Chapter 529 Gun for Gun Quanxu seems to be a person who is fine, of course, this is only a superficial phenomenon.With the use of the steam engine, the development of Liaodong can be regarded as a hanging.For example, in the manufacture of ships, sawing wood into timber requires a huge amount of manpower, even if a hydraulic saw is used, the efficiency is not high.However, the efficiency of the large mechanical saw driven by the steam engine is dozens of times higher than that of water conservancy, and it is not affected by the climate.Even if it is the Liaohe River, it will also be frozen, and when it is frozen, there is no way to use hydraulic machinery, however, the entire ice period in Liaodong is close to four months, which means that there is no way to use hydraulic machinery for one-third of the year.In this case, there are serious constraints on production efficiency, and the steam engine has no concerns and no problems in this regard.At present, the musket of the main equipment of the soldiers of the whole family army is a rifled breech-loading flintlock pistol, and this kind of musket plate machine and bayonet holder have been changed a lot, and it is very comfortable to use anyway.Bullets, because the miniaturization problem of thundermercury has not been solved, still take lead bullets, this bullet is a pointed concave bottom bullet, the advantage of this bullet is that the armor-piercing ability is very strong, even if it is a three-layer armor Jiannu white armor soldier, can also be knocked down with one shot, and the pointed concave bottom bullet will roll irregularly after entering the human body, and even burst open, into the thumb is a small hole, through but it is a large hole in the mouth of the bowl, and it is not uncommon to be shot with internal organs flying out of the back.But this buckshot is very soft and can be flattened with a single force.Wrapped in linen soaked in tung oil, it can easily be loaded into the chamber of a gun.The most unique thing is that a hole the size of a pin's eye is dug at the bottom of the concave, and when the impact is fired, the gas explodes into the small hole, and the lead bullet is heated, expanded, and embedded in the rifling just right, and rotates at high speed and roars out.It's basically the same routine as the Minnie gun.Because the gunpowder of the whole family army adopts a new type of fire brocade, the fire wool is not easy to mute the fire, the fire cotton is a good thing, the production is simple, the power is huge, the residue after the explosion is very small, it is easy to keep the chamber clean, it is very ideal gunpowder.The explosion speed of fire brocade is faster and more rapid than black powder, so the requirements for the barrel and chamber are higher, and better quality alloy steel is required.Of course, the benefits are still obvious, the range of the flintlock pistol has been increased by more than half, due to the high power, the muzzle velocity given to the projectile is naturally greater, and the bullet can easily hit more than seven to eight hundred meters away, an ordinary soldier uses it to shoot at a chest target one hundred and fifty meters away, and at least eight out of ten bullets can hit the target!
This also means that the pattern of queuing and shooting has been subversive, the enemy is still 300 meters away, the whole family army of musketeers can give the enemy a huge damage with a fierce platoon of guns, when the enemy arrives close to 100 meters, they will be greeted by accurate shooting, they will fall in pieces with each step forward.That's not all, the musketeer also has a special feature, it does not produce smoke when it bursts into flames, so the musketeers do not have to worry about being obscured by the smoke bursting from the muzzle, as long as the barrel is not hot enough to detonate the chamber, they can keep firing until the enemy corpses are covered in the battlefield.Because the process of flintlock pistol is more complicated and the requirements for processing accuracy are relatively high, the Liaodong Military Factory has spent a lot of effort and can only produce eight to 1,000 pieces a month, which is still the result of a large number of hydraulic machinery and assembly line operations.However, with the advent of the steam engine, this situation was completely improved, and the whole family military gun manufacturing plant, one production line could produce 800 to 1,000 units a month, and there were five such production lines.This means that the gun manufacturing of the whole family army can produce enough musketeers to meet the needs of an integrated brigade every month.Although it is still as efficient as later generations, it is enough to crush everything in this era.Flintlock pistols will become the mainstream equipment of European armies in the next two decades, but rifled flintlock pistols are scorpion shit.The number of muskets is actually not the most deadly, the most lethal is gunpowder, a new type of gunpowder, and everything is fine with cotton wool, but dry cotton wool is very dangerous, and a little spark will explode, so it must be kept slightly wet, or treated with a methanol neutralizing mixture to reduce its sensitivity, otherwise it will definitely die.It's a pity that the output of nitric acid is too low, and Quan Xu's strength to eat milk has been exhausted, and the money spent is only a little less than that of the steam engine, which is as much as more than 300,000 taels of silver.Now Liaodong can only produce 6.5 to 8 tons of nitric acid a month at most, even if all this nitric acid is used to make cotton wool, it can't do much, and it can only be more than 20 tons, what can it be used for?
Nowadays, the whole family army alone has more than 600 naval guns on the main battleships, and more than 300 army artillery, of course, if you count mortars, that number is even larger.Fortunately, a large number of artillery pieces were purchased by later generations, otherwise, a military exercise could consume seventy-seven, eighty-eight.Despite this, the arquebus made of 26 mm seamless steel pipes for the whole family has been completely retired from active service and has become the main equipment of the militia.Of course, the musket technology of the Spaniards was not advanced, and the number of muskets sent to Jiannu would be very limited.Helena is a very trustworthy person, and during this time, she successively sent a thousand and fifty-seven European shire horses to Quanxu, which made the military ecstatic as soon as they appeared.Although this kind of Shire horse is average, it can't even outrun the short Mongolian horse, mainly because the Shire horse is too heavy, so it is more difficult to run.It's very good to pull a cart hard, or plough the land, and England is an island nation that, at its strongest, has a million Shire horses.Of course, the number of horses in Liaodong now is more than one million, and there are tens of thousands of people who are responsible for the maintenance of horses alone.The shire horses caused a sensation, and some people even did not hesitate to buy one for 20,000 taels of silver, so they refused to sell this batch of shire horses, of course, the shire horses that Helena sent to Liaodong were actually not cheap.A full 3,000 taels of silver, these silver are used to purchase cement, anyway, the actual cost of cement is very low, more than eighty percent is labor cost, with the use of steam engines, this cost can be further reduced.For example, when crushing, a steam engine crusher can help 500 people work day and night.Overall, Quanxu still makes a lot of money.It is completely inappropriate to say that there is no guard against Huang Taiji, at least the four brigades of the cavalry of the whole family army have been canceled from vacation and entered a state of first-level combat readiness.Under the leadership of Qi Yuanbi, the cavalry of the whole family army began to conduct exploratory reconnaissance in the direction north of Meituo Lake, and at the same time, the three infantry brigades of the second echelon of the whole family army also began to advance eastward and northward as a whole.More than 60,000 elite infantry troops in seven brigades, in Quan Xu's mind, should be enough to deal with Jiannu's possible counterattack.Of course, the wartime system of the whole family army is already complete, and if the wartime is unfavorable, Quan Xu can arm eight to ten infantry brigades.Use the tactics of the sea of people to drown the Jiannu.In the middle of summer in July, the weather was hot, and the breeze was hot and dry, so that Quan Xu lay in the pool and didn't want to come out.The open-air swimming pool in Wuwei Hou's Mansion is actually exclusive to Quan Xu alone, Zhu Weiyuan can't pull down her face, and she doesn't need to swim.As for Erniang, she also doesn't like to mess around with Quan Xu.Sanniang seems to be busier, she is now the backbone of women in Liaodong, specializing in upholding justice for those women who have deep grievances and mediating family conflicts between the soldiers and soldiers of the whole family.With the improvement of the welfare system of the whole family, these family soldiers have become rich, many people have become families, and some people have taken concubines.It is inevitable that there will be problems of this and that kind at home, and when this kind of thing is encountered, the ancient government will not take care of it, otherwise, there will be no clean officials who are difficult to judge family affairs.Nowadays, more and more families of military women have become an association, and they meet from time to time to complain about their misfortunes or ask for help.Quan Xu is standing on the position of male identity, and also occupies a secular position, the whole family can take concubines and spoil concubines, but they can't kill their wives because of favored concubines.Sanniang actually replaced Quan Xu and exercised his will."
Plop ......"
Just as Jeon Wook was lying in the pool, a cloud of water splashed on his face.Jeon Wook opened his eyes and found that Helena had jumped into the pool in a tight swimsuit.She has a good water nature, swimming happily like a fish, or butterfly, or breaststroke, or backstroke......
"Helena, why are you here?"
”Helena smiled as she swam, "Can't I come?"
”Quan Xu raised his head and looked in the direction of Gong Wei, and the red clothes looked like they were gritting their teeth, staring at Helena.At this time, Hongyi was cursing Helena, a shameless woman, in circles, and was secretly anxious for Zhu Weiyuan."
And then?""
And then?"
Helena swam to Quan Xu's side, reached out and grabbed the watermelon juice that Quan Xu put on the shore, she didn't seem to treat herself as an outsider, she directly picked it up and drank it all: "I want to buy your new naval gun, one hundred and thirty mm twenty-eight times the diameter, breech-loading rifled gun" Quan Xu sighed: "Oh, Miss Helena, why are you here again?"
Didn't I tell you, it's really not a matter of money, once the technology of this weapon is leaked, the entire mode of war will change, and my country will face great dangers, and no amount of money can be sold!
”Helena leaned forward, blew into Jeon Wook's ear, and chuckled, "That'......
Then we will take what we need, I will give myself to you, and you will sell me the cannon, shall we?
”"This is, cannon for cannon?"
Quan Xu shook his head: "I have a wife!"
And there's more than one!
”"What's that, I can be your lover
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