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When making the barrel of the Seawolf gun, the assembly does not start immediately after the barrel is made. It must go through a live ammunition test to check whether the forged seams of the barrel and the barrel can withstand the chamber pressure of the gun.

On a fixed platform, clamp the barrel and conduct test firings twice to ensure that no unqualified barrels will be assembled and distributed to soldiers.

During the test, you also need to check the shooting accuracy of the barrel. Aim at a wooden target thirty steps away on a fixed platform and shoot. Select the barrel with the best shooting accuracy, store it separately and assemble it into a high-precision machine.

High-quality firearms are marked and distributed to the best shooters in the army to improve the efficiency of using firearms.

These measures have greatly ensured that the muskets produced by Sea Wolf Gun Manufacturing will not easily explode during use, allowing Sea Wolf tribe members to feel at ease when using them, thus preventing Sea Wolf tribe members from being afraid of using muskets.

In addition, muskets with good accuracy can be more effective in wartime if they are given to people who are good at using them.

The drawn and rifled barrel that Blacksmith Zhang chose this time is a barrel that has already passed the inspection, so there is no need to conduct additional inspections. After installing the screw plug directly at the back, it is assembled into a complete barrel.

A finished flintlock gun.

However, on the surface, this flintlock gun is no different from an ordinary flintlock gun. It only has four left-hand rifling lines in the barrel.

While Blacksmith Zhang was assembling the new gun, Yu Xiaotian was also busy preparing ammunition for the new gun.

When rifled guns were first manufactured, although they had the advantages of long range and shooting accuracy far exceeding that of smoothbore guns, they were not popular in the initial stage. The most critical problem was that they could not effectively solve the problem of loading difficulties.

The projectile of a rifled gun, no matter what shape it is, must be slightly larger than the diameter of the inner bore in order to embed the projectile into the rifling, causing the projectile to rotate during air-holding and firing to improve the stability of the projectile when flying in the air.

surname, improve accuracy and range.

However, this makes it very difficult to load projectiles, and the user is also embarrassed. Once a misfire occurs, the user will basically be unable to dig the projectiles out of the barrel in a short period of time on the battlefield.

comes out, turning the gun in the user's hand into a fire stick.

Therefore, for a long time after the rifled gun was invented, this gun has never been able to replace the smoothbore gun's dominance in the army. Moreover, this gun has the added process of drawing rifling, which lengthens the production time and greatly increases the cost.

Improvement is even more unpopular.

It was not until the mid-19th century that the Frenchman Migne invented the Migne bullet, which solved the problem of projectile loading. And the army that tried this gun achieved unimaginable results on the battlefield against enemies who tried muskets.

After the victory, the rifled gun began to attract the attention of various countries, gradually replacing the dominant position of the smoothbore gun in the army and becoming the most effective weapon in the hands of infantry.

These problems are no longer a problem for Xiaotian. He has already started preparations. As soon as the rifled gun is successfully trial-produced, he will start producing Minie bullets.

Yu Xiaotian had already made plans. Once the rifled gun was successfully trial-produced, he would change the shape of the bullets from round to cylindrical and conical.

The quality of such a bullet is two to three times higher than that of a circular gun of the same caliber, so that its penetration power can be improved several times, its range will also be improved several times, and its accuracy will greatly exceed that of a round bullet.

The key to the minie bullet is the tail. The diameter of the minie bullet itself is not thicker than the inner diameter of the gun bore, but slightly smaller than the gun bore, so that the minie bullet can be easily loaded into the gun bore and fed into the gun chamber.

The bottom, while its tail is hollow, is filled with a cork, and the bullet is loaded into the gun chamber.

When the gunpowder deflagrates, the cork expands due to force in an instant, stretching the tail of the warhead beyond the caliber of the gun bore, and firmly inserting the warhead into the rifling, effectively holding the air in place, and at the same time causing the bullet to fly out.

When the gun is in the chamber, it starts to rotate, which completely solves the problem of rifled gun bullets not being easily loaded into the gun chamber.

There is not much technical difficulty in making mini bombs. For the time being, you only need to make a mold, melt the lead water and cast it, drill out a part of the tail, and insert a cork, and you can make it.

It will be a little more troublesome to produce temporarily, and the cost is also high, but once mass manufacturing starts, you can design a set of molds and produce them in batches. Then you can reduce the cost and greatly increase the output. It will not be better than manufacturing.

How much effort does a round projectile take?

For making a small amount of this kind of projectile, as long as Yu Xiaotian gave some advice, the craftsman naturally made it quickly. After measuring it with Hailang's homemade standard caliper, it was completely ready for use.

So Yu Xiaotian happily went straight to the shooting range with dozens of newly made mini bombs.

Three brand new flintlock rifles had been assembled and transported to the shooting range. Meng Fei, Fang An and others were also invited to the shooting range to watch the test results.

Everyone gathered in the shooting range. This shooting range is a dedicated shooting range for Xinying. It covers a large area. To the north of the shooting range, there is a mountain of earth to prevent projectiles from flying out of the shooting range and causing accidental injuries to unsuspecting people. Moreover, no shooting is allowed around the shooting range.

When people come in, special mobile sentries are assigned to patrol.

Meng Fei went to the logging camp upstream a few days ago and took a group of soldiers to conduct a jungle warfare training in the mountain forest on the pretext of retaliating against the natives who harassed the logging camp.

And this guy got a few dogs from nowhere. They were well trained and very obedient. He told them to sit and stand, and they bit when he was told to bite. The best thing is that these dogs don’t like messing around.

It barks wildly and is very quiet.

Yu Xiaotian liked it very much after seeing it, so he asked Meng Fei where these dogs came from. Meng Fei then told Yu Xiaotian that he had two guys who were hunters on land in the past and knew how to train dogs, so he made

I got a few good dogs and asked them to train them. It turned out that the trained dogs were very useful in the jungle.

These dogs have an amazing sense of smell. They are very convenient for tracking enemies in the forest. They are much faster than people searching for enemies in the forest. Recently, these dogs have helped them and captured a lot of natives in the forest.

After catching a lot of prey, he planned to get more dogs and train them, so that they would become their good helpers in the jungle.

When Yu Xiaotian heard this, he immediately became happy. Isn't this a military dog? Although these dogs are all native dogs in China, these native dogs are not necessarily bad. They are also very smart and have a very sensitive sense of smell. Some dogs

It is quite large in size and quite ferocious, not much worse than the German blackback that is common in later generations. As long as it is trained well from an early age, it can still be used as a military dog.

And with the help of this thing in the jungle, it can be said that it is twice the result with half the effort. It is much faster than relying on manpower alone to search for enemies. As long as they are smelled by them, the enemies basically have no chance to run away, and there will be small groups in the future.

If the natives dare to invade Sea Wolf's territory, these military dogs will definitely give them nowhere to escape.

So Yu Xiaotian immediately affirmed Meng Fei's approach and ordered the two soldiers who were good at dog training to be singled out and used as dog trainers alone. He also credited them with merit and rewarded them with silver. Such precious talents,

They must be rewarded, reused in the future, and properly protected. Taiwan is full of mountains and forests, and military dogs are very useful to them.

Fang An, Meng Fei, Liu Tong and others didn't know what Yu Xiaotian wanted them to do at the shooting range today. After seeing the three flintlock guns sent, they were a little strange. They picked up the three guns and carefully

After looking at it, I didn't find any difference between these three guns and the Nanyue flintlock rifles they used. At most, these three guns were just in details.

There are some minimal changes. The operation seems more comfortable, the mechanism is more sensitive, and there is an additional safety device to prevent soldiers from being too nervous during battle and causing accidental discharge. This is only done when aiming the gun.

, and then opened the safety so that it could be fired. Other than that, there didn’t seem to be any big new ideas.

So they all asked Yu Xiaotian what he wanted to show them this time. There was nothing new about this gun!

Yu Xiaotian pretended to be mysterious and said with a smile: "You will know the difference in a while. I let you come here today to give you a long experience! You will know how powerful these three guns are in a while! Liu Wang, yours

Your shooting skills are good, you should try it first!"

As soon as Liu Wang heard this, he immediately stepped forward to get a gun, took the bamboo fixed gunpowder tube, bit off the plug, loaded the gunpowder into the gun chamber, and then took out a minie bullet from the side.

, put it into the muzzle of the gun, use a purge to feed the minie bullet into the gun chamber, and pound it lightly a few times to compact the ammunition.

Then he put the butt of the gun under his arm, took out the primer and opened the fire door cover, poured the primer into the fire door, pressed it with his thumb, closed the fire door, completed the loading action, and opened the fire door with a click.

He had the flint jammed in the nose of the machine and was ready to fire. All his movements were very skillful, but they were no different from ordinary flintlock operations.

At this time, everyone discovered that the gun Liu Wang took out was not the round gun they commonly used, but a cylindrical round-headed projectile made of lead, so Meng Fei took a mini bullet and muttered

Said: "Can this thing be used? It seems to be much heavier than ordinary guns! Doesn't it mean that it can't hit far?"

Boss, our flintlock guns can't shoot very far. Can we use this kind of gun instead? If we can only shoot twenty or thirty steps, wouldn't we be in big trouble?"

(My anus was really fucked all the way! There are already more than fifty people! There is nothing I can do, my butt hurts!)