A knife sooner, a knife later, sooner or later he will be stabbed! After a painful struggle, Zhu Youjian finally obeyed his mind and body, and stayed at Kunning Palace to rest that night.
When he left Zhou's family the next day, he felt refreshed. As a time traveler, he had been a bachelor for more than half a year, which was a bit embarrassing for his status.
After leaving Kunning Palace, Zhu Youjian hurried to the Craftsman Research Institute in Meishan. The biggest problem now is that the New Army does not have suitable individual muskets. He must think of a technological breakthrough direction, otherwise the New Army will naturally fight.
The lame leg is of no use!
"Master Wu, how is the progress of the new firecrackers I asked you to develop?" Wu Tao is an expert in firecrackers for the War Bureau. He was transferred to the R&D Institute by Zhu Youjian to be responsible for the research and development of new firearms.
"In the past few days, I combined your Majesty's thoughts with the firearms catalog of this dynasty, and I feel that the self-generated fire blunderbuss mentioned in the "Armance Illustration" presented to your Majesty by Shi Lang Bi is basically the same as what your Majesty said, and I have copied several guns.
, I found it was not very useful!”
The Ming Dynasty already had a flintlock gun? Zhu Youjian listened to Wu Tao's report and was surprised. He quickly asked him to take the imitation musket and test it. Anyway, since there is already a prototype, there will definitely be ideas for improvement.
Be clearer.
After seeing the results of Wu Tao taking out the imitation self-generating fire and letting people test it, Zhu Youjian realized that he had thought of the problem a little too simply. This thing has a slow rate of fire, poor reliability, and it can't hit far.
, if you want to improve, you have to improve the quality in all aspects, especially the spring technology and the firing rate of flint. The problem is very big, and there is almost no possibility of improvement in a short time. Besides, no matter how much a flintlock gun is improved, it will not be able to fire.
Where can the speed increase?
In addition to these problems, currently available gun barrels cannot withstand the power of new propellants, making it difficult to sustain even one shot.
"Your Majesty, regarding the use of new drugs on the gun, I have thought of a way. Put a layer of copper pipe behind the gun tube, which should be able to withstand the power of the new drug."
"Hoop a layer of copper pipe on the outside? You might as well add it to the inside!" Wu Tao's bad idea did not satisfy Zhu Youjian! Today's firearms are already heavy, and the thickness of the barrel needs to be increased.
, this idea of solving the problem is quite speechless.
"Adding copper pipes to it? Wouldn't it be like a double-twin electric gun? A double-twin electric gun is not very easy to use. Apart from being able to shoot fast, it has no other uses!"
"A mother-in-law electric gun? How come I haven't seen it before? Someone bring it to me and have a look."
This thing sounds like a Folang machine gun. Is it a breech-loading gun with bullets? Zhu Youjian was a little curious and quickly ordered someone to bring this thing over to take a look.
After seeing the real person, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but ask, since there was such a thing, why Wang Zhixin, a damn eunuch, didn't take it when he inspected the Daming firearm. As a result, he wasted several months of his feelings on the gun.
The mother-in-arm electric gun has the general appearance of a rear-loading rifle in later generations. It has a barrel, a butt, a trigger, bullets, and almost everything a rifle should have. Of course, at present, this thing has great shortcomings.
There are huge flaws in the air tightness, serious air leakage, and the firing method is a matchlock gun, which makes loading a lot of trouble, but it is already much faster than the original muzzleloader such as a shotgun!
Instead of researching front-loaded flintlock guns, we directly developed breech-loaded bullet rifles! After seeing the electric blunderbuss, Zhu Youjian had a bold and radical idea. Anyway, for the flintlock gun to mature, the technological breakthrough required is not low.
, why should we put so much effort into making this kind of musket that is destined to be eliminated? Simply put the main focus on the development of the breech-loading gun, saving the effort of taking off your pants and farting.
At present, the technical difficulty of making a breech-loading gun is mainly in solving the air tightness and ignition device. It is a bit technically difficult to directly make a bolt-action rifle, but it should be possible to make a folding single-shot shotgun. A folding single-shot
The key to the shotgun body is the butt. You have to find a mechanism that can hold the butt. However, it is not difficult to implement. Once the principles are explained to the craftsmen, they should be able to solve it. As for the problem of air tightness,
Because it does not involve the problem of ignition, the processing accuracy can be greatly improved. When firing, the thrust is mainly backward, so the bent-back design will not affect the sturdiness of the gun body. Of course, the connection part must be made stronger and more refined.
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The bullets are made of copper, which will withstand much greater destructive power from the explosion and should be able to withstand the power of the new gunpowder. There are special requirements for the barrel. The rear part where the bullet is loaded is slightly larger than the other parts.
, just use a larger drill bit to expand it.
Generally speaking, the technical difficulty of the gun body is not particularly great. What is really technically difficult is the bullet. The accuracy of the bullet will be very high and it needs to be finished. It is estimated that it will be difficult to achieve industrial production in a short time, so we can only
It relies on pure manual finishing by craftsmen. In addition to the accuracy problem, it is the ignition device. The flash cap that will ignite the fire in later generations will not be available for a while, and must be replaced with other things that can easily ignite the fire.
The substitute that Zhu Youji came up with was red phosphorus. When he was a child, he had made a match gun himself and knew that red phosphorus would catch fire when fired vigorously. Moreover, the igniting device used in rural homemade guns was also a flash cap made of red phosphorus, so
It is absolutely possible to use red phosphorus to make a flash cap. However, for safety reasons, the flash cap needs to be separated from the bullet in peacetime, and the flash cap needs to be installed into the back of the bullet in wartime.
How to prepare red phosphorus? Of course Zhu Youjian will not prepare it using the industrial preparation method of later generations. There is no condition to realize this thing for the time being. But he knows an indigenous method to prepare red phosphorus. This method is a bit disgusting to say, but it does work.
Mix urine and sand and heat it at high temperature to get a white crystal, which is white phosphorus. Then heat the white phosphorus to two to three hundred degrees in an oxygen-free state to turn it into red phosphorus. This method
Although red phosphorus cannot be produced on a large scale, it can still cope with the problem for the time being. The capital has a population of more than two million. If the urine produced by these people is collected, it is enough to make propellant for two to three million bullets.
Thank you to future generations for accidentally seeing this disgusting anecdote. This anecdote was of great help.
"Master Wu, according to this sketch I drew, and then combined with my previous description, hurry up and make a sample of the new fire gun at the research and development institute. If you can make a new fire gun that is suitable for use, I will definitely reward you generously!"
Wu Tao looked at the pattern of the new type of firecracker drawn by the emperor and fell into deep thought. This kind of firecracker looked easy to make, but what he couldn't figure out was how it could ignite the fire. It could set off gunpowder with just a hammer.
?Isn’t this unlikely? You must know that a self-made fire and fine flint may not ignite the gunpowder.
