Iron Dynasty

With the messy gunshots, the target in the middle of the shooting range had one more bullet hole after another.

Six rounds!

Four shots!

After checking the number of bullet holes, the craftsman told Song Changping the result.

It's not bad. It has two more shots than the flintlock gun. Chen Qi pinched his waist and looked at the shooting results. Today, he and Song Changping are going to test new weapons.

Song Changping nodded with satisfaction. In order to compare the difference between the flash cap percussion gun and the flintlock gun, he deliberately transferred two elite soldiers from the Qingzhou Army.

After inspection, these batches of flash cap percussion guns have a faster rate of fire, and after the water spray test, they can guarantee the firing rate better than the flintlock guns.

These two launches are enough to change a war.

Song Changping let out a sigh of relief. He has been busy for more than two months for this flash cap firing gun. Now the first batch of 6,000 flash cap firing rifles have been produced and can be officially equipped for the army.

The reason why the production of the flash cap firing gun can be completed so quickly is all thanks to the steam engine.

With the skilled use of steam locomotive lathes and the new two new production lines, it is now very simple to make barrels and rifling.

The production of muskets is separated from the previous cumbersome process and goes directly to the assembly and production of accessories, which greatly improves the production speed of muskets.

This is also the reason why so many batches were produced shortly after the development of the flasher, and they could have produced more if not for the lack of materials.

However, in view of this, the Ministry of Military Machinery has now issued an order that the firearms equipped by the army of the Dayu Kingdom will be returned to the military workshop in batches for transformation, so as to reduce the production cost of firearms.

In addition to the unrifled flintlock guns, these firearms also include arquebuses captured from each battle. Of course, the unqualified barrels need to be returned to the steel mill for smelting.

Chen Qi rubbed his eyebrows, It's just that I don't think there is much use for these two more times. On the contrary, constantly innovating weapons will add a lot of burden to the imperial treasury.

The number of shots fired twice is enough to change a war. We can't stop innovating weapons because of waste. We are lazy, but the enemy's firearms are constantly improving. Song Changping said: Right now, the Great Yu Kingdom is only fighting with Gaoli, the golden account. The Khanate is just fighting, if you fight against the Dutch, you may not get much advantage with the same number of people, but it will be different with new weapons. Song Changping retorted.

Chen Qi said: The main thing on the battlefield is artillery. In this short-term battle, the long-range range of the artillery is mainly used to disrupt the enemy's formation. The musket formation is just a shot at the front. Is this true?

Song Changping blushed. Chen Qi's words made him unable to refute. He was right. During this time, the army of the Great Yu Kingdom mainly relied on artillery, and the musketeers did not play their full role.

But remembering the recent battle of Haicheng City, he said: But this time, Ye Qingyun used the rifled gun to suppress the barbarian artillery, which shows that the range of the rifled gun can already threaten the artillery, if your artillery does not increase The range will also be eliminated by the musket in the future.

After a pause, Song Changping continued: And now that muskets have more powerful gunpowder, the range of rifled guns can reach 900 meters.

Chen Qi's mouth is in the O shape, Song Changping, you are bragging, how can the range of this musket reach 900 meters.

With a slight smile, Song Changping said: Yesterday, we used smokeless powder to test the flash cap and rifled firing gun. The effect is amazing, the range of 900 meters, and the accuracy can be guaranteed within 500 meters. At that time, I asked someone to find you. , but you didn't come.

Chen Qi suddenly remembered that Song Changping did go to him yesterday. At that time, he was discussing the rifled gun with the craftsman, and he didn't have time to pay attention.

Are you planning to let the artillery withdraw from the battlefield? Chen Qi said with a wry smile, Fortunately, the rifled artillery has made progress now.

Song Changping was playing with paper shell bullets. The bullets contained smokeless powder and conical projectiles. Relying on the rifled rifle, the power of the musket was greatly improved.

Chen Qi mentioned the rifled gun, he suddenly became interested and said, Isn't your rifled gun making no progress?

I didn't have it before, but the emperor personally sent me a set of drawings, and this is no longer a difficult thing.

Why?

Chen Qi shook his head, In the past, the rifled gun was always loaded by the craftsman from the front, and the rifled rifle would soon be smoothed by the shell. I didn't understand until I read the drawings given by the emperor that the rifled gun should be loaded from the back of the butt, so I Now working on rear-mounted artillery.

Song Changping couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, This person eats with his mouth, but he uses his butt...

Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped his laughter and looked strange. He knew very well that artillery and muskets were actually the same thing. Now that the emperor gave Chen Qi this blueprint did not seem to be simple. Could it be that he was also telling him that artillery was fine, but also muskets?

Thinking of this, Song Changping no longer chatted with Chen Qi, but went straight to Xingyuan with a new type of firearm.

After the notification, he met Xiao Ming.

Is this a fire hat rifle? Xiao Ming took the fire gun in Song Changping's hand with great interest.

In fact, after Song Changping's experiment, he obtained the data of this musket, with a range of 900 meters and guaranteed accuracy within 500 meters.

And this data has finally reached the contemporary standard of the Mignet rifle. It is not easy to reach this step. For him, the musket has also opened a new chapter.

Yes, Your Majesty. Song Changping revealed a bright face. This new musket has surpassed the previous rifled flintlock gun in terms of range and rate of fire, and it will not be worried about blind fire because of rain.

Nodding excitedly, Xiao Ming laughed. He was not surprised that Song Changping took out this firearm, because now Qingzhou's industrial standards can already produce this type of firearm.

This small change on the rifled flintlock is simple.

Nowadays, the foreign enemies of Da Yu are looking around, and this musket came out very timely. Xiao Ming played with the musket, he pondered for a while and said, Why is this type of musket called a feudal musket?

The musket for conscripting prisoners? Song Changping said, Does the emperor mean to use this musket against the barbarians?

That's right, the Golden Horde has always been a major problem in the north. Until now, the Great Yu Kingdom can only be on the defensive. Now with this long-range musket, it will be easier to deal with the barbarian cavalry. In the past two or three years, the military industry Fang will focus on remodeling, making this kind of musket, and when the Great Yu Kingdom regains its national strength, I will start the Northern Expedition! Xiao Ming clenched his fists.

Only in addition to the frontier troubles in the north, can he safely participate in the era of great voyages, otherwise the barbarians will always contain most of his troops, which makes him very uncomfortable.