The promotion of new technologies will always encounter difficulties in the early stages. Relatively speaking, the structure of sewing machines is indeed a bit complicated, and there are no other reference standards. Therefore, Zhu Youjian is mentally prepared for this unsatisfactory situation.
. He trains people just to make the participants more attentive and to shorten the early process as much as possible.
Theoretically speaking, when the sewing machine enters the stage of limited mass production and has a certain application foundation in the private sector, it will usher in a period of major technological progress. Only when private power is fully stimulated and guided, serious and mature sewing machines will appear.
After investigating the application of sewing machines, Zhu Youjian went to the ordnance factory in Beijing the next day to see what was going on here. After arriving at the ordnance factory, Zhu Youjian happened to meet Song Yingxing, who was developing a new type of artillery shell at the ordnance factory.
.The old man is now traveling around Beijing, Miyun, Tangshan, Tianjin, and the Shenlong has never seen the end. It feels like he has set up his home on a rail car. Zhu Youjian has a hard time seeing it.
"Sir, you can't keep spinning like this. Although I have put a lot of burdens on you, you still need to arrange your time appropriately. You are involved in the fate of the country, so you must not have any accidents."
"Your Majesty, you are serious! If I can do something for the country with an old bone, I am already lucky. How can I dare to say that I am involved in the fate of the country? Although I am busier now, my body is still strong, so there will be no problems.
It happened. Your Majesty came just in time. A craftsman from the ordnance factory made a rifle that can fire continuously. I think the idea is very good. Your Majesty can take a look at it and make some suggestions so that this gun can be finalized as soon as possible.
Production."
Continuous-fire lance? Did they come up with something like a submachine gun? Is this technology advancing too fast? The excited Zhu Youjian quickly asked Song Yingxing to take him to see it.
After seeing the prototype gun, Zhu Youjian realized that he had thought a little too much. What the craftsmen in the ordnance factory produced was not a submachine gun, but something similar in principle to the revolvers of later generations.
"Revolver? How come I forgot about this. At this stage, to achieve continuous firing, this method is the most suitable." Zhu Youjian held the sample gun in his hand and sighed while trying to operate it. He
I really forgot about the existence of a revolver type gun. Mainly because in my memory, this thing is a pistol. Unexpectedly, the craftsmen actually made a revolver with a long barrel. I don’t know if it is suitable to be used as a long gun.
"Your Majesty told you the characteristics of this gun in just one sentence. You are really an expert in firearms. The wheels of this gun do turn to the left. I feel that the current method of mounting the bullet wheel on the gun body is a bit inconvenient.
It is inconvenient to use bullets, so you can design it as a folding type, which will make it easier to load bullets." The wheel gun designed by the ordnance factory craftsman did not use a folding type. Instead, it had an integrated butt, which is equivalent to a wooden gun.
A hole was dug in the support and the drum was embedded in it.
"The folding type is indeed much more convenient than the current gun, and it is a direction for improvement! In addition, the magazine can actually be designed to be detachable. It will be much more convenient for soldiers to have double drums during combat."
"That's good! In this way, the cartridge case is not easily lost, and a lot of copper can be saved."
"By the way, this kind of gun can also be made into a small handgun, which can be distributed to officers for self-defense in the future. The bullets can be smaller and less powerful. Has the production process of bullet casings improved? With the popularity of firearms, has it improved?
, but the consumption of ammunition will become larger and larger, and it is too labor-intensive and time consuming to rely on the original production process. "
"Lao Ruo and his people are working on a die-cast cartridge case production line. Now it is much faster than the original method. It is estimated that in a while, a better method of producing cartridge cases will be figured out."
"In terms of firearms, I think that ordinary infantry guns should abandon the folding design in the future and use a pull bolt and a spring magazine. Sir, you can ask the ordnance developers to put more effort in this direction.
In addition, the development of threaded rifling in the barrel also requires some effort."
The current bending gun has air tightness problems, which will affect the shooting distance. There must be a reason why the bending gun has not been equipped with large-scale troops in later generations. Before the emergence of repeating guns, the most mainstream infantry rifles in the world were bolt-action rifles.
There must be a reason for the rifle. Zhu Youjian feels that it should be related to the use of this gun to maximize the kinetic energy of gunpowder. Without the cooperation of high-density artillery fire and the inability to achieve continuous fire, the shooting distance of the rifle
A further distance will be safer and more reliable for the infantry, otherwise the enemy will rush right in front of them without being able to fire two shots.
In addition to increasing the shooting distance, it is also necessary to improve the shooting accuracy. Today's bent-back muskets, with a slight distance, the bullets fired will float randomly, and hitting the enemy depends on your life. Therefore, the barrel is rifled to strengthen the connection between the bullet and the barrel.
The density and reliability of the rifle are improved, which is also the main direction for the future progress of rifle technology.
According to this development direction, the development of revolvers seems to run counter to it. The air tightness of revolvers is worse than that of folding guns. If the barrel is rifled, it will be more difficult to engage with bullets. With the current precision of technology, it is quite
It is difficult to achieve. But Zhu Youjian feels that the revolver still needs to be made, because its main application target is not infantry, but cavalry and officers. When riding on a horse, even if it is a bolt-action rifled gun, if you want to maintain shooting accuracy, generally
It is also difficult for soldiers to do it. Since it is so difficult, they simply abandon the requirement for accuracy and directly pursue the shooting speed. Anyway, when the cavalry rushes in, it is easy to rush in front of the opponent's formation. At this time, they can shoot quickly.
A revolver with five or six rounds of ammunition is more useful than a bolt-action gun with one shot and one cock, and a folding gun top.
An officer's self-defense is usually within ten steps. It doesn't matter whether the shooting accuracy is accurate or not. Rapid shooting is the way to go.
"The heavy artillery explosive shells we are making have already produced sample shells. Does Your Majesty want to personally observe the power?" After talking about firearms for a while, Song Yingxing turned the topic to artillery shells.
"Has the heavy artillery shells been detonated? Can they effectively prevent explosions in the chamber?"
"According to His Majesty's idea, I mixed nitrate cotton and nitroglycerine in a certain proportion. The explosive was quite stable. With the addition of heat-insulating yellow mud, it was difficult to explode in the chamber. However, this requirement for the fuse has put forward more requirements.
The current method we are thinking of is to add some propellant powder between the trigger fuze made of fulminant and the explosive, so that a lot of combinations can be used. However, this kind of bomb will be quite troublesome to use.
The primer propulsion part, explosive, fuse, and detonating part are installed separately, and they must be assembled together when used."
"It's a little troublesome, just a little troublesome. During combat, there are many people working with heavy artillery. It should be said that on-site assembly is still done by manual labor." The heavy artillery bombs of later generations are not integrated. The fuze and projectile body are generally
Loaded separately, in addition to the propellant that comes with it, the heavy artillery shells also come with additional propellant!