With a gunshot, a 15mm lead bullet flew quickly over a distance of 20 steps, accurately hitting a human-shaped target made of thick wooden boards.

Driven by strong chemical energy, the lead bullet penetrated a 20-mm thick locust wood, and a large hole was created at the left shoulder of the human-shaped target.

This is the weapon test site in Xujia No. 5 Tun.

Xu Shiyang is leading a group of officers and craftsmen to test new weapons here.

“The power remains undiminished.”

After firing a shot, Xu Shiyang held the newly-made flintlock pistol in his right hand and pulled the hammer with his left hand, and once watched the flint hit the bolt's scythe, splashing sparks and falling into the open medicine room.

Of course, at this time he did not load the induction medicine, nor the launch medicine or bullets, so he could not fire at all.

Xu Shiyang exclaimed with satisfaction:

"The strength of the leaf spring is also good. Lao Zhang, you are amazing!"

Zhang Blacksmith, who was standing aside, finally felt relieved. He bowed to Xu Shiyang and said with a smile: "This is all the credit of my boss. The leaf spring does not need to be used well. It is okay to attach some carbon to the cooked iron (the carburized iron is indeed enough). In fact, some threads in the bolt are more troublesome."

"Your boss?" Xu Shiyang nodded: "I don't care who you want to give me credit. What I want is the result. Now that there are results, I will reward you. Since you say it is his credit, it is him. He will be promoted to another level and give him the treatment of a sergeant."

"Lord of Fortress!" Zhang Blacksmith smiled and his face was full of blossoms.

"If you have time, you can gather all the craftsmen to communicate with you and think of ways to see if you can build a thread-tapping machine. This thing is really not possible by hand. If you can do it, I can give it to a major."

As soon as these words were said, everyone present's eyes turned red.

The major ranks seventh in the 18th level system, and is now at the level of a fortress or a new military battalion commander. You should know that now there is only one head of the family and one lieutenant colonel Xu Shiyang. If there is really a major level, it can rank among the top ten in the entire family.

"After the precedent is opened, it should be much easier in the future." Xu Shiyang waved the flintlock rifle in his hand and said loudly: "The production of the bolt is on the agenda. People with blacksmith experience are recruited from refugees, as well as half-aged children aged 14 to 18 to join the craftsman team."

"The flintlock bolt is about to start mass production now. Anyone who thinks of any good idea can take it out and try it out. It doesn't matter if it is wrong. If it is right, I will give you a reward. Is there any problem?"

"Commander, the induction medicine of this flintlock rifle cannot use our previous gunpowder." Gongsun Sheng whispered: "In the past, the fire gate gun and the colloid gun were both open fire and directly ignited the induction medicine. This flintlock gun relied on Mars to splash into the medicine pool. The gunpowder was too rough before."

This is also the truth. The gunpowder used by Xu Shiyang just fired was obviously much more detailed than the ones he used before.

"The fine medicine needs to be finely ground, which is both labor-consuming and dangerous." Gongsun Sheng continued: "The yield is very low."

"I don't know the details of craftsmen, but I think these are all difficulties that can be solved." Xu Shiyang said carelessly: "Before the increase in the output of fine medicines, we should introduce fine medicines to the use of medicinal medicines and launch old medicines. We should push this for a while, but I must have your gunpowder team think of ways to increase the yield of fine medicines."

In the history of another plane, Europe began to equip flintlock rifles on a large scale in the mid-17th century. Their gunpowder technology level at that time was not necessarily much better than Xu Shiyang. There was no reason why Xu Shiyang could not do what they could do.

It is nothing more than a question of technical unfamiliarity and production scale.

Xu Shiyang can grasp some technical directions, but don’t expect him to search and throw papers and drawings to craftsmen like a search engine.

For technical details, we can only leave the craftsmen to find solutions themselves. At most, Xu Shiyang advocates everyone to work together and brainstorm.

As for the army, it is still in the stage of using whatever craftsmen provide, and there is still time to slowly lay a solid foundation for the craftsmen.

"This year is not yet available." Xu Shiyang announced loudly to the leadership of Xinjun and the Fifth Tun: "Wait until next year, I plan to ask the head of the family to gather all the craftsmen and apprentices in one place to form a Xinjun craftsman camp."

"The Craftsman Camp is on par with the Field Camp. But whoever this battalion commander belongs to depends on your performance this year."

Wow…….

There was a burst of marvel at the scene.

...

After seeing the flintlock rifle, Xu Shiyang immediately rushed to Luoshui River, where a group of craftsmen were building water trucks.

No matter what it is, as long as you want to manufacture it on a large scale, the most basic question is how to improve motivation.

It is not unreasonable that the other plane regards steam and electricity as symbols of two industrial revolutions.

Human and animal power are limited after all, and the continuous output power is never as good as machines. Water trucks that directly use natural power are much better in this regard. When the steam engine dare not even think about it, Xu Shiyang could only choose to try his best to use the hydraulic power.

On the way to the water truck construction site, several craftsman leaders were still following him, and Xu Shiyang walked while instructing future weapons production.

"If the flintlock rifle is to be built, but if the output of the bolt cannot be increased, the production of the mesh gun should not be stopped."

"I will build twenty flintlock pistols first, and the barrel will be cut off the rifle directly. I will go to Jiangnan soon and be in a hurry."

"The short flintlock rifles for cavalry are also built first, so that the cavalry can apply it. The barrel length is only half or two-thirds of the rifle."

It is basically impossible to operate the clamp gun smoothly when riding on a horse, so the cavalry musket must be a spring rifle or a flintlock rifle at the minimum. Since the Xu family's technology tree jumps over the spring rifle directly, it is natural to equip the cavalry with a flintlock rifle.

"How is the rifle I mentioned?" Xu Shiyang asked whatever he thought.

"Rifle is not difficult." Tang Long, who has become one of the blacksmiths' leaders, replied: "It's just that I've seen those guns, and pulling them out of the rifle is actually a bit more worthwhile."

The bullets of the rifled rifle need to be bitten, but with the current accuracy of the bullet processing can't be done. If you want to exert the power of the rifle, you have to use a small hammer to force a large lead bullet into the barrel. One shot of such a rifle is enough to fire three shots of a smoothbore gun.

Moreover, if the bullet is not fired smoothly after the loading is completed, you may have to laugh when you want to get the bullet out again.

"Make a few first and try it out." Xu Shiyang ordered: "You can try to make some improvements in bullets, such as wrapping leather on the bullets, so that the bullets will be easier to bite the bullets."

The best way is of course to use a Minie bullet, which is actually not difficult to make, but the Minie bullet bites the chamber and requires strong chemical energy to change the warhead shape. The airtightness of the flintlock rifle cannot exert the power of Minie at all. This is also the reason why almost all the Minie bullets used are fire hats to fire the gun.

The current chemical industry of the Xu family cannot provide sufficient number of fire hats, so the Miner technology can only be lowered.
Chapter completed!