Chapter 479: Secret Master Knows No Borders
"Hmph, you know what, lengthening the barrel, of course, increases the range. Mu Shui snorted coldly and said, but he didn't say anything more excessive, although he looked down on Renault in his heart, but in Renault's words, he was very particular, his research on firearms was already the top in Aozhou five years ago, and even his teacher Thunderstorm thought so.
It's a pity that it was delayed for five years, and this long-barreled revolver gun is the only result in the past few years. After all, most of the time, I am floating on the sea, and I have no conditions to conduct research, most of the time I deduce in my mind, and when I get to Hanzhang, I have to be responsible for the survival of millions of people while turning the ideas in my mind into reality.
Don't look at the fact that this revolver weighs less than eight pounds, and the fine iron he needs makes him suffer enough. It's okay to build the gun body, the real difficulty is the projectile, he didn't use the Aozhou standard projectile, the kind of front-loading musket, Mu Shui has long looked unpleasant.
It's a pity that this is still a failed gun, although it can be used, but the range has not been able to meet his requirements, but in terms of accuracy, there has been a great improvement, this secret, only he knows.
It would be nice if Mr. was still there, maybe he could guide him, except for Mr., Mu Shui felt that even if he told other secret masters, they wouldn't understand.
"Lei Jiu, there is a mezzanine under the box, take out the bullets inside. Renault played with it for a while and said, although Mu Shui changed the shape of the revolver a little and lengthened the barrel, but in terms of structure, it was no different from the revolver.
Strictly speaking, Mu Shui's revolver is like a cat and a tiger, without any originality, but after all, this is the world of Great Chu, and people's thinking and knowledge are still at a very low level. Think of the revolver that Bai Jing gave him, it was a piece of iron for a revolver, not even a gun mold.
Push the lever under the barrel to take the bullet wheel off and look at the barrel against the sun. This is Renault's knee-jerk move, Shengongcheng has completed a new generation of muskets, and it has been tested on the battlefield, the most important of which is rifling.
"Suspicious? It's a little interesting, you actually pulled the rifling?" Renault was surprised when he saw the two spiral rifling wires on the inner wall of the barrel, this little fat man is amazing, he actually knows rifling?
"What rifling, that's called the line of sight. Suspicious, no, how do you know the sight line in the barrel?" Renault was surprised, Mu Shui was even more surprised, on this gun, it was mysterious that was the sight line, he didn't understand the principle of this thing, by looking up the cheats, he found that all the barrels should have this kind of thing.
Experiments have proved that after having a line of sight, the projectile fired out is much more accurate than that without a line of sight.
Ozhou has been using thermal weapons for decades, but the development of muskets is not fast, and countries put most of their energy on dealing with natural disasters and building ships, and even the secret masters have no intention of modifying muskets.
"The bullshit of the reticle, this is called rifling, you are not authentic, do you think the more rifling the better?" said Renault, shaking his head.
As he spoke, Lei Jiu had already violently opened the mezzanine, and at the bottom of the box, there were rows of yellow bullets. As a military cadet, Lei Jiu is very familiar with firearms, the production of muskets was extremely low, and the supply to the front line was not enough, and Renault still distributed some new muskets to the military academy.
"Sir, the caliber is so small, this gun is not powerful. "Lei Jiu is knowledgeable, and he took a bullet and handed it to Renault, compared to the musket in Shengong City, the revolver bullet is naturally much smaller.
"Well, it depends on the formula of the gunpowder, we use black powder, the thermal expansion rate is very low, the burning seconds are not high, we can only increase the amount of gunpowder, if the quality of the gunpowder in the bullet is good, it can increase the power. Renault said, took a bullet, his fingers were slightly forced, he unscrewed the bullet, poured out the gunpowder inside, and shook his head again, originally thought that Mu Shui could give himself a surprise, it seems that he thought too much, and what was poured out was still black powder, although it was granulated, it was still only black powder.
Black powder, when the quantity is small, is a relatively poor explosive, and only when the quantity is large enough can the power be increased.
Mu Shui was dumbfounded, he naturally listened to the conversation between the two, Renault's action of disassembling the revolver and the bullet was like flowing water, not half jerky, as if it had been dismantled countless times, how could this be.
Even if it is a teacher thunderstorm, when you see a revolver for the first time, you have to study it for a long time to know how to dismantle it, and as for the projectile, not to mention, it is more complicated than the revolver.
"Lei Jiu, let's see what kind of material the base is. Renault said as he loaded the magazine, and when it was full, he mounted the runner and pulled it with his fingers, causing the runner to turn twice and stop.
"No lubricating oil, uneven gaps between the magazine and the connecting rod, bad review!"
After speaking, he connected the bolt behind him, the barrel was facing the sky, and the trigger was pulled, and with a bang, a puff of black smoke escaped from all over the gun body, and the thick gunpowder smoke formed a large cloud of black fog.
"What a play, leaking air everywhere, bad reviews!"
"The concentration of gunpowder smoke is too large, and it has obviously not been further purified, bad review!"
"The warhead is 20 meters exhausted, and 50 meters down, this range, is this a toy made by you?"
"This gun weighs seven or eight pounds, it's just such a toy, why are you making it so heavy? Bullets can't kill people, are you going to use it to smash the enemy's head?"
'Bang bang ......' Renault pulled the plate machine continuously, not to mention, the bullets made by the little fat man were quite good, with a 100% firing rate, and there was not a single dud.
You must know that the dud rate of the new bullet in Shengong City has reached 10%, which is already the result of Renault's efforts, after all, the primer manufacturing process is not up to par, and Renault can only sacrifice quality for the sake of production.
Fortunately, the war in the Great Chu world is far from reaching the stage of pure firearms war, and there is enough time for them to replace the duds.
"You...... How do you know?" Mu Shui's eyes were straight, he didn't care about Renault's poisonous tongue, not to mention that what people said was right, he knew these shortcomings, it wasn't that he didn't have time to change them.
But how could he be so familiar with the revolver?
"Let them throw a gun down and let Chubby know the difference between a toy and a real thing. Renault didn't look at Mu Shui and continued to play with the wheel gun.
To be honest, although Mushui's revolver has not reached the level of practicality, and there are many problems, it is actually quite good, this is the best firearm Renault has seen since he arrived in Dachu.
The one who finds fault is the real buyer.
Renault naturally wouldn't turn on the poisonous tongue mode because of the rudeness of a little fat man. In Da Chu, Renault is an out-and-out big man, and this bit of self-cultivation is still there.
He found fault with him vigorously and hit Mu Shui, precisely because he was very optimistic about him.
Mozi and Luo Ning are all talents, and most of the tasks assigned by Renault can be completed well, and they have a strong learning ability.
But in Renault's eyes, they are craftsmen, Renault points out the direction, they can find a way to make what Renault wants, if Renault doesn't say anything, their own ideas are basically inconsequential.
Mu Shui is different, his craftsmanship is not as good as Mozi, and his mind is not as delicate as Luo Ning, but he is creative, far higher than those two, no wonder Thunderstorm attaches so much importance to him.
Renaud is a person who looks at the world of Da Chu from the perspective of God, and naturally thinks that there is nothing remarkable, they are all stupid. If Renault's upbringing and experience were the same as theirs, all three would be able to kill him easily.
Mozi and Luo Ning are top craftsmen, or the highest level of fitters, and their technical level and problem-solving ideas are much higher than ordinary technicians. And Mu Shui is a real engineer, although the things he makes are not as good as those two, but he can design and have his own ideas, and what Shengong City lacks most is such talents.
Scientists are creatures, most of them are born, as long as they are given the right environment, they can become scientists, and more people can only be ordinary people.
There are countless colleges and universities on the planet, even the top universities, and thousands of people graduate every year, but they can't even reach the single digit level of being a scientist.
Renault needs scientists, the technology tree is too complicated, not to mention that he himself is not engaged in scientific research, even if he is a top scientist, how many topics can he study?
Renault opened a military academy and a technical school in Shengong City, which was to cultivate talents, although he knew that the effect of this was extremely limited, he finally left hope for himself. If you work hard, even if you fail, it's nothing, but if you succeed, you don't want to be able to ride a flying car before you die, you must have an antique car.
Mu Shui put the musket away for a while, and soon understood how to use it, after all, the principle of firearms is almost the same, after firing a few shots, the little fat man's face became darker, he spent a few years, and it was really just a toy.
No, not exactly!
"Master Renault, your gun is good, but it has a flaw. After studying for two quarters of an hour and thinking about it for another quarter of an hour, Mu Shui finally figured out the shortcomings of this gun.
"Which one is the shortcoming?" Renault threw the revolver to Lei Jiu to play, took the hot tea, blew the sea breeze, and said slowly.
Mu Shui's face changed again, and he felt that Renault's every sentence was like a knife, stabbing his henchmen, what is which shortcoming? It took him more than half an hour to find out only one shortcoming, and listening to Renault's words, there are many shortcomings?
"You can only shoot one bullet at a time. ”
"You just said that the rate of fire is slow, do you want to be fully automatic or semi-automatic?" Renault asked with a sneer on his face.
Automatic?
Semi-automatic?
Mu Shui was hit again, and he found that he had an obstacle in communicating with Renault, and he couldn't understand what Mao said?
It seems to ...... It seems that when I used to talk to others, others were in such a state of mind, and I looked at each other like a fool, and this time, it was his turn to be treated as a fool by others.
A big black and fat face, constantly changing shapes, fighting, shameless, it's a big deal to finish learning his skills in the future, and then go back and laugh at him.
"Please sir. ”
What Chu people, Ao people, in his eyes, is not a matter, the secret master has no borders.