Riding and chopping: Overlord of the Han and Hungarians

Chapter 391 390. Smoothbore Rifling
Zhang Qi ordered someone to fetch the target. The shadow guards were about to move but stopped when they saw Bai Xing walking over.

Although Bai Xing is a woman, those who are qualified to serve as Zhang Qi's personal attendants are all selected from the best of the Iron Detachment of Women.

After all, he could only train a group of women into combatants according to local conditions.

And for a long time, these women even played a more important role than male soldiers.

However, with the increase in manpower, the status of female soldiers has gradually become embarrassing. In terms of combat ability, they often have to spend twice as much effort as male soldiers to be on par with ordinary male soldiers. This also makes it difficult for female soldiers to command other soldiers. It has been quite controversial for a long time.

But if you can't keep up with your physical fitness, you can't keep up. Although the female soldiers can occasionally produce a few monster-like characters due to the ratio of more women than men, the scarcity of numbers also means that these talented female soldiers can only serve as Zhang Qi. personal bodyguard and cannot be used as a combat unit.

This situation has lasted for a long time among female soldiers.

Then, the female soldiers were comprehensively reformed, from the cavalry archers who followed Zhang Qi in the nearest position to a medical unit used for battlefield first aid.

Today, 70.00% of the nurses in Liaodi are almost all trained by the female military camp in Naqi.

But as a combatant at the beginning, it has not given up on cultivating the combat capabilities of female soldiers, but this training has changed from cluster-based to elite-based.

Among them, blue and white and white stars are the best.

For those talented female soldiers who were selected from various armies and intelligence organizations, they had a good reputation, so when they saw Bai Xing going there with great interest, they didn't even think about touching her.

After all, in terms of intimacy, even if they were Zhang Qi's close guards, Bai Xing had kept them in the dark for a few streets.

"Your Majesty! Look at the straw target! It's penetrated!"

Carrying the target over, Bai Xing pointed to a hole diagonally above the target and shouted in surprise.

This power is far beyond what a powerful crossbow or strong bow can match.

Although there are several types of bows that can shoot through the grass target, the holes left by the bow and arrow are far less explosive than when the bullet passes through the grass target!
The thickness of the arrowhead is the size of the hole.

But now on the grass target, Bai Xing could clearly see that the projectile, which was only as thick as a finger, had created a hole the size of a fist. How could this not shock her!
Seeing the target paper on the grass target shatter and the target surface pierce, Zhang Qi also nodded with satisfaction.

Although the ratio of gunpowder still failed to achieve the amount of smoke he wanted, in terms of power, the improved gunpowder was already qualified.

Playing with the rifle in my hand, as a first-generation product, the style of this rifle is still very simple, very similar to the iron tube rifle in the game Fallout 4 that I have played.

Pull the gun bolt and eject the bullet casing.

The bullet casing that fell on the ground caused a puff of green smoke to rise due to the cooling. After it cooled down, Zhang Qi picked it up.

"It's okay. The deformation is within the acceptable range and has little impact on the barrel."

"The question is how to mass-produce it."

"I have asked people to carry out standardized assembly operations for the primer, cartridge case, warhead and the three parts of the bullet, but why is it that a workshop with 300 people can still only produce less than [-] pieces of ammunition in a month, and [-]% of them are still unable to Used defective product.”

"What exactly is the problem?"

Zhang Qi frowned. In the world of riding and slashing, he had already arranged for people to study the mass production of this ammunition, but the progress is still slow.

The only good news is that the cartridge case can be made by stamping. Although it consumes a lot of material and needs to be cut, this is already the fastest method at present.

But the bullet alone is not enough if it only has a shell. The primer and the warhead are also indispensable. Especially the warhead, even if it is made of the best copper material, the polishing work after pouring consumes countless people's energy.

Although the technology of making round bullets was later used and batch polished with hard sand rollers, this route was temporarily abandoned due to the inability to control the size of the finished products.

Holding the warhead, Zhang Qi looked at it for a long time. After still having no clue, he could only shake his head and put the warhead into a satchel around his waist.

The rifled gun has been tested, and the power and accuracy satisfy him, so the next step is the product in the normal order of thermal weapons.

musket!
Once again, people have set up a rough target for their hearts.

This time, Zhang Qi asked everyone to disperse farther away, ensuring that there was no one within the [-]-degree range ahead.

As for the musket, Zhang Qi really couldn't guarantee where the projectile would drift after it came out of the chamber.

It's always okay to be cautious.The rifled rifle was thrown to Bai Xing. Zhang Qi held a similar-style smoothbore rifle in one hand, reached into the bag on his waist with one hand, and picked up two bullets with three fingers.

The strange thing is that he is still holding the same barrel ammunition as rifle bullets, not the round bullets unique to muskets.

If there is something related to round bullets, it might be the warhead that is half embedded in the barrel and half exposed outside the barrel.

That's right, the smoothbore gun ammunition Zhang Qi chose was actually similar to the rifled gun ammunition, with a complex shape of primer, cartridge case, and warhead.

The only thing that might be different from rifled gun ammunition is that the cartridge case is made of paper instead of metal.

Moreover, it is different from the front-loading form of conventional smoothbore guns.

Zhang Qi held the bullet and exerted force with both hands. The butt of the musket was snapped in half, exposing a section of the barrel.

That's right.

Because of the properties endowed by material science and the air-tight sealing technology that has been enriched by the arrival of rubber in the Liaodi riding and slashing world, the loading method that his musket can use is not only front-loading, but can also be loaded similar to a double-barreled shotgun. , the breech-loading mode of the shotgun.

Even the ammunition is similar to these two firearms.

Of the two bullets in his hand, one was a single-point bullet and the other was a lead bullet with a round tip.

The other one was a complete ammunition, containing iron sand wrapped in paper.

In addition to the gun body and ammunition, the components of the smoothbore gun also include a U-shaped tweezers with hooks at both ends, which are used to open the loading port and clean the gun chamber after firing the ammunition.

This is why Zhang used smoothbore instead of rifled.

In order to ensure the production of ammunition, his cartridge case is made of paper. After the gunpowder is activated, the remaining shredded paper stuck in the rifling will inevitably cause damage to the rifling in the rifling.

If it is a smoothbore, there is no need to consider the rifling problem. After firing, use the matching tools to clean it and then start the next round of shooting.

Moreover, the charging speed is much faster than that of front-loading ammunition.

In fact, to put it bluntly.

Zhang Qi's smoothbore gun, except that the barrel has no rifling, almost all other shapes are copied from his rifled gun!

Hold your breath——!
Three o'clock on the line.

The trigger drives the hammer into contact with the primer.

A spark rose from the cartridge case, igniting the gunpowder inside.

And this energy was violent, and the barrel of the gun became the only outlet.

Driven by this violent energy.

The lead bullet shot straight out of the gun's chamber.

Snapped--!
There was another muffled winter thunder.

Zhang Qi's cough sounded in the smoke.

The smoke produced by paper charges is much more intense than the smoke produced by metal charges.

After shooting, he could only fan himself and move to another place to breathe fresh air.

aside.

Bai Xing, who had been staring at the straw target, tilted his head in confusion.

Why didn't the grass target make any movement just now?

(End of this chapter)