Chapter 172: Test Gun
On the tenth day of May of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the weather turned hot. From the beginning of spring to now, God has not dropped a drop of rain, and the crops are in a state of drought.
However, the farmers in Daze Mountain have not been greatly affected by the abundant water resources of Daze Mountain.
At this moment, the bird gun training ground at the Zhenshan Camp station, the dense bird gun sounded one after another.
I saw that the wooden target that was originally placed fifty steps away had been moved to eighty steps away. The three-inch thick wooden boards hit by the bird guns, which were hit by the fixed ammunition, were flying, revealing many holes.
The bird gun soldiers in Zhenshan Camp still took eighty people in a row, and at the same time, facing the target, immediately retreated after the promotion was completed. The eighty bird gun soldiers in the second row immediately stepped forward, opened the fire door and waited for the orders issued by the commander. Then the third row went forward and the second row retreated, and the cycle was completed until the sixth row was completed.
After fighting with the Daqingfeng Cavalry last time, the senior officers of Zhenshan Camp realized that on the battlefield, the bird gun soldiers must concentrate on large-scale foreign wars to produce huge lethality.
Jiang Liang, the captain of the artillery team, made suggestions to Feng Prosecutor that the bird gun soldiers at each thousand headquarters should be trained to be proficient from filling gunpowder to opening the back door. There were 480 bird gun soldiers at a thousand headquarters in Zhenshan Camp, and eighty bird gun soldiers in a row, and the commander issued six consecutive orders. After that, the bird gun soldiers who were raising the first time had to be filled with gunpowder and wait for the sale.
Now the shooting training in the training ground is to follow Jiang Liang's suggestion, and a thousand-header unit will be trained in six rows in front and back.
Yang Bashi is now the first bureau of the first department of the 300th headquarters of the newly formed Zhenshan Camp, and the commander of the bird gun soldiers. After the last row of bird gun soldiers was lifted, he waved his hand to suspend the training. Because he saw the commander standing by with a senior executive of Zhenshan Camp, watching the training.
After Yang Bashi waved his hand and stopped the bird gun and raised the gun upwards, Feng Jian led most of the senior executives of Zhenshan Camp to Yang Bashi first.
Yang Bashi stepped forward and raised his chest, clenched his fist with his right hand and saluted Feng Jian. Feng Jian nodded slightly and returned the salute, and then said, "Brothers Eighty have been promoted to the 100th General Manager this time. This commander said it is right!"
Yang Bashi hurriedly bowed and said, "Thank you, the commander, for your care. The villain is now promoted to the position of the first bureau of the First Department of the 3000th Headquarters, and continues to serve as the commander of the Bird Gun Soldier."
Feng Jian nodded and asked, "Is the bird gun used for bird gun training different from the bird gun used in the past?"
Speaking of bird guns, Yang Bashi immediately removed his restraint and judged loudly. He pointed to a broken wooden target beside him and said: "The bird gun used a few days ago was scattered when the lead was launched. Although the range of hitting the target was large, the lethality was relatively small. Although the bird gun used by the bird gun soldiers today felt that the weight of the gun body had increased, the lethality to the target was greatly enhanced."
While saying that, he pointed to the bullet hole on the wooden target and continued: "This is the hole left by a bird gun hit by a bird gun. Some of the leads are still embedded in thick wooden boards. After the bird gun used a few days ago, it cannot penetrate the three-inch thick wooden boards at all. The bird gun used today can easily penetrate it, which is indeed incredible!"
Cheng Yousheng looked at the pit on the wooden board and said, "This guy, if he hits the thief, he will definitely open the front and back chests into big holes, and it will be difficult for the gods to save them! Hehe, look at that doggyman who can block it."
It is really unexpected that this bird gun would produce such a huge power with the guidance of the commander! The senior executives of Zhenshan Camp all showed excitement.
Feng Jian continued to ask: "Brothers Eighty. Have you tried it? At what distance can this new bird gun produce lethality."
Yang Bashi said: "The villain just tried it. This bird gun can be driven in 80 steps within 50 steps before. It can produce lethality within 120 steps. Moreover, using fixed-mounted gunpowder lead of the same size greatly shortens the speed of soldiers' launch."
Feng Jian’s face was full of smiles at this time. He turned to Zhang Dalai and Liang Yuanhao, a military research institute in Zhenshan Camp who were standing behind the crowd, and said, “Let’s come on, you two great heroes, don’t stand behind.”
Seeing that the two of them were also happy, Feng Jian praised with a smile: "The power of this improved bird gun should be invincible among similar bird guns. Your Military Research Institute has made great contributions!
Zhang Dalai quickly said modestly: "This is all good for the commander. Without the bird gun rifle design given by the commander, you can't even think of it even if you catch it. Now our Military Research Institute has a standard for everything you do. Whether it is making bird guns or making weapons and armor, there are strict standards. Now it is not only efficient but also has few defective products!"
Feng Jian was flattered by Zhang Dalai's few words of flattery and smiled even more, saying: "Our Zhenshan Camp suddenly expanded its troops three times, and the demand for weapons and weapons has increased greatly. There is no shortage of iron, charcoal, charcoal, gunpowder, lead and other things. Now it depends on the efficiency of your Military Research Institute. If you do well, the commander will reward you with no stingy!"
Liang Yuanhao's ancestors were all firearm craftsmen, so he was even more impressed by Feng Jian's proposal to carve the rifle in the bird gun chamber.
He bowed to Feng Jian and said: "Commander, after many thoughts and attempts, the villain learned that with a fine iron bar with the same thickness as the inner diameter of the bird gun barrel, a thread groove with a certain rotation angle was ground on it, and then stuffed it into the punched gun barrel, and slowly punched it over. The thread groove of the fine iron bar will leave a rifle on the inner wall of the gun barrel. After the fine iron bar is repeatedly engraved, the rifle will come out. This will greatly speed up the speed of manual carving of the rifle and reduce many human errors."
Feng Jian still attaches great importance to the firearm leader. After their group of craftsmen came to Huluyan, Liang Yuanhao immediately took the lead in planning and classification of the firearm department of the Military Research Institute, and used firearm parts to firearm manufacturing and gunpowder manufacturing. In recent days, he has established gunpowder fixed installation and other departments to quickly form a scale, and began to manufacture bird guns in batches and produce gunpowder.
They expressed their satisfaction with this happy life in this way. A few days ago, Feng Jian brought Pingdu Prefecture to dispatch them to Huluyan to work as craftsmen. This means that these craftsmen have been recognized by the government when they came to Huluyan. Therefore, people like Liang Yuanhao and others in the old city are even more thinking about how to repay the commander's great kindness!
Feng Jian smiled and said, "This commander is just making suggestions. How to implement and improve it requires you professionals to manage it. As long as it is beneficial to the industry, just do it boldly!"
Cheng Yousheng was very happy with the power of this new bird gun. He took a bird gun from Yang Bashi, looked left and right, and asked Yang Bashi for a while: "This bird gun is very powerful, but unfortunately I won't let it go. Brothers 80 went to our personal guard camp that day to coach!"
Cheng Yousheng said everyone was amused by just one sentence. Chen Xiaoshan took the bird gun and looked at it, and found that there was no ammunition in the chamber of the bird gun.
Chen Xiaoshan turned to Cheng Yousheng and said, "Look at me!"
Then he aimed at the wooden target opposite the shooting range and pulled the trigger hard. The hook spring inside made a slight sound, and then the fire door opened and the bird gun head fell down.
Cheng Yousheng deliberately pretended to be stupid: "Xiaoshan, you are not authentic, you secretly learn to lift bird guns. You hunters in the enemy are all kind of virtue and are good at making small moves behind their backs."
Cheng Yousheng is famous for his sharp teeth. Chen Xiaoshan will not fight with him on his lips, but just stare at him.
Zhao Shougang said: "This bird gun is powerful and convenient to use, but it is too cumbersome to carry it."
Zhao Shougang turned to Liang Yuanhao and asked, "Is there a bird gun that can be directly loaded with bullets and directly pulled the trigger to lift the trigger."
Liang Yuan shook his head confused and said, "This is something that has never been heard of. How can a bird gun be launched without igniting the fuse!"
Feng Jian naturally knew that there was a strange firearm in the Ming Dynasty now that the Ming Dynasty had approached the kind of firearm that Zhao Shougang mentioned, which is what people often call the flintlock rifle.
This person is Bi Maokang, the current Minister of Personnel in Nanjing. This kind of gun is strictly not considered a real flintlock rifle. He has not solved the disadvantage of being unable to fire flints in rainy days, but he removed the cumbersome process of shooting bird guns and directly fired them.
However, this great invention was left behind because of the Ming Dynasty's inexpensive finances and no one cared about.
When Feng Jian was first established, he turned his attention to the firearm master, but at that time he was still a small bandit and was powerless.
Feng Jian smiled and said, "What Shougang said is not false. This commander heard that the current Minister of Personnel, Bi Maokang, has worked with his subordinates to develop a bird gun, and its effect is like the description of Shougang search."
"This is really the case!" Liang Yuanhao and other mature people felt incredible, while Zhao Shougang and Chen Xiaoshan and other senior officers of Zhenshan Camp were extremely happy.
Cheng Yousheng smiled "Pu" and said, "This is not a thing, but it is still hidden in the creation of a sharp weapon, which almost made us Liang Jianghu skip his tongue."
This is a joke, everyone laughed, only Liang Yuanhao blushed and still muttered: "How is that possible!"
Then Xu Yannian, Zhou Wei, Liu Zongxi, Mashan and others tried their guns and expressed their opinions.
These people are different from Cheng Yousheng and Fan Li, who are all the main officers of Zhenshan Camp, and they naturally have long mastered how to launch bird guns.
Feng Jian turned to Zhang Dalai again and said, "Does the fixed ammunition produced by the Military Research Institute now use the Qi Family Army's Bird Gunsmen custom-made ammunition?"
Zhang Da came to see Liang Yuanhao and bowed to Feng Jiangong: "Liang Jianghu strictly followed the method of the Qi family's gunpowder configuration, mixing 5,6 cents of sulfur and 2 cents of saltpeter and 40,3 cents of saltpeter, grinding it into powder, and then drying it, granular gunpowder at the end of the piece. The fixed ammunition used by our Zhenshan Camp bird gun soldiers are all made of this kind of gunpowder."
Feng Jian turned to Yang Bashi: "Eighty brothers load a fixed ammunition, this commander will try the gun..."
Chapter completed!