Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 660
"My lord just has a backache and walks casually, oh no, I just want to see how the research on rear-loading guns is going." The morning exercise was a bit too hard, and Liu Hongjian only felt the backache and blurted it out before he realized his slip of the tongue and hurriedly called Haha said.

"My wife's natal family is a famous doctor in Fengxin County. The medicinal wine prepared by him is said to have the effect of strengthening muscles and bones. When I go back, I will write a book and ask them to bring a few pots." Uncle Song is so old. He had seen it before, but he didn't say anything, only that the wine was for strengthening his body.

"Oh, ah, although I don't drink alcohol very much, but this wine really has such a miraculous effect, I want to taste it. It's my job." Liu Hongjian said with a playful smile without refusing.

It has long been heard that people in ancient times liked to use tiger penis, wild ginseng and other precious herbs to make wine, and the effect is excellent. Now it is a good time to try it, Liu Hongjian thought.

At this time, the mountains and fields are full of wild beasts. Not only do you not have to go to a dark house to kill a tiger, but you will also be boasted as a cow or a hero by the villagers. Those old mountain ginseng, ganoderma lucidum, and various whips are all natural and non-toxic. Public nuisance is much purer than later generations.

"Your Majesty, don't worry about some trivial matters. As for the matter of loading the firecrackers you just said, I will not hide it from the prince. I am really ashamed that the ordnance station has no clues yet." Song Yingxing said apologetically, frowning.

People in the Ming Dynasty called guns "fire blunderbusses", but Liu Hongjian always opened his mouth and kept talking about front-loading guns and rear-loading guns, so that now the frontier army and the Beijing camp are used to this name. Although Song Yingxing doesn't understand why Liu Hongjian called it "fire" A gun is a gun, but it doesn't matter.

The blueprint of the rear-loading gun has been given to Song Yingxing. Not only Song Yingxing, but also four or five experienced gunsmiths from the Ordnance Institute also met together. Regarding this weird thing that eats from the buttocks, the veteran craftsmen in the Ordnance Institute all agreed. It is not a cold.

This is almost the same dilemma encountered when the breech-loading gun first came out more than 100 years ago. When Dreiser, the father of the breech-loading gun, just showed the first breech-loading gun to the German general at the time, he was not recognized because the general thought People eat with their mouths, and so do guns.

It is still so sloppy as Westerners, let alone these old craftsmen who have been influenced by Confucian culture.

Song Yingxing didn't care much about whether the bullet was loaded from the mouth or the chrysanthemum. He thought it was just a firearm with a different shape, but after really researching it, he found that it was not that simple at all.

The sketch provided by Liu Hongjian was quite different from the structure of the front-loading gun they knew, and it was still a simple diagram. Uncle Song spent a long time thinking about it with reading glasses before he understood the firing principle of the breech-loading gun. The focus is on the projectile.

It is similar to replacing the flint firing device of a muzzle-loading gun with a needle-like thing. After the trigger is pulled, the needle hits the projectile and shoots the projectile out of the gun chamber.

It’s just that this is a bit difficult for Uncle Song to understand, because he didn’t find the medicine room for the breech gun at all.
This is unbelievable.

Uncle Song even set fire to the gunsmith and made a strange musket with a rear loading gun, but the airtightness could not be guaranteed at all, and the bullet was loaded from the rear, resulting in poor accuracy of the larger bullet.

"But it got stuck on the bullet of the rear loading gun?" Liu Hongjian said casually.

"Your Excellency is wise!" Song Yingxing originally wanted to explain the difficulties encountered, but he didn't expect Liu Hongjian's words to be right, which surprised him.

In the eyes of Uncle Song, Liu Hongjian was the umbrella of the craftsmen of the Ordnance Institute. He had a unique vision and a maverick, but in actual operation, he was almost a blank slate.

Although he didn't know where Liu Hongjian got the blueprints, Song Yingxing knew that he shouldn't ask any questions, and he still followed the blueprints Liu Hongjian gave him, unless he encountered a problem that he couldn't solve.

Uncle Song also knew the truth of not being ashamed to ask questions. For example, although he knew that Liu Hongjian's attainments in engineering were not as good as any craftsman in the Ordnance Institute, he could always come up with some original ideas sometimes.

Because of Liu Hongjian's succinct and concise explanation of the problem of rear-loading firecrackers, Uncle Song's eyes lit up immediately.

"Where is it? This king is also guessing. Does Mr. Song know something like Lei Mercury?" Liu Hongjian tried to ask.

As a descendant, Liu Hongjian naturally knows the general structure of the bullets of later generations. It is nothing more than a metal shell with a built-in bullet, gunpowder and primer. The bullet and the metal shell are not difficult. Guaranteed, but the primer is not easy to handle.

The primer is the fire cap, which can ignite and ignite the entire ignition system under the action of a small external force. Others are small in size and sensitive, and generally rely on the firing pin in the fuze to penetrate into the fire cap to ignite.

To put it bluntly, it is a fuze, which is found in the grenade made by this thing ordnance, but the fuze of the grenade is relatively rough. It is nothing more than pulling out the built-in matchrope in the wooden handle and igniting the fuze gunpowder by friction.

This thing is barely in the grenade, and the stink rate of the grenade is still as high as 18.00%. The firearms craftsmen in the armory know this problem, but no one can solve it.

The reason is that there are no more sensitive combustibles at all.

The ignition device of the wooden handle grenade during the Anti-Japanese War used a detonator. The main component of the detonator is mercury fulminate, that is, mercury fulminate. The chemical formula [Hg(ONC)2].

Since this thing is highly toxic, has poor stability, and is easy to corrode the barrel and cartridge, it has been replaced by more advanced substances. The materials he brought only introduced a few words about this mercury fulminate:

Mercury fulminate, a white or gray crystal, was the earliest primary explosive and was highly sensitive to flame, needle sticks, and impact.

Gone.

With just these few words, Liu Hongjian wanted to reward those who wrote books with a gun. What annoyed him most in his life was that those who wrote books always thought that readers knew everything, and all high-tech was just a few strokes. Pass.

He knows that mercury is mercury, but what about acid?What the hell is Ray?
As a half-baked college student, Liu Hongjian expressed his pain.

He knew that sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, and vinegar were also sour, but this was in Daming, and the book did not say what the names of these acids were at this time.

Who knows if there is such bird acid at this time!

"Thunder Mercury? The old man has never heard of it." Song Yingxing frowned and shook his head in thought.

"Simply put, mercury is mercury. Mercury reacts with some kind of acid to produce a new thing. This thing can solve the problem of the primer of our breech-loading guns."

Liu Hongjian can only generalize in this way, and he is also very helpless, because the author in the book has written more generalized than him.

"Mercury...sour..." Song Yingxing frowned and muttered.

He didn't doubt Liu Hongjian's conclusion, because he knew that Liu Hongjian would not talk nonsense about it, and the facts proved that all Liu Hongjian's suggestions were constructive for such difficult problems.

"It's okay, I will go back later and let the craftsmen of our Ordnance Institute study it. As long as we have a direction, our Ordnance Institute will definitely be able to make this mercury fulminate!" Song Yingxing let go of the thoughts in his heart and said solemnly.

PS: Pushing a book "The Great Savior of the Tang Dynasty" who was reborn as a dandy from a famous family in the Tang Dynasty. Wang Shuo had no choice but to take action to save Datang, starting with saving his father Wang Zhongsi!
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