Valley Emperor

When Li Xuan stepped forward to watch the three prototype guns, the person in charge of the Zhaoqing Arsenal and the director of the Ordnance Department of the Ministry of Industry and other people who were specifically responsible for the imitation of the guns also followed and explained to Li Xuan. Details of the imitation of the gun!

"Since we purchased the 12-pounder artillery from the Folang Robot in May, we have surveyed and mapped this artillery as soon as possible, and are ready to start mass production on our own!"

The person who spoke was Bi Guanlin, the director of the Ordnance Department of the Ministry of Industry. Like many officials of the Ministry of Industry, he was a half-way renounced technocrat!

He was not an official official at first, but a manager in an arsenal under the Ministry of Industry, but he was soon transferred to the Ministry of Industry because of his excellent administrative skills and understanding of technical affairs. , the promotion is also like taking a rocket, one year's effort is to achieve the post of director of the Ordnance Department, responsible for the overall management of all the arsenals under the Ministry of Industry.

Although he is an administrative management official, he is relatively proficient in various technologies, so he will not be the same as other officials, saying that the data is vague.

Just listen to him continue: "According to the strength of several arsenals under the Ministry of Industry, we finally decided to let Zhaoqing Arsenal carry out preliminary imitation work, prepare the technology, and then promote it to other arsenals, and then achieve large-scale production! "

"Through the efforts of many engineers in Zhaoqing Arsenal, we have built four prototype guns in total, and conducted intensive extreme tests on the first prototype gun some time ago. According to the test results, we found that the weight and range of the guns have reached the It meets the requirements, but the barrel life is a little worse than our seven-jin and five-jin artillery. The guns are also made of bronze. The seven-jin and five-jin artillery’s barrel life can reach about a thousand rounds, but our imitation nine Jin artillery, the barrel life is only 800 rounds."

"Following the efforts of engineers, after repeatedly improving the material formula and processing technology, the barrel life finally reached the average level of a thousand rounds of bronze artillery. There is also a slight improvement in the twelve-pounder!"

"Our processing problem is not big, mainly due to the defects in the materials. At present, we have transferred more than 30 engineers from various arsenals with outstanding capabilities in the field of materials, and set up a working group to study various material formulas. , to improve our current level in the field of materials!"

Li Xuan nodded slightly while listening. In the Tang Dynasty, the processing level is actually not bad. Zhaoqing Arsenal is the most outstanding representative. They use water and animal power as power, and cooperate with various primitive machine tools. The primary processing of the products has greatly improved the production efficiency and improved the yield rate. Such a production mode has barely entered the stage of primary industrialization!

However, in the field of materials, it is a big shortcoming. Even the bronze that our ancestors have been playing for thousands of years is actually quite flawed, not to mention steel products.

For example, the Tang Dynasty has always wanted to use iron to cast artillery, but so far, there are many problems in using iron to cast artillery, the most important of which is the unqualified material, and the processing technology is limited by the limitations of the times Insufficient, so it has always been difficult to cast large-caliber artillery from iron.

At present, in the Tang Dynasty, only two kinds of small and large-caliber, short-barreled shotguns of two catties and three catties are cast with iron on a large scale. Because the chamber pressure of these two kinds of artillery is relatively low, the quality requirements of artillery are not very high. It is too strict, so it is still acceptable to cast iron, that is, the life of the barrel is shorter and the weight is larger, but these defects are completely insignificant compared to their cheap cost and feasibility of mass production. .

Today, the two- and three-pound shotguns used in the entire Tang Dynasty are all cast iron, and all the bronze artillery previously manufactured have been recycled.

In addition, I also started to make five-jin artillery with iron on a small scale. However, the defect of making this kind of long-barreled artillery is too big. First of all, the quality is not good and it is easy to blow up the chamber. In order to avoid the explosion, I started to thicken the gun again. The wall of the tube, thereby causing a surge in weight.

It is inconvenient for the army to equip such a heavy cast iron artillery, so the five jin cast iron artillery is only the equipment of the navy.

In fact, the weight is not the point, what is more important is that the life of the body tube is too low!

A five-jin gun made of iron has a barrel life of only 350 rounds. Compared with the thousand-shot barrel life of a bronze five-jin gun, the gap is really too big.

If the army's artillery units are equipped with such cast iron artillery, it is possible that after a large-scale battle, these cast iron artillery will have to be scrapped. You must know that the army's artillery can be fired casually in a large-scale battle. Hundred rounds of shells, if it is a battle that lasts longer, it is possible to shoot two hundred shells.

Such a poor barrel life, that is, only the Navy can accept it, because the Navy's warships can't fight often, not like the Army's artillery, who are at war with the enemy for three days and two ends, and are very sensitive to the problem of barrel life. .

Of course, the navy is actually reluctant to ask for these junk goods, but these iron guns are cheaper, and the navy needs more artillery than the army, and it is more urgent, so now the navy is also pinching its nose to equip these qualities An almost unbearable iron gun.

The quality of the artillery is not good, and the material and processing problems are the key!

At this time, Bi Guanlin continued: "After the preliminary development and strict limit testing, we finally determined the manufacturing process and the detailed parameters of the gun, and produced three prototype guns on this basis!"

Li Xuan knew that the three 9-jin artillery pieces in front of him were the ones they were trying to produce. As for the previous sample guns, they were not representative at all. The previous sample guns were all for the purpose of finding The problem is that the production process and process are determined, and most of them have been scrapped by various limit tests. They have already been recast and recast. Li Xuan can't see it even if he wants to see it.

"This gun has a caliber of 116 mm, a barrel length of 2.6 meters, 22.6 times, and a total weight of 1,400 kilograms. The solid ball projectile it fires weighs 5.44 kilograms!"

"The effective range of the ruler is 550 meters. When we tested the maximum range, it could reach 3,600 meters, but as before, we strongly recommend not to exceed the effective range of the ruler, which is 550 meters. Fire from the outside, because the hit rate will be very low!"

The various units used by Bi Guanlin were advocated by the Tang Dynasty, to be precise, the new system advocated by Li Xuan, which was specially promoted by Li Xuan for large-scale industrial production.

So if the new artillery shell weight is used to call it, this artillery should be a 5.5 kg artillery gun, but this conflicts with the new artillery classification method that the army and navy are preparing to implement on a large scale.

Because it is impossible to classify the many types of artillery in the Tang Dynasty in detail by the method of bomb weight, the army and navy are currently preparing to use the method of combining age plus caliber and multi-diameter for detailed classification.

However, it is difficult to change the habit, so many people are still used to calling it the nine-jin artillery. Forcing changes is a question of naming anyway, and it does not affect the measurement problem.

If Li Xuan wants to, he can call this cannon the Hongyi Cannon, but is it necessary? No!

Li Xuan knew that the 12-pound performance data of the Folang robot was basically similar to the 9-jin artillery produced by himself, that is, the weight of the self-produced 9-jin artillery was slightly larger, but not much.

After all, it is a big guy weighing a ton, and the weight difference of less than 100 kilograms is nothing.

After a brief explanation, the live ammunition test was started. In fact, the arsenal and the military representatives have already conducted the live ammunition test many times before, otherwise they would not dare to demonstrate it in front of Li Xuan.

Therefore, the result of the test firing is naturally very successful!

After the test firing, Li Xuan instructed the Ministry of Industry to start mass production as soon as possible!

Now, whether it is the army or the navy, there is a huge demand for this kind of cannon with a caliber of 116 mm, that is, a nine-pound cannon.

After watching the test firing, Li Xuan naturally did not go home directly, but went to the factory area of ​​Zhaoqing Arsenal for inspection, focusing on inspecting the existing production lines of muskets, artillery and various weapons in the arsenal.

At the same time, I also watched the many processing machines that have begun to be put into practical use in the arsenal ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ powered by waterwheels and animal power.

In Li Xuan's view, these machines are still very primitive, but he also knows that these machines are actually very technical in this era, especially the large hydraulic forging machine. It made Li Xuan sigh in admiration.

It is not easy to develop such an arsenal with preliminary industrialization in a handicraft industry!

After seeing these machines, Li Xuan knew that the Tang Dynasty could already increase the production schedule of plate armor!

Plate armor, this thing is no stranger to Li Xuan or the military generals in the Tang Dynasty, because they had contact with the Folang robot before, and they had already discovered the plate armor equipped by the Folang robot. .

They even have some plate armor in their hands. They have already bought a few plates from the Flang robot in the arms trade with the Flang robot. Of course, it was only used for research at the beginning, not to say that Buy direct equipment.

However, although they have studied this, they never thought that His Majesty would directly say mass production and equip plate armor!