The good news continues.

Shi Xiong had just finished discussing spring ploughing with Li Lei and Hong Yun, and there was another good news from Ferguson.

A new rifle has been created!

This is truly good news.

For a tribe, food and weapons are two essential foundations. In fact, to expand from a tribe to a country, food and weapons are also the most basic things.

Whether it is ancient or modern, whether it is a dynasty or a country, the internal kings and external hegemons are highly rated.

The inner king is the inner king, and the outer hegemony is naturally hegemonic towards the outside.

The concrete manifestation of the inner king and the foreign hegemony is that the people in the country live and work in peace and contentment, and have no worries about food, clothing, shelter and transportation; and outside the country, no country dares to invade, even the nations come to Korea.

If a country or dynasty can do this, it can be called great.

Of course, to achieve this, food and weapons are indispensable.

Food is the basis for practicing the royal way internally. Without sufficient food, let alone practicing the royal way, it would be good if the people didn't overthrow you. You can't even fill the stomachs of ordinary people, why do you have the face to be king?

The basis of foreign hegemony is weapons, powerful weapons, ahead of other countries' weapons. If you want other countries to respect you and obey you, you have to come up with things that let other countries obey you. And this kind of thing is a powerful weapon!

Don't you dare to be obedient, I didn't say anything, I beat you up. Lao Tzu has much more powerful weapons than you, and your disobedient end is to be beaten by Lao Tzu.

If the Gaoshu tribe wants to develop, these two are also indispensable.

With the unfolding of spring plowing this year, as long as there is no natural disaster, the Gaoshu tribe’s food is destined to get a huge harvest.

As for weapons, the Gaoshu tribe now has a hundred muskets, and the people of the tribe have thoroughly realized the huge gap between hot weapons and cold weapons. Although the power of the current musket is not that great, if it is used intensively, the power is still unstoppable by cold weapons.

The new musket developed by Lieutenant Ferguson, that is, the epoch-making rear-mounted rifled rifle in history, the Ferguson rifle, although there are many problems in this and other ways, it can be compared with the front-mounted musket commonly used in European countries now, regardless of its power The range or accuracy has to be improved by more than one level.

To use the analogy of modern weapons in later generations, if the front-mounted musket used by European countries is a 155mm self-propelled artillery, then this rear-mounted musket developed by Lieutenant Ferguson is a surface-to-surface short-range missile.

Although the power of ground-to-ground short-range missiles is not that strong, it is always much more powerful than self-propelled artillery.

If all the people of the Gaoshu tribe are equipped with this new rifle, and through continuous training, then the force of the Gaoshu tribe will immediately rise to an extremely high level. At the very least, according to the judgment of the stone bear, the armed forces of the Gaoshu tribe will become the most powerful Indian tribe in the entire New World. Even compared to the well-trained European army, it will definitely not fall behind.

"Boss, you can look at this gun!" Lieutenant Ferguson had an irrepressible smile on his face, and his tone was full of pride.

This is a post-loading gun. Before telling the news about the new gun, Lieutenant Ferguson has tested this gun hundreds of times. This gun is far stronger in terms of loading speed, range, accuracy, and power. It is a front-loaded musket that is now commonly used in various countries.

Shi Xiong was a typical puppet military fan in his previous life, that is, the kind of master who was dissatisfied with the half-bottle of weapons. What kind of weapon you talk about, whether it's modern or past, he can say one, two or three, but if you ask him for a deeper principle, he doesn't quite understand it.

As an epoch-making rifle, Shi Xiong has naturally seen photos of this Ferguson rifle many times in his previous life. Of course, most of this Ferguson rifle is faked by people.

But there is almost no difference between the rifle in front of me and the rifle in the photo in memory. If there is, it is a real gun that is actually placed in front of me. The visual impact is definitely not comparable to the photo. .

Shi Xiong grabbed the gun and weighed it. The weight of the gun made Shi Xiong very satisfied.

This gun is almost half lighter than the French Saint-Etienne rifle captured by Stone Bear, which is definitely a great improvement.

You should know that rifles are usually accompanied by a musketeer for a long time, especially during the war, the rifle is the closest partner of the musketeer.

So here comes the problem. If the weight of the musketeer is too heavy, it will bring a great burden to the musketeer. Just like the Saint Etienne rifle seized by Stone Bear, this front-loaded smooth-bore rifle is a very good rifle in this era, but the weight of this gun is a bit too heavy.

The total length of the Saint Etienne rifle is about 55 inches, which is about 1.4 meters. This length is about the same length as the British Brown Bess rifle and the Ferguson rifle in front of us, but the weight of the Saint Etienne rifle is up to It's more than fifteen pounds, which is close to seven kilograms in weight.

Seven kilograms does not seem to be very heavy, but if it is carried for a long time, this weight is not ordinary for a musketeer.

To give a more suitable example, a box of six bottles of liquor weighs about seven kilograms.

A Musketeer carrying a Saint Etienne rifle for a long time is equivalent to carrying a box of liquor for a long time.

Ten minutes and eight minutes may be no problem, but if you carry it for an hour and two hours, you will know what the seven kilograms mean.

As for the gun made by Ferguson, Shi Xiong estimated that it weighs more than seven catties at most. Although there is a slight error, Shi Xiong believes that the error is not large.

Seven kilograms and seven kilograms are completely different things. At least for a musketeer on the battlefield, carrying a seven kilogram rifle for a long time is definitely better than carrying a seven kilogram musket. Save energy.

In this age when transportation is basically on the legs, physical strength is undoubtedly an extremely precious thing.

(PS: The weight of the gun written by Lao Mo is about the same as the original Ferguson rifle in history. The historical Ferguson rifle is between 1.22 meters and 1.52 meters long, and weighs 7.5 pounds, which is about 3.5 kilograms. It is well documented.)

The barrel of this gun was cast by Ferguson and several of his subordinates. Because it is made of steel, the thickness of the barrel of this gun is much thinner than that of the Saint Etienne rifle. The weight of the barrel is reduced a lot.

The gun body is made of tough walnut wood. Using this kind of wood to make the gun body can well slow down the recoil of the human body when the gun is fired.

Behind the barrel, Shi Xiong saw the familiar rotary locking mechanism.

This mechanism of opening/closing the gunpowder chamber by rotating the trigger guard is the core of this gun. It is with this rotary locking mechanism that this rifle can be reloaded.

Shi Xiong tried to turn the trigger guard, and sure enough, through the thread above the gunpowder chamber, the lid above the gunpowder chamber was opened. If this fashion is filled, you only need to stuff the projectile into the gun chamber from here, then pour the fixed gunpowder into the gunpowder chamber, and then turn the trigger guard back a circle, then the lid above the gunpowder chamber will be Rotating completely sealed the gunpowder room.

When shooting, pour a small amount of gunpowder from the ignition hole next to the gunpowder chamber, then you can aim and pull the trigger.

"Boss, I have tried it. If you are proficient, this gun can reach the limit of seven reloads in one minute! This speed is twice as fast as the reloading speed of the Saint Etienne rifle and the Brown Beth rifle." Ferguson explained excitedly next to him.

"Hey, can you really achieve such a fast reloading speed?" These words made Shi Xiong also happy.

Ferguson nodded heavily, "As long as you train more, you can load up to seven rounds in one minute. Even if it is slower, you can load six rounds in one minute."

Since Ferguson said so confidently ~lightnovelpub.net~ it is obvious that this is true.

Most of the muskets used in this era are front-loaded muskets. Other aspects of this rifle will not be mentioned for the time being. The loading speed alone is enough to make people sad.

This front loading method is very cumbersome. First, the gun must be erected with the muzzle facing upwards, and the gunpowder must be poured from the muzzle into the barrel, and then the projectiles will be stuffed in from the muzzle, and the cleaning rod must be used to force the gun. To poke the projectile, it is necessary to compact the projectile and gunpowder. Finally, put the rifle flat, and pour a small amount of gunpowder next to the ignition hole in the gunpowder chamber for ignition.

This is the step of pre-loading the gun, which is really cumbersome. So in this era, the musketeers, even the veterans with the fastest reloading speed, are top-notch reloading speeds that can reach three rounds in one minute, while ordinary musketeers can only reach two-round reloading speeds in one minute.

Loading speed is very important. You can only shoot three shots a minute. What can you do with a musket that can shoot six or even seven shots a minute?

There are 100 musketeers on both sides. You can only shoot 300 rounds in one minute. The other side can shoot 600 rounds or more in one minute. This is equivalent to one more personnel than you. Times.

What do you use to fight others?

The most important thing is that the musketeer must be standing when loading the front-loading gun, otherwise you will not be able to reload.

And on the battlefield where the bullets fly, you poked there like a stick, and it would be strange if the enemy on the opposite side didn't hit you.

Loading the front gun on the battlefield is really dangerous and fatal.

The post-loading gun is different, the loading speed is put aside first, this kind of post-loading gun can be loaded on the face when it is loaded.

On the battlefield, one soldier is standing and the other is lying on his stomach. Naturally, there is no need to say more about who is safer.