Chapter 96: Guns go offline
"Your Majesty, with these machines, craftsmen can make weapons of superior quality!" Yu Shion is now also responsible for overseeing the manufacture of ordnance
The General Arms Company established by His Majesty the Emperor recruited more than 200 skilled craftsmen with high salaries throughout the city. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
With more than 3,000 girls, they are working day and night to develop and produce various weapons and equipment to equip the troops.
Now bows and arrows and crossbow arrows have been mass-produced, and the forging technology of horizontal knives has long been mastered.
Even trebuchets, a weapon of mass destruction in the pre-drug era, can be put into production, indicating that the manufacture of cold weapons is no longer a problem.
But that's not enough, a few months ago, they were given a new task to develop an epoch-making weapon.
For example, flintlock pistols and Napoleonic cannons, which are commonly used in Western armies in modern times, will completely change the course of the battle between two groups of cattle.
Compared to arquebuses, the biggest advantages of flintlock pistols are a faster rate of fire, a smaller caliber, a shorter body, a lighter weight, less recoil, and a higher range.
Fusiliers are breech-loading muskets, mostly smoothbore, with a caliber of between 16 and 22 mm and a weight of 4-6 kg.
The length of the gun is about 1200-1600 mm, the firing range can reach 140-200 meters, and the rate of fire can reach 1-1.5 minutes per shot.
Of course, you might think that flintlock pistols don't have as much range as bows and arrows, but that's true.
Better bows, such as the English longbow, do have a range of 50% longer than a flintlock pistol.
But when you take into account the difficulty of training shooters, the time and cost of weapon manufacturing, and other factors, the advantages of flintlock pistols are obvious.
An animal that knows nothing is sent to the barracks, trained by an instructor for a week, and is almost ready to go to the battlefield.
The training process is nothing more than charging, aiming, firing, and so on, and if you learn deeply, you just need to know how to repair your own weapons.
"Ready...... Put! "The instructor gave the order from the side
"Woo Woo T A squad of infantry is being trained in shooting
Their weapon was the French 1777 flintlock musket, now known as the "Invincible One" rifle.
Since the high-grade steel pipes are obtained from large pineapples, lighter weight wood and plastic are used.
So the weight of the gun was reduced from the original 4.5 kg to 4 kg, the barrel length was 113 cm, and the caliber was 17.5 mm.
A well-trained soldier hits a two-meter target at a distance of 100 meters with a 75% chance of hitting.
Increasing the distance to 150 meters, the accuracy is reduced to 40%, and if it is as far as 200 meters, it is only 20% hit!
However, if the opposing cavalry rushes in line............ Then don't think about the embarrassing problem of hit rate!
The rifled gun has a longer range, but if the rifling is pulled, it will be caught by the system for this reason.
Considering the various crimes committed by this loser & cheat dad system, it is better to be careful.
If the points are deducted because of the second violation (although they have not been deducted), the dignified family will want to cry without tears......
By 1822, a total of 7 million guns had been produced, a record that stood until World War I.
In addition to being the main force of the French army, it was also widely equipped to the German Rheinland Union, Batavia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Spain......
The maximum rate of fire can reach three rounds per minute, which is already very good compared to the three-stage arquebus that was exposed by the Japanese.
"Your Majesty, after three months of testing, the performance of this rifle in all aspects has met Your Majesty's requirements, and the General Arms Company has already produced a small number of them, and now it can produce twenty pieces per day!" Yu Ziqing also participated in the whole process as a lieutenant
"Only twenty?" Lao Tzu brought you all the high-grade steel pipes, just such a little output?
In a year, 7,000 rifles can be produced, and when will my tens of thousands of troops be fully equipped?
How do you do your work, do you want me to give you a good grasp of your hemisphere at night???
Yu Ziqing heard her husband's dissatisfaction, and then explained: "Your Majesty, that's the case, the concubine wants to observe the initial batch quality first, and then expand the output when it is completely stable!" ”
"If the production process is familiar to the craftsmen, the barrel does not explode, and a slight difference in accuracy is acceptable, then there is not much risk in expanding production appropriately, even if there is a little flaw, it is still acceptable." No matter how tightly you control it, the first few batches will be more or less problematic.
This is the case with any weapon, because the factory assembly line is still in the exploration stage, and when the process is pure, the quality will be improved day by day.
"Since Your Majesty's holy will has been issued, the concubine has ordered the daily output to be increased to fifty!" This can produce 18,250 pieces per year, and the mantissa is very auspicious!
Miji patrols the workshop: "First, let the craftsmen and women workers be familiar with the manufacturing process; second, to achieve assembly line production; Third, if there is a problem, solve it in a timely manner. If there is a shortage of staff for any job, you can always recruit in large numbers. ”
"The concubine obeys! Your Majesty, there are more than 80 craftsmen in charge of the development of rifles, and 800 female workers specialize in the manufacture of muskets. Yu Ziqing made a report
"Only 800 female workers? It's too little, in the future, the rifle will be the main weapon of future wars, we must recruit more female workers, and we can also solve the employment problem in the city, and expand me tenfold, and now that the machine has arrived, the production capacity must be greatly increased. If you can't meet my requirements, you will kneel on my bed at night! ”
Hanping now has a population of 200,000, and half of the new 100,000 people are girls.
If so many tall and tall girls with huge balls can't enlist in the army, they can only be absorbed by the factory.
It is equivalent to the chickens paying to feed them, but fortunately, the girls can also support themselves, and the things produced also arm His Majesty's army.
"Your Majesty~!" Yu Ziqing was suddenly embarrassed, her little face flushed, and she sighed: "The concubine obeys His Majesty's will!" ”
"How many rifles have been produced now?"
"Your Majesty, the factory has manufactured two hundred and eighty pieces, of which two hundred have been delivered to the military, and all of them have been allocated to the First Infantry Battalion!"
"Well, that's good! I have brought the finest steel pipes from the fairy world, and the concubine must make me a large number of rifles. Otherwise, just wait for you to kneel on the bed every day and bear the wrath of my thunder! ”
"The concubine obeys! Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the concubines will never dare to slack off and delay the production! But in Yu Ziqing's heart, she wanted to bear the "Thunder Fury" released by the other party every day!
Speaking of this, Mi Ji also remembered something: "By the way, we must do a good job of confidentiality measures, strictly leak and steal information, drawings, and physical objects in terms of weapon design, materials, processes, etc., once verified, severely punished, and punished according to the crime of treason against the king!" ”
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the concubine has ordered the gendarmerie to guard the factory, strictly check the people entering and leaving, male soldiers search for male workers, female soldiers search for female workers, no matter how big or small, all of them will be reported to the concubines!"
The temperature in Hanping can reach 30 degrees Celsius in July, and it is natural to sweat a lot when working in the factory, so the female workers are only dependent on themselves.
A pair of huge and full hemispheres kept shaking and trembling in front of His Majesty's eyes, which made him dizzy and unforgettable.
"Your Majesty~! If Your Majesty wants to see it, after returning home, it is good for the concubine to let dozens of female soldiers do this at the same time? Yu Ziqing saw that the chicken was a little obsessed, so she came up with an idea.
The chicken immediately said righteously: "Ahem! How can I abolish the public for personal gain? Aifei asked the female soldiers to jump rope and exercise, I want to check their physical condition! ”
36D Girl Jumping Rope ............ It must be turbulent, a group of 36D girls are like stormy waves!
"Boom!" After inspecting the rifle factory, Mi Ji went to the artillery range, where four artillery pieces were being test-fired.
The two large ones are the M1857 12-pounder (5.44 kg) field gun, and the smaller one is the M1841 6-pounder (2.54 kg) field gun, which is the famous Napoleonic gun!
Named after the French Emperor Napoleon III, the cannon was a highly mobile, ferocious, and extremely simple heavy weapon to manufacture and use.
Propelled by a standard 1.13-kilogram firing charge, the Napoleon cannon was able to accurately project a standard twelve-pounder shell at an angle of 5 degrees to a distance of 1480 meters.
At an angle of 10 degrees, it can reach an astonishing 1,911 meters!
With the help of Lao Lu and Big Pineapple, Miji got a full set of manufacturing processes for large and small Napoleon cannons, including even two real guns!
Due to the limitations of system management, physical samples cannot be brought over to craftsmen for study.
But with the drawings and the clever minds of the Han people, several batches of samples were soon produced.
Although the first few times ended in a bombing, as long as the financier is willing to continue to spend money and does not hesitate to invest, it can be successfully developed as soon as possible.
The chicken replaced the original copper gun body with thick steel pipes made by the Union, and the gun carriage wheels were replaced with rubber tires.
The total weight of the 12-pounder gun was only 500 kilograms, which was only half of the original weight (the gun body, gun carriage and wheels weighed 2445 kilograms, or 1109 kilograms)!
Other aspects, such as the caliber (117 mm), the charge (1.13 kg), the projectile (5.44 kg heavy iron shells) are the same as the original.
The maximum firing range can reach three kilometers, the maximum rate of fire per minute is three rounds, and in order to cool the barrel, the average rate of fire is one round.
Even if you shoot at a constant speed, you can shoot for a minute, rest for a minute, and pour 30 shells on the opponent's position in an hour!
Yu Ziqing mobilized a hundred craftsmen to develop the "Big and Small Napoleon", which was calculated according to the monthly salary of five times.
In just half a year, the project burned 3,000 guan.
Not counting the expenses in other aspects, otherwise it is not difficult to reach 10,000 yuan.
Even so, if this epoch-making weapon can really replace the trebuchet, then it is worth the price.
With the "Ural" off-road truck towed in front, my artillery can also walk like a fly.
The trucks produced by the alliance are pulling French cannons made in the time and space of the Three Kingdoms, and this picture is really too beautiful......