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Chapter 197 Revolving Pistol
"This time we go north."

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"Because we carried too much equipment and people on this trip north, we didn't bring any food supplies."

After Ke Lei finished his report, Chen Xun and others began to digest the various figures he said. Although the expressions of Sun Zheng, Lai Qingyun and other old people were happy, they were not surprised.

On the other hand, Li Gang and Yue Fei were truly shocked.

I originally thought I had invested in a potential stock, but I didn't expect that the potential stock had already developed into a golden stock.

"The flintlock is the musket used by the dragoons?" Li Gang asked.

"Yes, the improved flintlock gun can use more propellant, and the effective range has been increased by [-]%. The seamless barrel drilled by a hydraulic drilling machine can ensure that the barrel will not explode for at least [-] shots." Ke Lei introduced: "One thousand of these six thousand flintlock muskets are short-barreled cavalry flintlock muskets. The spears are one foot and a half long and can be used with one hand. Their short-range power is not inferior to long-barreled muskets, but they are basically useless beyond fifty steps. Right on target."

After saying that, Ke Lei asked his subordinates outside to come in holding a box: "Here is a gift from Feng Yutie to you."

"Oh? Show me." Chen Xun reached out and took it.

Feng Yutie was the top person in charge of the military government's gun factory, so it must have a special meaning to offer such a solemn gift.

Opening the box, Chen Xun saw a weapon he had seen in movies before: a revolver.

It's not a revolver that only has a magazine that can be rotated. This is a rotating pistol assembled from five short barrels. It can be fired five times in a row with one load.

"This is a revolver made by Feng Yutie based on your description. It has the same power as a short-barreled pistol, but its weight is three times that of a short-barreled musket. Most people cannot aim properly with one hand, so it is not practical. "Ke Lei introduced: "Feng Yutie made some during the development process, and finally made this finished product carefully and sent it to you."

"Let's go try the gun." Chen Xun was also very excited when he saw this advanced weapon. He temporarily put aside the discussion and walked towards a small martial arts field in Shangshu Province.

This martial arts arena was transformed from a small garden. It usually gave Chen Xun a place to relax and move around. The place was not big, with only thirty steps at its longest point, but it was enough to test the revolver.

When he arrived at the martial arts arena, he asked people to set up a simple gun target, and Chen Xun began to load the pistol.

The design of this pistol is very simple, that is, five barrels with closed buttocks, and the hammer is set on the upper part of the pistol. When each barrel is turned to the uppermost part, the primer chamber is just on the hammer, and the trigger can be charged to fire.

When charging, all five barrels need to be loaded with propellant, and then the primers are loaded with primers. Each time a shot is fired, the hammer needs to be pulled hard to the ready-to-fire state, and then the trigger is pulled to shoot.

After five shots it takes a long time to complete the charge again.

It took about ten breaths of time before Chen Xun fumbled and filled the five barrels with medicine.

When loading the ignition powder, I discovered that Feng Yutie had made a very detailed design here, using a half-wrapped iron bar to seal the ignition powder warehouse.Only the priming powder bin located directly above will be exposed, and the other priming bins will be blocked by this circle of iron bars, which prevents the priming powder from falling from the downward priming bin and prevents sparks from splashing and causing other barrels to fire accidentally.

"Captain, let someone else try?" Li Gang looked at this iron lump, with a trace of inexplicable fear in his heart, and persuaded Chen Xun.

"No, just let me do it. It'll be fine." Chen Xun now has super healing properties and is the most suitable person to test the gun. As long as he puts his arm as far forward as possible, it will be fine even if the gun is exploded.

Holding the handle of the gun with both hands, stretching his arms forward, and lifting the six-pound iron lump, Chen Xun took a deep breath and pulled the trigger fiercely.Boom! !There was a crisp sound, and a small hole was opened in the wooden target one foot in front.

Turn the bundled barrels, turn the new barrel to the top, cock the hammer to the back, aim again, and shoot.

Boom! !A small hole exploded in the wooden target again.

Boom! !Boom! !Boom! !

After shooting five times in a row, Chen Xun exhaled: "Refreshing, this is a gun!"

Compared to this revolver, the single-barrel flintlock gun's rate of fire is too slow.

Not counting the previous charging time, Chen Xun fired five shots in a row, which only took one breath of time in total.Chen Xun estimated that if the training becomes more proficient, the five-gun shooting time can be reduced by at least one-third.

"This is too awesome." Sun Zheng sighed, his eyes gleaming: "Captain, let me try it!"

"Okay, except that this weapon is heavier, the recoil is basically the same as that of an ordinary flintlock gun. Just take it easy and don't hurt your wrist." Chen Xun handed the revolver to Sun Zheng, and Lai Qingyun also followed, probably because he was greedy. Very powerful.

Looking at Yue Fei's eager expression, Chen Xun guessed that he just joined and was embarrassed: "You should also try it in the past, our main weapon of the Chen family army will gradually be replaced with this kind of flintlock gun in the future, you must be familiar with it first to be better fight under the command of his subordinates.”

"Thank you, Commander!" Yue Fei followed happily.

Chen Xun, Li Gang, and Ke Lei came to the edge of the martial arts field and sat down at the rest table.

"If this kind of flintlock gun that can fire continuously can be fully equipped in the army, there will be no enemy in the world that can't fight." Li Gang sighed.

"Yes, but the cost of this kind of revolver pistol is too expensive now. According to Feng Yutie, the one given to the governor, not counting the initial investment in research and development, the manufacturing cost alone, including labor costs, reached 300 taels. Silver." Ke Lei introduced.

"In other words, this gun is more expensive than the same weight of silver?" Li Gang couldn't believe it.

"It's five to six times more valuable than silver of the same weight, almost catching up with gold." Ke Lei affirmed.

"That's indeed too expensive." Li Gang shook his head, feeling very sorry.

"It's okay. Think about how high the cost was when we first started making flintlock muskets. Now that we are proficient, we divide the labor and cooperate, and use water conservancy machinery, the cost has been reduced to less than [-]% of the original price." Chen Xun felt nothing wrong: "Now This pistol is not yet mature. When a lighter revolver is developed and mass-produced, the cost will inevitably drop sharply. Sir, you can definitely see the day when this weapon is installed in large quantities in the army."

"I hope that as the governor said, by that time, there will be no foreigners in this world who can bully us Han people." Li Gangchang thought.

It has terrifying power, terrifying rate of fire, and terrifying range. If it can be used in one hand, it only needs 5000 people to completely destroy any army in the world.

"Sir, in order to realize this dream as soon as possible, I plan to implement a new military government policy in Kaifeng Mansion. I hope you can support it." Chen Xun started talking about business.

(End of this chapter)