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Chapter 93 Rifle Demonstration
"Has it been made yet?

That's just right, Master Fine, this is Her Royal Highness Dorothea Ahlica, the second imperial daughter of the Empire, and these two are the Minister of Finance of the Empire, His Excellency Earl Stuart Lawrence, and the Minister of Commerce, Karen Hosea Your Excellency the Earl.

They are all big directors of the industrial park and high-level business alliances, and they are here today to watch the power of the new weapons.

法恩大师你让小伙子们带三支1391式1型步枪与三支1391式2型步枪，还有那座80mm口径火炮到射击场演练一下这些新式武器！”

Xia Lin glanced at Master Fine unexpectedly and said.

The structure of the 1391-type 2 rifle he designed is several times more complicated than that of the 1-type rifle, which is equivalent to directly spanning from the era of front-loading guns to the era of breech-loading guns.

In order to give full play to the advantages of fixed paper shell bullets, Xialin designed eight rounds of magazines and a spring feed device in the Type 2 rifle, hoping to achieve a rate of fire similar to that of the famous Water Lianzhu M1 Garand.

Of course, these are the expected effects that Xia Lin, a semi-military blind, designed to achieve. As for whether these Type 2 rifles can be achieved after they are produced, it is still a question.

"Sir Charlene, these machines look very different from the ones you showed us around the industrial park last time. What are they for?"

When Master Fine went to gather the manpower, Princess Dorothea looked around at the machines and equipment in this simple factory and asked curiously.

"Your Highness, these machines are all necessary equipment for the production of rifles and artillery. They are all processed by the upgraded machine tool equipment of the machine tool factory. The production capacity is several times stronger than the crude machines you saw last time.

For example, this boring machine is a machine used to bore steel out of the inner circle to form a gun barrel, and this friction press can punch out 600 lead bullets at a time.

There is also this automatic paper cutting machine, which can cut a special paper into squares of a specified size, and then use these small sticks to roll these small pieces of paper into cylinders.

In this way, our subsequent workers only need to apply glue on the edge of the cylinder to quickly manufacture the paper casings required by the bullets.

As for the huge furnace and two pools, they are used for heat treatment of the processed artillery barrel. "

"Then Sir Xia Lin, can your friction press punch out many arrows at one time?"

Listening to Xia Lin's explanation, Earl Stewart stepped forward to carefully observe the working principle of the press, touched the iron shell of the press thoughtfully, and turned back to ask.

"Of course this is also possible, but our cattle don't provide enough power, and it may be more difficult to stamp steel and pig iron with this machine.

If it is possible to build a dam and use the hydraulic power provided by the dam to drive this machine, tens of thousands of arrows should be produced in a day. "

Xia Lin didn't expect Earl Stewart to see the usefulness of the friction press so quickly, and explained unexpectedly.

"Is it a dam? I'm afraid it will be a bit expensive! It will also have a great impact on shipping."

Hearing Xia Lin's explanation, Earl Stewart shook his head, and did not continue to mention this matter.

As the finance minister of the empire, he is not too interested in things like dams that affect economic development. Anyway, the supply of arrows to the army has nothing to do with the Finance Department under his command. I just asked out of curiosity. That's all.

While the few people were talking, Master Fine also quickly arranged the candidates for the rehearsal. A total of ten people used a carriage to pull the rifles and artillery from the warehouse to the shooting range, and began to skillfully arrange these weapons on the wooden frames and gun positions. superior.

Xia Lin and the others followed closely behind and came to the observation area planned with limestone on the test site, waiting for the drill to start.

Looking at the huge cannon with a caliber of 80mm, a barrel length of 1.5m, and a wall thickness of 50mm, it was painstakingly installed on the gun emplacement by ten strong guys carrying wooden sticks on their shoulders and carrying hands. Princess Dorothea and the two earls Your Excellency has high expectations for this kind of artillery, which is hailed as the "King of War" in Xia Lin's plan.

However, the first drills were the 1391 Type 1 and Type 2 rifles.

"Load!...Ready!...Fire!"

When the weapons and equipment are ready, a commanding officer plays the role of an officer in the field and waves the flag, asking the operator to perform a series of firing steps.

The 1391-type 1 rifle, which uses fixed-loaded cardboard bullets, fired at a very fast speed. Soon after a burst of smoke and gunshots, the steel target in the distance shook for a while.

Xia Lin asked someone to remove the steel plate on the target and took it to the observation stand to show it to Princess Dorothea and the two earls:
"Your Royal Highness, Your Excellency the Earls, this is a 3mm thin steel plate produced by our steel processing factory. 3mm is roughly the average thickness of the plate armor worn by knights.

You can see that the lead bullets fired by our 1391-type 1 rifle easily penetrated this plate armor at a distance of 100m, which is about 80 long pines.

Only enchanted plate armor, or mithril and fine gold armor can completely defend against the power of this musket.

Next we will demonstrate the power of our newly developed Type 1391 Type 2 rifle.

This kind of rifle uses a magazine to feed ammunition, and the paper shell bullets are automatically loaded through spring pressure. My hope is that the rate of fire can be increased to four seconds and eight rounds, so that the soldiers of the new army can form a barrage to contain the battlefield. On the charge of the knights! "

After the explanation, Xia Lin waved his hand to signal the operator to continue demonstrating the power of the 1391-type 2 rifle that had just been produced amidst the admiration of Her Royal Highness and the two earls.

"Load!...Ready!...Fire!"

"Bang bang bang!"

This time the gunshot was no longer one shot, but four rounds in a row, but after the four rounds, no matter how the operator pulled the string connected to the trigger, the Type 2 rifle would no longer fire.

Of the three Model 2 rifles, only one managed to fire seven rounds in a row, while the remaining two fired four and six rounds, respectively.

However, it is understandable that the rifle that has just been successfully produced has this problem. After all, the Type 2 rifle with breech automatic loading is much more complicated than the Type 1 rifle with front loading.

Xia Lin asked someone to bring a jammed Type 2 rifle to the observation area, opened the chamber, looked at the cardboard bullets stuck in the inlet, and thought for a moment to Master Fine, by the way, They also explained to Her Royal Highness:

"Hmm... I think this may be due to the insufficient spring force of the spring mechanism. If you encounter this kind of problem, you only need to replace the spring with stronger spring force. I think it can be easily solved."

"I think this is enough. It can penetrate the plate armor of knights at a distance of 80 long binies. Such weapons have been used on the battlefield. I just don't know the difference between these two rifles. How much does it cost?"

Although the Type 2 rifle did not fully achieve the effect that Xia Lin said, Princess Dorothea was satisfied enough with this power, range and rate of fire.

Seeing the scene of Type 2 rifles firing, she could easily imagine the scene of heavily armed knights charging at the soldiers of the new army on the battlefield, only to be shot down by bullets like splashing water.

“1型步枪一支大概要92银玛尔，2型步枪一支1金伦特8银玛尔。”

After Xia Lin inquired about Master Fine, he quoted the prices of the two rifles.

"Is that so? Then our soldiers can only wear leather armor?"

Upon hearing this price, Princess Dorothea thought for a while and said with some concern.

(End of this chapter)