Chapter 231 Upgraded Firearms, Shocking the Audience
Zhao Gou looked at the father he admired with admiration. The boy's curiosity drove him to blurt out and asked:
"What does the King of War artillery that my father mentioned look like? When will I be able to have the honor of admiring its true appearance?"
"Haha..." Zhao Ji smiled and said, "Don't be anxious, Gou'er!"
"In addition to designing muskets and artillery, I also designed several other firearms.
After the firearms manufacturing workshop displays several firearms in sequence, they will finally practice firing the artillery."
The young Zhao Gou nodded expectantly, admiring his father for being able to design such an unheard-of firearm.
Prince Zhao Huan and King Yun Zhao Kai also had similar emotions to Zhao Gou at this time. They both believed in their hearts that their father was really a heavenly being. Otherwise, how could they have designed so many new firearms?
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Zhao Ji ordered the gunpowder manufacturer Chen Gui to start demonstrating the test firing of the firearm in accordance with the originally planned order.
"The humble minister obeys the decree."
Chen Gui walked to the railing in front of the viewing platform and ordered the thirty musketeers below who had been waiting for a long time:
"Shoot, shoot!"
"boom!"
"boom……"
"boom……"
Gunshots rang out, and the porcelain bowls on the row of wooden stakes in the distance were smashed to pieces by the missiles fired from the muskets, and porcelain shards flew everywhere...
Before that, whether it was the two shots fired by Zhao Guan's family, or the shot fired by the prince, King Yun and King Kang, each person fired one shot at a time.
Now, thirty musketeers fired a salvo, both the sound of the gunfire and the visual shock it brought were great.
Zhao Ji thought to himself: Although this flintlock smoothbore musket is similar to the shotgun of later generations.
However, when using it, follow the example of European armies in the mid-18th century, arranging the musketeers in several rows.
After the first platoon fired, while they were reloading,
Immediately use the second row of musketeers to top it.
By analogy, the muskets of the third row continued to fire...
In this way, if the Song Dynasty and Jin Dynasty fight in the future, this tactic of alternating firing by the musketeers should be able to withstand the iron hoof charge of the Jin army, right?
Of course, even if the musketeers were divided into groups and shot alternately, they could not withstand the charge of the Jin army's fast horses and scimitars. I also designed weapons such as grenades and artillery.
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"Wei Chen Gui informs Your Majesty that the first round of musket firing has been completed.
Please give me a lecture, Your Majesty."
Zhao Ji stood on the high platform, leaning on the railing and looking down at the thirty musketeers kneeling on the ground, and said:
"You are the first batch of people who are proficient in musket shooting.
In the future, you will become the instructors of the musketeers in each army.
Therefore, I hope that you will establish the ambition to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic,
I should cherish my youth,
Work hard to practice your skills;
Showing the power of firearms,
Kill the enemy to serve the country!"
The thirty musketeers were in high spirits and shouted:
“We remember the Hadith!
We must work hard to practice our skills; kill more enemies on the battlefield to serve the country!
Long live my emperor..."
Zhao Ji said happily: "You deserve a reward! After this drill is over, each musketeer will be rewarded one hundred guan."
The thirty musketeers were all delighted with the small fortune they had accidentally made.,
In the Song Dynasty, the total monthly salary and welfare subsidies for a county magistrate in a large county was only about ninety guan.
They kowtowed and said, "Thank you, Lord, for your grace. Long live my emperor."
The reason why Zhao Ji didn't give them too much was because if everyone became a rich man, who would still want to be a musketeer?
I rewarded them with a reward of 100 guan because I cherished their talents and prevented them from working hard because the reward was too generous.
After the thirty musketeers retired, Zhao Ji picked up a flintlock musket beside him and said to Chen Gui:
"I can also improve this type of musket to make it a flintlock gun with a longer range and higher accuracy."
Firearms manufacturing made Chen Gui not only puzzled, but also shocked...
Zhao Ji smiled slightly and explained:
"I originally thought that Chen Aiqing and his craftsmen would have a lot of trouble making this kind of flintlock musket.
Unexpectedly, Chen Aiqing is indeed a wizard in firearms manufacturing. He is extremely talented and good at special research.
In just over four months, Chen Aiqing was able to create this gun according to the design drawings I drew."
Everyone nodded in agreement...
Zhao Ji changed the subject and said:
"However, this flintlock musket still has big flaws!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked.
Zhao Ji did not sell out and said to Chen Gui and Li Ji:
"In a moment, I will draw you a design drawing of a flintlock rifle with rifling. If you make it according to the drawing, you will know that as long as the same musket has the correct rifling, it will have a longer range and higher accuracy.
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Everyone present, including Chen Gui, couldn't believe their ears.
If the previous firearms manufacturing workshop had not adopted the firearm design drawings drawn by Zhao Guanjia and successfully manufactured so many new gunpowder weapons;
Well, I am afraid that many people will not believe what Zhao Guanjia says now.
However, everyone present now thinks from the bottom of their hearts: The Zhao Guan family is definitely not bragging; the Zhao Guan family may really be able to upgrade their flintlock guns again!
The making of firearms made Chen Gui extremely excited. He knelt down and worshiped:
"I am stupid and don't know what rifling is. Could you please draw a design for a rifle with rifling?
When the time comes, I will do my best to lead the craftsmen and work overtime to create a musket with a longer range and higher accuracy according to your majesty's design. "
"Okay!" Zhao Ji said happily: "Master Liang, bring me pen, ink, paper and inkstone!"
The Zhao Guan family is fond of calligraphy and painting, and the accompanying eunuchs always have to bring pens, inks, paper and inkstones.
Liang Shicheng followed the instructions of Zhao Guan's family and took pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the eunuch and spread them on the square table.
The smiling eunuch Liang Shicheng humbly served Zhao Guan's family.
Zhao Ji picked up his pen and drew three rifled design drawings of a broken-hair gun on the rice paper...
The first one is an anatomy diagram, the second one is a flat expansion diagram, and the third one is a three-dimensional diagram drawn by Zhao Ji.
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Zhao Ji waved to the firearms manufacturer Chen Gui and his deputy Li Ji, and ordered them to come closer and watch.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Chen Gui and Li Ji feel that the Zhao Guan family is really good to them.
The two of them leaned forward and walked towards Zhao Guan's house. They both admired the design of the rifled flintlock gun drawn by Zhao Guan's family with adoring eyes.
The two of them watched carefully for half a quarter of an hour.
What puzzled them was why did Zhao Guanjia add two rifling lines on the inner wall of the barrel?
Zhao Ji asked with a smile:
"What do you not understand when you look at this design? You can raise it and I will help you clarify your doubts."
Chen Gui and Li Ji both knelt down and kowtowed. Chen Gui spoke first:
"Weichen dares to ask Zhao Guanjia. Adding rifling to the barrel of this broken-hair musket will inevitably make the workmanship complicated. Weichen is stupid and doesn't understand what the purpose of this rifling is.
Li Ji, deputy director of firearms manufacturing, also knelt down and said, "Li Ji, a humble minister, also has the same doubts."
"Hahaha..." Zhao Ji laughed and said, "That's a good question, dear friends."
"The fact that your two beloved ministers can ask this question proves that you two beloved ministers are not just following what others say. I am very relieved that such an important department of the Firearms Manufacturing Factory has been entrusted to your beloved ministers to manage."
"While I am talking to my two dear friends, I will write an annotation on this design drawing, and then I and my two dear ladies will start manufacturing based on this drawing."
Based on the knowledge of firearms he had learned before traveling through time, Zhao Ji put a pen next to the rifled musket design, marked the text annotation, and said:
"The rifling is the soul of the gun barrel, and it is also called the rifle line."
"The rifling is in the barrel, the concave part is called the yin line, and the convex part is called the yang line..."
"The rifling function can give the warhead the ability to rotate, so that after the warhead comes out of the chamber, it can still fly out in a predetermined direction, making it have a longer range and higher hit accuracy."
After Zhao Ji finished writing this annotation on the design drawing, he was afraid that Chen Gui and Li Ji would not understand it, so he asked Liang Shicheng to get a projectile.
Zhao Ji held a projectile with his right thumb and index finger and demonstrated it to Chen Gui and Li Ji while saying:
"The flintlock rifled gun I drew on rice paper. If the rifle is rifled in the barrel and the gun is fired, the projectile will rotate on its longitudinal axis when passing through the barrel.
After the projectile comes out of the barrel, it spirally rotates and flies, maintaining the conservation of angular momentum through the gyro effect, thereby increasing the ballistic stability, and also increasing the effective range and terminal lethality!"
Zhao Huan, Zhao Kai, Zhao Gou, Chen Gui, Li Ji, Liang Shicheng and other people present heard what Zhao Guanjia said. Although they could not fully understand it, they felt that it made sense.
Zhao Ji knew from the slightly puzzled looks in Chen Gui's and Li Ji's eyes that they would not be able to understand the scientific terminology of modern society to them.
Zhao Ji asked Chen Gui and Li Ji:
"I would like to ask you two dear friends, have you ever played with a top?"
Chen Gui and Li Ji both answered: They had played it when they were children.
Zhao Ji said: "When playing with a spinning top, after whipping the top with a whip to make it spin rapidly, even if you remove the whip, the top can still spin on its own for a while, right?"
Chen Gui and Li Ji both nodded in agreement.
Zhao Ji smiled slightly and said:
"The projectile will rotate at high speed under the action of the rifling, which is the same principle as the high-speed rotating gyroscopic motion after the whip is removed.
When the projectile moves in the bore, the rifling forces it to rotate at high speed, and under the action of the turning moment, it will also make a conical motion around the ballistic tangent with its center of mass as the center.
The tangent between the projectile axis and the ballistic trajectory always maintains a small swing angle without tipping over, thus ensuring the stable flight of the projectile."
When Zhao Ji finished saying this, he also marked the annotations with an imperial pen next to the rifled musket design.
Chen Gui and Li Ji, the two masters of firearms manufacturing in the Song Dynasty, were stunned when they heard this, and the others were even more confused when they heard this.
However, Chen Gui and Li Ji felt that Zhao Guanjia used the spinning top as an example to explain to them, which made them understand a lot, and they felt that Zhao Guanjia's explanation made sense!
They both marveled in their hearts: The Zhao Guan family is really as smart as heavenly beings!
After Zhao Ji saw the admiring expressions of Chen Gui and Li Ji, he pointed at the rifled musket design he had just drawn and said:
“The musket is rifled, which allows it to have a longer range and more accurate hits;
This principle can also be applied to artillery. Please remember it, dear friends.
After I leave the test firing range outside the firearms manufacturing workshop, and the two dear friends lead the craftsmen to successfully transform and upgrade the rifled musket, this method can also be used on artillery!"
Chen Gui and Li Ji kowtowed and said with great admiration:
"I will obey my orders and live up to my expectations."
Chen Gui started again: "I am stupid, I dare to ask Your Majesty, what is the appropriate number of riflings?"
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