"Sir! We made a revolver sample, could you please check it? Deng Qiang and Deng Shan happily appeared in front of Deng Zixuan. Have you checked your guns? "Sir, we want to give you this surprise." Deng Shan Road. The three of them entered the basement shooting range, which was about 50 meters long, and set up an underground shooting range so that Shiyan would not be discovered by outsiders when he shot a bullet. Two gunners waited in the basement, specially selected from among the cadets and both of whom were capable of accurate marksmanship.

Deng Zixuan handed the revolver to a gun examiner and said, "Finish all 6 rounds and see how the effect is?" The gun examiner expertly loaded the bullets, then raised the gun to aim at the target on the opposite wall, and then fired six rounds in succession, seemingly smoothly without jamming. Deng Zixuan asked: "How do you feel, is there a difference compared to foreign guns?" "Lord, there's not much difference, it's just that the recoil is greater."

This kung fu Deng Qiang and Deng Shan walked back dejectedly, and Deng Zixuan immediately guessed that there was a problem with the bullet point. "Sir, all 6 bullets have a 10-centimeter impact point to the left." Deng Zixuan said with a smile: "It should be said that it is good, it is very remarkable to be able to shoot without exploding the bore and jamming." Don't be angry, you two, find out why. In the afternoon I worked with the ammunition team, and in the evening we worked together to find out why. ”

In the workshop, Deng Bing and Deng Wu were wearing greasy overalls, and they were operating in person with dirty faces. There were a few mechanics next to him. Deng Zixuan walked into the workshop and couldn't help but sigh when he saw everyone's busy figures. At present, in the Qing Dynasty, everything has to start from scratch, there are no professional jishu personnel, there are no skilled technicians, even if you draw a scoop according to the gourd, the actual operation of seemingly simple things is not a thing at all.

"Mister is here!" Deng Bing and Deng Wu greeted each other, and the technicians next to them also saluted. Deng Zixuan motioned for them to continue the operation, and after a while, the two of them took the stamping haode shell down the machine. "Sir, this is a cartridge case made for a revolver!" "Sir! This is a bullet casing made by our own hands! Seeing the faces of the two of them, Deng Zixuan suddenly realized whether there was a disconnect between them, and if they did their own thing, it would inevitably affect the accuracy.

"Did you two communicate with Deng Qiang?" "We process it according to the drawings, and there will be no mistakes." Deng Bing is full of confidence. "You measure the caliber of the shell carefully, and then give me the data." In the evening, Deng Zixuan came to Deng Qiang and Deng Shan's room, the table was full of revolver parts, and the two of them searched for the cause after an afternoon, but they did not find what the problem was. Seeing Deng Zixuan come in, the two hurriedly stood up, with a depressed expression on their faces.

Deng Zixuan said: "I went to the bomb-making team in the afternoon, I see that the problem is on the bullet, this is the data of the caliber of the bullet I took, you two measure it." The two hurriedly moved. A few minutes later, Deng Qiang said worriedly: "Sir, the problem is in the caliber of the bullet, which is a little bit worse." "How much is a little bit?" Deng Zixuan pulled up his face.

Seeing the nervous appearance of the two, Deng Zixuan softened his tone and said: "Even a small gap will cause failure, and it is not surprising that the accuracy will decrease." I have often warned you that science must not be false or slack. In the next step, you should communicate and cooperate closely with each other, and don't think that everything will be all right according to the drawings. Firearms manufacturing in particular is a sophisticated thing. "We have taken the words of the gentleman to heart.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with processing according to the drawings, but the current jishu level is far behind. Standardized work is easy to say, but in fact it is a thousand miles away. Deng Zixuan looked at the man-made steel ruler on the table, and suddenly thought of the caliper. Calipers mean weishenme, which means that the precision of manufacturing will be revolutionized. Thinking of this, Deng Zixuan said excitedly: "Find me paper and pen!" Deng Bing and Deng Wu looked for paper and pen in confusion.

After a while, Deng Zixuan sketched the pattern of the calipers in his memory on the drawings. "What is this?" Deng Qiang asked. "Looks like a plier!" Deng Shan said confusedly. "This is a vernier caliper, which has a scale on the top and a slide on the bottom, both the energy outer diameter and the energy inner diameter, especially the inner diameter of the pipe." "Sir, I learned that using this caliper can greatly improve accuracy!" Deng Qiang reacted quickly.

"The two of you put down your work first, go to Wang Tiehammer, and assist Wang Tiehammer in making a batch of calipers. In the future, all our processes will be standardized and strictly required. Deng Zixuan said decisively. 5 days later, 10 calipers were manufactured, Deng Zixuan carefully observed the calipers, although they were a little rough, but after all, they were a calipers, and now they are undoubtedly a boost to manufacturing accuracy.

A few days later, another revolver was manufactured, and after testing, its performance even surpassed that of an American-made revolver. Because the barrel is made of tungsten steel, the service life is twice as long as that made in the United States. After half a month of continuous shooting, Zuihou Deng Zixuan decided to mass produce and finalize. The first production of revolvers, armed with the Rose Estate Guard. It is too obvious that the convoy carries a spear on its back, and it is possible to hide it from the eyes and ears with a revolver.

The time soon came in August, and Deng Qiang and Deng Shan began to turn around and devote themselves to the development of rifles. With the experience of replicating revolvers, Deng Qiang and Deng Shan have accumulated a wealth of experience. Although Deng Zixuan is a layman, his rich theoretical knowledge and "insight" have saved them a lot of detours. However, it is more difficult to imitate a new rifle, from a new design to manufacturing, so the two can only explore little by little.

On this day, Deng Zixuan came to the fireworks workshop, and Huishan saw Deng Zixuan come in and said: "Shopkeeper, according to your requirements, after repeated shiyan friction and fire, light the fuse, the time is controlled at 7 seconds and then ignite the gunpowder, please check it out with the shopkeeper." As he spoke, Zhao Ming fixed the fuse, and the front of the fuse prevented gunpowder, and then pulled the rope. I saw a flash of sparks, and the fuse was ignited. Deng Zixuan looked at his pocket watch, and it happened to be 7 seconds before the fuse burned out and then a cloud of smoke rose.

"The two masters have done a great job, you have accomplished a remarkable feat." "What feat?" The two looked at each other with puzzled expressions. "Let's not talk about this for now, I want you two to take root here for a long time, are you willing?" "Shopkeeper, as long as there is work to do, we are willing!"

"From today onwards, the wages will be doubled, I will send someone to bring your family members, and I will give you two houses in the manor, since I want to hire you for a long time, I must let you have no worries." "Thanks to the kindness of the owner, the two of us are determined to be the power of dogs and horses." Deng Zixuan picked up the two of them and continued: "You need manpower to bring it up, right now your shiyan needs stability, so you have to shiyan repeatedly, as for what to do, I will tell you in the future."

At this point, Deng Zixuan's figure appeared in all corners of the factory, how many days, he spent with his disciples, how many stormy days, he and his disciples devoted themselves to research. During this period, there was a major breakthrough in smokeless gunpowder, but it had to go through repeated shiyan. The grenade was simple and came out first, and after the test explosion, Deng Zixuan was not satisfied and asked for continuous improvement. In particular, the development of artillery from imitation to redesign to trial production began, although there were stumbles, but the difficulty was not great, after all, is it imitation. And the development of flowering shells is a top priority.

However, the firearm encountered problems in the trial production process, and the magazine part of this new rifle took a lot of time, and after repeated shiyan of the simulated gun chamber, the difficulty of committing cards was solved. However, the barrel has never been up to par in the process of drawing rifling, you must know that after the rifling is drawn, the barrel should be smooth and clean, but the inspection after rifling is drawn is very rough, which will greatly affect the accuracy and service life of shooting.

"Sir, the revolver has a short barrel, and there is no problem in pulling the rifling at one time, but the barrel of a long gun is long, and the drawn rifling is always rough, for some reason." Deng Qiang was very depressed. Deng Zixuan observed the barrel and found that the rifling at the beginning was very smooth, and the back became rough. The second half of Weishenme will become rough, and Deng Zixuan will be at a loss for a while.

"Pull another barrel for me to see?" Deng Qiang operated it himself, and the head of the knife rotated into the barrel. When he was halfway through the knife, Deng Zixuan touched it with his hand, and he quickly retracted his hand when it was hot. Deng Zixuan immediately realized that the temperature was too high during the processing process and had to be physically cooled, and the roughness of the back half of the barrel was caused by the excessive temperature.

Deng Zixuan pondered for a moment, ordered to bring rapeseed oil to cool down physically, and after some busyness, he simply made an oil tank, and soaked the barrel and knife head in rapeseed oil for processing. Deng Qiang operated again, this time the knife situation was much better, and the sound seemed to be very pleasant, but when the processing was two-thirds, due to the high temperature, the rapeseed oil suddenly caught fire, and the processing was forced to stop.

At night, Deng Zixuan was at a loss, frankly saying that he didn't know anything about processing and manufacturing, and it seemed that the idea of physical cooling was right, but how to effectively solve the problem puzzled him. The next day, Deng Qiang walked into the room and clearly saw that his eyes were red and he had not rested well last night. "Sir, I carefully inspected the barrel of the gun that was soaked in rapeseed oil last night, and although it was on fire, it worked very well, so I have a bold idea?"

"What thoughts?" "Sir, the difficulty now is the high temperature. I would like to use two knives, one with a shallow head and one with a deep head for secondary processing, so that it is possible to solve the problem of excessive temperature, and if the temperature is lowered, the rapeseed oil will not catch fire. Deng Zixuan's eyes lit up, and he immediately realized that he would definitely succeed. Good idea, just do what you say, make two cutter heads at once. ”

Two days later, Shiyan started anew. Two lathes are placed side by side, and the oil groove is set up separately to install the cutter head. Deng Qiang started to operate again, and when everyone was worried, the processing was completed. Deng Zixuan didn't care about the oil stain, picked up the barrel of the gun and checked, the four rifling were smooth as knots and clearly visible, and he knew that he had succeeded. The barrel was put into the second machine tool and drawn, which was very smooth, and a precision-machined barrel was born, which also meant that a state-of-the-art rifle was born. Everyone hugged each other, especially Deng Qiang and Deng Shan, who hugged each other and choked up.

In fact, to make barrel rifling now, two knives are used. This advanced processing art, decades ahead of schedule, means that Deng Zixuan surpassed Western countries in the weapon manufacturing process. Needless to say, the rifle was made, completely surpassing the British-made Enfeld rifle in terms of performance, but a new rifle had to be tested repeatedly. Deng Zixuan asked Deng Qiang and Deng Shan to repeatedly inspect and improve, and strive for mass production in the spring of next year.

Autumn goes to winter, and the days pass quickly, and it is the end of the year in a blink of an eye. Revolvers, Zhonghua Type 1 rifles, grenades, and infantry guns came out one after another. Since the flowering bomb never met the requirements, Deng Zixuan instructed the flowering bomb to continue in-depth research and make sure to meet the requirements of actual combat by the end of next year. At this point, the weapons industry created by Deng Zixuan began to be born and dominate the world.