Everyone started their work, and Fang Xiaoyu would not be idle. What he had to do now was to make the best weapons for this new army. These slaves were poorly trained and time was tight, so Fang Xiaoyu had no choice but to eliminate as much as possible from the weapons.
offset these disadvantages.
The weapon Fang Xiaoyu designed for the new army is the Winchester M1873 lever-action rifle. This rifle has a caliber of 11 mm and uses a tubular bomb chamber design and a lever-action bolt. The reason why Fang Xiaoyu uses this ancient model instead of
The updated model is because old-fashioned firearms have low processing requirements, and at a time when black powder is still used and the propellant thrust is insufficient, large-caliber rifles
The gun is more conducive to increasing its power. There are five models of this gun. Fang Xiaoyu uses a sports model with a 61 cm (24 inches) long barrel. Its effective range is 300 meters, and the bomb bay can load ten
Three rounds of ammunition. What is more unique is that this gun has a loading port on the side of the bolt, so it can be loaded quickly. In the hands of a skilled shooter, the shooting speed can reach 30 rounds per minute.
Fang Xiaoyu plans to apply for a patent for this kind of gun in the future. He is not afraid of being imitated. Because the lever-type gun has a complex structure, high cost, and unreliable locking, it is not suitable for firing high-power bullets, not to mention that such a device in this world is still a
Brand-new things require designers to change their thinking, and no one can create them just by relying on the simple introduction of a patent application.
The length of the tubular magazine is limited (it cannot be longer than the barrel of the gun, so the number of loaded bullets is greatly restricted and difficult to increase.) The center of gravity of the gun is forward, so if the gun is held for a long time, the shooter will easily tire.
Moreover, lever-action rifles with tubular magazines cannot use pointed bullets, so under the same power, the ammunition caliber cannot be reduced, and high-speed and low-resistance warheads cannot be used, which seriously restricts the external ballistic performance, shooting accuracy and effectiveness of the lever-action rifle.
Improved range.
Moreover, this kind of gun uses metal fixed bottom rim firing bullets and lead warheads. This kind of bullet is difficult to make without suitable machinery. Even Fang Xiaoyu plans to give Xiaofeng a set after the Xia family's machine tools are in place.
Let it build a thousand-ton hydraulic press and use the water power of the Weishui River to make bullets.
This kind of long rifle made for the New Army was named Lanting Type 1 rifle by Fang Xiaoyu to commemorate its place of origin, Lanting Villa. When making this rifle, Fang Xiaoyu went against the traditional concept and did not equip it with a bayonet. In addition to the rate of fire of this gun
In addition to being high, there is another reason why Fang Xiaoyu plans to equip everyone with another pistol.
For this gun, Fang Xiaoyu chose the Tiffany Magnum revolver. This pistol has a barrel length of 15 centimeters and an effective range of 50 meters. It uses a six-round cylinder to feed ammunition and a double-action bolt. More importantly,
What's more, this pistol and rifle use the same bullet. Fang Xiaoyu suddenly had the idea to name this gun the Browning Model 1 pistol, which made Browning Hammer, who was in charge of military production, happy for several days.
Except for the fact that such equipment does not have artillery, its combat effectiveness is enough to equal ten. As for the artillery, it is not that Fang Xiaoyu does not want to equip it, but the empire has strict regulations that only regular troops can equip artillery. This is also to prevent rebellion. If you want to equip the private army with artillery
, unless you are a lord, of course Fang Xiaoyu's unfamiliarity with artillery is also one of the reasons why he does not equip it.
In this era, without artillery, there is no long-range firepower and mass destruction capabilities. Long-range firepower does not need to be considered for the time being, but Fang Xiaoyu still has some ideas in terms of mass destruction. In order to strengthen the firepower, Fang Xiaoyu personally drew the drawings and asked the dwarves to specially
Build a workshop and make grenades.
The manufacture of mercury fulminate is relatively simple, and even a manual workshop can do it, not to mention that the empire has ready-made processes. With mercury fulminate, there is a bullet primer and a detonator, although now it can only be loaded with black powder.
, causing the grenade to be low in power, but Fang Xiaoyu filled it with scrap iron materials left over from making the gun. In this way, the grenade no longer relied on the power of the explosion, but relied on the kinetic energy of the flying iron pieces to hurt people, making it more lethal.
Quite a few.
With so much new equipment, the weapon configuration of the new army's individual soldiers has become a Lanting Type 1 lever-action rifle, a Browning Type 1 revolver, and four hand grenades.
Such an outfit costs 500 yuan, not including bullets and military uniforms. That is to say, only an upstart like Fang Xiaoyu spent so much money on such luxurious personal equipment. Other people's private soldiers really can't afford the equipment. Of course, the outfit is custom-made.
The bullet still lacks some equipment
These equipments were all ordered by Fang Xiaoyu from Zhang Peiyun in the form of spare parts. They have not yet arrived. This does not affect the speed of the troops' equipment replacement. Fang Xiaoyu asked Browning Hammer to make guns first and wait for the Xia family's equipment.
Once it's here, start making bullets.
With the new gun, Fang Xiaoyu feels at ease. As long as the new army trains for three months and is equipped with the new gun, he can sit back and relax. After coming out of the workshop, Fang Xiaoyu hummed a little tune and walked towards the place where the perfume was being trialled.
Not long after, Fang Xiaoyu suddenly found Sun Huaizong coming towards him from a distance with a sad face. Fang Xiaoyu said hello: "Mr. Sun, why are you so unhappy?" Sun Huaizong said: "Master, I have found you, something big has happened."
What happened? Did the Cheng family take action against us?" Fang Xiaoyu was afraid of hearing the news now. Sun Huaizong shook his head: "No, it's our spinach. Hundreds of thousands of kilograms have not been sold at all. If this continues, it will all rot.
Already."
Fang Xiaoyu was surprised when he heard this. He originally thought that this batch of spinach would be a big hit just in time for spring when vegetables are scarce. But he underestimated people's stubbornness and no one dared to try it. It was also Fang Xiaoyu who had been going too smoothly recently.
This aspect was ignored.
Things made in the past were relatively easy to accept. Lanfang sugar and thyme wine can only be regarded as improvements on the original products, and people are naturally easy to accept them. The benefits of glass and soap can be felt personally. Vegetables are different. After all, people are interested in them.
You will definitely be more cautious about what you eat, and the appearance of spinach is not too surprising.
Fang Xiaoyu thought for a long time with a sullen face and said: "Have people bring all the vegetables back and tell the villagers who grow them that I have bought all these vegetables." Sun Huaizong said anxiously: "Master, these vegetables also cost a lot of money, and we ourselves
What should I do if I can’t eat it and it’s all rotten?” Fang Xiaoyu said: “Don’t worry, when did you see me let the money float? When you bring the vegetables back, organize people to dry them and store them. Pay attention.
Being moisture-proof has its own uses."
Sun Huaizong asked in confusion: "What is the use of drying?" Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Dried vegetables will not rot. When eating, soak them in water and eat them, and the taste will not be much different."
Sun Huaizong's eyes lit up. This was a good way to store things for a long time. He immediately went to make arrangements. Looking at Sun Huaizong's retreating back, Fang Xiaoyu said to himself: "It seems that I need to open a restaurant by myself, otherwise not only will the new
Vegetables cannot be promoted, and even new seasonings such as soy sauce and vinegar that can already be produced cannot be sold.”
Fang Xiaoyu was very busy in the next month. He asked his uncle to help find a restaurant that he wanted to sell. In addition, he also bought the entire Luoyun Mountain at a low price from his second grandfather. With the land of Luo Yun Mountain, he had
The possibility of building a cement plant or even a steel plant.
Fang Xiaoyu plans to buy another group of slaves through the Xia family's slave workshop. With a little training, they can become very good workers. In addition, Xiaofeng's research direction is also tilted towards cement manufacturing and steelmaking, striving to develop good enough slaves as soon as possible.
Technology, especially steel smelting technology, is the most urgently needed.
Fang Xiaoyu's weapons workshop now uses steel purchased from the Xia family. These steels are made by the Xia family using the Lanfang Empire's traditional steel filling method. Not only does the hardness and toughness be poor, but the output is also low. This is also the reason why the Lanfang Empire
One aspect of the high cost of weapons. The cost is still a trivial matter. The main reason is that the firearm is not durable due to the insufficient strength of the steel. The Lanting-1 rifle can only be loaded with a thousand rounds of bullets, and the rifling will be severely worn and unusable. This has a negative impact on the continuous combat capability of the army.
Considerable impact.
Fang Xiaoyu plans to ask Xiaofeng to focus on alloy steel in his future research, so that he can use the manganese ore in Luoyun Mountain to refine manganese steel with higher strength. In addition to manganese steel, Fang Xiaoyu also pays attention to other steels, such as tungsten steel.
Fang Xiaoyu wants to try to refine nickel steel, titanium steel and other special steels. These materials are very important for the coming era of large-scale industry.
With the arrival of various manual machine tools produced by the Xia family, the efficiency of the workshop has improved a lot. Fang Xiaoyu secretly kept a set of machine tools to enrich Xiaofeng's heavy industrial equipment library. Using this set of equipment, Fang Xiaoyu made three products in one go
A thousand-ton hydraulic press driven by a water wheel is used to manufacture metal casings for fixed bullets.