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Chapter 968 Revolver Pistol
Chapter 968 Revolver Pistol
"Your Majesty, the muskets equipped by the Warrior Battalion seem to be different from those of the Marine Guards. What's so special about them?"
Seeing that the emperor insisted on going, Xiao Si had no choice but to accompany him. In fact, he also felt that there would not be any big problems. Apart from other things, the hundreds of imperial horse guards who accompanied the emperor on the trip alone could sweep away all the indigenous people on the island.
This is not an exaggeration. The officers and soldiers of the Imperial Stables Warrior Battalion and the Four Guards Battalion are all veterans carefully selected from the army and navy. Not only do they have excellent combat skills and experience, they have also undergone strict examinations, and they almost check their ancestors for all eight generations.
In addition, the equipment is also the most sophisticated. For example, the warriors on guard near the dock, each wearing a multi-layer armor made of rattan, steel rings and whale skin. It is said that it can completely defend against arrows and slashing at medium and short distances, as well as long-range musket shooting.
Why isn't the whole army equipped with this? In one word, it's expensive, and in another word, it's slow. The production of such armor machines is not very helpful, it has to be made entirely by hand, which is time-consuming and laborious. It's affordable to make a few thousand sets, but if there are more than 100,000 sets, I guess the navy's warships and cannons will have to be sold.
But there was one thing Xiao Si thought he could still fight for, and that was the muskets held by the warriors. They were very different from the Yangyang 20-style muskets used by the army and the Marine Corps, being slightly shorter and having a small handle at the end of the barrel.
"Wait for Pingtou to come back and ask him to teach you how to use it. But don't worry about it. It cannot be equipped to the entire army for the time being." Hong Tao knew Xiao Si's little thoughts very well, but he rejected it outright without leaving him any hope.
This type of musket is not a new invention. To be precise, it was finalized and mass-produced ten years ago. Its full name is Type 24 breech-loading needle-barreled rifle.
The barrel is 71 cm long, 13 mm in caliber, and weighs 9 catties without a bayonet. It uses a needle-fired ignition method and a rotating bolt, single-shot manual loading, and fires paper shell fixed ammunition with a primer. The standard rate of fire is 12 rounds per minute, and the effective range is over 500 meters.
Comparing various data, Type 24 is much stronger than the Type muzzle-loading rifle, which is a modified Type rifle. Why is it still not widely equipped in the army after ten years?
It's expensive! The rotating bolt is equivalent to opening a large hole at the rear of the barrel, which speeds up the loading speed, but places high demands on metal processing accuracy.
Large manufacturing errors in the bolt will reduce the airtightness of the barrel, which will not only affect the range and accuracy, but the ejected high-temperature gas will also burn the shooter's facial skin and even eyes.
Even if experienced craftsmen work meticulously, they cannot completely make up for the precision of the processing machinery. In the end, rubber rings can only be used to enhance the sealing, but a rubber ring must be replaced every few dozen shots. In addition, the steel used to make the firing pin must also have relatively high hardness and toughness, and must be replaced frequently.
Not only is the manufacturing cost high and time-consuming, but the fixed paper shell bullets that load the primer and propellant together are also more difficult to use than the primerless Minié bullets of the percussion cap gun.
So far, the safety of priming powder has not been completely resolved. The shelf life of paper shell bullets used in acupuncture guns is only five months, and the storage environment requirements are relatively high.
If the entire army were to switch to needle rifles on a large scale, production would not be a big problem. Even if one or two years were not enough, they could be completed in eight or ten years. However, I am afraid that no one would be able to do the logistics work, and the court would find it difficult to afford the extra expenses.
"Come, take a look at this gun." But Hong Tao did not completely discourage Xiao Si. If a rifle could not be equipped, a pistol was still okay.
The pistol looked a bit strange, with a prominent bulge on the back of the gun, and a closer look revealed it was a cylinder, with six small holes from the front, the caliber of which was about the same as the barrel. The back was sealed, leaving only a primer hole for the percussion cap.
"Put the paper shell bullet into the hole, then install the percussion cap and you can fire it in sequence?" Although he had never seen such a strange shape, Xiao Si still figured out how to use it in the shortest time. In addition to the Yangyang Type 20 muzzle-loading rifle with percussion cap, each Marine Guard soldier is equipped with two Yangyang Type 20 muzzle-loading percussion cap pistols.
If you encounter a situation in battle where you don't have time to reload your musket and the enemy is already close, you can shoot twice in a row with your pistol, and then you can only use a bayonet or an engineer shovel to engage in close combat with the enemy.
The Yangyang Type 12 muzzle-loading rifled pistol is a percussion-capped version of the Yangyang Type 50 flintlock muzzle-loading rifled pistol. It uses the same caliber mm primerless paper shell Minié bullet as the Yangyang Type percussion-cap rifle, with an effective range of meters.
"Try it yourself!" Hong Tao did not give an answer, but took out a handful of paper bullets and percussion caps from Wang Chengen's bag.
"...Your Majesty should have given me one less cleaning rod." Xiao Si was not polite. He took the bullet and percussion cap and started fiddling with them, and soon discovered the problem.
The tail of the paper shell bullet is thinner than the small hole, so it is easy to insert, but the head is slightly thicker than the small hole, so you need to use a cleaning rod to poke it hard. This is not a new discovery. In order to increase airtightness and prevent falling, the bullet head of a muzzle-loading rifle is usually made slightly larger than the barrel caliber.
"Hehehe, this is the cleverness of the craftsmen. Watch carefully, I will only demonstrate it once!" A cleaning rod is indeed needed to load ammunition, but it is not that Hong Tao forgot to give it, but that the cleaning rod is integrated into the pistol.
There is a thinner barrel under the barrel, but it is not a barrel, but the handle of the bullet press. Put the paper shell bullet into one of the small holes, turn the small hole to the bottom, pull the handle down, and a steel column will extend to press the bullet into the small hole.
"You have to press hard. The ignition hole at the back is spike-shaped. It will ignite successfully only when the tail of the bullet pierces the paper shell and contacts the propellant. If it rains or the humidity is high, use grease to seal the loading hole to prevent the propellant from getting wet."
Xiao Si quickly mastered the use of the bullet press, but there were still some deviations in the details. Hong Tao taught him the correct use of it step by step, and suddenly a series of crisp sounds were heard on the dock, and six more bullet holes were added to the wooden target that had just tested Lin Liu's shooting skills.
"Thanks to your majesty, the soldiers have this weapon and no one can get close to them. It is very convenient in the woods, but I don't know when they can be equipped?"
After firing two rounds in a row, Xiao Si got a feel for the target and saw the bullet holes on the wooden target. He was grinning from ear to ear. He patted the emperor twice and felt happy for the soldiers.
Rifles often cannot fully exert their power in tropical jungles due to limited sight and space, so pistols are more suitable. However, pistols can only fire once, and when encountering many enemies, there is often no time to reload.
Now, with a pistol that can fire six times in a row, soldiers only need to carry one. Short range is not a problem, because you can't see far in the jungle, and most battles take place within 20 meters.
Xiao Si came up with a new tactic: when entering the jungle, some soldiers could carry two short rifles and lead the way, while the rest of the soldiers could still use long rifles to provide cover. The combination of long and short rifles could make up for the lack of firepower.
(End of this chapter)
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