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It has to be said that the R&D personnel of various manufacturers affiliated to the three major arms companies of Datang, although it may be said that the technical ability is far inferior to the professors in the Royal Institute of Technology.

But the brain hole is still quite big, there are all kinds of messy designs, Li Xuan even saw an artillery project, and plans to use hydraulic reset on the gun mount to increase the rate of fire.

Li Xuan took a look, isn't this the early retractable gun that used spring or hydraulic pressure to reset the gun mount, that is, the rapid-fire gun mounted on the early warships!

When he was interested, Li Xuan asked them if they could conduct a test launch, the R&D staff on the opposite side pushed three and four, and finally bit the bullet and conducted a test launch.

The result is very interesting. After the first shot, their large and complex hydraulic reset device, which is estimated to be difficult to install on warships, is finished!

On the contrary, an artillery project with a spring return device next door performed better. It was not finished when the first shot was fired, but it was finished when the second shot was fired!

As a result, Li Xuan was completely too lazy to continue watching.

The speed-firing gun has to continue to carry out technical research, and it cannot be practical in its current form.

As for the more advanced tube retraction guns, it will take longer.

The only thing that makes Li Xuan happy is that the empire's new artillery designs have basically all entered the era of rear-mounted rifled guns.

The newly built warships of the navy in the past two years have basically adopted the rear-mounted artillery in an all-round way, ranging from small inland warships to large 10,000-ton battleships, and have fully entered the era of rear-mounted rifled guns.

It's just that most of these warships are still on the slipway, and not many have actually entered service.

But even so, it is of great significance and practical significance.

The Navy is like this, and the Army is not far behind. As the first Army rear-loaded rifled gun, the Seventy-five Howitzer has already entered the Army and began to serve.

The Army has high hopes for this artillery, hoping that this artillery can assume the main position of the division-level artillery of the Army.

In addition, there is the 75th field gun of the same caliber. This gun has also entered the mass production stage. Although the Army has not yet equipped it, the Guards have already equipped two battalions.

Then there is the 100mm field gun, a long-range suppressing artillery that has also entered the stage of small-scale trial production. Now the Guards have started a small amount of equipment for early live ammunition testing.

The 100mm field artillery is naturally more powerful and has a longer range than the 75mm artillery. Of course, the weight will definitely be greater. The Army uses this artillery as a military-level support artillery. The firepower is mainly used to equip various artillery brigades or independent artillery regiments.

This 100mm artillery, plus two 75mm artillery pieces, basically shows the Army's operational thinking on artillery.

Seventy-five grenades are used as divisional and brigade-level infantry support firepower.

The seven-fifth field artillery is used as a divisional and brigade-level artillery to suppress firepower.

The 100mm field gun is used as military-grade artillery to suppress firepower.

There are only three types of artillery in total, but they are enough to cover most of the current combat needs.

Of course, the army is still not satisfied, they also need a lighter and more mobile artillery as an infantry support artillery.

In addition, a more powerful, but weight must be controlled, large-caliber howitzer between 120 mm and 130 mm that can be effectively maneuvered.

As for siege artillery and the like, the Army also has related plans.

The army had previously been equipped with a front-mounted smoothbore heavy artillery with a bomb weight of 48 jin and a caliber of 200 mm.

When it comes to the era of rifling, it will naturally not give up.

The Army already has a research and development plan for a 150mm or even 200mm rear-mounted rifled heavy artillery.

However, Li Xuan did not see the test items of these army heavy artillery today.

After watching these messed up artillery pieces, Li Xuan started to inspect another highlight of the day.

That's a rifle!

Now the Datang Army has begun to equip the front-loading rifle, that is, the thirty-two-year-old rifle, also known as the Mini rifle.

However, the army has always believed that this thing is at most a transitional weapon.

What the Army has always wanted is a breech-loading rifle.

Today's various new rifles are basically breech-loading rifles.

At first glance, I thought that Datang's scientific research technology was so powerful that it could be developed, but after a closer look, you will find that dozens of rifles here are all laboratory products.

There are various designs, but there are generally problems such as high production process requirements, high cost and unstable performance.

There is nothing wrong with carefully crafting one or two of these so-called new breech-loading rifles as handicrafts, but if you want to mass-produce them for use as the army's standard rifle, that's fine.

When a large group of testers in the front were testing, many of the so-called new rifles on the spot encountered various problems after a few shots.

However, Li Xuan did not show any disappointment. Most of these dozens of designs are destined to have no practical value.

But that's not to say that all guns are worthless, there are a few new rifles with good designs.

In Li Xuan's view, three of them already look like after-load rifles in later generations.

And this time the weapon exhibition, to a certain extent, was actually held for three of the more mature rear-loading rifles.

If nothing else, one of them will be picked today as the Army's next-generation standard rifle.

The Army has been waiting for too long. They are not willing to spend too much energy on excessive weapons such as front-loading rifles. In the past two years, they have invested heavily in research and development of rear-loading rifles.

The money is in place, and since Datang's current industrial base can produce the Mini rifle, in fact, purely from the industrial base, it already has the ability to manufacture rear-loading rifled guns.

General Ye Xiyuan, the head of the Ordnance Department of the Army Privy Council, personally explained these three new rifles to Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven!

"These rear-loading rifles developed by the Jinling Weapons Bureau are fired with a firing pin and bolt-action design, and the rate of fire can reach more than 12 rounds per minute."

"This is a rifle developed by Hanyang Arsenal. Their rear-loading rifle is also fired by a firing pin, but they put the primer behind the bullet, so the firing pin is shortened and the length of the firing pin is shortened. In order to prevent air leakage, they also use rubber."

"This is the work of Professor Li Fu of the Royal Institute of Technology. It adopts all-metal bullets, magazine design, and bolt-action design. The performance in all aspects is the most superior among the three rifles. Although the caliber is only 8 mm, the effective range is sufficient. Reaching more than one kilometer, the accuracy is very high.

However, the requirements for craftsmanship are too high. We have judged that the cost of producing this rifle under the current technical conditions will be very high! "

The three rifles in front of Li Xuan are actually selected after repeated tests by the Army. As for today's other messy designs, they are all here to accompany them. The Army has already made them. Internally decided, the next generation of rifles will be selected from these three models.

These three rifles actually have a lot in common, such as the caliber, because the maroon gunpowder is going to be used, this kind of gunpowder is better, and after the application of the new propellant, the smaller caliber can also obtain the power of the previous caliber.

At the same time, considering that the enemies of the Tang Dynasty, especially the Tatars, were basically equipped with flintlock guns, and generally gave up defensive equipment such as plate armor.

The Army has put forward a series of performance requirements for the new rifle two years ago:

The rear-loading, rifled, and effective range should reach more than 500 meters, and the caliber should not exceed 11 mm. In order to improve the loading speed, fixed-charge bullets must be used, the weight should not exceed 5 kg, and the length of the gun should not be too long or too short. Only It can be between one meter three and one meter four. If it is short, it will suffer from a bayonet, and if it is long, it is inconvenient to carry.

The addition of the above-mentioned requirements has actually led to the fact that the general design of many rifles is similar, and the difference is the details, especially the gap in bolt technology.

The three models in front of them all meet the requirements~www.wuxiaspot.com~ but it is difficult to choose which one to choose.

There is no doubt that the rifle with the best performance is the rifle designed by Professor Li Fu. In Li Xuan's view, this rifle is almost no different from the rifle used in World War I in later generations. Well, the caliber is larger. Point, this is because maroon powder is inferior to smokeless powder.

And Li Xuan can see it well, and others can also see it.

But here comes the problem, a lot of things are not just good, but also the cost.

Professor Li Fu is a professor at the Royal Institute of Technology. People are naturally at the forefront of research on guns, and all kinds of new technologies are piled up.

If nothing else, the machining accuracy of this musket is a super problem!

At present, among all the firearm factories in China, basically no factory can meet its high requirements.

The rifle designed by Professor Li Fu in front of me is good or not, but it is impossible to mass-produce it now. Even if it costs a lot of money to improve the craftsmanship, the final cost will be extremely high. .

The army has asked several arsenals to give the cost. Without considering the patent, the pure production cost, the cost of this rifle is afraid to reach more than 50 yuan, if you add the patent and the profit of the arsenal and other costs, etc. , the ex-factory price will reach more than 60 yuan.

This number is completely unacceptable to the Army!

You must know that the cost of producing a flintlock gun in Datang this year is only seven or eight yuan, and the cost of producing a Mini rifle is higher, but it is only ten yuan.

The price is so expensive that the army can't afford it!

Therefore, what the Army actually wants more is the design of the Hanyang Arsenal. Although the performance is poor in all aspects, it is barely usable and cheap enough.