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If Yu Xiaotian still wants to increase the effective range, he can only increase the gunpowder loading and increase the barrel length. However, the recoil will be greatly increased, and it may be difficult for people with a slightly thinner body to effectively control this gun.

If the length of a fire blunderbuss is increased too much, it will not be easy to carry together. At the same time, it will also increase a lot of weight. When using it, it will be difficult to ensure the shooting accuracy when shooting without support. Therefore, these two methods are not very suitable. After all, this

The barrel is a muzzleloading musket.

The most effective solution is to draw rifling into the inner bore of this blunderbuss tube and convert it into a front-loading rifled gun. In this way, the projectile is embedded in the rifling and tightly integrated with the bore wall, which can effectively seal the air.

By reducing the amount of combustion gas deflation and making full use of the explosive power of gunpowder, the shooting accuracy will be greatly improved. At the same time, the bullet can obtain higher muzzle velocity and kinetic energy, greatly increasing the range.

But if you do this, let’s not talk about the technical difficulty of rifling. There is no way to solve this. If you really want to make a rifled gun, then the first thing to solve is the problem of loading.

Historically, rifled guns were actually invented very early, but they could not be effectively promoted for a long time. The most important problem was that the bullets of early rifled guns were difficult to put into the barrel. Early musketeers who used rifled guns,

Sometimes you have to hit the stick hard with a hammer to knock the projectile into the gun barrel. It is extremely inconvenient and dangerous to use. As a result, the user sometimes faces the problem of being unable to put the bullet into the barrel of the gun.

Something happened that made it very embarrassing.

Therefore, if a rifled gun is manufactured, the first problem to be solved is the problem of loading projectiles. If the projectiles are too large, they may not be loaded into the barrel. If they are small, they will not be able to effectively combine the projectiles with the bore of the rifled gun, resulting in

The air leakage increases and the advantage of the rifled gun is lost.

So so far, when breech-loading guns cannot be produced and modern bullets cannot be effectively manufactured, the only way to solve this problem is to use minie bullets.

Speaking of the minie bullet, we must first talk about the minie rifle. The minie gun is actually a rifled flintlock gun loaded in the front. The minie bullet is actually a round-headed cylindrical lead bullet. The diameter of the lead bullet is smaller than the bore caliber.

, when putting it into the gun chamber, it avoids the embarrassment of the projectile being too big to be stuffed into the gun chamber.

Moreover, the Minie projectile has threads and a hollow tail, with cork stuffed inside. When firing, the gunpowder explodes and pushes the cork, causing the projectile to expand, effectively making the projectile and the bore wall of the rifle closely fit together.

, plays the role of air sealing, allowing the bullet to obtain greater kinetic energy and initial velocity. At the same time, the round-headed cylindrical lead bullet rotates during flight, which can effectively stabilize the ballistic trajectory and improve accuracy.

As a result, rifled guns were gradually accepted by people and began to be equipped in large quantities with many armies around the world.

So Yu Xiaotian has a way to solve this problem. What he hopes most now is to obtain a super-era weapon, but he must be able to use the current technical level to produce it effectively. He is not so ambitious that he plans to reach the sky in one step.

He would be very satisfied as long as he could create a big killer weapon like the AK47 directly.

In this era, there is no need to be too advanced in technology. Just half a step forward in technology can effectively defeat the enemy. Once the step is too big, it will not only get twice the result with half the effort, but it will also easily get stuck in the technical production bottleneck.

Egg.

Now that Blacksmith Zhang has basically figured out the technology for making ordinary musket barrels, the next step is to gradually become familiar with and train more craftsmen. Over time, the problem of high production scrap rates can be gradually solved.

Then he only needs to solve the problem of drawing rifling, and by solving this problem, he can obtain a weapon that exceeds the technical level of this era.

As for the firing mechanism of the musket, Yu Xiaotian didn't think too much about it. He could still let the craftsmen solve the problem for the flintlock gun. As for the flash cap gun, striker gun or even fully loaded metal shell bullets, he didn't even think about it.

Thought about it.

Because in order to reach that level of technology, we need a breakthrough in the chemical industry. At the very least, we must be able to produce nitric acid.

Although Yu Xiaotian is good at chemistry, it is very unrealistic for him to establish a chemical industry system now. Building such a chemical industry system involves too many areas, requires high technology, and is also very dangerous.

Big, not to mention pollution, he only knows the principle, but doesn't know how to do it.

So at the moment, he doesn't dare to think too much and can only rely on the technology that can be achieved in the current era to promote the development of weapons technology.

Then the only option left is to make a flintlock gun.

After Yu Xiaotian saw the various experimental results of the blunderbuss made by Blacksmith Zhang, he did not ask Blacksmith Zhang to immediately start experiments on rifling the blunderbuss tube. Instead, he praised Blacksmith Zhang greatly and asked him to

He then continued to build this blunderbuss tube, stabilizing the process as soon as possible and improving the yield rate.

The next step is to train more apprentices, increase the production quantity, and equip the Sea Wolf tribe with equipment. As for the firing mechanism, Yu Xiaotian has actually discussed the firing mechanism of the flintlock gun with Blacksmith Zhang, and plans to launch the project after the trial production of the blunderbuss tube is successful.

The old-style match-rope firing method is no longer used, and the firing method of match-rope ignition is completely abandoned.

In this regard, based on what he knew, Yu Xiaotian made some sketches of the flintlock firing mechanism, which were just sketches, and told Blacksmith Zhang the principles of the flintlock firing mechanism, and asked Blacksmith Zhang to design and prototype it on his own based on the sketches and principles.

Now Tiejiang Zhang doesn't have time to do this yet, but with the schematic diagram in hand, it must not be difficult for a workaholic like Tiejiang Zhang and a die-hard man to solve it.

Although Yu Xiaotian always feels that he is not waiting for others, the advancement of technology always requires a process. He cannot be a fat man in one bite. Unless he brings a few lathes and a large number of technical data and drawings when he travels over, otherwise

If so, any technological advancement and breakthrough will require a lot of experimentation and exploration.

Blacksmith Zhang saw that Yu Xiaotian was very satisfied with the gun tube he had made by himself, and he was naturally very happy. For technical talents like him, the biggest reward for them is not necessarily monetary or material rewards. Their most important reward is

What makes them happy is that someone appreciates their craftsmanship and works, and only then can they be truly satisfied.

Yu Xiaotian understood the thoughts of people like them, so he did not reward him excessively, but he gave him high praise in terms of words, which made Zhang Tiejiang grin his teeth with joy, and his dark face showed

With a child-like smile, Yu Xiaotian felt that this guy's smile at this moment was very cute and adorable.

(Anyway, the fever has finally gone away. I don’t know if the fever will continue at night! But let’s update first! After all, I promised to update twice a day this month. If I can stick to it, I will stick to it!

I hope brothers will continue to support! It’s not easy for us code writers! Some time ago, a certain website reported that a writer suddenly died at home and was only discovered two days later! I hope this kind of thing will not happen to me!)