The sniper starts from the bright sword escape period

Chapter 423 Zhu Yuanzhang Tests the Gun

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard Zhu Biao's words, he immediately recovered from his thoughts about Queen Ma, and then looked at Zhu Biao holding a very novel-looking firecracker in his hand.

Zhu Yuanzhang is also interested in this new type of firearm. You must know that the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang was able to drive the Yuan Dynasty out of the Central Plains to win the world was mainly because Zhu Yuanzhang was good at making firearms. This is why Zhu Yuanzhang set up a military battle.

So when Zhu Yuanzhang saw the new firecracker in Zhu Biao's hand, he immediately took it from Zhu Biao's hand and watched it carefully.

And Zhu Biao immediately explained to the side:

"Father, this new type of firecracker has been improved under Mr. Baili's suggestion. Its rate of fire has increased by about five times compared to the original one, and it can reach the rate of shooting a lead bullet in two breaths at the fastest. speed!"

You must know that the flick of a finger mentioned by Zhu Biao is the unit of time measurement in the ancient East. In the ancient East, an hour is equivalent to two hours in modern times, and a smaller breath is equivalent to two or three seconds.

Therefore, this is equivalent to firing one lead bullet in five or six seconds, and more than a dozen lead bullets in one minute, which is almost the same as the rate of fire of the bolt-action rifle during World War II.

But this is not surprising, after all, what Zhu Biao is holding now is a firecracker with fixed ammunition in the back hall. Although it is still fired by ignition, the bolt-action rifle also has the process of pulling the trigger!

Sure enough, when Zhu Yuanzhang heard Zhu Biao say that the new firecracker has such a high rate of fire, he immediately became energetic.

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang, who invented the three-stage shot, also understood how important the increase in the rate of fire is to the firecracker.

So he immediately said to Zhu Biao:

"This firecracker really has such a high shooting speed?"

"Father, if you don't believe me, Biao can demonstrate it for you! I also ask you to follow me to the military battle bureau!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard Zhu Biao's words, he immediately kicked over a small tea table made of golden nanmu in Qianqing Palace, and then said to Zhu Biao:

"No, you just shoot at it, let me see if your firecracker is really as fast as you said!"

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang had said so, Zhu Biao picked up the firecracker in his hand and started shooting without hesitation. Zhu Biao held the firecracker in one hand, and lit the extremely short fuse with the fire folder in the other. .

boom!
Accompanied by a swirl of smoke, a lead bullet with a diameter of [-] mm was spun and fired at the tea table made of golden nanmu ten meters away.

Although the wooden tea table made of golden nanmu is very hard, it was still pierced by the lead bullet, and finally hit the wooden pillar behind the tea table.

However, Zhu Biao did not stop his movements, but immediately put the fire bag in his mouth, and then quickly pulled the tenon on the fire gun to withdraw the fired copper powder barrel from the back hall of the fire gun. Then he quickly took out another gunpowder barrel that had already been loaded and stuffed it in.

And the tenon on this firecracker is actually equivalent to the bolt of the bolt-action rifle of World War II. Its purpose is naturally for the copper powder barrel, that is, the mechanism that the shell casing will not fall out when it is fired again.

Therefore, Zhu Biao's whole action is a bit like a bolt-action rifle without a magazine going to court.

Zhu Biao fired three shots in succession, leaving three bullet holes with a diameter of more than ten millimeters on the tea table made of golden nanmu. This process took less than ten breaths.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the bullet holes left on the golden nanmu tea table, and was very satisfied with its power. You must know that Zhu Yuanzhang, who has dealt with firecrackers for half his life, knew that this inch-thick wooden table made of metal nanmu was not so good. easy to pierce.

Zhu Biao looked at his father Zhu Yuanzhang after firing three shots, obviously wanting to see if Zhu Yuanzhang's views on this new type of firecracker could be popularized in the army.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw Zhu Biao looking at him, he nodded and said:
"Yes, the rate of fire and power are not bad, but the consumption seems a bit high!"

As Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, he looked at the emptied copper gunpowder barrel, which was the bullet casing, thrown on the ground by Zhu Biao.

You must know that although the gunpowder barrel made of this barrel has the same function as the shell case, it cannot be as thin as the modern shell case. In addition, the caliber of the gunpowder is also 250 mm, so the weight of the copper shell case If it has not been fired, it will weigh half a catty, or [-] grams, which is heavier than a [-]mm anti-aircraft machine gun bullet.

Of course it is heavy again, but in terms of power, it is incomparable with the 400mm anti-aircraft machine gun bullet. The lead bullet fired by the firecracker in Zhu Biao's hand has an initial velocity of 1000 meters per second. Compared with the [-]mm machine gun bullet at [-] meters per second, it is much worse.

But there is no way to make black gunpowder incomparable with smokeless gunpowder!

But even if the initial velocity is only 400 meters per second, the kinetic energy of a [-]-gram warhead is a full [-] joules. Even if the Huns are wearing heavy armor, they can penetrate it with one shot!
When Zhu Biao heard what Zhu Yuanzhang said while looking at the empty copper powder barrel thrown on the ground, he immediately picked up the empty copper powder barrel and explained to Zhu Yuanzhang:

"These copper cylinders used to hold gunpowder and lead bullets can be reused. Soldiers can usually carry an extra waist bag to store these empty cylinders!"

Zhu Biao said the saving method he thought of. There is no way that the weight of this copper ammunition tube has reached two taels. This weight can be used to mint more than 30 copper coins, that is to say, thirty A gunpowder tube is equivalent to one tael of silver.

And the ammunition fired by a war gun is calculated in tens of thousands, so even if only [-] rounds of ammunition are produced, the value of copper alone is worth tens of thousands of taels of silver.

If Zhu Biao followed the method of Bailixiu's era and just threw away the shell casings, then after a war, at least ten thousand taels of silver would have to be thrown away.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded when he heard Zhu Biao's method. After all, it would be fine if it could be recycled, so Zhu Yuanzhang reached out and took the new firecracker from Zhu Biao's hand, and then took the only three guns left in Zhu Biao's hand. The activated gunpowder cartridge was brought over.

Also according to Zhu Biao's operation steps just now, he installed the gunpowder cartridge and ignited it to shoot.

The speed of reloading does not need to be much slower than that of Zhu Biao, and three rounds of ammunition are finished in eleven or twelve breaths.

After shooting, Zhu Yuanzhang was naturally very satisfied with the accuracy of the firecracker and the speed of reloading, so he patted Zhu Biao on the shoulder and said to Zhu Biao:

"You have done a good job. If you want to do good work, you must first sharpen your weapon. The large-scale casting of this new type of firecracker is entrusted to you. With this kind of firecracker, the time for Beiyuan's extinction is coming soon."

Zhu Biao was naturally very happy to hear that Zhu Yuanzhang was willing to promote this new type of firecracker, but then Zhu Biao thought of another shortcoming of the firecracker that Bailixiu said.

(End of this chapter)