Chongzhen asked Lu Jiude to move the human target to twenty steps.
This time the hit rate is even higher, almost perfect.
It's no wonder that Angsa's lobster soldiers insisted on setting the distance of the first salvo of fire within thirty meters, because the hit rate of the flintlock rifles within thirty meters was 100%.
Even taking into account the miss rate, the overall hit rate is over 80%!
In other words, a salvo of firepower within thirty meters can cause about 80% of your own casualties to the enemy. This is undoubtedly an extremely terrifying number.
In this case, even if the enemy kills about 40% of our own soldiers while advancing forward, it won't matter, because after entering thirty meters, it only takes a salvo of fire to make up for it!
Then starting from the second wave of firepower, you will earn blood and keep earning!
It has to be said that there is a scientific basis for the lobster soldiers to hold on until they are within thirty meters before firing.
Chongzhen felt that the psychological quality requirements for the officers and soldiers were too high to carry out the first salvo within thirty meters. This was a bit difficult for a new army, but it was still possible to give it a try at fifty meters.
The newly recruited infantry should be able to achieve this after a period of training and exercise.
After testing the hit rate, Chongzhen then began to test the lethality.
The test results show that within twenty steps (30 meters), chain mail, cotton armor, and iron armor can be easily penetrated. This lethality is even more powerful than the Lumi gun.
Because even within twenty steps, the Lumi gun could not penetrate the triple armor of Jiannu's white-armored soldiers. This has been proven in the battle at Yunlong Mountain in Xuzhou.
At that time, Rumi's guns were really helpless against Jiannu's white-armored soldiers.
Not to mention ordinary bird guns, they are all decorations.
This is actually reasonable. The people who made this flintlock gun are the top blacksmiths, especially the gun barrel, and the requirements for blacksmith skills are even more stringent.
After mass production is implemented in the future, the performance of flintlock guns will definitely decline to a certain extent. After all, the level of blacksmiths in the Daming Arsenal is also uneven. You cannot expect that the skills of thousands of blacksmiths are as good as these dozen blacksmiths.
, so the parameters of the flintlock gun will definitely decrease.
But it should be no problem to penetrate triple armor within twenty steps.
In other words, from now on, you no longer need to be afraid of close combat by the white-armored soldiers of Jiannu!
However, in addition to close combat, the white-armored Jiannu soldiers could also fire cold arrows from fifty or even eighty paces away, so the lethality of the flintlock rifle from fifty or even eighty paces away still had to be seen.
At that moment, Chongzhen asked Lu Jiude to move the humanoid target thirty steps away.
However, when the distance increases to thirty steps (50 meters), the lethality of the flintlock gun drops sharply.
At a distance of thirty paces, a flintlock gun can only penetrate one layer of armor. It can penetrate chain mail, cotton armor or iron armor, but it can only penetrate one layer of armor, and cannot penetrate two layers of armor.
And when it reaches fifty steps (80 meters) away, not even a heavy armor can penetrate it.
However, ordinary battle jackets and ordinary leather armor can still be easily penetrated.
This is also the biggest flaw of the muzzle-loading smoothbore gun in the black powder era. If you use a conical bullet, it will easily roll after exiting the chamber, and the hit rate is simply unsightly. If you use a round bullet, the air resistance will increase greatly, and the attenuation of the movement will be very severe, exceeding five
It is basically impossible to penetrate the armor's stomach within ten steps, and it has almost no lethality at all beyond a hundred steps.
It seems that it is still impossible to completely suppress the white-armored soldiers with flintlock rifles.
At thirty steps away, the white-armored soldiers can have a crushing advantage over the musketeers.
But it doesn't matter, because the number of Jiannu white-armored soldiers is limited, and the training time is very long, while the number of Ming army musketeers will soon start at 100,000, and the training and training time is very short.
It would be impossible for Jiannu to defeat the Ming Dynasty simply through consumption.
What's more, the Ming army will definitely equip car camps to protect the musketeers.
This can protect the musketeers to a great extent from being killed by the white-armored soldiers of the slaves.
Finally, Chongzhen estimated the rate of fire and found that he could fire approximately two shots per minute.
It should be noted that Chongzhen equipped Gao Qiqi with paper shell bullets, so it has such a rate of fire, otherwise this old castrate would not have such fast hand speed.
Two rounds are fired per minute, which is already the maximum rate of fire of the matchlock gun.
No matter how well-trained a musketeer is, he can only fire two rounds per minute with his matchlock.
However, there is obviously a lot of room for improvement when firing a flintlock gun from a high altitude. A well-trained musketeer can do at least three rounds per minute.
If the musketeer gets familiar with it for a while, four rounds per minute will be possible.
In this case, the firepower output density of the flintlock gun is not three times that of the matchlock gun, but three times the density plus twice the rate of fire. The actual firepower intensity is six times different! This is simply an epoch-making and revolutionary increase in firepower!
Thinking of this, Chongzhen could no longer hold back and had to quickly develop a production process for the flintlock gun.
Then let the Ming Dynasty Arsenal, Hubu Arsenal and all small workshops work overtime to produce flintlock guns.
We must equip the Ming Dynasty's new army with flintlock guns and standardized red barbarian cannons before the next war breaks out. In this way, they will no longer be forced to build slaves in the field.
At that moment, Chongzhen asked a dozen old blacksmiths to gather around him.
"Masters, let's go through the entire production process of a flintlock gun from beginning to end." Chongzhen said, "Let's see where there are still difficulties. Let's start with the rolling of the barrel."
"There is no problem in rolling gun tubes." The old blacksmith in charge of rolling gun tubes said, "The barrel rolling of this flintlock gun is similar to that of bird gun and Lumi gun. There is not much difference. The only thing
The problem is that it is a bit time-consuming, and a one-foot-long blunderbuss tube needs to be rolled for several days before it can be finally formed."
Chongzhen asked again: "What about welding? Is there any problem with welding?"
The blacksmith in charge of the welding said: "There is no problem with the welding. It's all a big weld with the sound of copper powder."
Without waiting for Chongzhen to ask, the third blacksmith continued: "Long live my lord, making a flintlock gun is not more difficult than a Rumi gun, but it has a lot more components, especially the trigger, which has many components. Each component needs to be filed."
, polishing and then assembling it may be a little more troublesome, but it’s not impossible to solve.”
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Chongzhen waved his hand and said: "The trigger can no longer be filed by hand, it must be cast uniformly."
The blacksmith in charge of the casting said: "If it is cast, it must be cast by the lost wax method, otherwise the cast components will not be fine enough and may not be assembled."
After a pause, he added: "It's just that the lost wax method is a bit expensive."
"You also use the lost wax method to cast it." Chongzhen Qiangang said arbitrarily.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs is not short of money now, so Chongzhen wants to get it done in one step.
At that moment, Chongzhen asked Zhan Yangzhi to come over again and asked: "Zhan Weng, how many new Lumi guns have been produced in the gun-making workshop of the Ming Dynasty Arsenal?"
"Now?" Zhan Yangzhi was stunned for a moment and replied, "Not one of the new orders has been produced yet."
The Daming Arsenal is now an assembly line operation. Materials are prepared according to batches, and then flow down one process after another, until the final assembly step.
So either a batch of a thousand pieces is produced at the same time, or there isn't even one at all.
Now the first batch of one thousand new Lumi guns has just entered the process of drilling the gun tube, which is to enlarge the central hole of the gun tube to four quarters when it is forged and formed.
This process is the most time-consuming and cost-consuming.
One is that it drills slowly, and the other is that steel drills break easily.
So now, the Ming arsenal has not produced a single new Lumi gun.
"Then there is no need to produce new Rumi guns." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Replace with flintlock guns!"
"Ah? Change to a flintlock gun?" Zhan Yangzhi's face fell, and he said to himself, Your Majesty, you can't do this. It's hard for us to do it if you think about it like this every time.
"Yes, change to a flintlock gun!" Chongzhen said in a deep voice.
"But, but..." Zhan Yangzhi was so anxious that he almost cried, "A thousand blunderbuss tubes have been drilled and polished, a thousand blunderbuss tubes are being welded, and a thousand more blunderbuss tubes have been rolled. These three thousand Are all the musket tubes useless?"
"The barrel doesn't matter." Chongzhen said with a smile, "The barrel of the flintlock gun is the same as the Rumi gun."
"Oh, that's okay." Zhan Yangzhi breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the gun barrel doesn't become useless, it's okay.
Chongzhen continued: "Also, your production of one thousand pieces a month is not enough. You must continue to expand."
The Lumi gun production line of the Daming Arsenal can produce about three thousand guns every three months, and the average monthly output is about one thousand guns. The rate of defective products has not been taken into account.
"Your Majesty, this really cannot be expanded." Zhan Yangzhi complained bitterly, "It has reached its limit. It's not because I can't find the money to build more factories and furnaces. It's because there are really not that many old blacksmiths who can use it."
"Now just to produce a thousand guns per month, we need three thousand experienced blacksmiths."
"If the output is increased to 2,000 pieces, 3,000 old blacksmiths will be needed."
"This does not include the apprentices who work for the old blacksmith. In total, there are more than 10,000 blacksmiths."
"This is just the workshop of Lumi Gun. In addition to Lumi Gun, there are also Tiger Crouching Cannons and Hongyi Cannons. If we follow your request, the Ming Arsenal will have to recruit 30,000 blacksmiths!"
"But now there are not so many useful blacksmiths in the entire southern Zhili and even the entire Ming Dynasty."
After a pause, he added: "But it will be better to wait for another year or so. After a year, the first batch of blacksmith apprentices will be almost ready to start training, and the output will be doubled by then."
Hearing this, Chongzhen couldn't help but sigh.
Even if the output is doubled, it will still only produce 2,000 flintlock muskets per month, which is really not enough.
Therefore, it’s not that Zhan Yangzhi doesn’t want to take big orders, it’s just that his strength doesn’t allow it.
It would be great if a steam engine could be built. With a steam engine as power, a forging punch could be made. At that time, the processing of blunderbuss tubes would no longer require hammering, and the speed would increase geometrically, and drilling would be even more important.
Needless to say, the efficiency of a drilling machine is more than ten times that of manual work.