Chapter 1 Fire Hat

In the autumn of Chongzhen's 11th year, under the command of Governor Hong Chengchou, Shaanxi Governor Sun Chuanting and other officials, as well as the joint suppression of various officers and armies of the Ming Dynasty, the various exiles between several provinces began to be suppressed.

Many exiles were wiped out by the officers and soldiers, or surrendered or dispersed, and the rest were squeezed back to the junction of Shaanxi, Sichuan, Huguang, and the activity area was extremely compressed, no longer the grandeur of those years.

However, new people are still emerging from all over the country, spontaneously gathering together against the government, constantly attacking villages and towns, and even attacking counties.

But on the whole, the situation of the exile army during this period is not optimistic. The main forces of the exile army, under the suppression of the government, are no more than the grand occasion of those years.

Therefore, officials in the Ming Dynasty began to have an optimistic mood about the future situation, and even Chongzhen, who had been difficult to see a smile for a long time, and the expression on his face was much easier during this period.

In the eyes of many people, as long as there is another half a year, these various civilian troops can be completely eliminated. Even if there is only one left, it is no climate and it is not enough to worry about.

At this time, Chongzhen began to discuss with the ministers how to deal with Yu Xiaotian's problem next. Although Jiannu outside Guan has always been eyeing the tiger, and even invaded the Gyeonggi area of Guannei several times, but the vast majority of people in the Ming Dynasty do not know why, but always hold a Jiannu. A kind of contempt.

Many people are mainly southerners. Although Jiannu is rampant in private, it is only a disease of ringworm. Although his slave chieftain Taiji is now ascending the throne in the south and north of Liaodong and established a Qing Dynasty, but Liaodong is a bitter and cold place outside the customs. How can such a vast territory of the Ming Dynasty not be theirs? Hands?

Therefore, most civil and military officials believe that Xiangwai must first settle down. The only way is to eliminate the exiles, then cut off the trouble of Xiaotian, the confidant of the Ming Dynasty, and then remobilized a large number of officers and soldiers to go north. Sooner or later, they will be able to eliminate the construction slaves and recover Liaodong.

In this way, a war against Fujian Yu Xiaotian seems to have been bowing on the strings. As soon as the purge of the de faction against the de factioners in several provinces of the Central Plains is over, it will begin to take action immediately.

All kinds of news about the imperial court's conquest of Yu Xiaotian flew from Beijing and other places to Fujian like snowflakes and landed on Yu Xiaotian's desk.

But Yu Xiaotian was unmoved at all. After a glance, he threw it away directly, as if it had nothing to do with him.

But in essence, after 11 years of Chongzhen, all the departments of the sea wolf have turned to a state of wartime, especially the factories and workshops related to military engineering, all of which have increased manpower and machinery, stopped the production of all non-war products, started with full power, and began to work hard.

And in July, Yu Xiaotian also received good news from an industrial department and received a product sample that he dreamed of.

Yu Xiaotian took this batch of samples, and his mouth was almost happy. This batch of samples are small copper hats of yellow, orange and orange. This is the first batch of fire hats officially produced by the sea wolf industry department.

As early as a few months ago, the sea wolf industrial department, with the personal participation of Yu Xiaotian, had produced nitric acid. The first use of nitric acid was ordered by Yu Xiaotian to develop this fire cap.

The fire cap contains some problems in the development of *, and even many accidents, and two of them are major accidents. People in this era have no knowledge of nitric acid at all, and there is no understanding of the danger of its nitrification reaction, so operators often carry out barbaric operations. No wonder there was no accident.

Even if Yu Xiaotian repeatedly reminded people in this field that they must be careful, and even personally formulated the test steps and norms for them, but they still can't stop these guys from doing nonsense. In this way, it's strange that they don't die.

It was not until these people completely realized the danger of doing this kind of thing that these guys knew what to be careful, and the subsequent accident rate was reduced. Just by making this small fire hat, the industrial sector paid the price of dozens of casualties.

However, in any case, the fire cap has still been trial-produced, and during the trial production, it has been tested, and the fire rate has reached more than 90%. After the first trial production of several firecap-type wolf tooth rifles, the reliability has been greatly improved after using the fire cap as a shooting device, and the operability is simpler. It is much more adaptable to the weather.

Whether it is windy or rainy, as long as the gunpowder is not damp and the fire cap is properly preserved, the rifle can be fired normally, which will undoubtedly play a huge role in improving the all-weather combat capability of the Sea Wolf Army and Navy.

Yu Xiaotian took this box of the first batch of trial fire hats. He was happy to see his teeth and quickly greeted his men and went straight to the shooting range. At the shooting range, he used a new fire cap gun, which was also known as the firing gun of later generations. Yu Xiaotian personally tested and shot hundreds of Mines in one breath. He only met a blind fire. Moreover, after replacing the blind fire hat, it was immediately launched successfully.

Such a high fire rate makes the soldiers present very strange and excited, because although the sea wolf's flinch gun is more advanced than the fire rope gun, the fire rate always hovers between 70% and 80%, that is to say, if you fire about seven times on average, you will encounter a blind fire, although through the industrial sector Repeatedly tackling key problems and improving the flimping mechanism, the rate of blind fire has never been greatly reduced.

But now with this kind of fire hat, the fire rate can actually increase so much, and after using the fire hat, the loading of rifles is simpler and faster, and the ability to cope with bad weather is also stronger. It would be strange if these guys don't like it.

Yu Xiaotian's brother-in-law Liu Wang has now become the commander of the sea wolf guard battalion. Although his official position is not large, his status is high and he is quite prominent among sea wolves.

And Liu Wang, a boy who followed Yu Xiaotian, has always been very low-key and has been deeply trusted by Yu Xiaotian. Now this guy has already grown into a big man. Although he is not tall, he has developed well horizontally. He has developed a lot of tendons. He looks very tough.

This guy likes to play with guns. He is a famous gun slave among sea wolves. He holds his wolf tooth rifle every day and doesn't let go. After becoming a battalion commander, he should not get used to it. He carries two double-tube short guns in his waist and a wolf tooth sniper rifle made by Seiko on his back.

After seeing the new fire hat gun held by Yu Xiaotian, he immediately tickled. He also took a newly modified fire hat gun and conducted a test shot. It can be said that he was full of praise for this fire hat. Even if someone notified the arsenal, he specially gave it carefully. Create a high-precision fire cap*.

Yu Xiaotian also ordered that a large number of fire hats should be put into production immediately, and the military department also immediately stopped the production of flinch guns, and all of them were converted to production of this fire hat rifles, and called them Wolf Tooth Type 2 rifles, and began production at the fastest speed.

And the military engineering department also began to transform the original wolftooth rifle, converting it into a firecap gun and re-equipped the troops.

In addition, the successful trial production and the successful trial production of firecaps, coupled with the mass production of springs, many weapons can be applied. Although the current production of nitric acid is very low, it is basically enough to make firecaps for the time being. Anyway, it is not expected to mass produce anything with nitric acid now. The output of the sample should basically be enough for the sea wolf toss.

As for the production of copper pels for firecaps, it is much easier to produce. First, the brass is rolled into thin copper sheets, and then directly stamped on the stamping machine.

Unfortunately, the current process still can't make shell casings, otherwise Yu Xiaotian would even want to try out the whole bullets.

But with *, at least you can make * without dragging a small braid and rely on manual ignition. Next, you can make *. In the next step, you can even develop a bore gun and test-made pointed explosive grenades. At the very least, it should have become possible to try out mortars in the next step.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian then handed over the drawings of the mortar he had already drawn and handed them over to the military engineering department. In addition, the structural drawings of * were also handed over to the military engineering department to start trial production.

Because the spring is currently restricted by materials, the quality is not stable enough and the elasticity is slightly poor. For high-pressure guns, it is still quite difficult to manufacture fuzzers, which may either lead to early explosion or blind fire, so temporarily develop high-pressure wire guns, although the problem is not very big. However, it is estimated that it is still too early to make a fuse for shells that can withstand high bore pressure and high muzz speed.

However, low-pressure and muzzling-speed guns such as mortars should be able to make useful shell fuses with existing springs.

Once this * fuse is developed, it will not improve the firepower of infantry. As a lightweight army gun, the mortar can greatly improve the army's battlefield interception ability. In addition, for the attack, it is much easier to use than the ordinary smoothball mountain howitzer.

As for gunpowder production, the sea wolf has solved the supply of saltpeter, and sulfur has also been found on Taiwan Island, which can be collected directly to meet the production of sea wolf*.

The invention of today* has enabled the sea wolf's weapons industry to take many steps forward. With the improvement of materials and machinery, it will not be long before the sea wolf should be able to develop more advanced line guns to meet the needs of the Chinese people to compete for hegemony in the future.

But at present, Yu Xiaotian is not in a hurry to do these things, because the weapons he has now have been advanced enough in this era and have formed a great generation gap with their opponents. If it is too advanced, first, it is unnecessary, and secondly, it is too wasteful of resources, so like a wire cannon and cylindrical pointed explosive grenades, he It is not very urgent now.

Only when he conquers the Ming Dynasty and begins to arrange global hegemony will the line guns be put on the agenda. At that time, even light ships equipped with a small number of line guns can easily sieve the heavy gun ships of Western countries.

(Hehe, I finally came back. After thinking about it, I decided to open a new volume. Looking at the name of this volume, everyone can also guess that the pig's feet are going to have a showdown with Chongzhen, and the next step is to start the abuse of the Ming Dynasty! Brothers, the monthly ticket is smashed more violently!)