Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 306

Sun Xin and he nodded with a smile and were about to leave, but saw the man follow two steps behind him, and turned around to see him hesitating to speak.

Sun Xin said with a smile: "Is there anything you want to say to me?"

Seeing that there was no one around, the farmer summoned up his courage and said to Sun Xin: "Master Lu, don't be angry with Master Lu. Master Lu is a man with the heart of Buddha. Even if he kicked and beat us, it wouldn't mean anything bad."

"How did we think about today's life when we were farmers in the past? If our hands and feet are slow, the manager will be beaten down with a whip. Today, everyone has a way out in this Sun Family Village, and they have food and work. , everyone thinks well of the owner and the supervisory committee."

Sun Xin was really reluctant to let his students be treated like Lu Zhishen. These are all the treasures of Sun Jiazhuang, but after thinking about it, it seems that Lu Zhishen's approach is also right. My own son probably punched and kicked in the same way.

People in this day and age don't mind this kind of education very much.

A month later, Shen Yun and Meng Kang went to Korea.

After a series of experiments, Tang Long finally produced a mini-bullet rifle, and asked Sun Xin and the officer corps to test it.

Sun Xin and others introduced Tang Long while checking.

At first glance, the Minie bullet developed by Tang Long is no different from the previous fragmented bullets, except that the shape of the front bullet has changed to a bowl shape, and a paper bag with a fixed charge is added at the back.When in use, bite off the gunpowder bag, pour the gunpowder into the barrel, and then use a cleaning rod to poke the Minie bullet into the barrel to fire.

The calibers of the original flintlock guns made by Sunjiazhuang actually have a slight difference in size, but because the lead pellets wrapped in deerskin are fired, the deerskin can play a certain role in holding the breath, so the requirements for the caliber are not so high.

However, the new-style yu-shaped bullets are all of uniform specifications. Once they are confirmed as the regular equipment for the troops, the Sunjiazhuang's protection army will start to change their equipment.

A peasant soldier set up a target in the distance, and Sun Xin picked up the musket and shot two shots. Sun Xin had often practiced shooting before, and he could achieve good shooting results with his two iron whips. As soon as Sun Xin got the Mini-bomb flintlock in his hand, Sun Xin fell in love with it. The design of the gun body is much more refined than before, and the scale is very ambitious. .

"How far can you hit?"

"When ordering a ruler, the more accurate distance can reach three hundred steps."

Sun Xin nodded, that was close to 200 meters, basically reaching the limit of the Kentucky rifle during the American Revolutionary War.

"Let the peasants and soldiers move the target to 250 steps."

Every 250 steps on the shooting range, there are small flags marking the position. The peasants and soldiers quickly set up targets at [-] steps. emission.

The first bullet was fired, and the recoil was strong, but the newly-made broken-hair gun already had a certain ergonomic design, which was more comfortable than the shoulder of the original musket used by the Hubao Army when it was on the butt.

Sun Xin picked up the paper-wrapped ammunition on the table, bit open the wax-paper bag and poured the gunpowder into the barrel of the gun. Some black powder inevitably fell into his mouth, and there was a sulfurous smell that burned his tongue a bit.

Sun Xin didn't care about the taste in his mouth, and quickly used the cleaning rod to stab the Minie bullets into the bottom of the barrel in the correct direction. The bullets, which were smaller than the barrel, were much easier to insert, and it took almost no effort to pierce them. It went into the groove very smoothly.

This is because Sunjiazhuang cannot produce qualified sulfuric acid paper. In the future, if sulfuric acid paper with less flammable ash can be produced, the step of pouring gunpowder can be omitted, and the gunpowder and projectiles can be directly packed into a paper ball and thrown into the gun. Just do it.

Even so, the entire loading process is at least half the original time.

After loading the bullets, pour a little propellant into the ignition pool with a horn pot, Sun Xin aimed again and fired.

After familiarizing himself with the process of reloading for the first time, Sun Xinyue operated more smoothly. He fired five rounds in a row, and Sun Xin didn't stop until the barrel was hot.

Lu Zhishen and the others are the leaders of the army, and they are very familiar with the flintlock guns used by the Baobao Army before. Now this mini-bullet rifle is obviously much more complete than the previous muskets, and it must be more reliable to use on the battlefield. .

After the fight, they all looked at the direction of the reported peasants and soldiers with concern.

Just now, Sun Xin fired five shots in a row just to meet the requirement of entering the battlefield.

In fact, there are very few opportunities for soldiers to stand and shoot targets on the battlefield. Five bullets are basically the number of bullets that farmers and soldiers can fire in a round of small-scale battles.

If the musketeers fire five rounds and the line cannot move, it means that either the enemy is about to collapse, or they are about to collapse.

Now let's see how accurate this rifle is?
The peasants and soldiers in the distance came to the human-sized target to observe carefully, and then raised the flag and sent back a semaphore.

The student soldier beside him interpreted the semaphore and said loudly: "Five hits and four hits."

In an instant, Lu Zhishen and the others widened their eyes, Sun Xin nodded happily, and Tang Long was full of pride.

Their muskets used spherical projectiles before, and their accuracy could reach up to fifty paces, and they had to be specially selected good guns. As far as hundreds of paces away, there is no difference between aiming at people and aiming at the moon. Bullets have their own ideas , Whether it can hit or not depends on God's will.

The new invention has extended the range of the musket by more than a hundred steps, which is of great significance. The protection army can extend the distance of contacting the enemy by these hundreds of steps, and the risk on the battlefield will be reduced many times.

However, seeing the advantages of muskets that Sun Xin and others talked about with novelty on their faces, Le He began to beat his heart. Sure enough, the next moment, Sun Xin looked at him and smiled: "Brother, we are going to change to this bowl-shaped bullet. Can the musket work!"

Lehe quit in an instant.

"It was hard work to equip all four regiments of the Protectorate with flintlock guns. It hasn't been used for a year and it will be changed immediately. Isn't it too impatient?"

In his view, this is really a waste.

Tang Long didn't speak at the side, just looked at the owner, and all the officers also looked at Sun Xin.

Sun Xin was indeed standing in the same camp as them. He thought for a while and said: "Now there are four regiments of Musketeers in Sunjiazhuang, and the number of regular soldiers is only over 4000. With the expansion of Sunjiazhuang's power, the number of soldiers can reach 1 or even [-] Ten thousand people is a normal thing, the basic peasants and soldiers under the jurisdiction are still fighting with spears and swords, and they also need to be armed, and the replacement of these five thousand flintlock guns is not enough.”

"As for replacing the fragmented bullets with miniature bullets, it's fine if Tang Long doesn't complete the experiment here. Now that the results of the experiment have come out, reforms must be carried out."

Thinking of Sunjiazhuang's financial situation, Lehe had to insist: "The long-range attack capability of the protection army is already unique in the world. There is no need to improve the power of their firearms. Even if they only use flintlocks, they cannot be found in Manshanshan. To an army stronger than ours.

Sun Xinyan shook his head, he smiled and said to Tang Long: "Bring up a box of your newly made bullets."

Two peasants and soldiers came up with a miscellaneous wooden box. When the box was opened, they saw boxes of neatly arranged paper-wrapped bombs wrapped in moisture-proof straw.

Both Le He and Lu Zhishen were taken aback, "Is it enough to supply them like this?"

Sun Xin said with a smile: "In the future, we will transport ammunition in this way, and adding a pot of primer to each box will be enough!"

Hearing what Sun Xin said, everyone immediately understood that the real difference between the fixed-loaded bullet and the round lead bullet is not only in the combat capability on the battlefield, but also in logistics.

Because the raw materials of gunpowder have different densities, if they are prepared in the rear and then transported to the front line, in addition to the danger of explosion during the bumpy process, what is more important is that the prepared gunpowder will naturally separate after a long period of shaking. A barrel of gunpowder at the front line will naturally be divided into three parts after being opened. The gunpowder floating on the top has a high content of charcoal, and the gunpowder that sinks to the bottom has a high content of sulfur. If this kind of gunpowder is not fully burned during combat, it is more likely to cause the risk of deflagration bombs.

Therefore, the bullets and gunpowder of farmers and soldiers are stored uniformly by the army. Before each war, large barrels are sent to the front line, and the raw materials of gunpowder, saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal, need to be separated one by one during the transportation process.

What must be done in advance before each battle is that the chief sergeant will open the gunpowder raw materials assigned to the combat unit, and carefully mix the three raw materials of gunpowder according to the ratio on the front line.

This process is cumbersome and unsafe, and it greatly limits the speed of the soldiers' combat response. Once something accidentally causes the ammunition depot to explode, the loss of a few military officers is considered light, and it is more likely to directly destroy the soldiers in the entire battle. They don't even have weapons.

Sun Xin and Tang Long had thought of many ways to solve this problem before. The simplest way was to granulate all the gunpowder.

However, the granulation of gunpowder is a rather cumbersome task, directly more than doubling the cost of gunpowder production, and the granulated gunpowder has more stringent requirements for storage conditions, which is not so simple under the current technological conditions path of.

Now the fixed ammunition does not have this problem, even if the gunpowder is layered during transportation, but because the amount of propellant in each bullet is very small, as long as the proportion is correct and filled into the barrel, the shooting effect is not bad. .

And more importantly, it is easy to transport. Every time you transport ammunition, you only need to send the packaged Miniature bullets one by one. You don’t need to use several large barrels to weigh the raw materials of gunpowder and send them to different units. You have to replace the big barrel with the small barrel, and you have to be careful to prevent moisture in the future, so as not to touch sparks. This technical improvement alone can reduce the cost of the transportation system of the protection army by 30.00%, and at the same time increase the speed of on-the-spot response The advantage is that it is of great benefit to the combat capability of the army.

With so many advantages, Lehe finally agreed to the plan of the protection army to replace them with mini-bullet rifles in batches.

The officer corps was delighted, and Sun Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In his opinion, the R&D and replacement of Mini bombs also means that Sunjiazhuang's gun manufacturing is finally on the right track.

(End of this chapter)