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The three major projects of military industry, shipbuilding and steel have been confirmed. The prototype of China's industrial planning will be roughly formed in the next ten years. As long as we follow this path, China should be able to make further progress. The person in charge of the three projects is getting business.

After Yi's plan, they all began to measure the terrain drawings and calculate the cost budget to make the project plan.

Then Shang Yi began to briefly review several new weapons brought by Sun Heding.

At this time, the focus of the arsenal is not to develop new weapons, but to strive to improve the performance and production speed of existing weapons. In the present, the Chinese army's weapons have already reached the world's leading level. Soldiers are familiar with it.

Even if new weapons are made, they cannot be used by the entire army in a short period of time, and problems are likely to occur during the inter-submarine period of new and old weapons.

However, the momentum of the development and research of new weapons should still be encouraged. Therefore, Shang Yi still allows the arsenal to conduct research on some new weapons while completing production tasks. Of course, Shang Yi also hopes that the arsenal can produce some weapons even if it is less equipped, but it is also

It can further improve the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army and expand the advantages of the Chinese army. After all, the Qing court is vigorously imitating the weapons of the merchant army and their progress cannot be ignored.

Strictly speaking, until the 16th century, the East and the West have their own strengths in the development of firearms and guns in the West, while the East prefers comprehensive development. Because during this period, Europe has been in constant wars, so what is needed is stronger practical combat capabilities.

Weapons and China's relatively stable situation has also been fully developed for research on firearms, in addition to guns and cannons, there are many types of explosive firearms, most of the firearms in modern times, such as mines, grenades, smoke bombs, poison gas bombs, and combustion.

Of course, there are many prototypes that are flashy and unreal

However, since these weapons were in the earliest stages and people at that time did not have enough understanding of firearms, they did not play a big role in actual combat. After the seventeenth century, the Manchus began to rise and China began to pay attention to practical combat capabilities.

The development of strong guns and cannons and Western technology is stronger than China in this regard, which gives people the impression that the level of Western firearms is stronger than that of China.

However, it is not the time to do scientific research and still focus on actual combat. Therefore, Shang Yi has also stipulated several directions for the research of new weapons. Mainly: rear-filled ammunition cannons, rear-filled ammunition rifles and companies

The gun is the early machine gun. Shang Yi knows that these weapons not only represent the direction of future development but also can play a role in the battlefield immediately. Shang Yi doesn't want the arsenal to use limited research funds to get some flowers.

come out

This time, what Sun Heding brought was two types of rear-filled rifles and three types of continuous guns just made by the arsenal.

The new weapon was tested in a large campus in the southeast of Nanjing City, with Shang Yi to participate in the test. Duan Peng, He Chong, Zhang Dajiang and other command members of the Nanjing Military Region were also invited to come on this occasion.

But now she is pregnant and is about three months away from the due date, so Shang Yi firmly asked her to stay in the palace to take care of her baby, so she had to give up.

At this time, more than ten large vehicles were parked on the campus and guarded by the arsenal staff. More than twenty targets had been erected at about fifty steps. The remaining soldiers were on both sides.

After the test began, the workers in the arsenal first took out five muskets from the car, Sun Heding took a hand and handed it to Shang Yi, "The prince is the improved lightning gun."

The electric gun was developed by Zhao Shizhen, a famous scientist in the Ming Dynasty, based on the principle of the Folang machine cannon. The body of the gun was six feet long and six kilograms. The front was equipped with a sight and the rear was equipped with a gate.

Each bullet cabin for loading the sub-gun is equipped with five sub-guns. The gun is seven inches long and ten taels. It has a fire door that can hold two cents of gunpowder and two cents of gunpowder. And one is used in the middle part of the sub-gun.

The copper plate is pressed to prevent the smoke from leaking out of the sieve crack after firing; because the sub-gun can be fired in turn, the speed of fire is extremely fast, which means that the shooting speed is as fast as lightning.

mean

Shang Yi has also got several of these electric guns, but after testing, it is not practical. First, the gun body is too large and the total length is more than 6 feet long and about 1.9 meters tall and it is extremely inconvenient to use on the battlefield. Second, the range is too poor and fifty in a row.

The rice is not enough, so it is basically impossible to use on the battlefield and there is no assembly of the army. This is probably because the information about the electric guns in later generations is not far from that of the bird guns. The Lumi gun is famous.

In another time and space, the real post-bucket-filled rifle did not appear until the beginning of the 19th century. In fact, before this, countless people studied post-bucket-filled rifles and many finished products appeared, but because the metal processing accuracy of this era is too

The low clearance is too large, which leads to poor air stance, which greatly affects the range and power of the rifle, so that the rear-filled rifle cannot replace the front-filled rifle. This is also a common problem in the early post-filled rifle.

However, Zhao Shizhen's path is correct. If the processing accuracy of the snatch gun parts can be improved, the performance of the snatch gun can be improved. In addition, if the size is changed, Shang Yi does not expect that the copper-formed shell can be used to completely fill the front-filled rifle.

The key to kicking away the musket is that the length cannot be greater than five feet, that is, one meter and five effective range cannot be less than about forty steps, that is, sixty meters. These two conditions must be met.

Because now, the metal processing technology of Nanjing zhèngfu has improved a lot compared to that of Zhao Shizhen at that time. After repeated improvements by Sun Heding and others, the sealing performance of the Zhi electric gun has improved a lot. The size has been changed to only four feet and nine inches to about one meter.

The other ignition method is changed to the fire hat impact ignition, and the effective range is also free of strength and can reach forty steps.

Shang Yi took the new electric gun and listened to Sun Heding's introduction. After listening to Sun Heding's introduction, he nodded and asked Sun Heding to test the shooting.

Five testers held the lightning gun and shot Shang Yi, "snap" at the target outside forty steps, and Duan Peng and others were also watching carefully and even made a special trip to get a clock to check the time.

The shooting speed of the electric gun is indeed much faster than that of an ordinary rifle. One minute, the shooting times are more than seven times. If you train it, it is not impossible to shoot more than ten times per minute. It’s a pity that there is still a lack of 40 steps in the range.

It can crack the wooden target but its penetration power to iron sheets is less than 30%. If it is estimated that it must be about thirty steps closer to the battlefield to be effective.

Moreover, in terms of Sun Heding, in addition to the range, due to the complex structure, the production process is difficult to make. The cost and production time of the electric gun are much higher than that of ordinary muskets. A Zhi electric gun is almost as good as four or five front loading fires.

Another disadvantage of the gun is that the power gun uses the sub-gun to fire the early power gun and gunpowder. The weight of the projectile has reached more than one pound. Although the size has been reduced, it is more than nine taels.

The length of the gun is five or six inches, so a soldier can only carry about thirty bullets at most, and the firing speed of the gun is only enough for three minutes.

Of course, if you assemble a small amount in the army, it is still possible at least at close range. The power is still very high. In some special battlefields such as urban warfare, jungle warfare is much more useful than the previous bullet-filled rifle. Of course, it is also a battle on the ship.

What is important in these areas is the speed of shooting

Therefore, after hearing this, Duan Peng shook his head and said, "It's a pity that if this kind of electric gun can be assembled and used by some special forces, it is very good because special forces will often fight in cities and forests, but if you carry too few sub-guns, it will be fine.

It's useless"

Shang Yi also nodded and said, "But compared with the previous electric gun, this is very good. I think it can be assembled to the sailors of the Navy when the enemy boards the ship or when we attack the enemy's warships.

The speed of firing of the electric gun is very useful. I will find the people from the Navy to try it out and see how it is."

At this time, Sun Heding asked someone to take out the second type of bullet-filled rifle and hand it to Shang Yi and said: "The musket of the prince is also filled with bullets, but there is no sub-gun. It uses a paper shell and fixed-loading bullets. This problem can be solved."

Shang Yi took it and saw that this musket is smaller than the improved electric gun, about four feet and five inches away. There are doors and bullet casings at the back of the gun barrel, and there is rifle engraved in the milling tube. Seeing this design

Shang Yi understood that it was a design method to increase the range.

Then the second type of rear-filled rifle started to test the firing speed of the bullet-filling rifle was similar to that of the electric milling, but the range was indeed a little larger than that of the electric gun, and it reached 70 to 80 meters, and because it was used, the penetration power was also greater.

The stronger ones have the success rate of piercing iron armor at a distance of fifty steps. Shang Yi also estimates that the actual range of this rifle may be larger, although it is not as good as the flintlock rifle used now, but it is completely OK.

The need to reach the battlefield also solves the problem of bullet carrying

Duan Peng and others went through the battlefield to see the musket and tested it, and they realized that this kind of rifle is indeed more practical than the electric gun. If it can be assembled in large quantities, it can improve the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army a lot. Therefore, it also said:

"Prince, I think this kind of musket is very useful, so you can make a batch of them."

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