According to statistics from the General Staff, in actual combat, due to the fuse being extinguished, the flint being dull, the strength of the bolt leaf spring is reduced, the fire outlet of the medicine room is blocked, and the loading error of soldiers in a nervous mood, the average firing rate of the flint gun is no more than 70%, and the flintlock gun is much better, but no more than 80%.

However, if the firing gun, fuse, flint, leaf spring and medicine room fire outlet problems are completely solved, the soldiers do not need to fill the medicine into the medicine room, and the filling steps are easier, so many common problems can be solved.

Therefore, it is conservatively estimated that the fire hat firing gun can reach a firing rate of 90% or even 95%.

The Navy Arsenal used this to determine that this new musket was a very practical weapon, and invited Xu Shiyang to visit and suggest that it exert influence, and replaced the front-line troops with a large number of such weapons.

Of course, it is feasible to change clothes. It is rare that this is a qualified weapon developed by the designer of this time and space. Although Xu Shiyang has been guiding this aspect intentionally or unintentionally, and it has also increased the life-type of open fire and dark fire firing. In this regard alone, Xu Shiyang is relieved.

What's more, the fire hat firing gun has just appeared, and the arsenal has not yet discovered its deeper ability. Because it is a dark fire firing, the energy lost by traditional combs and flintlock guns due to not closing the medicine room can be saved on the fire hat firing gun. All of them are released on the barrel gap on the warhead and some energy will be lost. This is unsolvable before the metal shell bullet appears, which can enable the warhead to obtain a larger initial velocity, higher effective range and stronger power.

More importantly, after the fire hat firing gun appeared, the rifle could fully enter the Minie bullet era!

During the flintlock rifle, due to insufficient thrust of the launching drug, it was difficult to change the shape of the bullet by chemical energy to make it fit the gun chamber. There were flintlock rifles and firing smoothbore rifles in the past. However, Minie must have firing guns because of this. Therefore, the flintlock rifles equipped by the Qi army used a small number of flintlock rifles to force the silk-wrapped bullets into the barrel with a strip and a small hammer. It is easier to force the shape of the bullet to change the shape of the silk than to change the shape of the lead bullet. Moreover, the silk burned well and would not leave too much residue in the barrel. Historically, Europe wrapped the bullets in deer skin.

This kind of loading is really troublesome, and the shooting speed is scary. Therefore, although frontline soldiers generally report that the rifled rifle is shooting farther and more accurate, it is still not popular with the frontline. The firing rate of flintlock smoothbore rifle is slow enough. However, the interval between the two firing times is still enough for the smoothbore rifle to fire again.

But there is no need to do this for the fire cap firing gun. Compared with the extra kinetic energy of the flintlock gun, it can be used to directly change the shape of the lead bullet. Therefore, the conical Mineral bullets stuffed into the cork at the bottom can be entered into the grooves loaded by the Mineral bullets. They are not really used to fit the rifle.

The advantage of the war book brought by firing the rifled rifle Gamenie bullet can even change the strategy.

First of all, the Miner rifle can reach three times that of the flintlock smoothbore rifle in terms of effective range, and it still has a certain accuracy even 200 meters away.

This means that the party with Mine no longer has to stick to the "queuing and shooting" tactic. It is necessary to achieve a larger-scale scattered attack. Scattered soldiers can be used to complete the division and army.

And in the age of flintlock, a single gun was actually meaningless.

This leads to a second strategic advantage: militia with Minnie guns do not have to gather a queuing team to ensure the most basic firepower output, even if there are only one or two guns and single-digit personnel, they can exert high combat effectiveness.

If Minie guns are popular, an immigrant village can only have the minimum defense measures such as walls and other defenses, and then dozens of strong men will be combined with guns. Even hundreds of nomadic fishermen and hunters will have no choice but to use such a village.

The era when nomads can sing and dance generously and hospitality is coming.

For Qi, the benefits of Minie guns are more than that, because the production of Leigong Fire Hats requires a certain chemical industry foundation, and Minie, with a hollow cone at the bottom, can be made by itself with a simple mold.

Therefore, the cost of the enemy seizing our weapons in turn attacking us has greatly increased.

In the era of flintlock rifle, the enemy can make gunpowder and projectiles by themselves after seizing a gun until the gun is snatched back by the Qi army or the gun is completely scrapped, and the enemy can use it all the time.

But the firing gun is not good. As long as one of the seized projectiles and fire caps is used up, the gun will be useless. If you want to use it again, you can only remove the firing gun and reinstall the flintlock gun or even the flintlock gun.

By the same token, if the firing gun is sold to the outside world, as long as the buyer does not have the ability to produce fire hats, his military weapons supply will actually be in the hands of Xu Shiyang.

If a war breaks out in the future and Qi cuts off the fire hat to the other side, the most powerful weapon in the enemy's hands will become a fire stick!

To sum up, the mature fire hat firing rifle is not just a tactical weapon for Xu Shiyang. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a "strategic rifle"!

This weapon is so important that after Xu Shiyang saw the fire hat firing the gun, he immediately made up his mind to change his previous technical development style of trying only to guide and not plagiarize directly. He took one in the gun design and directly created Minie in one step.

"Rifle this gun."

Xu Shiyang ordered Tang Long directly:

"Before tomorrow, I will give you a bullet drawing. According to what I draw on the drawing, make me some bullets first and make twenty rounds, and then prepare a rifle of the same type without rifle. We will go to test it tomorrow afternoon."

"Bullet drawings?" Tang Long asked in confusion: "Aren't bullets all lead pills?"

"Don't ask about this, I'll talk about it after the test shot tomorrow."

Xu Shiyang asked:

"Who is the designer of this fire cap bolt?"

"He is a craftsman named Dai Zi. He is from Jiangnan. He used to work as a master craftsman in Jiangnan's military weapon supervisor. He was originally organized into the marriage ranks and was left here."

"Call him to the shooting range tomorrow."

That afternoon, Xu Shiyang received a letter from Quancheng. The person who wrote the letter was His Highness King Qi, saying that he was asking him to return to Quancheng to report his duties as soon as possible. The royal palace was waiting for Xu Shiyang to officially inform everyone of the good news of the demise of the Jin Kingdom.

Xu Shiyang scoffed at this. The news of the demise of the Jin Kingdom has long been known to everyone in the world. Which royal official still needs to inform the long-standing news himself?

With his eyes closed, he could guess that his father was looking for him to discuss what was nothing more than the destruction of the Jin Kingdom, and the King of Qi wanted to know when he would clearly support him ascend the throne and become emperor.

Proclaiming himself emperor may be a big deal for the King of Qi, but in Xu Shiyang's eyes, such a natural thing is far from the importance of the Minie rifle that improves the strategic environment.
Chapter completed!