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Chapter 9 Firearms

Minister Yang went everywhere to draw arrows, and his younger brother and sister clapped their hands to follow him. Yang He shook his head. He grabbed the previously seized package: "Look at what it is."

He shook open the package and the things fell down, first of all the three soldiers' waists.

Yang He pulled out his knife and looked at it. The blade was made of fine iron, which was better than the iron used to make guns. It was estimated that one pound would cost about two cents of silver. This kind of iron was good for making guns, but it seemed ordinary to be used to make knives, and there was no Baosteel in the key parts. There would be gaps in the knife's mouth after such a battle.

Moreover, the scabbard is just ordinary hardwood, and it is only painted on the outside. Yang He is preparing to take one for Minister Yang, and the remaining two are used as a backup.

Then he looked at the hand gun.

Yang He had long noticed this hand gun, after all, he almost died under the gun.

He picked up the pistol and looked at it carefully. The pistol was beautifully made, and it was carefully polished everywhere. There were brass wrapped in many places, making the entire pistol quite high. Yang He was sure that the gun was not from that soldier, and he didn't know where he snatched it from.

Moreover, Yang He always feels a strange feeling.

He stroked the gun and watched carefully.

Finally, he knew where the weirdness came from. The gun should have been a flintlock rifle at first, and then it was changed to a coblin rifle.

...

The firing method of a general coercion is slightly different from that of a flintlock. The coercion relies on the power of open flame and does not require high requirements for springs, so when it is to be fired, the reeds of the general coercion are in a relaxed state.

When the fuse gun pulls the trigger, the fuse on the hammer faucet ignites the lead on the fire door. At this time, the spring blade is compressed, so when the trigger is released, the hammer faucet can automatically return to the original position to be fired.

It is not necessary to pull the hammer to the position to be fired like a flintlock rifle. After the blow is finished, you must also pull the hammer to the position to be fired and prepare for the next firing.

The firing method of this gun is like a flintlock rifle. After pulling the plate machine, you must pull the hammer back when firing and loading it, which is very different from an ordinary coercine gun.

The firing hammer structure also has the smell of a rooster and dog lock. There is a thick bolt on the edge of the mouth. It should have been clamped with flint, but at this time it was clamped with flint.

Yang He also saw that there seemed to be traces of a fire sickle hitting the iron on the other side of the medicine platter, and then it was pulled out alive.

“Kakaka.”

Yang He pulled the hammer to the maximum position to be fired, and then pulled the plate machine.

He tried several times in a row, feeling the force, listening to the sound, and finally shook his head.

This kind of spring steel strip can be lit three times without knowing if it can be ignited for ten times. No wonder...

He felt uncomfortable, just like Wang Mang's restructuring, inappropriate measures and techniques always make people sigh.

In fact, there is not much difference in structure between flintlock guns and flint guns. The barrels are basically the same, just a set of firing devices are replaced. However, because flint ignition is used, a very powerful hammer reed is needed to ensure the impact strength.

It is not a simple matter to solve the problem of this firing spring. The elasticity and toughness of the spring spring are related to the material of steel. Only by using steel as the firing spring of the flintlock gun can we ensure that the sparks emerge from the flint stone are enough to ignite and induce the medicine.

In other words, to achieve a very high degree of flint firing, the elasticity and toughness of the spring steel plates must at least meet the standard of medium carbon steel. At this time, even the drill bits for drilling the barrels generally use low carbon steel...

Therefore, at this time, the fire rate of the flintlock rifle is extremely high, and the fire rate is generally only 30% or 40%.

In view of this, in the mid-17th century, King Louis XIV of France ordered that the use of flintlock rifles be strictly prohibited, and those who violated the order immediately sent a guillotine. He also ordered the development of a two-in-one flintlock rifle. It was almost the eighteenth century that the British officially adopted a flintlock rifle.

The true maturity of the flintlock rifle is the result of industrial progress. With better steel as springs, the gunpowder formula and barrel building technology have made great progress.

This is a comprehensive progress of science. It is not just the reason why flints are changed to flints. Everyone will not know how to use good things. A mature and sophisticated flint gun has a firing rate of at least 80%, and your firing rate is less than 30%. Who can use it?

The result of the steel being used without level is that the flintlock gun has been changed to a colloid gun.

Holding this hand gun, Yang He wondered when to find a good steel to make springs. This kind of steel is not without, but it is very expensive. A pound of conservative price is three to five taels of silver.

...

After putting the pistol down, Yang He picked up the three-eyed gun again. The wooden handle of the gun was broken, but it didn't matter, just install it again.

He looked up and down and left and right and could see that the gun had been used for a period of time, with traces of time on it, and there were inscriptions on it: "It was built on November 1, 13th year of Chongzhen, weighing six kilograms and eight liang, three cents of medicine per acupoint, two lead balls, and smith iron has gold."

Yang He specialized in the later generations to study firearms. From his perspective, this gun was not exquisite, but not rough. The materials used did not meet the standards of fine iron, but also used forged cooked iron, and each chamber also had drilled holes, which was of ordinary quality.

At this time, the three-eyed guns were filled with seeds, and leads were also installed on the three fire doors, and sparse medicines were poured tightly, just like firecrackers, so that the leads of the fire door's leads would not fall down.

This is an advantage of being ready for battle at any time. If the lead is longer, the fire will be newly ignited soon. When encountering sudden events, there is no need for a fuse, just like the soldier who was killed before.

Of course, there are disadvantages. If the time is left for a long time, the internal and internal gunpowder outer leads may be stagnant, or become damp, causing the situation of not firing or ignition.

Yang He poured out all the gunpowder in each tube of the three-eyed gun and the leads on each fire door, and carefully sorted it out with a strip. He looked at the situation of each chamber carefully and estimated that the life of the gun would be dozens of shots, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, it is not the kind of seven cents of goods, otherwise it would be like the two-two-three cents of bird guns, which are shoddy goods, and they will explode at any time, and their lifespan is less than fifty rounds.

A good three-eyed gun is actually no less than a qualified bird gun. An excellent three-eyed gun is the same as an excellent bird gun. It requires the use of fine iron and drilling holes in each chamber, and even the amount of lead bullet gunpowder is the same.

"The three-eyed gun barrel is about one foot long, and the mouth of the gun is as big as a bird gun, which can hold three cents of lead bullets. The iron must be refined, and the two barrels are wrapped together to make the joints tight, and the size of the eyes is appropriate. Also, use a steel drill to make the eyes straight and the bullets are accurate. The three tubes are stored into one, use three hoops or only one hoop. The eyes must be drilled to the bottom so that they do not sit back. After the gun, a warehouse hoop is used to install a wooden handle, and after the handle is used an iron drill or an iron hoop."

This was the method of making three-eyed guns in many places at that time. In Yang He's opinion, it was still a bit shorter than the weight.

An excellent three-eyed gun with a pipe length of one foot and three inches or one foot is actually quite powerful. With the same amount of gunpowder and lead bullet as the bird gun, the distance between thirty-five steps to forty steps can cause serious damage to the target without armor.

Thirty steps can break cotton armor and chain mail.

Twenty steps can be used to break the iron-inserted cotton armor.

Fifteen steps can break ordinary plate armor.

Within ten steps, you can break through several layers of heavy armor in Bayala.

Three-eyed guns also have the advantage. Each gun can release two or three leads and use them as shotguns.

If it is well made, the three-eyed gun is equivalent to a short-barrel bird gun, or it is tied together with three short-barrel bird guns. After being beaten, it can be used as a stick, combining hot and cold weapons together. No wonder the three-eyed gun is very popular on the nine sides.

However, fish and bear's paws cannot be both. After all, the three-eyed gun is inconvenient to aim. Yang He even admires the Winged Tiger Gun, and it also has the advantages of a coercion gun and a three-eyed gun.

He picked up the bottles and jars again, and Yang He shook his head. The purity of these gunpowders is problematic and there are many impurities in it, which will seriously affect the power of the firearm.

Zhao Shizhen once conducted an experiment. At the same time, he used qualified bird guns. If he used willow ash gunpowder, he could penetrate two layers of one inch thick wooden boards in a hundred steps, which were wooden blocks with a thickness of 66 mm. If he used second-class hemp straw ash gunpowder, he could only penetrate one layer.

Mao Yuanyi also said that although the single plate of the car shield is two or three inches thick, it cannot be used as a lead in a bird gun. This is the power of qualified firearms and gunpowder, and neither is missing.

But at present, using these three-eyed guns and gunpowder to deal with bandits who are not wearing armor is enough.

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