The gun-making workshop is outside the village, next to the gun range.
As soon as the group approached the gun-making workshop, they heard the sound of fire guns being fired inside.
Liu Heng, who was walking in front, said with a smile: "The gun-making workshop should be testing fire guns. Let's take a look and see what new results Blacksmith Zhao and the others have come up with."
This time he came to the Ordnance Bureau, not only to see the hydraulic hammer and hydraulic drilling machine, but also to see the newly developed fire gun in the Gun Factory.
There are soldiers standing guard outside the gate of the gun-making workshop, and two soldiers holding fire guns are lined up on the left and right of the gate.
Huang Zhong took out a token and glanced at the two soldiers standing guard outside the door. Only then were they allowed to enter the gun-making workshop.
This provision only came into being after the promulgation of new military regulations.
Even if Huang Zhong, the director of the weapons bureau, does not have a token to enter and exit the gunsmithing workshop, but is let in by soldiers outside the door, the soldiers who let people in will be severely punished.
It can be said that no matter who they are, without access tokens, they are not allowed to enter at all, such as the several workshops of the Soldier Camp and the Ordnance Bureau.
Military regulations had just been promulgated, and some undisciplined soldiers would inadvertently violate the above regulations. Fortunately, the military regulations in the past were quite strict. After several punishments, the soldiers in each thousand-man team gradually adapted to the new regulations. military regulations.
"Let's go directly to the fire gun test site." As soon as he entered the yard, Liu Heng took the lead and walked towards the test site.
Sure enough, when a group of them appeared at the testing site, they saw Blacksmith Zhao and several craftsmen shooting at a target in the distance.
boom!
There was a gunshot, and a target twenty steps away was shot. The lead bullet penetrated the wooden board, leaving a bullet hole.
Seeing the wooden target that was shot through, Liu Heng praised: "Well, I didn't expect that a handgun can be so powerful and can shoot through the wooden target."
He came to the gun-making workshop because he heard that the gun-making workshop had developed handguns. Now when he saw them, he realized that the handguns developed by Blacksmith Zhao and the others were even more powerful than he imagined.
"Proprietor." Blacksmith Zhao came over and handed over the gun in his hand, "This is a newly developed gun made by the gunsmith."
After receiving it, Liu Heng looked at the gun in his hand repeatedly, his face filled with joy.
The gun-making workshop has been developing self-generated fire guns. Although they were successfully built, there were always various problems that prevented them from being deployed and assembled for soldiers. What he didn't expect was that hand guns were developed first.
The gun in his hand weighs more than a kilogram and is more than 30 centimeters long. It is not as good as the pistols of later generations, but it is already quite advanced for this era.
After sizing up the hand gun for a while, Liu Heng looked at Blacksmith Zhao and said, "I took a look at the hand gun just now when I fired it, and it was able to penetrate a wooden board twenty steps away. This power is comparable to the Zisheng gun I saw last time." It’s a firecracker.”
These words seemed to touch on Blacksmith Zhao's itch, and he said with a proud look on his face: "It's actually very simple. Make a straight groove out of the original blunderbuss tube, so that the shot can be fired accurately and far."
Rifling... These two words came to Liu Heng's mind.
The Rumi gun distributed to the soldiers was a smoothbore gun, but the handgun in his hand was a rifled gun, and it was the earliest linear rifled gun.
Thinking of this, Liu Heng said: "If this kind of linear groove is used on our self-generating fire gun, will it make the self-generating fire gun more powerful and have a longer range?"
"Yeah, why didn't I think of that?" Blacksmith Zhao slapped his forehead and said in annoyance.
After saying that, he threw Liu Heng aside and ran quickly towards the gun-making factory.
Seeing this, Huang Zhong said in embarrassment: "Don't be angry, proprietor, Lao Zhao is like this. He forgets to sleep and eat as soon as he is touched by a gun, and he doesn't care about anything."
Liu Heng smiled and waved his hand, not paying attention.
Huang Zhong beside him secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Liu Heng was indeed not dissatisfied.
He was a little annoyed that Tiejiang Zhao didn't know what was going on, but he knew that Tiejiang Zhao had such a temper, otherwise he wouldn't have made a firecracker like a handgun.
But he still complained: "This old Zhao is really not good at using his self-made fire gun. What to do with such a hand gun, it is not as important as a self-made fire gun."
Liu Heng, who heard this, smiled and said: "Don't underestimate this handgun. It is very useful. It can be distributed to our cavalry riders and gunners."
"The proprietor said that, and it's true. It seems that this old Zhao is really smart, and he can make this gun very useful." Huang Chong praised with a smile.
Liu Heng smiled and said: "You, there is no need to criticize openly or secretly praise, I'm not that stingy."
Huang Zhong chuckled after his little thought was revealed.
Liu Heng suddenly said seriously: "I believe that Blacksmith Zhao can produce self-generating fire guns with straight rifling, but he cannot equip them in large quantities for our fire gunmen to use. Therefore, in the future, the gun-making workshop will still focus on the research and development of self-generating fire guns without rifling. "
"Ah! Why is this?" Huang Zhong looked confused.
It was his boss who told Blacksmith Zhao himself about the rifling, and then he said that after the self-made firecrackers had rifling, they could not be equipped with their own firecrackers, which was deliberately leading Blacksmith Zhao to the wrong road.
He did not remember any conflicts between his boss and Blacksmith Zhao, and the qualified self-generated firecrackers developed were only for the firecrackers of the Tiger Flag. Blacksmith Zhao's research was in the wrong direction, which was of no benefit to the Tiger Flag.
"You will understand when Blacksmith Zhao gets the rifled gun out." Liu Heng smiled and did not explain.
The most troublesome thing about a rifled gun is loading ammunition. Strictly trained gunners can shoot two to three times a minute using a smoothbore gun. However, a rifled gun needs to use a bougie to impact the spherical projectile, deforming the projectile and embedding it in the rifling, which greatly Increased playback time.
This situation lasted until the Migne rifle.
Tiejiang Zhao's research direction is right, but it is not suitable for the war of this era.
Huang Zhong didn't understand. Seeing that Liu Heng was unwilling to say more, he didn't dare to ask, but he kept it in mind. When Blacksmith Zhao made the self-generating fire gun with rifling, he decided to see with his own eyes what happened. thing.
"Here, get me a set of gunpowder." Liu Heng said to a craftsman in the gunsmith's workshop.
After the craftsman heard this, he hurriedly handed a fixed gunpowder bag to Liu Heng.
Taking the fixed gunpowder, Liu Heng tore it open with his teeth, filled the gunpowder with gunpowder and projectiles, raised the gunpowder with one hand, and supported the wrist holding the gunpowder with the other hand.
Aiming at the wooden target twenty steps away, he pulled the trigger hard, and heard a bang. His hands shook, causing his whole arm to shake.
The lead bullet penetrated the wooden target and left a bullet hole.
"Not bad." Liu Heng praised, and then said to Huang Zhong, "Find ten gunmen to test this kind of handgun. After passing the test, they will be distributed to the cavalry team first."
"Yes." Huang Dian nodded.
The cavalry team is being formed, but archery cannot be practiced overnight, and Liu Heng has no intention of making his cavalry team proficient in horse archery.
The cavalry he envisioned would be equipped with cavalry's self-made fire guns and hand guns, as well as sabers.
Now that the handguns are available, the sabers have begun to be provided to the cavalry, leaving only the self-generated fireguns that the gunsmiths are improving.
