Lu Ming

After Ma Zekai lit a black Lanzhou, he said leisurely: "Our enemy is the 17th century army with matchlock guns, knives, axes and spears. On the battlefield filled with black powder and smoke, the rate of fire is 8-10 rounds per minute. In fact, it is a bit redundant. Soldiers need to shoot after steady observation. In fact, 5 rounds per minute can wipe out all your imaginary enemies-don’t forget, the lobster soldiers use brown basses to fight the world. What is the rate of fire of brown basses?”

"Well, it's really unnecessary, 10 rounds per minute can't be used up." Han Xiaobo, who had been listening for a long time, nodded and said.

"The useless rate of fire improvement is maintained at the cost of rubber rings, springs, firing pins, and a high failure rate, which is unnecessary."

After Ma Zekai finished speaking, he looked around for the last time and concluded: "Well, if everyone has no objections, then I will report the results of today's meeting. Our final choice is the black powder rifle based on the American Sharps?"

After waiting for 1 minute, seeing no objection, Ma Zekai nodded and breathed a sigh of relief: "OK, let's break up for dinner, and I'll report. Let's continue in the afternoon and see what needs to be improved in the new gun."

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2:[-] p.m., small conference room.

In view of the fact that most of the fanciers who came to participate in the previous meeting had already left, and even a few people who stayed to participate in the meeting in the morning did not continue to participate in the seminar to discuss the details after confirming that the new gun had been finalized, so Ma Zekai In the afternoon, the seminar was arranged in a small conference room—there were only 5 participants left, so why go to the restaurant?The small conference room is so convenient, and there are computers and projectors that can be used to display slides.

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"Okay, let's say the same thing, let's start with the range first. Who will come first?" After seeing all the people coming, Ma Zekai started directly without delay.

"Let me go first." Mu Longcheng, who checked the information at noon, said at this time: "According to the information, the effective range of Sharps is 460 meters, the maximum range is 900 meters +, and it is so powerful that it can shoot at a distance of 91 meters. Come on, shoot the bison, isn't this thing overpowered?"

"It's a bit overflowing." Han Xiaobo beside Mu Longcheng opened his mouth and added: "Our soldiers don't need to bring down the bison at a distance of 900 meters. In fact, no matter what firearms, the best aiming distance of the human eye will not exceed 400 meters, so we suggest that the power of the new gun should be appropriately weakened and the portability of the gun should be increased.”

After Ma Zekai crackled and typed in his notebook, he raised his head and thought for a while, then opened his mouth and said, "I have written down all my opinions. But I don't know if you have thought about it. In the future, our army will encounter a large number of formations to fight." Enemy—this is the 17th century, and a neat formation of tens of thousands of people is the symbol of any strong army. At that time, the range of 900 meters + will be available.”

"It's still too strong." Han Xiaobo shook his head after hearing this: "It can kill people at a distance of 800 meters, and can aim and shoot at a distance of 400 meters. That's enough."

"Well, let's take a look." Ma Zekai called up the information in his notebook and looked at it, then said: "The Sharps we just mentioned refers to the 0.52-inch Sharps M1859 rifle in the Civil War. This type of bullet is equipped with 9g of black powder, and the muzzle velocity reaches 431m/s, which is enough for a hunter to hunt a 914kg North American bison within 900m, hehe, it is a bit fierce.”

"If you want to reduce the power, there are ready-made ones." Ma Zekai turned the notebook over: "Well, after the Civil War, the 0.45-inch model and the carbine model launched by Sharps Company should meet your requirements."

Han Xiaobo looked at the computer screen and nodded: "The .45 carbine should be about the same, let's modify it on this basis. In short, the barrel of 1 meters is too long, and the total weight of 2 kilograms must be reduced. You know , Many of our soldiers are only about 4.3 meters tall, it is ridiculous to hold this kind of gun, and the recoil is too great."

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Once the most important aspect of firepower for a new gun has been standardised, the rest of the details can be dealt with.

The next step is the trigger.

In the early Sharps rifles, there was a problem with the bolt: the direction of the bolt’s lifting and sliding was not perpendicular to the axis of the barrel, so after locking, there was still a gap between the barrel and the bolt, and a lot of gunpowder gas leaked out when shooting.

The improved vertical take-off and landing action in the later period solved this problem very well, which made the Sharps rifle shine in the Civil War.

... The gunlock is the strong point of the time traveler: You know, the vertical wedge lock similar to the Sharps rifle is often seen in the artillery of later generations, and what is the locking gap of the artillery of later generations? 0.02 mm...

In the future, no matter whether the kiln area is cut by CNC machine tools or stamped by machinery, in short, the bolts manufactured by the people, including the most important air-holding gap, will definitely replace the American guns of the 0.02th century even if they are not as abnormal as 19mm. The machine was thrown out of Jiutiao Street.

This is also the reason why the military headed by Han Xiaobo dared to reduce the power of guns. If the breath-holding link is good, the waste of gunpowder will be less. Even if the barrel is shortened and the amount of charge is reduced, the power will not be reduced too much.

Chapter 181 Enlistment

After the benchmark gun type was finalized, the participants struck while the iron was hot and added a blocking type.

...It would be a waste if Sharps is not used as a sniper rifle.

In the Civil War, although the front-mounted Springfield rifle was the main force, the cool Sharps rifle was the soldier's favorite weapon.

At the beginning, Sharps did not promote it because it was priced at $35, which was nearly three times more expensive than the front-loading gun. In 3, under the grim situation of the federal army retreating steadily, President Lincoln personally intervened. The Northern Army finally purchased 1862 Sharps and formed the First and Second Marksman Regiments, commanded by Colonel Birdain. Created a brilliant era of Sharps.

From this moment on, the Sharps rifle became famous: its main function was battlefield sniping.An experienced veteran can even shoot and kill the enemy at a distance of 400 meters.You should know that the human body 400 meters away is only the size of a matchbox, unlike the bison, which is huge and easy to target.

The most important point is: these sniper kills were completed without a scope and the bullets were custom-loaded paper shells!The precise attributes of the Sharps rifle can be seen from this.

After the Civil War, Sharps participated in many world-class shooting competitions and achieved excellent results.

Traveling through the crowd will naturally not let go of one of the best attributes of this rifle.So at the seminar that day, in addition to the benchmark type, another sniper Sharps with a slightly longer barrel and a scope holder was also determined—even if only self-produced Sharps will be used in the future. With 4 times the eyepiece, soldiers can also accurately destroy the enemy within 800 meters.

Regarding the specific details of the two new firearms, in the discussion that afternoon, five traversers discussed, and finally gave the framework and requirements item by item.

These data and requirements will be brought by Cao Chuan to future generations with a USB flash drive, and after modification by professional weapon designers, digital simulation, and live ammunition testing of sample guns, 200 prototype guns will pass through the hands of Cao Chuan and come to the world. Sir, equip the army.

The blueprints of these prototype guns will be read and discussed by workers in the military factory in the kiln area. In the days to come, countless soldiers will charge into battle with the knockoff Sharps produced in the kiln area, burying the enemy in the rain of bullets.

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After crossing the three steps of arquebus, smoothbore brown bass, and rifled Minigun, Sharps, a sci-fi rifle, will soon come to the army ahead of schedule.

It crosses the huge gap between the front chamber and the breech, making the biggest strategic advantage of the breech gun—the behavior of soldiers reloading in a prone position, which came in advance in the 17th century.

From then on, trenches, foxholes and dense phalanxes, which look funny but are actually massacres of war, will appear in the crossing plane.

The so-called debut is the pinnacle, nothing more.

...The reason why the time travel forces are so cautious about this prototype gun is here: since the advantages are so great, the design of the prototype gun must be cautious, because there is almost no possibility of upgrading in the future.

Although Sharps can be easily converted into a metal shell type, the big office has made it clear: Once it is finalized, it will not be modified and upgraded in the future. It is impossible for copper shells, and it will not be possible in this lifetime.

... There will always be more important cables, wires, motors, refrigerators, and electric vehicles. These big copper eaters stand in the front. With the development of industrial society, the demand for metal copper can be said to be unlimited.

With Sharps already supernatural, it is expected that the big office will import dozens of sets of special equipment, seize a few copper mines, and mass-produce copper-cased bullets... It will be a long time to see, or a lifetime, this can wait and see.

In short, the new gun will solidify at the moment it is finalized.

Perhaps one day, a certain faction will have abundant copper and a strong basic industry. However, at that time, all kinds of bolt-action rifles that are more suitable for copper-shelled bullets will enter the stage of history: such as the well-known Mauser, [-] and Mosin Nagant.An old gun with an outdated design like Sharps will still not get the chance to modify it at that time, and can only silently exert its last residual heat in a gun tower in a remote colony.

Three days later, when another wave of people was bragging and farting at the artillery seminar, Chairman Cao had returned to the later generations with a USB flash drive.

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As for artillery, from the moment someone announced that copper metal was not allowed to be used in guns, no one paid attention.

Even if the firearms do not use copper-cased bullets, there are still a lot of fuss about them: Rifled Mini, breech Sharps, etc., are all designs that can change the mode of war, just like the steam engine is to the waterwheel.

Artillery, however, was lackluster.Without metal shells, the front-loading smoothbore gun is the only choice. The sad thing is: there is no skill tree for this thing.

From the present in the 17th century to the Opium War 200 years later, the front-mounted smoothbore gun has not undergone revolutionary changes... The caliber has increased, the range has increased, and various parts have been found to be stronger. This is the whole of evolution.

But this kind of change is more due to the enthusiasm for upgrading the metal processing industry. As for the smoothbore gun itself-it has a small mouth and a big buttocks, and there is a small eye on the buttocks. When it gets mad, it sprays iron balls. Cough... This design has been around for hundreds of years. There has been no change.

Traveling through the crowd is no exception.

Travelers can refine high-quality steel and high-quality iron, and can perform various heat treatments on metals, various electric hammer hydraulic machines, and various frying and steaming.However, these technologies can at most make the smoothbore gun produced by the traverser thinner, better heat dissipation, and the hit rate of the iron ball shot out is higher... In essence, it is still a front-mounted smoothbore gun. Compared with the opponent, it has no technology generation difference.

So no one pays attention to the smoothbore gun: 2, 4, 6, 8, according to the poundage of the military factory, let's practice the craft honestly, when the long-barreled 24-pound naval gun is done, it will be considered a success.

As for the army artillery, this has not yet been put on the agenda.

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In front of Sharps rifles with an effective range of 800 meters and breech loading, all small and medium-sized smoothbore guns have become a burden to soldiers when performing tasks.

Like those 2468-pound cannons that accompanied soldiers in history, those with a range of less than 800 meters are embarrassing now.Even if it reaches 800 meters, after the artillerymen worked hard to push the heavy artillery vehicle to the front of the formation and fired an iron ball, they found that the enemy had already been wiped out by the dense rain of bullets... This is embarrassing.

Whatever a small cannon can do, Sharps can do it—now it is the 17th century, the European half-snake gun needs a caliber of more than 12 pounds to reach a range of 800 meters.In fact, these inaccurate iron ball guns are useless in front of passing soldiers who are stretched into skirmish lines, lie down sparsely, and shoot with breech guns.

Technology is the primary productive force. The breech-loading guns that appeared more than 200 years in advance eliminated all small and medium-sized smoothbore guns overnight from the army's battle order.

At least 12-pound Napoleon guns must be produced on the crossing crowd before they can barely be used in medium-scale battles.

As for the large-scale army smoothbore guns... Well, on the day when tens of thousands of people will fight together, it will probably be the Central Plains War. The deer will be killed, no, it will be the Zhuolu. At that time, Italian cannons can be invited...

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Half a month later, Mr. Cao brought a box of imported goods, including 10 sample guns.

Among the 10 sample guns, 2 are sniper-type guns with scopes.

Everyone was dumbfounded after seeing the sample gun.

Beautiful classic dark red lacquer, walnut wood gun body, and the gun lock is laser-engraved with a strong three-dimensional effect, with dense cloud and dragon patterns on it-this is not a gun, but a handicraft.

... Facing everyone's surprised eyes, Cao Chuan, who was smiling bitterly, shrugged: "Don't look at me, I was also forced."

In fact, Mr. Cao was really forced.

No regular weapon company will produce materials for an unconventional gun with an order quantity of only 200. Design is one thing, and production is another.

Cao Chuan had no choice but to find private workshops that produced high-end craft guns.

Unexpectedly, they found the right door: almost all private workshops have experience in producing high-end vintage Sharps shotguns.

When the procurement manager sent by Cao Chuan took out the sample guns and blueprints, these handicraft workshops, which can produce the highest precision sniper rifles, quickly cut out the barrels of the specified length according to the requirements of the blueprints, and then cut the bolts. , and then call out the finished Yunlong decoration from the gallery, with a dozen lasers, 10 sample guns will be OK.

It is worth mentioning that laser decoration is a must, otherwise people will not sell it... Naked guns are not artistic, and they will smash the signboard.

After listening to Mr. Cao's narration, the comrades all burst into laughter.

As a result, retro Sharps with a price of up to 4000 US dollars each appeared on Dayuan Island in the 17th century.You know, the civilian semi-automatic in the American Wal-Mart supermarket only costs 500 dollars, and there will be discounts during the holidays...

In addition, 200 Sharps without gun stocks will arrive in a few days, Mr. Cao wants everyone to be ready.

There's nothing wrong with that.In fact, gunstocks made of expensive hematoxylin rosewood or red sandalwood pears are worthy of these beautiful handicrafts—a certain power entrenched on the island lacks everything except high-grade wood.

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The 10 sample guns Mr. Cao brought over are ordinary guns weighing 3.9 kg and 1050 mm long, using 45-inch caliber paper-wrapped ammunition, with a rate of fire of 8-10 rounds per minute, an effective range of 400 meters, and a maximum range of 800 meters .

The weight and length of the whole gun have been reduced a lot compared to the original version, and the accessories including the bayonet, ruler, and crosshair are also fully set, ready to be put into battle at any time.

As for the sniper type, except that the barrel length is a bit longer than the normal type, three shallow grooves are added under the handguard to help fix the scope: a certain force cannot produce Picatinny rails, and will use self-produced scopes and cards in the future. seat.

Two days later, after a personal test by the military personnel, it was determined that the antique Sharps brought by Mr. Cao had fully met the design standards, so these 10 beautiful rifles were officially entered into service after a brief naming and gun-giving ceremony.

Of course, after the official service, this gun can no longer be called Sharps. Considering that this gun was finalized and produced in 1628 when crossing the plane, at the gun ceremony, the new gun was officially named "Sharps" by Xia Zhongtang. Type [-] rifle".

Of course, adhering to the revolutionary spirit of the people at the bottom who always despise authority and have fun in bitterness, this gun will soon be dubbed "two-eight big cover" and "two-force style" in the years to come. No.... The difference in the quality of some of the time-traversing people can be seen from this.

Chapter 182 The Three Big Fats

The main battle gun of the crossing forces, the "Er Ba Da Gai", was finalized on the morning of the fourth day.

On the surface of the Taijiang River, Qin Ming was sitting on a beautiful streamlined soft-sail traffic boat, and was hurrying to Dayuan Island.

Qin Ming is from Shaanxi.This gentleman first worked as a technician in a reagent factory, and later opened a reagent chemical glass shop in the county privately. Later, Brother Qin’s relatives contracted to the mine, so Qin Ming began to work as a blaster part-time to produce mine explosives.

How to produce it?Of course, I bought the fertilizer and made it myself.At that time, Qin Ming was producing, frying ore, and selling to other bosses at the same time, and the business was quite good.

Then there was a tragedy—earth explosives blasted a mafia mine boss, BMW, Xiaosan, and 5 miners into the sky.Seeing that the situation was not good, Qin Ming ran away decisively... The quarry headquarters and the police who had offended the Baidao in the first place, and now they also offended the underworld, so he had to run away.

It was said that he continued to work in an African mine that was not strictly supervised, but Qin Ming has now become the vice president of the Dayuan Arms Corporation and the manager of the explosives branch.

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Two days ago, when the group was arguing about the guns, Qin Ming didn't show his face at all.It's none of my business... No matter what weapon is used, he still needs to produce black powder here first.He is still busy supervising workers to build factories, and he has no time to talk to those fanciers at all.

Needless to say, the location of the workshop assigned to the explosives company is the most remote, and the requirements are relatively high, so Qin Ming has been nesting in the valley in the north of the kiln area until last night when he was notified that there will be a meeting early this morning.

"It's time for our men to make requests, hehe!" Qin Ming sat on the traffic boat at the moment, enjoying the cool sea breeze on the surface of the Taijiang River, and thought smugly.

According to the program, it must be like this.Now that the model of gun and cannon has been selected, the next step will definitely be to discuss the issue of ammunition.And when it comes to ammunition, whether it's military caps, black powder, or future mine explosives in the kiln area, all of them are inseparable from his old man's explosives company.

"So, what request should I make at today's meeting?" Qin Ming looked at the approaching Dayuan Wharf, and began to plan: "First come 10 for the eldest daughter, and 10 for the younger daughter-in-law, um, another 10." A middle-aged woman with stable hands and feet does odd jobs, and it's almost the same in the early stage."

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Women are more suitable for the production of explosive products that require patience, everyone knows this.Qin Ming intends to take advantage of this today, and first give his factory a vote of female workers who are currently in short supply.

When he came to the business hall and pushed open the door of the small office, Qin Ming was slightly taken aback: the room was already full of people, and it seemed that he was the only protagonist who was missing.

"I didn't expect, I didn't expect that there are so many departments attending the meeting today. It seems that the comrades still have some understanding of the importance of explosives, um, not bad." Qin Ming nodded to greet everyone, and took his seat. I am very happy.

After sitting down and taking a look at the rim, Qin Ming was even more satisfied: not only Xia Zhongtang came, but Mr. Feng Jun, who was in charge of internal affairs, was also there. Needless to say, his immediate boss Ma Zekai, Professor Luo from the Port Authority was also present. Victory, Liu Zhe and Han Xiaobo are a lot of military bigwigs.

Qin Ming was more and more satisfied at this moment, um, very good, Zou Guoqing and Yao Zhesheng, the chief and deputy managers of the kiln area, are also here, and they will solve the equipment problem by the way... not bad, good, good, good ... Well, Liang Letian and Mi Shuo, the mud legs of the agricultural company, also came, and they probably came here to mix up the subsidies for the meeting... Huh?Liang Letian and Mi Shuo?

Just when Qin Ming noticed something was wrong, Xia Xianze, who was sitting at the top of the long table in the small meeting room, coughed and began to speak: "Well, everyone is here, so let's start the meeting formally. Today's meeting, the main topic, It is to discuss and solve the problem of the three major fertilizers in agriculture, and discuss other topics by the way."

"Everyone knows that agriculture is the foundation of a political power. The so-called lack of agriculture is unstable..." When Xia was sitting at the head of the table and talking, he realized that he was Qin who was classified as "other topics". Ming, at this time has been sluggish.

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The so-called three major fertilizers are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

The most important of these is nitrogen fertilizer.Nitrogen fertilizer is the type of fertilizer with the largest amount of fertilizer production and use. In later generations, nitrogen fertilizer usually exists in the form of urea, diamine, and ammonium bicarbonate.

The main purpose of today's meeting is to determine the channels for obtaining nitrogen fertilizer in agriculture in the future, and to solve the problem of explosives together.

Nitrogen can be turned into urea or nitric acid.And nitric acid is the mother of the arms industry. From the original saltpeter to the sophisticated "nitration" process, from black powder to RDX, "nitration" is the pre-process of all explosives.

Although nitrogen is the most abundant element in the atmosphere, early humans were unable to produce nitrogen compounds.Before the middle of the 18th century, the only way for humans to obtain nitrogen was to collect nitrogen compounds naturally precipitated from the corners of toilets and pigpens: saltpeter.

In the middle of the 18th century, after the discovery of saltpeter mines in Chile, the great powers finally had a stable supply channel for saltpeter.

It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that human beings freely produced ammonia for the first time, regardless of location and time, through the ammonia synthesis process invented by the Germans.