Riding and chopping: Overlord of the Han and Hungarians

Chapter 390 389. Gun

"This is the third open-pit oil mine discovered."

Liaodong City.

Zhang Qi sat at the head of the desk and spoke like a question.

Under the stage, Bai Xing rummaged among the rows of bookcases with familiarity, compared the catalog and turned out the Liao Di Jin Shi Lu, opened the title page, and said loudly after finding the information about the oil mine.

"But it's the third one, and this exploration team also discovered a copper mine."

"Ah."

"There are more and more mineral deposits. These are the secrets. Please reply to Lu Qi. After the snow melts next spring, people will come to predict the amount of minerals. Since the location is close to the Beiliao Pass, let the Deer Herders get involved. Bar."

"Let Lu Qi organize the manpower, build a railway, choose a suitable place, build a city, and relocate the people."

"A copper mine and an oil mine are worth the investment, not to mention the astonishing treasures contained in that land that is vaster than the land of China."

"Haha. That's the eldest son of the earth, although it's a little to the east."

As Zhang Qi's most considerate secretary, Bai Xing served Qing Ling and her son for almost four years after Qing Ling gave birth to Qilin. This time Zhang Qi was free and returned to Liaodong, so Bai Xing was transferred back to his side to serve as his personal assistant again. Attendant.

"Your Majesty seems to care about this thing called oil?"

After not being with Zhang Qi for four years, Bai Xing is still as cold as when he first met him.

Zhang Qi nodded at the desk: "It is indeed important, but for now, the front-end technology is still not enough to fully utilize it. It can only be used to make simple things."

Oil, the flowing spinal cord of the earth, can be used in too many places.

Plastics and fuels are just the simplest uses.

But now Zhang Qi can only use these two directions.

Scholars in the world of internal combustion engine riding and slashing have already begun to take notice. Although it has only been less than ten years from the outside world, nearly 200 years have passed in the riding and slashing world.

The scholars inside are now in their fourth generation.

The population has also increased to 20, occupying the imperial city with the richest resources in Calradia.

And supplemented by the knowledge accumulated by Zhang Qi from the outside world over the past eighty-nine years of development, the development of materials science can be said to be changing with each passing day.

Just for metals that are harder than steel, five or six types can be pulled out individually in the world of riding and slashing.

With the accumulation of materials science and the help of Zhang Qi's knowledge, the technology trees in the world of riding and slashing were lit up one by one.

As mentioned last time, Huo Qubing's expedition may be his last cold weapon battle.

that's the truth.

On top of the case, Zhang Qi annotated the last document that officials had no control over and stamped it with a slogan and then stood up.

"Let Eden send these memorials to various places. Let's go to the school grounds."

As he spoke, he bent down and took out two iron rods that looked extremely strange to Shirahoshi from the desk drawer and carried them across his back.

"Yes."

Bai Xing collected the memorials on the desk into categories, and then followed Zhang Qi out of the prefect's mansion.

"It's an emergency three hundred miles away. Thank you for your hard work."

After leaving the prefect's mansion, Bai Xing handed these documents to the staff of Yi Chuan.

Although it is snowing heavily in the cold winter, with the help of dog sleds, Liaodi Yichuan can still complete the mission in winter, but the speed is not as good as in other seasons.

After arranging the relay personnel, Bai Xing quickened his pace and caught up with Zhang Qi who had reached the end of the street.

"Hoo——, Your Majesty."

Hearing the movement behind him, Zhang Qi didn't even look back: "Have the arrangements been made?"

"I've told you everything."

"Your Majesty, is this something new coming out?" "Is this a weapon?"

Bai Xing looked curiously at the iron rod carried on Zhang Qi's back.

The body of the stick is round and straight, with a hole in the center. At the front of the hole, there is a mountain lookout similar to the Jinnu.

The rear end has a trigger firing device similar to the Jinnu.

Bai Xing guessed that this might be a weapon used for long-range attacks, but she couldn't figure out how to carry out the attack.

Zhang Qi chuckled and glanced sideways at Bai Xing: "It is indeed a weapon. You will know later."

The school grounds of Liaodong City are not far from the Prefect's Mansion. It is a small school. Its main purpose is to store weapons. With only [-] permanent troops, it can be regarded as a urn in the city.

The colonel is outside the city and can station more than 2000 troops. However, Liaodong is currently an inner region for Liao Dynasty, so there are only [-] troops to maintain security in the surrounding areas.

As for what Zhang Qi was carrying on his back, they were firearms commonly used in modern warfare.

However, one of them is a musket and the other.

It's a rifled gun!

The rapid advancement of materials science has created the industrial foundation in the world of riding and cutting. Milling machines have been around for a long time. After a slight modification, they became rifling machines that can be pushed forward and backward, the angle of gears can be adjusted, and the rocker can control the rotation.

This machine is also driven by steam power and does not require manpower. Often one skilled worker can take care of four milling machines at the same time.

However, Zhang Qi has not yet prepared to install rifled guns on a large scale, so he still chose smoothbore guns. A large part of the reason is not because of production capacity. The production volume of rifled barrels is enough to beat the world, so it is not difficult to handle, but this is It's because there are people like Zhang Qi who have opened up the era of hanging on the wall.

Rifled guns can be made, and the production capacity is sufficient.

The factor that stopped Zhang Qi from fielding them was ammunition.

Until now, Zhang Qi still hasn't figured out how to mass-produce bullets. Even in his previous life, he couldn't find much information and could only rely on precision craftsmanship.

Therefore, he planned to equip only a small amount of rifled guns for the guards around him.

The muskets are still used on a large scale in the military.

After all, musket projectiles are easy to make. Whether they are lead bullets or metal bullets, making them round is an easy task for today's Liaodi.

To put it bluntly, a musket is a reduced cannon. In the same way, the production process of cannon ammunition also applies to muskets.

Not long after, Zhang Qi and the two arrived at the school grounds.

It was in the morning, and the intensity of winter military training was not high. It only needed to be maintained for ten days a month, so there were not many soldiers in the school field.

After Zhang Qi came in, the shadow guards behind him also filed in, cleared an open space, and stood guard around to prevent others from passing by.

The target for archery practice was erected.

Paste the target paper that Zhang Qi had prepared long ago.

Under Bai Xing's curious gaze, Zhang Qi took off the rifled gun, took out a finger-thick and half-finger-long bullet from the pocket on his waist and stuffed it into the barrel of the gun.

aim.

Three o'clock on the line.

The whole body's strength completely prevents possible recoil.

Snapped!
Like a thunder in winter.

Standing on the cleared concrete floor with only a thin layer of snow left, white smoke surrounded him.

Frowning, Zhang Qi murmured in a low voice: "The ratio of gunpowder is not right?!"

“How exactly is smokeless gunpowder made?!”

Shaking his head, he looked at the target 20 meters away from him.

"Fetched!"

(End of this chapter)