Daming Military Empire

Chapter 471 Advanced Weapons
Bi Maokang asked Zhu Cijiong to look at more than just machine tools. With new machine tools, better weapons can naturally be produced. He is a weapon expert, and his enthusiasm for weapons even exceeds Zhu Cijiong.

After seeing the machine tools on the second floor, he took Zhu Cijiong up to the third floor. Looking at his excited appearance, it was clear that there was something good to offer. Zhu Cijiong couldn't help being surprised. After seeing all the new machine tools, what could be better than machine tools? Something more advanced?
There are no machine tools on the third floor, but a lot of single rooms, with bright windows and clear windows, which have the taste of the office of later generations. Staff members in formal attire are busy in it, some are checking parts, some are working in the office. Inspecting the blueprints, some gathered together and seemed to be discussing something.

Zhu Cijiong took a look at their epaulets and found that they all had military ranks, which means that they are all core researchers of military factories trained by Bi Maokang and Sun Yuanhua!
There are rules and regulations for wearing formal attire in military factories, because the hem of ordinary robes is easy to be twisted into the machine tool, so since the design of formal attire, it has become the work attire of military factories, but ordinary people do not have military ranks. There are not even officials from the Ministry of Industry, and only core researchers have military ranks and treatment equivalent to military ranks.

There is also a rule in the military factory, that is, no matter how big an official is, you don’t have to kneel down, just give a military salute. However, it seems that many of these people have met Zhu Cijiong. The emperor is not an official. It's going to be a mess.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhu Cijiong thought of this, someone recognized him. Originally, when those people saw Bi Maokang, they just gave a military salute and were ready to continue working, but when they saw the emperor next to Bi Maokang, they immediately became overwhelmed with excitement. Look at that , clearly ready to kneel down and shout long live.

Zhu Cijiong quickly raised his hand to stop him and said: "There is no need to be too polite, everyone, go on, go on."

Walking all the way, I don't know how many people recognized him, and his arms were almost sore. After walking like this for almost a stick of incense, Bi Maokang finally led him into a large room, where the people were holding the parts As for the assembly of "Ka Ka Ka", the skillful look is just like the special forces of later generations performing disassembly and assembly of firearms.

Coming here, Zhu Cijiong finally understood what Bi Maokang was bringing him to see, it turned out to be a sniper rifle!

In fact, Zhu Cijiong told Bi Maokang about the idea of ​​this sniper rifle a few years ago, and Bi Maokang also tried it, but at that time, he couldn't make a qualified sniper rifle at all.

First of all, the processing accuracy cannot meet the requirements. The shooting distance of a sniper rifle can be hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters. As long as there is even a small deviation in the inner wall of the barrel and the rifling, it will affect the accuracy. The finished barrel is fine within one or two hundred paces, and can basically hit people. When it reaches more than two hundred paces, the deviation becomes large. When it reaches a distance of one mile, the deviation exceeds one meter. How wide is a human being? , more than one meter away, you can't hit people at all!
The barrels machined with precision machine tools are different. Not to mention the inner wall and rifling, even the outer wall is as smooth as a mirror, which can be said to be the same. In this way, the shooting accuracy can be guaranteed.

Then, the materials at that time could not meet the requirements. The strength of ordinary cast iron and cast steel was not enough at all. The pressure near the chamber is several times greater than that of ordinary rifles, so the probability of explosion is very high. No matter what material it is made of, it will definitely explode after a few shots!
Of course, after forging high-carbon steel, the barrel made will never explode. This kind of steel was not impossible to make at that time. The common name of the steel that has been forged many times is Bailian steel. This is at 1000 It existed in the Han Dynasty many years ago.

However, after high-carbon steel was forged, it was the material for making knives at that time. The barrel of the gun was as hard as the knives, so how could it be processed? , cannot be processed at all.

Now that new alloy materials are available, Song Yingxing added some manganese and chromium to the steel for making the barrel according to the requirements of the gun barrel. After many experiments, he finally made a manganese and chromium alloy suitable for the production of firearms. Steel, the problem of bombing the chamber can be said to be completely solved.

Zhu Cijiong took an assembled sniper rifle in his hand and examined it carefully. How would you describe this gun? It feels a bit like a simplified and enlarged version of Bartley. It weighs about [-] catties. It's a little hard to hold, but the processing is very fine. The blackened barrel and gun body exude a dark metallic luster, which looks similar to the firearms of later generations.

This gun is really well made, Zhu Cijiong couldn't put it down and looked at it, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, he couldn't help asking Bi Maokang: "Meng Hou, what is the current production of this gun, and when will it be equipped for the army?"

Hearing this, Bi Maokang said in embarrassment: "Returning to the emperor, this, this, the processing of this gun is too complicated, and it has not yet been officially mass-produced."

complex?I was born in craftsmanship, so I am not afraid that your processing process is complicated. Zhu Cijiong asked with great interest after hearing the words: "Oh, how complicated it is, tell me about it."

Bi Maokang immediately explained: "The gun barrel and the parts inside are made of new alloy steel, and the output of the alloy needs to be improved; then, the blank of the gun barrel is not directly poured into shape, but die-cast after forging. out, and the materials of all parts must be forged, otherwise there is a danger of explosion.”

Of course, Zhu Cijiong couldn't be bothered by these. After listening to Mao Kang's explanation, he immediately gave solutions one by one based on his own experience. For example, forging, if it is forged by hand, the efficiency is naturally terribly low. It can be solved by making a special forging equipment, the steel is in front of the machine, it is not the same as kneading dough!
After solving the mass production problem, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but asked Bi Maokang to arrange someone to demonstrate to him at the shooting range.

Good guy, with this power, within one mile, iron plates used for armor can be pierced, and within two miles, it can easily punch through thigh-thick stakes, and the accuracy is also good. Ten shots can at least Seven or eight shots can hit the target.

Zhu Cijiong was very satisfied with the experimental results, and personally named this gun Thor, and later used the length of the barrel to distinguish the specific model. For example, the barrel length of this gun is [-] feet [-] inches, and the full name is Thor [-].

If each teammate had a Thor [-], they would be invincible, and they could start fighting two miles away. When the enemy came to them, there might not be many left!

Of course, this is almost impossible to achieve. Even if the process is optimized and mass production can be formalized, with the current scale of Wang Gong Factory, it can produce up to [-] pieces a month, and it is basically difficult to increase the output, because Many processes require skilled veteran technicians to do it by themselves, otherwise the quality cannot be guaranteed at all.

210 a month, only [-] a year, and now the regular regiments of the Daming Navy and Army add up to [-] million. There is a handful.

However, it can also achieve good results. In the future, the enemy's frontline commanders will be unlucky, as long as they are discovered, they will die!

(End of this chapter)