On the eighth day of November in the twenty-seventh year of Chongzhen, Li Zhi stood on the shooting range and looked at the new rifle he designed.
In fact, the upgrade of the gun is not the biggest, because this gun is essentially a breech-loading rifle similar to the Jin-O rifle. The most important thing is that the bullets of this rifle are completely different now.
This rifle has begun to use full metal cartridge cases and integral bullets.
Li Xing walked over and curiously picked up the two spare guns placed on the table next to him.
Cao Yu and other gunsmiths did not dare to stop Li Xing, so they could only let Li Xing rummage around on the table.
However, no specific details could be seen from the rifle. Li Xing was quickly attracted by the bullet next to the rifle, and he raised the copper-cased bullet to look at it carefully.
It has a drop-shaped copper metal bullet and a cylindrical bottom of the bullet case. The entire bullet seems to be pressed in one piece, and it is full of a special industrial feel. Li Xing flattened the bullet case and looked at it, and found that there was a small depression at the end of the bullet.
It's a silvery thing, but you can't tell what it is at first glance.
Li Xing pursed his lips and praised: "It's so beautiful!"
He walked up to Li Zhi holding a bullet and asked: "Brother! How is this bullet designed? It is completely different from the previous paper bullets!"
Li Zhi smiled, took Li Xing's bullet, and said, "This new bullet packs the warhead, primer and propellant together."
Li Xing's eyes lit up and he said, "Where is the primer?"
Li Zhi pointed to the bullet and said: "The primer is at the tail of the bullet, and the recessed area at the tail of the bullet contains mercury fulminate. After the bullet is loaded into the barrel, the firing pin at the rear of the barrel is aligned with the primer."
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Li Xing looked at the tail of the bullet with a focused expression.
Li Zhi said: "The mercury fulminate at the tail of the bullet is a flammable and explosive propellant, and the front of the mercury fulminate is filled with propellant. The propellant is smokeless gunpowder produced by our Fanjiazhuang. If the firing pin of the rifle hits the primer,
The mercury fulminate will explode upon impact, igniting the propellant in front."
Li Xing nodded vigorously.
Li Zhi continued: "The propellant is contained in the cartridge case. When ignited, it will cause the cartridge case to expand rapidly. The cartridge case will fly out of the gun. The copper bullet stuck in the front of the cartridge case will be separated from the cartridge case when it is squeezed.
Come out and shoot out of the gun barrel at high speed."
"In the process of shooting out of the gun barrel, it is squeezed by the rifling in the gun barrel, and the warhead will rotate at a high speed, allowing the warhead to remain stable while flying in the air."
Li Xing took a breath and said: "Brother, this is amazing. This is a combination of the three previous bullets, propellant and primer. In this way, soldiers only need to load once to complete what they once needed."
An action that takes three operations to complete."
Li Zhi nodded and said, "That's it."
After a pause, he continued: "But don't underestimate this metal bullet. The production technology of this bullet is extremely high. That is to say, we now have large-scale precision punches that can accurately press the explosive and unstable mercury fulminate.
The primer, propellant, and warhead are pressed together and tightly combined inside the cartridge case. "
"If the accuracy of our punch press is slightly off, the primer will explode during the pressing process, igniting the bullet and causing an accident."
"Only when machine tool factories now use electric-driven punch presses can we achieve such accuracy in punch presses."
The processing accuracy of metal case bullets is very high. In the original history, metal case bullets only appeared in the period from 1860 to 1870.
Li Xing took a breath, took the bullet from Li Zhi, and looked back and forth.
"Brother, in the past, all our bullets were made of lead. Lead is soft and will not damage the rifling. Now we use copper bullets. The copper is harder than lead. Will it cause the rifling of the rifle to break after just a few shots?"
"Won't!"
Li Zhi replied: "Although lead is soft, because the lead is too soft and the melting point is too low, lead will appear. Our previous rifles fired hundreds of rounds and the rifling was filled with molten lead, filling the rifling completely.
It’s true. So in the past, our rifles had to be sent back to the arsenal to clean the rifling after they were no longer used, which was a lot of work.”
"But although copper is slightly harder than lead, its melting point is very high. If copper is used as a warhead, there will be no problems with lead or copper hanging."
"And our gun barrel steel has been upgraded many times. Today's gun barrels widely use low-content tungsten steel as raw material. Tungsten steel has high hardness, good toughness, wear resistance and high temperature. There is basically no deformation at 500 degrees and no deformation at 1,000 degrees.
It can maintain its basic shape under high temperatures. The copper bullet of the metal bullet can be said to be very soft in front of tungsten steel. "
"The rifling of this new rifle has been tested to withstand a thousand shots from copper metal bullets."
Li Xing clicked his tongue in surprise, raised his rifle and took a closer look.
The other officials next to Li Xing listened to Li Zhi's introduction and were really impressed by Li Zhi. They really couldn't understand how Li Zhi could create so many incredible inventions. The invention of this metal-integrated bullet seemed to be
It is simple, but it actually completely changes the shape of the bullet. It can be said to be an epoch-making invention.
Zheng Kaicheng took a breath and said: "Your Majesty is really descending from the stars..."
Cai Huaishui, Gao Ligong and others all bowed and raised their hands, saying: "Your Majesty's methods are so powerful that we are so dazzled by them that we forget what we were doing."
Li Zhi smiled, waved his hand and said, "Let's see the effect."
A soldier from the Huben Army walked up and raised his new rifle.
He opened the chamber of the gun, inserted a metal bullet into it, then turned off the gun, raised the rifle, aimed at the target two hundred meters away, and fired the rifle with a click.
The first shot failed to hit the target.
The soldier's face turned red, he reloaded and shot again.
The target two hundred meters away fell down.
The soldier breathed a sigh of relief, loaded and fired again. Finally, he fired a total of ten bullets and knocked down eight targets.
Everyone made some estimates and found that the soldier fired ten bullets in no more than thirty seconds.
In other words, a soldier can complete a shot in three seconds.
The officials who had never seen this magical rifle and bullets were so shocked that their faces turned pale and they were speechless.
You must know that time is life on the battlefield. Every time the shooting speed is doubled, the firepower of the troops can be doubled, and the combat effectiveness can be directly doubled.
The results of a three-second rapid fire are very terrifying.
All the officials were stunned and speechless as they looked at the rifles in the hands of the soldiers.
After a long time, Li Xingcai admired: "This is too sharp. With such a rifle, the enemies with cold weapons will be completely eliminated."
Cao Yu cupped his hands and said, "Please give me a name for the new rifle!"
Li Zhi smiled and said, "Let's call it King Qi's style!"
With a wave of his hand, Li Zhi said: "Organize production as soon as possible so that the troops can use this powerful new bullet and rifle as soon as possible."
