Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

I can only say that it is my conscience.

What Wei Wu painted was more than just abstract.

Only the trigger and the overall shape of the gun are worth looking at, but the rest is simply unbearable.

He drew the gun barrel so that it was narrow in the front and wide in the back, and the lines were crooked, not a straight line at all.

Fortunately, Yang Chao and the other two had good professional qualities and had already figured out the key information about the flintlock rifle.

Although Wei Wu's painting was not very good, they still looked at the "drawing" as if it were a treasure.

As I said, China has never lacked talent, what it lacks is inspiration and direction.

And Wei Wu's current picture has already completed these two things.

At this moment, the three men no longer looked at Wei Wu with respect, but worshipped him as their ancestor.

So after hearing Wei Wu's question, they immediately nodded to indicate that they understood.

But just in case, Wei Wu continued to explain to them.

"The barrel of a flintlock rifle is made of mild steel (low carbon steel), and is required to be well-balanced from head to tail. The stock can be made of wood."

"The gun body is about three feet and one inch long, and the barrel is about one foot and nine inches long. The barrel wall needs to be rifled."

"Rifling is a series of spiral lines carved into the inner wall of the barrel, running from the beginning to the end. That's it."

It was impossible to explain it with words alone, so Wei Wu took up his pen and wrote on paper again.

I have to say that he is not good at drawing straight lines, but he is even worse at drawing this kind of curve.

Fortunately, the three people in the firearms group were very smart and they figured out what rifling was by listening and watching.

"The rifling is spiral-shaped. The convex part is called the male line, and the concave part is called the female line. It has a very important effect."

"After the gunpowder is ignited, the projectile will rotate along the rifling, and the projectile will be fired farther and more accurately."

"The faster the projectile spins, the more stable it is, but the speed of the spin is related to the twist rate of the rifling."

At this point, Wei Wu suddenly remembered that he had something he could use for demonstration.

So he reached into his arms, took out the electric baton, and ran his fingers across the surface.

"The twist rate is the distance the rifling travels in one rotation in the barrel. It's like this. Do you understand?"

With Wei Wu teaching so diligently, how could the three members of the firearms group dare to be distracted?

He immediately nodded to show that he understood. In fact, after Wei Wu's vivid demonstration, he really understood it.

Seeing that they all understood, Wei Wu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But then he started drawing on the paper again, and continued to say:

"Also, I want you to make a bullet. Not the old bullet, but this round-headed cylindrical shell."

"This bullet is called a Minié bullet. It's made of lead and has a conical cavity at the bottom, which is filled with cork."

Wei Wu's painting was quite good this time, and he completely depicted the shape of the Minié bullet.

In fact, Wei Wu had already prepared the idea of ​​flintlock rifles and Minié bullets a long time ago.

But before, he was thinking of smoothbore flintlock rifles and ordinary bullets.

But now, with the machine tools sent by the system, it is entirely possible to produce rifled flintlock rifles and Minié bullets.

If metal fixed-load ammunition were not too complicated, current basic technology would not allow for mass production.

He wished he could reach the sky in one step and go straight to the firing gun.

The problem is that other issues such as power, materials and technology are enough to stop him.

Fortunately, although the linear-bore flintlock rifle has various disadvantages, it is much better than the smoothbore flintlock rifle.

And it has surpassed the development of firearms in this world by hundreds of years.

The maximum range of a smoothbore flintlock rifle is only two hundred meters, and usually one hundred and forty meters is enough, and its accuracy is impressive.

However, the minimum range of a rifled flintlock rifle is 280 to 500 meters, and when used with the Minié bullet, the maximum range can reach 800 meters.