Chapter 23: Du version of the pistol and Zhu Ge's repeated crossbow
The weapons that Chongzhen and Wang Chengen were accompanied by four "Du Edition" Type 44 pistols and two "Brother Zhu" crossbows.
The "Du Version" Type 44 pistol is a rear-mounted rifled pistol, using "Du Version" copper-shelled bullet. To implement this "Tiger's Escape" plan, it is extremely dangerous to defend yourself without a suitable portable weapon. Nowadays, bandits are everywhere, and local militias are used to blocking the road and robbing, let alone encountering Dashun's army. In short, you must have good portable weapons. For this reason, Fang Yizhi once suggested bringing a few more fire-pulling grenades, and Wang Chengen was happy when he heard this. When you take out your grenade and pull the fire, your head would have moved long ago. Besides, this thing is heavy and you can't bring a few. There is no way, Wang Chengen had to let the "Du Version" Type 44 pistol be out of the cage in advance.
The performance of life-saving weapons must be guaranteed, and it is certain that they cannot explode the chamber. At the same time, they must ensure range, shooting accuracy and firepower continuity.
To ensure the range, you must have a certain caliber. Finally, the caliber is set at about 20 mm and the length of the barrel is set at about 200 mm.
To ensure the accuracy of the shooting, you must be rifled. Wang Chengen remembered the method described by Wu Yunduo in "Dedicating Everything to the Party" in later generations, and asked Master Lin from the "Chongzhen Woodworking Institute" to first make a spiral model, then hand it over to Fang Yizhi, using the lost wax method to make a copper guide sleeve with internal spiral grooves, and then make a copper spiral rod. At the same time, make a steel knife head that can be installed at one end of the spiral rod. Wang Chengen can rifle the barrel on the wooden pulling bed customized by the "Chongzhen Woodworking Institute". Fang Yizhi made arrangements for public and private affairs and rushed to do the fine iron gun barrel and all the tools Wang Chengen asked for. Wang Chengen started to rifle the barrel in his own mansion. The wooden pulling bed was of course exaggerated. The so-called pulling bed was just a rack used to fix the barrel and guide sleeve. It was not scientific to pull, and it should be squeezed.
After fixing the barrel and the guide sleeve with spiral grooves on the pulling bed, oil and lubricate the spiral guide sleeve and barrel, and then install a round head and square tail fine steel quenching knife head in the square mouth of one end of the spiral rod. A small tip protrudes from the circumference of the knife head along the four equal parts of the arc. At this time, insert the spiral rod with the knife head into the guide sleeve. When the knife head contacts the inner hole of the barrel, use a hammer to hit the tail end of the spiral rod, slowly squeeze out four spiral marks in the barrel, and squeeze out three or five times again until smooth and stop. After extruding the first spiral pattern, replace it with a slightly larger knife head to squeeze out a deeper spiral pattern. This will be repeated many times, and a barrel with four repetition lines will be declared made.
Secondly, of course, the bullet's fire hat problem is naturally not difficult. Wang Cheng'en. The "Du Edition" Type 44 bullet uses a copper shell, drilling a small hole at the tail of the copper shell, and stuffing a 15-mm-long plug into the copper shell. The plug is made of two halves, and a semicircular groove with a diameter of about 4 mm is opened in the middle of the two halves to form a small hole with a diameter of 4 mm. The circumference of the small hole is flint sand particles and gunpowder bonded with resin. This design continues to follow the design idea of the "Du Edition" fire-pulling grenade. The warhead is a conical bullet, which has two types of conical lead bullets and conical copper bullets. The lethality is larger than the conical lead bullet, but the residual lead slag rifle is left, so it is mostly equipped with copper bullets. Since the shell is larger than the bullet, the bullet chamber is larger than the gun chamber.
When the bullet is loaded, it is stuck in the chamber and cannot move forward. When the striker quickly hits the bullet, it first passes through the small hole of the copper shell, and then rubs with the flint sand particles around the small hole of the wood plug to make a fire, ignite the launching medicine, and then launches the bullet out of the chamber. When the launcher burns, press the plug, the plug presses the striker and then closes the gas, and the copper shell also expands under pressure, so the sealing gas does not leak. Therefore, the gas leakage is very small, and the launching effect is good. However, this friction fire requires a high initial velocity, so the spring requirements are high. Wang Chengen can only design a reinforced leaf spring made of four copper leaf springs, so the striker has enough impact force, which greatly improves the reliability of the fire. Even so, there is still a silence rate of more than ten percent.
There are also great things to load bullets. After Wang Chengen introduced the method of granulating and drying black gunpowder to Fang Yizhi, Fang Yizhi asked his subordinates to do the same and got the best black gunpowder. Wang Chengen and Fang Yizhi worked very late every day, and they were loading bullets at home. This was the most lethal "weapon of mass destruction" of this era and could not spread casually.
Another prominent problem is that the firing pin is very easy to damage. Every 30 shots, one firing pin must be replaced. There is no way. The result of the friction between iron and flint is that the firing pin is pulled until it is scrapped. I had no choice but to equip more firing pins, and a gun is equipped with twenty firing pins. If it is broken, it will be replaced immediately. It is just a nail-like thing. But when it is on the line of fire, the enemy soldiers are coming, but they still have to rush to change the firing pins before firing, and I feel very depressed.
Fortunately, this Type 44 pistol is powerful, with a range of about 100 meters and a good accuracy. If it is simple as self-defense, in this era, the lethality of this pistol is already outstanding. After repeated testing in the hole and a little improvement in details, time hastily and there are still many flaws, but it can only be done.
Chongzhen's crossbow is mainly used for backup. If the pistol does not have bullets or cannot make guns, the crossbow must be used. The crossbow is a continuous launch design of ten crossbow arrows, which is to copy the "Zhuge Crossbow" verified by later generations. This crossbow simply adopts a connecting rod structure, which really has no technical content. Therefore, this crossbow without technical content was produced by the "Chongzhen Woodworking Institute". Chongzhen tried and modified it while trying, but was discovered by the Dashun paparazzi in the process.
Chongzhen had no choice but to say that it was created by his "Brother Zhu's Brother". This crossbow called "Brother Zhu" seems a bit inappropriate, but it can be called "Brother Zhu". Later, Dashun also created "Brother Zhu" according to the same method. There are inevitably rumors among them. Some people know it is called "Brother Zhu" and some people think it is called "Zhuge Crossbow". Anyway, there is no difference in pronunciation. You don't know whether people are called the genuine "Brother Zhu" or the pirated "Zhuge Crossbow".
Today, although Chongzhen and Wang Chengen look like vendors on the outside, they can be said to be fully armed. Gong Daming in his previous life was a "hiker" and in terms of wild adventures, Gong Daming was an expert. A group of hikers often organize adventure camping and regard it as the most joy, so Gong Daming has rich experience in exploring.
Walking north, I stopped first when I found the situation, and after the alarm disappeared, I continued to move forward. Fortunately, there was no trace of people along the way, and as a result, the entire Hebei was ravaged by the Qing soldiers four times. In addition, the natural disasters have long been sparsely populated, and some places are not crowded for dozens of miles, which is not uncommon.
After walking out for more than ten miles, I suddenly heard a sound of horse hooves coming from far to near, as if to rush straight to this side. I saw a road lying in front of me under the ridge in front of me. After a while, I saw some black dots appear in front of me and quickly moved closer to this side. The two hurriedly hid behind the bushes, took out crossbows and pistols from their bags, held their breath, and aimed at the front to prevent accidents. Chongzhen found himself and Wang Chengen on the same slope, with many shrubs and thatchs on the slope, which was convenient for concealment. The avenue under the slope was about four or five meters wide and a rock hill opposite. Gong Daming used to hunt wild boars with his "hikers" and had a set of research on hunting, such as how to choose a hunting hiding place, wind direction and smell, and he had a clear mind. He said to Wang Chengen gently: "Don't make a sound, look at me, don't move around."
The three riders in front were getting closer and closer, and there were ten riders chasing behind them. The ten riders seemed to be faster, and the distance was getting closer and closer. Not far ahead, one of the three riders said:
"Da Gang, we two stopped the bandits for a while and asked Er Gang to go and deliver the letter soon. Er Gang, you go first, please ask the Zhao family to come and help as soon as possible. Hurry up, Er Gang go quickly."
Ergang hit the horse and shouted: "Uncle Liu, brother, take care of yourself!" Then he ran away from the horse.
The man named Liu Uncle and Dagang blocked the bandits in the middle of the road to block the bandits. The bandits were approaching, and a man with a leader and a long scar on his face screamed:
"Niu Jinsuo, you take Lin Caiwu and Xu Long around and catch up with that boy and kill him. The others will join me in killing these two dishes!"
Uncle Liu shouted, "You bandits who kill without blinking, I will fight with you." He raised his sword and urged the horse to get on.
The bandits urged the horses to move forward and flipped over in a fan shape.
Uncle Liu made full use of the terrain and his hands were also very good. Even the scar-faced leader, four bandits resisted him from both sides and were not defeated for a while. The side called Dagang was not good at riding and kung fu, and he was at a disadvantage after a few rounds and turns. Three bandits surrounded him, and Dagang could not care about this side, but he could not care about that side. He stood up and stood up and slashed from the side. Dagang barely avoided. The bandit had another knife with his backhand. With a "click", one of Dagang's arm was cut off, and his arm flew straight towards Wang Chengen with the rest of his power. Wang Chengen had never seen such a bloody scene before. He was so scared that he shivered, his face pale, and he was nauseated, and he was about to vomit.
Chongzhen focused on watching the battle, but did not pay attention to Wang Chengen. He turned around and found that Wang Chengen was wrong. However, when Chongzhen first came out of the cage and was bound, he had no reason to draw his sword and arouse his grudges. After he had made up his mind, he said to Wang Chengen: "Don't be afraid, it's like this for the first time I saw blood. Let's take action, I will be responsible for killing three. You can save yourself."
Chongzhen took the crossbow, aimed in his hand, and shot an arrow, and took the man who was cutting Dagang. He saw a crossbow arrow suddenly on the man's forehead. One of them shook and fell off the horse. The other two did not come back to their senses. Chongzhen fired two more arrows in a row. One bandit subconsciously avoided it and was shot on the shoulder, while the other arrow was aimed at the horse. A crossbow arrow shot into his head from the horse's ears. The horse was in pain. The man stood up and threw the bandits on the horse. Wang Chengen looked at Chongzhen in front of him and was immediately full of admiration. He didn't know that Gong Daming and Coach Xie of the archery team were loyal friends. One of the scrapped bows and arrows eliminated from the archery team's training fell into Gong Daming's hands and became a weapon of Gong Daming's "hiker" group. Although Gong Daming's archery skills at hand were not as good as professional players, they were ranked among the enthusiasts.
Uncle Liu heard Dagang's scream just now, and when he turned around, he saw Dagang's arm gone. He was immediately chopped off his back. The knife was slashed straight from his back until his waist, and he suddenly felt pain in his bones. He quickly rode his horse to the side. When the bandits on this side saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, they slapped the horse and rushed to the knife. Chongzhen saw it clearly, and raised his hand and shot an arrow. The crossbow arrow penetrated the bandit's neck. The bandit opened his mouth and groaned and fell off the horse.
Seeing Chongzhen so brave, Wang Chengen was frightened seven or eight points in his heart. He hurriedly took out his pistol and aimed at another bandit who besieged Uncle Liu. The "Ting-Team" shot, but nothing was found. Before he could get the bullet, he picked up another pistol with a bullet and shot again. This time, he hit a bandit in the back with one shot. This was a lead bullet. The lead bullet drilled into the back. The deformed lead bullet rolled in his body when it encountered resistance, and then drilled out in the chest, bringing out a piece of flesh and blood. The bandit declared reimbursement at that time.
Chongzhen thought to himself, why did he use this kind of killer before he could use a pistol? What if he attracts more bandits? But since he has used them all, Wang Chengen can finally help, kill the weeds and get rid of the roots, and he has to deal with these bandits as soon as possible, and no one of them can escape.
So he shot out all the remaining crossbow arrows in the crossbow, and then he knocked down two more bandits. Seeing that the remaining bandit leader was about to escape, Chongzhen picked up the pistol and pulled the trigger, but it didn't fire. He was fucked! At the critical moment, he had to pick up another pistol and shoot the running horse. The bullet was also a lead bullet. After hitting it, the horse fell to the ground and threw the bandit leader to the ground. Uncle Liu rushed over and killed him with one knife. Dagang here did not let the bandits who fell to the ground. The injured and uninjured ones were all killed on the head and took his life.
Uncle Liu bowed to the slope and said, "Which hero can help me? Thank you for your help! I will kill all the three bandits in front of you, and then meet your benefactor."
After saying that, he ran away and went to chase the bandits who were taking a detour to chase Ergang.
Dagang lost his arm and did not bandage him. At this time, he lost too much blood and was about to roll off the horse. Chongzhen saw it and told Wang Chengen: "I'll go down and take a look, you'll be warned." After that, he ran down the slope, came to the front of the horse, and helped Dagang off the horse. Wang Chengen held a pistol and put on bullets, but did not go forward, but was still hiding behind the bushes, alerting the movements around him.
When Uncle Liu returned, Chongzhen had applied Dagang's medicine and bandaged it. Uncle Liu had a new injury on his body, but fortunately he did not hurt the vital points. Uncle Liu turned over and dismounted, and bowed: "Thank you for helping this hero. I'm not able to repay you for your life. How dare you ask your benefactor Gao's name?"
Chongzhen hurriedly helped him up, and a heroic spirit of a hero from the world rose in his heart, saying:
"When you see unfairness on the road, you can draw your sword to help you. This is the morality of the world, and you don't have to thank you! Hello, have you caught up with those three bandits just now?"
"I've been killed, and then I'll turn around. Ergang was rushing to Zhaojiabao to report the news."
After saying that, he felt dizzy and fainted. He was seriously injured on his back, so he insisted on his own until he killed the bandits. As soon as he relaxed and lost too much blood, he could no longer support him and fainted.
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Chapter completed!