Destiny Only Han

Chapter 477 Liu Ying: Carrying guns together!

"Hey, I hit it!"

When Liu Ying waved her hands and jumped up and down, and cheered loudly, Liu Bang looked at Han Xin in shock, but Han Xin immediately snorted in the next second, turned his face away, and pointed his chin at a 45-degree angle to the sky.

Why does this guy look like a bitch... Liu Bang complained silently in his heart, and continued to look at the fuzzy pistol with a face full of shock.

Although he was old, his eyesight was exceptionally sharp. He only saw the flames and smoke, but he didn't see the flying arrows, um, the projectiles.

But the target in the distance fell in response. Although he didn't see the damage on the breastplate clearly, seeing the falling posture of the target was no less than being hit by a heavy hammer!
Then, looking at the flintlock on the fork, his hands became eager to move.

Fun!

want to play!

It's just that he took half a step forward but stopped suddenly. Before he complained that the flintlock gun was rubbish, but now he rushed forward to play with it, no doubt he slapped himself in the face.

Even though he threw away things like the face when he was born, and he snatched things from Liu Ying's hands to play, he was even less psychologically stressed.

A son who steals his father is not a thief, so the reverse of this sentence is also true!

However, at this moment, there is another outsider here.

Han Xin!

For a moment, Liu Bang looked at Liu Ying with a different emotion in his eyes.

It turns out that this brat brought Han Xin here today just to guard against Nai Gong?It's really insidious... Liu Bang silently raised Liu Ying's cheating index by several ranks in his heart.

A moment later, Liu Ying took the target from the attendant, thrust it in front of Liu Bang with a swipe, proudly put one hand on his hip, pointed at the plate armor with a small hole in it, without saying a word, but seemed to say A thousand words.

Liu Bang immediately turned his head to the side, pretending he didn't see anything, if he was sitting at this time, he would definitely be shaking with his legs crossed...

Han Xin strode forward, stretched out his hand to caress the crack on the iron plate, and saw that the color was very new without any trace of rust. He nodded slightly, sighing in his heart, as Liu Ying said, one shot at a time!
As a result, a somewhat proud expression appeared on his face.

After holding it for five seconds, Liu Bang couldn't stand it any longer. He raised his foot and walked towards the flintlock gun placed on the fork-shaped bracket. Can Naigong beg you?"

Heh, man... Liu Ying curled her lips, moved step by step, and walked up to Liu Bang in an extremely arrogant manner, motioning for someone to take out a few straw targets and put them in the distance, and then began to teach Liu Bang how to use gunpowder loaded bullets.

boom!
While the white smoke was floating, Liu Bang looked at the scattered straw on the grass target, raised his arms vigorously, and cheered loudly.

"Hey, I hit it!"

Well, the operation method of the musket is not difficult, especially Liu Bang has the experience of operating the crossbow proficiently. The part on the crossbow called "Wangshan" is actually similar to the sight on the musket.

After Liu Bang showed off for a while, when he was about to shoot a few more shots, he inadvertently glanced at Han Xin who was standing aside with a bit of eagerness on his face from the corner of his eye.

He thought for a while, then waved to Han Xin: "Come on, you also come and shoot!"

Han Xin hesitated for a moment, but he still couldn't hold back and went to Liu Bang, took the flintlock gun in his hand, poured gunpowder, loaded bullets, and pulled the trigger while Liu Banghao was chattering as a teacher.

Then, off target.

Liu Ying raised her arm and patted Han Xin's shoulder vigorously: "It's okay, novices are like this! Don't worry too much..."

A bit of astonishment flashed across Han Xin's face, didn't he just miss the target, who would take this matter to heart?

And the one who is close to the ink is black, and his face has already been thrown away!
The important thing is that he is a military strategist, not a warrior. In addition to boxing and sword exercises to exercise his muscles and bones, he either goes to Tianlu Pavilion to borrow and return books, or stays at home drinking and writing books, and basically does not practice equipment. and fighting skills.

Naturally, missing the target is a very normal thing.

Han Xin shook his head invisibly, and handed the flintlock gun to Liu Ying: "It's your turn."

Liu Ying waved her hands, then put her hands on her hips, raised her head and held her chest high: "There's no need for that. We have plenty of guns. If others see it, they'll think I'm stingy! Come on, get a gun, one for each of you!"

Han Xin froze for a moment, then silently stretched out his thumb.

This is his brother Han Xin, who says everything is right and what he does is bullshit, unlike his annoying father, annoying!

Then, the poor straw target became more and more dilapidated amidst the sound of gunfire one after another.

After firing seven or eight shots, Liu Bang turned to look at Liu Ying with a satisfied face: "What is the output of this kind of flintlock gun? When will it be released for use by the army?"

Liu Ying thought for a while and said: "The current output is not high, and it will take a few more years if you need to be deployed in the army. Now, one hundred and twenty guns can be produced every month, and by this time next year There is a high probability that the output will be doubled! Then there will be a five-year plan, and the monthly output will be thousands!"

Liu Bang showed some imaginative expression on his face, raised the flintlock gun in his hand and asked, "Are you sure? I'm talking about this kind of treasure!"

Liu Ying shook her head:

"Not this, we are playing an upgraded version. There are rifling in the barrel, which can improve shooting accuracy and range, but the cost of the bullet is too high and the workmanship is cumbersome, so it is not suitable for the army. I am talking about the simplified version without rifling. The kind! Although it is a simple match, but within thirty steps, you can also point and hit!"

"It's a pity, it's a pity..." A look of regret flashed across Liu Bang's face.

Within [-] steps, it is also the period for the crossbow to exert force, and its armor-piercing ability should not be underestimated, and its rate of fire is much faster than that of a flintlock.

Well, after all, not all soldiers wear thick plate armor. The breastplate of ordinary soldiers is only about [-]mm, which can withstand the throwing of bows and arrows.

The heavy armor worn by Langzhong cavalry and the gang of Langwei is all more than two millimeters thick, which can resist the shooting of crossbows at close range, and is basically immune to chopping and piercing with swords, guns, swords and halberds.

For example, Machiavelli said in his "History of Florence" that the war at that time was almost life-threatening. Everyone rode on a horse and had armor for protection. In case they couldn't fight, they could surrender to save their lives...

Liu Ying could see from Liu Bang's face what he wanted to say, but the production capacity of the flintlock gun hadn't exploded yet, so it was inconvenient for him to say more.

His purpose of replacing the crossbow with the flintlock was mainly to settle an economic account.

The cost of crossbow arrows and arrows is higher than that of lead bullets and gunpowder, but the latter can guarantee to kill warriors in iron armor!
Moreover, it takes one to two years for a strong crossbow to be produced and delivered for use, but it only takes two or three months to make a flintlock gun at most. This is still the production speed of a family workshop.

Now that Liu Ying has reformed the production process, after the standardized production of components, the delivery speed of each flintlock has at least doubled.

Well, the so-called production process reform is to establish different production lines and types of work, such as fitters who make firing devices, blacksmiths who make barrels, carpenters who make wooden gun bodies, and painters who are responsible for final assembly and decoration.

In this way, the training cost of artisans and the risk of technology diffusion can be reduced.

In order to increase people's enthusiasm for production, mainly to train apprentices and pass on their own cooking skills, Liu Ying specially drew big cakes.

When the assessment comes at the end of the year, any craftsman who can bring out three apprentices who pass the assessment will get a house in the new city!
In addition, every time you bring out an additional apprentice, you can get a reward of [-] yuan!

Although Chang'an rice is expensive, if the [-] yuan is used to buy financial products such as Nanchang City Development Bonds, the annual interest will be enough to feed their family.

Not to mention that if they can deliver enough qualified products according to the construction schedule, their salary will be improved.

In this way, with a stable job and their own house, the cost of living is almost negligible. These craftsmen, who have been wandering for half their lives, can truly gain a foothold at the feet of the emperor!
Therefore, the delivery speed of flintlock guns has stabilized at one hundred and twenty per month from the previous dozen or so per month.

Well, there are no technological barriers in the production of flintlock guns in this era. Both the barrel and the spring of the firing device can be solved by hand.

Especially for the gun barrel, Liu Ying learned that manual forging and rolling wrought iron would have the risk of blowing the chamber, so she deliberately used wrought iron to make a solid iron rod, then carburized to increase the strength of the material, and finally used hand Oscillating boring machine to make the barrel.

As for the spring, it can also be obtained by hand forging.

Judging from the unearthed cultural relics, the craftsmanship of skilled craftsmen in the Qin and Han Dynasties is actually no worse than that of craftsmen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, so the craftsmen of the Ming and Qing Dynasties can imitate flintlock guns, and so can the craftsmen of the Han Dynasty.

It's just that the difficulty that troubled the craftsmen of the Han Dynasty in making firearms was that there were no accurate drawings and special tools for making these parts.

Liu Ying exists to solve this problem.

Hearing Liu Ying's words, Liu Bang twirled his beard, became interested in the tinkling production workshop in the distance, and threw aside the flintlock gun he had been fond of before, grabbed Liu Ying and walked to the distance.

"I haven't played enough, I won't go..."

"No, you've had enough, Naigong said you've had enough, you've had enough!"

"It's unreasonable!"

"Hehe, are there any rules in this world where fathers need to reason with their sons?"

ps: For hand-made flintlock guns, you can refer to a video at station B titled "Documentary, Complete Hand-made Flintlock Guns", the 58-minute version, except that he is making shotguns for nobles, if it is The production process of the flintlock gun equipped with the army is much simpler. After all, the guys in the hands of the consumables do not need carvings and exquisite parts...

(End of this chapter)