Chapter 1060 The original matchlock gun
On February 16, the sixth year of Tianxuan, although Qu Mao rushed back to the lord's hut early in the morning, after all, he did not rush to Liandao to participate in Kong Ming's firearm experiment in the morning. The Minister of the Ministry, Kong Fu, got stuck.
Especially Kong Fu, Qu Mao not only had breakfast with Kong Fu in the dining room on the first floor of the lord's lodge, but also exchanged with Kong Fu about the specific implementation requirements of ideological and moral education in the morning.
In desperation, Qu Mao had no choice but to take out the magic communication crystal to contact Kong Ming, and asked Kong Ming to postpone the musket shooting experiment to the afternoon, and he stayed in the lord's hut to exchange ideas and moral education with Kong Fu.
After knowing the content of the exchange between Qu Mao and Kong Fu, Kongming also told Qu Mao clearly that the question mentioned by Kong Fu is very important, and the firearm test can be postponed until the afternoon or even tomorrow, but Qu Mao must have a thorough discussion with Kong Fu Ideological and moral education. Kong Ming even said that once the musket experiment came to an end, he would personally urge Kong Fu to complete the compilation of ideological and moral education textbooks.
After lunch in the lord's hut, Qu Mao hurried back to the civilian pier outside the fisherman's village. Fortunately, the naval warship was still moored on the pier waiting for Qu Mao. After Qu Mao boarded the naval warship, the naval warship immediately lifted anchor and set sail , sailing towards Lian Island at high speed.
At 3:00 pm on February 16, the sixth year of Tianxuan, Qu Mao finally came to a secret open space next to the Liandao lathe factory. Kong Ming and others had been waiting for a long time.
Kong Ming brought Qu Mao to the experimental site. Qu Mao saw that 50 meters in front of the site, there were dozens of 1-meter-square wooden boards in a row, and in front of him was a carrier piled up by sandbags about one meter high.
A one-meter-long iron pipe is clamped by two wooden squares on the top of the carrier. There is a hole at the end of the iron pipe, and a fire rope is inserted in the hole.
Following Kong Ming's order, a researcher began to wipe clean the inside of the iron pipe with an iron bar more than one meter long, and then began to pour black powder into the top of the iron pipe. The black powder is continuously compacted using an iron bar.
After finishing this, another researcher poured in a dozen iron beads with a diameter of a few millimeters from the other end of the iron pipe, and then held the iron bar to compact the iron beads.
After doing this, the two researchers worked together to clamp the iron pipe again with two wooden squares.
Kong Ming handed Qu Mao a tinder and said, "My lord, please light the fire yourself."
Qu Mao glanced at it. The place where Kong Ming conducted the experiment was really rudimentary. Even though Kong Ming had done it many times, Qu Mao still waved his hand, and while keeping away from the iron pipe, he said, "Kong Ming, just arrange for an experimenter to light the fire." , tell the person who ignites the gun not to stand in a straight line with the barrel, and keep away immediately after igniting the fire, do you hear me?"
Kong Ming looked at Qu Mao in astonishment, and said, "My lord, many tests have been carried out, and there is no problem."
Qu Mao glared at Kong Ming, who immediately followed Qu Mao's request.
After arranging for the experimenters to ignite the fire, Qu Mao involuntarily stretched out his hands to cover his ears as he saw the sparks blazing from the fuse and extending toward the inside of the iron pipe.
There was a loud "boom", and a thick smoke rose.
When the gunpowder smoke cleared, Qu Mao took a look. Although the gunpowder smoke was still rising upwards, the one-meter-long iron pipe had retreated about 5 meters and fell off the sandbag long ago.
Qu Mao sighed, put away the binoculars, and said: "Kong Ming, the lethality is still not enough.
In addition, it is too complicated to fire. I remember that in the musket concept drawing I drew for you, there was a **** for you. Why is there still only one barrel? "
Kong Ming smiled wryly and said, "My lord, the concept you drew is not practical, especially the small iron ring in front of the gun stock. The little tongue in the iron ring is useless at all."
Qu Mao shook his head and said: "Kong Ming, the **** of the gun is made of wood, which is used to bear against the shoulder of the shooter, otherwise the recoil will make the gun lose its ability to shoot continuously.
Look, the recoil makes the barrel retreat a full 5 meters. If there is no buttstock, it is easy to injure our soldiers.
Of course, the results of this experiment still need to be affirmed. At least the barrel did not explode, and it can form a certain lethality within 50 meters.
I think that on the one hand, it is to improve the buttstock and study the amount of charge. This kind of musket is called a matchlock gun, no, it should be called the original matchlock gun.
If the original matchlock gun could be operated by a single soldier, it should be more or less able to form a certain combat effectiveness, but the combat effectiveness is quite limited.
Now the range of crossbow arrows can reach 75 meters, and the range of bows and arrows can reach up to 150 meters, but the original matchlock guns can only hit 50 meters, and the original matchlock guns are not as convenient as crossbow arrows and bows.
So there is a lot of room for improvement. I think you can consider three directions: one is to increase the range; the other is to increase the lethality; the third is to reduce the difficulty of launching. You continue to work hard and experiment, I think there is still a long way to go to form a combat-ready army. "
Kong Ming nodded thoughtfully, and said, "My lord, if you say so, the subordinate understands the meaning of the design of the gun stock, but what is the function of the small circle and the small tongue you drew in the musket concept drawing?"
Qu Mao said helplessly: "Kong Ming, when you study to that point, you will naturally understand the meaning of what I drew. That is not actually called a small tongue, but a trigger, which is used to arouse gunpowder.
Now that you have solved the original arquebus firing principle, let’s design and produce the original arquebus as soon as possible.
As long as you have enough original matchlock guns, I can ask Zhao Pan to select a group of soldiers as experimental troops for new weapons, so that the original matchlock guns can be transformed into the combat effectiveness of our Yihou territory as soon as possible. "
Kong Ming nodded earnestly, and said, "My lord, although I haven't seen how the original matchlock guns have improved compared to our previous troops, I will still fulfill your request as soon as possible."
Qu Mao patted Kong Ming on the shoulder and said, "Kong Ming, the experiment of this new weapon is very dangerous, so you can't act too hastily.
Let’s go step by step. I will be very satisfied if I can research the original matchlock gun in a year.
You will realize the significance of this weapon in the future, but I will definitely not be able to explain it to you now. "
Kong Ming nodded again, and said: "Please rest assured, my lord, I will definitely develop the original matchlock gun as soon as possible, and mass-produce it to equip the troops."
(end of this chapter)