Chapter 41: 41 new secret weapons
Chapter 41 41 New Secret Weapon
"Can I take these with me?" Tiger couldn't believe his eyes. He pointed at these sealed wooden boxes and asked Tang Mo.
These wooden boxes are made of cut wooden boards and are nailed together. The structure inside is also very simple - just some horizontal wooden boards with grooves. The guns are stuck in these grooves and neatly stacked in a row.
In the upper row and the lower row, there are 10 brand new K1 guns in a wooden box, still smelling of oil.
The matching leather ammunition pouch and the armed belt were stuffed into the wooden box to act as padding.
This new type of armed belt is very particular. It has a bayonet hanging position, and two ammunition bags are fixed on the left and right sides - two independent ammunition bags on each side.
Four ammunition bags can hold 40 rounds of paper-cased fixed-load ammunition. The hard lining prevents these ammunition bags from being easily deformed even if they are hit, which can protect the bullets inside from being damaged in complex battlefield environments.
Now, these ammunition bags are full of bullets. Tang Mo mobilized all the workers to rush out the work.
The ammunition factory that Tang Mo is manufacturing is not yet highly automated. It will not be possible to mass-produce bullets faster until the third steam engine is put into production.
There is no way around this, because he is really short of raw materials and energy to support his full expansion of production.
There is indeed coal in Bunas, and there is no shortage in Beiling... But to get enough coal, it takes not only mining time, but also enough purchasing expenses.
Nowadays, even if Tang Mo is given 10 million gold coins, it is no exaggeration to say that he can spend it within a few days.
The reason why Tang Mo was able to maintain the status quo was that on the one hand, the Earl provided many raw materials to Tang Mo's weapons workshop in a timely manner, and on the other hand, Tang Mo used the name of the Earl to "cheat" everywhere to reduce his expenses. .
“Yes, I prepared 50 fast guns for the Earl, how about it? Do you think it’s worth the money?” Tang Mo smiled and patted Tiger on the shoulder, fulfilling his previous promise to Tiger.
In less than 20 days, 50 quick guns were produced. In fact, Tang Mo had created a miracle, a miracle that could shock the world.
You must know that this production speed has actually been reduced a lot - Tang Mo has not been engaged in weapons production for most of the past twenty days.
Tiger saw it with his own eyes: after Tang Mo returned to Bunas, the first thing he started working on was the thing called a steam engine.
After that, Tang Mo’s main energy was on buying land, building workshops and wooden houses, and setting up schools and a lot of other shabby things.
It can be said responsibly that Tang Mo actually did not take charge of the production of the K1 fast gun at all. It was only after the second steam engine started working that Parker supervised and began to use the steam engine to drill the gun barrel.
But just like that, Tang Mo was able to assemble and produce 50 new fast guns in one go within ten days. This was something that even Cyric's weapons workshop could not do despite his own death!
"Yes...a little bit." Tiger looked at the four large boxes that had been sealed in front of him, as well as the fifth box that only contained a gun, and nodded subconsciously.
“Stop it, just a little? With this production speed, Cyric’s four gun workshops in the kingdom combined may not be able to catch up with me!” Tang Mo said confidently.
Matthews smiled and added: "Even if they can catch up now, they won't be able to catch up in half a month."
"If nothing else happens...tomorrow morning, we will be able to produce 10 of these K1 guns." Parker confidently said something even more shocking to Tang Mo, Matthews, and Tiger beside him. Message: "Trust me, it really works!"
The production progress actually exceeded Tang Mo's estimate. He was originally planning to ship 50 K1 guns to the Count in one go. However, if the workers were very motivated to produce, by the time Tiger left with this batch of arms, it was estimated that the entire The workshop can produce almost 65 fast guns.
For the entire era, this unparalleled production speed was subversive—those workshops that could produce 30 flintlock muskets per month had thousands of people!
But Tang Mo's current workshop is full of resources, and including the workers who are building houses, the total number of people is only five or six hundred.
Not all of the five or six hundred people are producing rifles, there are also children going to school, soldiers leveling the land, and other messy craftsmen.
In short, if Tang Mo starts to produce K1 guns with all his strength, and with sufficient raw materials, he may be able to reach a production speed that overwhelms all Cyric workshops in the kingdom within two or three months.
"Have you made the list?" Tiger looked at Tang Mo and asked eagerly. He is now eager to return home, and is already thinking about the scene of escorting 60 K1 guns back to Wolf City.
A new army is about to be born, and the combat effectiveness of Wolf City will be doubled. Those idiots who are preparing to show off their power in Beiling will definitely be scared to death by the power of the K1 gun. "Of course!" Tang Mo nodded.
“I will come back as quickly as possible with everything on the list!” Tiger solemnly promised.
“I believe you can do what you say!” Tang Mo smiled and patted Tiger on the shoulder, then glanced at Matthews: “I’ll leave this to you, I’m going to go to the laboratory for a walk.”
"No problem, Master." Matthews nodded, then he looked at Tiger, who was a little confused, and said: "Mr. Tiger, when you return to Beiling, please tell the earl for me, old man I have decided to follow Lord Tang Mo and become his servant."
Tiger was stunned, and then nodded with understanding: "For a craftsman, this is indeed a good place. I understand your choice and will convey your decision to the Earl."
“Thank you!” Matthews smiled, then lowered his head to operate the machine again, polishing a part that Tiger couldn’t understand at all.
"Sir!" On the road, a construction worker who saw Tang Mo passing by took off his hat, bowed slightly, and greeted him with a smile.
Tang Mo also smiled and nodded, quickly walking towards his so-called laboratory. You can see bottles and cans everywhere in this laboratory, and you can smell a strong smell of chemicals when you open the door.
After closing the door and walking to the table, Tang Mo opened the drawer, took out a box, and took out an assembled revolver.
This is the true revolver of this era. It can really throw the entire cylinder to the left, and then quickly reload and fire continuously.
Tang Mo then grabbed a handful of yellow metal products from the drawer and scattered them on the table casually.
The metal collides together and makes a clanking sound, which is very nice. These were pressed one by one by Tang Mo using a manual bullet-pressing press in front of him.
To be honest, there is still a slight gap between these metal fixed-loading bullets that appeared in the world for the first time and the new bullets produced by fully automatic bullet production equipment.
Actually, they are still very crude. The bullet's warhead is still the first-generation Mini bullet design, with wood stuffed inside!
However, even so, they are still the most advanced bullets in the world, because they contain smokeless gunpowder made by Tang Mo himself, which is currently not mass-produced!
This is a Colt 1907 pistol, but the caliber is 9mm fixed-rim bullets made by Tang Mo himself.
In order to facilitate production, Tang Mo's bullet adopts a relatively primitive solution with the bottom edge slightly larger than the diameter of the projectile body. This solution also facilitates the pistol's retraction mechanism to quickly retract the projectile.
Of course, this design was completely eliminated later, but Tang Mo was forced to come up with such a nondescript retro design due to production technology.
Even so, these bullets that Tang Mo pressed out one by one were still advanced, so advanced that they were so expensive that Tang Mo was not willing to use them to practice marksmanship.
Caliber Tang Mo didn't want to use the stupid measurement value of inches, so he directly came up with the concept of millimeters. He is now the standard setter for the entire industry, and naturally he has no scruples.
As for why we chose a revolver with a complicated structure like the Colt 1907 instead of a "pout-handled" revolver with a more stable structure and easier production... the reason is actually quite simple, because it is handsome.
Since Tang Mo was making a pistol for himself, it wasn't technically difficult. Naturally, it was a matter of choosing which one looked more handsome. Anyway, what he wants to think about is not expanding the scale of production, nor is it manufacturing costs or anything like that.
So, such a strange and weird Colt 1907 pistol was born.
Tang Mo used his thumb to push the mechanism on the gun body, and with a flick, the bullet cylinder of the pistol flipped out of the gun body from the left side. The whole process is so smooth, there is no lag at all. There is no way, in this era, it is not possible to create a comfortable damping feeling, so the feeling of looseness and cheapness is very strong.
But Tang Mo didn't care about this at all. He picked up a bullet from the table and stuffed it into the bullet chamber easily, one round after another, with great success.
After he filled the cylinder with six rounds of bullets, his hand habitually brushed against the cylinder, and the oiled cylinder began to spin rapidly.
Matthews’ craftsmanship is really strong. He can produce parts with such high precision using simple machinery.
Tang Mo admired in his heart, and flicked the wrist of his right hand holding the pistol hard, and the bullet nest stuck back on the gun body, making a crisp sound.
(End of this chapter)