Chapter 281 Breech-Loading Rifles, Runes, and Electric Ignition

Before reaching the merchant ship berthing port, the officer was stopped by Chang Heng on the way.

He was asked to accept the brand new infantry weapons sent by the territory.

In the strip weapon box, rifles were placed horizontally on the dark yellow straw buffer. The cast barrels were slightly gray, and the runes engraved on them flashed with dark blue light from time to time. The wooden structure fixed to the barrels exuded the same oily luster.

The officer's first impression was that the rear of this new rifle was very different from the old rifle.

There were also two boxes of matching new ammunition placed together with the new rifles. The gray-white bullet body was even shorter than the original one.

"It should be enough for two platoons. There are 80 rifles. You can use the extra ones as replacement parts. Your carrier is still being prepared. Take it and try it out."

Chang Heng left his name on the receipt report and handed over the newly delivered 100 needle-fired breech-loading rifles engraved with dark blue runes to the officer who could only wait for repairs at the base because his escort ship was damaged.

"Oh, by the way, remember that the ammunition for the new rifle cannot be mixed with the old ammunition. Well, in theory, it can be."

It's just that the misfire rate is high, after all, the new ammunition is filled with materials that are easier to ignite.

Changheng took off his military cap and put it aside, explaining to the soldiers.

The new rifle takes a special approach and does not use primers. One day, when Ji Lin was looking up at the sky, he suddenly thought that the role of the firing pin was to hit the primer to generate high temperature to ignite the propellant-wouldn't it be better if he let the firing pin directly generate instantaneous high temperature? There are electric shock runes in the primary runes obtained from the territory.

The forum will not allow such things to be leaked. If he dares to say the plan of technology replacement and substitution, the system will give him a one-year ban. Ji Lin, who was suffocating, could only talk to the dean who was just about to go to bed all night.

Humans in the 19th century couldn't do it...but humans who mastered runes and magic had no problem.

They can use this tricky method to cross the threshold of the primer in the breech-loading rifle era. It is not appropriate to describe it as tricky...

To be precise, one technology is used to replace another technology.

Use rune micro-engraving and rune long energy storage technology to replace the use of primers.

"The territory means that the rune built-in electric ignition replaces the primer, but the caster needs to replenish energy after each battle."

The officer pulled the bolt and sighed that it was worthy of being a new rifle. Even the firing pin carried on the bolt had traces of structural reinforcement runes left by the precise rune micro-engraving technology-they didn't know that the entire rune material research team spent two-thirds of their time on how to improve the firing pin.

Ji Lin's idea, in the end, was the rune research team.

In order to put the rune on the firing pin that had been thickened many times, and it was a double rune of electric shock rune and structural reinforcement, the rune research team's output dropped sharply.

Finally, they handed a plan to Ji Lin, and sincerely proposed to hand over the processing of such small parts to the Holy City, and let the rune craftsmen there complete the final carving work.

They have worked hard to come up with a design plan. If they are asked to mass produce it, it would be more comfortable for them to dig a hole and bury themselves.

The officer pulled out a new rifle and pulled the bolt to open the chamber. Push the gray-white special paper shell fixed bullet into the barrel until the entire bullet is completely in the barrel.

The bullet is loaded and the hammer is reset.

Push the bolt forward with force and pull it down to the right. With a crisp "click", it is clear that the bolt has been locked.

The locking is completed.

"So, is the loading completed?"

The officer fiddled with the bolt of the new rifle in his hand twice, a little unbelievable. In other words, after the new rifle is installed, the loading plan he learned before will no longer work...

That's not a problem.

A year ago, he fought with a spear for three months. Since the musket was installed, his fighting skills have rarely been used.

Now, he just abandoned the reloading skills he had mastered, and there was no difference in other aspects.

He had begun to like this rifle.

Fast, quick, and no need to change the direction of the gun significantly.

Turn up the mechanical sight and lock the target along the scale on the sight.

Pull the trigger.

The smoke burst completely in front of the barrel. The airtightness of the new rifle delivered to them is much better than the old one they are using.

Every gun here uses natural biological magic materials as a substitute for rubber to improve its airtightness. The airtightness is excellent, and the price is within Ji Lin's acceptable range, which increases the overall cost of the gun by 10%.

Ji Lin found it when he was browsing the forum to search for materials suitable for enhancing the airtightness of the rifle. In his spare time, he had nowhere else to go except browsing the forum.

However, others did not seem to notice that this material could be used as a high-quality rubber substitute to enhance the airtightness of rifles. The poster seemed to only regard this material as a tool for making rubber tires and gloves.

There were also many people below who laughed at him for thinking about rubber at any time. He did not want to make money, so he might as well sell it as a magic material.

Ji Lin purchased a lot of this magic material rubber from him at a very cheap price, enough for the soldiers to replace ten rounds of new rifles.

The firing pin also used the magic material purchased from the market, which was easy to conduct. Even the firing pin with very little material increased the cost by 10%.

Perhaps few people know how to use rubber, but hard, tough and magical metal materials are always on the hot-selling list.

They have the relevant technology, but the proficiency of the rune craftsmen in the territory cannot support them to complete the mass production of this material.

Outsourcing seems so amiable.

As for Fang Ai, Fang Ai is still living a pastoral life with dragons and elves, climbing the technology tree bit by bit. Every time Ji Lin thought of this, he wanted to run over to help her operate so that she could mass-produce rune craftsmen as soon as possible.

The wooden part of the new rifle uses high-quality wood cultivated by tree people, which feels much better than ordinary wood in the territory.

There are still three types of bullets, single-headed bullets, three large shotgun shells, and about eight small shotgun shells.

The officer filled the barrel with three large shotgun shells, which have a very good hit rate at a distance of 150 meters.

The processed paper shell fixed bullet will burn out in the barrel, which has the beauty of caseless bullets, but if you really use this thing as a caseless bullet:

The unburned paper shell and the burnt paper ash will enter the mechanical structure to settle accounts with you.

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