Chapter 33 Industrial Progress

These indigenous soldiers can be said to be born soldiers. They are not only very hard-working, but also have a strong sense of obedience. At the same time, these indigenous soldiers who have lived in the jungle all year round are extremely good at fighting in the jungle. Although they don't like to use * or something like *, they are extremely good at it. In order to use various cold weapons to fight, bows and arrows and arrows, which are not valued by sea wolves, can play a very strong combat effectiveness in their hands, which surprised many sea wolf officers.

It can be said that there are these indigenous soldiers in Xiaotian's suppression of bandits on Fujian land. They are good at hiding, tracking, traps, sneak attacks, reconnaissance and other operations. They often go out of ghosts and attack the enemy unexpectedly. It can be said that there is no harm to suppress bandits in the mountains and forests of Fujian, which makes many seas. The wolf veterans were amazed by their ability.

Of course, industry is indispensable for the sea wolf. Since the seventh year of the apocalypse, Yu Xiaotian has built a large number of earth blast furnaces in freshwater.

During the initial operation, the production of these soil blast furnaces is very unstable, and the product quality cannot be guaranteed. No one knows what can be produced by each furnace, what kind of steel it is, and the waste of raw materials is also very serious.

However, even under such circumstances, Yu Xiaotian still insisted on the production of the earth blast furnace, found a group of capable craftsmen, made detailed records of the feeding ratio of each furnace, furnace temperature and other data, and then constantly summarized and analyzed according to the situation of the product, and accumulated experience.

After more than two years of continuous testing, these craftsmen have basically mastered some preliminary production technologies and can produce some relatively good steels. The waste rate of raw materials has also been reduced a lot, and the accident rate has been greatly reduced.

By the fourth year of Chongzhen, the number of sea wolf's earth blast furnaces in freshwater has reached more than 30, which can produce dozens of tons of steel per day. In addition to being used for * production, these steel has also been applied to many industries. Although it still cannot meet the needs of sea wolf, it has been difficult after all. A valuable step.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian has not dared to be lazy in the past few years. In addition to being busy with the construction of the army in Fujian, as long as he has a little leisure, he quickly got into a large room specially set up behind his mansion, often racking his brains to draw some mechanical drawings while commanding dozens of skilled carpenters. Craftsman, make various mechanical models, or explore some mechanical processing techniques.

Yu Xiaotian only hates that when he was in college, he did not learn more mechanical knowledge. Now when he uses it, he hates that his accumulation is too little, so that many problems that seem to be easy to solve in later generations have become insurmountable problems in his hands, and he can only constantly rack his brains to explore. .

In May of the third year of Chongzhen, Sea Wolf's first hydraulic machinery factory in Tamsui finally produced the first "qualified" wheel bearing and installed it on a carriage for testing. The carriage was powered by cattle and carried nearly a ton of cargo. It ran for hundreds of miles before the bearing appeared. Damage, although this can only be regarded as a defective product in later generations, it is already an absolute black technology in this era.

The successful development of bearings has laid a solid foundation for the industrialization process of Sea Wolf. As various types of bearings began to be produced in small batches, some machines began to replace bearings in the first batch, greatly reducing power loss and greatly improving The production accuracy of some earth machine tools.

Soon after, Yu Xiaotian experimentally manufactured industrial gears with earth gear hobbing machines based on the principle of involute. A few months later, this kind of gears also began to be applied to mechanical factories, and the first batch of primitive industrial machine tools in modern times began to be officially put into application.

Of course, the high failure rate of these machines can be said to be outrageous, and it is not too much to say that their quality is terrible, but after all, this is the first step. As long as it is taken, it will be gradually solved sooner or later.

The progress of industry has also allowed all walks of life to enjoy the advantages, not to mention the military benefits. Even in the lowest sugar house, in the Ming Dynasty, the rollers used are all wood, and the transmission mechanism is also wood. When used, the juice from rolling sugar cane The rate is even less than 40% or even lower, not even as good as stone, but it has been used for hundreds of years without any improvement.

The huge waste caused by this is unimaginable. A large amount of sugarcane cannot be rolled out of sugar cane juice, so it is treated as waste. Therefore, when the sea wolf prepared to build a sugar house, it directly abandoned this wood mill, made iron rollers with cast iron, and then applied bearings and gears, making the sea The juice rate of the wolf's sugar mill has been increased to 70%, and when squeezed repeatedly, it can even reach more than 80%.

In the same sugar cane, the sugar cane juice that can be squeezed out in the sea wolf's sugar house is nearly twice that of the sugar cane juice squeezed out in Guangdong and Guangxi on land, and the sugar rate is naturally doubled. In addition, after repeated summary of experience, the quality of the sugar produced by the sea wolf's sugar house has improved quickly and exquisite white The sugar color is white, refreshing and clean, and the selling price is naturally high.

In this way, the benefits of one mu of the sea wolf's cane field are at least more than twice that of the cane field in Guangxi on land, and the cost of human and material investment is much lower than that there, which naturally makes a lot of profits.

The sea wolf also attaches great importance to the application of various scraps. After sugarcane juice is squeezed, the remaining bagasse can be used to make wine. The sugar cane wine has a sour and sweet taste in the taste, which is actually very popular with the Dutch and Portuguese. A large number of exports have been exchanged for silver.

This is just a typical example. Such things have been reflected in various fields, such as wood factories, agricultural tools, vehicles, etc., which have benefited a lot.

If you want to benefit the most, I'm afraid that the application of bearings and gears has improved the operational performance of the ship again, and the operational performance of heavy artillery has also been improved and become much lighter.

Especially in the Army, after some artillery vehicles are equipped with bearings, the traction is much lighter. After installing screws with adjustable elevation angle, the operation is also much simpler and more accurate.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that with the production of steel and the application of various original machine tools, the sea wolf's wolf tooth rifle finally began to replace the original cooked iron, which greatly improved the service life of the barrel. In the past, With more than 100 bullets, the rifling line can be sharpened, so that the wolftooth rifle can never completely replace the southern Japanese phoencer.

However, after changing steel as the production raw material of the barrel, coupled with the continuous improvement of the original machine tool, the barrel service life of the wolf tooth rifle has increased from dozens of rounds to hundreds of rounds, and the life of the barrel rifling line has increased by more than ten times. There is no need to be like before. As long as there is a battle, it must be It is necessary to replace the barrel of the wolf tooth rifle in large quantities.

A new wolf tooth rifle can be used for at least a period of time, which also reduces the pressure on logistics. There is no need for the logistics department to reserve a large number of barrels and replace them at any time.

Without a large reserve of reserve barrels, the production of wolf-tooth rifles has also increased significantly. The army of the Sea Wolf Group can finally be replaced with a large number of wolf-tooth rifles, improving more than a few times. In the battlefield, the army equipped with wolf-tooth rifles in Shanghai can crush almost ten times. Their enemies.

In the past, because the barrel life of the wolf tooth rifle was so short that officers did not dare to let soldiers shoot often with live ammunition at all, they could only use long-term gun aiming training and ordinary Japanese rifles to carry out live-fire shooting training. Such training results could not be very good. A large number of soldiers using wolf tooth rifles were fighting The field cannot give full play to the advantages of long-range accurate shooting of the rifle, and can only ensure a relatively accurate shooting hit rate of about 100 meters.

However, after improving the barrel material, the barrel life has been greatly improved, and the officers are no longer as stingy as before. Soldiers can use more wolf tooth rifles for live shooting training, and better master the long-range precision shooting performance of wolf tooth rifles. In a short time, wolves can be used. As long as the hand of the tooth rifle is carefully trained and summed up experience, it can basically achieve a relatively accurate target of concentrating the size of the human body at a distance of 200 meters, which gives the troops equipped with the wolf tooth rifle the ability to effectively kill the enemy 200 meters away.

Even those sharpshooters have also made a lot of profits. In the past, because they did not dare to shoot a lot of live ammunition, their ability to kill long-range targets could not be brought into full play, but now they can conduct a lot of live ammunition training, so that their shooting accuracy has also been effectively improved, coupled with processing accuracy. The improvement has made the accuracy of the wolf tooth rifle much higher than before, so that some sharpshooters can actually hit the enemy at a distance of 400 meters.

Such an effective sniper distance is absolutely a terrible number in this era. Think about it, the enemy's cannon may not be able to hit 400 meters, but the enemy's gunner is within the effective sniper distance of his own sharpshooter. The sharpshooter can easily suppress the enemy's artillery on the battlefield. This battle is too smooth. Hand, if you still can't win this, the officer will be embarrassed if he doesn't find a tree to hang himself.

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