Chapter 96 Tianque Gun

After the barrel cooled down, Zhang Yang picked up a barrel and looked carefully, but found that the yield rate of the barrel was still not ideal. Among the more than 100 barrels just now, only 70 of which met the requirements. Some of the remaining ones were slightly bent during the transfer process, while others had a slightly larger inner diameter and the rifle was not well engraved. Those that did not meet the requirements had to be scrapped.

Even so, Zhang Yang was quite satisfied. In his plan, as long as he had half the yield rate, he was satisfied. The industrial level in this era was almost zero, and even in modern times, the manufacturing of gun barrels still had waste products under the premise of the large use of various high-precision tools.

Once the barrel is built, the next main task is to build the gun body.

The barrel is an iron pipe with rifled inscribed iron. Although the manufacturing process is a bit complicated, it still looks simple. It is clear at a glance and clear.

But in two words, this gun body is called complex, in four words, it is called extremely complex, in six words, it is called extremely complex!

Zhang Yang first drew a schematic diagram on the paper. Li Bosheng, Li Chengrui and others, and the blacksmiths, no one understood it. He then made a model with wood and gestured to explain it. Finally, a blacksmith understood a little bit. Zhang Yang felt that he was just giving college textbooks to elementary school students. This cannot be blamed. In this era, he only focused on literary knowledge, and there were very few teaching scientific and technological knowledge.

However, the principle of the gun that Zhang Yang is going to make is really complicated.

Since he is a professional light weapons, although he doesn't know much about steelmaking, Zhang Yang is really familiar with the manufacturing of this weapon, especially the making of guns.

The basic principle of a musket is to stuff a tube into it, pound it, put it in, ignite it, the projectile flew out, and the projectile was fired, and it was fired.

Many changes have been experienced by muskets. The pipes have changed from bamboo tubes to pig iron tubes, then copper tubes, and then stainless steel tubes, and finally developed into alloy steel tubes. The ignition method has changed from direct ignition to flint ignition, which is a flintlock rifle, which then turns into a base fire made of thunder and mercury. The firing needle fires, the gunpowder has changed from paper bags to copper bubbles, the bullets have changed from stones, iron beads, and finally into lead bullets. The gunpowder has also changed from black gunpowder to smokeless gunpowder.

The loading method of bullets is initially stuffed into the muzzle, called front loading gun, and then later it becomes loading from the back, called back loading gun.

In this era, the firing method of muskets was still ignited with fire, and what Zhang Yang had to do was to lead the flintlock rifle in this era, that is, to use hammers to hit flint, emit sparks, ignite gunpowder, and shoot.

In this way, no matter whether it is windy or sunny or windy or rainy, you will not worry about not being able to suck gunpowder.

Ordinary flintlock rifles are equipped with front guns, that is, gunpowder and projectiles are placed at the mouth of the barrel. This is easy for smoothbore rifles, because the barrel is the same thick as the projectiles. However, for rifled rifles, since the projectiles need to be rifled to squeeze the projectiles, the projectiles are slightly thicker than the inner diameter. In this way, when the projectiles are stuffed from the front, they have to be pounded with a straight strip. Sometimes there will be an embarrassing situation where the projectiles are stuck in the middle, unable to rise or down.

Why not stuff it from the back? Because opening the hole at the back will lead to a sealing problem: how to connect the movable gun tail and barrel so that it is convenient for switching and firmly connected. If the seal is not tight, the gas will leak and the energy of the gunpowder will not be effectively utilized.

And these have been solved by exquisite devices.

The principle of Zhang Yang's musket is to imitate the continuous bead fire milling made by Dai Zi in the Qing Dynasty. A cone hole is made at the end of the gun body, and then a rotatable wheel slightly larger than the cone hole. The wheel is stuffed into the cone hole, and the barrel is tightly sealed. The wheel has two small round grooves, which are in line with the outside bullet chamber outlet hole and the launching medicine chamber outlet hole. Turn it, and the launching medicine and projectiles are stuffed into the gun chamber. After turning it, the small hole is turned to another position and sealed. The bolt uses an impact tunnel stone to fire. There is a tunnel stone on the nose and a tinder in front of the head. There is a gunpowder chamber in the middle of the bolt, and the upper cover is opened and closed, and the bin is also in line with the gunpowder chamber on the thin handle of the wheel.

There are also two handles, one is used to rotate the wheel to complete the process of loading and loading the warhead, and the other handle is used to launch.

Two handles, both left and right hands can operate at the same time, complete a series of actions, and then aim and shoot.

Speaking of which, it is a bit similar to a combo crossbow. The combo crossbow also has two handles, one on top, which is used to skeleton the bamboo arrow and the other on bottom, which controls the launch.

The two handles have similar functions and positions. The ones on the top are used to load ammunition and the ones on the bottom are used to control shooting.

The gunpowder is wrapped in paper in advance and made into pieces. Each time it is turned, it is a bit like a revolver.

As for bullets, they are lead bullets. Lead is relatively soft and can rotate rapidly under the action of rifle. Moreover, when hitting into the human body, it can produce deformation and cause greater lethality.

Bullets and gunpowder are stored in butt stocks, which can be opened to facilitate loading of ammunition.

Steel that does not meet the standards has been made into steel ingots, and these small parts need to be handmade by blacksmiths.

Since Zhang Yang has made a wooden model, although the craftsmen do not understand the principle, Zhang Yang does not need them to understand the principle. They are just a link on the production line, and each person is responsible for creating his own parts and finally assemble them.

Under Zhang Yang's supervision, several craftsmen finally assembled all the components after a day of beating.

A brand new musket appeared in front of everyone.

The peach wood gun handle, the black gun body, and the two carefully crafted handles, each place seems to be a newborn baby, which makes Zhang Yang loves it.

The barrel is thirty-five inches long and 0.38 inches in diameter. With the butt stock, the total length is 42 inches. Place the butt stock on the ground, about below the chest of an adult.

From now on, this will be a weapon to dominate the world. Looking at the world, who else can I do?

Qin lost its deer, and the whole world chased it, and Yuan lost its deer, and this deer belonged to me, Zhang Shicheng.

"Brother, how powerful can our musket be?" Li Bosheng asked. In the past two days, he watched Zhang Yang disassemble these parts, install them, and finally combined them into a long musket in front of him.

"Is the combo crossbow I made powerful?" Zhang Yang asked.

"That's all, I'm sure I can put them all in my hand with a combo crossbow, and three or five people gathered around me." Li Bosheng said.

The biggest advantage of a combo crossbow is that it can shoot continuously and maintain a strong firepower. As long as you are skilled in technology, you can completely defeat the more with less.

"With my musket, even if more than a dozen cavalrymen come over quickly, you will have a chance to kill them." Zhang Yang said.

So amazing? Everyone opened their eyes wide and looked at the weapons in Zhang Yang's hand. Even the craftsmen who were thrusting the iron began to look at Zhang Yang with a kind of admiration.

For infantry, cavalry is simply a powerful force that is hard to beat. A cavalry charge can kill several times the number of infantry, especially the Mongol cavalry. They have lived on horseback since childhood and are on horseback, just like an eagle flying into the blue sky.

"Come on, come out, I'll demonstrate it to you." Zhang Yang said, holding the musket in his hand and came outside.

In the future, a special shooting range must be built. Each firearm must be tested and qualified before it can be equipped with troops. Unqualified weapons will mean death for soldiers.

Now, Zhang Yang came to the open space west of the blast furnace and erected five huge plaques in front, lined up in a row. On the plaques were circled one by one, and the circle in the center was painted red.

Zhang Yang walked back two hundred steps, turned around, and looked at the bull's-eye in the distance.

He skillfully pulled the pull rod, loaded the ammunition, aimed at three points and one line, breathed calmly, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!" A huge sound came from the musket, and as a stream of black smoke came out, a tiny lead bullet flew over.

"Bang!" hit the bull's-eye.

Then, he pulled the pull rod with his left hand, and the wheel rotated, and the gunpowder and the bullet were loaded into the gun chamber in turn. Then, the conical wheel blocked the gun chamber again.

Zhang Yang raised his gun, aimed at the second bull's eye, and shot again.

Then, the third, the fourth, and the fifth.

Five warheads hit the target in a very short interval.

Li Bosheng quickly ran over and saw that the lead bullet was deeply embedded on the wooden target, making it three points!

At such a long distance, you can still have such accurate heads, and the interval between every two launches is not much slower than the combo crossbow. This musket is really not simple!

Bian Yuanheng was also observing that the power of this musket was a hundred times stronger than his proud hunting bow, with a long range and a faster firing speed. With such a handy weapon, any powerful enemy could handle it.

Zhang Yang was also very satisfied. According to his estimate, the range of this musket should be 500 steps, but for the first time, I wonder if the barrel could withstand the pressure of the barrel, so I reduced the launch of the medicine. Even so, it could still have such power within the range of 200 steps.

"Brother is so great!" Everyone cheered in unison.

The sound resounded throughout the island, the sky, the land of China, and the trumpet of the demise of the Yuan Dynasty.

"Brother, give us a name for the muskets like us!" Li Bosheng said.

Ambitions of eating the meat of the barbarians, laughing and drinking the blood of the Huns with thirst. Waiting to stop, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and heading to the sky! Zhang Yang suddenly thought of this song "Manjianghong" by Yue Fei.

"Just call it Tianque gun!"

"Okay, this name is good!" Everyone exclaimed.

Liu Ruohan was also among the crowd that was observing. When she heard the name, she suddenly frowned.
Chapter completed!