Chapter 341 Test firing of new guns

According to the account of the third pirate master, all kinds of goods they purchased from Guangzhou were regularly transported to a place called Sanmen Island in the east to be traded with the men of the "Eighteen Zhi". In addition to acting as second-level dealers, this

The gang would often come forward on behalf of "Eighteen Zhi" and transport some stolen goods to Guangzhou to get rid of them.

From here, Tom Wang has made at least two things clear. First, it is not without reason that this small group of pirates can survive on the edge of the "Eighteen Zhi" sphere of influence. Their existence is more or less still

Only by bringing some benefits to the "Eighteen Zhi" can the powerful "Eighteen Zhi" acquiesce to their settlement here. Secondly, the "Eighteen Zhi" who seems to have no direct relationship with the Time Travel Group, is extremely

It is possible that it has already begun to purchase various industrial products produced in Shengli Port. As for whether "Eighteen Zhi" sells these products to Japan or to Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the north, it is currently unknown.

There is no doubt that the Haihan products that have been very popular in the Guangdong market in the past year have been noticed by "Eighteen Zhi" and become one of the goods they traffic from Guangdong. If the Executive Committee knows this news, I am afraid that

You will not be happy to see your own products become a way for future competitors to make money.

From the beginning of the time travel, the Executive Committee has regarded "Eighteen Zhi" as the strongest opponent in the East Asian waters in the next few years. In order to win the battle for sea power in the future, it has passed "Furuifeng" early

The layout is in the direction of Fujian. The military support for Xu Xinsu, a local snake in Fujian, has gradually shifted from underground to public as its own strength has grown. Recently, the second batch of trainees sent by Xu Xinsu to Shengli Port to study military affairs have arrived, and they are the same as the previous batch.

Unlike other craftsman trainees, the trainees this time were all actual officers leading troops, and the Crossing Group thus set a precedent for training talents for the Ming Dynasty officials.

In the original history, the Ming army had also sought help from other outsiders before this, and that was the Portuguese. In the third year of the Apocalypse, the Ming army purchased 22 red cannons from the Portuguese and hired 23

A Portuguese artilleryman went to Beijing to help build artillery and train troops. They were probably the first batch of Western military personnel officially employed by the Chinese government. In July of the first year of Chongzhen, Li Fengjie and Wang Zunde of the Guangdong and Guangxi military corps were ordered to go to Macau to recruit artillerymen and purchase them.

Hongyi cannon. In the second year of Chongzhen's reign, there were also dozens of mercenaries from Portugal among the team that escorted these cannons to fight in the north.

During the period of serving the Ming Dynasty, the leader of these mercenaries can receive a salary of 150 taels of silver per year, and a monthly food subsidy of 15 taels. The ordinary soldiers can receive a salary of 150 taels of silver per year, and a food subsidy of 10 taels per month. This salary is basically

The salary is equivalent to the salary of a hundred households in the sixth rank of the Guard Army, which is quite good. If converted into Haihan circulation coupons, it is basically at the same level as the treatment of soldiers of the Haihan Militia.

The Ming Dynasty officials were very satisfied with the professionalism demonstrated by the Portuguese mercenaries in past cooperation. Some executive committee members have already proposed that they could consider hiring a group of Portuguese soldiers in Macau to train gunners for the Haihan Militia. However, this idea remains unchanged for the time being.

It is an arm's length talk. Except for Tao Donglai's last interview with the Portuguese envoy Thomas in Guangzhou, the two sides have not had further in-depth contacts so far. Military cooperation will definitely not be completed in a while.

A few months ago, the two sides had an aerial confrontation in Annan. It is difficult to judge what kind of attitude the Portuguese side currently holds towards Haihan.

Of course, Wang Tom will not worry too much about this kind of thing. As a standard soldier, he is very clear about his identity and tasks in the group. Foreign policy can be left to the civilian officials to worry about. There is no such thing.

It is necessary to go over and over to act as an agent. And he also knows very well that his status as a "North American gang" will not have any positive effect in the group. On the contrary, it will become the object of vigilance for some people - after all, their group of people who joined from overseas have different cultural and values.

There are certain differences between Shandu and other members from China. Of course, Wang Tom, who has realized this, has recently been working very hard to downplay his identity as a "North American gang" and devote more time and energy to

Invested in the formation and training of the navy.

After taking Dangan Island, Wang Tom’s biggest personal experience was that the military’s previous emphasis on this group of pirates was too much. If this group of pirates is really what the military worried about, they actively harass Wanshan Port and even attack Dawan

If Shandao launches an attack, it is simply asking for trouble. Based on the combat effectiveness they have shown, Wang Tom believes that they are not much better than the rogue bandits who besieged Lijiazhuang.

The militiamen spent most of the day counting the results of the battle, and then moved everything they could move onto the ship. Because there were too many ships captured this time, the militiamen did not have enough sailors themselves, so they had to select some sailors from the prisoners.

Come to sail the boat. It was not until dark that the fleet slowly left the Dangan Island Pier. Most of the prisoners captured this time will be temporarily left on Dawanshan Island to participate in the construction work, while a small number

Leader-level figures will be escorted to the base camp, and what awaits them will be a life of hard labor ranging from one to several years. If they are unlucky, they may be sent to overseas colonization points.

As for the ships captured this time, all the ships captured this time were left in Wanshan Port to increase the mobility of the troops stationed on the island. The three warships participating in the war will still return to the Victory Port to be stationed after this, and the people on Dawanshan Island will only stay there for the time being.

These trophies can be used as transportation.

On May 30, Wang Tom led the two companies previously dispatched from Victory Port to return to the base camp by boat. As for the preliminary infrastructure projects on the island, according to the person in charge Liu Shanxia, ​​it can basically be guaranteed to be completed by the end of June. By then, Dawan

The mountain island stronghold will keep a company of troops stationed for a long time, and will play more roles as a commercial and immigration transfer station.

When Wang Tom returned to the base camp, he first went to the Military Commission to submit his duties. As soon as he came out, he was arrested by Bai Kesi: "I heard that you came back today, and I was planning to go find you. I didn't expect that you jumped out by yourself. Come with me quickly!"

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Tom Wang was confused and said: "Mr. Bai, can you explain the situation first?"

"A new gun has been made, and I came to you to see the goods and try the gun on the side." Bai Kesi couldn't help but said, pulling Tom Wang towards the direction of Fort Victory Railway Station.

After the establishment of "Haihan Ordnance Industry" in early April, Bai Kesi, who was originally in charge of industrial production, naturally assumed the leadership position of this new organization. After initially straightening out the relationship between design, production, use and other units, Bai Kesi personally took charge of the work.

The first key weapons item is the firearms used by infantry.

In the year after time travel, the military industry department actually mass-produced two different types of muskets. One was the Type 27 matchlock gun mainly used for export, and the second was the Type 27 flintlock gun that was installed in its own militia.

In the eyes of the military and the military industry department, these two types of front-loading muskets are only transitional weapons. With hundreds of years of accumulated technological advantages, the military industry department is very clear about the development direction of rifles. All they need to do is

It is enough to continue to copy those famous rifles in history according to the development level of its own productivity.

With the existing military technology and steel production of Chuan Chuan Group, it is no longer a fantasy to start producing breech-loading rifles. The emergence of breech-loading muskets will mean that Haihan's armament level has completely widened the gap with this era. Of course, regarding

There was still some debate during the joint consultations between representatives of several parties as to which firearm should be copied and used as the individual weapon of the militia in the future.

Among the breech-loading rifles officially installed in the army in 1850, there were many famous rifle models, such as the famous Dresser M1841 striker gun, which was equipped with the Prussian Army in 1840 and was not eliminated by the Mauser M1871 until 1872.

There is the American Hall M1819 rifle, which entered the service of the American army as early as 1819. The common advantage of these two breech-loading rifles is that they have a fast rate of fire and can reach a firing frequency of eight or nine rounds per minute, but their common disadvantage is

The barrel of the gun has serious air leakage. This defect greatly affects the performance of the rifle in terms of range and accuracy. Since the Haihan Militia has always taken the route of fewer but more precise, the military hopes that the weapons it obtains can be more balanced in performance, so in

After some discussion, both rifles were ultimately rejected.

In the end, after repeated weighing, the gun model selected by "Haihan Ordnance" was the Kammer Ryder M1842 rifle, which appeared a year later than the Dresser M1841. This rifle was sold in Norway until it was discontinued in 1867.

The main individual weapon of the army.

To briefly summarize, the biggest features of the Kamal Ryder rifle are that it uses a flash cap to fire, a erected cartridge chamber, and a paper shell for customized Mini bullets. This movable chamber is basically a metal cartridge case mounted on the gun body.

There is a constriction in front of the bullet chamber that can be embedded into the rear of the gun chamber, which greatly enhances the air tightness of the gun chamber. Coupled with the use of Mini bullets and rifled barrels, this rifle has fewer advantages than a flintlock gun.

The range and accuracy have been greatly improved.

Of course, the addition of various black technologies to performance is not without cost. The production process of this rifle is much more complicated than the existing Type 27 flintlock rifle, and its cost has also risen sharply. According to estimates from the military industry department, mass production

The subsequent production cost is expected to be five to seven times that of the Type 27 flintlock gun, which is equivalent to about 30 yuan in circulation coupons, and is almost fifteen or sixteen times that of the export-type matchlock gun. Therefore, will this gun eventually be used?

It has been approved by the military, but there is no final decision yet.

Wang Tom is one of the few individual weapons experts in the Time Travel Group, so the gun test and firing event was postponed for a week, just to wait for him to come back from Guangzhou. Bai Kesi took Wang Tom and took the train to Tiandu Industrial

area, and then led by two militiamen to a secluded ravine. There is a small shooting range here, but this shooting range is not affiliated with the military, but is a place where military production units conduct weapon test firings.

After Wang Tom arrived here, he discovered that almost all the high-ranking figures in the Military Commission were present. It seemed that the military also had great expectations for the performance of this new rifle.

"Let me briefly introduce this rifle to you." After Bai Kes arrived at the scene, he didn't even have time to take a sip of water, so he picked up a sample gun and started explaining: "This is a new rifle we made by imitating the Kamal Ryder M1842.

, the total length is 125 centimeters, the barrel length is 78 centimeters, and the total weight is about 5 kilograms. It uses paper shells to install Mini bullets, and the breech is loaded. The rate of fire is about six to eight rounds per minute, and the muzzle velocity of the bullet is 300 meters per second.

Left and right, the effective range is 500 meters."

Judging from the paper performance parameters announced by Bai Kesi, this new gun has completely surpassed the Type 27 flintlock gun currently installed by the militia. If it can be mass-produced, it basically means that the militia will no longer have to deal with it in the next few years.

Individual weapons have undergone major changes and replacements - the next major change in firearms may be the application of bolt-action rifles and metal-cased bullets. Judging from the current resources and production capacity of the Cross-Training Group, copper alone

Shell bullets cannot be mass-produced in recent years. Even if there is so much copper, the Executive Committee will not use it to produce expensive bullets. The relatively cheap mini bullets are enough to defeat the enemy in this era.

The global infantry and military are not in a hurry to upgrade individual weapons to World War I levels.

Of course, people in the military also know very well that some of the data released by Bai Kesi are only theoretical data. For example, the rate of fire can theoretically reach six to eight rounds per minute. This data is probably based on the standing posture without interference.

It is measured under normal conditions, but it will be affected by personal tactical skills, shooting posture, shooting environment and other factors on the battlefield. In actual combat, the performance of soldiers will generally be lower than this level. Although the shooting range can reach 500 meters

, but according to the experience of later generations, the range that can effectively hit an individual target in a combat environment is only about half of the maximum sight range, so if you really plan to attack a target at a distance of 500 meters, you can only rely on luck.

In addition to the Kamal Ryder, the military industry department actually trial-produced another Whitworth rifle, which was known as the "magic gun" in history. This rifle produced in Britain in 1857 had a very strange appearance.

A hexagonal barrel is used, and a special warhead must be used to load it. The craftsmanship and cost of this special-shaped cartridge are far beyond those of ordinary rifles. Even the bullets used are higher than those of the same period.

Mini bullets are several times more expensive. Moreover, this rifle must clean the barrel between two shots, resulting in its shooting speed being much slower than that of rifles of the same period. It is inconvenient to load, expensive, and has a slow rate of fire.

, various defects caused the British army to give up installing it into the army. After production, it was only exported to the United States in large quantities.

So why does "Haihan Military Industry" want to imitate such a rifle with so many shortcomings? The Whitworth rifle is called a "magic gun" not just because of its weird appearance. The biggest feature of this gun is that it is accurate and has a long range.

Much higher than its competitors at the same time. When using the maximum propellant charge, the muzzle velocity of the bullet can reach 420 meters/second, the kinetic energy of the muzzle exceeds 3000 J, and the impact point distribution at a distance of one kilometer can be controlled within one meter. Its effective

The longest range is more than 1,500 meters, which is comparable to the bolt-action rifles that appeared later in terms of range and accuracy.

What do these data mean? This means that the Whitworth rifle is a sniper rifle that can be produced under existing technical conditions! Of course, to realize this function, the military industry department must also produce a special scope for it

.However, now that the glass workshop has begun to trial-produce optical glass, it will not be too difficult to make a sight with a size of about 4 times. It is just made entirely by hand, and the cost is relatively high.

If you want to say that the cost of the Kamal Ryder is high, in fact it is still very cheap compared with the Whitworth. The military industry department estimates that the cost of a single unit is more than 100 yuan, and this does not include the special-shaped ammunition it uses.

Of course, this kind of special-purpose weapon is destined not to be mass-produced, but "Haihan Military Industry" believes that the military will definitely place a batch of orders after actually testing the performance of the gun. After all, the cost of this sniper rifle can be

It is much cheaper than the babies brought by the military from the 21st century. The military has enough conditions to train the world's first batch of musket snipers.

Also test-firing the new gun with Tom Wang were Yan Chujie, Gu Wei and others. Among them, only Tom Wang was the only one who had actually come into contact with the original Camel Ryder rifle. Before time travel, he had participated in NRA (National Rifle Association) activities.

He had test-fired this rifle, so everyone took his operating steps as a demonstration and followed them.

Wang Tom first opened the hammer under the cartridge chamber, turned the crank on the right side of the gun body to make the movable cartridge stand upright, inserted the flash cap into the bottom of the cartridge chamber, poured in the propellant, and then stuffed the paper Mini bullet into it.

Tighten it, then turn the crank to return the cartridge to its original position and embed it into the barrel to complete the locking process.

After everyone finished loading, they aimed their guns at the target 100 meters away and started shooting. After firing ten rounds, some militiamen took the target back for inspection. Maybe Wang Tom was familiar with it, and the hit rate was indeed the highest.

Yes, six out of ten shots hit the target, while for others, most of the shots missed, and generally only two or three shots hit the target. However, this result did not make everyone feel discouraged. In order to verify the importance of the sight ruler, they only aimed with the naked eye during shooting.

, it is quite difficult to achieve this result.

In the next shooting, everyone used the sight mounted on the gun to assist in aiming, and it really played a very obvious role. When shooting at targets at the same distance, Wang Tom hit nine out of ten shots, and others also

The hit rate has been increased to about 50%. If you are more familiar with it, I believe there is still room for improvement in this hit rate.

Of course, the inspection of a new gun is not just about test firing and target shooting, there are a large number of other inspection items that need to be carried out one by one.
Chapter completed!