With a huge amount of gold coins and the continuous efforts of the experimenters, Nolan's first breech-loading rifled gun finally came out. The barrel is 543mm long, has 16 riflings, and uses a 1.89mm diameter projectile. A skilled shooter can fire between 6 and 10 rounds in less than a minute. This is almost twice the rate of fire of a front-loading rifled gun. At the same time, due to the use of rear-loading shooting, this gun can better use rifles. Long range and high accuracy.

At the LONGi range, Reynolds showed the new firearm to military personnel.

"At the same time, we eliminated the mercury shot next to the gun and adopted a more reliable firing pin. The specific principle is that the gun body is designed with a slender but hard long needle, when the trigger is pulled, this long needle can hit the gunpowder at high speed, and the friction quickly heats up, igniting the gunpowder. There is also a point to this design, which reduces the weight of the gun body. ”

The officers present kept nodding their heads, apparently showing great interest in this new firearm. In fact, just looking at the range and rate of fire, the new rifle can make people want to stop.

Besson lifted his gun and said loudly.

"Whether the gun is good or not, you will only know until you try it. It's useless to say it here. Come on, go to the target. One hundred and fifty meters. ”

The other officers were all frustrated, they had wanted to use the new guns. As a result, Beson took the lead, and the reason was so high-sounding that people couldn't find anything wrong. Even he himself felt so much. However, it is not the first time that Beson has been so shameless, and it would be strange if he gave in sometime.

"We haven't set the crosshair yet. ”

Reynolds reminded.

"Then I'll tune it up. ”

Beson said generously.

In the distance, a scarecrow stands up, with circles drawn on his head. After the technician loaded the ammunition, Besson picked up the gun, rested his cheek against the gun, slowed his breathing, and tried to reduce the heaval caused by the breathing to affect the outcome of the shot.

Boom~

A shot was fired.

Everyone looked at the scarecrow in unison, and there were already people among the officers who were snickering, and Bessen was off target. Many of them have first-class marksmanship, and 150 meters is still within visual distance. Look at it and know that the shot hits.

Beson scratched his scalp and said regretfully.

"This gun doesn't count, there's a problem with this crosshair, let me adjust it. ”

After a bit of waiting, Beson shot again. Eight rings. Beson adjusted it again, and only then did he hit the ten rings.

It's not bad to look at the results, but if people have been dealing with guns for a long time, they will invisibly produce a gun intent in their hearts. So as to reach the point of the integration of man and gun. So the good shooter gets a new gun, after shooting a few points. Just understand the performance of the gun, and even explore the limits of the gun. And Bessen has a lot of dealing with guns in his spare time, and his marksmanship is recognized as first-class in the army. Apparently he also knew that the performance of this gun was more than that.

So he shot the second target at 200 meters, and Beson missed the target with the first shot, and the second shot was 3 rings. It's a good score. After all, with the naked eye alone, a target of 200 meters is an extremely small point, even smaller than a crosshair. And at 500 meters, you have to consider the situation of the bullet dropping, and more importantly, the current bullet is still a round bullet, unlike the later conical bullet.

Beson was still a little regretful, he felt that this gun could shoot farther, but two hundred meters was already the limit of visual distance.

But Beson had a flash of inspiration and said to Reynolds.

"Can you add binoculars to the gun? This way I can see targets at a longer distance. ”

Reynolds' eyes lit up and he said with interest.

"It's a good idea, I'll try it later. ”

Immediately afterwards, an officer stepped forward and asked a crucial question.

"I want to know, the cost of this gun, and the production?"

Reynolds' face turned from joy to regret.

"This gun costs at least fifteen gold coins, as for the production. Even if you activate all the arsenals in your hands, there will only be 100 in a month. ”

The officers also shook their heads, the rear-loading rifled guns were nearly ten times more expensive than the front-loading guns, and they were more difficult to maintain. Coupled with that pitiful production, it is impossible to equip the troops on a large scale. The Iron Fist has 50,000 soldiers!

Reynolds then said.

"But rest assured, we've already started to improve our production facilities. Let's see if we can produce guns in the same way that we can produce plate armor. ”

"But I suggest that we buy a batch of guns first and use them for those in the army who shoot well. After all, a group of sharpshooters who command and fight on the battlefield are still very useful. ”

Besson nodded.

"Well, we can purchase a batch in advance. The new equipment has more advanced performance, and we need to make full use of the advanced performance of the equipment. Pair this with a new tactic. After all, tactics, strategy follow weapons. ”

At the same time, Jonathan and Count Cologne's secret imitation of Nolan's smoothbore gun finally came to fruition, and a prototype gun was made. And the performance is higher than the smoothbore gun produced by Nolan.

For a long time, people have not given up on Nolan's military technology, and although Nolan is strictly guarded, there is no airtight gun in the world.

Moreover, the two counts also possessed a number of Nolan graduates of secondary scholars, who were sent to Nolan to pretend to study.

After all, Nolan is very welcoming to immigrants, although he knows that this will be mixed in with spies, but the benefits of immigration are far too far for Wayne to ignore this shortcoming.

Not only that, but there are many craftsmen in Nolan who have disappeared inexplicably, and all of them are important positions without exception. Wayne also wanted to stop it, but he couldn't always restrict a person's movements. And to send someone to keep an eye on a craftsman, you need at least two people to rotate black and white, which is very uneconomical.

However, the greatest value of industry lies not only in technology, but also in scale. Nolan has the largest steel mill, a population with a science and education department, and the most liberal economy.

These are the weapons in Wayne's hands, this is still the early stage, wait until later. Few people can keep up with him. After all, technology is called exponential development.

Moreover, the diffusion of technology is very conducive to the rise of capital, but it is difficult to completely reproduce Nolan industry with the heritage of a family. At that time, these nobles will inevitably rely on merchants to transport technical materials and industrial raw materials. This, in turn, promotes the growth of capital.

When the time comes, if the capital realizes that Nolan's model of land tax is more favorable, it will inevitably negotiate terms with the aristocracy. And the aristocracy is all about the tax rate. Contradictions will inevitably erupt. That's the potential.

Wayne is building momentum now, and when the time comes, he'll follow the trend. There was a saying in the previous life that when standing on the tuyere, pigs can fly. And that's what it means.

In the darkness of the night, the boatman's hammer clanged. The waves were constantly surging in the moonlight, bringing gusts of wind. Wayne was waiting for his own gust of wind.