Last time, I talked about Zhu Youzhen and his concubine going to the "Luban Gate" to relax, but they saw that Zhu Youxiao was tinkering with a "new weapon", which turned out to be a "Gatling machine gun" in later generations.

"Dare to ask my brother, are you going to re-improve the 'Multi-Eyed Beads'?" Emperor Chongzhen and his concubines were puzzled, after all, Zhu Youxiao had not yet set foot in Xiuzhen, but was a famous "carpenter emperor" in history, not only extremely good at carpentry, but also ingenious, good at imitation, improvement and creation.

"Haha, yes!" Zhu Youxiao didn't intend to hide it, and then after pinching the magic trick in his hand, he shook his body, and conjured out more than a dozen "spell clones" that were exactly the same as himself, and they also spat flames one after another, or changed their limbs, or directly reached out to grab the iron that was burned red, and pulled and shaped.

I saw that some of those clones were making "barrels", some were making "gears", some were making "shafts", and some were making "sons...... After about half an hour, a nine-foot-long "multi-eyed bead gun" resembling a small carriage was placed safely on two wooden wheel shelves, which was very strange.

"Giggles, I wonder what Uncle is doing with this thing? The gun is not like a gun, the cannon is not like a gun, and there are so many pipes, how to masturbate? ”

The queen's sister-in-law and sisters frowned slightly after seeing the "new weapon" in front of them, I don't know what to say? had to turn to Zhu Youxiao one after another.

"Haha, sisters-in-law, don't worry, let's show you for my brother!" As soon as the words fell, two mana powers were released with a wave of his hands, like a hurricane crossing, instantly forcibly moving all people and things within a thousand steps in front of him, and then confiscating all the shields and armor of the surrounding guard doors with a single thought.

Just as the guards were panicking, they saw dozens of shields and dozens of pairs of armor falling from the sky one after another, landing eight hundred and nine hundred paces ahead. At this time, Zhu Youxiao's mind moved, and four "spell clones" stepped forward to operate the "new weapon", one was responsible for aiming and shaking the handlebar, and the three were loaded.

"Do-do-beep, do-beep, do-beep, do-beep-bee......p-bee The sound of gunfire is like that of "gunners" or "electric drills" in later generations, and the sound of bullets is sharp.

"Uh...... This...... I didn't expect that there would be such a powerful 'big killing weapon' in this world? If it is mastered by mortals, wouldn't it be a threat to the immortals? ”

"Haha, brother, what do you think? This 'multi-eyed invincible divine power firebolt' is not bad, right? Zhu Youxiao said proudly: "This 'fire gun' comes from my 'Luban Gate', so it will be called 'Luban Gong' from now on!" With this invincible firearm in hand, it doesn't matter if he is a Mongolian cavalry or a pirate, he will all be beaten into a sieve! ”

In fact, in the 19th century, when the development of metal gun bullets gradually matured, American inventors began to design manual machine guns. However, it was not until the time of the American Civil War that machine guns were taken seriously by the military. From the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 19th century, it was the prevalent period for countries around the world to develop high-speed weapons. During this period, bursting machine guns appeared one after another, which were of interest to the military, increasing the density of fire.

American Richard Jordan Gatlin had a keen interest in mechanical design from a young age. He often assisted his father in the manufacture of various machines and tools, and he himself invented machinery and equipment such as cotton planters and marine propellers. When he was 17 years old, he even applied for a patent for a rice planter (rice transplanter) and popularized its application locally. Gatlin's experience and wisdom laid a solid foundation for his later firearms design.

During the "Civil War" in the United States, Gatling learned that the guns used by soldiers at that time needed to be manually loaded with gunpowder and projectiles, so that many soldiers were killed by the enemy before they could reload the second bullet. As a result, Gatling thought, "If we could invent a weapon that fired continuously, and allowed one person to exert the power of a hundred people, the impact on the shape of war would be enormous." From then on, Gatling decided to develop a new weapon.

In the summer of 1861, Gatling began to design and conceive the "rotary machine gun", and after learning about the principle of rifle firing of the revolver gun in the book, he got inspiration from it: "By using a set of transmission mechanisms, several barrels rotate around a common axis, and an independent firing device is set in each barrel, so that continuous fire can be completed." This was the initial inspiration for his design and manufacture of the Gatling gun, and it was Gatling's major discovery.

During the development process, Gatling "bundled" multiple barrels into a circle, and rotated the cylinder through the crank crank, so that each barrel completed the actions of loading, firing, and shelling in turn, so that the interval between musket shots was greatly shortened. After the design drawings for the new machine gun were completed, Gatlin asked Miles Greenwood to build six prototypes, but in a fire, the prototype guns and blueprints were unexpectedly burned out.

This sudden setback didn't bring down Gatlin. He then went on to design and develop machine guns, and spent several months redesigning the drawings to produce 12 prototypes at another machine-building company. In the process, Gatling also tried to create two "machine guns".

During the test test of the sample gun, Gatling found that the cartridge case of the paper shell used at that time was very fragile, which made the machine gun have the problem of gunpowder gas leakage in the case of high-speed fire, and even easily caused the bullet to jam. To this end, Gatling used non-mainstream metal cartridge shells, which made the high-hardness cartridge shells match with the high-speed "Gatling machine gun", and completely solved the old problem of bullet jamming, and achieved success.

The "Gatling machine gun" was designed to fire a coherent shot of each bullet, including two design features of the "rotary machine gun": first, it provided a cylindrical rotating body with a firing pin in the lock chamber, which rotated with the barrel; The second is that each barrel has an independent firing pin. All subsequent designs similar to the "Gatling gun" can no longer be patented. It seems that at that time, it was also very important for European and American countries to "apply for patent protection" for new technologies.

In 1865, the "Gatling gun" was further improved; In 1866, the "Gatling machine gun" was equipped with the U.S. Army; After 1865, the "Gatling machine gun" was changed from the original 4 barrels to 6 barrels; 1867 - In 1868, the barrel of the "Gatling gun" was increased to 10 and began to be distributed to the American border guards;

In 1870, after a comparative test, the British government also established a branch factory in England and mass-produced "Tling machine guns" after being authorized by the American company and collecting the corresponding patent protection fees. At the same time, the Tsarist government also purchased the "Gatling machine gun" and renamed it the "Golov machine gun". Since 1884, automatic weapons have been invented one after another in various countries around the world using automatic principles such as tube-retracted and semi-free bolt-operated types.

Compared to these single-barreled automatic weapons, the advantages of the Gatling rotary machine gun no longer exist, but the disadvantages are even more obvious. When Richard Jordan Gatlin died in 1903, his invention of the "multi-barreled hand-cranked rotary machine gun" had largely disappeared. The armies of most countries in the world have switched to automatic weapons, such as the tube-retreat "Maxim machine gun", the gas-guided "Browning machine gun" and the "Harchikai machine gun".

Later, due to the update and iteration of "machine gun" technology, many "antique" "Gatling machine guns" were completely destroyed as scrap copper and rotten iron, while others were lost in dusty warehouses, or excavated and used in museums and private collections for exhibition.

In 1884, the Qing Dynasty in old China began to copy the "Gatling 1883" machine gun in the "Jinling Arsenal". At that time, the "Gatling machine gun" imitated by China changed the "three-wheeled mode" of the original "Gatling 1883" machine gun to the Chinese wheelbarrow style, which was not only light and flexible, low price, but also more suitable for China's geographical characteristics and national conditions.

After 1883, Gatling improved the old machine gun and invented the "rotary machine gun" that used "compressed air" and "gunpowder gas" to drive to achieve "automatic circulation". According to historical records, in the "Russo-Turkish War", there were 8 companies of Russian troops using "Telling machine guns", which is equivalent to 50 per company.

In the "Zulu War" in 1879, the British army dominated the initiative on the battlefield with the help of "Gatling machine guns". Another British naval unit began to install "Tling machine guns" on its ships to enhance the ship's firepower.

It was not until the eighties and nineties of the 19th century that the more cumbersome "Gatling machine gun" was squeezed out of the historical stage of war due to the advent of the "Maxim machine gun". From the day of its birth, the working principle of the "Gatling Rotary Machine Gun" has determined that it has the advantages of being able to fire in bursts and has strong firepower, but it also has disadvantages such as large weight, taking up space, and poor mobility.

In the military field, like many other inventions, the Gatling machine gun was a "premature baby" because the world's mainstream military thinking was not ready for its birth at the time.

In 1862, there was no tactical need for "machine guns" in the armies of the world, because the armies at that time did not know how to effectively use a machine gun as a high-efficiency firepower, but used the "machine gun" in infantry attacks as a close support weapon.

It was not until 1898 that the U.S. Army demonstrated it, and even later in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I, armies often used the tactics of large-scale infantry group charges. It can be seen that until the beginning of the 20th century, many countries did not pay enough attention to the power of machine guns.

What is even more unfortunate is that even "Gatling" and other genius inventors, while constantly solving technical problems and striving to perfect their own inventions, unconsciously dug a "grave" for their own inventions, because when manual weapons were developed to the extreme, they also created mature conditions for the emergence of "automatic weapons". In other words, if it is a semi-automatic machine gun, it must be transformed into a "machine gun" with fully automatic ammunition loading.

At that time, the "Gatling machine gun" made a highlight on the battlefield because of its unique multi-barrel rotation design, and each barrel had an independent firing device, compared with the single-barrel reloading guns of the time, the "Gatling machine gun" had an absolute advantage in firepower. Its rate of fire was as high as more than 200 rounds per minute, which was an absolute staggering number at the time, and Bingye also made its designer "Gatling" obtain more than 40 patents, becoming the "father of machine guns".

It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that the "Gatling machine gun" was gradually eliminated, and the reason for this was that the operation of the "Gatling machine gun" required 4 people to complete, while the "Maxim machine gun" that appeared later only needed 2 people to complete, that is, one person was responsible for adding ammunition and one person was aiming and shooting.

The second is the issue of rate of fire. Although the "Gatling machine gun" can fire 200 or even 400 rounds per minute, the rate of fire of other "machine guns" such as the "Maxim Guan gun" can reach more than 600 rounds per minute.

Third, the size and weight of the "Gatling machine gun" are far above those of other machine guns, so it must be erected on a towering large wheel mount to ensure stable shooting, which makes its mobility and concealment unable to be compared with other machine guns, and the shooter is easy to be killed by enemy shelling on the battlefield.

The "Gatling gun" was the first "semi-automatic weapon" to appear on the battlefield, using a unique multi-barrel rotating design, each barrel has an independent firing device, compared with all the single-barrel reloading muskets that appeared at that time, it has an absolute firepower advantage, and the rate of fire is absolutely amazing!

"Uh...... Multi-eyed and invincible firearms? Lu Ban Gong? Sure enough, it's the most powerful killer weapon of all my 'fire guns' in the Ming Dynasty! You have to gear it up! ”

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