Chapter 189 Earth Rocket

After seeing such a situation, Xiao Tianjian began to start the idea of making flechry guns. With his understanding of the development history of firearms, the level of craftsmen he currently mastered, and the level of science and technology in the world, it is impossible to build a breech rifle, but building a tlock rifle is basically There is no problem. If it is a wire rifle, it is not even impossible. However, he still adheres to the principle of eating one bite at a mouthful. It is easy first and then difficult. Starting from the phore rifle, as for the wire rifle, it is estimated that it is still difficult to do it now. At least the drilling process is difficult to solve in a short time, even with pre-embed wire. It is estimated that it is not easy to roll the barrel, so it can be used as the direction of future development, but it cannot be developed immediately.

As for the manufacturing problem of the tumblegun, after all, he has never seen the structure diagram or physical object of the tumblegun before. He can only rely on his mechanical knowledge to explore by himself. Fortunately, anyway, he knows something about the tumblegun, and it is not necessarily difficult to do this, and he has not been thinking about it for a day and a day. In the past year, he has taken time to draw a number of drawings and constantly modify them. Now it can basically be handed over to the craftsmen for trial production.

The flimplock is divided into two types: rotary tumbler and impact flimplic flimp. It was originally inspired by a watchmaker to create a rotary tumbler through the clockwork on the clockwork, but this rotary phrink has a big problem, that is, the structure is very complex and the cost is quite high. The skill level of craftsmen is even more demanding. After the rotary clockwork is polluted, it is easy to cause non-fire failure. Therefore, after the development, there has been no large-scale equipment promotion, and it has only played a role in small-scale wars.

Therefore, when Xiao Tianjian considered the flinch gun, he directly abandoned the design of the rotary musket and directly considered the impact flinch gun. After all, the structure of this impact flinch gun is simpler, and the process is not very complicated, and the cost is relatively low, which is suitable for the mass manufacturing of his current craftsmen.

So he handed over the drawings to several masters of the craftsmen and asked them to get out of the production of bird guns and began to test produce this new type of fl like a fl like gun. After all, there is not much difference between the structure of the fl like a fl like a lancer and a lancer. It's barrel is basically the same, just a set of firing device, as long as there are ready-made drawings, There should be no problem for the masters of these craftsmen. The key is to solve the problem of the spring piece used to shoot. As long as the elasticity and toughness of the spring piece are solved, it will basically be a big deal.

At the same time, Xiao Tianjian is also paying attention to the production problem of the cannon. In the early stage, Gao Su used the clay casting cannon. Although it produced a good three-pound cannon, the output was low and high consumption. It was also greatly affected by the season, and the output could not be greatly improved. Therefore, Xiao Tianjian received the three-pound bronze field gun. He ordered to use the iron casting gun instead, and at the same time, he changed to the iron casting gun method to cast the gun.

After several months of exploration and practice, the iron model used to cast the six-pound field gun and the three-pound cannon have been cast, and after careful polishing, it has been put into the production of the cast gun.

In this way, in just one month of September, Gao Su's cannon was cast into three three-pound copper cannons and two six-pound iron cannons. The production speed is more than two or three times higher than the previous mud casting method, and the quality is completely qualified after the test firing. In particular, the power of the six-pound gun is more than three or four times higher than that of the three-pound gun, and because the caliber of the gun is increased, the power of this six-pound gun is also greatly increased. The number of loaded is almost five times more than five times that of the three-pounder gun. Once the shotgun is used, one gun can be swept away. A large area, at a 200-step distance in front of the muzzle, can sweep the horizontal surface of nearly 20 steps wide. Xiao Tianjian felt particularly insufficient after the gun inspection, which made Gao Su cast grape shells of large pellets for this six-pound gun. In this way, grape bullets have also become a necessary type of six-pound cannons.

Of course, after having the six-pound cannon, Xiao Tianjian also united Gao Su and Gao Cheng to find a way to make the flowering bombs used for the six-pound cannon. After all, in terms of dealing with cluster targets, the flowering bombs are more powerful at a long distance, far more than ordinary solid bullets to kill and damage the enemy.

Gao Su and Gao Cheng were happily ordered and began to be busy developing flowering bombs. After all, flowering bombs have been lost in later generations. Xiao Tianjian has only heard of it, but he has never seen detailed pictures or physical objects, and the craftsmen in Xing Tianjun have never made this thing, so they can only rely on them. I groped by myself.

But one thing is certain is that this thing should have been invented at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but it has long been applied to the war among the officers and soldiers. It is said that Yuan Chonghuan bombarded the wild boar Pinurhachi to death in Ningyuan and made a so-called Ningyuan victory. The wild boar skin is likely to be hit by a flowering bullet, otherwise. If the words are hit by the Hongyi cannon, it is impossible for the wild boar skin to die for a few days.

So even if the flowering bomb is immature in this era, it is also necessary to exist. Only in this way can the maximum power of the cannon be exerted.

Because the process of making wax molds and clay models is completely eliminated, it greatly saves labor and material consumption, and also improves the quality of casting cannons. In this way, the iron casting method proposed by Xiao Tianjian has also been recognized by many craftsmen, including Gao Su, who also has to bow his head and admit the method Xiao Tianjian said. The casting method he used was much higher. When he saw Xiao Tianjian again, his attitude was much more respectful and he became much more modest.

In addition, Gao Su was also ordered to set up a gun training class outside Shuangfengzhai to train gunners specially for Xing Tianjun, which has also begun for a long time.

Many modern people know that the firing of a cannon needs to be distanced first, and then it can be aimed at and fired. It happens that not many people understand this ranging. As a gunner, if you don't know how to measure the distance, you don't want to be a good gunner, and don't want to hit the cannon accurately. Just install a front-sight gate on the cannon, if you can't estimate it. The distance of the enemy is still not enough, so in the past, when the Xingtian army fought against the enemy, the shooting accuracy of the artillery was often very poor, even if the training intensity was very high. In addition to accelerating the speed of reloading, the shooting accuracy has not been greatly improved. Only the old gunner's experience of aiming through long-term shooting. Only then can the shooting accuracy be improved, but Xing Tianjun is not rich enough to allow the gunners to fire cannons every day. In this way, it is impossible to improve the shooting level of the gunners in a short time, so Xiao Tianjian thought of letting Gao Su get a gun training class to teach the artillery some gun operation and aiming skills.

Gao Su, an artilleryman in the Western mercenary, is familiar with how to carry out a simple and easy thumb ranging method. In the artillery training class, he taught this ranging method to the artillerymen of the Xing Tianjun.

In this way, the function of improving the accuracy of the artillery shooting of the Xingtian Army is very huge. Often after short training, the artillery returns to the army to aim, which improves the shooting accuracy a lot. At least it will not easily miss the target and hit the shell high or low.

On this day, when Xiao Tianjian was busy dispatching the township troops to Zezhou, Yang Changshou ran to Xiao Tianjian angrily and said to Xiao Tianjian, "General, you have to take care of Gao Cheng's guy. That guy doesn't know what he is doing. Today, he actually hit an object to our Tiezuo's side and almost put my hand. The craftsman blew up a few people! But two people were still injured! If it goes on like this, we will be scared to death by this guy!"

Xiao Tianjian was stunned for a moment, so he asked Yang Changshou what was going on. Yang Changshou told Xiao Tianjian in detail before Xiao Tianjian figured out what was going on.

It turned out that this morning, Tiezuo was working normally. Suddenly, an object flew from the sky and fell into Tiezuo. Before the big guy could figure out what had happened, the object that fell from the sky exploded with a bang. As a result, two blacksmiths who were slightly closer to the guy were injured on the spot. Fortunately, the two are not too close, otherwise they may be killed on the spot.

At this time, Gao Cheng ran over in a panic. As soon as he saw Yang Changshou, he repeatedly apologized and quickly pleaded guilty to Xiao Tianjian.

Xiao Tianjian asked Gao Cheng, "What the hell are you doing? Why are you so careless? Fortunately, only two people were injured. If it happened to fall into the crowd, let's see how you explain it!"

Gao Cheng said to Xiao Tianjian with a guilty face, "Da Damn it! It's too careless! In the future, the little one doesn't dare to test this kind of thing in the village again! I guarantee that this kind of thing will not happen again! I hope the general will forgive me!"

Xiao Tianjian said to Yang Changshou, "Let those two craftsmen have a good rest. If not, send them to the Lianhuazhai Medical Camp for treatment. Everyone will give them three taels of silver and tell them to pay the wages during the recuperation period!"

Yang Changshou stared at Gao Cheng and quickly said to Xiao Tianjian, "The two brothers are not seriously injured. They are all minor injuries. The Zhai Traditional Chinese Medicine Officer has taken out the shrapnel of their wounds and bandaged them. There is no need to move to the Lianhuazhai Medical Camp!" Thank you, General!"

After watching Yang Changshou groan, Xiao Tianjian let Gao Cheng, who knelt on the ground, and asked him, "What are you doing? How can you be so powerful? Can you fly to Tiezuo?

After Gao Cheng got up, he stared at Xiao Tianjian and asked, "Didn't the general let Xiao do it? It's the kind of big fire. During this period, the small one played with this thing as soon as he was free. Now it has made a few. Today, I tried to put one, but a tail fell off and flew to the Tiezuo side. I almost scared the little one to death!"

Xiao Tianjian was overjoyed and immediately got up and said, "Oh? Have you done it? Let's go! Go and have a look! Haha!"

With that, Xiao Tianjian pulled Gao Cheng and ran to his gunpowder workshop. Gao Cheng took a guy out of the room and put it in front of Xiao Tianjian. Xiao Tianjian was happy at a glance. Isn't this the rocket he wanted?

This thing is about twelve or thirty centimeters thick, and the length is about seventy or eighty centimeters. The shell is made of wood. There is a round iron guy at the front end, and there are three tails on the body, and the whole earth-made rocket.