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Chapter 1597 Advantages of Military Industry

Up to this time, there is no need for Zeng Yunfeng to do things like advancing the war from Colombia to the south. He only needs to be in Bogotá.

Bogota is the capital of Colombia, he only needs to sit there and deploy food, grass and arms in the rear.

However, most of today's firearms and ammunition are front-loading guns, and more direct contact combat may require hand-to-hand combat, so hand-to-hand combat is almost indispensable in a big battle.

Today's firearms have a very low excitation efficiency, and before the advent of the steam engine in the industrial revolution, barrel polishing was almost all done by manpower.

To polish the barrel, the barrel is first roughly machined with a boring tool made of hardened thick steel bars. Basically, one person shakes the boring tool and one person pushes the barrel forward, and the rough bore inside the barrel is completed several times.

In the second step, use a reamer made of a triangular prism-shaped steel bar to twist and bore, so that the smooth inner wall can be stirred out, and a wooden pad and a paper pad may be placed inside.

The reamer does not participate in shoveling on all three sides, only one side is used for shoveling, and the flat part should be padded with wood and paper.

If the caliber of the gun barrel is too small, add a piece of paper between the wood and the reamer, and if it is still too small after twisting it once, add another piece until you are satisfied.

Therefore, the firearms that are polished now are almost all handmade, and it is impossible for the caliber of the firearms to be as accurate as that of later generations, which also leads to the bombing and various problems of today's guns.

To make a rifled gun, you need to pull the rifling line after the barrel is polished. The rifling line is actually similar to reaming and boring, except that only one tooth of the rifling tool touches the barrel, and the barrel is fixed, and the tool is pushed into the barrel. , the knife is driven by a shaft engraved with a rotating thread, so that a rotating rifling can be scraped in the barrel, and the depth of the rifling is also controlled by a paper strip.

After pushing it once until it is smooth, put a piece of paper on it, and then push it again. After a few times, you can get a deep enough rifling. Due to sexual reasons and the limitations of front-loading guns, it is very difficult to load bullets into this rifled gun, and it is very disgusted by soldiers.

Usually, you have to use a cleaning rod to push it in hard until the bullet is able to withstand the primer behind it, which is very troublesome.

At this time, Zeng Yunfeng thought of the benefits of rear-loading guns.

Moreover, few countries have solved the quantitative problem of gunpowder in front-loading guns. On the contrary, after Napoleon came to power, paper shells were fixed.

Zeng Yunfeng still has a lot of work to do. For now, the firearms are far from meeting the standards required by Zeng Yunfeng.

At least from Zeng Yunfeng's point of view, fighting with this front-loading and front-loading gun is strenuous, and in the middle of the process, especially the process of adding gunpowder and bullets, it is a waste of life.

I don't know which gap will be killed by the gunman on the opposite side.

From Zeng Yunfeng's point of view, this is purely an act of reckless destiny, but limited to the current technology, there is no other way but to bite the bullet.

Moreover, many of the current artillery are made of pig iron and copper, and it is difficult to make steel cannons, let alone mechanical drilling machines.

This also shows what kind of progress the Industrial Revolution has brought to the whole world.

However, although the industrial revolution brought many advanced productive forces to the world, and solved cloth, textile and a series of problems, it also brought another problem, that is, war.

As firearms become more perfect and manufacturing becomes easier, the ambitions of various countries are gradually expanding, and wars become extremely tragic and cruel in the later stages.

From the initial line-array gun battle to the subsequent rear-loading guns, people can lie on the ground and shoot.

The intensity of the war began to gradually increase, and then the artillery could pull the rifling, fix the shells, and even use the metal shells to fix the shells.

The gun's chamber pressure, rate of fire, and the explosive power of the shell gradually increased, and the war became more and more cruel.

But now, according to the craftsmanship of Gris Allen picking and picking from all over the world, and some even robbed craftsmen, his arms are already famous in Europe.

At least Zeng Yunfeng's standard and quantitative musket manufacturing method makes his muskets better than those of other countries, and the manufacturing speed is also faster.

This is also the reason why his arms can travel freely in Europe.

After all, which musketeer doesn't want to hold a reliable and more accurate musket in his hand.

No one would refuse to have better weapons in their hands, especially for countries like Prussia and Austria that are at war.

And this bought Zeng Yunfeng a certain amount of time. After the situation in Colombia, Venezuela and other places has been settled, there will be a huge change in his territory, and weapons are one of them.

As Gris Allen left, Zeng Yunfeng walked to his office and pulled out stacks of drawings from the office desk.

Every time he came to this office, Zeng Yunfeng frowned a little. He shouldn't have done these things in the first place.

Such things as research and development of weapons and equipment are not his turn, but because of craftsmen, to be precise, because of the lack of talents, he has to do some things himself and forcibly improve his skills.

Of course, this also brought a series of problems, such as the matter of improving the firearms. Let those craftsmen build firearms according to his standards, and some of them may not meet his requirements, let alone let them redesign the firearms.

It took more than half a century from front loading to back loading, from bulk gunpowder to paper shell fixed packaging.

But Zeng Yunfeng had to consider these issues for his subordinates. In the past, wars were about armor, cold weapons, and the bravery of soldiers. With the development of guns and hot weapons, the form of war has shifted to another direction, that is, weapons.

Under the continuous bombardment of guns and artillery, human courage has little room to display.

Only in the will to fight may still have a certain effect, which can still be reflected after World War I to World War II.

But it is also to keep the army from collapsing.

Soldiers are suffering in the war, and whoever can endure to the end and whoever collapses first will lose in this war.

The reason why many battlefields in World War I were called meat grinders was because the speed of the development of firearms far exceeded the resistance of people's will to war.

In the face of sophisticated thermal weapons, no amount of courage can withstand such destruction.

Of course, on the other hand, there is a big difference between fighting at sea and fighting on land. Once there is a storm at sea or the sea is not calm, although firearms are useful for both sides in combat, they are not as great as imagined.

After the two sides meet the board, if the musket fires another shot and it is too late to charge the powder, it is still necessary to rely on cold weapons. This is why many pirate sailors have to practice exquisite swordsmanship. This is for the hand-to-hand combat after the boarding battle. prepare.

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