Iron Dynasty

In the firearms workshop, Song Changping was seriously teaching a craftsman how to rifling.

A loud noise came, he looked out the door, saw Xiao Ming, Song Changping was startled for a moment, turned and walked towards Xiao Ming.

His Royal Highness. Song Changping bowed to Xiao Ming with a smile, Xiaguan has been looking forward to His Highness's return all this time.

Really? So you must have made progress with your rifled gun, otherwise this king will be scolded when he comes back. Xiao Ming laughed. Before leaving, he told Song Changping about the fault of the rifled rifle and asked him to improve it I don't know how Song Changping has changed in the past two months.

Song Changping is also a person with a naive personality. He chuckled twice and said to Xiao Ming: Your Highness is not idle, please take a look, this is the current rifle bullet.

Song Changping spread out his hand. At this time, there was a cone-shaped bullet in his palm. This is the Mignet bullet of later generations. The invention of this bullet has changed the shortcomings of flintlock guns that are difficult to reload bullets.

Miguel, you made it? Xiao Ming said in surprise.

Song Changping nodded, With His Highness's teachings and the drawings in the books, if the lower official can't make it again, he can go home and farm.

Well, that's also true. It takes so long to make progress. Xiao Ming said: Now bring a rifled gun, and this king wants to try the power of the rifled gun with the Carmine.

Song Changping immediately asked his craftsmen to fetch a rifle for Xiao Ming, and Xiao Ming took the rifle to the school grounds of the military workshop.

In Geranja City, Claire gave him a rifle with a rifle, and now his rifle is much more advanced than theirs.

Putting the rifled gun vertically on the ground, Xiao Ming finished loading the gunpowder in order, and finally successfully stuffed the bullet with a slightly smaller caliber into the barrel of the gun.

That's where the Mignet's advantage over the buckshot is.

After reloading the ammunition, Xiao Ming raised the rifled gun. Like the artillery, today's rifled gun also has a sight and a sight. Through the sight and sight, he can aim at the target ahead.

His Royal Highness, our rifled guns can shoot at a distance of 500 meters, and the effective range can reach 300 meters, so Your Highness can directly shoot at targets 300 meters away. Song Changping said to himself.

Five hundred meters. This figure made Xiao Ming happy. This range was already half the distance of Miguel's rifle. He was very satisfied with this data.

Bang. Aiming at the target, Xiao Ming pulled the trigger. After a burst of fire and white smoke, the bullet flew to the target 300 meters away, and the bullet drilled a hole in a ring.

After the gunshots, the craftsman in charge of inspecting the target quickly gave a semaphore.

Song Changping said at this time: His Royal Highness, how about this rifled gun?

interesting.

Xiao Ming picked up the bullet and reloaded it. He said this, but he was already very pleasantly surprised. The biggest difference between a rifled gun and a musket is accuracy.

Compared with the deviation of musket bullets, soldiers can use rifled guns to accurately kill the enemy after training, which is absolutely terrifying in this era.

Bang. Xiao Ming shot more accurately this time, and the bullet landed outside the seventh ring.

Your Highness, are you satisfied with this rifled gun? Song Changping's face became more and more confident.

Xiao Ming nodded. He had to say that the rifled gun this time had reached the standard he required. Although the range was a little closer, before the gunpowder made progress, the range could only be the same.

After all, the more explosive the gunpowder is, the higher the requirements for the barrel's ability to withstand, for this reason, the alloy technology must continue to improve.

Satisfied with the gun, the following focus is the production speed of the rifled gun, he said: The gun is good, but how about the production of this bullet and gun?

Saying that Song Changping's face was a little unnatural, he said: Your Highness, this bullet is nothing, but it can be made by pouring a mold, but rifling is really laborious. In the past two months, I only made one hundred and twenty bullets. Rifled guns only.

We can produce 4,000 or 5,000 muskets a month. Xiao Ming said, with the increase in orders, the number of craftsmen in the gun workshop has increased a lot, which has also increased the production volume of the gun workshop.

Relative to the number of muskets, this rifle is really too few.

After a pause, he continued: But don't worry, you'll be able to overcome the rifling problem in no time.

Overcome? Song Changping asked in confusion, Could it be that Your Highness has another way?

Xiao Ming nodded. Naturally, he was talking about steam engines, but he didn't want to talk about it now. After all, the use of steam engines has to wait.

He said: The specific method will be available soon, so let's send all the rifled guns to the Qingzhou Army. In addition, how many flintlock guns are in this warehouse?

Go back to Your Highness, since the last time I sent 3,000 flintlock pistols to the Youzhou Army, the lower official has been stepping up production according to His Highness's instructions. Now there are 9,000 flintlock pistols accumulated in the warehouse.

Five thousand will be given to the Youzhou army, three thousand will be given to the Dengzhou army, and the remaining one thousand will be given to the Yunzhou army. Xiao Ming divided them according to priority.

Now the armies of all states are clamoring for weapons, and the output of the military workshop cannot keep up with this. Thinking of this, he feels that the steam engine must be installed as soon as possible, otherwise the production capacity of the fief will soon be out of line with the demand.

The two were talking about firearms, and they seemed to be attracted by the sound of gunfire. Chen Qi walked out of the artillery workshop.

Your Highness.

Seeing Xiao Ming and Song Changping together, Chen Qi immediately ran over.

Compared with Chen Qi's haggard face two months ago, Xiao Ming asked, What's wrong? Seeing you like this, it seems that these two months have been very hard.

His Royal Highness, it's not for Song Changping to force it. The rifled guns he has produced now have a range of 500 meters, and they are almost catching up with artillery. No matter how Xiaguan can't lose to him, I have been thinking about it for a while. How to improve the range of artillery. Chen Qi said.

Oh? Then what are your thoughts? Xiao Ming said.

Chen Qi continued: His Royal Highness, the lower official thinks that the barrel can be rifled, why can't the artillery be rifled, and if the artillery is rifled, can the range be improved?

It will definitely improve. Song Changping said to Chen Qi: The rifled gun has been proven.

Chen Qi heard the words and looked at Xiao Ming again.

Being stared at by Chen Qi, Xiao Ming said, You can study it here, maybe you can succeed.

According to historical records, at the beginning of the 17th century, Tsarist Russia produced a bronze Pishali gun with a caliber of 3 Russian inches, with 10 spiral rifling in the barrel, and throughout the 18th century, both Germany and the United Kingdom carried out rifled guns. trials, and some of them are rear-mounted guns.

Although the caliber of these guns is small, their effectiveness is very good. In 1776, a British 2-pounder breech-loading gun was only 2 feet off course when firing at a distance of 1,300 yards.

Based on these records, Xiao Ming felt that Chen Qi should also study rifled guns, because maybe some of them have already been installed in Europe.