Chongzhen asked Lu Jiude to move the humanoid target to twenty steps.

This time the hit rate is even higher, almost a full hit.

It is no wonder that the lobster soldiers of Ansa had to set the distance of the first wave of fire salvo within 30 meters, because the fire salvo within 30 meters would have a 100% hit rate for the flintlock pistol.

Even taking into account the dumb miss rate, the comprehensive hit rate is more than eighty percent!

In other words, a firepower salvo within 30 meters can inflict about 80% of the enemy's own casualties, which is undoubtedly an extremely terrifying number.

In this case, even in the process of advancing forward, it is nothing if about forty percent of your own soldiers are killed by the enemy, because after entering thirty meters, you can make up for it with just a volley of firepower!

And then from the second wave of firepower salvo is blood to earn, all the time to earn!

I have to say that there is a scientific basis for the lobster soldiers to hold out within 30 meters before firing.

Chongzhen felt that the first wave of salvo fire within 30 meters was too demanding for the psychological quality of officers and soldiers, which was a bit difficult for a new army, but 50 meters could still be tried, and the newly recruited infantry should be able to achieve it through a period of training and exercise.

After testing the hit rate, Chongzhen continued to test the lethality.

The test results show that within 20 steps (30 meters), the triple armor of chain mail plus cotton armor and iron armor can be easily penetrated, and this lethality is even more powerful than that of Lu Mi Gong.

Because even if Lu Mi Gong was within twenty steps, he could not penetrate the triple armor of the Jiannu White Armor Soldiers, which had been confirmed in the battle of Yunlong Mountain in Xuzhou.

At that time, Lu Mi Zhen had no way to take the Jiannu white armor soldiers.

Not to mention ordinary birds, they are all decorations.

This is actually reasonable, this flintlock pistol is made by the top group of blacksmiths, especially the gun, the requirements for blacksmith skills are even more demanding.

After the implementation of mass production in the future, the performance of the flintlock pistol will definitely decline to a certain extent, after all, the level of blacksmiths in the Ming Arsenal is also uneven, you can't expect thousands of blacksmiths to be as good as these dozen blacksmiths, so the parameters of the flintlock pistol will definitely decline.

But piercing the triple armor in twenty steps should be fine.

In other words, in the future, there is no need to be afraid of the hand-to-hand combat of the Jiannu White Armor Soldiers!

However, in addition to hand-to-hand combat, the Jiannu white armor soldiers can also release cold arrows at a distance of fifty or even eighty steps, so it depends on the lethality of the flintlock pistol at fifty or even eighty paces away.

At that moment, Chongzhen asked Lu Jiude to move the humanoid target thirty steps away.

However, when the distance increased to thirty paces (50 meters), the lethality of the flintlock pistol dropped dramatically.

At a distance of thirty paces, the flintlock pistol can only penetrate one heavy armor, chain mail, cotton armor, or iron armor, but only one armor, and two armors cannot penetrate it.

And at a distance of fifty paces (80 meters), not even a single piece of armor could penetrate it.

However, ordinary battle jackets and ordinary leather armor can still be easily pierced.

This is also the biggest defect of the front-loading smoothbore gun in the black powder era, with a conical warhead it is easy to roll after discharge, the hit rate is simply unseeable, with a round warhead, the air resistance is greatly increased, the attenuation of the moving bullet is very powerful, more than 50 steps can basically not penetrate the armor stomach, more than 100 steps there is almost no lethality at all.

It seems that it is still impossible to completely suppress the white armor soldiers with flintlock pistols.

At a distance of thirty paces, the white-armored soldiers can have a crushing advantage over the musketeers.

But it's nothing, because the number of Jiannu white armor soldiers is limited, and the cultivation time is very long, while the number of musketeers in the Ming army soon starts at 100,000, and the training time is extremely short.

Simply fighting consumption, it is impossible for Jiannu to fight through the Ming Dynasty.

What's more, the Ming army will definitely equip the car battalion to protect the musketeers.

This will largely protect the musketeers from being killed or injured by the Jiannu White Armor soldiers.

In the end, Chongzhen estimated the rate of fire, and he could fire about two shots per minute.

It should be noted that Chongzhen equipped Gao Qiqian with paper shell bullets, so he has such a rate of fire, otherwise this old gelding would not have such a fast hand speed.

Two rounds per minute are fired, which is already the ultimate rate of fire for arquebuses.

Even a well-trained musketeer could only fire two shots per minute of arquebus.

However, there is obviously a lot of room for improvement in the flintlock pistol, and if you switch to a well-trained musketeer, you can do at least three shots per minute.

If you familiarize the musketeer for a while, four rounds per minute is possible.

In this case, the density of the flintlock pistol's fire output is not three times that of the arquebus, but three times the density plus twice the rate of fire, and the actual fire intensity is six times different! This is simply an epoch-making revolutionary firepower boost!

Thinking of this, Chongzhen couldn't hold back any longer, and had to hurry up to formulate the production process of the flintlock pistol.

Then let the Daming Arsenal, the Hubu Arsenal and all the small workshops work overtime to produce flintlock pistols.

Before the outbreak of the next war, the new army of the Ming Dynasty must be equipped with flintlock pistols and standardized Hongyi cannons, so that the field war will no longer be a slave.

At that moment, Chongzhen asked more than a dozen old blacksmiths to surround him.

"Ladies and gentlemen, let's go through the whole process of making the flintlock pistol from beginning to end." Chongzhen said, "To see where there are still difficulties, start with the barrel rolling." ”

"It's no problem with the tube rolling." The old blacksmith in charge of rolling the gun pipe said, "The gun tube of this flintlock pistol is almost the same as the gun tube of the bird gun and the Lu Mi gun, there is not much difference, the only problem is that it is a little time-consuming, and the one-foot-long gun pipe has to be rolled for several days before it can finally take shape." ”

Chongzhen asked again: "What about welding?" Is there a problem with welding? ”

The blacksmith in charge of welding said: "The welding is no problem, it is all big welding of copper powder." ”

Without waiting for Chongzhen to ask, the third blacksmith also continued: "Long live Lord, it is not more difficult to build a flintlock pistol than Lu Migong, that is, there are a lot more components, especially the plate machine has many components, and the filing, polishing and then assembly of each component may be troublesome, but it is not impossible to solve." ”

Chongzhen waved his hand and said: "The trigger must no longer be filed by hand, and it must be cast uniformly." ”

The blacksmith in charge of the casting said: "If you cast, you have to use the lost wax method, otherwise the cast parts are not fine enough and may not be assembled." ”

After a pause, he said: "It's a bit expensive to use the lost wax method." ”

"You also use the lost wax method to cast." Chongzhen Qiangang said arbitrarily.

The Internal Affairs Office is not short of silver now, so Chongzhen wants to do it in one step.

At that moment, Chongzhen asked Zhan Yangzhi to come over and asked, "Zhan Weng, how many new Lumi guns have been produced in the gun making workshop of the Daming Arsenal?" ”

"Now?" Zhan Yangzhi was stunned for a moment and replied, "None of the new orders have been produced yet." ”

Daming Arsenal is now an assembly line operation, which is to prepare materials according to batches, and then flow down one process after another, until the final assembly link.

So either a batch of 1,000 is produced at the same time, or none at all.

At present, the first batch of 1,000 new Lumi guns has just entered the process of drilling the pipe, which is to expand the small hole in the center of the pipe when it is just forged and formed, to four points.

This process is the most time-consuming and cost-intensive.

One is that the drill is slow, and the second is that the steel drill is easy to break.

So now, the Daming Arsenal has not made a new type of Lumi gun.

"Then there's no need to produce new types of Lumi." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Change the flintlock pistol!" ”

"Huh? Change flintlock pistols? Zhan Yangzhi's face fell, and he said in his heart, Holy Lord, you can't do this, you think of it like this, it's hard for us to do it.

"Yes, change the flintlock pistol!" Chongzhen said in a deep voice.

"But, but ......" Zhan Yangzhi was so anxious that he almost cried, "a thousand guns have been drilled and polished, a thousand guns are being welded, and another thousand have been rolled, and these three thousand guns are all invalid?" ”

"It's okay." Chongzhen smiled, "The flintlock pistol barrel is the same as the Lu Mi gun. ”

"Oh, that's fine." Zhan Yangzhi breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the gun tube was not invalidated, it was nothing.

Chongzhen continued: "Also, your production of 1,000 sticks a month is not enough, so you have to continue to expand." ”

The Lu Mi gun production line of the Daming Arsenal can make about 3,000 guns every three months, and the average monthly output is about 1,000 guns, and the rate of defective products is not considered here.

"Holy Lord, this really can't be expanded." Zhan Yangzhi said bitterly, "It's already the limit, it's not because the minister can't take out the money to build more factory stoves, it's really not that many old blacksmiths who can be used." ”

"Now it only produces a thousand guns a month, and it costs 3,000 old blacksmiths."

"If the production is increased to 2,000, there will be 3,000 old blacksmiths."

"And that's not counting the apprentices who gave the old blacksmith a hand, adding up to more than 10,000 blacksmiths."

"This is just Lu Mi Gong's workshop, in addition to Lu Mi Gong and Tiger Squat Cannon, and then there is Hongyi Cannon, if you really follow your requirements, Daming Arsenal has to recruit 30,000 blacksmiths!"

"But now there are not so many blacksmiths in the entire Nanzhili and even the entire Ming Dynasty."

After a pause, he said: "But it would be good to wait for another year or so, and after a year, the first batch of blacksmith apprentices will almost be able to leave the school, and the output will be doubled by then." ”

Hearing this, Chongzhen couldn't help but sigh.

Even if the production is doubled, it will only produce 2,000 flintlock pistols per month, which is really not enough.

Therefore, it's not that Zhan Yangzhi doesn't want to take big orders, it's really that his strength doesn't allow it.

It would be nice to be able to build a steam engine, with the steam engine as the power, you can make a forging press, then the processing of the pipe will no longer have to be hammered with a hammer, the speed will increase geometrically, not to mention the drilling, the efficiency of the drilling machine is more than ten times that of the manual.