Chapter 102 (1/2)

As Shi Xiong said, there is almost no shortage of materials needed to improve this broaching machine. In addition, a few people have high morale, so they plunge in and think about how to improve the broaching machine almost every day.

Lieutenant Ferguson, in particular, has put more effort into this broaching machine than the new rifle.

Hard bone, rabbit mouth, they don't understand the meaning of this broaching machine, but Ferguson knows.

Now the standard rifles used by the soldiers of the British Empire can't keep up with the times. Although the navy of the British Empire is very powerful, the guns of the army are really behind. Not to mention, compared with the rifles of the French, even the rifles used by the Spanish and the German, the standard rifles are a little behind.

As a gun genius, Ferguson does not know the importance of rifling. Unfortunately, rifling is a very difficult job. Although rifling guns have appeared for a long time, they can only be used as auxiliary arms.

But Ferguson knows that muskets are bound to replace muskets!

In terms of effective range and accuracy, muskets are far from comparable to rifles. As long as we can find a more simple way to pull rifling, it is an inevitable trend for rifling gun to replace smoothbore gun, just like flint gun to replace firestring gun.

Second lieutenant Ferguson is very clear that even in Europe, there is no easy way to make rifles. Rifles can only be made by hand and cannot be popularized on a large scale.

However, once the special rifling broaching machine developed at present can be successful, rifling will no longer become a barrier restricting the expansion of rifling gun. If this improved broaching machine can achieve the desired effect, it should not be a big problem for a worker to pull out four to five rifles a day.

Compared with the development of new rifles, the research of broaching machine is more urgent.

Because new rifles can't do without this kind of broaching machine!

Therefore, Ferguson has no hesitation to plunge into the improvement work of this broaching machine.

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Now the division of labor among the people in the tribe is very clear, and most of the women are farming. With more than 40 domesticated bison, even women can easily drive Quyuan plow or columbine to open up wasteland.

The results of a large number of domesticated bison soon showed up.

With more than 40 bison and 50 or 60 women, hundreds of acres of wasteland can be opened up in one day, and hundreds of hectares of wasteland can be opened up in a few days. In the end, if the wheat seeds were not gone, this group of excited women could open up more wasteland.

Even a fool can see the role of tame bison and advanced farm tools in this speed of opening up wasteland and sowing.

So much farmland, needless to say, next year's harvest will definitely increase greatly.

More than 60 soldiers in the tribe are divided into six groups. Every day, their task is to catch bison and hunt prey.

However, the continuous capture of bison makes the bison know that it's not easy to mix around the gaoshu tribe. From time to time, bison are captured by those bipedal monsters. If they are still mixing in this area, it's estimated that they will have to be all caught soon.

So the cattle simply start to stay away from the nearby high tree tribe, even if it's hard to find food in other places, it's better than being captured and enslaved by those bipedal monsters!

Cows don't speak, but they are not fools. As herbivores, they are more sensitive to danger.