Chapter 75 Wolf Tooth Rifle

At this time, Yu Xiaotian asked Zhang Blacksmiths to come and try their hands, so that they could personally feel the power of this weapon they created.

So Zhang Blacksmith and several craftsmen he brought also tried several shots, and each of them was surprised, excited and proud.

Because this killer was created by their hands, but even they themselves can't believe that just carved so many rotating grooves in the barrel, this * power has become so great, which is really surprising.

During the test firing, someone recorded the number of shots for each gun. When the first gun used by Liu Wang was fired 20 times, Yu Xiaotian stopped and stopped him from using this gun.

He sent the gun over, personally checked the barrel, observed the situation of the internal recy, and removed the gun with a small board, unscrewed the screws at the rear of the barrel, wiped the barrel with a strip of oil cloth, and put the barrel close to his eyes for careful observation.

After 20 shots, the barrel of the barrel seems to have changed much, but it feels that the rifled line is not as deep as the original.

So Yu Xiaotian ordered Zhang Blacksmith to take out the caliper he had brought with him and tested the barrel.

After inspection, the diameter of the barrel has been expanded, and the worm line in the barrel has begun to become lighter.

In fact, this situation is very normal. After continuous shooting, the barrel has to withstand the huge pressure of gunpowder explosion, which will make the barrel expand outward. In addition, the bullet is closely attached to the barrel in the barrel, which also accelerates the wear of the barrel.

This shows that when this kind of gun is fired, the inner barrel wear speed is very fast, and the effective life of the barrel may be quite low. As far as the current situation is concerned, the effective service life of the barrel of this kind of rifle may be within 100 rounds at most. When about 100 rounds are fired, the internal charge of the barrel The wire should be almost worn out. At that time, even if the barrel of this gun is still useful, it is estimated that it will become a smoothb gun again.

The situation of the smoothbore gun is relatively much better. The bore pressure of the bore gun itself is not as high as the bore pressure of the wire bore gun. There is a certain gap between the projectile and the inner wall of the barrel, which will produce deflated air and reduce some shoal pressure. In addition, the projectile is also much less friction with the barrel. In addition, the bore line makes the barrel wall thinner, which makes the smoothbore gun When the barrel is made of cooked iron, it also has an effective service life of hundreds of rounds, and even as long as the barrel wall is not cracked or seriously deformed, it can be used all the time without causing much impact.

However, the bore gun does not work, and the bore gun has high requirements for materials. This is not only a matter of high bore pressure. The key is that the inner chamber hardness of the bore gun must be higher to withstand the wear of bullets in the chamber. At present, they can't make the best fine iron for the barrel, even if it is the best fine iron. After all, it is familiar. The hardness of iron is too low, and even low-carbon steel just now is much stronger than the current iron.

Unfortunately, he does not have the ability to make steel at present, and can only temporarily use cooked iron to continue to build barrels. Therefore, the production of steel is imminent now, which has become a bottleneck restricting the continued development of sea wolves, and must find a way to break through this bottleneck.

Yu Xiaotian couldn't help writing down another stroke on his notebook, steel! Steel! Still steel!

Next, he asked people to continue the test with this gun. When the gun hit 30 shots, the accuracy began to decrease and the worm wire wear became more serious.

Originally, he wanted to continue the test, but unfortunately, his first batch of trial-produced Migne bullets had been used up at this time, so he had to give up and take people back to Danshui City, while ordering the projectile factory under the military weapons to step up the production of a batch of Migne bullets for testing and prepare to open the mold. , manufacturing molds specializing in casting Minie bullets, the next step is to produce large quantities of Minie bullets, and start to supply rifles equipped with the army.

It was not until then that he told Fang An, Meng Fei and others about the principle and specific performance of the rifle.

These people are a little confused. They don't understand some of the professional terms used by Yu Xiaotian, but after today's test firing of a new gun, they are very clear that the wire gun created by Yu Xiaotian is indeed a very sharp weapon, which has thrown many similar firearms in this era. The back.

Once they are equipped with a large number of this kind of rifle, the firepower advantage of the sea wolf in the future will be completely laid down. No matter who they fights in the future, the sea wolf can basically be invincible.

Of course, this also requires certain prerequisites, that is, the number of the sea wolf's troops can be inferior to the opponent's strength, but this gap in strength cannot be too large. Otherwise, the enemy can still rely on the advantage of the number of people to drown the sea wolf alive by relying on human sea tactics. Once it is allowed to When Fang broke through their defense and entered the close battle, there were still many people who could laugh to the end.

Yu Xiaotian announced in public that this time, Zhang Blacksmith and several blacksmiths and apprentices who cooperated with Zhang's to make rilling machines will remember their achievements and give them a reward, and make them continue to improve the newly made rilling machine to make it faster to use and produce products more accurate. , and finalized as soon as possible, a batch of such hoop machines were produced and put into the production of new type of hoop guns.

Yu Xiaotian thought about this kind of rifle and named it the Wolf Tooth Fure Rifle, referred to as the Wolf Tooth Rifle, to show that this new wire rifle will become a sharp tooth of the sea wolf. The bullet produced is also called the wolf tooth bullet. As for the Minee rifle, Mr. Minee still has nearly 200 years now. Don't mention the time to be born. Now that he has plagiarized Mr. Minet's invention, let Mr. Mine, who was born 200 years later, find another way to live!

The successful development of the wolf tooth rifle has finally made the sea wolf finally have a weapon far beyond this era. In the past, whether it was the * or the cannon they produced, it exceeded this era, but the technical level did not surpass much. Only the iron casting cannon method can be called a technology beyond this. In addition, other things are not technically more than the weapons of the same era.

Futemper guns are a kind of, but the French in Europe in this era have also developed the same type of flectar guns, but for various reasons, they have not been promoted for the time being, making sea wolves take advantage of this kind of firearms. In fact, flectar guns have long been invented in Europe, Yu Xiaotian The trench gun has not surpassed the technology of the times.

However, this wolftooth rifle (Mine rifle) is really beyond the level of similar weapons in this era. Even if someone has tried out a rifle, has not mastered mature manufacturing technology, and has not invented Minee bullets, so this kind of line Even in the West, few people know about the rifle. As for the promotion, it happened more than 200 years later in the mid-19th century.

If the sea wolves are put into production in large quantities and equipped with troops in the future, they will surpass the times in terms of infantry weapons for 200 years. They can use the technology of the 19th century to deal with the enemies of the 17th century and completely stand at the highest point of technical advantage, although he still dares not It is said that they are invincible, but at least in front of their enemies several times, the sea wolf will basically not suffer losses.

An alcohol distillation workshop was established outside Tamsui Village. By the Ming Dynasty, the technology of distilling liquor to obtain high alcohol has matured, and there are many kinds of local soju, so it is no longer a technical problem to prepare alcohol with high purity.

However, in this era, alcohol distillation technology is not very standardized, the efficiency is not very high, the speed is slow, and the waste is relatively large. In this new wine-making workshop, Yu Xiaotian put forward some suggestions for improvement in the distillation process. First, it is to strengthen the sealing of the distillation pot. In addition, the pipe part is made of glass to make spiral glass cans as The condenser and introduce the outside of the condensing part of the pipe into cold water to increase the efficiency of condensation.

As for others, they continue to use the old method and use ceramics or iron sheet to make them, which is not difficult. The biggest difficulty is on glass condensation pipes.

Now after such a long period of production, the glass craftsmen inside have been repeatedly testing the technology of blowing glass in the past two years. Now the craftsmanship is quite good. The glass tube itself is not a difficult thing. It is easy to blow it out, and it is blown into a glass tube. Heat the glass tube again and twist it into a twist, even if it is done.

So when the glass tube condensation device was shipped to the winemaking workshop, it caused a lot of exclaim. In the eyes of this era, the glass is an absolute luxury, and Yu Xiaotian's big hand has even used so many glassware for distilled wine, not to mention how much this wine is worth, at least this set of distilled glass Glassware is worth the money!

After only a slight improvement, the efficiency of this set of distilling alcohol tools is reflected. Compared with the original old distillation process, the efficiency has improved a lot. After ignition, the clear liquor soon trickled out of the pipe of the wine.

The whole winery was filled with a strong aroma of wine, so some people couldn't help taking a little wine and tasted it. The degree of the wine was very high, and the spicy taster grinned and enjoyed it.

Unfortunately, Yu Xiaotian can't get an alcohol meter and can't determine the alcohol content. Instead, he asked the glass field to find a way to try to make a thermometer. Now after the pure alcohol is made out, the thermometer can be made, so he can only use stupid methods to distil the liquor twice before he can't determine the purity of alcohol. In this way, you can basically get alcohol with a high purity.

Whether the sea wolf is on Nanri Island or in freshwater chicken cages and other places, because they want to save food and cope with the needs of the time at any time, food is a material under their control, and it is usually not allowed to make wine.

But now on the freshwater side, sugar cane has been planted, and a local sugar house has been built, which has produced a lot of sugar cane waste, which is a good raw material for brewing wine, so Yu Xiaotian decided to open a winery.