Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chongzhen asked Lu Jiude to move the human-shaped target to twenty steps.

Now the hit rate is even higher, almost all hits.

It's no wonder that Anza's lobster soldiers insisted on setting the distance of the first salvo of firepower within [-] meters, because the hit rate of the flintlock guns is [-]% for firepower salvos within [-] meters.

Even considering the dumb miss rate, the overall hit rate is over [-]%!
In other words, a salvo of firepower within [-] meters can cause about [-]% of the enemy's own casualties, which is undoubtedly an extremely terrifying figure.

In this case, even if about [-]% of your own soldiers are killed by the enemy during the process of advancing, it’s okay, because after entering [-] meters, you only need a wave of firepower to make up for it!

Then from the second wave of fire salvo, it is blood earning, earning all the time!

It has to be said that there is a scientific basis for the lobster soldiers to insist on staying within [-] meters before firing.

Chongzhen felt that the first wave of salvos within [-] meters would require too much psychological quality for officers and soldiers. This is a bit difficult for a new army, but [-] meters can still be tried. The newly recruited infantry should be able to achieve this after a period of training and exercise.

After testing the hit rate, Chongzhen went on to test the lethality.

The test results show that within 30 steps ([-] meters), the triple armor of chain mail, cotton armor and iron armor can be easily penetrated, and its lethality is even more powerful than that of the Lumi gun.

Because the Lumi blunderbuss could not penetrate the triple armor of Jiannu Baijia soldiers even within [-] steps. This has been confirmed in the battle of Yunlong Mountain in Xuzhou.

At that time, the Lumi blunderbuss really had nothing to do with Jiannu white armor soldiers.

Not to mention ordinary bird guns, they are all decorations.

In fact, this is also reasonable. The top blacksmiths who built this flintlock gun, especially the gun barrel, have even stricter requirements for blacksmith skills.

After the implementation of mass production in the future, the performance of the flintlock will definitely decline to a certain extent. After all, the level of blacksmiths in the Daming 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 will definitely drop.

But it should be no problem to penetrate triple armor within twenty steps.

In other words, from now on, there is no need to fear the close combat of Jiannu white armor soldiers!

However, apart from close combat, Jiannu white armor soldiers can also shoot cold arrows at fifty or even eighty steps away, so it depends on the lethality of the flintlock gun at fifty or even eighty steps 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 dropped sharply.

At a distance of thirty paces, a flintlock can only penetrate one piece of armor, and chain mail, cotton armor, or iron armor can penetrate only one piece of armor, and two pieces of armor cannot penetrate.

And beyond fifty steps (80 meters), even a piece of heavy armor cannot be penetrated.

However, ordinary war jackets and ordinary leather armor can still be easily penetrated.

This is also the biggest flaw of front-loading smoothbore guns in the era of black powder. If you use a conical bullet, it will easily roll over after being fired. At ten steps, it is basically impossible to penetrate the armor, and at more than a hundred steps, there is almost no lethality at all.

It seems that it is still impossible to completely suppress the white armored soldiers by relying on flintlock guns.

Thirty steps away, white armored soldiers can have a crushing advantage over musketeers.

But it's nothing, because the number of Jiannu white armor soldiers is limited, and it takes a long time to develop, while the number of musketeers in the Ming army will soon start at [-], and the training time is extremely short.

It is impossible for Jiannu to fight against the Ming Dynasty simply by fighting for consumption.

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

This can largely protect the musketeers from being killed by Jiannu white armor soldiers.

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

What needs to be explained is that Chongzhen equipped Gao Qiqian with paper shell bullets, which is why he has such a rate of fire. Otherwise, this old eunuch would not have such a fast hand speed.

Fire two rounds per minute, which is already the limit rate of fire of the matchlock gun.

Even a well-trained musketeer can only fire two rounds per minute.

However, there is obviously a lot of room for improvement in firing flintlock guns from high dives. If you switch to a well-trained musketeer, you can at least three shots per minute.

If you give this musketeer some time to get familiar with, four rounds per minute are also possible.

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

Thinking of this, Chongzhen could no longer hold back, and had to quickly formulate the production process of flintlock guns.

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

It is necessary to equip the new army of Ming Dynasty with flintlock guns and standardized Hongyi cannons before the outbreak of the next war. In this way, field battles will no longer be fearful of building slaves.

Immediately, Chongzhen asked a dozen old blacksmiths to surround him.

"Masters, let's go through the entire production process of the flintlock gun from beginning to end." Chongzhen said, "See where there are still difficulties, and start with the rolling of the gun barrel."

"The rolling of the barrel is no problem." The old blacksmith in charge of rolling the barrel said, "The rolling of the barrel of this flintlock gun is similar to the rolling of the barrel of the bird blunderbuss and Lumi blunderbuss. There is not much difference. The only thing is The only problem is that it is time-consuming, and a one-foot-long gun barrel has to be rolled for several days before it can finally be formed."

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

The blacksmith in charge of welding said: "Welding is no problem, it's all ringing copper and welding."

Without waiting for Chongzhen to ask questions, the third blacksmith also continued: "Long live, making a flintlock gun is not more difficult than a Lumi blunderbuss, but there are many more components, especially the trigger has many components. , Polishing and then assembling, it may be troublesome, but it is not impossible to solve."

Chongzhen waved his hand and said: "The trigger must not be filed by hand anymore, it must be cast uniformly."

The blacksmith in charge of the casting said: "If it is casting, it must be cast by the lost wax method, otherwise the cast components are not fine enough and may not be assembled."

After a pause, he said again: "It's just that the lost wax method is a bit expensive."

"Guiye is cast by the lost wax method." Chongzhen Qiangang said arbitrarily.

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

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

"Now?" Zhan Yangzhi was stunned for a moment and replied, "Not one of the new orders has been produced yet."

The Daming Armory is now an assembly line operation, and the materials are prepared in batches first, and then flow down from one process to the next, until the final assembly process.

So either a batch of [-] pieces were produced at the same time, or none at all.

Now the first batch of [-] new-style Lumi guns has just entered the process of drilling the barrel, which is to expand the small hole in the center of the barrel when it was just forged to form it to four quarters.

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

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

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

"Then there is no need to produce new Lumi guns." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Change to flintlock guns!"

"Ah? Change the flintlock?" Zhan Yangzhi's face collapsed, and he thought to himself that you can't do this, the Holy One. It's very difficult for us to do it when you think of it like this.

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

"But, but..." Zhan Yangzhi cried out anxiously, "A thousand gun barrels are already being drilled and polished, a thousand gun barrels are being welded, and a thousand more have been rolled. The root gun tubes are all invalid?"

"The barrel doesn't matter." Chongzhen laughed, "The barrel of the flintlock gun is the same as the Lumi gun."

"Oh, that's okay." Zhan Yangzhi heaved a sigh of relief, as long as the gun barrel is not invalidated, it will be fine.

Chongzhen went on to say: "Also, your monthly output of [-] sticks is not enough, you have to continue to expand."

The Lumi gun production line of the Daming Armory can produce [-] guns every three months, and the average monthly output is about [-] guns. The rate of defective products is not considered here.

"My lord, this really can't be expanded." Zhan Yangzhi complained, "It's already the limit. It's not because I can't spend money to build more factory furnaces. There are really not so many old blacksmiths who can be used."

"Now just to produce [-] guns a month, it takes [-] old blacksmiths."

"If the output is increased to [-], we will need [-] old blacksmiths."

"This is not counting the apprentices who work for the old blacksmith, and there are more than [-] blacksmiths in total."

"This is just the workshop of the Lumi gun. In addition to the Lumi gun, there are tiger squatting cannons and Hongyi cannons. If you really follow your request, the Daming Armory will have to recruit [-] blacksmiths!"

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

After a pause, he said again: "However, it will be fine in a year or so. After a year, the first batch of blacksmith apprentices will be able to graduate, and the output will be doubled by then."

Hearing this, Chongzhen couldn't help sighing.

Even if the output is doubled, it will only produce 2000 flintlock guns per month, which is really not enough.

So, it wasn't that Zhan Yangzhi didn't want to take the big order, it was because of his strength that he didn't allow it.

It would be great if a steam engine could be made. With the steam engine as the power, a forging press could be made. At that time, the processing of the gun tube would no longer need to be hammered, the speed would increase geometrically, and the drilling would be even better. Needless to say, a drilling machine is more than ten times more efficient than doing it by hand.