Chapter Eighty-Six: Type 1391 Rifles
For this seemingly promising idea, Xia Lin once again went to Kyle's Potion Shop and explained to Master Connie the rune disc he needed.
"This is a rune that was broken down from the flaming arrow, right? What do you want such runes for? This rune disk can't fire flaming arrows, it can only condense a flame that is out of shape, and it's useless!"
Master Connie, who was familiar with various spell models, saw the source of Xia Lin's spell model at first glance and asked in surprise.
He has been studying runes and spell models for many years, and many mages also know that some runes can be effective when combined, but this kind of spell has no power at all, and is just a defective product.
Master Connie didn't expect that there would be a person who needed to make such a defective rune plate by himself today.
"I only need the flames produced by the Flame Arrow, which is why I designed this rune disk, Master Connie, how much do you estimate it will cost to make this rune disk into this style?"
Xia Lin pointed to the rune plate he had designed, which was about four centimeters wide and six centimeters long. This is about 3/4 the size of a normal rune disk.
"Although the power of such a rune plate will be weakened due to the reduced material requirements, the price is not much different from that of a normal rune plate because of the increased difficulty of inscription.
But just need a flame? Then you can use the Zero Ring Fire Rune Disk, and the material cost will be cheaper!"
Hearing that Xia Lin's request was actually just the flames generated by this rune disk, Master Connie said with some surprise.
"Huh? Master Connie, can the flame technique you mentioned also produce flames?"
Xia Lin was stunned for a moment when he heard Master Connie's words, and said with some surprise.
Among the spells he mastered, only the Flame Arrow and the Scorching Ray could produce open flames, and the Zero Ring's heating temperature was only a few hundred degrees Celsius, which was not enough to ignite the gunpowder, so he turned his mind to the Flame Arrow spell model.
"Absolutely! Don't you know? But this is also normal, except for some mages who often travel in the wild to find relics and need fire, and it is also an alchemist like me who will master this spell.
After all, there are still many nobles and merchants who use this fire magic rune plate to make fire."
After a moment of amazement, Master Connie also realized the reason, and explained the approximate use of this flame technique, he raised a finger, and an orange flame burst out on his index finger:
"Look, can such a flame meet your requirements?"
"Yes! Absolutely! Then ask Master Conny to estimate how much this Flame Rune Disk will cost?"
Xia Lin looked at the actual effect of the flame technique and suddenly rejoiced, wasn't this the spell he wanted most to ignite the gunpowder? He immediately asked impatiently.
"Come to think of it, the Zero Ring Spell Rune Plate is usually cheaper, but the structure of the Flame Technique is more complicated, and the cost may be higher, about 90 silver mar a piece, right?"
"90 silver mar? ……」
Xia Lin hesitated a little when he heard this offer, wouldn't the cost of a musket reach one gold lunt? Three muskets are enough to buy a set of the cheapest plate armor, which is not cheap!
"Master Connie, if I need a large number of Flame Rune Discs, the first batch is about 1,000 yuan, can you give me a little discount?"
"Ahem! A thousand Flame Rune Disks?!
What the hell are you going to do with this?"
Hearing Xia Lin's words, Master Connie, who was holding up the teacup and drinking tea, choked and almost spilled the black tea on his clothes, he put down the teacup and wiped the tea stains on the table with a cleaning technique, and asked with surprise.
"This...... Sorry, it's a trade secret!"
Xia Lin said helplessly.
"Humph! It's that rhetoric again! Forget it, if you really want so many rune plates, my alchemy workshop won't be able to provide so much for the time being.
However, if you want 100 yuan in batches, you can complete a batch in about 7 days, and I can calculate you 100 yuan and 80 gold lun
It can't be lower!"
Hearing this familiar excuse, Master Connie tapped his index finger on the table in dissatisfaction, but finally did not pursue the question.
"80 silver mar a piece? Let's sign a contract to buy 100 Flame Rune Disks! I also need a few pieces of stock now to see if I can get what I need, can Master Connie make a few now for me to take back and see?"
Xia Lin thought about it for a moment and felt that the price was actually a bit expensive, but he decided to buy 100 yuan first to try the effect.
If it really doesn't work, Xia Lin can also turn to light the arquebus, although it is troublesome, but the arquebus is cheap, with the processing capacity of the industrial park, the cost of one is about 12 silver mar.
"There's nothing wrong with that, I'll be able to do it soon!"
Master Connie didn't have anything to do with this request, and nodded and agreed.
The two sides happily signed the contract, and Master Connie quickly returned to the alchemy workshop behind the potion shop and began to get busy, and after about an hour, he finally completed the three Flame Rune Plates according to Xia Lin's request.
Xia Lin hurriedly returned to the R&D center with these three rune disks, and asked Master Faun to use the machine tools he brought to process all the various parts needed for the musket.
After assembly, the first magic musket named the Type 1391 Rifle Type 1 by Xia Lin was born in this world.
Although the magic component of the whole gun is only the firing device, it also makes this musket expensive, so the name of the magic musket is more than enough.
After making a batch of paper-shell fixed ammunition, Xia Lin led a group of people to the field at sunset, erected a steel plate gun target twenty meters away, and fixed the Type 1391 rifle on a wooden frame.
He then stuffed the paper-shell cartridge into the barrel, pressed it to the bottom with a strip, and after a simple aiming adjustment, he stood three meters away from the rifle and pulled the trigger with a rope.
With the *** and bullet yellow inside the gun body, the magic stone on the hammer was driven to touch the fire spell rune disk, and the rune disk immediately took effect and produced flames.
However, these flames were enclosed in the breech of the gun, and could only pour into the back of the barrel through a small hole with a one-way valve that was reserved, instantly igniting the fire paper and the black powder inside.
A burst of fire and smoke visible to the naked eye in the sunset came out of the muzzle of the gun, and with a "bang", the steel plate target not far away shook violently.
"It worked!"
Xia Lin saw that the Flame Rune Disk had fired the rifle as he expected, and immediately showed a happy smile, and immediately asked people to take down the target to see how powerful this Type 1391 Type 1 rifle was.
The result was naturally gratifying, the powerful particle black powder allowed the lead warhead to easily penetrate a steel plate target with a thickness of 2 at a distance of 50 distances, and this lethality was enough to pose a great threat to the heavily armed knights on the battlefield.
Taking turns looking at the small hole the thickness of the index finger that appeared on the steel plate, Master Faun and the staff all looked surprised.
However, the first test of the gun naturally did not end so simply, and then Xia Lin continued to repeat the test, constantly letting people set up steel targets farther away.
In the end, Xia Lin tested that the effective range of the Type 1391 Type 1 rifle, which had a barrel length of only 700, was 230 and was capable of 17 bursts.
For example, what kind of dud, bullet range and power drop or something, the most serious thing is naturally the explosion of the chamber.
However, Xia Lin has already found a solution to this problem, that is, to go to the Cleaning Rune Disk, and assign each class a Cleaning Rune Disk, which can quickly clean up the residue in the gun chamber, but the cost may be a little unsatisfactory.
After the R&D center that completed the first phase of infrastructure construction completed the research and development of the Type 1391 rifle, Xia Lin naturally did not waste the biggest advantage of the fixed paper shell bullet, that is, it can be fired continuously.
So he spent another three days designing a Type 2 rifle that was fed by the breech of the magazine
It was handed over to Master Faun and the staff of the gun factory to develop and manufacture.
In addition, the cannon was also put on the research and development schedule by Xia Lin, combined with the current technical level of the industrial park, Xia Lin designed an 80 caliber, using a combination of thread and wedge iron to close the breech gun.
The design of the bolt of this breech gun has appeared many times in previous lives, and even after receiving a batch of salute orders from the city in the small processing factory attached to the steel plant, Xia Lin has seen it several times when he checked some information.
For example, the famous Armstrong cannon in the history of the previous life adopted this design, and its biggest advantage is that it is simple, reliable and easy to process.
In addition, the bolt tightness of this combination of screw and wedge is also quite good, but the loading operation will be more cumbersome, and the displacement of the gun body will be very large after the gun is fired.
After completing the design of the cannon, Xia Lin once again brought in the construction team to build a simple steel frame grass shed in the R&D center, and adopted a diatomaceous earth fireproof gun factory, and began to build a huge quenching furnace for gun quenching and two quenching pools filled with cold water and cold oil respectively.
The steel barrel of the gun body is quenched by water cooling and oil, and the strength of the gun body can reach a considerable degree, which is also an indispensable part of modern artillery.