I Want to Be the Emperor Chapter 688 This is it, buy it immediately

Guangzhou Machinery Company naturally has no objections to the technical licensing cooperation between the two parties. Because of the licensing fee, most of the profits will belong to Guangzhou Machinery Company.

This model simply uses the on-site production base of Dangtu Machinery Company to expand its own production capacity in the short term, and make a fortune before other manufacturers develop high-pressure steam engine technology and increase high-pressure steam engine production capacity.

Although Dangtu Machinery Company is reluctant, on the one hand, the superiors are urging them to get more high-pressure steam engines. As a government-run enterprise, they still need to bear some responsibilities.

On the other hand, they can only keep themselves safe, saying that they can verify and improve their technical capabilities in producing high-pressure steam engines through this technical licensing cooperation.

In this way, after they develop their own high-pressure steam engine and bypass the patents of Guangzhou Machinery Company and Tianjin Machinery Company, they can adjust the production line and directly produce their own high-pressure steam engine

In this way, a situation was formed in which the three major domestic steam engine manufacturers all had the production capacity of high-pressure steam engines, which allowed the empire's high-pressure steam engine production capacity to increase at once to supply the naval steam engine market, which has a huge domestic demand.

In this way, the Navy can easily place orders for dozens and hundreds of steam engines.

Just as the domestic steam engine industry was booming and the navy began to put new or modified motor and sailboats into service on a large scale, a firearms test was being held at the firearms research institute on the outskirts of Jinling City.

A dozen technicians are looking at the people testing guns ahead.

Three young Guards soldiers, each holding a slightly different style of gun, were constantly loading and shooting.

It's just that when these three Guards soldiers load and shoot, they will load a small brass-colored cap in the firing mechanism, and there is no flint when firing...

This is a musket that doesn’t require flint!

Clear gunshots kept ringing out, and the dozen or so technicians behind them became more and more happy as they watched.

This is the biggest project in their firearms research institute in recent years: a flash cap percussion gun!

The research on muskets in the Dachu Empire began when the country was officially founded. It began to produce matchlocks in its early years. The matchlocks served in the domestic regular army for ten years in Chengshun, and the official service in the militia lasted until Chengshun.

For about sixteen years, and in fact in many overseas areas, there are still many militiamen or ordinary young men who continue to use matchlocks in private.

The production of matchlocks in the Da Chu Empire has never stopped, but starting around the tenth year of Chengshun, most of the matchlocks produced were exported.

Matchlocks are the flagship export product of the Great Chu Empire and are very popular in overseas indigenous countries. Many vassal states and many armies under the control of the Great Chu Empire are equipped with the export version of the matchlocks of the Great Chu Empire.

The research and production of flintlock guns took even longer. Chengshun was officially developed in the second year of the year and began small-scale production. During this period, many flintlock models appeared, and the scale of production capacity became larger and larger, and eventually

It completely replaced the matchlock gun and became the standard equipment of the imperial police and militia.

Its latest model, the Thirteen-Year-Old Suifa Rifle and its subsequent improved models, are still being continuously improved and produced so far, and are even the main rifles in active service in the Imperial Army.

The performance of the 13-year-old series of flintlock guns far exceeds the flintlock guns produced by their European counterparts. This performance gap is not just a little bit, but a huge difference, especially in the all-weather firing rate.

To put it bluntly, the Chu army’s Thirteen Years Type series of flintlock muskets are more than two generations ahead of European flintlock muskets in terms of performance.

However, even though the flintlock rifle far surpassed that of its European counterparts, the officials of the Arms Department of the Great Chu Emperor were still not satisfied. In the 18th year of Chengshun, they had already proposed a so-called new generation rifle research and development plan.

It is also planned to use mercury fulminate newly invented by professors from the Department of Chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology as the firing material to replace flint.

However, there was not much progress at that time, mainly because the stability of mercury fulminate was too poor and it was also very corrosive, which was unacceptable for military equipment with very high stability requirements.

Therefore, in the following years, they have been thinking about how to apply mercury fulminate safely, stably and efficiently.

It was not until the 21st year of Chengshun that the Gunpowder Research Institute successfully produced a copper flash cap, which put the development of new rifles on the fast track.

The Firearms Research Institute designed a new firearm and a new firing mechanism. After a series of tests and improvements, the prototype gun currently being tested was finally produced.

The actual test results also greatly excited them.

During the test, other shooting accuracy, power, etc. are not important. They are all muskets anyway. They may not be better, but they may not be any worse.

What they really care about is firing rate!

When the Army Ordnance Department first finalized the research and development project for the new gun, the most important requirement was to significantly improve the firing rate of the new gun, which should be at least about 80% higher than that of the existing 13-year-old flintlock gun.

The firing rate is much higher.

At the same time, it is also required to control costs. After all, we cannot make a rifle that cannot be used.

The standard rifles of the Dachu Empire were produced in quantities ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions. They are very cost-sensitive. If they are one or two yuan more expensive, then in the end it will cost one or two million more...

…If it’s ten or eight yuan more expensive, then it’s an additional expense of several million or even tens of millions.

Therefore, the military has always been very tight on the cost of mass-produced standard equipment such as rifles.

This is also the direct reason why the military developed flash cap percussion rifles, because after preliminary technical demonstrations, they believed that as long as this thing was developed, it could be seamlessly modified with the 13-year-old series of rifles.

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Moreover, the modification cost is not high. You only need to replace the bolt and nothing else needs to be changed.

In this way, the military can obtain a rifle with a higher firing rate at a cheaper price, instead of having to directly produce a large number of new rifles.

The question now is how high the firing rate of the new rifles currently being tested can be.

After the long test, everyone quickly compiled the test data, and finally came out with a very astonishing result: the firing rate reached 99%... or even more accurately, in the 100-round live ammunition test, only

There was a misfire.

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This firing rate is simply an epoch-making blow for flintlock guns!

You must know that even the latest 13-year-old improved Suifa rifle can only achieve a firing rate of 85%. This is still in a testing state... If it is actual combat, it can actually have a firing rate of 8%.

Ten is pretty good.

In actual combat, the Chu Army's 13-year-old series of flintlock guns basically misfired after firing five or six rounds... Of course, this is still much better than the 70% firing rate of the matchlock gun, let alone

Those early European flintlock muskets are comparable.

But after using a flash cap to fire, the firing rate suddenly increased to 99%... This result directly shocked the technical research and development personnel, and even shocked the officials of the Army Ordnance Department.

Especially the officials of the Army Ordnance Department, they know that mercury fulminate is very good. It not only has a high firing rate, but also has no smoke and low flame.

There is no delay in shooting. When a flintlock gun is fired, it needs to go through three steps: crushed flint, ignition powder and propellant. There will be a delay time when the trigger is pulled and the bullet exits the chamber. However, if mercury fulminate is used, there is no

This step of igniting the gunpowder allows you to pull the trigger and fire immediately.

They also saw so many benefits that they began to develop rifles with mercury fulminate as the firing method early on. However, they still did not expect that after using a flash cap to fire, the firing rate could be as high as 99%.

This test directly shocked the top brass of the Army... because everyone knew what this high firing rate meant.

This means that even if other conditions are not considered, the firepower density during combat can be increased by at least 20%...

Well, if you remove about 20% of the duds from the flintlock gun, you can get more than 20% more firepower out of thin air.

Not to mention it can bring more benefits in actual combat.

For example, because there is no smoke when the flash cap is fired, soldiers can even directly aim and shoot, instead of closing their eyes or turning their heads when firing as before. This will definitely improve the hit rate.

The next day, a group of senior army generals came to the Firearms Research Institute, wanting to see the live ammunition test of the flash cap percussion gun in person.

So, a long live ammunition test began again... It was the same three foreign guns. Each gun fired a full 300 rounds of ammunition. Because there were so many tests, even the test soldiers changed several batches.

What?

The recoil of this musket is quite strong, and the soldiers will not feel comfortable even if they fire too many times!

And it’s tiring to reload repeatedly.

After the test was completed, the final firing rate statistics were even higher than yesterday's statistics, reaching 99.5%!

At this time, the army generals all had the same idea... It's it, it's it...

Place your order now and buy it now!

And all those old guns were taken and modified.

From now on, our army of the Great Chu Empire will use percussion rifles... What flintlock rifles can roll as far as they go!

The firing rate is higher, and it is an epoch-making improvement. From now on, the firing gun does not even need to consider the problem of duds in actual combat.

Because in a battle, the average number of shots fired by soldiers is only a dozen or so, and no more than ten shots at most. Within this number of shots, the probability of a few tenths of a percent dud can be simply ignored.<

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While the firing rate is improved, because no primer is needed, it has the advantages of instantaneous shooting, better protection from rain, moisture and wind, and because there is no fire and smoke emitted by the primer, the shooter can open the gun.

Eye aiming and a series of advantages.

What's more important is that it's cheap!

Compared with the flintlock gun, this kind of percussion gun actually has some changes in the bolt structure, and other parts such as the barrel have not changed. This means that a large number of existing bolts can be modified by directly modifying the bolt.

The main flintlock guns currently in service have been modified into copper flash cap percussion guns.

Of course, this does not mean that there are no shortcomings. The shortcoming is that the new gun will rely more on logistics!

The core ignition component of the flintlock gun is flint. This thing is a mineral and can be found in many places in the world. The Dachu Empire can find flint in remote areas of the country, even overseas territories and even indigenous countries. After a simple

It can be used directly after processing.

However, the copper flash cap used in the percussion gun cannot be found elsewhere. It must be mass-produced in domestic arsenals, and the technical difficulty is not small.

This means that in the future, soldiers fighting in overseas territories and remote places will have difficulty in obtaining copper flash caps through seizure and simple processing on the spot.

Everything has to be produced and shipped from domestic arsenals, which makes the dependence on logistics even more serious.

However, this kind of logistics dependence is not a big disadvantage. After all, many of the military supplies in the Chu Empire now rely heavily on logistics.

The most obvious one is the grenade. This thing cannot be produced by seizure or simple processing on the front line. The grenade shells used in the Chu army today are all made of specially formulated iron-carbon alloy materials... Well.
To be continued...