Rifled guns and rough smoothbore guns have completely different requirements. Rifled guns require a tight combination of projectiles and rifling, and have very high requirements for accuracy.

Especially if minie bullets are used, the barrels and bullets must be standardized. Only if all minie bullets are the same size and the caliber of the rifled gun is the same, can any bullet be suitable for any rifled gun.

Therefore, if you want to have a qualified Minie rifle production line, you need to solve the problem of standardization.

Even if Zheng Kezang has now entered the steam age and no longer makes barrels and rifling purely manually, there will still be certain errors.

Then you need a standard measuring instrument!

If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools. Zheng Kezang spent 50 points to exchange for 500 vernier calipers and 500 micrometers for the craftsmen to use for measurement.

At that time, those that meet the standards will be used to make rifled guns, and those that do not meet the standards cannot be wasted and used to make smoothbore guns.

One of the reasons for the success of modern industry is standardization and scale. Craftsmen in this era are doing their own thing and there are no standards at all. This phenomenon must be put to an end in Dongning Manufacturing Administration, and standards must be adhered to in everything.

Therefore, in order to form the concept of standardization, craftsmen were undergoing training throughout January 1682, and even the master craftsman Su Laocheng could not escape.

During the training, Zheng Kezang first taught them the measurement units of meters, decimeters, centimeters, and millimeters, and then taught them how to use vernier calipers and micrometers.

"Your Majesty, your reloading speed is the fastest. You fired six times in one minute, but the one with the best accuracy is Pan Aqiang Guanzhen. All five shots hit the target accurately!"

Finally, the pencil lead is put into the groove of the pen holder, the two wooden strips are tightly aligned and bonded, and a practical pencil comes out!

In the future, this kind of pencil will become a sharp tool in the hands of craftsmen, making great contributions to the industrialization of Ming and Zheng.

"Immediately order the Dongning Manufacturing General Administration to manufacture a thousand electrostatic rifled rifles and install them in the First Battalion of the First Guards Town first!" Zheng Kezang continued to order.

What to do?

Add some technology!

After spending 5 points, Zheng Kezang got his wish and got the pencil lead formula for later generations.

Because there is no way to fight. Even if the Green Camp of the Qing Dynasty will hold flintlock guns in the future, how can they fight with rifled guns with an effective range of up to 400 meters?

The only pity is that the rate of fire of this gun is not fast enough!

If the rate of fire was faster, Zheng Kezang felt that the line tactics could be changed to skirmishing tactics.

Su Laocheng took a new pencil and wrote in a notebook for two seconds. Then he raised his head and announced the results.

But it's difficult to do it. In order to mass-produce the Minigun, Zheng Kezang worked hard!

The only difficulty with pencils is making the lead.

The so-called skirmishing tactics are to adopt the method of fighting in a dispersed formation. The army is divided into several small teams, cleverly using the terrain, moving quickly to spread out the formation, dispersed and hidden in the forest, hanging on the bank, and using rifled guns to carry out attacks.

Aim and shoot accurately, use your mobility to attack the enemy unexpectedly.

This tactic can give full play to the role of rifled rapid-fire weapons, combine firepower with maneuverability, and fight on various terrains.

After a quick operation, Zheng Kezang spent 135 Brilliance Points to solve the problem of the Minie Gun.

After praising Pan Aqiang, he then looked at Su Laocheng and said, "Lao Su, this gun is called a lightning-type rifled rifle, or a lightning gun for short."

In fact, it should be a graphite pencil stick, which was called black lead in this era. Both in the East and the West, graphite has been used for writing and drawing for a long time. However, the graphite strips can easily stain the hands and break. This is the dilemma of pencils at this time.

When Zheng Kezang learned that the first batch of guns had been successfully produced, the first thing he did was to drag Pan Aqiang and other Guards officers to test the guns.

With vernier calipers, these instruments have no technical content and are easy to make. Only pencils are slightly more difficult.

When Zheng Kezang was test-firing, gunfire rang out nearby, a burst of black smoke erupted, and seven or eight orange-red light spots flashed across the Dongning Military Academy.

That is to use a certain amount of clay, clay, and then mix it with graphite and heat it to make a pencil lead that is strong and wear-resistant.

There is one thing that is a bit troublesome. With the advancement of weapons, tactics also need to be innovated. The old tactics of queuing to kill are definitely not suitable for new rifles.

As Zheng Kezang put down the rifle in his hand, the officers at all levels who participated in the test firing of the Minie rifle stopped their movements.

In order to facilitate shooting, the barrel of the new rifle has a simple rear sight and front sight, which can be used as a sniper rifle.

New guns are always more popular, so Zheng Kezang couldn't help but shoot a few more bullets, just to test how many rounds he could fire in one minute.

"Okay! Aqiang is worthy of being the Guanzhen of the First Guards Town, a born sharpshooter!" During the graduation examination of Dongning Military Academy, Pan Aqiang's shooting results were very ideal.

Zheng Kezang knew very well that once this kind of front-loading rifled gun using Minie bullets was equipped with the Ming and Zheng armies, the Ming and Zheng armies would be able to sweep across the entire Qing Dynasty with only 20,000 to 30,000 men.

Everyone who participated in the test couldn't believe it, because the previous Guards' standard flintlock gun with sugar gunpowder could only go as far as about a hundred meters.

New equipment cannot always be named after foreigners, so we pay tribute to the electric blunderbuss developed by Zhao Shizhen, an expert on Ming muskets.

Too soft, not hard enough!

After testing, everyone found that the effective range of Dongning Manufacturing Bureau's new rifle is an astonishing four hundred meters!

"How's it going? Who has the fastest reloading speed? Who has the best accuracy?" Zheng Kezang smiled and threw the rifle to Su Laocheng aside, and then asked with great interest.

In addition to vernier calipers and micrometers, other tools that a craftsman may need must also be widely available, such as pencils, drawings, rulers, set squares, compasses, protractors, etc.

For new equipment, we must first take care of the first battalion, which is the most capable of fighting tough battles. With this kind of rifle that can shoot four to six rounds per minute and has a long range, we will not be afraid of the Tatar cavalry in the future!

In March 1682, after three months of work, the Dongning Manufacturing Bureau finally successfully produced ten Migne-type front-loading rifled guns.

However, Zheng Kezang found that he still took it for granted. If he really wanted to change everything to skirmishing tactics, it would definitely require a huge investment.

Not to mention the cost of rifled guns, the training cycle of skirmishers is definitely much longer than that of private soldiers, and in this era the enemy is queuing up to kill tactics. It is better to use the tactics of combining horizontal and column teams in the original Dongning Infantry Training Manual, and then use the Miner gun

Suppress the enemy remotely and they will be helpless!

In addition, skirmishers have higher morale requirements. Line infantry cannot escape because they are inside the square formation, while skirmishers can escape at any time.

Of course, the Guards with the wonder bonus do not need to consider the issue of morale.

However, you can change your thinking. With the new minigun, you can study the strongest tactics of Napoleon's French army!
Chapter completed!