Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 156 Guns and Cannons

In the end, 1 kg of mercury produced about 1.2 kg of rymercury, and the chemical group was very satisfied with this result.After all, the amount of thormercury used in each flash cap is very small.

The flash caps used on the Mini guns are best made of copper. The traversers did not carry copper. The Guangzhou Advance Station purchased a large number of Japanese red copper bars.This kind of copper is very popular in the market because it contains a lot of silver.The cost of buying copper can be offset by refining silver.

The metallurgical team re-refined copper bars and obtained copper ingots with high purity and a small amount of silver.After the raw materials were settled, the mechanical group designed and manufactured a special stamping machine for flash caps, made molds, driven by electricity, and could press 10 flash caps at a time.

After confirming that there is no problem in the mass production of the flash cap, the assembly of the musket will begin.These front-loading rifles using Minie ammunition are all assembled with 14 mm alloy steel seamless pipes from the high-pressure boiler bought before departure.After the steel pipes were purchased, five "internal threads" with a length of 48 centimeters were secretly threaded in the machining factory opened in Zhanwuya.Other hammers, triggers, reeds, etc. are also stamped out of alloy steel plates with a thickness of 5 to 4 mm in his factory.If they didn't have this hand at that time, if they processed the rifles themselves, I am afraid that there are not many rifled guns now, and the new army probably has to use brown bess-this kind of smoothbore gun has also been praised by a group of madmen who lined up to shoot the party members. , although Wang Luobin also lined up to shoot party members, but it was not fundamental enough.The real queuing shooting party absolutely rejects rifled rifles.

Rifled guns are not a very new weapon. In the era of flintlock muskets, there were flintlock rifled guns. Compared with smoothbore guns, the benefits of rifled guns are obvious: large range and high accuracy. Compared with effective Flintlock muskets with a range of less than 50 meters and front-loading rifles could be used as sniper rifles at that time in terms of shooting accuracy and range.

The biggest problem with its failure to popularize is that the process is complicated and the cost is too high, and the second is that it is difficult to load.The reason why rifled guns can shoot far and accurately is that the bullet must rotate along the rifling before it is discharged, which requires the bullet to be inserted into the rifling.Before there was no miniature bullet, the bullet had to be slightly larger than the diameter of the rifling, and the bullet was hit with brute force to deform it into the rifling.Exaggeration takes a hammer to hammer in, and while most of the time it's more than that, it's a fact that it reloads slower than a musket.Therefore, although it has been equipped with elite infantry on a small scale by many countries, it is not widely used.

The appearance of the Mini bomb changed the fate of the front-loading rifle.The diameter of the tapered bullet is slightly smaller than the diameter of the barrel, so that it is very convenient to load.There is a conical cavity at the bottom of the bullet, and a cork blocks the bottom of the hole. When firing, the gas presses the cork into the cavity, forcing the bottom of the bullet to expand, close to the rifling, and close the gap between the bullet and the chamber, allowing the gas to It cannot be leaked out, and the warhead can be rotated at high speed under the pressure of the rifling.Mini bombs solved the problem of difficulty in loading front-loading rifled guns and the low range accuracy of smoothbore guns, making rifles surpass artillery and became the decisive weapon on the battlefield at that time.

When the trigger was pulled, there was a loud "bang", and the body of the gun rushed backwards, causing Wang Luobin's shoulder to ache.A faint puff of gunpowder smoke slowly escaped from the muzzle of the gun. Under the city wall 100 meters away, Jiang Ye ran out from the shelter, looked at the target, pasted the hole he had just made with white paper, and shouted loudly on the bamboo phone made of earth. Wang Luobin took off the earplug in his right ear, I leaned closer to the bamboo tube on this side, and heard him say: "Ninth Ring Road, towards 9 o'clock." So I raised my hand to signal that I heard it.

The result is pretty good!The first shot was very close to the bullseye, and it looks like the gun will be calibrated in less than two hours.Pick up a small file and remove a thin layer of the left side of the brass notch seat.Then loosen the vise that fixes the gun body, and load the gun and bullet.Start again and slowly aim at the half-body bullseye 100 meters away, and do another 100-meter calibration.As luck would have it, everything was as normal as it could possibly be. After the distance of 100 meters is calibrated, several targets of different heights are used to simulate and test the long distances of 200 meters, 300 meters and 400 meters.The farther distance has to look at the soldier's RP.

The gun took only 40 minutes to complete, and the accuracy is so high, it is a masterpiece of perfection.It is estimated that a single shot can be shot at a single cavalry from 300 meters away.Finally, use a soldering iron to burn your initials on the top of the rear edge of the gun stock, and add a "J+" below to indicate that this is a good gun that can be used as a sniper rifle.After all, even a Minie-type rifled rifle only requires a 400% hit rate against a target 20 feet wide and 8 feet high from 60 yards away.

Looking at the 4 orthographic characters written with carbon strips on the wooden board, Wang Luobin heavily added a horizontal line next to the 4th orthographic character.The group next to Zhan Wuya also finished writing the 4th straight character.It seems that there is no problem with the production plan of 50 guns for this shift today.It is estimated that a few more can be overfulfilled.

3000 steel pipes and fittings can make 3000 rifles.There are also about 1000 spare parts.However, in the first two weeks, the Ministry of Industry decided to cut 20 barrels into short tubes of about 2 inches for use in the manufacture of Delinger pistols.Although 20 rifles are missing, they can be equipped with self-defense firearms for departments such as the Navy and the Intelligence Agency that need short guys. The GLOCK pistols are not intended to be issued to the indigenous people.

Although the guns are assembled very quickly, more than 80 can be completed every day, but a rifle that has not been strictly calibrated and handed over to a rookie infantry who has never fired two live ammunition is really not much better than a smoothbore fire stick.Strong on the outside but capable on the inside, this can probably describe the current embarrassment of the traversers.

It wasn't until there were more than 600 guns that the industrial group reduced the daily group gun quota a little, and then took the time to carefully calibrate and select precision guns.The flash hiders were carefully stocked for war.This is related to the operational policy of the General Staff.In view of the fact that the number of enemies will be very large once they arrive in the future, no matter whether it is the Ming army or the pirates, it is no problem to dispatch thousands of people.Travelers are now no more than before, the stalls are already very large, and the tortoise flow of the fortified camp will cause a dilemma of being fortified everywhere and passive.The military's policy is to fight out, send infiltration troops on the periphery, shoot cold shots, plant landmines, and harass the operations and logistics of the enemy's brigade.Such tactics need to equip the frontline troops with sufficient precision guns.After all, being able to shoot from farther away is good for the survival of the infiltrators.Being able to knock down a cavalry or officer with one shot is obviously also useful for reducing the pressure of a frontal confrontation.

A few days ago, at the summary meeting, the intelligence department pointed out that there must be a big battle within a month. Regardless of whether the intruders are pirates or the Ming army, the traversers will face as many as 3000 to 50 enemy troops to encircle and suppress.If it is the Ming army, there may be continuous reinforcements on the mainland.It is estimated that if the Ming army cannot be dealt a major blow in one battle and encircled and wiped out part of it, the encirclement and suppression will last for one or two months.Since then, the burden on the Ministry of Industry has increased.Not only do you have to load 3000 guns every day, but you also need to reserve ammunition for the upcoming fierce battle.The metallurgical department not only needs to make steel, but also extracts copper and lead on a large scale. It has already begun to use casting molds to produce miniature bullets and round iron shells on a large scale.It can produce more than 250 rounds of miniature rounds and 30 rounds of round rounds every day.In addition to the ammunition that has been stored, it is not a problem to cope with a fierce battle that lasts for several days and fires 40 to [-] rounds of bullets per day.

火炮方面。铸造厂已经已经交付了9门8磅滑膛炮，在熟悉工艺之后铸造这样的滑膛炮已经不算什么。制造后膛炮则在刚开始的时候加工炮尾栓的时候不太熟练，一个合格的炮栓要花3天时间。最后1个星期只完成了2门炮。不过经过集体分析研究，机械组改进了工艺。钢板切割出来以后不急于马上焊接。要先放到脚踏砂轮机上面打磨端面和焊接梯口。然后用本地花岗岩石板做的型架支撑焊接。现在已经完成了6门70mmArmstrong炮。12磅山地榴要简单的多，只有有足够的生铁可以以每天一门的速度出厂交付使用。现在已经交了12磅山地榴14门。

With the increase in the number of manufactured cannons, the mechanical group has basically figured out the manufacturing process of each type of artillery, the required man-hours and the sizes of various parts, and designed and manufactured various special molds and tooling for the production of artillery. Measuring tools, the mechanical department quickly reduced tolerances to a minimum, established manufacturing standards for various types of artillery, and began standardized manufacturing.This will make the parameter structure of each gun exactly the same as that of similar guns.

With standardized manufacturing, it means that the performance of each gun of the same type is close.Each batch of artillery made by the traverser is specially tested by the artillery team to obtain its shooting parameters-according to the type of ammunition used and the target distance, the charge amount and the height of the muzzle are determined.When necessary, the artillery team will also try very dangerous tests of the maximum safe rate of fire, barrel life and maximum charge.To determine the potential capabilities of its artillery.

The results of artillery tests and calculations were then produced into artillery tables.As long as there are the above four parameters on the gun table.The method of making it into a book allows artillerymen to quickly refer to it.Even without words.Only graphics (type of bomb) and numbers are required.

If these contents are completely done by the gunner, then the gunner must not only be familiar with the artillery itself, but also be familiar with mathematics, geometry and even algebra, so the early gunners had to be half mathematicians in addition to being gunners.This is the origin of the so-called "artillery needs high-tech talents".But this is not inevitable, but the result of backward ideas.With such standardized manufactured artillery and artillery watches, artillerymen do not need to be highly qualified at all, as long as they can recognize numbers and graphics, at most a few hundred words are enough.Greatly reduced the difficulty of artillery training.Theoretically, illiteracy is also possible-this is very suitable for the social environment faced by the traversers.

As a traveler, what he masters is not only the modern technology of later generations, but also the advanced concepts condensed by human society for hundreds of years.Sometimes ideas like this work better than technology.

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