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Chapter 195 You Can’t Use a Carbine

Shen Shuren had already spoken, so of course the soldiers of Daye Battalion had to execute it immediately.

Zuo Zixiong personally conveyed the message, and asked Lu Datou and Wang Deren to select hundreds of well-trained elite musketeers each, and received a batch of the latest firearms that Song Yingxing had just built last month, and then began to line up for demonstrations .

As mentioned earlier, the seven battalions on Daye's side and the three battalions under Zhu Wenzhen, the general who was withdrawn from Liaodong, were all guarded by the old men of the Huangzhou Army.

Now that Lu Datou and Wang Deren have had the opportunity to perform, the only remaining Liu Sandao is a little embarrassed.He also knew that he was a traitor and surrendered, or that he had killed his adoptive father to vote for him. At present, the credit is not obvious, and his degree of trust is not as good as the other two, so he has nothing to say.

I can only hope that in the future, my hands will be stained with a little more blood from other thieves, and I will further clear my position and become a direct descendant.

Fortunately, this time the Shen family army also got two new types of firearms, so it made sense to pick two battalions and each battalion to test one of them.

In a short while, six hundred short-barrel nozzles for post-loading and two hundred revolver nozzles with shorter barrels were distributed, and all the musketeers lined up, ready to shoot.

In addition to the muskets allocated to the soldiers, several of each type were presented to Shen Shuren for him to inspect, play with, and appreciate carefully.

Shen Shuren caressed the two muskets, and asked casually, "How long is this production?"

Zuo Zixiong answered quickly, "About one month's production each. This kind of longer double-barreled breech-loading musket is more difficult to produce than the Lumi gun, and it can have about three-quarters of the production capacity.

Since the beginning of March, I heard that Mr. Song's workshop has stopped the traditional Lumi blunderbuss, and has been making every effort to produce this new gun.Originally, the monthly output of Lumi guns and bird guns could be expanded to [-] rods, but this new type of breech-loading gun can only produce [-] rods.

The ones with wheels are even more complicated, and only two or three hundred rods can be produced at the same time.It was transferred to mass production at the beginning of this month. "

Shen Shuren was a little surprised after hearing this.

The revolver should be made so slowly, he has no doubts about this speed,
But the production speed of the rear-mounted sprayer has been faster than he expected - because he clearly saw that the sprayer in front of him was already a double-barreled sprayer close to the later S686 or a double-barreled shotgun.The difference is nothing more than that the barrel technology and materials are much worse than those of later generations, and the air tightness and processing accuracy are too poor, and wax shell bullets are used.

"This type of breech-loading musket has two barrels, and it can actually produce [-] barrels a month? Isn't the workload of barrel processing twice as high as that of single-barreled guns? This is probably also affected by the three-eye gun, right? "Shen Shuren looked at the opening and closing structure of the rear of the barrel, and couldn't help asking.

Zuo Zixiong was obviously curious about this question at the beginning and did some research, so now he can learn and sell now:
"The last general was also worried about this problem at the beginning, and later confirmed with Fang Futai and Mr. Song. Although this gun needs to process two tubes, it is more than half short after all. It is still low pressure and uses the coiled tube method. Building, not long pipe drilling.

Therefore, during production, you can directly roll a long one, cut it in half from the middle, and then polish off a small section that was compressed and deformed during cutting, and two pieces will be formed.

According to Mr. Song, he was indeed influenced by the thinking of the three-eyed gun, but the three-eyed gun is front-loaded after all, and it cannot be reloaded during battle.This is a rear loader, and it can be reloaded after a round of retreat.

Mr. Song also tried to install the three tubes directly at the beginning, but when the three tubes were loaded, ejected and reloaded, the barrels were not easy to pierce. Very big.More than half of the gunpowder gas would leak out when firing, and even spray on the shooter's face and burn people, so I gave up.

Only two pipes are left, arranged in parallel on the left and right, so there is no problem with the barrel farther away from the shaft and tenons at the rear of the barrel, and the problem of larger gaps.

Moreover, the firearms made by the coiling method originally had to be reinforced with iron hoops on the outside. Now that they are double-barreled guns, the two pipes can be hooped together with the same batch of oval iron hoops.

Mr. Song also tried welding and casting on the outside of the hooped double barrel to strengthen the connection, and just put the two gaps of the rolled tube barrel together face to face, facing inward, so that the risk of blasting the chamber can be further reduced. "

After listening to these explanations, Shen Shuren was also amazed. He didn't expect Song Yingxing to come up with such a clever way to avoid weaknesses.

The biggest problem with the rolled tube method is that the strength of the rolled seam will be low, which is much lower than that of seamless steel pipe.But when the two barrels are side by side, put the gap to the gap together, and pour some more metal on the top and bottom, which can not only connect the two tubes closely side by side, but also strengthen the strength of the gap between the coiled tubes at the same time, and get a double barrel. Double the pressure, it can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Unexpectedly, the gun of the coiled barrel method, resulting in a double-barreled parallel type, has such an additional benefit.Shen Shuren didn't expect it at all at the beginning, he thought that the appearance of double-barreled shotguns in later generations was purely for increasing the density of firepower.

After understanding the principle clearly, he asked someone to take a ruler to measure and verify it carefully. Sure enough, the barrel length of this obviously short-barreled double-barreled gun is more than half shorter than that of the original Lumi blunderbuss.

Traditional bird guns and Lumi guns are all five feet long. Considering the length of the butt and other firing parts, the barrel is actually just four feet long.

As for the double-barreled gun in front of me, each tube is only one foot and eight inches long. After the barrel is shortened, the total amount of ammunition is also reduced. It seems that the overall size of the wax-cased ammunition is smaller than the original paper-cased ammunition. A circle, but also a little shorter.

Shen Shuren looked thoughtfully at a wax shell bomb in his hand, crushed it expertly, and carefully sorted out the small lead beads and gunpowder.After a simple visual inspection, he found that the weight of the lead ball projectile of this new ammunition has not been reduced, but the propellant has been reduced. Visually, it is only two-thirds of the weight of the original bird gun propellant. It should be to reduce the chamber pressure——

Song Yingxing probably did the calculations too, and did repeated comparison experiments.Because the barrel is short, it would be a waste to load so much medicine. The time for the projectile to fly forward one foot and eight inches is simply not enough to fully burn the original full charge of medicine.

After reducing the gunpowder, the air leakage and fire leakage caused by the incomplete sealing of the gun tail can also be slowed down, so that too much fire will not be sprayed out.

There's not much to say about this, it's like a submachine gun that has a lower chamber and needs to use pistol bullets.It is a truth that the amount of charge is much smaller than that of rifles and machine guns.

Shen Shuren threw away the fragments of the bullet and clapped his hands: "Then let's test shoot first, and see if two-thirds of the charge can be fully burned."

Zuo Zixiong got the order, and immediately ordered 600 people under Lu Datou's command to line up neatly, pick up the short barrels, load the guns, and take turns to fire and test in batches.For a while, there was loud gunshots in the shooting range, and thick flames and smoke billowed.

Shen Shuren frowned and observed carefully with a telescope. It seemed that the muzzle flames and smoke of these muskets were about the same size as the original bird guns.

Shen Shuren has common sense of physics and chemistry, and knows whether the gun is fully burned from the muzzle flame.The muzzle flare is not significantly greater than that of the original blunderbuss, which means that the reduction in the amount of charge is very reasonable, and it does not lead to more gunpowder "burning after it is released from the chamber, and burning ineffectively".

However, it was the first time to see a large-scale salvo of rear-loading guns, and the flames and thick smoke leaking from the gap in the rear of the barrel still shocked Shen Shuren quite a bit.

He saw that many soldiers were afraid to bring their guns closer to their faces and aim precisely, and many of them held their guns a foot away from their faces.As for closing the eyes at the moment of firing, there is nothing to complain about, because at that time all musketeers had to close their eyes at the moment of firing, otherwise they might be blinded by the flames.

What makes Shen Shuren unacceptable is that not only some soldiers closed their eyes, some of them even turned their heads. Closing their eyes will not cause too much body movement, and turning their heads will definitely make the shooting movement out of shape, and the previous aiming will be completely lost. Outlined.

"This won't work. How can we allow soldiers to turn their heads when firing? Even if smoke leaks from the tail of the barrel, they can't turn their heads! We need to strengthen drills and overcome fear! In addition, consider the helmets, Add a leather visor! Don't be afraid of blackened face!"

While scolding, Shen Shuren also wanted to set an example himself, and tried to shoot.

Of course, after all, Shen Shuren is a man of gold and jade, who occupies a high position, and there are so many beauties waiting for him to be favored. It is definitely unbearable to have his face blackened. His handsomeness is very important.

So he took a short gun with a tube of only one foot and eight inches and a total length of about two feet and four inches. He held it in one hand and aimed at it with his arms raised. It's an arm's length away.

But in just one second, he felt that his arm was quite sore and weak, and he couldn't aim at all.It seems that it is a bit difficult for a gun of this weight to be used as a carbine used by cavalry with one hand, and to fire during the charge and before the enemy.

Zuo Zixiong watched Shen Shuren's operation, and was also a little surprised. This kind of gun has just come out, and the Shen family army has never conducted cavalry cavalry shooting drills. hand use.

Fortunately, Zuo Zixiong has rich experience in the battlefield, so he quickly realized Shen Shuren's purpose, and asked patiently: "My lord thinks that when shooting with both hands, the end of the gun is too close to the face? So I want to see if this short gun can be leveled by the cavalry use?
If that's the case, it's better to switch to that revolver. The barrel of the revolver is further shortened, only one foot and two inches, and there is only a single barrel. The weight of the front part is only one-third of this gun. It can also be held in the hand and leveled to aim.

Although this kind of double-barreled gun is only one foot and eight inches, but there are two barrels at the same time, it is still too heavy to lift with one hand. The last general and some strong generals in the army can lift it level, but it is too difficult for ordinary soldiers.

However, the general figured out a way to use it on cavalry horseback. He had to give up aiming, put one hand under his armpit, and use the inside of his elbow to support the end of the gun, while his wrist was only responsible for lifting the gun up. "

Shen Shuren was right when he thought about it, he quickly gave up "one-handed aiming and shooting" and changed to "holding the waist with one hand and shooting". The torque is greatly reduced.

Moreover, after the hip shot, the horizontal distance from the tail of the gun to the face is about half an arm, or the distance of a forearm, and the vertical distance is equivalent to the upper arm of a person.

So after conversion, the straight-line distance from the end of the gun to the face should be about twice the length of the forearm, which is [-]% closer than Juping. This is still acceptable, and it won't burn the face.

Shen Shuren shot two rounds from the waist cautiously. Apart from being unsteady, there was nothing wrong with him, and his face was not blackened at all.

"Yes, very good. In the future, this kind of double-barreled gun will be used to train cavalry to shoot from the waist without aiming, and that kind of revolver will be used by cavalry to charge and aim at the horse.

In this case, the armor of the musketeer cavalry should also be improved, wearing better wrapped, non-heat-conducting arm guards, and the ribs on the waist side should also be strengthened, so that when the gun is rested on the elbow and held by the waist to shoot, the breech will not leak. The flames that come out will not burn your arms. "

This kind of treatment is of course not used in later generations of sealed breech-loading guns, but Shen Shuren, a low-quality product that leaks at the end of the barrel, has to be considered.

(End of this chapter)