When Zuo Feifei heard what Jin Feng said, her breathing became rapid. She grabbed Jin Feng's arm and asked, "What new weapon?"
The other female workers standing behind her also looked at Jin Feng with bright eyes.
From the time he made his first crossbow to kill a rabbit, every weapon Jin Feng made was very powerful, and it can even be said that each one can change the pattern of the battlefield.
So they are full of expectations for Jin Feng's new weapon.
"Actually, it's not a new weapon. Feifei, you should have seen it before. It's just a musket."
Jin Feng took off the musket from his leg: "It's just that the new musket is longer than the one I'm using now, but the range will be longer and the damage will be greater!"
There are many people who know that Jin Feng owns muskets, and Zuo Feifei is one of them. Bayi Chinese website
She also knew that not only Jin Feng was carrying muskets, but also Guan Xiaorou, Tang Xiaobei, Bei Qianxun, and Zhu'er who was with the Ninth Princess.
Once, she went to Xihewan to discuss the soap formula with Guan Xiaorou. Zuo Feifei also went to the back mountain to shoot two shots and experience it herself.
At that time, the musket directly beat the straw man into a sieve, and Zuo Feifei was very impressed.
Hearing that the new weapon was a musket, Zuo Feifei became even more excited. She grabbed Jin Feng's sleeve and asked: "Can the musket be mass-produced? How many are there?"
Many people know that muskets are very powerful. After that experience, Zuo Feifei once asked Guan Xiaorou why not equip the escorts on a large scale?
At that time, Guan Xiaorou said that the iron smelting workshop did not have the conditions to mass-produce muskets.
Now Jin Feng said that the new weapon was a musket, and Zuo Feifei suddenly grasped the key point.
"Large-scale mass production is not yet possible, but small-scale production is still possible."
Jin Feng smiled and said: "I brought four hundred this time!"
No one knows the power of firearms better than Jin Feng, so after returning from the East China Sea, Jin Feng stayed in the laboratory for a period of time, not only to avoid Guan Xiaorou's pregnancy inducement, but also to study firearms.
It's a pity that Dakang's industrial base is too backward. Even if Jin Feng knew everything about the manufacturing of various firearms, he would not be able to mass-produce the firearms.
Just finding the right steel material for making the gun barrel made him struggle a lot.
After working hard for a long time, I finally found steel that met the conditions.
However, the amount of steel found is limited, and the number of muskets that can be made is also limited.
At that time, Jin Feng used that batch of steel to produce a batch of short muskets. In addition to equipping Guan Xiaorou and Tang Xiaobei, the rest were handed over to Han Feng and asked him to train a team specifically to use them. To deal with the dead soldiers.
When Han Feng encountered a dead soldier ambushing him in the south of the Yangtze River, he used a musket to kill him.
Later, after Guan Xiaorou and the Ninth Princess became pregnant, Jin Feng took some time off and took Mancang to rebuild a new furnace in the iron smelting workshop, barely meeting the production requirements for new steel.
Mancang asked people to build a new workshop next to the gunpowder production workshop, specifically for the production of muskets.
Although the output is still not high, energy is being produced continuously.
After several months of accumulation, he also accumulated hundreds of weapons. Jin Feng put them in the back mountain warehouse as a reserve weapon to prepare for emergencies.
He originally thought it would take at least several years before he could use a musket, but he ended up using it so quickly.
Previously, when the Dangxiang people gathered troops and horses in Xizhou, Jin Feng asked Da Zhuang to lead people to defend. In order to increase his chances of winning, Jin Feng once asked Xiao Yu to send a batch of muskets to Da Zhuang.
This time, in order to support Yuguan City, Jin Feng took another 400 sticks from the warehouse and almost emptied the warehouse.
However, before leaving, he had already given instructions to expand the production scale with full warehouse capacity.
"Only four hundred?"
Zuo Feifei's eyes were a little dim.
Although the muskets are powerful, there are two thousand of them in total, and Jin Feng only brought 400 muskets. What are they enough for?
"You think I brought too little?" Jin Feng saw through Zuo Feifei's thoughts at a glance and said with a smile: "Don't think it's too little. For people like you, four hundred is enough. If there are more, you
There’s no end to it.”
"How come we can't use them all? We have two thousand people." Zuo Feifei was unconvinced.
"I remember that time you went to see Xiaorou and tried the musket, right?"
Jin Feng asked: "Then you should know that it takes a long time to aim the musket until it is fired, right?"
"Yes!" Zuo Feifei nodded.
In fact, the structure of firearms is not particularly complicated. As a doctor of science and engineering, Jin Feng also interned in a military factory in his previous life, so he is no stranger to various firearms.
If he had enough equipment, he could produce a machine gun.
It's a pity that a good woman can't make a meal without rice. With the current industrial conditions in the iron smelting workshop, Jin Feng can only make flintlock guns, but cannot make more advanced firearms at all.
Compared with a loaded repeater gun, the operation of a flintlock gun is much more complicated.
The bullets of the flintlock gun are not loaded from the back. Instead, the gunpowder needs to be stuffed into the barrel mouth, then the gunpowder is pounded firmly with a drill, and finally the iron sand is stuffed in.
There is a flint at the end of the flintlock gun. When the trigger is pulled, the iron block connected to the trigger hits the flint, sparks ignite the gunpowder, and the gunpowder explodes to generate thrust, pushing the iron sand out.
"It takes several steps from filling to firing a gun, and it also takes a lot of time. If an enemy rushes in front of you during this process, what will you do?" Jin Feng looked at Zuo Feifei and asked.
Zuo Feifei bit her lip and said nothing.
This is also a drawback of muskets.
If the enemy rushes in front of you before it is loaded, it is too dangerous for the gun owner.
"Then what should we do?" Zuo Feifei raised her head and asked.
She knew that since Jin Feng asked this, he must have already thought of a way to deal with it.
"The method is very simple, just three people using two guns!" Jin Feng said.
"Three people using two guns?" Zuo Feifei asked, "How to use them?"
"One person is responsible for filling the gunpowder and iron sand, another person is responsible for pounding the gunpowder firmly, and one person is responsible for shooting."
Jin Feng said: "This can ensure the shooting frequency to the greatest extent."
"This is a good idea."
Zuo Feifei nodded slightly.
There are 2,000 female workers in total. If they are divided into two shifts, black and white, there will be exactly 1,000 people in each shift.
According to Jin Feng's arrangement, 400 guns can be used by 600 female workers, and the remaining 400 female workers are also responsible for other weapons such as catapults and heavy crossbows, which is just right.
"When will training start?" Zuo Feifei asked.
"Let's start today!" Jin Feng replied.
Weapons are most effective the first time they are used publicly.
Such as flash bombs, such as hot air balloons.
If the enemy who ambushed Jin Feng had known the effect of flash bombs in advance, they would have been prepared, and Jin Feng might have died in that ambush.
If the Fourth Prince had known about the hot air balloon in advance, it would have been difficult for Jin Feng to save the Ninth Princess and Chen Ji in the capital.
Jin Feng originally planned to let Han Feng secretly train a team. If he encountered a powerful enemy, he would pull out the musketeers and catch the enemy by surprise.
Unfortunately, the plan could not keep up with the change. Before he could save enough muskets, the Eastern Barbarians came up with Haidongqing, which caused the situation in Sichuan, Shu and Qin to take a turn for the worse. Jin Feng had no choice but to take out the muskets in advance.