"What are you doing! You have to knock on the door to enter my study. Why are you so disrespectful to me?" Li Xiao was pulled away by Mr. Yu, muttering as he walked. I don't know why the old guy worked so hard today. , pulling Li Xiao straight to the weapons testing site.

"It's been tinkered with, it's been tinkered with. Multiple-fire guns!" Mr. Yu finally said a word, and Li Xiao immediately pulled Mr. Yu and ran away.

Repeating guns, machine guns! If you give me a hundred Gatlings these days, I will dare to attack Shenyang City.

He ran to the weapons testing site like a madman, and Li Xiao immediately... was stunned.

What the hell is this? Good conscience, Gatlin doesn’t look like this. What the hell is Inatomi Yu doing, Transformers?

What appeared in front of Li Xiao's eyes was such a strange-looking thing, with thirty-six barrels arranged at 360 degrees. There was a series of gears underneath, and a crank handle on the outside.

No matter how you look at it, this is a flat rudder. There is no trace of a machine gun!

"Uh...! What are you...!" Li Xiao asked Yunao Inatomi with some uncertainty.

"This...! The repeating gun works!" Inamomi said confidently as he patted the strange-looking thing.

"Continuous fire...!" Li Xiao finally understood what kind of repeater this thing is. Feelings are thirty-six loaded barrels, and then shaking the handle causes the gear to rotate. Turn to the front one. When the gun is pressed, the hammer is pushed down to fire the gun. By analogy, the purpose of firing the thirty-six guns one by one is achieved.

I have to say that this is already an epoch-making product. Because this thing can achieve continuous firing, it forms a continuous firepower. It has a very heavy impact on infantry, but you have never considered this loading speed. It fires thirty-six rounds of ammunition. , stop for half an hour. Such gun bursts have a woolly meaning!

Besides, how do you aim when your rocker is down there?

Daofuyou saw Li Xiao coming, and he turned the rocker arm in a panic. The gunfire crackled, and the rate of fire was very impressive. Li Xiao just watched quietly. At this time, he really wanted to be quiet.

The bullets were fired one after another, but a few of them hit the target a hundred steps away. Most of them missed. Li Xiao kept telling himself not to pay attention to these details. There were so many people on the battlefield, and if he went blind, The cat is killing the mouse!

I'm just waiting for you to finish it and see how you reload it.

Soon, the thirty-six barrels were fired. Blue gunpowder smoke emitted from the muzzles!

A scene that shocked Li Xiao appeared. In order to achieve rapid reloading, the old Japanese came up with the idea of ​​replacing the barrel with a rudder-like one. He pulled a small mechanism, and two strong men immediately appeared. Run over. Lift up the thirty-six barrels after firing and put them aside, then lift another one from the side and install it.

The small mechanism pushed up, and the buckle blocked the new gun barrel disk, which was like a ship's rudder. Inatomi Yunao shook the rocker again, and the gunshot rang out again.

To a certain extent, this thing does achieve sustained firepower. It is equivalent to a light machine gun with thirty-six bullets, but Li Xiao feels that this thing is awkward no matter how he looks at it!

Three more soldiers hurriedly started loading the barrel tray that had been shot. Li Xiao counted the numbers and found that such a thing actually required eleven soldiers to serve. Although continuous firepower was achieved, it was difficult to aim at long distances. The shooting accuracy is really not that good.

What is commendable is that this thing actually has a chassis with strong maneuverability. It is not only strong in maneuverability, but also reliable in performance and quality. This thing is... a unicycle!

Based on the characteristics of a unicycle, there are very few terrains that can stump this thing.

"Well, the muskets can also be fired continuously. If a few of these things are installed on the dock, the Tatars will definitely not be able to get up." The old fisherman laughed so hard that the lines on his forehead almost opened.

Li Xiao sighed, this damn thing is also called a machine gun. This is purely to embarrass the machine gun!

"Old Yu, how do you think this thing aims?"

"Uh...!" The fisherman looked carefully and felt that there was really no way to aim.

"Eleven people are waiting on this thing. Don't you think it's a waste of manpower?"

"It's just...!"

"On the battlefield, when soldiers face the crazy attack of cavalry, they will instinctively shake the handle as hard as they can. Do you think there will be problems if you turn it too fast?"

"Uh...! This...!"

"The most important thing is that a large carriage is needed to protect this thing. Do you think a carriage can go anywhere a wheelbarrow can go?"

"But after all, we have achieved continuous shooting!" The old fisherman had no choice but to try his best to excuse the old devil.

"I don't mean to blame you, I'm just saying that this thing is not practical yet. If you look at this, let's turn all the barrels over. We don't need thirty-six. The diameter of the assembly is too large. I think ten barrels will be enough.

become!

Instead of rocking the arm, use the trigger to activate. This way we can aim more easily!

Finished? You can still change the barrel. When loading, you can weld ten steel bars together, which will greatly shorten the loading time. The number of people can be reduced to five people to operate. What do you think?

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Li Xiao picked up the pencil and drew the appearance of a simple Gatling rotating machine gun on the paper. Although we don't have the conditions to use fixed ammunition, there is no problem in changing the barrel. It's like a revolver. You can fire it once and change it.

One round loaded with bullets is the end.

This kind of thing can be called a revolver, which can shoot ten rounds continuously. It is just that changing the barrel is a little troublesome, but it is much simpler than the rudder in front of me.

Yulao and Daofuyou blinked and studied Li Xiao's abstraction in detail. They both felt that this was indeed feasible!

"Don't worry! Five days, uh...! Three days, I'll definitely work it out for you. Big hammer, dismantle this thing. Work!" After understanding what Li Xiao meant, the fisherman immediately ordered the big hammer to work.

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Looking at his brainchild, he was shot dead by the big boss in an instant. Yunao Inatomi felt uncomfortable, but after seeing Li Xiao's drawings, his eyes suddenly lit up. Two old glasses, shoulder to shoulder

Went back to the laboratory.

Two top scientific and technological talents, plus Li Xiao, a head full of knowledge about modern weapons. There will always be wonderful sparks after the collision. Although this kind of continuous-fire gun is still very primitive, it still belongs to the category of flintlock gun. However,

Continuous excitation can already be achieved, which is absolutely epoch-making significance for weapons.

We definitely can't tinker with atomic bombs or hydrogen bombs, but we should be able to tinker with cannons.

Li Xiao immediately thought of another type of front loading, which is known for its simplicity, strength, light weight, and ease of carrying. It is known as the cutest partner of the infantry! It is invincible within two thousand meters!

Mortar!

This thing requires only one barrel for front-loading. As long as the tube wall is smooth and strong enough, it will work. The only technical difficulty is the problem of the cannonball. This kind of striker-type firing thing requires fulminic acid.

Yulao and Inafumi went straight to study machine guns. If they wanted to study mortars, they had to do it themselves.

He called Big Hammer over and asked him to get himself a gun barrel and carefully drew a pipe on the paper. Big Hammer curled his lips after looking at it. It was just a thick steel pipe, so he needed to do it himself.

However, when the big brother in the lead told me, I had no choice but to follow the instructions. I wonder what the big brother with such a bright head was up to!

The technology of making primers by local methods is actually not difficult. Li Xiao and Li Hu started their own scientific research. The saltpeter and realgar were thrown into the millstone, and Li Hu drove the donkey to grind them continuously until they were ground into fine powder.

, then stop!

Use high-concentration alcohol and add iron powder to make something like a dough ball, which is dark and ugly. Place it in a copper flash cap, dry it in the shade, and put a little lacquer on it, and you're done.

In the past few days of drying in the shade, the big hammer has made a cannon barrel according to Li Xiao's requirements. And according to Li Xiao's requirements, it has cast more than a dozen cannonballs.

In fact, the difficulty requirements for casting the mortar barrel are not high. Phosphorus-added steel is fully capable, but Li Xiao still had several hoops made with a big hammer at the end of the barrel to strengthen the barrel to prevent explosion.

chamber.

The focus is on the manufacture of artillery shells. Li Xiao's manufacture is anti-personnel grenades. A layer of tung oil is brushed between the projectile body and the charge. After the steel balls are poured on, they can stick to it.

At the bottom is the firing pin. After the shell falls along the muzzle, the firing pin hits the primer and ignites the propellant. The reaction force of the explosion can be used to push the shell out.

The barrel made by Li Xiao with a big hammer is a bit long, and Li Xiao needs to raise his hands above his head to send the shell in. The longer the barrel, the smaller the chance of a dud due to insufficient firing pin power.

Also, a long barrel can give the cannon better stability.

After several days of hard work, Li Xiao came to the top of the mountain with his scientific research results on the New Year's Day. This is the mortar position he designed. Because the mortar is a direct-fire artillery, the blind spot is very small. As long as he is in

A position was built on the flat ground on the top of the mountain in the guidance center, and mortar firepower could cover the entire island in all directions.

"Brother, can this thing work?" Li Hu looked at Li Xiao with some worry. The elder brother had filled the shell with ten kilograms of nitrocellulose.

"Don't worry!" Li Xiao looked at the deep pit beside him, which was as deep as one person. In fact, he didn't know for sure. Under the conditions of mature technology in later generations, there would still be explosions or other accidents from time to time. Who the hell can say this thing accurately?

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Li Xiao raised the artillery shell rudely with both hands, and the shell fell freely with his hands. Li Xiao rolled over and rolled into the pit. As soon as his body got into the cat's ear hole next to him, he heard a "bang" above!

Li Hu wanted to go out, but was pulled back by Li Xiao.
Chapter completed!