Just do it.

Kitard's residence is located in the southwest corner of the northeastern part of Magar City, which can be regarded as the center of the city. It is different from all the castles in the Caucasus today. It adopts a Chinese-style courtyard structure.

The house is divided into three parts. The first part is where the soldiers and servants live, the second part is where he lives and works, and the third part is where the guest rooms, warehouses, and playground are. Some of the soldiers also live there.

The courtyard faces north and south, but it is not a complete quadrangle structure. The first and third courtyards are larger. Since it is a place where soldiers live and train, there must be a martial arts field, and the middle courtyard is the smallest.

Therefore, it roughly takes the shape of a "work" character.

Su Wenyu, who was familiar with Chinese characters, was privately called "Gongzifang" by Shen Muhua.

Since it is an I-shaped house, it is natural that a laboratory and a small workshop are indispensable. According to the practice of later generations, Kitard named it a small test room.

In recent years, whether it is a breech-loaded flintlock musket or a grenade, the actual operation process is as follows:

First, Kitard will trial-produce the sample, and then let the master craftsmen of the workshop dismantle it and conduct a pilot test. After the pilot test is completed, the materials, processes, and costs used will be almost completed.

Then get it to a formal workshop for mass production.

At that time, the workshop supervisors, students trained by Chitard himself, who have basic knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering, will calculate the output based on the existing equipment and personnel.

Then calculate the monthly output, as well as the required material usage and transportation volume.

This method cannot be said to be second to none, but it is still leading in Europe today.

With the addition of additives like manganese, Kitard gave his Truchen army a slight advantage.

But only a little bit.

However, this "slight" cannot be underestimated. Today's Europe is still dominated by small workshops under the control of guilds. Although they can produce military supplies in large quantities, the efficiency and cost are far behind compared with Chitard.

But after all, they have a larger population. Comparing the two, the two sides are still on the same starting line.

Early in the morning, Kitard resisted the urge to continue flirting with the two ladies and opened the wooden door of his laboratory after breakfast.

The room is large, with original lathes, milling machines, planers, grinders, and punches, all driven by rocker arms of different lengths.

As for the driving method, it goes without saying that it is artificial.

If he is processing small parts, he will use the shortest rocker arm and just rock it while processing. If he wants to process larger parts, he will need the cooperation of a specialized person.

Since coming to Truqin, he personally trained four young and savvy craftsmen from the Turguts and Nogai people. One of them, named Jida, is a Nogai who used to work in Vitlyanka.

The man who repaired muskets for Lash started working with his parents at the age of ten.

After following Kitard, he learned some common mathematics and mechanical knowledge, plus a set of measurement tools made by Kitard himself. His ability improved by leaps and bounds, and he is now the leading craftsman in the entire truqin.

Jida lives in the backyard. When the door between the second and third entrances opens, he is already waiting at the entrance of the laboratory with the other three people.

Since admitting the small Georgian tribe that believed in Nestorian Christianity into Truqin, Kitard has not had time to do these things. Now the population has increased, the army has also been trained, and there is still some time before spring plowing. If he continues to lie in bed with

He really would not forgive himself for the lingering relationship between the ladies.

It took him half a year to make these machine tools. After they were made, he asked Jeddah to imitate them to make larger products that can be used in Chinese style and mass production.

With a complete set of tools, he can create whatever he wants on a perfectly level workbench that would otherwise leave craftsmen to their own devices.

At this time, Europe also allowed craftsmen to perform freely, but there were strict inspections during acceptance. But before that, craftsmen obviously needed to spend more effort to meet those requirements. The time lost and the cost can be imagined.

Know.

Everything must be planned well, and then produced in strict accordance with the measurement targets and cost requirements from the first process. The final product will naturally be much higher than Europe at this time in terms of cost, quality and time.<

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Since he had experience in making flint-haired short muskets, Chitard planned to conquer the rotating structure first.

This structure is actually similar to that of a flintlock musket, which is rear-mounted. It is nothing more than changing the cumbersome connection device between the primer tank and the ammunition tank into a firing pin type.

He had made the mini bomb a long time ago, and it was made of lead according to his imagination. The head is a cone and the tail is a cylinder with two threads.

The cylinder is hollow, with a small piece of cork that is also a cylinder, and the propellant is also fixed in a cylindrical shape, close to the cork.

Gunpowder is also in the form of granules that are highly flammable and has been widely used in Europe at this time. It is not a black technology at this point.

Compared with powdered black powder, granular black powder is less susceptible to moisture and is easier to transport. Otherwise, once the powdered gunpowder hardens, its effectiveness will be greatly reduced, and it will be more likely to remain in the gun chamber, making it very troublesome to clean up.

When the previous breech-loaded flintlock musket was pulled, a spring driven machine spring would open the lid of the primer pool and open the iron piece holding the primer package in the pool. Previously, the relationship between the primer package and the ammunition package was

There are already leads connected between them.

This is the advantage of rear loading. When loading, the ammunition bag and primer bag can be pressed in at the same time. What originally required more than a dozen steps can be completed in one step.

This kind of thing is the first of its kind by Chitard, and it is second to none in the world.

The current task is to combine the previous primer pool and ammunition pool into one, add an impact device, and use the original mechanism for automatically closing the lid of the primer pool here.

Of course, this is far from enough. According to his idea, the rotary musket has six ammunition pools, which must be loaded in advance. After installing the magazine, there will be exactly one projectile aimed at the gun bore.

Pull the trigger and the minion is fired, and the problem arises.

Is it better to design a rotating device to automatically turn to the next bullet hole, or to use a second manual device besides the trigger like the later 38 caps?

Kitard was busy in the laboratory for most of the day, and seeing that it was already past lunch time, he finally figured it out.

"If you want to design a trigger-pulling mechanism that automatically feeds ammunition in a rotating magazine, it is too complicated. The parts required are several times that of designing a second manual device. It is completely unsuitable for today's conditions."

Therefore, he decided to design a bolt-pull device on the gun body similar to that of later rifles, which could be used to manually rotate the rotating magazine.

While doing these things, he also explained in detail to Jida and others the principles, precautions, parts that may lose the most, and how to deal with this kind of musket.

So, in the next month, he, Jida and the other four people spent time in the laboratory, sometimes even burning the midnight oil.

One month later, spring plowing began.

His first striker-type minigun and a striker-type long gun prototype with only one bullet were finally released.

He pressed six paper mini bullets into the six bullet holes, and then pushed them into the gun body with a "pop" sound.

Push open the safety device with your thumb and pull the trigger. The firing pin violently hits the granular gunpowder in the paper tube and generates sparks. The primer burns quickly and generates a huge chamber pressure. The chamber pressure causes the cork in front to expand rapidly, causing the

Lead bullets also expand rapidly.

At this time, the two threads behind the bullet are tightly stuck on the rifling of the barrel, so that the chamber pressure will not be due to the gap between the lead bullet and the barrel, as well as the gap between the primer pool and the ammunition pool, like the front-loaded flintlock gun.

The attenuation of bore pressure caused by the existence of round holes.

Driven by the chamber pressure, the Mini bullet rotates forward at high speed along the rifling!

Chitard's test was conducted at the shooting range of the military camp in the city. In the past, the effective range of his breech-loaded flintlock gun was only about a hundred meters. Now it has a conical warhead, a rifled rifle and a minigun with greatly reduced air leakage.

, I don’t know how far the range is.

According to his previous estimation, in this case, it can at least reach the range of a flintlock musket.

"Bang..."

However, this time he did not accurately hit the target a hundred meters ahead.

But the bullet hit the earth wall behind the target.

It also left a mark on the earthen wall!

This means that the minigun can cause damage to the opposing cavalry within a distance of about fifty meters. If it is closer to about ten meters, the lethality will be even greater!

The reason for the inaccuracy is not that he, a veteran soldier who has been in the army for ten years, is incompetent, but also whether the rifling is uniform, whether it fits the thread of the Mini bullet, and the gap between the granular gunpowder particles when it is loaded into the paper tube.

Is the distance appropriate, etc.

This needs to be solved by Jeddah and others in the pilot test.

He picked up another long gun. Since the faucet and the primer tank were removed, the weight of the gun body was reduced a lot, from the original twelve kilograms to about ten kilograms.

He held his breath, took aim, and pulled the trigger. This time he accurately hit the target 300 meters away!

Not only did it hit the target, it also penetrated the target and continued flying towards the earth wall behind it, and disappeared into the earth wall!

Therefore, the effective range of this Mini gun may reach 400 meters or 500 meters.

This also requires Jida and others to slowly explore.

After the firing was completed, he carefully inspected the magazine and found that whether it was a mini gun or a wheel-shaped short gun, because he personally pressed the gunpowder this time, there was not much gunpowder left in the magazine and chamber.
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But this is carried out under the most ideal conditions. If there is a big battle, the time is still very long, the weather is not ideal, and the squeezing caused by the bumps during the march will cause problems with the gunpowder in the paper tube, thus

Resulting in a large amount of residue.

However, according to his estimation, if cavalry versus cavalry, as long as the six-round revolver gun can fire effectively, they can basically win a big victory.

In an infantry battle, if it takes five bullets to clear the chamber and magazine, the reloading time is greatly reduced, which is actually much faster than a front-loaded flintlock gun.
Chapter completed!