Chen Wang looked at the firearm in his hand, and the firearm he was holding now was the prototype gun made by the drawings given by Bo Jue not long ago.

The sample gun in Chen Wang's hand was already equipped with a bayonet, and the bayonet was a sleeve bayonet.

The bayonet is not in the shape of a long dagger as it was during World War II, but rather in the shape of a diamond, like the spear of a spear, but there are some differences.

Chen Wang gently shook the firearm in his hand, raised it with both hands as if he was holding a spear, and after being familiar with it for a while, he also found a little feeling of using a spear.

Although the musket and the bayonet are similar to the spear, there are actually many differences.

After the popularization of firearms equipped with bayonets, Chen Wang also planned to teach his soldiers to learn bayonet stabbing and coordinated combat techniques.

The length of the gun body and the ring is more than five feet, and the length of the bayonet is more than six feet, which is converted into the meters of later generations, which is almost two meters long.

This length is naturally not long enough compared to the spears in the hands of pikemen in this era.

During this period, the spears in the hands of the general pikemen were basically more than one zhang, more than four meters.

But the spear in the pikeman's hand did not reject the ability to shoot at a distance, neither inducing a shot at a hundred paces away, nor piercing iron armor at fifty paces.

But now this firearm can do it, and it has the ability to strike from a distance and combat in close combat.

However, today's technology is still not able to mass-produce such firearms.

The bayonet part is too difficult, and the craftsmanship requirements are far better than expected.

The sleeve and bayonet of the sample gun have been polished by craftsmen to complete the fit, and there are still many technical difficulties to overcome in mass production.

The evidence is the five-page report on professional and technical aspects sent by Bo Jue, and Chen Wangdu feels that he may not really know Chinese characters.

"How's the firing rate?"

"It is said that there are about seventy percent, and the ignition rate is not high, and if particle gunpowder is used as the primer, it is even lower."

Chen Wang frowned slightly, he knew that this firing rate was already good at this stage, but he still hoped that it could be higher.

In the later generations when the flintlock pistol technology was perfected, the firing rate was basically around 85%.

"What about range and power?"

Chen Wang weighed the firearm in his hand, and felt that it weighed about eight or nine catties, and it was quite weighty in his hand.

However, Bo Jue also followed his previous request and tied a strap to the lower end of the muzzle and the trigger position of the firearm.

When marching, the soldiers no longer need to carry it on their shoulders, they only need to carry it on their shoulders, which is not a big weight, but when facing the enemy, this weight is indeed a bit heavy.

"The Ordnance Bureau tested 20 rounds of guns, and the data obtained was to kill and injure unarmored targets within 100 steps, break armor within 70 steps, break two layers of armor within 50 steps, and break three layers of armor within 40 steps."

Hu Zhili's tone was slightly excited.

"If you go north to fight with Jiannu, Jiannu pushes the shield cart within forty steps, and we are afraid that it will not be much cheaper!"

It's no wonder that Hu Zhili was emotional, it was really because when Liaodong was at the beginning, they had not suffered such a loss three times or twice.

Jiannu pushed the shield cart all the way over, but the gun could not be pierced, and the artillery could not be destroyed.

Ordinary Francos and Tiger squat cannons can't do much damage at all, and only those artillery that hits three or four pounds of shells can blast away.

Fifty or even thirty paces before the armor soldiers of Jiannu began to bend their bows and arrows, stepping out from behind the shield cart and firing heavy arrows.

At this distance, the bird guns and fire guns in their hands could not get the slightest advantage from shooting against the heavy soldiers of Jiannu.

Most of the bird guns produced by the Ministry of Industry and the Guards and Ordnance Bureaus are substandard products, and when facing the enemy, the soldiers often dare not load enough gunpowder, so the original small power is even more insufficient.

The Three-Eyed Gun was originally designed for Mongolian rangers who were not equipped with heavy armor, and its armor-piercing effect was much worse than that of the Bird Gun.

There are only a few families in the army who are equipped with heavy bows, and most of the ordinary archers are holding soft bows, so how can a few family members hold the situation.

Most of the heavy soldiers of Jiannu were born between the white mountains and black waters, and they lived on fishing and hunting for a long time, and their archery was ruthless and accurate.

The distance that Jiannu's heavy soldiers stayed was the range of their heavy arrows' armor-piercing, and they were completely passively beaten, and they couldn't cause much damage to Jiannu's heavy soldiers at all.

When he was in Liaodong, the field battle had always been more defeated and less won, and every time he recalled it, Hu Zhili felt aggrieved.

Now this fire gun sent from the interior of Hanzhong Mansion can shoot through Jiannu's three-layer heavy armor within forty steps, how can he not feel excited?!

"Break through three layers of armor in 40 steps......"

Chen Wang held the fire gun in his hand, and his heart couldn't help but relax a lot.

With such a firearm, when the time comes for King Qin to order King Qin to go north to fight with the Qing army, at least the stage of confrontation will not be too inferior.

"By the way, the accuracy of this gun should be not much worse than that of a bird gun, right?"

Qi Jiguang once praised the bird gun as the first sharp weapon in battle, the ability to shoot the hole armor, the shot can hit, and the bow and arrow can reach.

Historically, when the Qi family army was training, the requirements for the bird gun hand were to stand a five-foot-high, two-foot wide wooden card outside the eighty paces, and the one with three shots and one hit with ten shots was fine.

The Qi family's military army regularly inspects the skills of non-commissioned officers, and gives different treatment according to the level of skills.

At this point, when the army was established in the early days, Chen Wang had already directly copied these regulations of the Qi family's army, and set up a skill examination system in the army.

Nowadays, most of the training of the army is also copied from the contents of the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and the "Practical Record of Military Training", but of course, it is not completely rigid, but some changes have been made accordingly according to the actual situation.

"Not only is it not bad, but the accuracy has even improved."

Hu Zhili replied with a rare smile on his face.

"Mr. Bo said that because of the design of this kind of gun holder, Brother Wang can allow the sergeant to provide support with his shoulders when holding this kind of firecracker, anyway, the firearm is more stable when shooting, and there will not be too much trembling, so the shooting accuracy is much higher."

"When I tried the gun, the data of the target of the gunner was much better than that of the bird gun in the past."

"However, it seems that Mr. Bo said that the reason why the accuracy has improved a lot seems to have a lot to do with the newly made gun bed."

"Wait......"

Chen Wang's hand holding the fire gun froze in mid-air, and it took half a sound to come back to his senses.

didn't care about anything else at the moment, and hurriedly asked.

"Gun bed?!"

Hu Zhili nodded, and when he saw Chen Wang's expression, he instantly understood that this matter seemed to be very important.

"Yes, it's the bed."

"Mr. Bo made a special tool for drilling the bore, which is driven by water power."

"Didn't Brother Wang first propose to use water power as a drive to drill the pipe? I remember Mr. Bo mentioned it in his letter. ”

Hu Zhili asked a little strangely.

"This is indeed the ...... I brought up first."

Chen Wang nodded, it was indeed him who came up first.

At that time, when he saw Bo Jue in the city, he mentioned to Bo Jue that he could use water power to drill the chamber.

Because of the reason for the storage of water and the dam, the water flow is stable, and the use of water power to drill the bore can undoubtedly greatly improve the efficiency.

Now the drill in the Ordnance Bureau is all used in the fallout steel, which is not excellent, and the loss is also very large when drilling.

When drilling the pipe, it cannot be formed at one time, and if the gun is drilled for too long, it may be overheated and deformed.

After drilling once, it is necessary to wait for the gun pipe to cool down before drilling, so it is extremely time-consuming to drill a gun pipe by hand, often taking nearly a month, which greatly restricts the output of the gun.

But it was proposed, and now it has only been less than two months, and Bo Jue has already made it, and it is not a product in the experimental stage, but it has been used in production.

"Mr. Bo said in the letter that the hole drilled by the bed is straighter than that drilled by the hand of a craftsman, so the accuracy is slightly higher, and the firing range is therefore much farther, and the farthest can shoot 130 paces, but because the distance is too far, the projectile damage is close to none."

"By the way, this is the blueprint of the bed designed by Mr. Bo, and it is attached to the report that was submitted."

Hu Zhili took out a drawing from his cuff and handed it over.

After all, he had been with Chen Wang for so long, and Hu Zhili knew that Chen Wang seemed to attach great importance to the equipment now, so after seeing the drawings, he asked people to copy another copy and then take it with him.

Chen Wang took the drawings from Hu Zhili's hands, and he noticed that Bo Jue's design drawings for the bed were similar to the drawings he had given Bo Jue before.

Data is annotated in many places, and there are different views.

Although Chen Wang does not specialize in these machinery, he has seen a lot of things, so he will naturally draw inferences from others.

The physics he learned in middle school was already one step ahead of this era, and the books he bought from the south were almost all seen by Chen Wang during this period of time.

In terms of theoretical knowledge alone, Chen Wang can be regarded as a master craftsman himself.

The bed designed by Bo Jue is quite long, about a foot long, and is driven by water power, and the main work is the drill pipe with a large metal drill cutter hanging.

The hydraulic force pushes the wooden rod through the card slot, and then the drill pipe will start to work according to the card slot and its own shape.

At this time, the drill cutter on the iron drill pipe will start to rotate in the fixed gun.

"This is the first type of machine, and there are still some problems when drilling it, so the efficiency is not very high, but it is much faster than manual."

"It only takes ten days to drill a pipe with a gun bed."

"Ten days?!"

Chen Wang's face couldn't help but smile when he heard this, and his efficiency was almost three times higher than before.

With this machine, a craftsman now drills three pipes, and only needs to drill one pipe, and the output is directly tripled.

If we go all out to make guns now, the armory workshop originally had 170 people, and it can make almost 500 bird guns in a month, which is already quite a good output.

However, today's new type of firecracker takes longer to produce than ordinary birdshots, and because of the shortage of reeds, the production is also quite limited.

Now calculate the time, the first batch of new craftsmen should also arrive in Hanzhong Mansion at about this time.

"There is no problem in Xi'an, how many craftsmen can come according to the plan?"

Chen Wang put down the firearm in his hand, put the butt of the gun on the ground, and held the firearm as if he were holding a spear.

"There is no problem, because there are quite a lot of people, so they are divided into three batches."

Hu Zhili naturally knew what Chen Wang was asking.

There were not enough craftsmen in the Hanzhong Guard Ordnance Bureau, Chen Wang had already sent someone to contact him before, and at this time he had become Luo Guizhong, who had become the commander of the Xi'an avant-garde.

Luo Guizhong himself intended to have a relationship with Chen Wang, after all, Chen Wang was hot at this time.

Both Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting attach great importance to Chen Wang, Chen Wang has been steadily rising all the way, compared to his promotion from commander to commander, Chen Wang's promotion from Qianzong all the way to the deputy chief of the town guard is undoubtedly more prosperous.

And Chen Wang offered a high price, and the two sides hit it off, although Xi'an Siwei is also a guard in the mainland, but for a variety of reasons, the number of craftsmen is not a few, compared to Hanzhongwei, the number of their craftsmen is much more.

"There are two hundred and seventeen armor craftsmen, one hundred and ten armor craftsmen, and more than one hundred and thirty carpenters and stonemasons, including more than 1,000 family members."

"There are so many people, they won't ......"

"Brother Wang, rest assured, the four guards in Xi'an have been arranged, and they haven't made many waves."

Hu Zhili knew that these things were extremely important, so Chen Wang didn't finish asking the question, he knew what Chen Wang was asking, and replied immediately,

"On the side of Hanzhong Mansion, Tang Shiping and Wang Yuankang are in charge together, taking the Meridian Road, using the name of aiding the construction of Shiquan, and taking the post of Governor Lin's mansion."

The prefect of Lin in Hu Zhili's mouth is naturally Lin Daoquan, the prefect of Hanzhong Mansion.

The relationship between Chen Wang and Lin Daoquan was quite harmonious, after all, not long after Chen Wang took office in Hanzhong Mansion, Hanzhong Mansion was no longer as harassed by bandits as before, and his investigation was also rated as the first-class.

It won't be long before Lin Daoquan will rise to the top, so many things Lin Daoquan will open the door to convenience.

The Ordnance Bureau is now able to produce all kinds of weapons without interruption, in fact, because of the convenient door opened by Lin Daoquan.

Now in Hanzhong Mansion, Chen Wang has a total of three medium-sized iron mines, one copper mine, and many other mines.

The original mine owners and mountain owners were all eliminated by the Liukou, and Chen Wang took advantage of Lin Daoquan's power to directly take them into his pocket.

One of the largest iron ore mines is next to Yangxian County, which is a magnetite mine with very little sulfur content and excellent quality iron ore mined.

Most of the ore mined in these mines is used or stored for their own use, and a small part is sold.

In addition to the mines, Chen Wang also managed a lot of salt wells.

Counting, Chen Wang is now a big smuggler of salt.

Now Chen Wang is not sitting on a mountain and eating nothing, these are important sources of his income today.

Compared with Chen Wang's current expenditure, these revenues are far from enough.

Moreover, now that the expenditure is gradually increasing, it is necessary to have a new method of accumulating money, otherwise relying only on the income from mines, salt, and tuntian, at most we can only maintain the status quo, and there is no way to continue to expand and develop.

"Tang Shiping is in charge of the Ordnance Bureau, let him draw up a charter and divide the work."

"By October, I will have 1,000 guns for such a new type of firearm, 24 three-pound cannons, 6 five-pound cannons, and 300 collars each for iron armor, cotton armor, and chain mail."

Chen Wang had a plan in his heart, and spoke again at the moment.

King Qin went north, and he was ready to bring 3,000 soldiers and horses, that is, almost a battalion, and the surplus men and horses were according to the auxiliaries.

About a third of them are holding this new type of firecracker,

The way to make money and accumulate money, Chen Wang's heart has long been in the draft, in the past, he just suffered from not having a stable base, but now it is different from the past, and it can start to unfold slowly.

But all this will have to wait until he returns to Shiquan.

"Is this a name?"

"It's not decided yet, Mr. Bo said that this is a gun designed by Brother Wang, and Brother Wang should be named."

"Let me choose a name?"

Chen Wang raised the fire gun in his hand again.

Feeling the weight in his hand, he didn't know why, but he suddenly thought of a poem.

"It's called...... Swear by the sea......"

"Sea oath?"

"Yes, sea oath."

Chen Wang raised his head and looked at the rolling mountains of Guanbei.

Autumn sends Xinhong to mourn and break the country, and the day is hungry and the tiger is [niè] empty forest.

There is an oath in his chest that is deeper than the sea, and he is willing to make Shenzhou sink on land?

Translations:

The sorrowful cry of the autumn geese also understands the tragedy of the loss of the country, and the hungry tigers in the empty forest will come out to bite people during the day.

I have a vow in my heart that is deeper than the sea, how can I let Shenzhou land sink like this?

(End of chapter)