Chapter 529 Rifled Gun

"Lord Grayman, what kind of weapons have you prepared?"

Victor, the captain of the guard, asked very curiously.

"Haha, let me show you, this is the latest product of our military industry department."

Paul took a long-barreled musket from his horse and threw it to Victor with a look of pride on his face.

Victor took the gun and looked at it again and again. He asked very puzzledly: "It seems to be no different from the ones I usually come into contact with. Can you tell me what the difference is?"

Paul shook his finger and said with a smile: "No difference? No, no, the difference between this gun and other guns is not the appearance, but the inside."

"in?"

"Look inside the barrel of the gun carefully."

"Really?" At Paul's prompting, Victor held the musket upside down and put his eyes close to the muzzle. With the sunlight shining in, he finally understood the mystery inside.

There are spiral lines on the inner wall of the barrel. If you look closely, you will see that those lines are actually grooves engraved on the inner wall of the barrel.

He asked: "Lord Greyman, are these spiral grooves what you call differences?"

Paul nodded, "Yes, to be precise, those grooves are called rifling - or in other words, the convex part is the positive line and the concave part is the negative line. So this gun should be called a rifled gun, and the previous Those muskets, whether they were early matchlocks or later flintlock guns, had smooth inner walls, so they should be called muskets.”

"Smoothbore gun? Rifled gun? That's an apt name."

Victor said in admiration. "But, just adding a few rounds of rifling, what effect can it have? What advantages does it have over the previous so-called muskets?"

"The advantages are huge."

Paul said happily, "When the gunpowder burns, it will squeeze the bullet, deform and embed into the rifling. Then the spiral rifling will force the bullet to rotate in the barrel, and keep this attitude when it is shot out of the barrel, spinning all the way to the direction of the gun." target. According to tests by craftsmen, the bullet When moving in a rotating posture, the ballistic trajectory - that is, its trajectory in the air - is more stable than a bullet fired from a smoothbore gun, flies farther, and is easier to hit the target. Oh, Victor, you must know the smoothbore. How bad is the gun's accuracy at 100 yards?"

"Well, is it bad? I don't think so."

Hearing Paul talk about muskets like this, Victor rubbed his head inexplicably.

Paul was speechless for a while, and then he remembered that Victor and the others didn't know about rifled guns before. Their comparison object was the bows and arrows used earlier, and the hit rate of ordinary bows and arrows was worse than that of muskets - after all, Paul The structure of the musket he drew at the beginning was already a relatively mature design. He couldn't draw a primitive musket inferior to a bow and arrow and leave it to the craftsmen to slowly improve it, right?

"Ahem! In short, the rifled gun you have now can maintain a high hit rate at a distance of 200 yards. If the weather is good, it can be used at a distance of 300 yards. If you change it to a smoothbore gun, it can hit at a distance of 200 yards. The enemy is literally a manifestation of Heavenly Father.”

In fact, with the availability of rifled guns, sniping operations can be carried out on the battlefield. During the American Revolutionary War, the Americans could accurately blow the heads of British commanders 200 yards away by using simple tools to pull out the rifled Kentucky rifles. , during the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, American rifleman Murphy killed the British commander Simon Fraser at a distance of 300 yards with a rifle, so that the chaotic British army had to surrender.

"So powerful?"

Victor touched the musket up and down in disbelief, as if there was some incredible magic on it.

Even Ladi Setia, who hadn't said a word since setting off, couldn't restrain her curiosity and stared at the rifled gun.

"Lord Grayman, if our army in Arda were equipped with these rifled guns, wouldn't they be invincible in the world?"

Victor was very excited, and the scene of Alda's army holding rifles and beating the enemy hard appeared in his mind - before the soldiers on his side could see what they looked like, they fell to the ground in rows.

"It's not that simple." Paul poured cold water on him. "Rifling is a troublesome job - at least now. The rifling of this gun was pulled out by the craftsmen with great effort. It is the first rifle that can be pulled out. A useful rifled gun, before they warmed it up, I grabbed it and went to the hunting ground to enjoy it."

"And the rifled gun is more troublesome to operate than the smoothbore gun. Although this thing is very accurate, loading bullets is very slow. The projectile of the smoothbore gun is slightly smaller than the barrel, so it is easy to insert it from the front. But the rifled gun cannot be used. Its projectile must be slightly larger than the diameter of the rifling line, and then the projectile must be squeezed in, which is very laborious when loading, so the loading efficiency can be imagined. "

Hearing Paul's introduction, Victor looked at the musket in his hand with some regret, and said with emotion: "Every gain must come with a loss."

"But I believe that sooner or later there will be a day when large-scale equipment is available."

Paul said confidently, "For work like rifling, labor will eventually be replaced by machines. As for loading bullets, what do you think about loading them from the back of the barrel?"

"Load it from the back?" Paul's ingenious idea surprised Victor, and he suddenly realized, "Yes, to load it from the muzzle, you have to use a pole to push it into the innermost part. Can't it be done directly from the back of the barrel?" Oh, my Lord Greyman, your great wisdom makes me feel as small as ever."

Victor's flattery didn't make Paul blush, he was used to it.

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"Haha, it's not that simple either. If you load the bullet from the back, the back of the barrel must be able to be opened. The gas after burning the gunpowder will leak out from the gap, and there will be much less gas used to push the projectile forward. The bullet won't hit far."

In addition to air leakage, it seems that a flash cap is also needed. Overall, the road is still very long.

"Lord Greyman, your thoughtfulness once again puts me to shame."

Victor's second flattery was delivered in time, and then he said hesitantly.

"Lord Graiman, when we arrive at the hunting grounds of Knight Ferguson, you can see if you can...can you...let me test this so-called rifled gun for you."

Paul waved his hand and said very generously: "Of course, who are you? My captain of the guard, since I have spoken, how can I not lend you a hand?"

Victor was very happy and thanked him repeatedly.

Paul took the rifle back from Victor and reattached it to the horse.

He couldn't help but start to think about it, and the image emerged in his mind - using this gun to hit accurately in the hunting ground, causing everyone to cheer.