Zhu Hongyu thinks that the problem should not be big. The materials required to make a sleeve bayonet cannot be made of ordinary iron.
But it should be possible to use more good steel and make the connection parts thicker and thicker.
Besides, he just asked Lao Liutou to try it. If it really doesn't work after making it, he won't make it yet.
Just use the plug-in bayonet!
Thinking of this, Zhu Hongyu proposed the concept of a flintlock gun to Old Liu Tou.
There is a generational difference between a flintlock gun and a matchlock gun. If he can make a flintlock gun, the military strength of the Liberation Army will be greatly improved.
There is a generational difference between flintlock guns and matchlocks, but the generational difference is not in the rate of fire, but in the density of firepower that can be exerted during array firing.
As for the rate of fire, both are muzzle-loading muskets. Although they use a flintlock and a matchlock for ignition, the rate of fire is not much different.
But in terms of the density of firepower during array firing, the flintlock gun completely detonated the matchlock gun!
The army used matchlocks to prevent soldiers from accidentally setting matches on each other.
When queuing up to shoot in an array, people should be at least one meter apart.
The army that uses flintlock muskets is because the muskets are not fired with matchlocks, but are fired with flintlocks.
You don't have to worry about match ropes igniting each other, and you can arrange them in a tighter array.
In the past, when using a matchlock gun, you could only stand at a distance of ten people. When using a flintlock gun, you might be able to stand at a distance of twenty or thirty people.
In this way, within a unit distance, the firepower of the flintlock gun is certainly better than that of the matchlock gun.
On the battlefield before the emergence of breech-loading guns, firepower density was the most important factor that determined the outcome of a war!
After Zhu Hongyu proposed the idea of a flintlock gun, to his surprise, Old Liu Tou actually said that he could make a flintlock gun.
He once made muskets for the Ming army resisting the Qing Dynasty in Foshan, Guangdong, including several flintlock muskets.
The flintlock gun is recorded in "Illustrated Description of Military Weapons" written by Mr. Bi Maokang of Dongjiao.
It's just a pity that "Pictures of Military Weapons" was banned by the old dog Qianlong with his literary inquisition.
It was not until the late Qing Dynasty that Chinese people learned from foreigners that there was such a thing as a flintlock gun in the world.
Old Liu Tou said.
"General, the biggest difficulty in making a self-generated fire gun is the flintlock machine. The rest is no different from a matchlock gun."
Old Liu Tou said that he once had experience in making flintlock guns. He already had the structure of a flintlock gun in his mind and could make one at any time if he wanted to.
The only problem is that the spring steel used for ignition is a rare thing!
Zhu Hongyu nodded, but sighed in his heart.
During the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese were already able to make flintlock guns, but by the time of the Duck War in the late Qing Dynasty, flintlock guns became exclusive to foreigners.
The reason lies with the Manchus!
After the Qing army entered the customs, in order to consolidate their rule, they claimed that they conquered the world by riding and shooting, strictly banned firearms and discarded them like worn-out shoes.
The fact is that the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not allow the Han people to master firearms, weapons that could threaten their rule!
With simple training on firearms, a farmer can become a qualified musketeer in three months.
When a phalanx of musketeers fights against the cavalry, even if the cavalry can win, it will only be a tragic victory after paying a certain amount of casualties.
With the numerical advantage of the Han people, how many large-scale battles could the Manchu and Qing Dynasty's millions of Eight Banners soldiers be able to withstand, even if everyone was good at riding and shooting?
Even if the Qing Dynasty could continue to win, after a few large-scale decisive battles, the Qing Dynasty would be victorious and destroyed.
If the Manchus and Qing Dynasties also imitated the Han people in playing with firearms, and both sides used muskets to exchange lives for lives on the battlefield, haha, the Manchu Qing Dynasties would only perish faster.
The Han people number ten million, while the Eight Banners number only one million. They are also divided into three tribes: Manchu, Mongolia and Han. The Manchus themselves number only a few hundred thousand.
Not to mention that the casualty rate in musket shooting was almost one for one, even if it was ten for one, the Manchus and Qing Dynasties couldn't resist playing like this!
Therefore, the Manchus banned firearms as soon as they entered the country. They would never allow the existence of firearms that would threaten their rule.
The final result is that China begins to lag behind the West in terms of weapons!
But do the Manchus care?
They don't care, all they care about is whether their rule is stable.
Cixi’s words illustrate the essence of Manchu rule: “I would rather be with friends than domestic slaves!”
The Manchu Qing Dynasty just regarded tens of millions of Han people in the world as their slaves!
As well as China's material power and the country's favor, it shows that the Manchus did not regard themselves as China at all.
It doesn't matter if foreign invasion occurs. As long as it does not endanger their own rule, the worst they can do is join with foreigners in oppressing China.
Everything that happened in history has truly proved this point. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Qing government was just a dog of the foreigners.
Collaborating with foreigners, they turned China into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country.
Zhu Hongyu said.
"I will find a way to lighten the spring steel piece!"
He had to think carefully about how spring steel was made. Zhu Hongyu remembered that he had heard someone say it when he was a soldier, but he forgot the specific ingredients.
It seems that some chromium, tungsten, stilbene, manganese...and what else are needed to be added to the molten steel during steelmaking?
But there is absolutely nothing he can do about these elements!
"By the way, when Old Liu Tou was in Foshan, how did you make spring steel sheets there?"
Old Liu Tou said.
"Generally, the 100-refined steel is used, but if you use 100-refined steel, the firing rate of the musket is only about half, and the life of the spring steel plate is also limited. It needs to be replaced after a hundred or ten rounds at most."
Zhu Hongyu nodded and said.
"Then let's use Baidu to make steel first!"
"If the steel produced in the small blast furnace is forged a few more times, the spring steel sheets produced should not be as bad as steel-making."
He really didn't have the ability to produce spring steel, so he could only deal with it first with Baili Steel.
I think it should work fine!
Old Liu Tou showed a doubtful expression and said.
"General, the old man can indeed make a flintlock machine for a flintlock gun, but it will be more troublesome. In the time it takes to make one flintlock gun, several matchlock guns can be made."
"If the Liberation Army wants to switch to flintlock muskets, other weapons will be delayed!"
Zhu Hongyu touched his chin and then said.
"I have a way to improve the production efficiency of weapons."
"Old Liu Tou, have you ever heard of how the Qiang Qin Dynasty made weapons and armor?"
Old Liu shook his head and said he didn't know.
He is just an illiterate craftsman. He is indeed experienced in things related to craftsmen, but he really doesn't know anything about things that happened thousands of years ago.
Regarding the Qin Dynasty, he only knew that the King of Qin conquered Liuhe, and then the second generation died, and a treacherous minister Zhao Gao was born. He knew nothing else.
Not to mention what Ordnance knows!
Zhu Hongyu nodded and then explained.
"When the bows and crossbows used by Qiang Qin were manufactured, they were all standardized production!"
"Every part produced by all craftsmen has the same size and specification, and can be replaced with each other when necessary."
"Our Liberation Army can also use this method to produce ordnance!"
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