Di Lie put down his musket and ran quickly to the target. He clearly saw a big hole in the right chest of the leather armor. He stretched out his hand to push aside the broken armor and saw that the projectile was deeply embedded in the wooden target. Di Lie used his dagger to dig out the lead bullet.

When it came out, the lead bullet had completely deformed.

Di Lie was half relieved. The effect was good. It was indeed similar to the front-loading musket in his impression. Unfortunately, a musket was a musket. Since there was no rifling, the projectile did not form a stable trajectory after it came out of the chamber, so the hit rate was not the same.

Unsatisfactory. Di Lie had aimed at the center of the target before, but he hit the right chest of the leather armor, missing it by a full finger's distance.

Sniper, shooting range of fifty meters, deviation of ten centimeters. It's really not an ordinary shame! However, considering that it is the first time to use it, it is an ancient smoothbore gun, and with the stimulation of fireworks... Under the constraints of various factors, this result is barely acceptable.

Acceptable.

The gun test continued, the target was replaced with iron armor, and the distance remained unchanged.

This time Di Lie had experience. The moment he fired, he narrowed his eyes to a slit and used his eyelashes to minimize the stimulation of the fireworks. Even so, after several shots, his eyes were still sore and uncomfortable from the thick smoke.

The second shot, from a distance of thirty paces, broke through the iron armor without any hindrance, and the lead bullet was embedded in the wooden target.

For the third shot, the target was moved to fifty steps. The projectile still penetrated the armor, but the hit rate dropped greatly. The target was originally the chest, but it hit the lower abdomen. If it were a target shooting, it would be equivalent to two rounds.

The fourth shot misfired.

Every five shots, the target was moved to seventy steps, and the projectiles were embedded in the armor. They failed to penetrate.

At this time, Di Lie paused for a moment, took off the purge bar, cleared the barrel, poured out the black powder residue, and then continued. After that, he fired several shots in a row, all with the same result, and three of them missed the target.

.However, after putting on the leather armor, even at eighty steps, you can still kill the wooden target behind the leather armor.

After firing twelve shots in a row, Di Lie stopped shooting and touched the barrel lightly. It was very hot, but it shouldn't affect the charge too much. But if this situation continues, he can fire up to twenty shots. He must use water to

Use a wet cloth to cool down, otherwise it may easily cause the gunpowder to ignite spontaneously.

As a result of the gun test, Di Lie obtained the following preliminary data: First, the shooting distance of the musket should not exceed 80 steps. Although even if it exceeds 80 steps, it can still kill targets with leather armor, but the hit rate is

But it is pitifully low. A sniper trained so rigorously like him and fed with countless bullets can only hit two out of five at this distance. As you can imagine. Second, the penetration of muskets is not as good as that of bows and arrows.

The above hard bows can still penetrate iron armor at eighty paces. However, the damage of lead bullets is much higher than that of bows and arrows.

On ancient battlefields, there is often a phenomenon that is unbelievable to today's people: a military commander wearing heavy armor, with ten arrows inserted into his body, can command and charge as if nothing happened. This is because of the penetration of the bow and arrow.

Although the force is strong, the damage to the human body is low. It is just like the Sanba Gai of Little Japan during the Anti-Japanese War. This kind of gun has strong penetrating power. If you get close, you can shoot two people with one shot. But the wound is just one

Xiao Dong, even if he is injured, he can endure the pain and continue fighting. After recovering from the injury, he is still alive and kicking.

But lead bullets are different, or they cannot penetrate, but once they penetrate the armor, the projectiles fired into the human body will continue to run wild, covering up the internal organs and making a mess, which is enough to make a person incapable of fighting in an instant. This is in modern times

In ballistics, it is called the "cavity effect".

A small cheap projectile weighing a few grams is far more effective than a dozen or twenty arrows. Looking at it from another angle, to shoot a shot, you only need to pull the trigger with your index finger; while using a hard bow to shoot 20 arrows in a row

With an arrow, the archer is basically out of power and can withdraw from the battlefield. With such a price/performance ratio, which one is more cost-effective? Needless to say?

Last but not least, the fireworks emitted when the musket is fired - especially the fireworks emitted from the medicine chamber close to the face, are very irritating and have a great impact on the eyes. In fact, the ten shots fired behind Di Lie were basically "blind"

"Shoot" means to aim at the target first, close your eyes at the moment of shooting, and shoot the target by feel.

Di Lie didn't know that in history, when the armies of Western countries used muskets, the soldiers were also troubled by the same problem. The long-term stimulation of strong light and thick smoke caused some soldiers to eventually become blind. Even later, the soldiers

When shooting, you close your eyes or turn your head to one side, and do not make aiming movements at all. This is also one of the important reasons for the low hit rate of muskets.

But apart from that, is there no other reason?

Di Lie slowly closed his eyes, and his mind kept flashing back to the musket era that he had seen in later generations, the scene of two armies lining up and shooting face to face. Generally, the distance between such shootings would not exceed a hundred yards, but the effect

How?

In this regard, there is a lot of information in later generations. For example, during the Franco-Prussian War, the Prussian Army conducted a test on the muskets of the Prussian and French countries. Against a target that was 10 feet wide and 6 feet high, the Prussian Army Type 1782 musket

Shoot 100 rounds, and you can hit 60 rounds at a distance of 100 steps; 40 rounds at 200 steps; and only 25 rounds at 300 steps. Similarly, the French muskets are not much better.

Taking into account the impact of battlefield environment, smoke, fear, noise and other factors on the hearts of soldiers, the hit rate is much lower than this ideal test. 500 people conduct two tests on an attacking infantry column at a distance of 100 yards.

A salvo can theoretically hit 500 to 600 rounds. However, according to the experience of various ** teams, hitting 150 rounds on the battlefield is already the best result.

During the Napoleonic era, soldiers from various countries usually carried 50 to 60 rounds of ammunition in ammunition pouches. An average battle consumed about 20 rounds. The British army consumed a lot of money in the battle with Spain, with an average of 60 rounds per person.

It consumed 3.5 million rounds of ammunition. However, the hit rate was surprisingly low, causing only one enemy casualty every 450 rounds.

Theoretically speaking, if the enemies line up in a line with a hundred people in each line, the horizontal target is so big that even with your eyes closed, it is impossible to miss it, unless the muzzle of the gun is pointed at the sky - yes, pointed at the sky!

No matter whether the horizontal target is one hundred people, two hundred people or three hundred people, it only increases the horizontal width, but the vertical height does not change at all. In other words, the vertical height is always the height of one person. This is like

A straight belt may be several feet long, but only a few inches wide.

Facing the enemies rushing towards you in a row, if you miss, there are only two possibilities: your muzzle is either pointed higher or lowered!

Wouldn't it be enough to adjust the height of the muzzle?

Di Lie almost wanted to slap himself. How could he have forgotten one of the most basic parts of future rifles - the ruler! The ruler!

Di Lie is very familiar with the rifle scale. Usually there are two structures on the scale. One is the gap, which is used together with the front sight to align the direction; the other is the range size, which is adjusted according to the target distance. If the target is 200 meters,

Just adjust the size to the 2 mark, that is, raise the notch a little. Its function is to correct the ballistics. Because the bullet does not move in a straight line after it exits the chamber, but is affected by gravity and descends in an arc. Raise the ruler

A little, the muzzle of the gun is raised a little, thereby correcting the trajectory of the bullet, so that the warhead flies to this distance and falls to the appropriate height to accurately hit the target.

The rifle scale usually has four numbers: 1, 2, 3, and 4. They correspond to the shooting distances of 100 meters, 200 meters, 300 meters, and 400 meters respectively, and 5 and above are the shooting ranges from more than 400 meters to 1,000 meters.

Within a range of 100 meters on the battlefield, 1 is used to aim at the chest, 3 is used to aim at the waist, 2 is between the two, 4 is used to aim at the legs, and 5 is for strafing.

Before the emergence of breech-loading guns, all front-loading muskets had no scale, which is another important reason for the low hit rate of front-loading muskets. Of course, the decisive reason is that the barrel is not rifled. But this problem is currently

It can't be solved yet, but it is not difficult to configure a scale on the barrel.

Di Lie quickly drew a simple scale for the rifle. Of course, he made some modifications and used Arabic numerals to represent it. 1 corresponds to thirty steps, 2 corresponds to fifty steps, 3 corresponds to seventy steps, and 4 corresponds to more than eighty steps.

distance.

After Di Lie converted the ruler data and the actual shooting distance, he calibrated it on the barrel, and then handed the gun back to Zhou and Lu, who looked dumbfounded, and said: "All the craftsmen worked hard to make this gun.

How many can you make per day?”

Zhou and Lu groaned, waking up as if from a dream. The two looked at each other and saw a look of horror in each other's eyes. After hesitating for a long time, Lu Dacheng stretched out his trembling hand to take it.

Musket, there was a hint of fear in his eyes.

For this epoch-making musket, dozens of their master craftsmen spent countless efforts and took half a month to reproduce the unprecedented thing that Di Lie had drawn on paper, and reproduce it in its exact form.

.But none of them could understand what this thing was and what it was used for. At this moment, Zhou and Lu suddenly saw this thing in Di Lie's hands, continuously spraying out fire and green smoke, while the target in the distance kept firing.

The shocking scene of shaking and exploding really frightened the two of them.

After the two of them had almost calmed down, the horror in their hearts was filled with huge ecstasy - they actually made a magic wand with their own hands! It could fire and smoke on its own, become invisible, and hurt people within dozens of steps.

The magic wand beyond!

Di Lie felt a little helpless at the slow response of the two people after being stimulated, so he had to patiently ask again.

Zhou and Lu repeatedly accused each other and muttered to each other for a while. Lu Dacheng stepped forward and said: "If we take me as an example, it takes one day to make the gun bed, three days to make the gun barrel, and at least three days to make the gun mechanism.

Half a month..."

Di Lie suddenly frowned with dissatisfaction: "It takes almost twenty days to make a gun? It's too long. This is impossible."

Lu Dacheng said aggrievedly: "This is because I am good at craftsmanship and familiar with the manufacturing process. If it were another craftsman who has never done this before, I am afraid that he might not be able to make it in a month."

Di Lie seemed to have thought of something, pointed at Lu Dacheng and said: "You are making a gun all by yourself? No wonder... In this way, if the gun bed is left to the carpenters and the gun barrel is left to some ordinary blacksmiths,

The bolts and springs are supervised by a few fixed skilled craftsmen; and then a group of the most skilled craftsmen are gathered to specifically cast the gun mechanism components. In this way, do you think you can increase the manufacturing speed?"

Zhou Dewang slapped his hands and said: "I understand, little old man, this is what my little grandnephew said, it seems to be called 'flowing water'..."

Di Lie smiled slightly: "Assembly line operation."

"Yes, it is an assembly line operation." Zhou Dewang went through the entire manufacturing process in his mind, then raised his head and said with confidence, "I am sure that I can make a gun in three days at the latest. As the craftsmen will do in the future,

With proficiency, it might even be faster."

Di Lie was speechless. One gun every three days is of course slow. But there is a saying that there is power when there are more people, especially when there are more professionals, the power is exponentially multiplied. Well, I hope I can give myself a surprise by then. (

To be continued...)

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