Chapter 197 Revolving Pistol
(I wrote tonight and almost missed the update time. I waited for me to make a mistake in ten minutes, and I will update at least three chapters tonight)
"This time I went north, I brought too many equipment and personnel, so I didn't bring any food supplies."
After Ke Lei finished reporting, Chen Xun and others began to digest the various numbers he said. Looking at the old men such as Sun Zheng and Lai Qingyun, although they were happy, they did not make a fuss.
On the other hand, Li Gang and Yue Fei were really shocked.
I originally thought that I had invested in a potential stock, but I didn’t expect that the potential stock had already developed into a golden thigh.
"The flintlock rifle is a musket used by the dragon cavalry?" Li Gang asked.
"Yes, the improved flintlock rifle can use more firing drugs, and the effective range has been increased by 30%. The seamless barrel drilled from the water conservancy drilling machine can ensure that at least 500 shots will not explode." Ke Lei introduced: "One thousand of these six thousand flintlock rifles are flintlock rifles for short-barrel cavalry. The gun is one foot and five long, and can be used with one hand. The short-range power is not inferior to the long-barrel gun. It is basically out of the right head if it exceeds fifty steps."
After saying that, Ke Lei asked his subordinates outside to walk in with a box: "There are gifts for you from sealed iron."
"Oh? Show me." Chen Xun reached out to take it.
Feng Yutie is the highest person in charge of the military government's light artillery manufacturing factory. Giving gifts so solemnly must have special significance.
Open the box and Chen Xun saw a weapon I had seen in the movie before: a rotary pistol.
It is not a revolver that can only rotate the magazine. It is a rotating pistol composed of five short barrels. It can be fired five times in a row at a time.
"This is a rotary pistol made by Zhang Yuti according to your description. Its power is the same as a short-barrel pistol, but its weight is three times that of a short-barrel musket. Generally, one-handed cannot aim normally, so it is not practical." Ke Lei introduced: "Zhen Yuti developed a batch, and finally made this finished product carefully and sent it to you."
"Let's try the gun." Chen Xun was also very excited to see this advanced weapon. He temporarily put the matter on hold and walked towards a small martial arts venue in the Shangshu Province.
This martial arts venue was transformed from a small garden, which usually allows Chen Xun to relax in activities. The place is not big, and the best place is only thirty steps, but it is enough to test this rotary pistol.
When he arrived at the martial arts venue, someone had someone set up the recommended target, Chen Xun began to charge the pistol.
The design of this pistol is very simple, it is five closed barrels with butts. The hammer is set on the upper part of the pistol. Each barrel is turned up and the gunpowder chamber just faces the hammer. It can accumulate power to pull the trigger to fire.
When loading medicine, you need to install firing medicine on all five barrels, and then install incision powder chambers. Every time you shoot, you need to force the hammer to be fired and then pull the trigger to shoot.
After five designs, it takes a long time to complete the charge again.
It took about ten breaths before Chen Xun found out that he had finished the medicine.
When I loaded the gunpowder, I discovered that Feng Yuti made a very detailed shooting here. I used a half-wrapped iron bar to seal the gunpowder chamber. Only the gunpowder chamber located directly above will be exposed, and other medicine chambers will be blocked by this circle of iron bars, which will prevent the gunpowder from falling down the medicine chamber and also avoid the accidental shooting caused by Mars splashing.
"Governor, let others try it?" Li Gang looked at this iron lump and felt a little scared in his heart, and persuaded Chen Xun.
"No, I'll do it, it's okay." Chen Xun now has super healing characteristics and is the most suitable gun tester. As long as he puts his arm as much as possible, it's okay even if it explodes.
Holding the gun handle with both hands, stretching forward with both arms, raising the lump of iron weighing 6 kilograms, Chen Xun took a deep breath and pulled the trigger violently.
With a crisp sound, the wooden target in front of him exploded directly into a small hole.
Turn the tied barrel, turn the new barrel directly above, pull the hammer behind, aim again, and shoot.
Bang!! A small hole exploded again on the wooden target.
Bang!!! Bang!!! Bang!!!
After five consecutive shots, Chen Xun exclaimed: "Good, this is a gun!"
Compared to this rotary pistol, the flintlock with a single barrel is too slow to fire.
Not counting the previous loading time, Chen Xun shot five shots in a row, which took only one interest in total.
"This is too awesome." Sun Zheng sighed, his eyes lit up: "Governor, let me try!"
"Okay, except for the heavy weight of this weapon, the recoil is basically the same as that of an ordinary flintlock rifle. Please be more at ease and don't hurt your wrists." Chen Xun handed the rotary pistol to Sun Zheng, and Lai Qingyun followed him, probably very envious.
Looking at Yue Fei's expression of petting and petting, Chen Xun guessed that he had just joined and was embarrassed: "You can try it too. Our army's main weapons will gradually be replaced with this kind of flintlock rifle in the future. You must be familiar with it first to better fight under the command."
"Thank you Governor!" Yue Fei followed happily.
Chen Xun, Li Gang and Ke Lei came to the side of the martial arts venue and sat down at the rest table.
"If this kind of flintlock rifle that can be launched continuously can fully equip the army, there will be no enemy in the world who can fight." Li Gang sighed.
"Yes, but the cost of this type of rotary pistol is too expensive now. According to Feng Yu Tie, the one given to the governor is not considered the early R&D investment. The manufacturing cost alone, the labor cost can reach 300 taels of silver." Ke Lei introduced.
"In other words, this gun is even better than the silver of the same weight." Li Gang couldn't believe it.
"Five or six times more expensive than silver of the same weight." Ke Lei affirmed.
"That's really too expensive." Li Gang shook his head, feeling very regretful.
"It's okay. Think about how expensive we were when we first made flintlock rifles. Now that we have become proficient, we have divided the work and cooperated and used water conservancy machinery, the cost has dropped to less than 10% at the beginning." Chen Xun felt nothing: "The pistol is not mature now. When the lighter rotating pistol is developed, the cost will inevitably drop sharply if it is manufactured on a large scale. Mr. will definitely see the day when this weapon is equipped with the army."
"Hope as the governor said, at that time, compared to this world, there will be no foreign race that can humiliate us Han people." Li Gang thought.
The terrifying power, the terrifying rate of fire, and the terrifying range can be achieved with just five thousand people, and only 5,000 people can be used to clean up all the troops in the world.
Chapter completed!