Lord of Rot

Chapter 129 I was shot by a bullet

Li Qi also got the iron pipes he ordered the blacksmiths to make, and several iron cans.

The hollow iron pipe is tightly seamed, with two layers in total, one layer enclosing the other, and the gaps are connected by forging and welding. It is only this craft that Black Ears cannot do.

It is not easy to make these hollow iron pipes with uniform thickness, firmness and straightness. The blacksmith also carved rifling lines according to Li Qi's description, and made a batch of metal projectiles at the same time.

So far, the preliminary preparations for the musket that Li Qi envisioned have also been completed.

The next step is to go to the headland crypt and let Betty use these things to try to make a musket

Soon, Li Qi sent the gun barrel into the corner crypt, and Betty immediately understood what he meant after getting the gun barrel.

The whole experiment is actually very simple, plug a hole, pour magic gunpowder into it, and then insert the projectile from the tip of the gun, but there is another small problem here, after the projectile is inserted, it will roll around in the iron pipe, The iron pipe must always be kept tilted up, otherwise the projectile will roll out of the pipe, and even go out with the gunpowder.

"If the projectile is wrapped in a thin layer of paper, the projectile can block the barrel of the gun, and the gunpowder will not flow out easily, and when the gunpowder is ignited, the flame will burn the paper to ashes."

It's a pity that there is no systematic papermaking technology in this world, and there are only parchment, cowhide, bark, or tanned paper from rags and scraps, which will only explode when stuffed into the barrel of a gun.

Li Qi didn't pay much attention to papermaking before. He couldn't get enough food in his territory. How could he think about papermaking? This craft is very easy to reproduce, and it is almost impossible to make money by selling paper.

Now, it seems that he has to bring the great invention of the ancestors of the earth here.

The size of the projectile is not very suitable, it is still oval, so some projectiles are likely to get stuck in the middle, so you need to poke it in with a long and thin wooden stick.

Fortunately this is only a preliminary test.

After everything was ready, Betty raised her hand, held the iron pipe with her bare hands, and recited the spell.

"Bang!" The iron pipe shook slightly, and then a burst of smoke came out.

"puff!"

Standing aside, the body of the dead body controlled by Li Qi was pierced instantly.

"It seems that there is too much magic gunpowder." Betty stuck out her tongue, but her expression was very excited, which meant that the musket concept proposed by Li Qi was really feasible!
Li Qi lowered his head and touched the punctured part, a bone was broken, and the front and back of his body became transparent.

It's okay, it doesn't hurt.

It's just that the accuracy is very problematic, and it is impossible to put it into use.

He took over the barrel again, the barrel that was just fired was hot, and it might not move in Betty's hands, but it immediately "sizzled" and smoked when it was in the hands of the corpse controlled by Li Qi.

The wrought welds of the iron pipes had cracked and tended to become bellflowers.

The description is not strong enough.

It really doesn't work in every way.

Li Qi was not satisfied with the result. Even if the magic musket could be used, it involved problems that had to be solved.First of all, Betty can control the burning direction and burning force of the magic gunpowder, but what Li Qi needs is that the magic musket can also be used in the hands of ordinary people, and ordinary people cannot control the explosion direction of the magic gunpowder.

It's meaningless if it can't be used by ordinary people.

If you know magic, you can use more magical abilities. There is no need to carry a gun and fight on the front line.

Secondly, Betty can ignite magic gunpowder through spells. It is absolutely impossible for ordinary people to ignite magic gunpowder with spells through the barrel of a gun. This method of use cannot be reproduced at all.

However, the second problem is not difficult to solve. As long as he can reproduce the famous "matchlock gun" in the history of the earth, he can solve the problem of not being able to ignite the gunpowder.

Although Li Qi doesn't know how to rub a rifle with bare hands, he still knows the basic principle of the "matchlock gun". The specific manufacturing must be handed over to his subordinates for research. Come on.

The use principle of the matchlock gun is similar to that of fireworks. A special rope burns very slowly after being ignited. Use the matchlock to ignite the gunpowder on the gun, and the gunpowder burns to push out the projectile to complete the shooting.

It's just that if you want to make the matchlock gun in Li Qi's imagination, you need too much front-end technology.

Stronger iron pipes, paper, long-burning matchlocks, and even firearms need to be designed, how to fill gunpowder more conveniently, how to aim, how to ignite and launch while aiming, etc., and these all need to be studied step by step.

The matter of Longship Fort also strengthened Li Qi's long-standing thinking that the war has never ended, so it is necessary to build high walls and accumulate food widely.

Porcupine Collar doesn't have any long-range units, but some soldiers can use bows and crossbows, which don't play much role in battle.

Let’s talk about bows and arrows first, unless you are an extraordinary person, like Stacey, otherwise, it is absolutely impossible to have a thin waist, long legs, white skin, and draw a big bow at will, even if you are a top archer, don’t die My archery is only a few hundred, and then my arm is useless.

Every archer must be the most elite soldier, who needs to be physically strong and needs daily training.

Able to draw a bow and shoot arrows from a distance, and able to resist chopping with a big sword at a distance, this is an archer, one of the most elite arms.

If Li Qi came here instead of the porcupine collar on the eastern coast, but Enduo, with a group of people living on horseback under his command, he might try to train archers.

In fact, no one in the current porcupine collar will be equipped with a bow at all, and most will be equipped with a crossbow.

Compared with the difficulty of bow and arrow training, the crossbow is much simpler. As long as you can use your feet to release the crossbow string, press the arrow, and then aim and shoot, you are qualified. It is simple and easy to use. A farmer can go to the battlefield after a little training for half a day.

But using a crossbow also has a problem similar to that of a bow. It is indeed easier to push the string with your feet than to pull the bow with your hands, but it is not much easier. If you push it dozens or hundreds of times, your legs will also be weak. In the current war The combat value of the hand must surpass that of the archer, but in Li Qi's eyes, compared with these, thermal weapons and muskets should really develop.

It's easy to change the bomb. It doesn't take much effort to pour some gunpowder and then insert a projectile, but the steps are a little complicated.

But as long as it cooperates with the famous matchlock gun "three-stage strike" tactic, this problem can be avoided to a certain extent.

But these are just Li Qi's imagination, because the price of raw materials for magic gunpowder is still high, and a large-scale musketeer team is simply burning gold.

There is no need to think too far, let's build the musket first.

Li Qi handed the tin can to Betty again, and he planned to fill the tin can with gunpowder after Betty produced a sufficient amount of magic gunpowder.

The ones tied tightly with cloth are called explosive packs, which are amazingly powerful, and they can be called magic grenades if they are thrown in an iron can and detonated.

Trust the magic grenade to surprise the hairy monster in the headland crypt castle.

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