The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 211
Chen Wang looked at the firecracker in his hand. The firecracker he was holding in his hand was the sample gun made by Bo Jue's blueprint not long ago.

The sample gun in Chen Wang's hand is already equipped with a bayonet, which is a sleeve type bayonet.

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

Chen Wang lightly shook the firecracker in his hand, and raised it with both hands as if holding a spear. After getting used to it for a while, he also found a little feeling of using a spear.

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

After the firecrackers equipped with bayonets became popular, Chen Wang also prepared to teach his soldiers how to stab with bayonets and coordinate tactics.

The blunderbuss body and the blunderbuss support are more than five feet long, and the bayonet is more than six feet long. Converted into meters for later generations, it is almost two meters long.

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

During this period, the spears in the hands of general spearmen were basically more than one foot long, more than four meters.

However, the spears in the hands of the pikemen did not deny the ability to shoot from a long distance. They could neither trigger shots from a hundred paces away, nor penetrate iron armor within fifty paces.

But now this firecracker can do it, and it has the ability of long-range strike and melee combat at the same time.

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

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

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

The evidence was the five-page report on professional skills sent by Bo Jue, which made Chen Wang feel that he might not really know Chinese characters.

"How's the fire rate?"

"It is said to be about [-]%, and the ignition rate is not high. If granular gunpowder is used as the primer, it will be even lower."

Chen Wang frowned slightly. He knew that the ignition rate was considered good at this stage, but he still hoped it could be higher.

In the period when the flintlock technology was perfected in later generations, the ignition rate was basically around 85%.

"How about the range and power?"

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

However, Bo Jue also tied a strap on the lower end of the gun's muzzle and the trigger position according to his previous premise.

When marching, soldiers don't need to carry it on their shoulders, they just need to carry it on their shoulders. This weight is nothing, but when facing the enemy, this weight is indeed a bit heavy.

"The Military Weapons Bureau tested [-] rounds of the gun, and the data obtained are that it can kill an unarmored target within [-] paces, break armor within [-] paces, penetrate two layers of armor within [-] paces, and penetrate three layers of armor within [-] paces. "

Hu Zhili's tone was a little excited.

"If you go north to fight with Jiannu in the field, Jiannu pushes the shield cart within forty steps, and you won't be able to get much advantage if you shoot at us!"

It's no wonder that Hu Zhili was emotional, it's really because they didn't suffer from such losses again and again in Liaodong.

Jiannu pushed the shield car all the way, and the guns couldn't be pierced, and the cannonballs couldn't be broken.

Ordinary Francophones and tiger squatting cannons can't do much damage at all, only the artillery that fires three or four catties of shells can blast away.

It was only after fifty or even thirty steps away that Jiannu's armored soldiers began to bend their bows and shoot arrows, stepping out from behind the shield chariot and firing heavy arrows in succession.

The bird guns and fire guns in their hands are at this distance, and they can't get the slightest benefit from shooting against Jiannu's heavy soldiers.

Most of the blunderbuss produced by the Ministry of Industry and the Military Weapons Bureau are substandard products. When confronting the enemy, soldiers often dare not load enough gunpowder, so the power that is not very powerful 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 servants equipped with heavy bows in the army, and most ordinary archers hold soft bows. How can a few servants hold on to the situation.

Most of the heavy soldiers who built slaves were born between the white mountains and the black waters. 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, so they couldn't cause much damage to those heavy soldiers of Jiannu.

When he was in Liaodong, he always lost more than he won in field battles. Every time he thinks about it, Hu Zhili feels aggrieved.

Now this firecracker sent from the interior of Hanzhong Mansion can shoot through Jiannu's three-layer heavy armor in forty steps, how can he not be excited? !
"Sunder three layers of armor within forty steps..."

Holding the firecracker in his hand, Chen Wang couldn't help but relax a lot.

With such a firecracker, when King Qin ordered him to go north to fight with the Qing army, at least he would not be too disadvantaged in the stage of shooting.

"By the way, the accuracy of this gun is not much different from that of a bird gun, right?"

Qi Jiguang once praised the bird blunderbuss as the most powerful weapon in front of the battle. It can benefit the armor, can hit the target, and the bow and arrow can't reach it.

Historically, when the Qi family army was training, the requirements for the bird musketeers were to stand [-] feet high at [-] steps away, with a [-]-foot broad wooden card, hit one hit in three rounds, and hit seven hits in ten rounds.

Qi's army regularly inspects the skills of sergeants, and gives different treatment according to the level of skills.

In this regard, when the army was established in the early days, Chen Wang had already directly copied these regulations of the Qi family army, and established a skill examination system in the army.

Nowadays, most of the military training is copying the contents of "Ji Xiao's New Book" and "Records of Military Training".

"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 the gun holder, Brother Wang can allow the sergeant to use his shoulders to provide some support when holding this gun. Anyway, the gun is more stable and will not tremble too much when shooting. , so the shooting accuracy is much higher.”

"During the gun test, the target hit data of the test gunner is 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."

"and many more……"

Chen Wang's hand holding the firecracker froze in the air, and it took him a while to recover.

He didn't care about other things at the moment, and asked quickly.

"The gun bed?!"

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

"Yes, it's the gun bed."

"Mr. Bo has produced a tool specially used for bore drilling, which is driven by hydraulic power."

"Didn't Brother Wang first propose to use hydraulic power to drill the gun barrel at the beginning? I remember Mr. Bo mentioned it in his letter."

Hu Zhili asked a little strangely.

"This is indeed what I proposed first..."

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

When he met Bo Jue in the city, he mentioned to Bo Jue that he could drill the barrel of the gun with water power.

Because of the water storage and lifting of the dam, the water flow is stable, and drilling the gun bore with water power can undoubtedly greatly improve the efficiency.

At present, the gun drills in the Military Bureau are all made of steel, which is not very good, and the wear and tear is also very large when drilling the bore.

When drilling the gun tube, it cannot be formed at one time. If the drilling time is too long, it may be overheated and deformed.

After drilling once, you have to wait for the gun barrel to cool down before drilling. Therefore, it is extremely time-consuming to drill a gun barrel by hand. It often takes nearly a month, which greatly restricts the output of the gun barrel.

However, it was pointed out that 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 has been used in production.

"Mr. Bo said in the letter that the holes drilled by the gun bed are straighter than those drilled by craftsmen's hands, so the accuracy is slightly higher, and the shooting range is therefore much longer. The furthest can be 130 steps, but because the distance is too far, Projectile kills are close to none."

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

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

After all, he had followed Chen Wang for so long, and Hu Zhili knew that Chen Wang seemed to attach great importance to equipment now. After seeing the blueprint, he asked someone to copy it, and then brought it with him.

Chen Wang took over the drawings from Hu Zhili, and he noticed that Bo Jue's design drawings for the gun bed were similar in many places to the drawings he gave Bo Jue before.

The data is labeled in many places, and there are different views.

Although Chen Wang doesn't specialize in the study of these machines, but he has seen a lot of things, so he will naturally draw inferences from one instance.

The physics learned in middle school were already more than one step ahead of this era, and those books bought from the south were almost read by Chen Wang during this period of stationing.

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

The gun bed designed by Bo Jue is quite long, about Zhang Xu, driven by water power, and the main work is the drill rod with a large metal drill bit hanging on it.

The hydraulic force pushes the wooden rod through the groove, and then the drill pipe will start to do work due to the groove and its own shape.

At this time, the drill bit on the iron drill rod will start to rotate in the fixed barrel.

"This is the first type of gun bed. There are still some problems when drilling the gun, so the improvement efficiency is not very high, but it is much faster than manual work."

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

"Ten days?!"

Chen Wang couldn't help but smile when he heard the words, and his efficiency had almost tripled compared to before.

Using this gun bed, a craftsman now drills three gun barrels, and only needs to drill one in the original time, and the output is directly increased by three times.

If we were working hard to make guns now, there were 170 people in Weaponry Workshop, and we could make [-] guns in a month. This output is already quite good.

However, the production time of this new type of gun is longer than that of ordinary bird guns, and because of the shortage of reeds, the output is quite limited.

Counting the time now, the first batch of new craftsmen should arrive at Hanzhong Mansion around this time.

"There is nothing wrong with Xi'an, right? How many craftsmen can come according to the plan?"

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

"No problem, because there are a lot of people, so they are divided into three batches."

Hu Zhili naturally knew what Chen Wang was asking.

There are not enough craftsmen in the Hanzhong Wei Military Bureau. Chen Wang had already sent someone to contact them before. At this time, Luo Guizhong had become the commander of Xi'an Qianwei.

Luo Guizhong himself intended to have a relationship with Chen Wang, after all, this is the time when Chen Wang is very popular.

Both Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting valued Chen Wang very much. Chen Wang had been on the rise all the way. Compared with his promotion from a commander to a commander, Chen Wang's promotion from the general manager to the deputy commander in chief was undoubtedly more prosperous.

And Chen Wang set a high price again, and the two sides hit it off immediately. Although the four guards in Xi'an are also guards in the mainland, due to various reasons, the number of craftsmen is not small. Compared with Hanzhongwei, their number of craftsmen is much larger. many.

"A total of 210 weapons craftsmen, 110 armor craftsmen, and more than 130 carpenters and stonemasons. Counting the family members, there are more than a thousand people."

"So many people, won't..."

"Brother Wang, don't worry, the four guards in Xi'an have made arrangements, and there haven't been many disturbances."

Hu Zhili knew that these matters were extremely important, so before Chen Wang finished asking the questions, he knew what Chen Wang was asking, and replied immediately,
"Tang Shiping and Wang Yuankang are in charge of the Hanzhong Mansion. They walked the Ziwu Road. They used it in the name of aiding the construction of Shiquan. They took the post from the prefect Lin."

The prefect of Lin that Hu Zhili was talking about was naturally Lin Daoquan, the prefect of Hanzhong Prefecture.

The relationship between Chen Wang and Lin Daoquan was quite harmonious. After all, shortly after Chen Wang took office in Hanzhong Mansion, Hanzhong Mansion was no longer infested by bandits as before, and his investigation was therefore rated as the best.

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

The Arms Bureau is now able to manufacture all kinds of weapons without interruption, in fact, it is also because of the convenience opened by Lin Daoquan.

Now in Hanzhong Mansion, there are three medium-sized iron mines and one copper mine under Chen Wang's name, and there are many other mines.

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

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

Most of the ores mined from these mines are for personal use or storage, and a small part is for sale.

Apart from mines, Chen Wang also managed a lot of salt wells.

After all, Chen Wang can be regarded as quite a private salt dealer now.

Now Chen Wang is not just sitting and eating, these are his important sources of income now.

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

Moreover, the expenditure is still increasing gradually, and new methods of raising money are necessary. Otherwise, only relying on the income from mines, salt, and farming can only maintain the status quo at most, and there is no way to continue to expand and develop.

"Tang Shiping is in charge of the Weapons Bureau. Let him draw up a charter and divide the work."

"By October, I will need 24 rods of this new type of firecracker, [-] three-jin cannons, six five-jin cannons, and three hundred collars each for iron armor, cotton armor, and chain mail."

With a plan in mind, Chen Wang opened his mouth again.

King Qin went north, and he planned to bring three thousand soldiers, which was almost a battalion. The extra troops were based on the auxiliary soldiers.

About one-third of them are holding this new type of gun,

The way to make money, Chen Wang already had a plan in mind. Before, he just suffered from not having a stable basis, but now it is different from the past, and he can start to slowly develop it.

But all of this has to wait until he returns to Shiquan.

"Is there a name for this gun?"

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

"Let me name it?"

Chen Wang raised the gun in his hand again.

Feeling the weight in his hand, for some reason, he suddenly thought of a poem.

"Call it...a sea oath..."

"Oath?"

"Yes, I swear."

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

Autumn sent Xinhong mourning to break the country, and hungry tigers gnawed at the empty forest during the day.

There is an oath in your chest that is deeper than the sea, are you willing to make Shenzhou sink?
　Translation:
　　Qiuyan mourns and understands the pain of subjugation, and the hungry tiger 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 Lu sink like this?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)