Qiu Honglin continued with an excited tone: "Engineers from the Ordnance Department and Qingshan Machinery Factory have tried many designs of breech-loading rifles. We have tested two calibers: 13 mm and 11 mm.
, the barrel length has also been tested in various ways, and after finally deciding to use an all-metal bullet with a long body, the 11 mm caliber barrel performed the best, and the cost is also acceptable!"
"As for the bolt action, we mainly designed the rotating rear cocking structure. However, our rotating rear cocking structure is still relatively complex, requires relatively high processing technology, and is more prone to failure. It is not as good as the rotating rear cocking mechanism of the Nanhai Rifle.
The pullback is simple and reliable!”
"We are preparing to combine these two solutions to create an 11mm caliber rotating rear-loading rifle. We will also design a magazine for this rifle to increase the rate of fire as you mentioned before.
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Hearing what Qiu Honglin said, Lin Ziran said: "As for the new rifle, let the engineers design it carefully and consider the performance and cost in detail. It must be good and affordable. However, the development and design of this new gun is probably
It will take a lot of time!”
Qiu Honglin said: "It is true that no matter how fast it is, it will take at least a month to make a prototype gun. A large number of various tests will be carried out in order to equip it on a large scale. If everything goes well, I am afraid it will be
It will take more than three months.”
Lin Ziran: "It's been three months since everything went smoothly. If something goes wrong in the meantime, I probably won't be able to use it for half a year!"
"We will continue to work on new guns, but before the development of new guns is completed, the main work must still be on the modification of Fuyuan muskets and the improved production of Nanhai breech-loading rifles!"
"Now the troops are in urgent need of breech-loading rifles, whether they are Qingshan II rifles or Nanhai rifles!"
Qiu Honglin immediately said: "Don't worry, sir, I know the seriousness of the matter.
"Before the design of the new gun is completed, we will continue to modify the Fuyuan musket on a large scale and at the same time produce the improved Nanhai breech-loading rifle!"
"The Ordnance Department has already made a detailed improvement plan. In order to ensure production, other parts are basically unchanged. Only small improvements are made to the firing pin. The purpose is to enable the Nanhai breech-loading rifle to fire our semi-metallic bullets."
"The paper-cased bullets they used before had the primer in the middle of the bullet. Alas, the engineers in the Ordnance Department really couldn't understand why the designers of Nanzhou Bank put the primer in the middle of the bullet..."
"The primer of our semi-metal bullet is at the bottom of the bullet, so the firing pin needs to be improved in a targeted manner."
"After switching to our semi-metallic bullets, although the Nanhai rifle will still have a certain air leakage problem, the air leakage problem of this degree is no longer serious, and it will even be less severe than the air leakage problem of our Qingshan Type II rifle.
Some!"
"The modified Nanhai rifle's performance in all aspects is much better than the Qingshan Type II rifle we modified from the Fuyuan musket. It can also use full-metal bullets in the future."
Lin Ziran said: "Well, that's good. It looks like this Nanhai rifle will be one of our main rifles from now on!"
As he said this, Lin Ziran himself laughed!
One of the purposes of attacking the county town is to accept the Luoan Arsenal.
This arsenal is one of the few comprehensive large-scale arsenals in the entire Nanhai Prefecture that can produce large-scale muskets, gunpowder and artillery.
Although the scale and technology cannot be compared with Fuyuan Ordnance Factory and Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, it is still among the top three arsenals in Nanhai Prefecture.
This arsenal is of great significance to Lin Ziran's future.
Because of this arsenal, Lin Ziran was able to mass-produce breech-loading rifles using metal fixed charges.
As for the current Qingshan Type II rifle, it is just modified from the Fuyuan musket. It can be used, but that's it. It can be regarded as an emergency measure at most.
Frankly speaking, the Nanhai breech-loading rifle developed by those at Nanzhou Bank is quite good. It boldly and innovatively uses a small caliber of 13 mm, a rotating rear pull, a front-end lock, and paper-cased fixed bullets.
The effective range of 600 meters not only means long range, but also high accuracy!
Regardless of the rate of fire or effective range, it is actually much better than the breech-loading rifle modified from the Fuyuan Musket.
As for the problems of air leakage and easy failure of the firing pin, this is purely a problem with the bullet. By using their semi-metallic bullet with the primer at the bottom of the bullet, the firing pin problem can be solved directly, and the air leakage problem can also be solved by half.
The most important thing is that with only one or two small changes, Lin Ziran can get hundreds of this new type of breech-loading rifle every day.
Lin Ziran attached great importance to this arsenal and continued to say to Qiu Honglin: "The arsenal must make proper arrangements to immediately modify the relevant design of the Nanhai rifle, and then immediately organize the resumption of production of breech-loading rifles and breech-loading cannons, and also organize manpower to help
Modified Fuyuan Musket!"
The production of new rifles is too slow. The output is only about 100 units on this day, and 3,000 units are exhausted in a month.
This output is still too little!
You must know that Lin Ziran now has tens of thousands of people waiting to be loaded with guns.
It is slow to produce new ones, so we can only continue to modify the Fuyuan Musket and make do with it first.
If the Fuyuan musket is modified with a Fuyuan musket, the modification speed is extremely fast. Qingshan Machinery Factory is very proficient in this kind of thing, and can modify at least 5,000 pieces in a month.
With this added to the Luoan Arsenal, the output of modifications will be even greater.
Although the performance of this thing is not very good, it is still a breech-loading rifle, at least much better than a front-loading rifle.
There is no need to worry too much about rifles. Now he already has at least 10,000 Qingshan II rifles on hand, equipping the four infantry regiments and cavalry regiments of the First Division.
At the same time, nearly 10,000 Nanhai rifles were successively seized. These Nanhai rifles were equipped with parts of the Second Division, the Third Division, the Fourth Division and even three cavalry brigades.
It is worth noting that the equipment is not centralized, but part of the light infantry company or the original hunting company equipment in each regiment, so that each regiment has a certain amount of long-range infantry firepower as much as possible.
Compared to muskets, Lin Ziran actually pays more attention to breech-loaded artillery!
"The equipment here is sufficient for manufacturing breech-loaded steel cannons, so don't delay and organize production immediately. We are in urgent need of a large number of breech-loaded steel cannons!"
The breech-loading rifle is a good thing, and the breech-loading artillery is an even better thing!
The two experimental breech-loaded artillery pieces on hand now, although they are small in number, have made great achievements for Lin Ziran's troops as they marched south. Without these two 75mm breech-loading cannons for long-range suppressive artillery fire, our own
It is impossible for a large number of smoothbore artillery troops to carry out bombardment without any calculation, thus establishing the artillery advantage on the battlefield.
Two doors, too few, he needs more!
Anyway, let’s get together six guns first and organize an artillery company!
After Qiu Honglin nodded in agreement, he hurried out again. As the director of the Logistics Department, he was much busier than Lin Ziran.
Since yesterday, he has led people from the logistics department to continuously check and inventory, and at the same time, he has to organize logistics and supply matters. In short, all kinds of messy things have been pushed to his side in a short period of time, making him busy without even touching the ground.
But although it was very hard, Qiu Honglin's steps were very brisk when he went out.
Because he saw the future!
A bright and brilliant future!
My master is now a county guard, and the unification of Luo An is in sight. At this time, I am the director of the logistics department.
And according to their current development momentum, after unifying Luo'an, they will need to unify the two counties of Luo and Guang.
After unifying the two counties of Luo and Guang, we can then start to unify the entire nine counties of Nanzhou.
After the unification of Nanhai Prefecture, he, the director of the Logistics Department, will probably be promoted to the director of the Logistics Department, and after that, he will probably become the founding father of the country.
The future is wonderful and bright!
Even though it is a bit harder now, he is still willing to do it!