Equipping the infantry with muskets and the cavalry with three-eyed guns, Li Chao has long been thinking about this matter.
Now that he has time, Li Chao also put this matter on the agenda.
"It's not good to forge muskets here, this should be the errand of the firearms supervisor."
Daddy said with some concern.
After all, the emperor had decreed before that the guards of the feudal domain were not allowed to use firearms.
Li Chao said, "Although I built a workshop here to make muskets, this is not your feudal casting, it is my army arsenal. ” To make a musket, it is actually not that difficult.
After all, what Li Chao wanted to cast was not an arquebus, but just a musket.
This thing is much less difficult, there are no complex bolt parts, and the barrel is also very short, so the requirements are much smaller.
You don't even need any special craftsmen, ordinary blacksmiths can do it, a few old blacksmiths, with a group of strong apprentices, you can start work.
However, for the sake of efficiency, Li Chao still plans to go directly to the water power workshop.
The castle is next to the river, and it is easy to build a hydro blacksmith.
Li surpassed the drawings, and then it took some time for a hydraulic forging workshop to rise.
In the Ming Dynasty, the three-eyed guns were generally cast copper, but copper was too expensive.
Datang lacks copper, and even the copper for casting money is not enough, how can there be any surplus materials to cast guns.
And if it is cast in copper, then the cost is higher, and the cost performance is not cost-effective.
After considering these factors, Li Chao finally decided to use iron directly as the barrel material.
There is iron in the castle.
The iron plates are cast directly with water power, and the edges of the iron plates are sloped, which is convenient for welding.
With the initial processing of the iron plate, it is also necessary to prepare a steel core, so that the iron plate is rolled on the steel core and heated and forged during welding.
"The steel core should be smaller than the size of the actual barrel, so that it is easy to drill later."
The hydraulic workshop also has a hydraulic forging hammer, which uses water power to drive the hammer, which greatly saves manpower.
After all, forging iron plates into rolls is a labor-intensive process.
If it is manual, then several big men take turns to forge, and they can't beat a few iron cylinders in a day, and the water power is different, and they can be continuously forged, and a piece of iron and copper is forged into a cylinder, and it doesn't take much time.
In the relatively simple workshop, Li Chao saw an old blacksmith clipping out the red-hot iron plate, putting it on the anvil, the forging hammer started, and the hammer was very stable at once, and the old blacksmith used iron tongs to control the movement, and soon, the iron plate became a U-shape.
At this time, the U-tube was withdrawn, and immediately replaced with another red-hot iron plate and continued to forge.
The U-shaped semi-finished product is passed on to the next process.
The steel core is inserted and then the forging process is carried out.
The cutting board used in this process is a semi-circular groove, which is a simple mold on which it is easier to forge.
It is still the use of hydraulic forging hammer, and the smooth forging of water power is used to greatly save time.
Looking at the smooth beating of the hydraulic forging hammer, even the old blacksmith couldn't help but sigh.
"This hydraulic hammer is so useful, ingenious.
In such a short time, a gun barrel is almost formed, and if it is manpower, a master and two apprentices will take at least half a day's work. ” Li Chao smiled, science and technology are productivity.
The barrel was almost forged, and the next step was to make the tail hammer with a wooden handle at the end of the barrel.
The barrel of the fire door was very short, and a wooden stick had to be inserted.
After the tail is welded, it is not finished.
Since the steel core is generally 16 mm, and the gun caliber is generally 18 mm, it is also necessary to drill the chamber.
"Why don't you just use a larger copper core, or just a smaller buckshot?"
someone asked.
Li Chao smiled, of course there is a reason for this, otherwise why bother.
An old blacksmith replied for Li Chao, "The barrel is forged with a copper core, and the barrel is not straight, so a small steel core is deliberately used, and then the chamber is drilled so that the barrel can be used." ” In fact, it can also be directly cast with a mold, but after casting, it is not so easy to drill the bore and drill the fire hole.
Drilling a bore is more cumbersome than forging a barrel, requiring an excellent drill bit and a long time.
Fortunately, Li Chao also went directly to the hydraulic drilling machine and gave the manual drill, which was not a little faster.
In the past, it took half a month to drill a gun chamber.
"With a hydraulic drilling machine, the speed is greatly increased, and if it weren't for the heating of the barrel of the borehole, we would have to stop drilling for a while to cool down, and we would have been able to drill many times a day.
Now a drilling machine can drill ten times a day, and one person can take care of several drilling machines at the same time. ” "If you want to increase production, you still need to add some drilling machines, and the drill bit consumption is very large."
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"Then add more drilling machines, don't worry about drill bits, I will build more batches from the steel mill with that money and send them over."
Cast iron plates, forged barrels, drilled chambers, assembled.
To manufacture a musket, these four major processes are required, and each major process is subdivided into multiple processes, in addition to steel cores, steel drills, and bayonets.
The bayonet is a copper-style short knife-shaped bayonet, which is a bayonet when it is put on a musket, and a short knife when it is removed.
The handle of the gun is not a simple wooden stick, but a bend, which makes it easy to hold the gun and improve accuracy.
The accuracy of the musket gun is not good, mainly because the gun is too simple, especially the handle of the gun is a wooden stick, and there is no fire rope, so it is very inconvenient to hold the gun and shoot, resulting in inaccurate accuracy.
Li Chao's improved buttstock and ignition arquebus made shooting more convenient and accurate.
Li Chao can be said to fully support this musket workshop, asking people to give people, and materials to give materials.
"How many Great Wall-style muskets can be produced in a month, and how many Yanshan-style three-eyed guns can be produced" It took so much effort to form a yield.
If it can't be equipped in large quantities, then this musket is meaningless.
"If we add forging hammers and drilling machines, and keep up with materials such as iron, then we can produce 3,000 barrels a month."
Three thousand barrels are very good in the eyes of the craftsman.
It is this barrel that limits the production of muskets, and when the barrel is produced, then it is assembled.
After all, the wooden handle is actually very simple, even if it is a bayonet, it is just an ordinary knife with a little production process.
Li Chao shook his head.
"Three thousand branches are not enough, I can add some more forging hammers for you, and I can also increase the drilling machine, and I can meet the steel cores and steel drills you need, and the iron is not a problem, but I need to increase the output.
At least 5,000 sticks a month, and after half a year, the monthly output will be at least 10,000 sticks. ” A group of craftsmen were all stunned by Li Chao's request. 5,000 branches in a month, 10,000 branches in a month half a year, how much is this to build?
"The more the merrier" The musket has to have a numerical advantage, and without quantity there is no superiority.
After all, compared to bows and arrows, short range and low accuracy are also a big problem.
But muskets also have benefits, that is, after having muskets, Li Chao can be a violent soldier.
Recruits are recruited in, and at most three months, they can go into battle with muskets, and the Pingliao phalanx can also beat the Turkic cavalry and Goguryeo cavalry.
Even sooner, the recruits will be able to use muskets in a month.
But if it is an archer, it will take at least one to three years, and even if it is an ordinary pikeman, it is difficult to go into battle without more than half a year of training.
After all, pikemen have to be a close-range white-knuckle battle, which tests the psychological quality of soldiers.
As for the musketeers, they are considered long-range troops, and there is still a big difference between close-range combat and long-range combat.
"The output is more important, the quality is more important, although our musket is built by the assembly line division of labor, but each process must be strictly inspected, and the barrel must be inscribed with the manufacturer's work number.
At that time, if there is a problem with the firearm, the responsibility will be investigated according to the work number. ” "If you don't do well, you will be punished, and if you do well, you will be rewarded.
In addition to the basic salary of each of you, I also give you a commission, which is set according to the output, and the more you produce, the more reward you get.
After building a musket workshop, Li Chao drew a drawing of a lead bullet mold and sent it back to Li Ji's steel factory to make a large number of such molds.
Although the barrel was hydraulically forged, the barrel was not uniform, so lead bullets were not completely universal.
It can only be a soldier with a gun, with a mold, and then give the lead bar, let them melt the lead and cast the lead bullet themselves.
After visiting the entire musket factory, Li Chao was very satisfied.
He called a few craftsmen over and took out a drawing and handed it to them.
"Look at this, can you make it?"
The craftsmen looked at the drawings with puzzled expressions.
"It's a musket" "No, you see there's the size data on this, it's artillery.
It was cast in copper, and then stone projectiles were fired, which were fired with gunpowder. ” The one Li Chao took out was a relatively simple cannon, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a mortar cannon.
This cannon was not an ordinary smoothbore gun, he had a shorter barrel but a larger muzzle.
Just like Li Chao casting a musket instead of a arquebus, the technology is insufficient.
It was not possible to manufacture long barrels in large quantities, so short-barreled muskets were cast.
The current technology also can't cast a long-barreled cannon, and the longer the barrel, the more difficult the casting technology, so Li Chao plans to cast a mortar cannon.
The tube is short and the mouth is large.
This kind of artillery has a large angle of fire and a high ballistic arc, and is used to bombard targets that are relatively close, with obstacles in the middle and cannot be fired horizontally.
When attacking a city, you can even directly bombard the city by going over the city walls.
The drawing that Li Chao took out was a lighter mortar, but the body of the cannon still weighed 600 catties, like a big bell.
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Equipped with a four-wheeled wooden gun carriage, this cannon amounted to more than 1,000 catties.
However, this range is also very long, at an angle of 45 degrees, and it can reach one or two miles.
"One or Two Miles" "Stone-loaded projectiles can be fired up to two miles.
If you install iron sand, then the range is much shorter, and it can still reach 100 steps. ” However, this kind of artillery also has relatively big shortcomings, although it is lighter, but more than 1,000 catties is still very bulky.
Moreover, there is a common disadvantage of mortars, that is, the accuracy is extremely poor, and it is basically impossible to achieve accurate strikes.
But every weapon has its advantages, and the advantage of the mortar is that it can be projectile like a catapult, which is excellent for siege.
Although the accuracy is not high, the range is quite long, and if there are enough of them, it is still terrifying.
Li Chao plans to cast a few doors first and see the actual effect.
If it's easy to use, you can cast a few more, get some experience, and study the flat artillery.
If there are guns and artillery, then they complement each other.
Looking back, you can study the Tiger Squat Cannon, which is very light, it can be equivalent to a mortar in front of the battle, and it can also be equivalent to a heavy machine gun when loaded with iron sand.
In particular, this gun is light, easy to carry, and can be used in field battles.
The production of this kind of cannon is not big, but the cost is not small.
However, if you want to build a firearms army, you can't do without artillery, especially if you have to have field artillery.
Let the musket factory practice their skills first, and when they are familiar with their craft, they will be able to cast artillery guns. t1706231537: