Chapter 510: The outlook for the rifled gun

In the gun workshop, Song Changping is seriously teaching a craftsman how to rifle. W≠
There was a loud noise. He looked out the door and saw Xiao Ming. Song Changping was taken aback and turned and walked towards Xiao Ming.
"His Royal Highness." Song Changping bowed to Xiao Ming with a smile on his face, "I have been looking forward to your Royal Highness's return during this time."
"Really? So your rifled gun must have made progress, otherwise the king will come back and he will be swearing." Xiao Ming smiled. Before leaving, he told Song Changping about the problem with the rifled gun and asked him to improve. I don't know how Song Changping has changed in these two months.
Song Changping is also a person of insensitive character. He chuckled twice and said to Xiao Ming: "The officer is not idle. Please see, this is the current rifled bullet."
Song Changping opened his hand. At this moment, there was a tapered bullet in his palm. This is the Miner bullet of later generations. The invention of this bullet changed the shortcomings of flintlocks that were difficult to fill bullets.
"Mine bomb, did you make it?" Xiao Ming said in surprise.
Song Changping nodded, "With the teachings of His Highness and the drawings in the books, if the lower officials can't recreate them, they can go home and farm."
"Well, that's what I said, it's a long time to make progress." Xiao Ming said: "Now bring a rifled gun here, this king wants to test the power of this rifled gun Gaminer."
Song Changping immediately asked his craftsmen to fetch a rifled gun for Xiao Ming, and took the rifled gun to Xiao Ming's school yard.
Claire used a rifled gun to disarm him when he was in Geranzio, but now his rifled gun is much more advanced than theirs.
Putting the rifled gun vertically on the ground, Xiao Ming filled the gunpowder in order, and finally smoothly stuffed a bullet with a caliber slightly smaller than the barrel into the barrel.
Here is the advantage of the Migne bomb over the lead bomb.
After filling the ammunition, Xiao Ming raised the rifled gun. Like the artillery, the rifled gun now has a front sight and a rear sight, through which he can aim at the target ahead.
"His Royal Highness, our rifled gun can shoot a distance of 500 meters, and the effective range can reach 300 meters, so His Royal Highness can shoot directly at a target 300 meters away." Song Changping said by himself.
"Five hundred meters." This number made Xiao Ming's heart happy. This range was already half the distance of the Migne rifle. He was very satisfied with this number.
"Bang." Aiming at the target, Xiao Ming pulled the trigger. After a burst of fire and white smoke, the bullet flew to the target three hundred meters away, and the bullet drilled a hole outside a ring.
After the gunshots, the craftsman in charge of the target inspection quickly played a semaphore, one ring.
Song Changping said at this time: "His Royal Highness, how about this rifled gun?"
"interesting."
Xiao Ming picked up the bullet and reloaded it, saying so, but he was already extremely surprised. The biggest difference between a rifled gun and a musket was accuracy.
Compared with the deviation of musket bullets, soldiers can use muskets to accurately kill the enemy after training, which is definitely a terrorist existence in this era.
"Bang." Xiao Ming was more accurate this time, and the bullet fell outside the seventh ring.
"His Royal Highness, are you satisfied with this rifled gun." Song Changping's face became more confident.
Xiao Ming nodded, having to say that the rifled gun this time had reached the standard he requested. Although the range was shorter, it could only be so long before the gunpowder made progress.
After all, the more explosive the gunpowder, the higher the requirements for the barrel's ability to withstand, for which the alloy technology has to continue to improve.
Satisfied with the gun, the next focus is on the production speed of the rifled gun. He said: "The gun is good, but how about the production of bullets and guns?"
Said that Song Changping’s expression was a little unnatural, he said: "His Royal Highness, this bullet is nothing, but it can be made by pouring it into a mold, but it is really laborious to pull the rifle, and it is only a hundred and twenty in the past two months. A rifled gun."
"There are four to five thousand muskets produced in one month." Xiao Ming said, with the increase in orders, the number of craftsmen in the gun shop has increased a lot, which has increased the production volume of the gun shop.
Relative to the number of muskets, this musket is really too few and too few.
After a pause, he continued: "But don't worry, you will be able to overcome the rifling problem immediately."
"Overcome?" Song Changping asked in confusion, "Does Your Highness have other ways?"
Xiao Ming nodded. He was naturally talking about the steam engine, but he didn't want to say it yet. After all, the use of the steam engine had to wait.
He said: "The specific method will be available soon, so let's send all the rifled guns to the Qingzhou Army. Besides, how many flintlocks are in the warehouse?"
"Returning to Your Highness, since the last time we sent 3,000 flintlocks to Youzhou Army, the lower officials have been stepping up production according to His Highness's orders. Now there are 9,000 flintlocks accumulated in the warehouse."
"Five thousand for the Youzhou Army, three thousand for the Dengzhou Army, and the remaining 1,000 for the Yunzhou Army." Xiao Ming divided them according to their priority.
Now the armies of all states are screaming for weapons, and the military workshop can't keep up with this output. Thinking about this, he thinks that the steam engine should be launched as soon as possible, otherwise the production capacity of the fief will soon be out of line with demand.
The two were talking about firearms. They seemed to be attracted by the sound of gunshots, and Chen Qi walked out of the artillery workshop.
"Your Highness."
Seeing Xiao Ming and Song Changping together, Chen Qi ran over immediately.
Compared to Chen Qi's face a little haggard two months ago, Xiao Ming asked, "What's wrong? Looking at you like this, it seems that these two months have been very hard."
"His Royal Highness, didn't let Song Changping push him. The rifled guns he produces now have a range of 500 meters. This is almost catching up with the artillery. The lower officials can't lose to him, so I have been thinking about it all this time. How to increase the range of the artillery." Chen Qi said.
"Oh? What do you think~EbookFREE.me~Xiao Ming said.
Chen Qi continued: "His Royal Highness, the lower officials want the barrel to have rifling. Why can't the artillery have rifling? If the artillery has rifling, can it increase the range?"
"It can definitely improve." Song Changping said to Chen Qi: "The rifled gun has been proven."
After hearing this, Chen Qi 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 "Pixiali" gun with an export diameter of 3 inches. There were 10 spiral rifled guns in the barrel. In the 18th century, both German and British rifled guns were used. Experiments, and some of them are rear-mounted artillery.
Although the caliber of these guns is small, but their effectiveness is very good. In 1776, when the British 2-pound rear-mounted rifled gun fired at a distance of 1,300 yards, the direction deviation was only 2 feet.
Based on these records, Xiao Ming felt that Chen Qi should also study the rifled gun, because maybe Europe has already partially installed it.