Starting from the bright sword to engage in military industry

Chapter 19 Chapter 019, Did someone take a fancy to Dezhu?
The elm cannon actually uses the strong and thick characteristics of elm to cut and hollow out the trunk of the elm tree from the middle, insert the gun bore and then close the trunk, tighten it with wire, and drill a hole for installing the fuse at the back. It is a kind of scattering gun loaded with black powder as propellant and iron sand as projectile.

Pay attention, this elm is not hollowed out at the front and back, but a part at the back is solid, where the black powder is placed.If it is really dug out so that the front and back are transparent, then this elm will be useless.Moreover, the place where the gunpowder is placed can also be appropriately thickened, and the outside should be reinforced more.

However, under the current conditions, there is no steel pipe or iron pipe suitable for the gun chamber, so Hu Changyi can only make a fuss on the elm, and hoop the elm with several layers of iron rings to ensure stability and prevent the chamber from exploding.

Of course, the chamber pressure of this kind of shotgun is not much higher, and there were not many elm guns in history that were equipped with a chamber, so it's okay to do so.

It really doesn't work, don't we still have a system to assist, if the system fails to pass the appraisal, just change it.

In the later generations, Lao Wai believed in one sentence very much, that is: "Leave professional matters to professional people, and laymen should not order experts!"

Therefore, after professionally drawing the lines for the two elms, Hu Changyi simply stepped aside and left the rest of the work to Liu Chunsheng and his brothers.

Although Liu Chunsheng and his brother are young, they are at most about 20 years old, but their kung fu is not bad. They must have seven or eight years of craftsmanship. It seems that they are children's kung fu practiced since childhood.Well, the children of the poor are already in charge of the family and learn crafts from the adults in the family. It is really starting from a baby.

Each of the two brothers took a piece of half elm, and first leveled it with a plane, and then took out tools such as chisels and adzes. Amidst the sound of chiseling wood, the solid elm was chiseled into a hollow, and then it was shaped and fine-tuned. , until the chiseled place becomes semicircular.

And during this time, Guo Dezhu took Li Tieniu out for a trip, and when he came back, he brought back some round iron hoops, and he didn't know who he borrowed the stove and anvil from.

"Brother Dezhu, your craftsmanship is good!" Looking at the iron hoops that the system identified as high-quality goods, Hu Changyi sincerely lamented that Zhangqiu Blacksmith's reputation is well-deserved.Well, Guo Dezhu is a serious Zhangqiu blacksmith, the kind who forges while standing (in our Zhangqiu blacksmith jargon, the one who forges while squatting is taught by his wife (￣┰￣*)).

"It's nothing, the skill of eating, that's all. That Chang Yi, is there anything else? If it's all right, I have to go back!" Guo Dezhu said apologetically.

"Go back? Where are you going back?" Hu Changyi was surprised.

"Go to the village chief's house! My brothers went to find the stove and anvil for burning iron, and the village chief Xia led us to their house, and found a set of blacksmiths, saying that a family of blacksmiths stayed here. I haven’t come back for several years. Alas... blacksmiths are poor, blacksmiths are miserable!” Guo Dezhu sighed, as if lamenting the fate of that family of blacksmiths.

"Hey...it's all caused by this damn world! Brother Tie Zhu, go, no matter what you promise to the village chief, try your best to complete it! Blacksmiths suffer, blacksmiths are difficult, but blacksmiths are serious craftsmen no matter what. It doesn't mean that blacksmiths are Can the county yamen set up a stall and make iron?" Hu Changyi said with a smile.

"Ha, that's true. Without a blacksmith, the agricultural tools in the hands of the people are useless if they are broken. The county magistrate also has to look up to the blacksmith. And these villages look at the grain sheds on the ground. Our blacksmith is here. They will let them out and live in them." Guo Dezhu said.

"De Zhu, let's go, just now I saw that these fellow villagers went home to get their stuff, it seems that you have to work for a day or two! But if you want me to tell you, please beg Village Chief Xia to be your son-in-law Come on, I think the daughter of the Xia family is a good child!" Li Tieniu said on the side.

"Wait a minute? Why did you come to see your son-in-law? Brother De Zhu, you have to think about this matter carefully, this is not a trivial matter!" Hu Changyi was shocked when he heard it.

"No, nothing, it's just that the daughter of the Xia family handed me a towel, poured me a bowl of tea, and wanted to make me a pair of shoes..." Guo Dezhu scratched his scalp and said.

"You... You'd better ask Uncle Dezheng. Now our discipline has changed, and I can't tell you clearly. Of course, if you don't have that kind of heart, it's fine!" Hu Changyi stretched out his hand and patted Guo Dezhu's thick body shoulder, and gave him an expression that you can figure out what to do.

"I, I really have no idea! I am also a soldier now, and I may die at any time. What else do I want?"

"Let's go, let's go if you have any ideas..." Guo Dezhu explained, but was dragged away by the anxious Li Tieniu. It seemed that Li Tieniu was more anxious than Guo Dezhu.

Looking at the two brothers who left, Hu Changyi shook his head with a smile. He didn't know how Guo Dezhu's daughter fell in love with him, except that he was taller and stronger.

Of course, this was just an episode. Hu Changyi asked Zhao Fengnian that the troops would rest here for at most three days, and after three days they would leave for Jingxing County to help guard Niangziguan.This time, it is serious to face the frontal battlefield and support the frontline operations.

In fact, judging from the combat environment of the Eighth Route Army, there is no saying that the rear is not the rear.The so-called rear area is the rear area of ​​the devil-occupied area, where they operate directly in the heart of the devils, and they are in a serious combat environment surrounded by enemies.

Therefore, those who say that eight-way swimming without fighting is not as good as the frontal battlefield are simply ignorant of the situation or doing it on purpose.In the years of the Anti-Japanese War, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army were in a combat environment. It was impossible for any domestic army led by Guo Kui to persist and grow stronger.

Even if you persist, the most common situation is to become a part of the puppet army or have various ambiguities with devils.

Not long after Guo Dezhu and the others left, Zhao Fengnian, who went to visit Xing Dezheng at the medical station, came back with a small bag in his hand.

"Uncle Fengnian, how is Uncle Dezheng? Isn't the wound infected? Also, what are you carrying here?" Hu Changyi asked.

"Lao Xing is fine, the wound has been treated and re-bandaged, but it will take a while. This is the jujube seed you want. I met Xiao Liu from the regiment halfway and just picked it up! Xiao Liu said it was just Dried!" Zhao Fengnian said.

"It's just dried... Uncle Fengnian, the whole group just ate it this noon, right?" Hu Changyi remembered the white rice porridge he had at noon.

"It's really just eaten! In the past, who would care about collecting it, they would eat it and throw it away. It happened to be red dates and white rice porridge at noon today. When the team leader heard that you wanted date pits, he asked the kitchen to take the freshly received ones. The dried dates are all added in, and this is how you get these!" Zhao Fengnian shook his pocket while speaking.

(End of this chapter)