Chapter 392 The successful trial production of the revolver
Chapter 392: Successful trial production of revolver
In Claude's memory, revolvers are the simplest and easiest to make. Please forgive his military blindness. The main reason why he thinks so is that when he was watching American western movies in his previous life, he saw an old western cowboy using an extremely crude furnace.
, blacksmithing tools, hand-turned grinding wheels and files gave the protagonist of the film a revolver for revenge, leaving in Claude's mind the impression that such a revolver could be made by hand.
What's more, Claude's requirements for the revolver are not very high. It's just that the shooting range can reach 100 meters, and the effective killing distance is about 50 meters. Anyway, according to the impression he got from those western movies, the distance between two cowboys in a duel
It's only about ten to twenty meters. As for the chaos in the town, the protagonist in the movie is fighting against dozens of people, so the distance between them is only fifty or sixty meters.
In this era where matchlocks are rampant, Claude believes that a five- or six-shot revolver is the real protective weapon. At least it is much more reliable than those 60-70 cm long matchlock blunderbuss.
As an officer, Claude would rather charge into battle with an Obash Type III matchlock gun like the soldiers on the battlefield, rather than wave a beautifully decorated blunderbuss to the soldiers to move forward.
It's really too unqualified.
Compared to using short muskets, Claude prefers to ride on a horse on the battlefield, using his white-gloved hands to pose, or directly pulling out his sword and directing the soldiers to launch a general attack, so as to leave a gap for his subordinates.
The deep impression of being brave and invincible makes them convinced that by following them, they can always win.
Therefore, Claude, who didn't like short guns, carried no weapons except a sword in the army, which always made him feel that something was missing. After being promoted to a school-level officer, Claude
It is impossible to tie a short gun to the side of the thigh like those lieutenant-level officers and use it as a protective weapon on the battlefield. This is why he asked his sister Anna to trial-produce grenades and a revolver at the same time.
Another reason is that Claude has the clearest memory of the structure of the revolver. This is due to his boss in his previous life who collected a model revolver that was exactly the same as the real gun except for the barrel.
Pistol. Claude often took it apart and played with it when he had nothing to do in the office. After dismantling it a lot, he naturally knew the model of this revolver very well. Therefore, the drawing he drew for his sister Anna was of this revolver. The only difference was that the revolver was the model of the revolver.
The solid barrel was replaced with a hollow one, and even the model bullets were drawn.
Just as Claude expected, in the alchemy magic talisman, sister Anna easily refined the structure, frame and accessories of the entire revolver. After several modifications, it can be assembled into a pistol with Claude.
It was a revolver that was almost the same as De's memory. The only problem was the bullet. Claude didn't know how to make mercury fulminate, so he couldn't make a flash cap for the bullet. The misfire rate with flint was too high, so he had to
By changing the hammer mechanism, it is possible that none of the six bullets in the round will ignite and be fired...
Many things are just like watching others making origami and making handicrafts. They feel very simple. You can see clearly with your eyes and remember the steps in your mind. But when you do it yourself, you find that everything is so difficult. The final product is
It's just four different things.
The same was true when Claude asked his sister Anna to trial-produce grenades and revolvers. In the end, the grenades became grenades, and the revolver failed due to the mercury flash cap. However, great progress was made in making safe explosives synthesized from nitroglycerin, but
As a result, because nitroglycerin cannot be mass-produced, safety explosives can only be synthesized on a small scale in alchemical magic arrays.
Now there is the explosive powder invented by Mrs. Sonia, which can perfectly replace mercury fulminate. My sister Anna suddenly thought of several revolvers she had made before, so she took out the box containing these accessories and assembled the revolver.
Pistol, began to assemble bullets in the alchemical magic array, and used gunpowder instead of mercury to make a flash cap.
"Ha..." Mrs. Sonia immediately covered her mouth, not daring to scream out in order to avoid affecting her sister Anna's movements.
"What's wrong?" Claude didn't understand why she was so surprised, and Master Bird was also very shocked and stood by with longing, staring at his sister Anna's every move.
"Then, is that precision control, the legendary forbidden technique?" Mrs. Sonia asked in a low voice.
My sister Anna was transforming the mage's hands into various tools in the alchemy magic talisman, loading the explosive powder on the flash cap, and then mounting the flash cap on the bottom of the bullet shell. Just when she was about to load the safety explosive into the bullet, she was
Claude stopped him. It was too powerful. Maybe the bullet would explode in the revolver when the trigger was pulled. It would be enough to load it with granular black powder. Claude remembered that the cowboys in the western movies used homemade bullets or suppressed them by hand.
The pointed cone-shaped lead bullet was also filled with black powder.
After Claude asked his sister Anna to fill the bullet shell with black powder particles, he remembered to reply to Mrs. Sonia: "Yes, this is indeed precision control. Have you never learned it? Isn't it that the magician's hand and precision control are both
The most basic spell of a rune mage?"
"We know magic hands, oh, the mage hands you mentioned, but we haven't learned precise control and can't transform the magic hands into various shapes and tools." Mrs. Sonia looked at her sister with envy.
Anna quickly assembled the bullets in the alchemical magic talisman array: "When we do experiments or make various accessories in the alchemical magic talisman array, we always use one magic hand to fix the object, and then use another
A magic hand holds the tool and slowly makes corrections. The tool often needs to be changed, and the speed is very slow. It is not as convenient and flexible as Anna..."
Claude soon learned from Mrs. Sonia’s mouth what the basic spells she and Master Bird were learning. Compared with the orthodox rune mage’s basic spells left by Master Landers, Mrs. Sonia’s
Grandpa, the spells that the old magician knows are more like a magic apprentice who assists the rune mage in his experiments. The seven basic spells in the first level are detection, magic hand, decomposition, isolation, and cleansing.
As well as shaping fixation and temperature control.
These seven basic spells are all auxiliary spells for experimenting with alchemical magic arrays. No wonder the old magician was in poverty before his death. Master Bird said that at that time, his teacher was making a few magic items and selling them secretly.
In exchange for some money, he went home to live, such as a kettle that automatically stored a can of water every day, and accessories that could clean clothes once a day. At that time, he only thought these were very magical, and was determined to learn magic from the old magician, but he did not
Know that these magic items are time-limited and will lose their magic effect within three months.
This is also the reason why the old magician hides in Tibet and refuses to reveal his traces, and sells the magic items he makes very cheaply. With these basic rune spells he knows, he can't be a thief even if he is not a thief.
Qualified. It wasn't until Master Bird later worked as a part-time worker in a gunsmithing workshop and became interested in making firearms that the seven basic rune spells he learned came into use and helped him in the private customization of firearms industry.
Stand firm.
Claude was very curious. He asked Master Bird and Sonia how many levels of rune mages they were now, and received an unexpected answer. Master Bird was a three-level rune mage, and Sonia was a two-level rune mage. The reason was simple.
The old magician only left these seven basic rune spells, so that when the father and daughter were promoted to the second-level rune mage, they were stuck at the point where there were no follow-up basic spells, and they were unable to continue practicing meditation to advance to the third-level rune mage.
Grammarist.
At that time, Master Bird had already become famous and had met several magicians who were worshiped by nobles from the Principality of Eskilen, the Principality of Rimodra and the Principality of Sidings. However, because he was a master of making firearms, he was vaguely encountered by these magicians.
Being rejected by magicians, they were unable to integrate into that magic circle, and thus could not obtain new spells, which led to their father and daughter wandering in the second-level rune mage stage for decades.
Then came the five-year war in the eastern region. After the war, the father and daughter arrived in the Kingdom of Overas and were respectively named honorary nobles and registered magicians. Only then did they purchase a large number of so-called incompetent magic from the special department of the kingdom.
After using harmful spells and engraving them as basic spells, there was an opportunity for further promotion. Now eight years have passed, Master Bird has been promoted to a three-ring rune mage, but Sonia is busy experimenting with her breech reloading mode, and is still
Just a second-level rune mage.
This is also the envy that the father and daughter felt when they saw their sister Anna using precise control of spells to transform the mage's hands into tools of various shapes in the alchemical magic spell array. If they could also be this legendary rune mage
If they have necessary basic spells, how much convenience and speed will it bring to their alchemical magic array experiments...
"It's okay. If you are promoted to a third-level rune mage, I can ask my sister Anna to teach you those basic rune spells. As for my uncle, it doesn't matter. As long as you are promoted to a fourth-level rune mage, I have a spell here.
You can wash away the basic spells that have been engraved and re-engrav them. Then let Anna sort it out and sort out the basic rune spells we have and give them to you. I believe it can help you more when you experiment with the alchemy magic talisman array.
Complete the experiment smoothly and successfully." Claude said generously.
"Really?" Mrs. Sonia was so surprised that she hugged Claude's shoulders tightly, wishing to kiss him right there.
"Of course it's true." Claude nodded with a smile. He planned to recruit the father and daughter to work for him. It would take a long time to rely on his sister alone for weapon testing, and he couldn't get away. And Master Bird
The two women were simply the best candidates sent to him by God. They were originally from the Eskiline Principality, not die-hard loyalists of the Ovelas Kingdom, and would not only think about the interests of the kingdom. Sonia and herself
With a close relationship, her father, Master Bird, would also help her for the sake of little Mark, so Claude did not hesitate to take out the basic rune spell as a gift to attract sincerity.
While they were talking, sister Anna had completed the installation of revolver bullets. There were three revolvers and fifty-four bullets, allowing each revolver to undergo three rounds of test firing. Claude arrived with everyone.
Behind the laboratory, it is relatively flat and can be used as a shooting range for shooting tests. The big man Germi led a few guard soldiers and followed Claude's instructions at 20 meters, 30 meters, 40 meters and 50 meters.
Three gun targets were arranged within a certain distance to test the shooting power of the revolver.
Claude failed to seize the opportunity to shoot the first round of test shots. McJack and the big man Gemmy took away two revolvers on the pretext of ensuring their personal safety, and another one was in the hands of their sister Anna, who would not let go.
If you don't say that you are a contributor to the manufacture of revolvers, you must be the first to conduct shooting tests.
In the first round of shooting tests, leaving aside the issue of accuracy, at a distance of twenty meters, the bullet penetrated the gun target. Its power was comparable to the most well-made matchlock blunderbuss. Master Bird and Sonia were very surprised. Crowe
De expressed satisfaction.
At a distance of thirty meters, two shots penetrated the target, but one shot did not. At a distance of forty meters, three bullets were stuck in the target. At a distance of fifty meters, the bullets left three small craters on the wooden target. This
It was a wooden gun target, and Claude estimated that if it had been a human body, it would have been injured.
Of the last two bullets in the three revolvers, one of them misfired and failed to fire. The inspection result was that my sister Anna was careless and did not tighten the priming powder on the flash cap, causing it to fall off and cause the ignition to fail. The remaining five bullets
I did a test on the maximum range, and the result was about 110 meters, which of course deviated a lot from the target.
Claude stopped the second round of shooting tests, carefully inspected the revolver for a long time, and then whispered to his sister Anna. Her sister Anna nodded and took three revolvers into the test room. After about ten minutes,
Come out. Claude announced that the shooting test will continue.
The results of the second and third rounds of shooting surprised everyone, because the power of the revolver suddenly increased a lot. The target at a distance of forty meters was penetrated by one shot, while the target at a distance of fifty meters was penetrated by the bullet.
It's stuck inside, and you can't pick out the warhead even with all your strength. As for the farthest range, it has increased to about 150 meters.
"Are you sure this is not the effect of some spell?" Sonia was really surprised and asked Claude quietly.
Claude shook his head: "No, I just asked Anna to add three rifling lines to each of the barrels of the three revolvers."
"Rifling? What's the use of this..." Mrs. Sonia looked confused.
How can I explain this... Claude thought for a long time, and finally organized words to explain Sonia and Master Bird: "I once read an ancient magician's notebook, and there were many magicians in it.
Insights. A wind magician discovered that when flying in the sky, the air will produce a lot of resistance. The faster you fly, the greater the resistance..."
Master Bird nodded. This is common sense in life. Let alone flying, people can feel the resistance in the air even when running on flat ground.
"...The wind magician conducted research on this. He found that not only people flying in the air, but any object in the air will feel the resistance of the air. The faster the speed, the greater the resistance. He started to use a bow and arrow
Crossbow came to conduct experiments and tried to find a way to offset the air resistance. But in the end he failed, because air resistance is everywhere, which cannot be offset by magic effects. However, during the research process, he unexpectedly discovered that,
Spiral rotation can increase the speed and distance of flying objects, making it easier to break through air resistance..."
Claude drew an imaginary picture on the ground of shooting with a rifled barrel and an unrifled barrel. After the bullet is fired from the unrifled barrel, the bullet keeps moving forward in one direction, is affected by air resistance, and finally falls to the ground with all its strength.
.The bullet fired from the rifled barrel rotates in the air like a top, breaking the air resistance like a drill and flying farther, which increases the kinetic energy and power of the bullet.
For Master Bird and Sonia, what they saw today when they came to Claude's sister Anna's laboratory was subversive. As a famous gunsmith, Master Bird knew very well
I realized that the revolver that Claude asked his sister Anna to make was a completely new firearm structure and production concept. It completely abandoned the backward mode of matchlock ignition and firing, and did not require cumbersome gunpowder loading.
Performing continuous fire, this is already a very mature short-armed firearm for protection...
Mrs. Sonia held Claude tightly, and she still had many questions to ask Claude about the revolver...