Just when Xiaotian was busy with his glass business, news began to spread one after another on Nanri Island.

Under the accumulation, Yu Xiaotian's various efforts in the early stage have now begun to gradually enter the harvest period, and the first thing to say is that his cannon work, after completing the trial production of the iron fan casting cannon method, has been transferred to normal production.

The advantages of the iron fan casting method are too great, in addition to the casting of the artillery quality is very good, there is also a fast casting speed, not affected by the weather, can be cast at any time, in addition to an important benefit, that is, when casting the artillery with the iron fan casting method, the rejection rate is very low, I dare not say that each is a qualified product, but at least the casting pass rate exceeds more than 70 percent, if the craftsmen are more skilled, more careful, it can even reach more than 90 percent.

This is unique in the casting industry in this era, and the general good casting craftsmen can control the yield rate at about fifty percent, which is very clever.

In this way, after the raw materials were guaranteed, the iron furnace of the gunning basically did not stop, and the iron was constantly fed and produced, and in order to improve the speed, the Lei blacksmith cast an additional set of iron fans, and the two sets of iron models were used alternately, and a six-pounder cannon could be cast in almost three days.

In this way, from the year before the year to the year after the year, in just three months, more than 20 six-pounder guns were cast, which greatly alleviated the shortage of artillery on the Seawolf ship, and also greatly enhanced the firepower of the Seawolf ship.

Even if the government sends a small number of sailors to attack Nanri Island now, they will still have the ability to fight against it.

The second good news is that the blacksmith's iron work came out, after the blacksmith Zhang created the first usable gun pipe a year ago, he began to continue to explore the method of building the gun pipe, re-transformed the previous tooling, and re-modified the process, and created several gun pipes one after another after the year, and successfully reduced the waste rate of the gun pipe to less than fifty percent, basically building two gun pipes, you can produce a usable finished product.

In addition, according to the sketch of the flintlock firing mechanism given to him by Yu Xiaotian, Zhang Blacksmith also tried to build several sets of flintlock firing mechanisms, and found flint to install on the flintlock mechanism, assembled it with the gun, and conducted a test firing.

However, in the past two months, the firing rate of these newly built flintlock devices has not been high, and even the firing rate of 40% has not been reached.

In addition to the flaws in the design of the blacksmith, it also has a lot to do with the material, the most important thing in the flintlock mechanism is the reed, the reed must have enough toughness and elasticity, in order to ensure that the flint can be forcefully hit at the fire door, knock out the primer in the fire door to ignite the spark, and successfully fire the fire gun.

Therefore, just to solve the problem of elasticity and toughness of reeds, Zhang Blacksmith tossed hundreds of pairs of reeds, and finally made usable reeds, and determined the process of making reeds.

By the end of February of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the first available flintlock device had finally reached the level of practicality, increasing the firing rate of the flintlock device to seventy percent, that is, more than seventy percent.

Although this firing rate is not very satisfactory to Yu Xiaotian, but he also knows that it is not easy to achieve this firing rate, even in the era of Western countries equipped with a large number of flintlock pistols, they have not completely solved this problem, the firing rate of flintlock pistols has always hovered between seventy and eighty percent, and even after the invention of the fire cap, switching to the fire cap firing pistol can only increase the firing rate to about ninety, and dare not ensure that every shot can be effectively fired.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian could only express his satisfaction that Blacksmith Zhang was able to increase the firing rate of the flintlock device to about seventy percent in a few months, so he preliminarily finalized this flintlock device, combined with the built gun, called it the Nanri one-style flintlock pistol, and began to let Blacksmith Zhang lead people into production.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also told Blacksmith Zhang a good way, that is, to divide the labor to be responsible for the assembly line operation, and give each of the apprentices he brought to them a part to build, so that he can be responsible for building this kind of part full-time, and finally assemble the parts into a flintlock pistol.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also modified the abduction-type butt used by the original bird, and made it into a butt like a rifle in later generations, so that it has the function of firing against the shoulder, so that the gun holder can use the butt against the shoulder, there is a stable support point, which can effectively improve the shooting accuracy.

The finalization of the Nanri type flintlock pistol is undoubtedly a super good news for Xiaotian, which is basically equivalent to the iron fan cast cannon.

Because flintlock pistols, although sometimes they may not fire as well as arquebuses, most of the time, the advantages are far greater than those of arquebuses.

The arquebus is very affected by the weather, the weather is too humid, or it rains, or if it is a windy day, the arquebus basically has no way to use it effectively, and the soldiers equipped with the arquebus, when they encounter such weather, it is basically equivalent to a burning stick, and when facing the enemy with a cold weapon, what awaits them is basically the fate of being slaughtered.

In addition, although the arquebus loading step is only one more than the flintlock pistol, igniting the arquebus, which is stuck on the faucet of the firing device, but this process is enough to decide the fate of many people, the musketeer must always keep the arquebus can not be extinguished before firing, and it is slightly better to stand and wait for the fire, but once you have to walk, while ready to fire at any time, it is difficult for those arquebus musketeers.

The musketeers had to walk with their cheeks carefully puffed out and blow the arquebus, not to let the fire go out, or else they would have to re-light the arquebus, and if they could not light the arquebus in time, it would be fatal, and the arquebus in their hands would become a burning stick, and they could only wait to be stabbed.

It is said that in the forty-sixth year of Wanli in Liaodong, a battle related to the fate of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army was finally defeated and lost There are certain such factors, the Ming army is equipped with a large number of firearms, three-eyed guns, bird guns, and abduction guns are very high, and the technique is far more than the Dongyu Tartars who were completely cold weapons at that time, but because of the weather, the Ming army could not effectively play the advantage of firepower, so it also affected the process of the battle after the most Lu.

The flintlock pistol can effectively avoid the occurrence of this situation, although when it rains, it will also affect the fire of the flintlock pistol, but at least it also has a certain ability to fire, so that it can maintain a certain combat effectiveness, in addition to the fire door with a cover, after filling the primer, you can cover the lid to ensure that the primer will not be blown off by the wind, so that it causes blind fire.

In addition, the flintlock pistol eliminates the need to ignite the arquebus, and the installation of the arquebus, after only loading the ammunition and primer, you only need to pull the hammer stuck with the flint, and make all the preparations before firing, once you need to fire, you can immediately aim, pull the trigger and shoot at the target.

In this way, the flintlock pistol can be used in a climate, which greatly exceeds the range of use of the arquebus, and to a large extent ensures that the musketeer can effectively fire in many cases.

It is also very, very important that if the arquebus is used at night, it must be ignited in advance, so that the position of the enemy with the arquebus can be detected at night, making it impossible to carry out any kind of surprise attack.

But the flintlock pistol does not need to be ignited in advance, which avoids the user being detected by the enemy in advance, and it becomes possible to ambush the enemy at night.

What kind of confusion can be caused by such a situation, the command is already ineffective at night, and once it is suddenly attacked, sometimes a few musketeers can defeat the enemy who exceeds them by more than ten times or even dozens of times, and this advantage is self-evident.

The flintlock pistol is only a reduction in such a step, which seems to only make the cumbersome musket loading a little simplified, but the benefits obtained are so great that it can be said to be of epoch-making significance, which is why when the flintlock pistol was put into the battlefield, it replaced the original arquebus very quickly!

At the same time, Yu Xiaotian secretly rejoiced that when the flintlock spear was manufactured, it also made it possible to make a flintlock lance that could be carried around in the next step.

Think about it, if he has two or more flintlock pistols in his head and waist, it would be more in line with his identity! Thinking of this, he was about to be able to get a real short gun, and Yu Xiaotian showed a lewd and smile on his face.

However, there is one thing that does not satisfy Yu Xiaotian, that is, making guns is more laborious than making cannons, he has limited craftsmen on hand, and at best it is only a small workshop-style production, even if he can produce this kind of flintlock pistol, the output is so low that people are a little desperate.

Yu Xiaotian wants to increase the output, but to increase the output requires a lot of labor, he doesn't have to think about mechanized production at all, except for finding a way to increase manpower, he has no more and better ways.

At the current rate of production, even if he adopts the method of division of labor and cooperation in the production of this Nanri type flintlock pistol, his current iron work can only produce two or three pieces a month, which is considered good, and at the same time he has to make other iron tools, which has a greater impact on the production speed of this flintlock pistol.

After Yu Xiaotian thought about it for a while, he simply turned all the iron work of Zhang Blacksmith into a full-time production of flintlock pistols, and the creation of other iron tools was temporarily transferred to the iron work of Chuanliao for production.

In addition, he asked his subordinates to think of more ways to go on land, inquire about some local blacksmiths, whether it is a heavy bribe or a forced kidnapping, and try to get more blacksmiths for Nanri Island, the number is not limited, the more the merrier, anyway, they bear the name of thieves, if they only do law-abiding things, then they can no longer be called pirates.

In addition to these two good news, the black head also returned to Nanri Island from Taiwan with two boats after the year.

(Unlucky, I started to have a fever again last afternoon!) If I went to check it again, it was still a viral flu, why was it so unlucky! I've never had such a difficult cold! It hurts! Still stick to the code word, sad! Today, I would like to thank every friend in Kashgar for their generous rewards! Your support is the driving force of my codeword! Thanks for helping! ）