Looking at these large pieces of shrapnel, Yu Xiaotian couldn't cry or laugh a little, but he didn't expect such a result to be taken for granted, which couldn't help but make him disappointed.

Later, Yu Xiaotian pondered carefully, this problem is actually not impossible to solve, because the black powder used by the Eighth Route Army in later generations is not much stronger than the black powder he uses now, and even the raw materials are not as good as the raw materials he uses now.

So he said just do it, and immediately called the blacksmiths who made the gun, and told them his idea, and asked them to find a way to cast another batch of shells according to his request.

When the second batch of shells was cast and loaded, they were transported to the range again for testing.

Yu Xiaotian put a grenade on the ground, surrounded it with wooden planks, and then lit the fuse of the grenade, and after a while, only a roar was heard, and then he saw a cloud of gunpowder smoke rising from the shooting range.

Everyone immediately gathered around to watch the effect, and on those wooden planks near the explosion point, this time Yu Xiaotian saw dense bullet holes.

After the explosion of this grenade, which had reserved fragments and increased charge, it finally succeeded in blowing the entire shell into fragments, except for the warhead part, which remained relatively intact, and the rest were all fragmented into fragments.

After counting, in the end, this grenade produced a total of 21 shrapnel, and the effective killing range was about one zhang, once it was thrown into the crowd, this thing was definitely a big killing weapon, at least there was no problem in killing and injuring a few people.

Especially when they are used to fight people at sea, broadside warfare is still the main mode of combat in this era, and after approaching the enemy ship, you only need to throw a few of these things at the enemy ship, and the effect is estimated to be better than bombarding the enemy ship with artillery.

A few such grenades can basically sweep through the opponent's deck, and the next battle will be much easier to fight, much more powerful than the Molotov cocktails they used before.

So Yu Xiaotian looked at such an explosion effect, and when he was happy, after testing a few times in a row, he determined that there was no problem with this design, except that the operation was not as convenient as the grenades of later generations, and the power was not as great as that of the grenades of later generations, and now this thing can already reach a practical state.

So he immediately ordered the artillery to dedicate a few men and a stove to start opening molds to produce shells for this grenade, and then hand them over to the gunpowder workshop for packaging, which can be used at any time in the future.

In the past few months, the craftsmen have implemented the method of division of labor and cooperation according to the remuneration of work, the full-time construction of the barrel of the gun, the special construction of the firing mechanism of the firing mechanism, the production of the wooden butt of the special production of the butt, and even the fine to the point that there is a special person responsible for drilling, and a special person responsible for tapping and making screws.

When the craftsmen became proficient, not only did the output begin to increase dramatically, but also the quality was greatly improved, and the scrap rate dropped significantly.

From the initial scrap rate of more than 70 percent, by this time, the finished product rate has increased to more than 50 percent, and basically one of the two barrels created meets the quality requirements.

Can't underestimate such a yield rate, in the era of hand-made barrels, can increase the yield to fifty, for any craftsman, is very difficult to do, guns in the change of production methods, each craftsman is dedicated to a job, every day to do a job, it is not easy to achieve exquisite craftsmanship, unless the craftsman is really a fool, otherwise practice makes perfect, naturally improve the yield rate.

And there is a great advantage of doing this, that is, if a half-craftsman loses out of the pistol, it is difficult to effectively reproduce this kind of Nan-Japanese flintlock pistol with their craftsmanship alone, and to a certain extent, it also ensures the safety of the technique.

So by August, the production of flintlock muskets made by guns had increased to about 100 per month, although it was not very high, but it added up to a lot, and after a while, the sea wolf could popularize this flintlock rifle.

At least now the musketeers in the barracks have all begun to be generally equipped with this kind of flintlock musket, and the messy muskets that used to be looted from all over the place have now been completely rebuilt, except for a small number of more delicate and useful bird guns and arquebuses that are still left in the training camp for training.

Even some of the soldiers on the ship began to gradually equip themselves with this flintlock pistol, which made the sea wolf tribe feel like a tiger with wings, and one by one now looked like a bull fork and coaxed, and felt that their legs were hanging by the wind when they walked.

However, the flintlock pistol of the war barracks and the flintlock pistols used by the sailors are not a version, because the soldiers mostly act on land, and the space requirements are not very high, so the flintlock pistols issued by the war barracks belong to the extended version, and after bringing the butt, the length of the whole gun has reached about one meter six, and it stands up just like the height of the soldiers.

Moreover, the musketeers of the war barracks have poor self-defense ability at close range, and it is very simple to solve this problem, that is, to simply equip these flintlock pistols with a short knife with a length of more than one foot, that is, the bayonet often said in later generations, usually do not need to go up to the muzzle, just insert it into the scabbard, wear it closely, once you need to fight in close combat, pull out the short knife, stuck on the barrel.

This kind of short knife Yu Xiaotian let his subordinates go through many tests, to create a lot of short knives, and finally determined, the short knife with the handle is one and a half feet long, the blade is more than a foot long, the spine is thick, there are two blood grooves on both sides of the knife body, the tip of the knife is sharp, the blade is sharp, and the whole knife appears thick and heavy.

Once such a short knife is on the muzzle, it can not only be held in the hand of the musket as a short spear to stab the enemy, but also can be rounded as a simple knife, slashing the enemy, the power is really considerable, even if the urgency is too late to go up to the muzzle, the user can also draw out the melee and fight the enemy, once the gun is empty, the enemy is approaching, the musketeer becomes the meat on the chopping board, and is slaughtered.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian directly bypassed the detour in the development of the bayonet, and when designing the bayonet, the bayonet was directly designed so that after reaching the muzzle, the gun could continue to aim and fire.

The earliest bayonet in history does not have such a function, the earliest bayonet in history is very simple, when used, the handle must be inserted into the chamber of the gun to fix, can be used, but at this time the musket can no longer shoot, and many times after the bayonet, bump, the bayonet may come out of the muzzle, fall to the ground, as a result, the musketeer is left with only a burning stick, waiting to be slaughtered.

Yu Xiaotian designed it this way, this is a trick, think about it, if the musketeer has been loaded, but he didn't fire, after getting on the bayonet, waiting for the enemy to rush to the front to play with his life, then suddenly hold the fire, at close range, the enemy has only one way to die.

However, there are certain drawbacks to this, once the musketeer is too nervous, the chamber has been loaded with ammunition when fighting the bayonet, and the nose is also opened, and the fire is cold, and it may hit its own people, so this needs to be standardized during training, and it is generally not allowed to load with a bayonet.

In this regard, Yu Xiaotian's approach can be said to have gone to the front of history thoroughly, because when the southern Japanese flintlock pistol was finalized and produced, although Westerners had also developed flintlock pistols in this era, the flintlock pistol mechanism designed by Westerners was not yet fully mature, and there was no universal equipment, which was limited to a small number of personnel equipment in very few countries.

Moreover, before the West developed the flintlock pistol, it was first improved into a flintlock pistol after the revolver musket, but Yu Xiaotian, a Xibei product, could stand on the shoulders of the historical giant, bypassed these detours, and directly came up with a relatively mature flintlock mechanism, so that the Southern Japanese flintlock pistol was quickly matured and finalized and began to be produced.

In addition, the bayonet has not been invented by Western countries at this time, if according to the historical process, the Westerners have gradually developed the bayonet for many years after this, but Yu Xiaotian at this time, he has begun to equip his subordinates with standard bayonets, as the musketeer's most durable weapon, so that the musketeer has a long-range strike ability at the same time, but also has a considerable hand-to-hand combat ability, which undoubtedly greatly improves the combat effectiveness of the sea wolf soldiers.

But for the flintlock pistol equipped with sailors, it is different from the flintlock pistol used by the soldiers, because the space on the ship is relatively small, if the flintlock pistol is too long, it is not easy to operate, and when using this guy on the ship, it is generally close to a very close distance, and it does not require the sailors' flintlock pistol to have too long a range, so the flintlock pistol used by the sailors on the ship is relatively shorter, which can ensure that the effective range of fifty steps is sufficient.

In addition, it is not appropriate or convenient to fight with people with flintlock pistols for bayonets in broadside battles, so once a sailor starts a broadside battle with the enemy, it is better to take a spear or a single knife to be cool.

Therefore, the flintlock pistol used by the sailors was also canceled to be equipped with bayonets, but the bayonet holders were left, and when necessary, they could be issued with bayonets, and the sailors were usually issued with a Yanling knife with each other, as their melee weapons on the ship, some sailors did not even like to use a single knife, and liked to work with a board axe, Yu Xiaotian did not deliberately restrict them, according to their personal preferences, let them choose their own weapons for hand-to-hand combat, in short, as long as they won the fight, even if they bit with their teeth, It doesn't matter if you strangle the enemy with your underwear.