Gao Yiye slowly walked to a position about half a step behind Li Daoxuan and stood still, just like the two female secretaries usually stood behind her in autumn and winter.
Next, Thirty-Two, Tan Liwen and other people working in the main fort also heard the sound and came. After a while, people like Cheng Xu and Wang Er who were outside the main fort also came over. Xiao Xiao The craftsman's well was filled with people, all surrounding Li Daoxuan, and the momentum was really huge.
Li Daoxuan thought to himself: I am sitting here getting my nails done, but so many of you are watching, which makes me feel very uncomfortable.
He was about to complain and send these guys away.
Then I saw Xu Dafu, the director of the Firearms Bureau, emerging from the crowd. This guy walked very carefully. Looking left and right, he looked like he was about to walk into a dragon's den and a tiger's den.
Li Daoxuan smiled at him and said, "Xu Dafu, why are you so careful?"
Xu Dafu: "Tianzun Qiku, although we are blessed by the deity here, after all, the place where weapons such as swords, guns, and firecrackers are made is full of murderous weapons. If the villain is not careful, if the wind and fire come into contact with something that shouldn't be touched, , if the sledgehammer falls, it will kill me."
Everyone: "..."
There is no reason to talk to this guy who is afraid of choking to death when he drinks water. Li Daoxuan: "You got out of the crowd, do you have something to say?"
Xu Dafu took out a small round ball from his arms with excitement on his face and held it in both hands: "The fire hat, the villain finally succeeded in making it. He used the strange gunpowder that Tianzun gave me that will explode when dropped, and mixed it repeatedly. , finally, hey hey, I made this thing that is placed in the barrel of the gun and will ignite when the firing pin hits it."
As soon as he said these words, everyone who played with technology turned their attention.
Look carefully at what he is holding in his palm.
It's a very small thing, only about the size of a fingernail, and it's not completely round, it's in the shape of a round cake.
When Li Daoxuan saw this shape, he thought: This is the small piece at the bottom of the "bullet". When the trigger of a modern firearm is pulled, the spring pushes the firing pin and hits the bottom of the bullet, which is the flash cap. .
The flash cap will burn upon impact, igniting the gunpowder, and the bullet will be pushed away when touched.
Li Daoxuan was still thinking about these technical issues when he saw Li Da holding out a firecracker from the blacksmith shop.
This was the early breech-loading rifle that Li Daoxuan gave him to make when he first met him, the Xia Sebo rifle. After solving the problem of the spring, it was actually not difficult to make this blunderbuss. The difficulty lies in the bullets.
Now that the flash cap problem is solved, that means the bullet problem is also solved.
Xu Dafu compared the barrel of the Xia Saibo rifle, took out a piece of paper, and began to make bullets on the spot.
Early breech-loading rifles used "paper-wrapped bullets", which were basically hand-wrapped. The bullets were very large, more than twice the size of copper bullets.
The front end of the bullet is wrapped with a small lead bullet, the middle section is black powder, and the last section is a flash cap. After arranging these three sections, roll them up with paper and pinch them tightly, and finally it becomes a long spindle-shaped bullet. .
Li Da opened the chamber of the gun and loaded the paper-wrapped bullets that Xu Dafu had just wrapped into the chamber. The whole process only took a few seconds, which was much simpler than the complicated loading action of a muzzle-loading rifle.
Then he picked up the gun and aimed it at a wooden target on the wall on the other side of the craftsman's well.
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The trigger was pulled, there was a bang, and a big hole appeared in the middle of the target.
The clerks present could not see anything, but Cheng Xu and Wang Er suddenly clapped their hands: "Good thing, good thing. The reloading speed of this thing is faster than ordinary fire guns. I don't know." How many times, it’s amazing.”
Wang Er: "Because the reloading speed of rifled fire blunderbuss is too slow and the attack interval is too long, we dare not equip the militia in large quantities and can only be used by a few people. The main force still has to use muskets to ensure the rate of fire. In the future, once the owner uses this kind of fire gun that can be loaded with bullets at the back, he will not have to worry about the rifling affecting the loading."
Cheng Xu nodded: "In other words, all our muskets can be gradually eliminated and replaced with this kind of breech-loading rifled gun."
A lot of new tactics immediately flashed through their minds...
However, Song Yingxing, who was not far away, said: "I think there is a big problem with this gun."
Everyone: "?"
Li Daoxuan's eyes lit up: Oh, did you see it?
Song Yingxing said: "The tail of this gun has a complicated mechanism, including a firing pin, springs, slide rails, etc., which makes the air tightness of its tail not very good. The impact force generated when the gunpowder explodes will come from various sources." The edge of the mechanism leaks out... As a result, its forward force is weakened, didn't you notice? The power of the bullet just now was weaker than the rifling of the front loading. "
When he said this, everyone suddenly realized that indeed, the power of the shot just now was lower than that of the rifled gun. You only need to look at the target to see it.
Song Yingxing sighed and said: "This problem is actually the problem that my steam engine is currently encountering. Due to poor air tightness, the steam created by boiling water will leak out from various gaps in the machine, wasting a lot of power. If the problem of air tightness can be completely solved, then the power of this firecracker can exceed that of a muzzleloader, and the efficiency of the steam engine will also be greatly improved."
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As soon as he thought of this, he saw a strange look on Song Yingxing's face: "I just discovered a material that can be used to solve the air tightness problem."
Everyone: "Speak out and listen."
Song Yingxing stretched out his hand and pointed at Li Daoxuan: "Use the material of the statue of Tianzun."
Everyone: "Pfft!"
It turns out that just now Song Yingxing reached out and touched the statue of Li Daoxuan, and the idea was running through his mind at that time. The material of the statue of Tianzun seems to be very convenient to solve the problem of air tightness. It can be plugged in the key gaps of the machine. This soft material...
"Be bold!"
At least seven or eight people shouted to Song Yingxing at the same time: "What kind of crooked idea is going on in your head? Do you want to cut up the statue of Tianzun to fill the gaps in the machine? How treasonous."
Li Daoxuan smiled: "Hahaha! Don't be so excited, everyone. Song Yingxing is an engineering man. He only considers technical issues and not other issues. Don't go online."
He smiled and said to Song Yingxing: "Compared to the material of my statue, there is actually a material that is more suitable for solving the airtightness of steam engines and breech-loading guns. Unfortunately, your chemistry research has not reached that point, so I will start with it." Let me give you some.”
After saying this, the next moment, his consciousness had returned to his body outside the box. He reached out and grabbed the rubber that had been prepared a long time ago, and put it into the craftsman's well.
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