Struggle in Russia

骁 Li Xiao really didn't expect that the Grand Constantine Guild was so crazy and hysterical that it completely became the smaller one of Nicholas I. The article he wrote was meant to be self-protection, but was considered provocative by the Grand Duke. Under the personal guidance of the Grand Duke, the Grand Duke ’s dog leg in the Navy Department was concocting all kinds of mean means to deal with him. And Leonid.

骁 Li Xiao was sitting at his desk at this time to continue to improve the design and improvement of the new rifle. Although this work was deemed unnecessary by Vishniak and Boris.

The two good friends are extremely satisfied with Li Xiao's previous improvements. They feel that it is the best rifle in the world, and Li Xiao's new design idea is obviously "went a detour" and "completely unnecessary".

In this regard, Li Xiao smiled bitterly. Sure enough, one step ahead of the times is genius, and three steps ahead of the times is the devil. However, Li Xiao still insists on his devil's design, because the all-metal fixed shell is so important, that is the historical trend.

847The ammunition of 1847 is still full of Napoleonic era style. Even if the British were a bit ahead, that is, using the front-loaded Miner bomb, the shell of the gunpowder was still paper. When the rifle was installed after a few years, the metal base fire and acupuncture gradually developed. Fire a rifle cartridge.

But the performance is not very good, whether it is an edge fire or a needle fire. The last thing to dominate the rivers and lakes was the central firearm with all-metal shells. This is exactly what Li Xiao is designing.

In fact, the design is not proper. Because he didn't have that ability, he was just making a copy by referring to the bullets that have appeared in history.

Of course, this manuscript is not so easy to do. Because there are too many choices, the middle of the 19th century was an era when science and technology changed rapidly and various inventions blossomed. Various new and trendy designs, such as Jiang Zhiqing, are innumerable.

是 如此 The same is true for firearms and bullets. This makes Li Xiao quite a bit unable to start, because the foundation of Russia is too poor, which is not so great in copying, it really makes people cry.

For example, all-metal central fire rifles. With the current Russian technological power, the only thing that can be done is black powder. This thing is ready-made, just put it in the metal case. As for the others, such as the metal shell manufacturing process, such as the formula and manufacturing technology of the bottom fire. Even warhead Russia may not be sure.

Don't think these things are simple. For example, an all-metal cartridge case cannot be produced without sufficient technology. How to stamp a small piece of copper cavity into a cartridge case is enough to write a technical paper of 18,000 words.

Then there is the bottom fire. This involves not only metal processing, but also chemistry. Although the Scottish priest Alexander Forsyth discovered thunder mercury as early as 1793, and in 1807 he invented the world's first firing rifle with James Watt, and later established the Forsyth Firearms Company to produce Fired the famous perfume bottle.

This firing gun, called a perfume bottle, uses a container to fill sensitive thunder mercury. The thunder and mercury used in perfume bottles were sprinkled on the base plate of the firearm, and then the trigger hammer was struck to hit the bottom plate. The thunder and mercury ignited and ignited the black powder to push the projectile.

By 1814, American American Qishua Shaw invented a more advanced copper fire helmet. In 1825, American Dlinker invented a new firing gun using a fire helmet. This new weapon was the weapon that later killed Lincoln.

The invention of the torch helmet is groundbreaking, not only greatly improving the reliability of firearms firing, but also increasing the probability of blind fire from once every seven shots to once every two hundred shots. What's more important is that the fire helmet is not as afraid of water as the hair burst.

In the history of Sanyuanli's anti-British struggle in the history, the British army sent by heavy rain to use the Beck-type firing rifle to make a siege. This was unthinkable a few decades ago. In Napoleon's time, it was a complete break in the rain when it came to heavy rain, and the big guy would use a bayonet to beat it.

I honestly say that Russia is not behind a little bit in this respect, and the old hairpins are still popular. The firing of the rifle with a fire cap was minimal. Soldiers throughout the country lived in 1812 and refused to move forward.

This directly leads to the poor application of all new technologies in Russia. Li Xiao could not find a few factories in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and Tula that could supply sufficient fire helmets. There are only a few gun enthusiasts around St. Petersburg who have set up miniature workshops to produce a very small number of fire helmets. Not to mention the supply of 748 regiments, only a few aristocrats occasionally hunt for recreation.

This makes Li Xiao extremely painful. Even if the gun factory he and the Duke of Mikhail joint venture can produce new rifles, what about bullets? Could it be imported from the UK and France for use with fringe firing and needle firing?

肯定 This is certainly unrealistic. After all, in the Crimean war a few years later, Britain and France stood directly on the opposite side of Russia, how could they export bullets to Russia while fighting.

So it is very necessary to build a stator bomb production line. Mechanical equipment and mechanics can be invited from the outside for the time being. Gorchakov's wealth is huge, as long as he can convince Leonid to settle.

The real question is the one mentioned previously ~ www.ltnovel.com ~ Which kind of bullet is more suitable for the national conditions of Russia? This new type of bullet must be simple in production technology and suitable for production by backward Russian organizations, but at the same time it must be advanced enough not to make up with the cheap goods of paper shell metal bottom fire, because it will be eliminated in a few years, and it will be easily affected by moisture.

Of course, the most important thing is to be cheap enough. After all, copper is not cheap. It is considered a precious metal. With Russia's financial resources, the popularity of copper shells can be bankrupted in minutes.

代 Replace copper with steel?

想法 This idea lingered in Li Xiao's mind for a long time, but eventually gave up. Because steel shells are indeed less expensive than copper shells, the problem is that the steelmaking technology in Russia or today's world is truly unswerving.

In this era, most of the steel mills actually smelted them were pig iron and wrought iron. It is better to wash steel directly for steelmaking. The bottom-blown acid converter steelmaking method has not been invented yet! That gadget was born in 1856. Although it's not nearly a few years, Li Xiao knew that it was in Britain, which had a strong industrial foundation, and it was put in Russia with no drama at all.

Moreover, the bottom-blown acidic converter steelmaking method invented by Bessma still has great problems. Phosphorus and sulfur in the ore cannot be removed. The trained steel has poor performance and is not suitable for making guns and guns.

Not only does Russia not have enough steelmaking technology and steel plants, metal processing is even more difficult. The ductility of steel is not as good as that of copper, and the stamping process is cumbersome, which is not what the Russian technical dwarf can do.

Anyway, Li Xiao has a headache. He has a lot of good designs now, but because of Russia ’s poor technical reserves, there are a lot of problems that cannot be solved in each implementation process.

In short, Russia has no industrial foundation and wants to build high-rise buildings in a technological vacuum, which is obviously a crazy dream ...