In the end, 1 kilogram of mercury produced approximately 1.2 kilograms of mercury fulminate. The chemical engineering team was very satisfied with this result. [Read full text] After all, the amount of mercury fulminate used in each flash cap is very small.
The flash cap used on the Minigun is best made of copper. Travelers did not bring copper. The Guangzhou Advance Station purchased a large number of Japanese red copper bars. This kind of copper is very popular in the market because it contains a lot of silver. Refining the silver can offset the cost of buying copper.
The metallurgical team re-refined the copper bars and obtained high-purity copper ingots and a small amount of silver. After the raw materials were obtained, the mechanical team designed and manufactured a machine specifically for stamping flash caps. They also made a mold, which was driven by electricity and could press 1o flash caps at a time.
After confirming that there are no problems in the mass production of the flash cap, the assembly of the musket begins. These front-loading rifled guns using Mini ammunition are assembled from 14 mm alloy steel seamless tubes purchased from high-pressure boilers. After buying the steel pipe, five "internal threads" measuring 48 centimeters were secretly threaded in the machine processing factory opened in Zhan Wuya. Other hammers, triggers, reeds, etc. are also stamped out of 4 to 5 mm thick alloy steel plates in his factory. If they didn't have this skill at that time, and if they processed the rifling by themselves, I'm afraid they wouldn't have a few rifled guns now. The New Army would probably have to use Brown Bess - this kind of musket has also been praised by a group of madmen who lined up to shoot the party members. Although Wang Luobin also lined up to shoot party members, it was not fundamental enough. A real line-up to kill the party will absolutely refuse rifled rifles.
Rifled guns are not a very new weapon. Flint rifled guns existed in the era of flint muskets. Compared with muskets, the benefits of rifled guns are obvious: large range, high accuracy, and less effective range than muskets. To a 5o meter flint musket, the front-loading rifled gun could be used as a sniper rifle at that time in terms of shooting accuracy and range.
The biggest problems that have prevented it from becoming popular are, first, the complex process and high cost, and second, the difficulty in loading ammunition. The reason why a rifled gun can shoot far and accurately is that the bullet must rotate along the rifling before exiting the chamber, so the bullet must be inserted into the rifling. Before there was a mini bullet, the bullet had to be slightly larger than the diameter of the rifling, and the bullet was hit with brute force to deform it and fit into the rifling. It is an exaggeration to say that it needs to be hammered in. Although in most cases it is more than that, it is a fact that it is slower to load than a musket. Therefore, although it has been equipped with elite infantry on a small scale in many countries, it is not widely used.
It was the emergence of Mini bullets that changed the fate of muzzle-loading rifled guns. Mini bullets, the diameter of the cone-shaped bullet is slightly smaller than the diameter of the gun bore, so loading is very convenient. There is a conical cavity at the bottom of the bullet, and a wooden plug blocks the bottom of the hole. When fired, the gas presses the wooden plug into the cavity, forcing the bottom of the bullet to expand and stick to the rifling, sealing the gap between the bullet and the barrel, allowing the gas to flow. It cannot leak out, and it can make the warhead rotate at high speed under the pressure of the rifling. Mini bullets solved the problem of loading difficulties for front-loading rifled guns and the low accuracy of smoothbore guns, making rifles more decisive than artillery and becoming the decisive weapon on the battlefield at that time.
Pulling the trigger, there was a loud "bang" sound, and the gun body rushed backwards. Wang Luobin's shoulder hurt from the impact. A faint smoke slowly spread out from the muzzle of the gun. Under the city wall 1oo meters away, Jiang Ye ran out of the shelter, looked at the target, pasted the newly drilled hole with white paper, then put it to the made-made bamboo telephone and shouted loudly. Wang Luobin took off the earplug in his right ear. When I got close to the bamboo tube on this side of the road, I heard him say: "Ring 9, towards 7 o'clock." So I raised my hand to indicate that I heard him.
This result is quite good! The first shot was very close to the target, and it looked like the gun could be calibrated in less than two hours. Pick up a small file and remove a thin layer from the left side of the brass notch seat. Then loosen the vise holding the gun body and load the gunpowder and bullet. Start again and slowly aim at the half-body bullseye 1oo meters away, and calibrate again at 1oo meters. I'm really lucky, everything is normal. After the distance of 1oo meters is calibrated, several targets of different heights will be used to simulate the long distances of 2oo meters, 3oo meters, and 4oo meters. From a further distance, you can only see the soldier's rp.
This gun only took 4o minutes to complete, and it was highly accurate. It was simply a perfect masterpiece. It is estimated that one shot can hit a single cavalryman from 300 meters away. Finally, use a soldering iron to put your initials right above the rear edge of the gun butt, and add a "j+" underneath to indicate that this is a good gun that can be used as a sniper rifle, and you're done. After all, even a Mini-type rifled rifle only requires a 60% hit rate against a 20-foot-wide and 8-foot-tall target 4oo yards away.
Look at the four straight characters written with carbon strips on the wooden board. Wang Luobin heavily added a horizontal line next to the fourth straight character. The team next to Zhan Wuya also finished writing the fourth straight character. It seems that there is no problem with today's class's production plan of 5o guns. I estimate that I can finish a few more.
3,000 steel pipes and accessories can make 3,000 rifles. There are also about 1,000 spare parts. However, in the past two weeks, the Ministry of Industry decided to cut 20 gun barrels into short tubes of about 2 inches for use in the manufacture of Delinger pistols. Although 20 rifles are missing, it can be equipped with self-defense firearms for departments such as the Navy and the Intelligence Bureau that need short weapons. They have no intention of giving the Glock pistol to the indigenous people.
Although the guns are assembled very quickly and more than 80 guns can be completed every day, without a strictly calibrated rifle, if it is given to a rookie infantryman who has never fired two live ammunition, it is really not much better than a smooth-bore fire stick. Strong on the outside but weak on the inside, this can probably describe the current predicament of the time traveler.
It wasn't until they had more than 600 guns that the industrial group reduced the daily gun assembly quota a little, and then spent time carefully calibrating and selecting precision guns. Flash caps were carefully stored for use in battle. This is related to the combat policy of the General Staff. In view of the fact that once the enemy arrives in the future, the number of enemies will be very large. Whether it is the Ming army or pirates, there will be no problem in dispatching thousands of people. Travelers are no longer what they used to be, and the stalls are already very large. If we continue the turtle flow of fortified camps, it will lead to the dilemma of being fortified and passive everywhere. The military's policy is to fight out and send infiltration troops to the periphery to conduct cold shots, plant mines, and harass the enemy's brigade's operations and logistics. Such tactics require equipping frontline troops with sufficient precision guns. After all, being able to shoot from a distance is very beneficial to the survival of the infiltration troops. Being able to knock down a cavalry or officer with one shot is obviously very useful for reducing the pressure in a head-on confrontation.
A few days ago, at the summary meeting, the Intelligence Department pointed out that there will be a big war within a month. Regardless of whether the intruders are pirates or the Ming army, the time travelers will face as many as two to three thousand enemy troops coming to encircle and suppress them. If it is the Ming army, they may continue to receive reinforcements from the mainland. It is estimated that if the Ming army cannot be dealt a major blow and part of it is surrounded and annihilated in one battle, the encirclement and suppression will last for one or two months. Since then, the burden on the Ministry of Industry has increased. Not only do you need to load 5o guns every day, you also need to reserve ammunition for the upcoming fierce battle. The metallurgical department not only makes steel, but also refines copper and lead on a large scale. It has begun to use casting molds to produce mini bullets and round iron cannonballs on a large scale. It can produce 3,000 Dominican bullets and 25o round bullets every day. Coupled with the ammunition already stored, it will not be a problem to cope with a fierce battle that lasts for several days and shoots 30 to 40 bullets every day.
Artillery. The foundry has already delivered nine 8-pound smoothbore cannons. Casting such smoothbore cannons is nothing after becoming familiar with the process. When manufacturing breech-loading guns, we were not very skilled in processing the breech bolt at the beginning. A qualified breech bolt would take 3 days. Only 2 cannons were completed in the last week. However, after collective analysis and research, the mechanical team improved the process. There is no rush to weld the steel plate immediately after it is cut. First put it on the pedal grinder to grind the end face and welding ladder mouth. Then a frame made of local granite slabs was used to support the welding. Six 7ommarmstrong guns have now been completed. 12 pounds of mountain pomegranates is much simpler, as long as there is enough pig iron to be delivered to the factory at a rate of one per day. Now I have handed over 12 pounds of mountain durians for 14 doors.
With the increase in the number of cannons manufactured, the mechanical team has basically understood the manufacturing process of each cannon, the required labor hours and the sizes of various parts. It has designed and manufactured various special molds and tooling for the production of cannons. With the help of the large number of cannons brought Measuring tools, the mechanical department quickly reduced tolerances to a minimum, developed manufacturing standards for various types of artillery, and began standardized manufacturing. This will make the parameter structure of each gun exactly the same as that of similar guns.
With standardized manufacturing, it means that the performance of every similar artillery piece is close. Each batch of artillery manufactured by Traverser is specially tested by the artillery team to obtain its firing parameters - the amount of charge and muzzle height are determined based on the type of ammunition used and the target distance. When necessary, the artillery team will also try dangerous tests on maximum safe fire, barrel life and maximum charge. to determine the potential capabilities of its artillery.
The results of artillery testing and calculations were then compiled into artillery tables. As long as the gun table has the above four parameters. Made into a book, artillerymen can quickly refer to it. Even without words. Only graphics (types of ammunition) and numbers are needed.
If these contents were completely done by the gunner, then the gunner would not only need to be familiar with the gun itself, but also must be familiar with mathematics, geometry and even algebra. Therefore, in addition to being a gunsmith, the early gunners had to be half-mathematicians. This is the origin of the so-called "artillery requires high-tech talents." But this is not inevitable, but is the result of backward concepts. With such standardized artillery and artillery watches, artillerymen do not need to be highly qualified. As long as they can recognize digital graphics and can read a few hundred words at most. Greatly reduces the difficulty of artillery training. In theory, even illiterate people can do it - this is very suitable for the social environment that the time traveler faces.
As a time traveler, you not only master the modern technology of later generations, but also possess the advanced concepts condensed by human society for hundreds of years. Sometimes such ideas are more effective than technology.
