Chapter 952: Artillery evolution

The sound of rapid footsteps came from outside the Imperial Study Room. ?　WWW.suimeng.lā.
After a while, Chen Qi's figure appeared, and he walked to Xiao Ming and saluted him, calling out "The Emperor".
"First it was Song Changping, and now it is you Chen Qi. The two of you have been doing everything in the Three Treasures Hall. Let me guess, you must have made some progress on the artillery."
Chen Qi's face was a little tired, but his eyes flashed with excitement. He said: "The emperor, it is true. After years of accumulation and research, now the artillery factory has finally completed the previous work and successfully produced the first battle. A rifled breech gun."
"Really? Today is really a good day, first with the metal bullets, and now with the breech gun, it is really a double happiness."
The smile on Xiao Ming's face grew stronger.
In fact, Chen Qi has been conducting research on rifled guns, but the development of guns is too fast. This has caused Chen Qi to constantly change the original design. After the Han-style rifle was finalized, it suddenly made him feel that all the problems he faced before were solved at once. The rifled breech gun came into being.
Of course, Xiao Ming understands Chen Qi’s research, but he didn’t care about him except for throwing some materials to him. In the past, he didn’t want to care about knowing that the industrial foundation at the time was unable to produce qualified breech guns. Obviously it is already available, and all the results of nature will be natural.
But speaking of breech guns, in fact this kind of artillery appeared very early, and the Flange machine used by contemporary soldiers of the Ming Dynasty is a typical breech gun.
The structure of this artillery is divided into two parts, one is the barrel, and the other is the rear gun, as if a complete artillery is cut into two sections. Each time the soldier fires the shells and ammunition in the gun , Align the bullet and the barrel to ignite and launch.
In this way, every time the launch is completed, you only need to replace the bullet.
According to historical records, this type of artillery is a type of artillery popular in Europe from the late 15th century to the early 16th century. The inspired artillery is derived from the eagle cannon, which can fire continuously and pop like a fire snake. It is also called a rapid-fire cannon.
Now metal bullets are actually just a natural extension of the Flange machine-style afterloading bullets.
In this era, the West also has this type of artillery. The Dutch once described this artillery to him in detail and sold it to him, but he rejected it.
The reason is very simple. He from modern times doesn't like this after-installation structure at all. Facts have proved his decision is correct, because within a few years, Qingzhou produced a 19th century breech artillery.
"Hey, my lord, I didn’t lag behind in this time, but used all the previous technology accumulation. The three technologies of rifled, breech, and pull fire are all available. This kind of artillery is better than the previous field guns in terms of range and accuracy. The degree is greatly improved." Chen Qi said excitedly.
Xiao Ming nodded in satisfaction. The rifling technology comes from the rifling technology of the musket, and the fire tube comes from the squeegee technology of the grenade. Only the design and manufacture of this breech block is a brand-new technology.
It can be said that the evolution of the artillery is a by-product of industrial development.
"In that case, I will take the generals of the Military Aircraft Department to take a look at your masterpieces." As the saying goes, seeing is worse than hearing, and now he is a little itchy.
Moreover, the development of weapons in the nineteenth century basically set the tone for later generations. The subsequent development is only a partial improvement. Therefore, if the Han-style rifle and this artillery are officially installed, this will mean that the Dayu team is truly modern.
After all, the three of them left the Imperial Study Room together, and when passing by the outer palace, he asked Qian Dafu to call Niu and Luo Quan.
The group went to the military workshop under the protection of the guard.
"My lord, this is our metal bullet production line." Song Changping said proudly.
Xiao Ming followed Song Changping's factory and looked at the factory. At this time, the machinery in the factory made a roar of metal cracking during the operation of the workers. The workers were sending boxes of separated cartridge cases and bullets to the next factory.
Some workers are assembling the primer, propellant, warhead and cartridge case together in this workshop.
"The emperor, the production speed of this metal bullet is really much slower. How can it be like sheep shit." Niu frowned. The cone bullet used in the front musket used to be cast. On the densely packed molds, it can be self-made in large quantities at one time.
Now comparing the two, he felt a gap, "According to our previous battle statistics, after the emergence of the trenches, it takes an average of 2,600 rounds to kill an enemy. This is because they are not familiar with our firearms. Next, the emperor, if it is this kind of production speed, he will finally think that it is better to use the paper shell bullets of the past."
Luo Quan nodded when he heard the words, "Yes, the paper shell bullet is enough. This kind of metal bullet is so troublesome to produce. It is estimated that the price is high, and it is more than enough to deal with Goryeo or Waguk."
Xiao Ming smiled when he heard the words. The two of them were qualified generals for him. They would not be qualified generals blindly touting weapons and ignoring the cost-effectiveness.
Based on the current situation, there is indeed no urgent need for the use of such high-cost bullets in Da Yu, and the use of paper shell bullets for Han-style rifles is sufficient.
Just as the Western countries actually had rifled guns for a long time, they did not have mass production of muskets. They still used muskets for a long time. They didn't come to their senses until they were beaten up by the rifled guns during the war.
For Xiao Ming ~EbookFREE.me~ he naturally understands this truth, but Dayu has its own national conditions, and the huge land and long borders forced him to deploy a large number of troops to defend.
Goryeo and Waguk were unable to settle down completely for a while, and had to station troops. In this way, the number of soldiers he could use for overseas colonization would be reduced, and he could not have unlimited violent troops, because he needed population migration. Go to Kanto and even Siberia to consolidate the occupied land.
After driving away the Golden Horde on the grasslands in the future, controlling the grasslands will also be a headache.
As such, he can only rely on the generation of weapons to make up for the shortage of the army. It is precisely by virtue of this advantage that Europe can control a large area of ​​colonies with a small number of troops.
After explaining his thoughts to the two of them, Xiao Ming continued: "Europe is now full of soldiers due to the rise of the Great Yu Kingdom. We must spare no effort to catch up with us in weapons. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain generations. But as you said, metal bullets and shells are expensive to produce and slow, but we can hoard them and use them when necessary."
Niu and Luo Quan looked at each other and nodded. Sometimes they still couldn't keep up with the emperor's thinking.