But Li Zhi didn't need them to understand, as long as they built it according to the drawings. Under Li Zhi's guidance, the five blacksmiths made the parts according to the drawings. It took another ten days to build five broaching machines each.
There is an iron rod fixed on each broaching machine, with threads cast on the rod. When the rod moves forward and backward, the thread must pass through a fixed card door on the broaching machine. The rod can rotate at a constant speed under the action of the thread and the card door. The end of the rod is inlaid with
Put a steel ball into the barrel of the gun. You can put multiple layers of thick paper under the steel ball. By thickening the paper a little bit, you can gradually increase the protrusion of the steel ball to grind the inner bore of the barrel, and grind out the rotation in the barrel little by little.
rifling.
This kind of broaching machine does not require high precision, as long as the drawn rifling can force the bullet to rotate. Even the gunsmiths in the 19th century later built such broaching machines purely by hand.
The reason why Li Zhi wanted to build five broaching machines was because he didn't know what angle the minigun's internal rifling should rotate at. The thread rotation angles of the five broaching machines were different, and Li Zhi could finally choose the one with the best effect.
It didn't take much time to draw the rifling. In mid-August, the craftsmen built the first batch of five Minie rifles of this era. The five people also made casting molds according to Li Zhi's design drawings, and made hundreds of tails out of lead.
Hollow-point mini bullets.
On the day of the test firing, the effect of the Mini bomb almost shocked the five craftsmen.
Li Zhi erected wooden targets as tall as one person on the sand outside Fanjiazhuang, placing them at two hundred meters, three hundred meters, four hundred meters, and five hundred meters.
Five Mini rifles were tested separately, and the worst one hit the target two hundred meters away again and again, punching holes in the one-inch-thick wooden target.
Such achievements have already made the craftsmen exclaim that they are miraculous. You must know that the Ming bird gun they are familiar with can hit a target of fifty steps at most, and the hit rate of a target 100 steps away is only 20% to 30%. If it hits a target of 140 steps, or
Talking about a target of about 200 meters, it is purely random shooting. If you can hit one shot out of ten, you will have to burn a lot of incense.
And even the worst rifle among the five can reliably hit a target 140 steps away. How miraculous it is. They feel that their half-life of using muskets has been in vain, and only today can they hit the target.
The feeling of clearing the clouds and seeing the sun.
During the test firing of the rifle, many military households in Fanjiazhuang also came out to watch the fun. When they watched the muskets hit the wooden target two hundred meters away again and again, their eyes lit up with excitement.
The Mini rifle that performed best in the test fired made the blacksmiths and military households even more stunned.
This best-performing Minigun can not only hit a target two hundred meters away, but can also accurately hit a target two hundred steps away, or three hundred meters away, hitting that thick wooden target again and again.
It has become a sieve. Not only that, this gun can hit the target four hundred meters away, with a hit rate of 60%. It can even penetrate the wooden board. This gun can even hit the target five hundred meters away.
The hit rate is fully 30%.
You must know that shooting at a distance of 400 meters or 500 meters is not a question of whether the gun is accurate at all, but a question of whether the shooter can aim at such a distant target. In other words, if the shooter is in perfect condition
Aiming accurately, this gun has a theoretical range of more than 500 meters!
Five hundred meters, that's a mile. The infantry in the cold weapon era was not ready to charge even a mile away, and you would have been killed by one shot here.
If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, how could these five craftsmen believe that such a rifle was built by themselves?
Even the onlookers stared at this scene, and were so surprised that they couldn't even utter an exclamation. What is the concept of taking a life from a few hundred steps away? There is no such thing in the story told by the storyteller.
How dare you brag like that! Looking at the back, the military households seemed to have seen divine soldiers coming down to earth, and none of them dared to show off.
Not only that, this Mini rifle does not use a match rope for ignition, but uses a flintlock bolt. In the past, the gun shooters were always on guard against having their eyes and eyebrows burned by the matchlock when aiming. The situation has changed. The gunner can aim steadily. And it uses a flintlock bolt.
When shooting the gun, there is no need to install a match rope, ignition rope, blowing the primer plate, and testing the match rope. This saves several steps and the shooting speed is also greatly improved.
The craftsmen finally understood why Mr. Baihu emphasized secrecy so much. This rifle is an unprecedented artifact. All existing firearms can only surrender in front of this Mini rifle. An army armed with such a weapon
, how powerful is that?
With an army armed with Mini rifles like this alone, wouldn't the future of hundreds of households be... The five craftsmen were shocked by the effect of Mini rifles. They thought about it in their stomachs and looked at Li Zhi with eyes full of admiration.
and respect.
Li Zhi was also very happy to see the effect of the Mini Rifle. This was the first weapon he successfully built since time travel. With this powerful weapon, his future career will be bright.
However, with the idea of striving for excellence, Li Zhi asked the craftsmen to adjust the thread angles of the five broaching machines, making fine adjustments near the angle of the broaching machine with the best effect, striving to create a rifling broaching machine with the most perfect angle.
Li Zhi didn't know that his majestic test firing of the Mini rifle had changed the psychology of many people in Fanjiazhuang.
Jiang Chong, a soldier from Fanjiazhuang, had finished his training that morning and was standing at the door of his yard bored when he saw Fa Xiao Hua Zhang coming over. When Hua Zhang saw Jiang Chong, he walked up and punched Jiang Chong on the arm.
.
"Your uncle didn't reply to you!"
Jiang Chong glanced at Hua Zhang and said lightly: "No news yet!"
Hua Zhang blinked and asked, "No news yet? Could it be that they don't want you to go and are deliberately delaying the news?"
What Jiang Chong and Hua Zhang discussed was that Jiang Chong fled Fanjiazhuang and went to Xingji County to join his uncle.
The life of soldiers is too hard: although in name all the soldiers in Tianjin Town are paid two taels of silver per month, this money is simply an illusory pie. The pay from the court is not enough in the first place, and officials at all levels are exploited at all levels.
, the monthly pay is less than five yuan. And this is a good month. Sometimes officials get greedy and don't pay the monthly salary at all.
The officials of the Ming Dynasty would not pay their monthly salary in full until it was time to go into battle and fight desperately. Sometimes, even if they were about to go into battle, the salary would still not be paid, causing the soldiers to lose their fighting spirit and collapse.
Originally, training in various towns was depleted in the late Ming Dynasty. Although the local soldiers could not get paid, they could still go home to farm and support their families after training. However, officers from various places refused to let go of the soldiers easily, and they occupied the soldiers one after another.
, forcing the soldiers to work in the private fields of the officers during the day, so that the soldiers could only work on their own fields at night. The work of the officials was their own work, and the sergeants had to work for more than ten hours a day. Such hard days were just a mess.
He can't even afford a wife if he has enough food to eat.
Because of such poverty, there are more than 200 men in Fanjiazhuang, but only 160 women. Dozens of old men cannot find wives.
Most of the strong and promising people in the village fled. The rest were either old and frail and dared not travel far, or people like Jiang Chong and Hua Zhang who had nowhere to go. Jiang Chong wanted to go to the only one with a better family background.
I asked someone to send a message to my uncle, but after waiting for several months, there was no reply. Hua Zhang had nowhere to go. His family was a single family for three generations, and he didn’t even have a relative who could rely on him. He could only stay in Fan’s village and be exploited by the officers.
