Zhu Jianji smiled and said: "I just asked you to upgrade the Dongfeng sniper rifle the day before yesterday. The results have been achieved so quickly?"
The firing pin of the current Dongfeng sniper rifle uses the bowstring principle. The material is a piano string, which cannot be used many times. Moreover, the quality of the hand-engraved rifling is too poor, resulting in a short range for accurate shooting. It can only be regarded as an enhanced version of the gun, which is not as good as the regular one.
Erba Jing's Minie rifle is still a little bit worse.
Moreover, the gun barrel is limited by the steel-making process, and the accurate range is reduced after three shots.
Eight guns were directly scrapped.
Shi Xin smiled and said: "No, the problems of the firing pin and the barrel are easy to solve. After all, the firing pin can be replaced as long as it has a spring, and the barrel is a steel-making process problem that has been solved. However, the principle of automatic ejection of cartridge cases proposed by His Highness,
Wei Chen has a doubt."
Zhu Jianji was a little embarrassed, "Tell me about it."
He doesn't understand guns either.
Therefore, I racked my brains for several days to think about the principle of ejecting the cartridge case, and I thought it should be based on the spring and lever principle. As for the specific layout, I left Shi Xin a headache.
As a result, Shi Xin handed this problem over to him again.
Shi Xin said: "Actually, the principle of automatic ejection of the cartridge case mentioned by His Highness is very simple. Just add a spring directly under the tail of the bullet. After the bullet is loaded, the tail of the bullet presses the spring and the bullet body is stuck in the barrel."
"But there is a problem with this. The bullet body is basically pressed against the barrel, which directly reduces the range of the bullet. There is also a lot of friction with the barrel, and the barrel is easily damaged, so this principle is not feasible."
Zhu Jianji was overjoyed. Sure enough, he had a specialty in the art.
Asked: "Then what solution do you have?"
Shi Xin said: "I discovered a phenomenon during the experiment, that is, there is an invisible force at the moment the bullet is fired, so I was thinking that I could separate the barrel and the gun body. When shooting, the gun body and the gun body will be separated."
The barrel jams the bullet, and after the bullet is detonated, this invisible force is used to separate the gun body and barrel to expose the gap, and at the same time, it drives the connecting rod to push out the bullet case."
Zhu Jianji was stunned.
this……
It seems a bit like the pneumatic ejection device of modern firearms?
I got excited and asked, "Can we do it?"
Shi Xin said: "There is hope, but it may take a year and a half."
Zhu Jianji smiled and said: "Then do it."
Shi Xin coughed.
Zhu Jianji understood, "It's okay. I will ask Dai Yi to allocate funds for weapons supervision."
Shi Xin smiled and said: "As long as we have the principle design, the rest will be left to Qian. Your Highness can rest assured that as long as the money is in place, Weichen is confident that this problem can be solved within half a year, and this design can also be used."
Rifle up, so—"
Zhu Jianji came to his senses and asked, "Rifle mass production, postponed?"
Shi Xin said: "That's exactly what it means, and Wei Chen has some ideas."
Zhu Jianji smiled and said, "You tell me."
What a talent!
It seems that it is not that the Ming Dynasty lacked talents, but that it was limited by the times.
Now if you mention a principle yourself, you can trigger Shi Xin to think of some of the principles of modern firearms. There are many people like Shi Xin in the Ming Dynasty. We, the children of China, have never been short of talents!
Shi Xin said: "On His Highness's design drawing of the Desert Eagle, there is a magazine, which inspired me greatly. Why don't we also design a magazine for the rifle?"
The principle of the magazine is very simple.
Zhu Jianji shook his head, "I'm very happy that you have this idea, but the rifle does not need a magazine, because the rifle's range is not far and requires accuracy. If a magazine is also used, under continuous shooting, the parts of the gun body will interact with each other.
Coupled with the recoil, the shooting accuracy dropped significantly."
He stood up, walked to the bookshelf behind him, picked up a piece of rice paper and handed it to Shi Xin.
"This design drawing is given to you together with the 'Desert Eagle' because I think it is a bit beyond our current technology and craftsmanship level, and I want to go step by step, first make the rifle and the 'Desert Eagle', and then come back
Do this, since you have thought of it, I will show it to you."
Shi Xin looked at it for a while and asked, "Is this a small artillery piece?"
There are also wheels.
There is also a cannon barrel, and the cannon barrel is in a very dense circle. Does that mean it needs to rotate and shoot?
And it is also a few sizes smaller than the artillery.
Zhu Jianji shook his head, "It's not an artillery piece. Let's think it's a rapid-fire rifle. What it requires is not precision, but intensive fire suppression, so this thing needs a magazine."
Shi Xin's eyes lit up a little, "What's the range?"
Zhu Jianji said: "This kind of fire blunderbuss is called a heavy machine gun, or a heavy machine gun for short. In my opinion, as long as its range is less than a thousand steps and its accurate range is less than 500 steps, it is a failed product.
."
Shi Xin took a breath of cold air.
The range is one thousand steps, the precise range is five hundred steps?!
What does it mean?
This means that the enemy soldiers were shot and killed before they even saw what our soldiers looked like.
The rifle that His Highness asked the Ordnance Supervisor to develop required a range of 350 steps.
If an army is equipped with a dozen of these rapid-fire muskets and several thousand rifles, as long as there are enough bullets, the enemy can basically be wiped out within a hundred steps.
This is an important weapon to control the country in a disruptive era!
Zhu Jianji smiled and said: "Of course, our current level of craftsmanship may be a bit difficult to achieve. Just take this design and think carefully about how to develop it. In addition, I also think the idea of adding a magazine to the rifle you mentioned is feasible.
, the principle remains the same, but the rifle as a whole needs to be heavier, and the craftsmanship of the barrel needs to be improved, because rapid fire requires higher requirements for the barrel, otherwise the barrel will be scrapped within a minute or two. I will draw this design later.
, I’ll send someone to the Ordnance Prison later.”
Magazine plus rifle.
Isn't it just a light machine gun?
As long as the problem of continuous firing of the firing pin and the problem of instantaneous detonation of the bullet can be solved, it can be done.
Shi Xin nodded, "But if it fires rapidly, there will definitely be a problem of overheating of the barrel. The process is too difficult. Weichen has an idea. If the materials and processes cannot be improved, why not consider adding an additional cooling measure?"
Zhu Jianji was delighted, "Shi Xin, you were born in the wrong era. If you had been born a few hundred years later and had been the military supervisor of the court, the world would have been rewritten because of you."
Well...now it's rewritten because of me.
He continued: "The heavy machine gun must have a cooling device. You can consider adding a water cooling device outside the barrel. As for the rifle with the magazine, there is no need to cool down. You just need to improve the steelmaking process of the barrel as much as possible."
A light machine gun with a water cooling device is no longer called a light machine gun.
I don’t even know what Maxim is like.
Unfortunately, I have never studied firearms, and I know very little about the principles and structures of light and heavy machine guns. I can only rely on my own knowledge to make guesses, and then keep experimenting.
Shi Xin looked solemn and said, "Wei Chen knows."
He added: "But has your Highness ever thought that in order to achieve continuous rapid fire, flint ignition cannot be achieved, because it takes a while for the flint to ignite the fuse and then ignite the gunpowder in the tail of the bullet."
Zhu Jianji said: "Of course I know, so I didn't give you the design drawing of this machine gun."
From this point of view, Desert Eagle cannot do it either.
Shi Xin thought thoughtfully, "The bullets need to be improved!"
He added: "Your Highness's mortar design, Wei Chen has seen it. It takes a while to launch, and it also takes a while to explode after landing. This gives the enemy a chance to react and evade. If it can land, it will
The explosion will greatly increase the power."
Shi Xin suddenly became excited, "If bullets can instantly ignite and fire, then mortar shells can also use the same principle!"
Zhu Jianji was really amazed.
Shi Xin actually wants to develop modern firearms and bullets?!
national treasure!
Shi Xin is the national treasure of the Ming Dynasty!
Sent.
There is such a person in the Ordnance Supervisor.
He laughed and said, "Shi Jianzheng, it seems your good days are over."
Shi Xin was confused and confused.
Zhu Jianji said: "From today on, the Guhui will arrange personnel to carry out the strictest peripheral monitoring of the weapons supervisor. In other words, from today on, the weapons supervisor will become the most mysterious and important department of the Ming Dynasty. From now on, the weapons supervisor will
People's entry and exit, as well as their daily lives, will be strictly monitored."
Including steel-making workshop and refractory brick production workshop.
This technology is absolutely not allowed to spread among the people, let alone abroad!
Shi Xin breathed a sigh of relief, "Your Highness, please don't scare the ministers and think it's something. Don't worry, Your Highness, the ministers here at the Ordnance Supervisor have already been selected, and the ones left behind are all loyal people."
Zhu Jianji shook his head, "That's because no one knows what kind of impact your weapons supervisor has on the world. When the young army is equipped with rifles and machine guns, the world will be shocked. There will be many
If someone comes to steal technology, some of you will also face various temptations. What you have to do is to prevent this from happening!"
Once light and heavy machine guns, mortars, and modern bullets are developed, they will be Ming Dynasty's nuclear weapons.
It is a big stick to enter the world.
Taking a deep breath, "In addition, Supervisor Shi is going back to tell all the ordnance supervisory officials, craftsmen, and subordinate steel-making workshops and refractory brick production workshops that the Association may be independent from the Ministry of Works. At that time, it will be under the jurisdiction of the East Palace, and the Guild Association will
Everyone’s salary will be increased by 30%!”
This is the foundation of Ming Dynasty industry.
It must be taken care of!
And... we have to give them houses!
Zhu Jianji planned to plan a military industrial zone, which would be specially guarded by the army.
