Kai Fu Han

Chapter 576 The Fourth Fleet
"When will the factory be mass-produced?" Liu Xinqi asked a question he was most concerned about.

Laboratory products are bound to be ahead of factories in mass production, and this phenomenon becomes more obvious when the technology is more advanced.

The Xinghan League had a bug called warriors, which brought this phenomenon to the world in advance.

"It is estimated that it will take at least one year, but there are currently a large number of fighters in the research institute, which can meet the needs of a small number of people through artificial production." Gao Hui replied.

"How many people can it satisfy?" Liu Xinqi asked again.

"It mainly depends on the number of soldiers and scientific researchers. I made a preliminary estimate, and at least it can meet the normal use of ten people." Gao Hui replied.

Liu Xinqi understood that the limitation on this number of people was mainly ammunition limitation.

Every gun is manufactured, and there will definitely be more and more as time goes by.But ammunition is different. It is a consumable item. It will be used when it is made. When it is used up, new ones must be obtained.

"Let's do this. On the basis of not affecting scientific research, you can arrange for fewer people to make this kind of revolver. After it is made, one gun will be equipped with twelve bullets, and then be stored for me to distribute." Liu Xinqi arranged: " The most important thing now is to study the mass production of percussion powder and greatly increase the output of percussion powder. The league currently has a large demand for this kind of weapon, and a few of them will not be of much use."

Only when the output of firing powder increases can the output of integrated bullets increase. By then, breech-loading rifles can be developed.Only by equipping the entire army with new breech-loading rifles can the overall combat effectiveness be improved.

Some people have a few revolvers, but it is better to let soldiers use super crossbows, which are not much less powerful and quieter than muskets.

"What's the right name for this gun?" Gao Hui asked as he took the revolver Liu Xinqi returned.

The idea came from Liu Xinqi's "Imagination Notes", and it was developed by a research team led by Gao Hui. It would be inappropriate to use anyone's name as a code name.

"Let's call it 'Type 3828 Revolver'. The naming rules for weapons in the future will basically follow this. Unless someone creates an original research invention from scratch, a special name can be applied." Liu Xinqi replied.

Type 3828 revolver is the official name of this gun.

In the future, as this gun becomes more widely used, the soldiers will definitely give it a more domineering code name. It depends on the imagination of the soldiers.For example, later generations called the May [-]th pistol the Black Star.

Gao Hui was asked to load six rounds of bullets into the pistol, and Liu Xinqi went to the shooting range to test the power of the revolver.

Because the propellant is still black powder, the chamber volume is small, and the cartridge case and projectile body are integrated and other factors, the power of this revolver is not high.

The effective range is 30 steps, and the killing distance of shooting through a half-inch (1.6 cm) wooden board is 10 steps.

In other words, when this weapon shoots an armored enemy, it needs to get close to within ten steps.The effective range of [-] steps can only hurt unarmored targets, and it will not be fatal if it misses a vital point.

As for more than thirty steps, the accuracy will drop sharply.

"How many have been made now?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"The six are all test versions and have not been finalized yet," Gao Hui replied.

Hearing that they were all test versions, indicating that these six revolvers still had their own experimental tasks, Liu Xinqi gave up the idea of ​​collecting one for himself first: "When the final version is finalized, give me one as a souvenir. .""no problem."

When he came out of the research institute, it was already noon, so Liu Xinqi went home for a meal, chatted with Zhou Yue for a while, and came to the port outside the north gate again in the afternoon.

This time I didn't go to the institute, but to the naval station.

The naval garrison has been moved out of the original Dengzhou Navy Camp and moved to an alternative location when Liu Jiabao first arrived in Penglai when he purchased Baishi Bay.

It is very close to Penglai Port and is located about fifteen miles east of Penglai Port. Its name is Wanzikou. It used to be a private port. The port has a small river flowing into the sea and abundant fresh water.The sea trade of the private port supported the formation of a small market at this bend. However, with the development of Baishi Bay, commercial tax collection became more and more strict. The ships that originally docked at this private port were attracted to Baishi Bay. Bay, this port gradually became abandoned.

When the Navy moved its base, it took a fancy to this private port, spent money to buy it, and then expanded it so that it could dock all ships of the two fleets at once.

Coupled with the diversion of Penglai Port and Baishi Bay Port, even if all four existing fleets return to Penglai, they can all dock at the dock without having to anchor in the open sea as before.

Liu Xinqi came here today at the invitation of Ruan Xiaoqi.

The Fourth Fleet, with Ruan Xiaoqi as captain, was officially established today. Two newly built mountain-class battleships, three state-class Fuchuan ships (captured by Ye Chuan at the mouth of the Qiantang River) adjusted from the transport fleet, plus five more Frigates, ten battleships in total.

The frigate is a small warship newly developed and built by the Xinghan League. It has a load capacity of only two thousand stones and is about the same size as a county-level sand ship.But there is one biggest difference from the county-level sand ships. The frigates are dual-powered.

Two small steam turbines can support the frigate to cruise at a speed of [-] miles per hour ([-] kilometers per hour), which is comparable to the speed of a mountain-class steam warship.

In addition to the small steam turbine, there are three masts, which in normal sailing are still sail-powered.The load of two thousand shi, in addition to the crew and supplies, can only carry at most one thousand shi of coal. This coal can only be used by the steam engine in combat.

"Alliance leader, thank you." Ruan Xiaoqi was waiting for Liu Xinqi at the entrance of the naval station. The first thing he said when they met was thank you.

"If you really want to thank me, do it well. It is an exception to promote you as the captain this time. There are still many naval officers who are older than you and have higher military exploits waiting for promotion." Liu Xinqi replied.

The reason for promoting Ruan Xiaoqi was mainly because of Ruan Xiaoqi's handsomeness.

During his studies at school, Ruan Xiaoqi, who was nearly forty years old, achieved something that most young people could not do. He completed military theoretical knowledge training in one month shorter than the minimum time required by Liu Xinqi.

During this period, I also served as an intern on a naval warship for more than a month, and I perfectly adapted to the navy's combat methods and life.

This is talent. Ruan Xiaoqi was born to eat on the water.

"Xiaguan must live up to the expectations of the alliance leader and build the fourth fleet into the strongest fleet in the Xinghan Alliance." Ruan Xiaoqi replied.

"Okay, be ambitious. As long as you make more military exploits, I can equip you with more warships. Except for these ten warships now, if you don't have military exploits in the future, I won't add more ships and equipment to your fourth fleet." Liu Xin said. .

"Don't worry, after I have trained the soldiers well, I will lead the fleet northward and kick Jin Guo's ass." Ruan Xiaoqi promised.

(End of this chapter)