As for the Hall rifle, don't be kidding. With its structure, the cost is more than double that of the Mini rifle.
The Brown Bess rifle was directly rejected by Sun Xuebin because of its front-loading musket and high failure rate.
"Are you kidding? If anyone wants to train himself to use this gun, our military team will definitely not use it."
After confirming that the Mini rifle was the equipment used by the naturalized army, everyone in the industrial team was ready to fight.
Zhang Feifei also planned to make an electric furnace by hand, otherwise, the gun barrel material would be difficult to process.
But what shocked them was that early the next morning, when the industrial team gathered in the warehouse, Fang Xiaoyue took out a Mini rifle and said with a relaxed expression: "I made this last night, everyone try it." Let’s try it out and see how it goes?”
Made by hand?
Zhang Feifei took the gun and went to the shooting range with everyone in a daze.
Well, the so-called shooting range is actually an open space on the seaside outside the dock area. With some targets set at ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters, fifty meters, one hundred meters, and two hundred meters, it can barely be regarded as a shooting range.
After asking people to guard around the shooting range to prevent anyone from escaping, Zhang Feifei loaded the gunpowder and bullets, then aimed at the target a hundred meters away and fired.
Bang!
A puff of unavoidable black smoke emerged from the black gunpowder.
I don’t know if I hit it or not.
Zhang Feifei then reloaded and fired again. After getting over the gun addiction, he asked someone to report the target.
"One shot for 100-meter target with 8 rings and one shot with 9 rings!"
"Two shots with 10 rings on the 200-meter target, one shot with 8 rings!"
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Well, in fact, the performance of this Mini rifle was officially determined only after everyone in the industrial group went into battle and had their gun addiction satisfied.
The performance of this Mini rifle is excellent. Within a distance of 500 meters, if the marksmanship is good, it can basically hit the target.
Needless to say, there is no need to say anything about a bad guy like Zhang Feifei. After shooting, his score was among the worst, so much so that when he walked out of the shooting range, his face looked bad.
However, before Fang Xiaoyue could formulate the manufacturing process standards for the Mini rifle, the Mini rifle was taken away by Sun Xuebin who came after hearing the news.
In his words: "A new gun is out, but we users are not allowed to give us opinions?"
Good guy, after Sun Xuebin took the gun to the shooting range, he almost shot it until it exploded before returning the gun.
As a result, when Zhang Feifei asked, Sun Xuebin fired all the fifty rounds of ammunition he had brought with him in one go. The most important thing was that he had not cleaned the gun chamber yet!
Well, Sun Xuebin didn't quite understand that the barrel of the Mini rifle must be cleaned after firing more than ten rounds.
Only Fang Xiaoyue knew that the reason why Sun Xuebin did not blow up the gun was because the Mini rifle was made by himself.
The metal manufacturing effect of +20 makes the barrel of this Mini rifle almost a one-of-a-kind product.
If someone uses an electron microscope to look at this barrel, they will find that the metal structure of this barrel is so special that its resistance is more than ten times higher than that of ordinary barrels.
Otherwise, if Sun Xuebin took it, at most twenty shots would explode.
Of course, Fang Xiaoyue couldn't keep building this mini rifle by hand, as that would tire him to death.
After establishing the process standards, Fang Xiaoyue dismantled the machine used to make five-round rounds, modified some of its parts, and reassembled them to create a manual production line for making Mini rifles.
Well, only Fang Xiaoyue can do this kind of thing.
With sufficient materials, this manual production line, equipped with ten workers, can produce twenty Mini rifles every day.
In other words, if the people in the industrial team are not too tired, they can produce 600 Mini rifles if they work overtime 24 hours a month.
Well, actually this is not a small amount.
At this time in Europe, there were many musket workshops with more than 100 workers, and their monthly output was only 30 muskets.
However, in Fang Xiaoyue's view, this manual production line is only an emergency need.
If you really want to industrialize production, you have to lay a good foundation.
The topic turned back to Deputy Senhu.
After selecting a prisoner and releasing him, within a few days, Fu Qianhu's wife and son came with five hundred taels of silver to redeem Fu Qianhu.
At first Zheng Xiangdong thought about sending someone to accompany Deputy Qianhu back, but then he thought that the person he sent would probably be captured when he arrived at Qianhu Station, so he had no choice but to give up the idea.
However, with the departure of Deputy Qianhu, Sun Xuebin stepped up the vigilance around the dock area.
Of the two hundred or so military personnel, at least twenty are sent out on guard duty every day.
At this time, Li Siming from the communication team announced good news.
PHS is ready for use!
This made Sun Xuebin excited, and he immediately asked Li Siming to match all members of the military team.
But Li Siming said with some embarrassment that due to the lack of skilled manpower, the assembly speed of PHS is now limited, with a maximum of ten units per day.
This disappoints many travelers who want to equip themselves with a PHS.
But fortunately, at least those who go out on sentry duty are equipped with a PHS, so that they can quickly transmit information back when they discover a situation.
A week later, the number of Mini rifles in the military group reached 140. With the addition of five consecutive rounds, everyone had one firearm, completely breaking away from cold weapons.
But just as the members of the military team were seizing the time to practice shooting Mini rifles, a piece of bad news came back from the sentry who was out.
A Ming army appeared ten kilometers away from the dock area.
Well, in fact, this Ming army also came through the same route as last time, so it can be inferred that it was sent by the defender Qianhu.
It seems that half of the interim management committee's previous plans have also come to nothing.
Defender Qian Hushou chose to continue to be hostile to the traveling people.
Actually, this is not surprising.
In the eyes of several officials at the Qianhu Station of the Guard, the Chuanchuangzong were just a group of thieves who came from nowhere.
Under the great power of the Ming Dynasty, the small thieves are not worth mentioning.
Upon learning that the Ming army was invading again, Sun Xuebin hurriedly gathered the military team and boarded the truck with his men, preparing to go out and attack the enemy head-on.
Fang Xiaoyue did not participate this time. He was busy creating a new batch of gun-making assembly lines.
Well, he had made guns individually before, but this was his first experience with an assembly line used to make firearms.
First, design and then manufacture a batch of physical objects. Then they need to be fine-tuned and modified based on the problems that arise during the actual production process.
In short, this is a relatively complex and tedious task.
