Fu Heng and others lingered in the Khanate for another month before leaving. Before leaving, Qitade gave him a flintlock rifle and a flintlock short rifle, which was naturally inlaid with gold and jade, and an exquisite jade made of fire stone, which made the rest of the group have different gifts.

Stavropol.

Zen Star Laboratory.

To be honest, when Qitade used this name to name his laboratory, it also caused criticism from many people, but because it was named by Khan himself, everyone gave up after some discussion.

The laboratory has doubled. With the steam engine, the original stamping machines, forging machines, shearing machines, bending machines, etc. driven by them have been added.

Of course, they are all small machines. The best steam engine in Qitade now can only work for up to four hours, which means that it will stop to replace parts in half a day.

How to ensure that the machine can work for a long time is the biggest problem before him. Of course, since it has developed to this point, he has assigned various special tasks.

Specialized people have begun to improve targeted materials, transmission devices, lubrication and fuel.

This winter seems to be warmer than usual, especially in the North Caucasus area. When secret mobilization began to be carried out in the country, there were still a few months before spring. Qitade did not want to miss any level that could improve or stabilize himself. He used the "Zeleph Star" technology.

Zen Star Experimental Center, Laboratory 1.

Qitade was sitting in front of a machine tool and was using the low-power "Truchen No. 1" steam engine to drive the lathe drill bit (high manganese steel) to drill a barrel.

With the steam engine, you can fix the barrels in a certain position, and then hold it and slowly push it towards the drill bit.

If it were in the past, whether the apprentices used rocker to rotate or used horses to pull, it was almost impossible to achieve stable advancement, so the scrap rate was still very high.

With a steam engine, it is different. People who operate the barrel will feel it if they practice on the machine tool for five to ten days. The so-called running-in is also called.

After the drilling chamber is finished, then set aside to cool.

Pick up another barrel that has been drilled and replaced with another drill bit. This time he will use it to pull out the rifle.

Also carefully hold the barrel and push it forward slowly, listen carefully to the harsh sound caused by the violent friction between the drill bit and the barrel chamber, carefully distinguish the difference, and stop if there is any strangeness, and see if it is caused by the uneven thickness of the previous chamber wall, or is it containing impurities.

After troubleshooting the problem, either change the barrel or continue to push forward slowly.

Generally speaking, with the help of the steam engine, unless you are a completely novice, you can succeed at one time.

After drilling the rifle, pour out the iron filings inside, replace it with a drill bit specially used to polish the rifle, and continue pushing forward.

At this time, the rifle of a Minnie spear is enough.

Afterwards, a group of disciples around him, including Sang Kun, will use manual processing to further process the barrel, such as further polishing the rifle, oiling, etc.

Pick up a barrel that has been made with a sight and connect it to a wooden gun that is somewhat different from before.

Picking up a bayonet from the workbench and buckle it on the front of the barrel with a "pop". This method is also different from the previous spiral.

Holding up this spear of the new generation of muskets, standing up and aiming, then adjusting the connection between the barrel and the gun body.

Then I picked up another cone-shaped cylinder, which seemed to be made of brass. One end of the cylinder was empty and a small piece was sunken.

The bottom of the cylinder is closed, and a small dot in the middle is also sunken, and the thickness is extremely thin.

There is a paper bag soaked in oil on the machine tool. After opening the paper bag, there are small paper bags of the same size. After tearing the small paper bag open, pour the contents inside into the cylinder.

The black granular thing is naturally the granular black gunpowder that Truqin is popular nowadays.

Compress the gunpowder and continue to add the gunpowder until the top layer of gunpowder is flush with the depression of the cylinder.

Then I picked up one from the scattered cone lead bullet near the paper bag.

There are two threads at the tail of this conical lead bullet, and the bullet body under the thread is empty. If it is a previous paper-shelled Minnie bullet, one of its wooden plugs should be plugged in it and then put it on the cylindrical paper-shelled medicine.

But looking at Qitade's expression, there was no paper shell bullet at this time. Did he want to abandon the plug and directly put the brass cylindrical shell on the bullet?

Connect the machine again, with the help of the machine, the bullet body is just put on the copper shell!

I did the same action three times in a row, and a total of three such "bullets" were made.

I picked up the gun body again. This time the gun body seemed a little different from the previous Minnie spear body, and it looked a little heavier. There was also a weird little hammer on it.

Press in three bullets in one breath, then pull the raised hammer and pull it, and you can hear the subtle sound of the first bullet entering the cartridge.

Pick up this strange spear and went to the next schoolyard, and shot at the target about two hundred meters away.

There was only a "bang" sound, and the sound was thicker than the previous paper shell, as if it was cast by a small cannon.

At this time, a person appeared in the tunnel behind the target, waving a small flag indicating that he was hit.

Qitade moved back one hundred meters. At this time, he was about three hundred meters away from the target in front. After pulling the hammer, he aimed at the target again.

After another "bang", the small flag appeared again, but there was a small white flag next to the small red flag that hit the center of the circle, which meant that the bullet just now hit the edge of the target.

Qitade stood in a daze without moving, feeling the wind direction, recalling the shooting movement just now, and then tried the position of the spear stuck on the shoulder, and finally adjusted the position of the sight slightly, then pulled the hammer and aimed at the target opposite again.

"Bang"

This time, the small red flag and the small yellow flag were raised opposite each other, which shows that the bullet just now hit the center and edge of the target. According to the standards of later generations, it is about the sixth and seventh rings.

"Bang", opened the gun body and carefully checked the condition inside. The residue of gunpowder was obviously much less than before!

He threw the musket to Sangkun, "Did you remember?"

Sang Kun and others nodded quickly.

Qitade reminded again: "Okay, now we can try it in small batches. In three months, we will first equip my personal guards."

This is a rifle that is close to the level of later generations. In addition to black gunpowder, according to his estimate, being able to press three bullets at once and having a range of at least 300 meters is enough to stand out.

There is also a pistol. He originally wanted to make the real revolver in later generations together, but unfortunately he was about to fight again. It was too late.

However, since the copper shell bullet has been made, it is not difficult to make mortars that are close to later generations.

Mortar shells are actually a large copper-shelled bullet, but they use their own weight to hit the firing pin at the bottom of the artillery, rather than the active impact of a long spear.

Therefore, the small dots that are trapped in the bottom of the mortar shell need to be thinner, which is a difficult point in making, but it is not very big after all. As long as it is big enough, there is a way to overcome it. With the base fire, it is probably still possible to make it.

With a mortar, the cannon body can be lighter, just thirty to fifty pounds, but the warhead becomes a problem at this time.

Since it is a mortar, the bullet body is definitely not big. If you use the mortar to send the physical bullet to the target, you can imagine that the effect is not good.

Therefore, it is necessary to fill the warhead with gunpowder, and ensure that the warhead first hits the target object, and then uses the striker on the top of the warhead to hit the gunpowder inside to detonate the bomb.

For Qitad, this is really too complicated. Instead of doing this, it is better to use the exposed leads to detonate the elevation angle of the cannon of one or two hundred kilograms to be too high.

Therefore, this time he did not promote the mortars together, but made a sample gun, and the rest could only be explored slowly by Sang Kun and others.

Also, being able to make it is different from being able to make it in large batches and being able to make it quickly. Only when that step is achieved will he promote equipment.

However, although the killer mortar (for forces with many cavalry) cannot be made immediately, it is still possible to improve the grenade.

Change the previous ignition to the hairpin style, and then cover the tail of the wooden handle as in the later generations, instead of exposing the leads naked like before, you can prevent moisture.

The so-called hair-pulling style did not invent the ignition method of matches in later generations, but instead borrowed the concept of inducing drugs and launching drugs from the musket era.

There are two leads, one connected to the ejection medicine in the bullet body and the other connected to the ejection medicine. This one is made very rough and is also attached to the gunpowder powder. Because the ejection medicine is closely connected, when it is pulled quickly, it will inevitably ignite the ejection medicine, and then ignite the fuse connecting the ejection medicine.

In this way, there is no need to prepare different lengths of fuses according to the light and weight of the projectile, as in the "grenadier" era. Moreover, if it is rainy and snowy, the fuse cannot be lit, and the grenade will lose its function.

But the wooden handle with the lid is different. Even in rainy and snowy weather, it does not affect its effect in a short period of time.

With the blessing of rifles that have been greatly approaching later generations, although the number of Junggars is still significantly behind the Russians, modern firearms that are one century ahead of them are not just a joke.

Think about the Opium War in later generations and you will understand.

"Are you going to become a great power soon? And all European countries become European sick men?"

On the way back, Qitade finally smiled a little.
Chapter completed!