Wuyuan County Weapons Factory.
Yang Jing stayed inside for a day and a night. After several failures, he finally succeeded in making ten flintlocks.
This was because he had already made up his mind to make flintlocks, but he could not afford the blueprints, so he could only order people to forge the components needed to make flintlocks first.
Fortunately, he had these pre-produced components. In just two days, he had created a usable flintlock according to the blueprints and related knowledge.
Yang Jing looked at the ten flintlocks in front of him and was very happy.
Although he did not sleep for the entire night, he did not feel tired at all.
As soon as the sky brightened, he impatiently brought his newly selected general Huo Qubing and 20 peasant soldiers to Wuyuan County's drill ground.
As long as these ten flintlocks passed the firepower test, they could start mass production!
Wuyuan County Drill Ground.
Huo Qubing looked at the 1.5-meter-long, strange-looking flintlock on the side with a curious expression.
He stared at it for a while, then pointed at the gun and turned to Yang Jing.""Marshal, what is this?"
Huo Qubing was an old antique from the Western Han Dynasty. There were no firearms, cannons, and other firearms in that era, so Yang Jing could understand his ignorance.
"This is called a flintlock. Its power is several times stronger than your bow and arrow.”
"Even if you are two hundred meters away from the enemy, you can still kill him in one blow!”
As he spoke, the peasant soldiers who were about 200 meters away from Yang Jing set up their targets.
Seeing this, he smiled slightly and raised his spear to aim at the target. Two or three seconds later, he fired.
Bang!
The target in the distance fell to the ground under Huo Qubing's astonished gaze.
"This... It actually has such power!"
Yang Jing didn't pay attention to Huo Qubing's exclamation. He waved at the peasant soldiers in the distance, and they nodded.
A moment later, two sturdy wild boars rushed towards Yang Jing and Huo Qubing from 200 meters away.
Huo Qubing was shocked and quickly pulled out his saber to protect Yang Jing.
"This beast is ferocious."
" Marshal, leave quickly. I'll take care of it!"
Yang Jing smiled and shook his head. Not only did he not leave, but he also pulled Huo Qubing, who had entered a state of alert, to the side. Under the latter's bewildered gaze, he raised the flintlock gun in his hand and aimed in the direction of the wild boar to shoot.
Bang!
"Bang! Bang!"
With two gunshots, the two wild boars that were running at high speed suddenly let out a few mournful neighs. Then, they fell to the ground with a loud bang. They whimpered and glared at their short legs a few times before they stopped making any sound.
Huo Qubing ran in and saw that there was a small hole in each of the wild boars 'heads. The holes were charred and blood was flowing out of the holes.
They were all dead!
The great power displayed by the flintlock made the old antique from the Western Han Dynasty speechless. He looked at the two wild boars on the ground and then looked at Yang Jing who put down his gun and walked towards him. He opened his mouth and stammered for a long time before he spat out four words with a look of amazement.
"Incredibly mighty!"
Yang Jing smiled at him and was very satisfied with the power of the flintlock. After several improvements, the flintlock could shoot three times in a row in just two minutes.
Although it would take some time to fill the gunpowder pellets the next time it was used, its power was enough to surpass that of a musket by tens of thousands of miles.
As long as he could quickly mass-produce flintlocks and train a squad of handguns with accurate shooting, he would not be afraid even if he had to face the Great Ming Divine Arms Battalion head-on.
How could those crude and crude muskets used by the Divine Arms Battalion, which could kill 800 enemies and damage 1,000 of their own, compare to the flintlocks that he had meticulously crafted?!
The flintlock was enough to deal with the Ming army.
However, Yang Jing was still a little uncertain if he was going up against the Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty, which had powerful firearms.
Although the flintlock was powerful, in the eyes of Yang Jing, who was deeply influenced by modern high-tech weapons, it still had a lot of shortcomings.
The process of using the flintlock was very tedious. It took Yang Jing three minutes to fill the gunpowder before firing.
Sometimes, three minutes on the battlefield was enough for the enemy to turn the tables.
Furthermore, he could not make any mistakes while filling the gunpowder. Otherwise, one wrong step would lead to more mistakes.
The most fatal thing was that flintlocks could not be fired multiple times in a row.
People like Yang Jing who had a foundation in shooting could only shoot three times in two minutes at most, while ordinary people could only shoot two or three times in five minutes.
After that, he would need to refill the gunpowder. He might not be able to hit the vital point in one strike.
On a real battlefield, the average number of flintlock shots fired by a soldier would not exceed twenty until the end of a battle.
At the same time, the recoil of this smooth-bore flintlock was too strong. No matter how well it was made, it was difficult to guarantee that the soldiers would not be impacted after using it.
The rifled flintlock could avoid these problems.
The rifled flintlock was influenced by its relatively advanced barrel structure, making it more accurate and faster to shoot.
It was Yang Jing's ideal gun.
Unfortunately, Yang Jing didn't have the blueprints, so it would take a lot of time to improve the flintlock.
At the same time, the steel pipe and spiral rifling required by the rifled flintlock were very demanding on the manufacturing process.
Both the time and labor costs were higher.
In less than three months, the Ming Dynasty would fall. It was simply too late to use this kind of gun to deal with the Ming army and Li Zicheng's intruders.
However, there was still quite a bit of time before the Manchu Empire occupied the Great Ming Empire.
Using this high-tech technology to deal with the Manchu Wild Boar Skin was perfect.
Thinking of this, Yang Jing made a prompt decision.
He would first use the flintlock to take down Da Ming, and the rifled flintlock would be his surprise for the Manchu Qing Dynasty's Dorgon and the traitor Wu Sangui!
He first ordered the weapons manufacturing factory to work overtime to produce 1,000 flintlocks for the peasant soldiers to practice. He wanted to raise a batch of musketeers as soon as possible in case of emergency.
After all, there was a tough battle waiting for them.
After conquering the surrounding three counties, Yang Jing had enough gold and silver to expand the weapons manufacturing factory and start mass production of flintlocks. At the same time, he began to manufacture Armstrong cannons.
He would strive to create a powerful army of King Firearms before Li Zicheng attacked the capital!
At the same time, he began to improve the flintlock. He would definitely mass-produce and put into use the more powerful rifled flintlock before the Manchu wild boar skin attacked the Ming Dynasty!
However…
Yang Jing suddenly felt a little melancholic.
"It's quite a big expense to manufacture the Military Fire.”
If he wanted to establish a brand new regime on top of the Ming Dynasty, then he needed huge financial resources to support it.
His main source of income now was the looting of property and the system rewards. At most, he could also mine gold and silver mines.
However, this was not the right path.
No matter how high the mountain of gold and silver was piled up, it would eventually be used up one day.
If he wanted the regime to develop for a long time, then the people had to be rich.
However, it was not enough to rely on agriculture to make the people rich.
The most important thing was to develop commerce and industry!
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