Lord Moyu was forced to open

As the New Year approaches, Zhao Jun, the emperor, has also become very busy. He has to personally handle the New Year rewards for officials, the New Year welfare for military officers, and the welfare of the surrounding people. There is nothing he can do about it. Shirking is also the best way for him to win people's hearts. He cannot rely on others.

Yesterday, I just went with Ye Yin to visit the poor elderly people near the capital and delivered rice, flour, grain, oil and quilts. Today, Zhao Jun put on his armor early in the morning and went to the Beijing camp outside Bianjing.

Over the years, as the Song Dynasty continued to change, so did the capital camp.

By now, the entire Beijing camp has almost changed its costumes.

What does that mean?

Although the local area still mainly focuses on cold weapons, in the Beijing camp, Zhao Jun has completed an all-firearms armed force.

Today, the total number of people in the Beijing camp is around 400,000.

All are equipped with the latest tunnel-fired guns. Under the constant competition between Tiangongyuan and the Military Division, the weapons of the Song Dynasty have been updated very quickly in recent years.

By now, the firing speed of the muskets in the hands of the soldiers has increased from the original two rounds per minute to five to six rounds per minute.

This means that it basically only takes about ten seconds to fire a shot.

According to the discipline of the military, experienced soldiers in the military can even shoot one bullet in about five seconds, and can shoot more than a dozen bullets in one minute.

Of course, very few people can achieve this speed.

This is just an ordinary gun.

The biggest change is the artillery in the army.

The Huoshaoyun Type 2 artillery has long been eliminated, and the Huoshaoyun Type 8 artillery is now installed in the army.

This is a new type of artillery that not only continues the advantages of the Huoshaoyun series of breech-loaded artillery shells, but also expands the muzzle caliber to 7.62 cm.

Even the craftsmen of Tiangongyuan carved rifling in the muzzle, which gave the Huoshaoyun-8 type artillery a longer range and more accurate accuracy than the Type-2 artillery.

However, the number of gun operators for the Huo Shao Yun Ba type has been increased to nine people. Even one less person cannot serve this new artillery.

And his shooting range reached a full six miles!
Jingying Firearms Experimental Site.

boom! boom! boom! boom! boom! boom!
Six gunshots were fired one after another, almost without stopping.

When the gunfire stopped, six holes suddenly appeared on the target ahead.

Clap clap clap clap!
A burst of warm applause sounded, Guan Ning came forward and said with a smile:
"I didn't expect Your Majesty to be able to use this new weapon right away. Not a single shot missed the target. Your Majesty, your marksmanship is amazing!"

Zhao Jun smiled, looked down at the short gun in his hand that was extremely similar to the revolver in his previous life, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

How long has it been since then? Tiangongyuan has actually made a revolver. Although the "revolver" in my hand is extremely crude, it looks completely incomparable with the exquisite and beautiful revolver in the previous life, and it looks stupid and thick. of goods.

Not only is it heavy, but it is also slow to load. You still need to load powder packets one by one, but this already has the prototype of a revolver.

He had never pointed them in this direction, and he had even forgotten about the revolver.

But I didn't expect that these guys would actually give me a surprise today. I had just arrived at the military camp when I got news that today the military camp was testing new weapon samples sent by Tiangong Institute. I felt interesting and ran over. I didn't expect to see one. "Revolver"!
Looking up and down at the experimental gun in his hand, Zhao Jun couldn't put it down and said:
"This is a good thing!
Although the shooting range is not far, this thing is small and easy to carry. It can also be loaded with six rounds of projectiles in advance. When needed, it can be taken out and fired directly. This is a big killer in close combat!
Who researched this? "

The person in charge of the Tiangong Institute, who was watching the experimental results, immediately replied: "Your Majesty, this is the work of a graduate who was just recruited from Yunzhou University of Technology this year."

"Oh? A recent graduate made this thing?"

Zhao Jun immediately became interested and asked: "Has anyone else come here today?"

The person in charge nodded quickly: "Your Majesty, here you come! Right behind!"

"Then let him come forward and answer!"

Zhao Jun nodded.

The person in charge hurriedly responded, turned around and went to find the student.

Not long after, a young man who looked to be just sixteen or seventeen years old came in front of Zhao Jun. The little guy was young, had a delicate face, and was a little shy, but when he saw Zhao Jun, there was uncontrollable excitement in his eyes. Zhao Jun smiled when he saw it, raised the revolver in his hand and asked, "Is this your work?"

The young man nodded quickly: "Your Majesty, this is exactly the student's work!"

"What is your name?"

"Repeating shot!"

"No, I'm asking you what your name is?"

The young man immediately blushed and quickly introduced himself: "Your Majesty, the student's surname is Bi, and his name is Bi Maokang!"

"Bi Maokang?"

Zhao Jun repeated.

Bi Maokang nodded heavily.

Zhao Jun smiled, reached out and patted his shoulder and said with a smile: "What a good name! You deserve this name!"

Zhao Jun showed a smile that only he could understand, raised the revolver in his hand and asked, "How did you come up with the idea of ​​making such a unique musket?"

Bi Maokang shyly scratched his head and explained: "The teacher the students followed in the industrial school was Master Zheng from the Tiangong Institute. Master Zheng studies muskets and is constantly studying how to make muskets shoot faster and reload more quickly." Faster and has a longer range, but I still have no clue.

One time when I was thinking about this problem, I accidentally fell into the pond without paying attention. "

"In the pond?"

Zhao Jun was surprised.

Bi Maokang was even more embarrassed: "Students are sometimes too focused and ignore other things, often making jokes."

Zhao Jun smiled and nodded: "You are too serious."

Bi Maokang smiled helplessly, and then continued: "Fortunately, the pond was not deep, and the students climbed up quickly, but there happened to be lotus flowers growing there. The students accidentally got some, thinking that they would all fall out anyway. It happened to be in the water recently. It happened that I had some lianzi to eat to reduce the heat. However, after seeing the lotus pods covered with lianzi, the student suddenly had an idea.

Since there is no way to increase the rate of fire in a short period of time with the original ammunition compartment, why don't I put a few more ammunition compartments in a gun?
Just like this lotus seed, there are many lotus seeds in one lotus pod.

Then I thought about how to make this lotus-like ammunition magazine launch the ammunition as quickly as possible without consuming too much time.

Then he experimented again and again, and finally tried out this repeating short gun.

Students believe that such a rotating magazine structure can shoot ammunition at the fastest speed and provide the most appropriate number of ammunition magazines for the musket. "

As he spoke, Bi Maokang reached out to take the revolver from Zhao Jun's hand, opened the magazine of the revolver, turned it and said: "When a bullet is fired in such a circle, the wheel will automatically rotate, thus The next moment, the bullet is aimed at the firing port, so that His Majesty only needs to keep pulling the trigger and igniting the bullet pointed at the muzzle to fire six shots in a row, fast and fierce! "

After hearing this, Zhao Jun clapped vigorously and kept saying, "What a great idea. Heroes come from young! But I would like to make two suggestions."

Bi Maokang's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this. He had long heard from the seniors in the institute that firearms were first invented by His Majesty. In the past, whenever the Institute of Engineering had no research direction, His Majesty could often point it out with just one sentence. The way forward.

Is it possible that His Majesty will speak again today?

The rest of the Tiangongyuan people present immediately pricked up their ears and listened.

Bi Maokang also quickly took out a small notebook and a small section of charcoal from his body, looking at Zhao Jun expectantly.

Seeing this, Zhao Jun smiled, but continued: "I was just thinking, since you can put this structure on a short musket, can you put it on a long fire?

Or you can also make a musket with six barrels, and then make an ammunition belt that can continuously feed the gun, and combine them to create a long-tube multi-turn wheel that can be designed continuously. Musket!
What do you think of this idea? "

Bi Maokang's eyes gradually lit up!
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(End of this chapter)