mingde tried the gun, he ran to Li Jiancheng to flatter, and he said: "Your Majesty, this is the power of the musket, Your Majesty is still satisfied?" ”
Fu Mingde thought that the emperor would be satisfied when he saw this, in his impression, ordinary people look at the fire gun is completely to see a formation, grab a sound, a burst of smoke, the projectile is a burst of applause, the sound of the musket alone shocked people, but who is he Li Jiancheng, that is the progress of the 21st century growing up under the modern screen, what kind of weapon has not been seen in the American blockbuster, this shotgun exploded in Li Jiancheng's opinion, isn't this a firecracker that set off a 'black spider'?
Li Jiancheng shook his head and said: "The power of your gun is not good, the accuracy is not good, the gunpowder is not good, I heard that it is easy to explode, even the quality is not good, let alone its mobility, I have seen the structure of this bird system, this weapon is transported from the capital to the border pass at least three layers can not be fired, if there is some rainy weather, this weapon is completely useless, even the burning stick is not as good as you tell me how I feel!" ”
When Fu Mingde heard this, he immediately knelt down with a sweat on his head and said: "It's the villain who is generous, it's the villain who deserves to die, please forgive the emperor!" ”
Li Jiancheng said: "You get up, you can't be blamed for this, you tell me how many of my Ming army are equipped with this kind of bird!" ”
Fu Mingde stood up in a trembling battle, he didn't dare to talk nonsense with the emperor's mind, this emperor seemed to be funny, but he understood everything in his heart, and he said the disadvantages of this musket in a few words, not to mention that Fu Mingde thought like this at this time, even Wang An was shaken by the emperor's mind again, and the emperor could see the effect of a weapon in actual combat from a little bit of structural problems, and this kind of vision made Wang An admire anyway.
"Back to the emperor, I have about 10,000 troops equipped with this arquebus!" Fu Mingde to.
Li Jiancheng was a little surprised when he heard this: "Oh, there are so many 10,000 people, what kind of troops are they, and when were these guns made!" ”
Fu Mingde said: "Your Majesty's guns were all made in the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, at that time it was 10,000, and the number that was damaged and replenished later has not exceeded this number, and the troops equipped with it are all local troops in various places except for the firearms battalion of the Beijing Division, but the scale is not as large as the firearms battalion." ”
Li Jiancheng nodded, Jiajing 37 years, that was about 1558, and it has been 60 years now, even if this batch of firearms has been supplementing Li Jiancheng, it is estimated that with the connotation between officials in the Ming Dynasty, half of this gun can still be fired to burn high incense, which is not counting the explosion. Li Jiancheng said: "You take me to see the workshop that makes guns, and in addition, you can find all the people who can make gunpowder here, but you can go to the firearms camp to find it, and everyone who can make gunpowder and know how to make explosions will be found by me, the more people, the better!" Do you understand? ”
Fu Mingde was stunned for a moment and hurriedly said yes, but Wang An was a little incomprehensible, this was the third group of people Li Jiancheng was looking for, and he didn't know what Li Jiancheng was going to do at all. This is a failure as a slave who follows the emperor and does not know the intentions of the emperor at all, but who called his master a person from the 21st century, if he wants to understand Li Jiancheng's thoughts, I am afraid that he will have to go to the 21st century to study well.
Li Jiancheng went to see the workshop where the gun was made mainly to see how their barrels were made, and in the workshop, Li Jiancheng learned that making a gun barrel is about two steps, the first step is to make the barrel. Prepare a steel core of a cylinder about 30 centimeters long and about 7 millimeters in diameter to make cold bones, first burn the wrought iron to make the pipe until it is red-hot, and then the craftsman takes out the blank that has been burned to a certain temperature, knocks the hot wrought iron outside the steel core with a hammer, and rolls it into an iron pipe. And in the process of cladding iron, the steel core is constantly extracted and cooled with water to prevent the steel core and wrought iron from being welded together. The thickness of the rolled iron pipe should also be about one centimeter. In this way, the gun tube is strong and can withstand more than a dozen consecutive launches.
The second step is welding. Because the long guns of more than three feet are welded in sections, so the guns that are not well welded are easy to be fried, and the craftsmen regard whether the seamless guns are welded as the key to the success or failure of the guns. Li Jiancheng didn't expect that there was welding in the Ming Dynasty, which surprised him, their welding is probably like this, first make the first step of the iron pipe and then put it in the furnace to burn to incandesmine, and also prepare a steel core, the thickness is the same as above, and the length should be longer than the length of the chenggong. Then the iron pipe that has been burned to red and bright is sleeved on the steel core, and the iron pipe interface is vigorously smashed into one by the master craftsman, and at the same time of welding the iron pipe, the auxiliary hammer hand also sprinkles white copper powder on the welding mouth of the iron pipe, and the copper has an affinity effect, which can make the welding mouth stronger, and not to leave a fault or virtual welding. The steel core should also be extracted and cooled at any time, and the iron pipe should be heated while cooling the steel core. The last iron pipe is the prototype of the gun pipe.
The welding of the Ming Dynasty was so primitive, Li Jiancheng was stunned, no wonder the barrel of the gun would explode, but it was almost the same, it basically met Li Jiancheng's needs, and such a process was enough to make a primitive trigger, Li Jiancheng said with a sinister smile.
That's right, Li Jiancheng's purpose is to engage in copper-shelled bullets, firing pin triggers, and modern guns! He won't do what flintlock pistols do flintstone lighters to let the gun culture slowly evolve, that hurts!
How hard is the process of bullets? How difficult is it to make a firing pin trigger? This hardly requires any detailed data, and anyone who knows a little bit of mechanics is sure that it is not a problem. You can understand the principle just by looking at the drawings! The only problem with bullets is the manufacture of bullet casings, but is it really difficult? Li Jiancheng came up with a problem that could be completely solved with a hydraulic press, or even without a hydraulic press at all, and with a manual roller.
So the only problem may be the copper needed to make bullets, copper was used as currency in this period, so copper is very expensive, and basically all of the only copper in the Ming Dynasty was used as money, which is not enough. But it doesn't matter, Li Jiancheng, who has a large number of books on modern society, has a solution, not to mention anything else, just the mineral deposits in various places explored by modern society, which is enough for him to benefit immensely.
With these materials, Li Jiancheng was not prepared to engage in any flintlock pistols, and he directly wanted to skip these stages to engage in copper-shelled bullets and modern military weapons. Although even at this stage, modern military weapons cannot be raised in scale or combat effectiveness, but it doesn't matter, Li Jiancheng still has a lot of time, and he can use it to polish this army in three or five years! In the case of three or five years, Li Jiancheng, as an emperor, still has so much technical knowledge, Li Jiancheng does not believe that he can't pull a team in World War I.
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