After taking over the entire island of Qiongzhou, the "Iron House" of the military industrial base was officially moved to Qiongzhou Prefecture.

At this time, due to the exhaustion of steel plates, the cannon could no longer be produced. In addition, at the full power, the production capacity of Tiewu guns increased significantly. Soon, after the total production reached 515 breech guns including long and short shotguns, pistols, and nearly 300 spare barrels of various types, the reserves of seamless steel pipes were also declared exhausted.

Since then, the main production of the iron house has been concentrated on flintlock rifles. At this time, the Dragon Crimson Army also expanded its troops sharply with the momentum of victory, and the demand for flintlock rifles has become increasingly greater. The proportion of musketeers in the Dragon Crimson Army has become increasingly heavy, and it has mostly transitioned from semi-heat weapons and semi-cold weapons to full firearms.

However, no matter how many Ren Flintlock rifles are produced, for the Dragon Que Army, the real elite that can never be copied and surpassed is only an army composed of two modern weapons equipped with breech guns - the Wugong Team and the Yan Ling Team.

The Yan Ling team still has only more than fifty people, but the martial arts team has expanded to more than three hundred people, of which 200 are gun hunters.

The hunting rifle is Zhao Lie's strongest killer weapon (although the artillery is stronger, unfortunately the number is too small). On the battlefield, two hundred hunting rifles line up and gather fire to smash, which can instantly defeat a team of 10,000 people. Unfortunately, the hunting rifle has a fatal weakness and its firepower output is too close. This causes the hunting rifle to have to endure the baptism of the enemy's arrows before defeating the enemy.

Zhao Lie tried to let the hunting rifle soldiers wear heavy armor to defend, which had a certain effect in the drill. However, even the strong heavy armor had to be exposed, and there were still certain gaps at the joints. When facing the Mongolian elite quiver or Han army, the sharpshooters in the new affiliated army could still be unable to escape the consequences of being shot and being injured in the eyes. Once blind or limbs were injured, it would be difficult to even be fired.

The defense of the shield array is slightly better than wearing heavy armor, but it is still suppressed. The range is too close, which is always the shortcoming of the hunting rifle. In the past, Zhao Lie used the tactics to use musketeers and pistol soldiers to fight with the hunting rifle soldiers. The musket is far away, the pistol is fast, and the power of the hunting rifle is formed to form a perfect complement. However, as the martial arts team is more and more perfect, it is not a problem to mix and match the musket, which is slow and extremely affecting the vision, into modern weapons. It is best to have a breech weapon to replace it.

Zhao Lie's armed engineering base is subject to materials and it is no longer possible to produce new weapons. However, after changing the thinking, the weapons cannot be developed. So can we make a fuss about bullets?

When Zhao Lie, who participated in and commanded the battle throughout the battle, repeatedly deduced the battle with the generals after the war, his inspiration flashed and suddenly came up with a new idea - although the conventional bullets of the hunting rifle were shotguns, the shotgun was not the only bullet for the hunting rifle!

A smoothbore gun like a hunting rifle can not only fire shotgun like a rainy pear blossom, but also fire bullets - single-headed bullets!

In a hidden valley thirty miles outside Qiongzhou Prefecture City, it is the test range of the "iron house" of Xingchao Military Base. Each batch of guns is produced, a test team composed of craftsmen and gunmen conducts test firing to ensure that each produced gun meets the performance standards. Every gun in the hands of the Longque Army Musketeers, whether it is the bore or the breech, must be qualified.

Today, the gunmen who came to test were different from the past. They came from the two most elite troops of the Song Dynasty - the Wugong Team and the Yan Ling Team.

Yang Zheng, Ding Xiaoyao, Ding Xiaoyi, Ouyang Luoyan, and the four of them each performed a test shot on behalf of the team.

They (they) have a double-barrel hunting rifle in their hands, and the style is basically similar to the past. Only when they look closely can they find that there are slight differences in the muzzle part. In the past, the hunting rifle was a straight tube, while these hunting rifle was added to the muzzle part (i.e., the mouth). After using the throat, the range of the bullet should be longer and the accuracy is better.

The bullets in the hands of the four were different from the previous shotguns and even pistols.

This is a Foster-type single-headed bullet in later generations. Its appearance is like a hollow hemispherical shape, with spirals similar to rifles around it. Its function is not to allow the bullet to rotate in the barrel (the shotgun is a smoothbore rifle, without rifles), but to slowly rotate under the action of air resistance after the bullet flies out of the muzzle, generating a certain stability couple to keep the bullet stable. This principle of maintaining stability by moving the center of gravity forward and its own micro-rotation is similar to a badminton in flight. In order to prevent the bullet from deforming, a spherical cardboard shell is installed in the cavity of the single-headed bullet during assembly, and then supported by the bullet trunk.

This single-headed bullet has low technological content. After Zhao Lie and Zhu Dajiang in the base for a while, the finished product was quickly taken out. The material used for the bullet is lead alloy, which is no problem with the Song Dynasty's refining technology, and casting is not complicated. As long as you make a mold, you can produce hundreds of them a day.

Due to the large amount of breech guns, the base fire for making bullets consumes a lot, and it cannot be long after inventory. Therefore, the base fire used by this batch of single-headed bullets was an earth-fire hat invented by skilled craftsmen who made gunpowder after years of research and exploration, inspired by modern base fire, combined with the Song Dynasty's own technological capabilities.

This ancient earth-fire hat was crushed with pulverized tin and realgar, mixed with purified high-algae wine and iron powder into a glue-like shape, put it into a copper fire hat, and then the surface was stained with a layer of bright paint. In later generations, the fire hat made by this technology was used in the folk for a long time. The earth-fire gun fire was good.

Ding Xiaoyi and four others stuffed the single-headed bullet into the barrel, straightened the barrel, and raised the gun together at the straw target with feathered armor eighty steps away.

At this moment, they were filled with vague expectations and excitement, and were a little worried about gains and losses.

Eighty steps, in the past, this distance was the limit of the hit of the flintlock rifle, and it was not something that the hunting rifle could reach. It was twice as long as the shotgun was. Can it hit? The four of them were unsure.

Zhao Lie took off his dragon robe and wore a training uniform, just like he was the chief instructor in Lishan. In order to relieve the tension of the four people, he whispered: "Just just aim well and don't think about anything else. Whether you can hit far or not is a hunting rifle, and whether you can hit the wrong one is your business. Just take care of your own business!"

The four of them felt a stern, and they took a deep breath, their mood slowly calmed down, and their hands holding the rifle stabilized.

"Prepare - launch!"

Bang bang bang bang bang bang!

The muzzle was curling, and four targets outside eighty steps exploded at the same time. The armor piece mixed with grass stems and splashed everywhere - the grass man covered the thick feather root armor, which could knock out the grass stems, indicating that the bullet penetrated the armor piece. The eighty steps passed through the hard armor, which was more amazing than the flintlock rifle.

Ding Xiaoyi and the other four were surprised and excited. With such bullets, the hunting rifle soldiers no longer need to face the heavy rain of arrows and wait for the enemy to approach, and they can show their power outside the range of the bow and arrow. With two hundred such hunting rifles, what kind of military formation will not collapse? To what extent will the hit rate be increased by using such hunting rifles?

Ding Xiaoyao asked excitedly: "Can this gun be able to hit further?"

Zhao Lie shook his head: "You guys are either snipers or sharpshooters, so the target position is placed at the farthest level. Eighty steps are the maximum effective range. If you go far, it depends on your character."

The single-headed bullet has a large diameter, and the wounds after hitting the body are extremely terrifying. Its lethality is almost comparable to those of later rifles. But because the bullet is too large and the air resistance is greater, the initial velocity of the bullet is far less than that of the bullet fired by the rifle. The effective range is only 80 steps, and the maximum range is only 150 steps. Despite this, such a range is enough to crush most bows and arrows of this era.

The emergence of a single-headed bullet is tantamount to a significant upgrade of the performance of the shotgun. In this era of purely cold weapons, two hundred such powerful shotguns, coupled with the cooperation of hundreds of rapid-fire pistols, are enough to influence the outcome of a battle.

Zhao Lie walked to Ding Xiaoyi and handed the scope: "Bring this with you and cooperate with the hunting rifle, it can be perfectly sniped, which will be helpful to your mission."

Ding Xiaoyi didn't answer and shook her head and said, "Your Majesty needs it even more to command the battle."

Zhao Liexiao said: "I have already started to study the Qianli Scope. I believe it will be developed soon and can replace the scope. You can take it."

Although Ding Xiaoyi didn't know what a Qianli Mile Mile Mile Mile was, she could tell that it was a strange thing similar to a scope just by listening to the name. She immediately took the scope with anticipation. Suddenly, something flashed in front of her, but Zhao Lie stuffed a small box for her, and said solemnly: "This time I went north, every step I took, I could save my life at a critical moment."

Ding Xiaoyi took it, but did not open it, but only put the hunting rifle on her back, looked at Zhao Lie deeply, turned around resolutely, and quickly caught up with the female generals of Yan Ling team.
Chapter completed!