In the Song Dynasty, people are lawless. Chapter 271 of the main text will crush them into the wheel of history. "Bang bang bang bang bang bang!"
Outside the capital of Bianliang, in the Firearms Department, Zeng Gongliang looked at the hundreds of targets that were pierced by bullets fifty steps away, his eyes full of calmness.
This is the nth time this experiment has been conducted.
In fact, the principles of firearms were known to people of the Song Dynasty, needless to say, Zhao Jun, and were recorded in "Wujing Zongyao".
Not to mention that the fire lance invented in the Southern Song Dynasty is the ancestor of firearms, the thunder bomb of the Northern Song Dynasty is actually gunpowder at the bottom. Once triggered, it will splash out ceramic fragments through the explosion.
Therefore, the people of the Song Dynasty understood very early that they could use the force generated by the explosion of gunpowder to propel something forward, and then use the propelled fragments to injure people.
However, the fire lance was not invented until the Southern Song Dynasty, and the barrel was made of bamboo, not the iron firearms of the later Ming Dynasty.
It’s not because the people of the Song Dynasty were not smart enough, but because the materials were not up to standard.
The ironware of the Northern Song Dynasty was crudely made, and even the carefully crafted swords were as fragile as paper when fighting with the enemy. A single collision could easily break them against the weapons of the Western Xia and Liao peoples.
Therefore, let alone making guns and cannons, even making swords and guns would be difficult, so it was naturally impossible to invent guns and cannons.
However, after Zhao Jun came to power, he paid close attention to the quality of ironware. Although he did not use coke to smelt iron, he was able to overtake others and build a small steel plant in Bianliang to produce better quality steel.
The primary supplier of these steels is the Firearms Department.
As a result, the Firearms Department finally abandoned expensive copper tools and began using steel to manufacture cannons and firearms.
Under the leadership of Zeng Gongliang, he invented the rifled gun, and directly skipped the matchlock gun and used flint. The maximum effective shooting range was about 400 meters, but the best range was 180 meters.
To make the mold for the gun barrel, the craftsman first uses steel to grind out a steel column about 1.2 cm thick, grinds out raised corrugated lines on the steel column, then sticks insulating clay on it, puts the steel column into the sleeve, and finally pours in molten steel.
This way, you get a gun barrel with a caliber of about 16mm and spiral rifling inside. The internal structure also consists of a flint clamp, flint, flint, powder pool, flint spring, spring, barrel, and buttstock.
The overall design of the gun is not much different from the Ming Dynasty flintlock rifle and the Western flintlock rifle of the same period in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The technical content is not very high, and the bullet is a specially designed Minié bullet.
Based on multiple tests.
The power of the flintlock rifle is impressive, and it has no problem dealing with cold weapons. Moreover, because it has a flint cap, it can be used even in windy and rainy weather, which is much stronger than the matchlock rifle.
But the defects are also obvious. The probability of the flint triggering ignition is not very high, only about 60% to 70%. If a thousand people shoot at once, if they are unlucky, most of them may not be able to fire, and they have to put the flint clip back in and fire again.
The reloading speed was also slow, and an experienced gunner could only fire 5 to 6 times a minute if the flint fired successfully every time. Under normal circumstances, if the flint fired failed, he could only fire 3 times.
In addition, the gunpowder pool needs to be cleaned after about 70 shots. Even though the granular gunpowder invented by Zhao Jun has a very high combustion rate, there is still some gunpowder residue, which can easily clog the barrel.
Therefore, when it comes to the power of firearms, the flintlock rifle still does not rank first.
However, before the invention of mercury fulminate, the flintlock rifle was already considered the king of firearms, and could almost completely replace cold weapons, and was more than enough to deal with the cavalry of the Western Xia and Liao peoples.
"Reporting to the commander, the shooting success rate has reached 70%. If we fire three times, it will be enough to cover the entire area within a hundred steps ahead!"
The new commander of the Firearms Battalion, Yang Wenguang, came to report the situation to Zeng Gongliang.
He now has a thousand musketeers and fifty artillerymen under his command. Facing the Liao cavalry, he is confident that he can make the other side pay a heavy price.
Zeng Gongliang's eyes were deep, and he nodded slightly, saying, "Well, you did a great job. I will report your contribution to the government."
"Thank you, Chisi."
Yang Wenguang was very happy.
Zeng Gongliang immediately returned to his barracks and began writing the report.
In May, before the development of modern sciences such as chemistry, mechanics, mechanics, and materials science, the research and development of firearms almost reached the peak of feudal society.
It's not just flintlock rifles. After years of research and development, cannons have also become increasingly advanced, and even shrapnel shells have been invented.
The shell is wrapped in a layer of iron sheet on the outside and contains gunpowder inside. The fuse is very long. After it is ignited, it is quickly placed into the barrel, and then the cannon is ignited to push the burning shell out.
Once it explodes in a crowd, the power it causes is enormous.
However, the actual killing power of shrapnel shells is still not as good as that of solid bullets. Therefore, solid bullets are still the main weapon in the current artillery team of the Song Dynasty.
On May 8, Zhang Kang was transferred to the position of Deputy Envoy of the Privy Council. Under the presidency of Fan Zhongyan, more than ten young generals who had made outstanding contributions in the Song-Xia War and the Song-Liao War, including Di Qing, Zhang Yu, Zhe Jimin, and Guo Zun, were transferred to form a new army.
The armaments of this new army will no longer be purchased from the original civilian population or various government-run workshops, but from the steel mills in Wu'an County, Hebei.
In addition to the steel mill, Zhao Jun has also ordered the Firearms Bureau to establish a subordinate state-owned firearms manufacturing company, which will set up a firearms manufacturing workshop in Wu'an. Some craftsmen and workshops in Bianliang will also be relocated there one after another.
After the morning court session, the Constitutional Court convened for another regular session. Zhao Jun, once again presiding, outlined the direction of this year's domestic governance.
Jia Changchao was the first to ask, "Zhiyuan?"
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