Alien Empire Total War

To solve the shortcomings of rifled guns, Charlie's first thought was the famous Mini bullet.

Before the time-travel, Charlie could see the miniature bullet in almost every time-travel article on the development of technology. It can be said that most of the protagonists of the late Ming Dynasty were able to win the title of Zhongyuan by the rifled gun and the mini bullet. After a lot, Charlie went to the almighty Du Niang to search for the principle and history of the mini bomb, and has always been impressed.

Mini projectile is a round-headed columnar sub-caliber projectile with a conical cavity at the bottom, and a concave wooden or iron plug is generally placed in the cavity. When shooting, the gunpowder gas will cause the wooden or iron plug in the cavity to enter the cavity and then expand the projectile, make the projectile expand and fit with the rifling.

The rifled gun that fires mini bullets is as easy to load as a musket, because the rear end is hollowed out and the center of gravity moves forward, the ballistic trajectory is lower, the accuracy is more stable, and the fit between the projectile and the rifling is more complete, and the air tightness is also better. .

There are circles of grooves around the bottom of the Mini projectile. This design can reduce the weight of the projectile, reduce the friction area between the projectile and the gun chamber wall, and maintain the flight stability of the projectile.

There is no doubt that the manufacturing process of mini bullets is easier than rifling, but there is no firearms factory in the province of Provence, and he has to invest in building a firearms factory before he can produce mini bullets and rifled guns.

In addition to rifled guns and mini bullets, Charlie actually wondered if he could get the breech-loading gun out in advance - this is actually not rigorous, because there has long been a shadow of breech-loading guns in the history of this world. , more than 100 years ago, firearms using breech loading systems have actually appeared. The core of this firearm lies in replaceable chambers. In other words, these replaceable chambers are regarded as breech-loading guns. of full ammunition.

Such a design is naturally inconvenient for mass production. The quality of a single chamber is not light, and the price is not capable of mass production, not to mention the degree of air retention and life of the replaceable chambers, so these early breech rifles only It is a toy for nobles to target.

Coincidentally, such early breech rifles also appeared in the history of the earth of the later generations of Charles, but these rifles were not well-known and were rarely known by later generations.

You can't eat a fat man in one go. Before the corresponding technology, Charlie can only get rid of the rifled gun and the mini bullet, but even without the rear-loading gun, Charlie can beat other people of the same period by relying on the rifled gun and the mini bullet. country's army.

Investing in the construction of a firearms factory costs a lot of money, not only the site selection, but also the machinery and raw materials, especially the machinery. The machinery for making firearms is not so easy to obtain, but this It's not a problem for Charlie, he can buy it in the name of Vasili.

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Under Charlie's behest, Vasili soon found a piece of land to build a gun factory on the outskirts of Proden City. This was originally the manor of a great aristocrat, but the hapless owner of the manor was killed by the rebels. After fleeing here, he was convicted of treason, and all his family property was confiscated and became the property of the city government.

Although the land was found, the firearms factory could not start construction immediately. Vasily had to report to the National Assembly first, and only after obtaining the consent of the assembly could he organize manual labor. The firearms factory was not much different from the ancient weapon smelting furnace. It can only be owned by the government. If you build it privately, it will violate the law. Not only will you be arrested and jailed, but the building will either be taken over by the government or directly demolished.

Although Vasili's application aroused a discussion in the National Assembly, it was approved by the assembly - it is worth mentioning that the noble faction originally voted against the motion proposed by your Santos, but They were exhausted by the Santos party fighting for a while, and when they saw that the bill had the signature of Charlie, who was also a noble, they all abstained and tacitly let the bill pass.

Although Vasily's proposal was passed, the National Assembly is not ready to give him money. Although the economic reform of the Santos party restored a certain economic order last year, under the destruction of the aristocratic faction, the domestic economic environment began to appear again. In the turmoil, while the National Assembly was busy restoring the economic environment, it was caught in the partisan struggle between the aristocratic faction and the Santos party, and had no time to take into account the situation in the south.

This is good news for Charlie~www.readwn.com~ He was worried that the National Assembly would interfere indiscriminately and disrupt his deployment here. Now that the National Assembly decided to let the City of Prodon prepare the funds to build the factory, then Nothing better.

By the way, this kind of thing should have been discussed and decided by the provincial council. However, because the province of Provo was recovered shortly after, and it has not been completely freed from the influence of the war, the National Assembly did not order the province of Provo to form a provincial council and prepared to wait until the rebellion was completely over. Say it again.

After the approval of the National Assembly, the demolition team that was already ready rushed directly into the deserted noble manor, flattened the walls and buildings of the manor, and rebuilt a factory on the ruins. Taking into account the particularity of the gun factory, Charlie left an infantry regiment to garrison here. If nothing else, whether or not Charlie led the army north, there would be an infantry regiment garrisoned here.

In addition, because it is not built from the system interface, Charlie also needs to buy the machine for making firearms at his own expense. At the current stage, he still needs to produce muskets. Although the system will automatically provide soldiers with weapons and equipment after training into an army, but The rifles that soldiers are equipped with are not infinitely durable, those guns can also be damaged, and gun factories can not only produce guns to replenish the army, but also take damaged rifles to repair.

And because it is not a system building, the construction period of this factory is not as fast as that of the artillery factory. It only takes three months. According to the estimates of the architects invited by Vasily, if it is to be completely completed and put into use, the shortest construction period is required. It's been half a year.

What else can Charlie say?

He still remembers that there seems to be a firearms factory in the affiliated towns of the system, but he doesn't have any vacant industrial towns to build, so he can only build factories manually.

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