MTL - I Made Scientific Magic-Chapter 348 Gatlin was a doctor who saved lives and healed the wounded until
Chapter 348 Gatlin was a doctor who saved lives and healed the wounded until he invented the machine gun...
Lin En took the long-barreled musket, and after checking it, he said happily.
"Very good, very good, your progress is faster than we thought."
This initial battle with the Holy See made Lin En realize the powerlessness of the flintlock in the face of an extraordinary army. Just a large-scale auxiliary magic is enough to greatly reduce the power of the musket.
If you can't instantly kill the approaching enemies by armor penetration, the poor rate of fire of the flintlock gun becomes a big problem.
They can't be expected to take bayonets to fight hand-to-hand with the God's Punishment Army, which is a per capita beast, right?
The percussion gun is a great improvement compared to the flintlock gun. Unlike the latter, which uses flint to ignite the gunpowder, the structure of the percussion gun is very close to modern guns. It also uses a hammer to hit the firing pin to fire the primer. , and then the propellant is reignited by the primer to shoot the projectile.
The most important thing is that this thing is a breech-loading gun, that is, the bullets are loaded from the rear of the barrel. It is not necessary to clean the rifling frequently. It takes a minute to stuff the lead bullets into the barrel, which greatly improves the rate of fire. and precision.
If the fire rate of the flintlock (front-loading gun) is one round per minute, then even the first-generation percussion gun (breech-loading gun) can fire more than ten rounds per minute, and it is not easy to misfire and get wet.
The emergence of fixed loading also means that the research and development of another big killer can be put on the agenda—that is, the machine gun!
This is what really dominates the battlefield!
In the 19th century, machine guns displayed an astonishing power after being put on the battlefield.
For example, in a war at the end of the nineteenth century, 50 British troops relied on 5 Maxim machine guns to defeat dozens of charges by 5,000 Metabilis and killed more than 3,000 people on the spot. It completely changed the status quo of future wars, ended the history of relying on human sea tactics and cavalry to dominate the battlefield, and pushed the war into a more tragic abyss.
Lynn didn't want to take out this big killer so quickly before, but judging from the current situation, flintlock guns and percussion guns alone are not enough for them to get enough on the battlefield full of magic and magic. Advantage.
"I need a piece of paper and a pen!" Lynn said suddenly.
The alchemists on the scene were shocked immediately, and without any neglect, they immediately rummaged through the pens and papers.
Because the star of magic was also here a few days ago, he drew the drawings of the percussion gun and the fixed-load ammunition.
Lin En pondered for a moment, took a quill, and drew on the paper referring to the information of the brain.
Lydia and the others stared intently, for fear of missing any details.
They soon discovered that the musket Lynn drew looked a little strange this time. The main body was a thick and round gun barrel with a long chain in the middle. The bottom was not a **** but a tripod. , it looks somewhat similar to artillery.
"Dean Lynn, what is this? Another new type of firearm? Or an improved artillery?" Lydia asked curiously.
"I call it a machine gun. It is a special kind of automatic firearm. It is characterized by the ability to shoot automatically and continuously at an extremely fast rate of fire." Lynn explained.
Automatic musket?
Wilson and others looked at the drawings in front of them, thinking about the function of each component and the meaning of this automation.
Lin En didn't mean to be secretive, and even explained to everyone the working principle of the machine gun.
To put it bluntly, it is a tube-back type automatic device. The barrel is floating in the machine gun. When the bullet is fired, the machine gun and the barrel are buckled together, using the energy of the gunpowder gas as the power to open the chamber through the corresponding components. The bolt continues to recoil to withdraw the empty cartridge case and throw it out of the gun, and then drives the bomb feeding mechanism to compress the recoil spring.
Under the action of the spring force, the bolt is pushed into place and fired again, which saves the time for loading ammunition and makes it possible for the bullet to be fired automatically.
Alchemists such as Lydia and Wilson, who participated in the development and manufacture of the percussion gun, quickly understood the entire operation process, and couldn't help but marvel at the exquisite design of this new musket.
They also discussed and studied how to increase the rate of fire of the percussion gun again, but they basically worked **** simplifying the process of loading and shooting, while Lynn's method is to let the power generated by one shot of the musket drive the second shot , so as to construct a cycle that does not require human manipulation at all...
"What is its rate of fire?" Wilson asked eagerly.
"Probably about a thousand rounds per minute." Lynn thought for a while and said.
What he took out was an improved version of the famous Gatling rapid-fire machine gun, which combined the automation concept of the subsequent Maxim machine gun.
Just considering the weak industrial foundation of the Alchemy Research Institute, the rate of fire is not fast, only a thousand rounds per minute.
In fact, there is no difference between faster and slower, because fixed-load ammunition is not like lead ammunition, it needs to be manually produced, and the process is more complicated. Their ammunition supply is definitely insufficient, and it is nothing more than a few seconds or ten seconds.
"A thousand rounds per minute?!" Wilson almost thought he heard it wrong, could it be a thousand rounds per hour?
You must know that the rate of fire of the percussion gun is already very fast in their eyes. A skilled gunman can finish reloading every five to six seconds and launch a shot, which is ten times faster than the rate of fire of the flintlock gun. times!
And this machine gun can only be described as outrageous, 1,000 rounds per minute, which means it can fire 15 rounds per second, which is 150 times the rate of fire of a flintlock gun!
What kind of monster is this?
Wilson thought about the scene of fifty machine guns appearing on the battlefield, firing a single shot, and thousands of enemies fell in a row in just a dozen seconds... He couldn't help but shuddered.
"My lord, which master made this weapon called... a machine gun?" A wizard couldn't help asking, they really wanted to know who made such a crazy battlefield killer ?
"The person who invented this thing is called Gatling!" Lynn said. "Before he joined the [Secret Society], he was a doctor who saved lives and healed the wounded on the battlefield. He witnessed the cruelty of the war and the endless grief and death after the war. His original intention of inventing this thing was to reduce casualties and end a war quickly. , to achieve real peace!"
Hearing this, the faces of all the alchemists became extremely strange. They wanted to say something, but finally they held back.
Well... that's reasonable, as long as the enemies are all dead, then there will be peace!
Directly and fundamentally solve the problem of war!
(end of this chapter)
